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Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Nervous System Regulation & Workplace Culture
Dr. La’Toya Edwards delivers experiential keynotes that help leaders, helping professionals, and organizations understand what happens under pressure and practice more regulated, sustainable ways of responding in real time.
Signature talks
Find the Conversation Your Room Needs
Every audience brings a different set of pressures, challenges, and responsibilities into the room. Dr. La’Toya’s signature keynotes are designed to meet people there, then give them language, practices, and tools they can carry with them after the event.
01 / LEADERSHIP + REGULATION
The Embodied Leader™
Leading Beyond Burnout Through Regulated Leadership
Leadership begins long before the boardroom. This keynote helps leaders understand how nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, and intentional leadership create resilient teams, healthier workplaces, and lasting organizational change.
Ideal for: Executives, senior leaders, leadership teams, organizational retreats, and leadership conferences.
02 / WORKPLACE CULTURE + WELLBEING
The Well-Regulated Workplace™
Creating Cultures Where People—and Performance—Thrive
Healthy organizations don’t happen by accident. This keynote explores how psychological safety, human-centered leadership, and organizational wellbeing improve engagement, retention, innovation, and performance.
Ideal for: Organizations, HR and people leaders, workplace conferences, healthcare systems, and university leadership teams.
03 / HELPING PROFESSIONALS + BURNOUT PREVENTION
Beyond Self-Care™
Supporting Helping Professionals Without Burning Out
Helping professionals are often taught to care for everyone except themselves. This keynote challenges outdated ideas of self-care and introduces sustainable, evidence-informed practices that support resilience, wellbeing, and long-term impact.
Ideal for: Social workers, therapists, counselors, healthcare professionals, behavioral health teams, and helping-professional conferences.
For The Room You're Building
More Topics Shaped Around What Your Audience Needs
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Why the Future of Leadership Begins Within
Today’s leaders are being asked to make decisions in the middle of constant change, competing demands, and uncertainty. This keynote helps leaders strengthen the internal capacity to stay grounded, think clearly, and respond with greater confidence when the path forward isn’t obvious.
Ideal for: Executives, leadership teams, organizations navigating change, universities, and leadership conferences
Find the Right Fit
Ready to Find the Right Fit for Your Audience?
Every audience is different, and the right speaking experience should reflect the people in the room, the goals of the event, and the conversations your organization is ready to have.
Whether you’re considering one of Dr. La’Toya’s signature keynotes or need a presentation shaped around a specific theme, the next step is a conversation about what would serve your audience best.
LEADERSHIP + WORKPLACE WORKSHOPS
Interactive Workshops for Leadership, Psychological Safety & Workplace Wellbeing
Dr. La’Toya’s workshops are designed for organizations that want their audiences to do more than listen. Participants engage through guided reflection, practical exercises, nervous system regulation tools, and real-time application.
The result is an experience that gives leaders and teams space to practice, reflect, and build skills they can actually use beyond the room.
Workshop topics include:
Embodied Leadership in Action
Building Psychological Safety
Burnout Prevention Beyond Self-Care
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
Difficult Conversations
Trauma-Informed Leadership
Creating Resilient Teams
Available as 90-minute workshops, half-day sessions, and full-day organizational trainings.
GO DEEPER WITH THE WORK
More Ways to Bring Dr. La’Toya Into the Room
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For leaders and teams who need more than a session or workshop, retreats and intensives create dedicated space to step away from the pace of everyday work, reflect, reset, and go deeper together.
Experiences can incorporate nervous system regulation, strategic reflection, restorative practices, and facilitated conversations shaped around the needs of the group.
Available as half-day intensives, multi-day retreats, and custom experiences.
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Designed for clinicians, educators, and helping professionals who want deeper skill development and practical application, these trainings blend research, experiential learning, nervous system awareness, and evidence-informed practice.
Featured experiences include The Regulated Clinician™, The Embodied Social Worker™, and The Regulated Educator™, with formats that support learning participants can carry back into their work.
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Dr. La’Toya partners with colleges, universities, and academic institutions to create programming for students, faculty, staff, and leadership.
Engagements can include keynotes, guest lectures, workshops, professional development, faculty and student wellness programming, and trauma-informed leadership experiences tailored to the needs of the academic community.
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More Than a Keynote. A Voice People Trust.
Dr. La’Toya brings the same depth, thoughtfulness, and practical expertise to panels, moderated conversations, and community-centered events.
Karen Pender
Inspired Counseling LLC
FELLOW PANELIST
Charles Brown II
PANEL MODERATOR
Courtney Thompson
Junior League of Norfolk-Virginia Beach
COMMUNITY PARTNER
What Changes After the Session Ends
“Dr. Edwards has a gift for making healing accessible.”
She doesn’t just teach, she transforms the room. Our staff left not only motivated, but with strategies they could implement immediately.”
— Carmen J.,
“Our leadership team has been through plenty of trainings, but Dr. Edwards’ consulting was different.”
She shifted how we approach resilience and emotional safety at work.
— Steven, Executive
“Dr. Edwards redefined what wellness means for our organization”
She gave us tools we’re still using months later.
— Akeya S., Corporate Client
“Dr. Edwards brings a presence that is both grounding and energizing.”
She is not only an expert in her field, but she truly sees people.
— Denise, Wellness Conference
NOT YOUR STANDARD KEYNOTE
Ready to Bring Dr. La’Toya to Your Audience?
Whether you’re planning a conference, leadership summit, panel, organizational gathering, professional development experience, or university event, let’s create something your audience can carry beyond the moment.
Signature talks can be adapted around your audience, event goals, and organizational context, with select custom presentations also available.