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Transform Your Company through Insightful Keynotes
Bringing more than 36 years of corporate experience, including 16 years of experience as a SVP and CHRO for 2 publicly-traded companies to your stage, Susan Winchester is renowned for her innovative HR strategies that drive leadership excellence, inclusivity, engagement, and exceptional organization performance.
Key Topics
Empower Your Team, Strengthen Your Organization
Susan’s signature keynotes will unlock greater resilience, performance, and creativity in your organization with insights that break barriers and build cohesion in your company's people and teams.
Boost Performance & Culture
Susan shares tools to help break limiting beliefs and unlock potential. She guides leaders to foster a more empathetic, resilient workplace culture while addressing internal barriers.
Develop Leadership Capability
Susan teaches leaders to shift from the Unconscious Wounded Career Path to the Conscious Healing Career Path, using more effective and fulfilling career strategies for lasting success.
Fast-Track Growth
Susan uses neuroplasticity and positive psychology to show how to rewire the brain for better performance, helping organizations foster continuous personal and professional growth.
Leverage Conflict for Good
Susan reframes conflict as an opportunity for emotional healing and growth. Her methods turn conflict into a constructive force, improving team dynamics and overall organizational health.
Key Benefits
Motivation is great. Tangible results are better.
Susan's keynotes are more than motivational talks. They address root issues inside of organizations.
Signature Keynote
When Your Past Gets in the Way of Your Future: Accelerating Human Potential
Millions of adults struggle to thrive after growing up in dysfunctional families, becoming what Susan Winchester calls Adult Survivors of Damaged Pasts (ASDPs). These individuals often show up at work as perfectionists, people pleasers, or, in some cases, corporate bullies. Others may avoid conflict, isolate themselves, or withhold their ideas—unconsciously battling the wounds of their past.
This internal struggle impacts their well-being and careers. Even if you’re not an ASDP, you likely work with or lead them. The modern workplace offers a unique opportunity to help these employees find emotional safety, build confidence, and collaborate effectively.
By fostering an environment where ASDPs can feel secure, businesses can help them look to the future with optimism. Retaining and cultivating this talent within a healthy corporate culture empowers all employees to contribute their best.
Susan tackles this pervasive issue by drawing on her personal experiences as an ASDP, the science of neuroplasticity, and positive psychology research, coupled with her 35-year career working with emotionally complex executives and leaders.
Signature Keynote
The Power of Bumper Car Moments to Promote Civility in the Workplace
In recent decades, business leaders have invested millions in creating workplace cultures that are engaging, supportive, and psychologically safe. But in the months ahead—and well into 2025—global social, economic, political, and environmental stresses could strain relationships, turning trusted colleagues into adversaries.
What were once occasional differences of opinion may now escalate into unpredictable conflicts. Susan Winchester, author of Healing at Work®: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve, calls these Bumper Car Moments—clashes that can disrupt workplaces, lead to emotionally charged interactions, and derail careers.
“A Bumper Car Moment is when your response can either maintain civility or trigger destructive interpersonal conflict,” says Susan. HR leaders, she adds, have a choice: to be overwhelmed by these moments or to leverage them as opportunities for growth, resilience, and trust.
“This is a pivotal time for HR leaders to shine and provide immense value to their organizations. How you handle these Bumper Car Moments could be your most lasting legacy—not just for your company, but for everyone in your workplace.”
Accomplished TEDx Speaker
In her powerful TEDx Talk, Susan shares how workplace collisions—like missing a promotion or unfair feedback—can trigger limiting beliefs and drain us emotionally. Learn how to transform these moments into growth opportunities, reclaim self-worth, and build lasting resilience.
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