Signature Keynotes
Real stories. Real impact. Tailored to your audience.
IN THE ROOM
I want people to feel seen before I ever ask them to see differently.
I talk honestly about hard things, but I don't believe meaningful has to mean heavy. There's humor, humanity, room to breathe and plenty of moments where people recognize a little of their own story in mine.
The stories open a door. The research gives us language. And then we get to the part that matters most: what do we do now?
I don't want to speak to a room. I want to bring the room with me.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
The story stays the same.
The conversation meets the room.
At the heart of my speaking is one message I've spent years building, studying, and living. From there, I shape the conversation around the people in front of me because resilience may be universal, but the way we experience it never is.
FEATURED KEYNOTE
Survival Starts the Story.
Resilience Builds the Rest.
Survival is what gets us through the thing we never asked for. Resilience is what happens next.
In this keynote, I take audiences beyond the idea that resilience means simply "being strong" or bouncing back. Through story, humor and a five-part framework: Endurance, Adaptation, Meaning, Stabilization and Expansion, we look at what it actually takes to move through change, adjust to a reality we didn't choose, find solid ground again and eventually build beyond what happened.
IDEAL FOR:
Leadership * Corporate Teams * Associations * Conferences * Education * Healthcare
FOR HEALTHCARE
Beyond the Injury.
Understanding trauma recovery
beyond physical injury.
What happens after the crisis is over?
For healthcare audiences, I bring the resilience framework into the realities of recovery, where physical healing is only one part of the story. We explore how communication, support, identity, trauma and the people surrounding a patient can shape what healing looks like long after the immediate crisis has passed.
For provider audiences, the conversation can also turn inward: how do we keep caring for people without losing ourselves in the process?
IDEAL FOR:
Nurses * Physicians * Healthcare Leaders * Trauma Teams * Patient Experiences * Medical Conferences
FOR MENTAL HEALTH & TRAUMA
Life after survival.
Healing doesn't always go back to who we were before.
For mental health, behavioral health and trauma audiences, I take the resilience conversation deeper into adaptation, identity, meaning, avoidance, growth and the pressure people often feel to "be okay" before they've had room to be human.
This work is deeply personal to me, both because of what I've lived and because of the families we serve through Rebekah's Angels. I want the conversation to honor the research while still making room for the complicated, very human reality of healing.
IDEAL FOR:
Behavioral Health * Counselors * Social Workers * Trauma Professionals * Mental Health Conferences *
Advocacy Organizations
FOR EDUCATION
What are we helping them carry?
Students walk into school carrying far more than backpacks. So do the adults who teach them.
For education audiences, I bring the resilience conversation into everyday realities of growing up, teaching, leading and belonging. We explore the things life places in our invisible backpacks, what we can intentionally choose to carry forward and the role adults can play in helping young people see what's possible before they can see it for themselves.
Because what students carry forward eventually becomes part of what they pass on.
IDEAL FOR:
Students * Teachers * Administrators * Counselors * School Staff * District Leaders * Education Conferences
WATCH ME SPEAK
Some things are better experienced than explained.
Here's a glimpse of what happens when the stories, the research, the humor and a room full of people all come together.
WHAT EVENT LEADERS SAY
I knew that the women of Coca-Cola would be so inspired and they were. They laughed and cried and were reminded that anything is possible.
Rebekah has such a genuine, loving heart, and she connects with audiences easily, as she shares her challenges and her triumphs, and shows everyone how to keep moving forward and finding joy. She has contagious positive energy, an engaging speaking style and I would highly recommend her as a speaker for any event. There is true peace behind her smile, and it will touch the lives of all who meet her.
-Lisa Chapman, Coca Cola North America