Jennifer Moss

Jennifer Moss is a global keynote conference speaker and award-winning author who helps organizations prevent burnout and build high-trust, high-performance cultures.

Considered “the burnout speaker of all burnout speakers”, Jennifer Moss is the go-to expert on workplace culture, well-being and burnout prevention. 

Her book, Unlocking Happiness at Work, received the distinguished UK Business Book of the Year Award and her most recent book, The Burnout Epidemic, was named one of the “10 Best New Management Books” by Thinkers50. Moss’ inspiring and evidence-based presentations help leaders and their teams find joy and become more resilient and successful.

Moss is a nationally syndicated radio columnist and writes for Harvard Business Review. Her work has also appeared in TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. As a journalist who is always researching, Moss customizes each her of keynote presentations with the most recent and relevant data for the industry and her audience. Her on-stage style is confident and engaging with her talks striking the right balance between informative and inspiring.

In recognition of her contributions to business and public service, Moss was named a “Canadian Innovator of the Year” and an “International Female Entrepreneur of the Year”. She was also the recipient of the Public Service Award from the Office of President Obama and, in 2022, was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list of “30 thinkers to watch”. Moss is currently working on her third book, Why Are We Here: Creating a Culture Everyone Wants, to be published December 2024.

Jennifer Moss Speaking Presentations:

The Future of Work Demands a Different Kind of Leadership. Work has changed — permanently. Employees expect more meaning, balance, and humanity from their work. Jennifer Moss brings data, stories, and science to help leaders reconnect culture, well-being, and performance. Her keynotes inspire behavior change that lasts long after the event ends.

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

Combating Burnout in 2026 & Beyond +

Burnout didn’t end with the crisis; it evolved. This keynote reframes “underperformance” as a solvable burnout problem and equips leaders with data-backed tools to reduce brain fog, protect energy, and restore high performance — tailored to your industry and audience.

In 2025, burnout continued to surge, in some sectors surpassing 2020 levels. Brain fog—a symptom of burnout—is playing a terrible mental trick on our workforce and organizational success. It causes people to make more mistakes, be more distracted and less agreeable, and feel exhausted when performing simple tasks. Those affected, and unfortunately others, start to question their professional effectiveness, which leads to what Moss has identified as “The Underperformer Myth.”

Jennifer Moss, globally recognized workplace strategist and author of The Burnout Epidemic, says it’s not underperformance – it’s burnout – and it’s preventable.

This is the talk to get the workforce back to health and high performance. Based on her award-winning book from Harvard Business Press, Moss shares novel, research-backed advice for individuals and leaders to identify chronic stress and the strategies to fix it.

Considered “the burnout speaker of all burnout speakers”, Jennifer Moss is the go-to expert on workplace culture, well-being and burnout prevention.

Key Takeaways, Strategies, And Resources

Data and Insights

• Myths vs. facts about burnout — including why the “Underperformance Myth” persists
• The six root causes of burnout and how they surface in day-to-day work
• Up-to-date research, statistics, and audience-tailored insights woven into each presentation

Practical Strategies

• How to navigate organizational pressure while managing burnout risk
• Tools to better support teams and leaders who are approaching burnout
• Understanding toxic productivity — what we can (and can’t) control
• Actionable steps to address burnout risks across diverse teams and roles --

(re)Discovering Happiness at Work +

We’ve come through a crisis and, for better or worse, it has changed us. We gained plenty of skills like how to pivot on the fly, work from anywhere, adopt new tech, and build resiliency. Yet, Gallup reports that less than 1 in 4 people are thriving at work.

If the dust is settling and our well-being is rebooting in our personal lives, why does work still feel so “meh”? Why do we still feel less confident, less effective, and less connected? We can blame chronic stress, but we’re also hungry for purpose and meaning. We want our MAGIC back!

In this high energy, future-focused, entertaining, and data-backed presentation, award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Moss explores novel ways to bring that lost sense of purpose back to work and life. She draws on the latest behavioural and economic sciences research to explain what makes us want to show up at work and how to tear down the psychological barriers holding us back. Moss leaves audiences nodding, “you get me,” and feeling like, “I can do this!”

Takeaways include:

• (re)Imagine the Future: How to turn our gaze back to the future and decide how we want to be and what we can accomplish when we do.
• (re)Connect Our Diverse Workforce: How to think differently about the multi-generational workforce, Equity Deserving populations, and increasing diversity in the workplace
• (re)Prioritize Autonomy: Understand what flexibility actually means — why employees care so much about autonomy and how you can use it to create value.
• (re)Build Belonging: How and why to invest in belonging, connection, and friendships, which are more important than ever and more difficult to create in hybrid workplaces.
• (re)Store Purpose and Meaning: How and why we need to connect our efforts to purpose and how to begin evolving employee value propositions. -- 

Reducing Stress and Increasing Engagement in Changing Times +

Toxic productivity persists despite the days of "crisis mode" being in the rearview. Growth expectations have not slowed, workloads are still unmanageable, and people keep quietly quitting or quitting outright.

People are not only overworked, but there have been constant changes in process, new technology to master, ever-increasing meetings, new modes of working, rising loneliness, and an explosion of inefficiencies that feel like pouring glue into an already sluggish wheel. We can’t go back to the old ways of working. Today, employees see well-being as a right not a perk. Is your organization ready to respond?

Takeaways include:

• How to better measure risk of attrition and disengagement before it’s too late
• Tackling unmanageable workloads (it’s not what you think)
• The six root causes of burnout—and what organizations can do to prevent it
• Why traditional corporate wellness initiatives may worsen the problem
• Leading in the age of quiet quitting, rage applying, and future work trends
• Ways to shape a better hybrid/remote/in-person strategy to prevent burnout
• How organizations can lead with empathy and why that matters right now --

The Why Are We Here? Keynote Presentation | Create A Culture Everyone Wants +

There's a post-pandemic phenomenon that people are experiencing but can't quite put their finger on. Work is evolving, and so are employees’ expectations of it. I think most of us would agree, it still feels out of sync. Leaders have been tasked with navigating these changes in real time, without a playbook. Meanwhile, the workforce is in search of more purpose in their work, yet unsure of how or where to find it. You've likely found yourself pondering, "Why am I here?"

In her provocative new book, Why Are We Here, to be released by Harvard Business Press, Jennifer Moss pinpoints what is missing from work today. Jennifer guides attendees to the forefront of this significant and historical change. Incorporating dialogues with leading academic researchers, interviews with CEOs from the most respected and admired companies worldwide, and discussions with employees across various industries and roles, Jennifer equips attendees with the understanding needed to answer the question for themselves and the people they lead: "Why are we here?"

Key Takeaways, Strategies, And Resources

Practical Strategies

• Leadership development focused on purpose, cognitive empathy, and hope to enhance team performance.
• Techniques to boost intrinsic motivation and minimize turnover.
• Initiatives to combat employee isolation and foster belonging.
• Approaches to widen the pipeline for women in leadership roles.
• Effective methods for transitioning from change fatigue to change readiness.
• Guidance for integrating AI while ensuring a sustainable future workforce.
• Leveraging key shifts to more effectively manage a multi-generational workforce.

Key Takeaways

• The three unexpected shifts in worker behavior explained through behavioral science research reveals.
• Moving beyond "the new normal" to "jumping the timeline," examining how rapid change impacts our attitudes and behaviors.
• Implications of these shifts for talent management and organizational culture  --

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