Most Requested KEYNOTE TOPICS
Each signature topic is offered as a 60 minute keynote, 2-hour workshop, or a half day experience. Regardless of the duration, I incorporate a guided mindfulness practice to activate emotional intelligence, engagement, and focus.
Understanding the importance of a data-driven approach, each session includes tangible ROI objectives, such as 25% enhanced retention and 25% stress reduction.
SPEAKING PROGRAMS
“Shawntà Hooks delivers learning experiences for today’s workplace and tomorrow’s leaders.
Creating lasting transformation on an individual and organizational level.
LEADERSHIP TALK
Modern workplaces aren’t struggling because people don’t care — they’re struggling because nervous systems are overloaded.
In this multisensory keynote, Shawntà Hooks teaches leaders how to regulate under pressure without slowing momentum, make clearer decisions in real time, and stay influential during disruption.
Blending music, movement, meditation, and her neuroscience-backed CCC Method™ (Catch → Convert → Create), this experience helps leaders shift from reactive to responsive in under five minutes — without adding more meetings, tools, or initiatives.
Audience Outcomes:
Reduced reactivity and mental overload
Clearer decision-making under pressure
Greater presence, influence, and focus
Presence Is the Hack™: How Leaders Unlock Clarity in the Age of Overstimulation
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This is presentation is great for:
✓ Organizations seeking to strengthen connection and belonging across their teams.
✓ Leaders aiming to foster an inclusive culture that encourages authenticity.
✓ Teams looking to transform their workplace into a space of deeper engagement and trust.
MOTIVATION TALK
Constant change, DEI whiplash, and performance fatigue have left many teams operating in quiet survival mode — guarded, cautious, and disconnected.
This experience helps leaders name what’s happening beneath the surface without inflaming it — and learn how trust is rebuilt through regulation and clarity, not control or overcommunication.
Through embodied practices and real-world scenarios, Shawntà shows how psychological safety is created in the body first — and how regulated leadership restores connection, alignment, and forward movement.
Audience Outcomes:
Increased psychological safety and trust
Stronger communication during uncertainty
Less defensiveness, more alignment
The Trust Reset™: Rebuilding Safety, Clarity & Connection When Certainty Is Gone
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This is presentation is great for:
✓ Organizations seeking to strengthen connection and belonging across their teams.
✓ Leaders aiming to foster an inclusive culture that encourages authenticity.
✓ Teams looking to transform their workplace into a space of deeper engagement and trust.
MOTIVATION TALK
Courage and hope aren’t personality traits — they’re regulatable nervous system capacities.
In this grounding and forward-focused keynote, Shawntà helps leaders rebuild the emotional endurance required to lead through prolonged pressure without burning out, disengaging, or becoming cynical.
This experience creates space for reset and renewal — then equips leaders with practical tools to stabilize teams, sustain momentum, and move forward with clarity instead of force.
Audience Outcomes:
Renewed sense of agency and steadiness
Greater resilience during sustained change
Teams that feel grounded, not stretched
The Courage to Hope at Work™: The Emotional Endurance Leaders Need to Move Forward
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This is presentation is great for:
✓ Organizations seeking to strengthen connection and belonging across their teams.
✓ Leaders aiming to foster an inclusive culture that encourages authenticity.
✓ Teams looking to transform their workplace into a space of deeper engagement and trust.
We are living — and working — in the Age of Overstimulation.
Workplaces are overwhelmed, nervous systems are overloaded, and leaders are running on fumes trying to solve increasingly emotional problems with outdated tools.
I believe clarity is a leadership skill.
I believe stillness is strategy.
And I believe transformation happens the moment the nervous system feels safe enough to hear itself.
My work exists to bring people back home to themselves — even inside the workplace.
I use music, movement, and meditation to create experiences you don’t just listen to… you feel.
I translate the human experience — burnout, distrust, grief, hope — into language leaders can understand and tools teams can use in real moments of pressure.
I teach modern leaders how to regulate, communicate, and reconnect to courage, clarity, and belonging.
This isn’t soft.
This is the future of leadership.
Because when people feel safe, seen, and steady, they perform at their highest capacity — and workplaces transform from the inside out.
My mission is simple:
Help people rise, help workplaces heal, and help leaders create cultures that can withstand the noise of this moment… and thrive beyond it.
Shawntà unlocks clarity in high-pressure cultures by teaching leaders how to regulate, influence, and decide clearly when certainty is gone.
“I cannot express how thankful I am to have discovered your CCC method… Best decision of my life!”
— Justina Lugo, SVS Specialist Instacart
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Presence Is the Hack™
In this multisensory keynote, Shawntà Hooks teaches leaders how to regulate under pressure without slowing momentum, make clearer decisions in real time, and stay influential during disruption.
Blending music, movement, meditation, and her neuroscience-backed CCC Method™ (Catch → Convert → Create), this experience helps leaders shift from reactive to responsive in under five minutes — without adding more meetings, tools, or initiatives.
Available as a 1-2 hour, half-day, or full-day immersive experience, the program is tailored to address your organization’s most critical workplace culture needs, with modules that provide practical solutions to real-world challenges.
Who It's For:
Early career leadership programs
Diverse talent development programs
High-potential & Emerging Leadership Programs
What Makes Presence Is the Hack™ Different?
Physical and Digital Tools: The Clarity Lab Kit™ ensures ongoing learning through multisensory resources like mindfulness cards, aromatherapy focus tools, and guided meditations.
Interactive and Engaging: Hands-on, multi-sensory activities and games make the learning experience dynamic and impactful.
AI Assisted Role-Playing: Engaging activities using AI to mindfully navigate generational differences.
Neuroscience Based: Practical techniques to enhance leadership and emotional intelligence, rooted in neuroscience.
Up to 120 days of continued support, ensuring participants stay on track to drive lasting, purpose-driven results.
Why should you book me?
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Sustainable Change Through 30/60/90-Day Check-ins
Shawntà doesn’t just provide a one-time experience; her 30/60/90-day check-ins ensure that participants stay on track, applying what they’ve learned and embedding mindful leadership practices into their daily routines.
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Immediate Impact with Long-Term Results
Organizations love that Shawntà’s workshops provide immediate stress relief and clarity, while her structured follow-ups and ongoing check-ins ensure that participants achieve lasting personal and professional growth.
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Multisensory Learning Experiences
Shawntà’s innovative, multisensory approach—combining music, movement, and mindfulness—creates a memorable and engaging experience that leads to higher retention of the material and quicker integration into daily work life.
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Data-Driven Results
Organizations appreciate the measurable success of Shawntà’s programs, from improved employee engagement and productivity to decreased burnout and turnover, driven by her mindful leadership and wellness strategies.
