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UNMUTED: Come Alive at Work
Keynote Speaker | Self-Leadership Expert

After being blindsided by burnout and a pickup truck, Rachel knows what it’s like to lose your spark and reignite it. That’s why she helps people trade self-doubt for self-trust, hesitation for contribution, and going through the motions for coming fully alive.

For nearly 20 years, Rachel Druckenmiller has been helping leaders and their teams come alive at work.

A TEDx speaker, she has been recognized by Forbes, Smart Meetings, and Workforce Magazine for her work helping leaders build confidence, clarity, and presence.

She spent 13 years at Alera Group, one of the nation’s largest employee benefits consulting firms, serving as Director of Wellbeing and Employee Engagement and partnering closely with HR leaders and executive teams. She has worked with leaders at Fortune 500 companies, associations, and private firms, and holds a Master’s degree in Health Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

Today, Rachel works with high-performing professionals who are capable and committed, yet often second-guess themselves or hesitate to speak up. Her work helps leaders think more clearly, advocate for themselves more effectively, and lead with greater presence and impact.

Keynote Topics

Keynote #1 Unmuted : Unleash Clarity, Confidence & Contribution to Amplify Your Impact

Your most valuable contribution isn't what you've already given. It's what you've been holding back.
Disengagement is at an all-time high. Burnout is widespread. And even your highest-potential people are showing up as a fraction of who they're capable of being — sitting on ideas they don't share, strengths they don't see, and opportunities they keep talking themselves out of. The culprits aren't laziness or apathy. They're fear, self-doubt, and perfectionism. And they're quietly costing your organization more than you realize.

Using her signature VOICE Method, Rachel helps people move from self-doubt to self-trust and from hesitation to contribution. Audiences leave with a clear picture of what's been holding them back, a grounded sense of their own strengths, and the conviction to stop waiting for permission and start owning their impact. Because research shows the regrets that haunt us most aren't the chances we took; they're the ones we didn't. And the most expensive silence in your workplace isn't conflict. It's the ideas, perspectives, and contributions that never make it into the room.

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

Pinpoint the specific fear, self-doubt, or perfectionism that's been quietly costing them
Discover why the most capable people are often the most blind to their own brilliance and what to do about it
Learn why borrowed belief might be the most underrated tool for building lasting confidence
Walk away with a strategy to flip their biggest hesitation into their next bold move
Leave with the clarity and conviction to stop waiting for permission and start owning their impact

Keynote #2 : From Blindside to Breakthrough: Leading through Life’s “Didn’t See It Coming” Moments

Even the strongest leaders get blindsided. What separates the ones who break down from the ones who break through is what they do next.
Change is relentless, and even your best leaders can find themselves stuck in reactive mode, disconnected from their people, and running on empty. The signs show up quietly at first: team members who feel invisible, conversations that stay surface-level, a culture where people are present but not really there. What leaders need in those moments isn't more information. It's a different way of showing up.

Research from Gallup shows that what people need most from leaders in times of change and uncertainty comes down to four qualities — and most leaders aren’t delivering on them. The leaders who provide all four don't just survive disruption. They become the ones whose names people remember for the rest of their careers.

Born from her own experience of being blindsided by burnout and a pickup truck, Rachel equips leaders with the mindset shifts and practical tools to navigate change without losing themselves or their people in the process. Because how you lead others always begins with how you lead yourself.

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

Learn what Gallup research says people need most from leaders in times of change and uncertainty
Identify the leadership combination that predicts effectiveness more than any other factor and how to develop it
Discover a repeatable framework for navigating change, personally and with their teams
Leave knowing exactly what it takes to become the leader whose name people remember long after they've moved on

Keynote #3 : The Somebody Effect: How Leaders Build Cultures Where People Come Alive

The leaders people never forget aren't the most impressive ones. They're the ones who made everybody feel like a somebody.
Your most disengaged employees aren't checked out because they stopped caring. They're checked out because they stopped feeling like anyone else does.

They're the people who show up every day doing work that goes unnoticed, sitting in meetings where no one asks their opinion, wondering if the person who manages them even knows their name. Research shows that only one in three employees feel like their work matters, which means two thirds of your people are quietly drifting, waiting for someone to see them.

This is the leadership problem that doesn't show up on a dashboard. But it shows up in retention numbers, in team performance, and in the culture you're trying to build.

In this energizing and deeply human keynote, Rachel helps people leaders understand exactly what every person on their team needs to feel like a Somebody at work, not just on the good days, but consistently, when it's hard and when it matters most. Because making someone feel like a Somebody isn't complicated. But it isn't easy either. It requires leaders to show up in five specific ways, every single day, for the people they lead.

And underneath all five is one foundational choice that changes everything.

Because when leaders see the soul behind the role, they don't just drive results. They become the reason someone stays, grows, and brings their absolute best.

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

Discover the five things every person on their team needs to feel like a Somebody at work
Walk away with a simple but not easy weekly practice for having the conversations that make people feel known, seen, included, steady, and trusted
Understand why believing in the people you lead isn't a “nice to have”; it's the foundational choice that makes everything else possible
Leave knowing how to become the reason someone on their team stays, grows, and brings their absolute best

Call or text Neal at (720) 498 -3275 or email neal@infinitespeakers.com to place a calendar hold for Ted or book him for your next event today