Keynote Speaker to ignite change in your organization

Is burnout an issue for your employees or in your industry? Is the audience for your event feeling disengaged from their work? Are they sick of being told to cheer up, be grateful, and try harder? Do speakers at your events explain the problem but lack solutions? Do you wonder if there is any evidence behind their claims of success?

I can provide an entertaining talk full of stories, analogies, and humor (which I have already practiced as a comedian on stage). You can watch my TEDx talk or stand up set to see me in action. Most importantly I can back up my talk with science and evidence-based solutions. I make the science fun by comparing it to a baked Alaska dessert or Mission Impossible movies. But you can be confident that my science and my solutions are actionable and impactful, based on my decades of research and practice and evidenced by my hundreds of publications which put me in the top 1% of most-cited scientists worldwide.

Rest assured this talk will light a spark for your organization and audience, but I’ll also bring the firewood to keep it burning, and the marshmallows to toast in celebration of a paradigm shift in how you engage your teams with stories, science and solutions. You will be able to measure the difference this makes.

I am a Keynote speaker with the following agencies:

Keynote Women

Women's Media Center's SheSource

Services

I am particularly interested in working with organizations that support burnout prevention aligned with their DEI mission.

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My experience as a speaker

TEDx Talk

TEDx McMasterU : How To Stop Burnout Before It Starts - March 2022

 

Industry Talks

Axion Risk Management Strategies: Managing burnout: a guide for leaders - August 2022

Conversations about Caregivers: Perspectives on burnout for future of work for caregivers- March 2022

Women Drive Innovation San Diego

 

Academic Talks

Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting: Finding a new mission in burnout recovery - April 2022

University of Edinburgh: Preventing Burnout: The importance of stories, understanding the science, and finding solutions - June 2022

ICAMPAM: Faculty burnout: The science & solutions - June 2022

The Professor is Out: Coping with burnout in academia: The science & solutions - July 2022

You can also find some of my public scientific presentations on UCSD TV and YouTube.

Improving Measures of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior

Sit, Stand, Walk: Why Physical Activity Research is Evolving

 

Comedy Performance

 

Testimonials

  • Brave, articulate, and solution focused TEDx talk. Fantastic, Dr Kerr! Thank you for sharing your story - Dr Simon Marshall

  • This is SO GOOD! A MUST WATCH TEDx talk! The statistics blew my mind. You got me so fired up. The future is female and the time is NOW. I'm so glad to be a part of your journey, I feel like a proud momma, watching her birdie fly :) It was a pleasure to coach you and an honor to watch you help so many other burned out moms! - Life Coaching for Parents

  • Personal development IS professional development. 100% agree. Thanks so much for so eloquently and graciously sharing your story along with the challenge to make little changes in your TEDx talk. Because, together, our individual changes to prevent burnout amongst ourselves and each other will lead to the systemic changes we need. Thank you for your leadership on this important topic!! - Adrienne Prentice

  • I love your Baked Alaska analogy to explain the ecological model in your TEDx talk! How fabulous. Thank you for your courageous sharing and the light you shine for others. :) - The Expanded Self

  • Your clarity on all of this has such far reaching effects on people, to explain so bravely and clearly what this grey fog of burnout emotion really is. How it impacts both the person going through it and the people around them. You are opening the door to so many conversations by having such a brave and inspirational forward looking message in your TEDx talk. - Dr Olivia Osburn

  • I’ve received feedback from SBM members wanting more on this topic and I hope we can figure out how to do more. You were certainly in demand after the keynote and moved so many people during it. - Dr David Conroy SBM President 2021-22

  • Dr Kerr’s SBM keynote was such a compelling combination of story, science and solutions. She has incredible depth of knowledge on this topic and excels at providing personal, professional and policy advice. - Dr Lauren Weiner

  • Dr Kerr’s SBM talk made me laugh and cry. It conveyed a truth about burnout, motherhood and academia that I have not heard so well expressed before. She has also provided me support in thinking through how to have social impact and how to manage such a challenging career as a mother. - Dr Andrea Mendoza-Vasconez

  • Thank you for all the work you’re doing in this space Jacqueline. I was truly inspired by your resilience and courage in your SBM talk. - Dr Dede Teteh

  • Dr Kerr, enabled us to raise an important issue – burnout – across our school. Her story made the problem accessible. And the science behind burnout was essential for us as health scientists. Her ability share personal and collective solutions will help us going forward as individuals and as a more supportive academic unit. - Dr Samantha Fawkner SFHEA, Deputy Head, Moray House School of Education and Sport, The University of Edinburgh

  • Dr Kerr combined science, story, and solutions which connected her deeply to this academic audience. Her advice at a personal and institutional level, for both burnout prevention and burnout recovery was so helpful and left us feeling we could take action on this important topic for ourselves and our colleagues - Dr Bronwyn Clark, President ICAMPAM

  • Your talk at ICAMPAM was fabulous! It was great to hear the SEM organization of solutions. It helped me organize my own strategies, both for me personally and how I can help others. As a white male it helped me understand my privilege but also some of the shared challenges we all have. You did a wonderful job of capturing what we say to ourselves and how that works against us - Dr Matt Buman, Director FSC at ASU