Leadership Keynote and TEDx Talk Speaker • Executive & Team Coach • Author
By the time you call it burnout, you’ve been drifting for months.
The signals show up early. In your language, your calendar, your decisions, and the apologies you never owed. Teresa helps your leaders catch the drift before it costs you.
Best for leadership conferences, executive offsites, team summits, women’s leadership events, agency-owner groups, and organizations navigating growth, change, or burnout.
“Unapologetic Prioritization,” presented at TEDxBuckheadAve – an independently organized TED event.
- TEDxBuckheadAve speaker
- TED Editor’s Pick
- Former CMO
- ICF PCC executive coach
- Co-author, The Purpose Playbook
The TEDxBuckheadAve talk
The talk that started the I’m Sorry Jar Club.
Watch the talk, then ask: where am I apologizing for a priority I actually need to protect? Join the community putting that question to work.
The big idea
Burnout is too late.
By the time a leader says they’re burned out, the drift has been showing for months. Teresa helps audiences catch it earlier — and lead differently before pressure hardens into damage.
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Drift is quiet.
It rarely announces itself. It shows up as small trade-offs, missed signals, and “I’m sorry” standing in for “this matters.”
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The signals are everywhere.
Language, calendars, tone, decisions, who’s deciding. Once you know where to look, you can’t unsee them.
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Catching it is a team sport.
When priorities are visible, teams protect focus together — instead of waiting for one person to set the pace.
Flagship keynote
Catch the Drift
How Leaders Spot the Signals Before Burnout Takes Over
By the time a leader calls it burnout, the warning signs have been showing up for months… in their language, calendar, tone, decisions, reactivity, resentment, and apologies. In this keynote, Teresa helps your audience catch the subtle signs of drift before they harden into exhaustion, disengagement, or cultural drag. Through story, humor, and practical tools, she helps leaders read the signals earlier and choose differently before pressure becomes the way they lead.
Audiences leave able to
- Spot the early signals of drift before they become burnout
- Recognize how language, tone, and calendar choices reveal hidden pressure
- Reduce reactive decisions and rebuild clarity under pressure
- Name one signal they’ll start watching this week
What audiences say
Warmth. Humor. Strategic
depth. Practical tools.
depth. Practical tools.
Teresa brings the room into the idea quickly, then gives people language they can use the same day.
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Teresa has a rare ability to make a room feel both challenged and safe. She brings warmth, humor, and practical wisdom in a way that helps leaders actually use what they learn.
Leadership development director
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Our team kept talking about Teresa’s language long after the session ended. She gave us a simple way to notice pressure patterns without making anyone feel judged.
VP, People & Culture
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Teresa blends strategy, emotional intelligence, and humor in a way that moves people to think differently and act differently.
Conference host
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She is thoughtful, grounded, and deeply practical. People leave with language they can use immediately.
Executive team lead
About Teresa
Teresa knows what pressure does to high performers — because it led from inside her.
Before founding Liminist, Teresa spent two decades leading marketing, agency, and executive teams through growth, change, and complexity — as a former CMO and agency president. Today, as a TEDxBuckheadAve speaker, ICF PCC executive coach, and co-author of The Purpose Playbook, she helps leaders and teams catch the signals early and build the clarity, courage, and shared accountability to lead well under pressure.
TED Editor’s Pick
ICF PCC
Former CMO
Five Behaviors
Positive Intelligence
Also by Teresa Caro
Co-author of The Purpose Playbook.
The Purpose Playbook helps leaders and teams move purpose from a statement on the wall to decisions, behaviors, and measurable action. For events, it’s a practical follow-up resource for teams that want to keep the conversation going after Teresa’s keynote.
Beyond the keynote
The talk starts it. The work makes it stick.
A keynote changes the room for a day. Teresa’s coaching and team facilitation change how leaders operate after she leaves: executive coaching, team facilitation, and the Living a Prioritized Life program.
Ready to help your leaders catch the drift earlier?
Bring Teresa to your next leadership conference, executive offsite, team summit, or association event.