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Keynote Speaker for HR Leaders; Keynotes, Leadership Training and Professional Development workshops designed for HR professionals to build resilient, high-performing teams and navigate the future of work, despite the uncertainty.

Executive Sprints & Leadership Training for Change Readiness

Recharge executive creative stamina and leave status-quo thinking behind to spark deeper, more adaptable strategic planning retreats.

C-Suite Away Days & Strategic Planning

Customized 2 to 3 hour workshops to develop ideas into actions.
Interactive executive facilitation for strategic planning success.

The Creative Leader Better Ideas, Better Results

This interactive, customized sprint uses Creative Problem Solving techniques to break status-quo thinking. When you think there are no ideas left, these techniques refresh thinking to draw out breakthrough ideas from analytical teams, and build the creative momentum needed to execute lasting change long after the retreat ends.

The Resilient Leader Confident Decisions Under Pressure

When ambiguity hits, leaders often default to endless analysis and false certainty. Grounded in Tolerance of Ambiguity (TOA) research, this sprint applies the 3C Method™ (Catch On, Consider Data, Create Solutions) to help executives interrupt status-quo panic and make swift, objective, data-backed decisions—without burnout or decision fatigue.

The Adaptable Leader Benchmark Capacity, Scale Adaptability

Only 4% of executives excel at stretching boundaries due to fear of disrupting short-term performance. Featuring the validated IAM® (Indicator of Ambiguity) assessment, this strategic audit benchmarks your executive team’s collective capacity for uncertainty, pinpointing innovation blocks and embedding habits of mind that turn strategic alignment into a lasting competitive advantage.

Watch the clip!
Watch Dr. Caroline challenge analytical leaders at the CEB Annual Conference to break status-quo thinking and apply creative problem-solving in high-stakes environments.

CEB Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

"It wasn't just your typical run-of-the-mill kinds of topics that keynote speakers bring, but it's very fresh ideas, particularly for our group, because we have a lot of analytical thinkers. And so, it begged them to come out of their comfort zones. And they did it with smiles on their faces."

Leah Reynolds

Executive Director Council on Employee Benefits

Evidence-Informed Leadership for Complex Environments

Dr. Caroline Brookfield, DVM, Cert. Prof. Mgt., brings 30 years of leading teams through high-stakes clinical decision-making to executive teams navigating continuous change. From global companies to small practices, entrepreneurship, medical research and teaching, Caroline draws from a broad range of experience. As an accredited practitioner in the IAM® (Indicator of Ambiguity) and Creative Problem Solving (CPS), with a Certificate of Professional Management, she bridges behavioral science with practical strategies to help analytical leaders eliminate decision paralysis, recharge creative stamina, and adapt in ambiguity, without burnout

Measurable ROI for Executive Team Retreats

Executive Sprints for strategic planning retreats to move your leadership team from status-quo inertia to actionable execution:

Break Status-Quo Thinking

Eliminate Decision Paralysis

Align Strategic Execution

Sustain Leadership Stamina

Watch Caroline in Action

"Caroline recently supported Elevated with a client in our course called Leadership Essentials. We wanted a new energy to be brought to our curriculum and Caroline certainly delivered. Helping our clients understand creativity and the impact it can have on problem solving with teams was invaluable. She made the course easy to digest, lots of opportunities to practice and a good base for conversations. We would highly recommend using Caroline to support you in building a creative and more resilient team!"

Michelle Berg

Chief Visionary Officer, Elevated HR

The Certainty Trap: Why Leaders' Instincts Stifle Strategic Execution

Over 80% of organizations list adaptability and innovation as strategic priorities, yet only 3% feel ready to deliver.

Is your leadership team in that 3%? If not, status-quo instincts may be silently derailing your strategic planning. In uncertainty, our human instinct triggers a knee-jerk response to resolve ambiguity, leading to decision paralysis, emotional reactions, and executive fatigue.

We instinctively try to control uncertainty with endless directives, policies, and endless committee reviews, going deeper into rabbit holes that stall momentum.

The reality? Market turbulence isn’t slowing down. The competitive advantage lies in systematically expanding your leadership team’s tolerance for ambiguity, turning uncertain conditions into confident, decisive action.

"Your talk was the first thing I talked about with my colleagues this morning! I was able to work on introducing the D.A.N.C.E concept with my team right away, and people loved it!"

Caroline Brault

Group Sales Manager