Dr. Catherine Hansen

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Sustainable Leadership: Prevent Burnout, Boost Productivity, and Build Resilient Teams

  In today’s relentless business environment, success and personal well-being shouldn’t be competing priorities. Yet for too many top performers, achievement comes with a hidden cost—depleted energy, fractured relationships, and creeping burnout that threatens everything they’ve built.

  What if you could maintain your competitive edge while actually enhancing your vitality and satisfaction? This transformative session delivers a strategic performance protocol that safeguards your organization’s most precious resource: its people.

  Drawing from McKinsey Health Institute’s groundbreaking research and her own proprietary Whole Health Assessment, Dr. Catherine Hansen’s highly interactive keynote engages audiences in high-impact exercises that reveal their unique energy drains and power leaks. Through targeted interventions and strategic planning, she helps leaders and their teams develop personalized protocols that amplify their capacity for sustained high performance.

  Key takeaways include how to:

  • Transform your vision into action: Align personal aspirations with inspired actions to create a powerful, action-oriented approach to leadership of self and others.
  • Cultivate mindful habits: Develop self-awareness and establish intentional practices that harmonize personal well-being and foster a sustainable rhythm of productivity that propels professional success.
  • Prioritize impactful actions: Focus on three key strategies to safeguard energy, enhance focus, build resilience, and unlock greater fulfillment through work-life synergy.

  This talk is tailored for leaders and individuals who recognize the need to stay ahead of burnout and enjoy life while excelling in their careers. It provides tools to break free from perfectionism, self-judgment, and the relentless pressure to do more.

  Audiences will leave with a personalized Whole Health Guide and actionable strategies to integrate sustainable habits that ignite your potential and drive success.

• Allyship in Action: Harnessing the Full Potential of Your Workforce

  This session is a call to action to redefine leadership, challenge systemic inequities, quell microaggressions, and empower individuals to design intentional, meaningful, and value-aligned lives.

  Research consistently shows that when companies prioritize individual well-being, emotional agility, courageous conversations, and a sense of belonging, they drive innovation, catalyze creativity, enhance collaboration, and achieve stronger, more sustainable outcomes.

  In this data-driven, interactive session, Dr. Catherine Hansen will explore the systemic challenges faced by many employees. She helps organizations develop agile leaders with self-kindness, radical empathy, and exceptional communication skills and equips individuals with tools to navigate internal and external barriers.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Cultural change: Cultivate a culture that values diverse perspectives and a sense of belonging by fostering self-awareness, mindfulness and allyship at both the individual and organizational levels.
  • Long-term business success: Recognize how equitable workplace practices improve talent retention, strengthen organizational culture, and position companies competitively in their industries.
  • Acknowledge systemic challenges: Recognize internal and external systems and structures that influence individual experiences in the workplace and the world
  • Develop embodied leadership strategies: Build emotional agility and resilience to, confidently, navigate challenges and align actions with core values.
  • Curate courageous conversations: Open dialogue that disrupts the status quo, promotes psychological safety, and amplifies diverse voices.
  • Ignite potentials: Foster collaboration and leverage collective wisdom to inspire innovation and ignite human potential.

  Available in customizable formats with large or small groups, this session addresses pressing concerns around productivity, retention, well-being, and inclusion utilizing principles of holistic leadership and allyship in action.

• Awareness, Agency, and Action: Trusting the Fullness of You

  In this interactive session, Dr. Catherine Hansen provides participants with the tools to lead with confidence, create sustainable habits, and engage in authentic dialogue that drives collaboration and organizational success.

  In today’s fast-paced workplace, balancing personal well-being with professional demands is more challenging than ever. Stress, competing responsibilities, compressed timelines and systemic barriers can prevent leaders from reaching their full potential. Hansen will equip you and your team with practical strategies to lead authentically with embodied self-awareness, emotional agility, and radical resilience.

  Key takeaways include how to:

  • Build emotional agility and resilience: Learn to respond to challenges with confidence and adaptability, transforming setbacks into opportunities for growth.
  • Align with core values: Identify and align with personal values to enhance clarity, decision-making, and well-being while fostering a trusting and collaborative workplace.
  • Create sustainable habits: Develop practices that prioritize mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health, reducing overwhelm and enhancing energy.
  • Foster inclusive leadership: Build psychological safety and lead courageous conversations that inspire connection, innovation, and collective impact.
  • Take aligned actions: Through practical strategies and actionable insights, participants will gain the tools to navigate challenges, foster collaboration, and create environments where individuals and teams thrive.

  Available in customizable formats, this session equips organizations with the knowledge and tools needed to build holistic leaders who foster thriving workplaces where all individuals can leverage work-life synergies to excel.

• Menopause as a Strategic Advantage for Organizational Success

  What if your organization could tap into an overlooked competitive advantage? With women over 40 comprising 25% of Canada’s workforce, unmanaged menopause symptoms cost the Canadian economy an estimated $3.5 billion annually in lost productivity

  Behind closed doors, 10% of these high-value professionals are silently exiting organizations due to inadequate menopause support, while countless others power through discomfort, their potential drastically undermined. The shocking reality? Companies embracing menopause-supportive cultures are witnessing productivity skyrocket by 3.5 times, yet only 19% of women report feeling supported during this transition.

  Dr. Catherine Hansen, a distinguished physician and certified menopause practitioner, delivers a game-changing perspective that transforms how organizations retain and maximize this key talent demographic. Through evidence-based strategies — from creating stigma-free cultures to implementing flexible work models — she reveals how forward-thinking leaders are slashing turnover by 20%, boosting productivity by 5%, and revolutionizing their talent pipeline.

  Key takeaways include:

  • How to convert a $3.5 billion productivity drain into untapped organizational potential.
  • A five-point strategy that’s revolutionized how top companies retain their most valuable talent.
  • How companies with menopause-supportive cultures see 3.5x productivity gains.
  • Actionable frameworks that boost retention, performance, and competitive advantage.

• A Journey to Rediscover Intimacy: Deepen Connection, Reignite Passion and Contribute Fully

  Relationships are the foundation of a meaningful and joyful life, but even the strongest bonds can weaken under the weight of busy schedules, exhaustion, and miscommunication.

  In this engaging and entertaining keynote, Dr. Catherine Hansen, an experienced OB-GYN with certifications in menopause, health coaching, relationship counselling, and sexual health, guides audiences to rebuild and reignite intimate partner passion as a path to a fully thriving life.

  Nearly half of women experience challenges with intimacy, and most believe they’re alone creating fear, hopelessness, and isolation. Hansen’s expertise, transparency, and humour bring to light the science and psychology behind intimacy, empowering couples to reclaim confidence, connection, and joy.

  Key learning outcomes include:

  • Understanding intimacy and connection: Learn the fundamentals of relationships and how they form the basis of a healthy and fulfilling life at work and in the world.
  • Enhancing communication: Explore practical techniques to foster emotional closeness and effectively communicate needs and desires and grow together instead of apart.
  • Reigniting passion: Discover strategies to break through barriers, nurture sensuality, and rekindle the spark.
  • Building confidence and legacy: Gain tools to cultivate self-confidence, deepen bonds, and create a love that lasts a lifetime and fuels each partner’s purpose and co-creative contributions.

  Through compelling stories, actionable strategies, and insights into the dynamics of relationships, Hansen leaves audiences inspired to re-prioritize their foundational relationship and create a thriving connection that ripples into every aspect of work and life.