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All Work & No Say
In this best-selling book Jody Urquhart recommends it as required reading for any conscientious manager who is on a quest to create satisfaction in the workplace.
Discover new approaches and techniques for fostering professional satisfaction, encouraging employee development and building organizational unity.
All Work & No Say provides the skills and inspiration you need to attract and retain a talented, flexible and diverse workforce.
All Work & No Say offers practical, useable tools for motivating people like:
- 10 critical factors to captivate your workforce, boost morale, and increase productivity.
- Leadership and change tests to assess your current workplace
- 55 ways to make reward programs more fun and effective.
- Critical steps to creating a fun workplace… and much, much more! Workshop ideas to engage an audience.
Bliss Out: Escape the Hustle Hangover and Feel Good Now
Does unfinished work follow you from one day to the next, draining your energy?
That’s a hustle hangover—when your mind clings to past results and future goals, keeping you from fully living right now.
You don’t have to wait for success to feel good.
You don’t have to push harder to finally relax. You can tap into your inner bliss right now.
Bliss Out is packed with Feel-Good Habits that don’t require effort—just a little attention. These simple shifts will help you break free from stress, stop chasing happiness, and start experiencing it today.
Happiness isn’t a goal. It’s already within you. Bliss Out and let it rise.
Jody Urquhart
Motivational Keynote Speaker on Burnout,
Leadership & Workplace Resilience
About Jody Urquhart
Jody Urquhart is a top Canadian motivational, conference speaker providing inspired keynote presentations that encompass employee burnout, health and wellness, resiliency, as well as Quietly Disruptive Leadership™.
She is also an expert in employee engagement and stress management, and, an award-winning author of the Canadian bestselling books All Work and No Say and Bliss Out.
Infusing her talks with humour, she uncovers the unconscious stress habits that quietly disconnect people at work.
Jody Urquhart, Quick Facts:
Known for: One of the top human resources speakers in Canada and the USA; Jody is a speaker-comedian hybrid who uses laughter as a gateway to deeper self-awareness, helping worn-out professionals feel more human at work.
Background & Speaking Credentials: 26+ years inspiring professional audiences across North America
Audiences Reached: Has spoken to over 2,000 groups
Specialty Topics: Workplace connection, burnout prevention, human-centered leadership, employee engagement, and team culture
Books: Canadian bestselling author of All Work & No Say and Bliss Out
Best Suited For: Organizations struggling with disengagement, burnout, or disconnected teams looking for a speaker who is funny, relatable, and actionable;
Format options: Keynote (45–90 min) or workshop (1.5–3 hrs)
Current Fee range: $10,001 – $15,000
Client Roster: Fortune 500 companies including Discover Card, Sun Life, Kruger, Cambridge Health Alliance, Manpower, and Aspira
Represented By: K+M Productions
Jody Urquhart's Expertise
- Adaptability & Agility
- Burnout Prevention
- Stress Management
- Mental Health & Resilience
- Employee Management & Employee Engagement
- Health & Wellness
- Workplace Culture
With over 26 years on stage, she has delivered more than 1,000 presentations and training videos across North America, helping leaders create cultures that feel as good as they look on paper.
Jody is the creator of Quietly Disruptive Leadership™, a human-centered approach that teaches leaders how to recognize the story in their heads, regulate their response, and communicate in a way people can actually hear.
Known for her sharp humor and real-world insight, Jody doesn’t just inspire audiences—she shifts how they show up.
Jody Urquhart's Bio
Jody Urquhart is a sought-after Canadian motivational speaker and workplace culture expert recognized for integrating humour with evidence informed insights on human connection at work.
Her work centers on how belonging, nervous system regulation, and leadership presence influence engagement, retention, and performance. Her professional background includes more than twenty six years of experience delivering keynote presentations and leadership sessions across Canada and the United States. She presents at more than fifty events annually for corporate, healthcare, education, and association audiences.
Before entering professional speaking full time, she built a career as a motivational humourist developing an approach grounded in timing, audience awareness, and clean observational humor. This foundation conforms to how Jody Urquhart designs highly interactive sessions that rely on real time engagement rather than scripted delivery.
She has spent years studying workplace disengagement, burnout, and professional disconnection through direct research and observation. Urquhart has conducted hundreds of interviews with leaders and employees to understand how stress, pressure, and pace affect communication and trust.
Her audiences include frontline professionals, senior leaders, and executive teams across multiple sectors. Jody Urquhart is frequently selected for conferences and internal leadership events focused on culture, wellbeing, and performance. Throughout her career, she has maintained a focus on practical application rather than motivational abstraction. Jody Urquhart emphasizes behaviors leaders can implement immediately to improve connection and reduce burnout. +
Her research output includes the creation and production of more than one thousand original videos examining burnout, presence, emotional regulation, and workplace connection. Jody Urquhart translates these findings into practical strategies leaders can apply immediately. She is the author of the Canadian bestselling books All Work and No Say and Bliss Out, which examine the relationship between meaning, humor, and sustained performance at work. Her writing emphasizes clarity, accountability, and the importance of human centered leadership practices.
For more than a decade, she also wrote the self syndicated column The Joy of Work, which explored everyday workplace behaviors and cultural patterns. Jody Urquhart used this platform to document how small leadership choices influence morale and long term engagement. Her keynote sessions focus on leadership presence, team connectivity, burnout prevention, and talent retention. Jody Urquhart addresses how leaders can create cultures where people feel seen, valued, and psychologically safe.
She is known for delivering sessions without slides or scripted lectures, relying instead on dialogue, humor, and audience participation. This approach allows Jody Urquhart to respond directly to the dynamics of each room. Organizations engage her when teams are experiencing fatigue, change saturation, or declining engagement. Jody Urquhart works with leaders to rebuild trust, improve communication, and restore clarity around purpose and expectations.
Her work also addresses the role of the nervous system in leadership behavior, decision making, and stress response. Jody Urquhart helps leaders understand how regulation and presence influence how teams respond under pressure. She regularly delivers both in person and virtual keynote sessions, adapting her content for distributed and hybrid workplaces. Jody Urquhart designs virtual experiences that maintain interaction, momentum, and accountability. --
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Jody Urquhart's Presentation Topics
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jody speaks at conferences, corporate events, and leadership retreats across Canada — including Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa — as well as in the United States.
This Would Be Funny… If It Wasn’t Happening To Me!
How to Navigate Change Without Losing Your Mind +
Change is constant. People are unpredictable
And most of us are reacting on autopilot.
That’s where stress, resistance, and miscommunication take over.
In this high-energy, comedy-infused keynote, Jody introduces Quietly Disruptive Leadership™—helping leaders disrupt autopilot and lead human. Because the way you lead yourself is the way you lead others.
Using shared humour, Jody creates space between the stimulus and the response—so leaders can pause, reset, and choose how they show up, even in the middle of pressure.
Audiences will learn to:
- Interrupt stress reactions in the moment
- Lead with calm, clarity, and presence
- Get teams on board with change—without pushing
- Stay grounded and effective in uncertainty --
CrazyBusy:
Relief to Find Immediate Balance in a Fast-Paced World +
Do your days feel overwhelming? Like you’re busy all day—but not getting to what matters most?
You’re not alone.
Most people aren’t just busy—they’re stuck in patterns of busyness. Filling time to avoid uncertainty. Focusing on small tasks instead of meaningful ones. Tying their worth to how much they get done.
Working harder isn’t the solution.
Seeing the pattern is.
In this humorous highly relatable keynote, Jody helps audiences recognize the habits that keep them overwhelmed—and interrupt them in real time.
Because you’re not the problem. The pattern is.
Audiences will learn:
- 3 signs they’re working harder—not smarter
- How personal habits quietly drain time and energy
- 4 hidden time and energy leaks (especially when working from home)
- How to stay productive without taking themselves so seriously
- Why they keep doing things the hard way—and how to shift it --
Follow Me, I’m Right Behind You!
How to Lead & Influence Others +
Leadership today isn’t about authority.
It’s about influence.
And influence doesn’t come from control
—it comes from how you show up.
Most leaders don’t struggle with effort.
They struggle with awareness.
They’re leading on autopilot
—reacting instead of connecting.
In this high-energy, comedy-infused keynote, Jody helps leaders break unconscious patterns, disrupt autopilot and lead human. Through humour, insight, and real-time interaction, audiences learn how to create the kind of environment people actually want to be part of—where trust, respect, and engagement drive results.
Because people don’t follow titles.
They follow how you make them feel.
In this keynote, audiences will learn:
- How to influence others without relying on authority
- How to break unconscious leadership patterns that limit impact
- Four keys to building a culture of recognition and respect
- How to strengthen purpose, vision, and connection
- How to create real involvement and a sense of belonging --
The Joy of the Job- Take This Job & Love It
How to Bring Energy and Meaning Back to Work +
You’re doing the work.
Showing up.
Getting through the day.
So why does it feel like the energy is gone?
It’s not the job.
It’s the pattern.
Unconscious stress habits quietly drain focus, energy, and connection to meaning.
In this funny, high-impact keynote, Jody introduces Quietly Disruptive Leadership™—helping audiences recognize and break those patterns so they can disrupt autopilot and lead human, starting with themselves.
Because energy at work isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you create by how you show up.
Audiences will learn to:
- Recognize the stress habits draining their energy
- Reconnect to meaning, purpose, and personal responsibility
- Bring more lightness and engagement into their day
- Improve focus and productivity—without burning out --
The Nerve to Serve: Say Hello to Humour & Goodbye to Burnout
How to Stay Human in High-Stress Work +
Work is demanding.
People are emotional.
And stress has a way of taking over before you even realize it.
That’s autopilot.
In high-pressure environments, reactions happen fast—and not always in ways we’re proud of.
This is where burnout begins.
In this engaging, comedy-infused keynote, Jody shows how shared humour creates space between the stimulus and the response—giving people a moment to pause, reset, and choose how they show up.
Through Quietly Disruptive Leadership™, audiences learn how to disrupt stress patterns, reconnect to themselves, and lead human—even in the middle of pressure.
Because when you can laugh together, you can think again.
And when you can think again, you can respond better.
Audiences will learn to:
- Use humour to interrupt stress in the moment
- Create space between reaction and response
- Take their work seriously—without taking themselves so seriously
- Build resilience without emotional exhaustion
- Bring more energy, connection, and perspective into there day --
How to Speak Human:
Lead Human in a High-Pressure World +
A practical and engaging keynote that helps professionals communicate with clarity, stay present in difficult conversations, and build stronger working relationships—without overcomplicating it.
Because the real work isn’t just getting the numbers right.
It’s getting people on the same page.
Audiences will Learn:
- How stress impacts the way we listen, speak, and interpret others
- Why communication breaks down—even between capable, well-intentioned people
- Simple ways to pause, respond with intention, and reduce unnecessary tension
- How to give feedback, ask better questions, and create real understanding
- Most people don’t lack emotional depth—they just lack the skills to communicate it.
This session brings those skills into real, everyday interactions. --
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Frequently Asked Questions About Jody Urquhart
Why hire Jody Urquhart and what is her expertise as a keynote speaker in Canada? +
Jody is one of Canada's most requested keynote speakers on burnout and workplace culture. With over two decades of research, 1,000+ live presentations, and a proprietary leadership framework — Quietly Disruptive Leadership™ — she helps teams and leaders break stress patterns, rebuild engagement, and show up more human at work. She delivers every session without PowerPoint, relying on real-time humor and audience participation to create lasting impact. --
What is Jody Urquhart known for? +
Jody Urquhart is widely considered one of the top human resources speakers in Canada, USA & Europe. In her keynotes, she equips leaders with proven strategies to build resilient, engaged teams for today’s workplace. She focuses on talent acquisition, team connectivity, and burnout prevention, while fostering an inclusive culture where people thrive and stay.
She is considered a subject matter expert on the topics she speaks on. With many years of professional experience and in addressing a wide range of industries, and, as a Canadian keynote speaker for conferences, conventions, corporate events, corporate retreats and AGMs, her talks help foster the expected outcomes and the organizational goals.--
What makes Jody Urquhart different from other conference speakers? +
Jody is not a traditional motivational speaker. No Power Points, No staged lectures—just pure, unfiltered human engagement. She participates in over 100 events yearly. She helps worn-out professionals: *Shed self-doubt and cynicism; * Rediscover joy in their work; *transforms rooms of strangers into communities of understanding --
What outcomes can our audience expect from Jody Urquhart's presentation? +
Jody will help your organization:
- Build a culture of support and connection
- Discover how to create recognition and meaning in your role.
- Explore strategies to manage stress and reclaim energy.
- Build a culture where people lean in, not check out.
- Ceate a team that thrives under pressure, not cracks under it. --
Who are Jody Urquhart's keynotes best suited for? +
Jody's keynotes resonate most with:
- Individuals in sales, customer service, HR departments, entrepreneurs and teams navigating change; and future of work
- Organizations navigating transformation, growth, or uncertainty
- Conferences focused on mental health, health & wellness strategies, leadership, wellbeing, employee engagment, employee morale & motivation;,
- Events looking to inspire, inform and provide thought provoking insights on resilience, mental health, stress management & dealing with change; --
How does Jody Urquhart customize her keynote for our audience? +
She customizes in a number of ways – with many years of experience she has having spoken at numerous keynote events and has worked with multiple industries. She seeks to ensure relevance for every keynote she delivers. She weaves relevant stories, examples, and language into the keynote, so it feels as if she is speaking directly to the audience member, timely, and deeply relevant—not generic. --
Can Jody Urquhart adapt her keynote for different time formats? +
Yes. Keynotes can be delivered as:
- 45–90 minute keynote sessions
- Keynote + breakout or workshop combinations
Jody will collaborate with you to align with what best fits your agenda. --
How much does it cost to book Jody Urquhart as a keynote speaker in Canada? +
Jody's published fee range is $10,001–$15,000 CAD, with final pricing confirmed through K&M Productions Speakers & Shows based on event format, location, audience size and customization. Contact K&M Productions to check date availability and arrange a pre-event call. --
Is Jody Urquhart represented by a speaker's bureau in Canada and how is the contract handled? +
Jody Urquhart is represented by K&M Productions Speakers & Shows Canada who coordinate bookings and handle the contract-agreement with the client. Keynote speakers in Canada often work through a bureau to take care of their contracts and payments while they look after the creative and content aspects of their topics and presentations. Bureau representation ensures consistent communication between the client and the speaker as well as an "insurance policy" for your conference in the unlikely occurrance of speaker illness or cancellation..--
How do I contact Jody Urquhart to check her date availability and begin the booking process in for events in Canada? +
Jody is contacted through K&M Productions Speakers & Shows to confirm her speaking schedule, availabilities, fees and event details. Event planners and meeting planners typically schedule a pre-event call to clarify format, objectives, and expectations. The tranparent booking process starts once the event requirements are sorted and confirmed via written confirmation. The contract-agreement is then issued on behalf of the speaker. --
What Clients are Saying About Jody Urquhart
This isn't about another motivational speech. It's about rewiring how professionals authentically engage, lead, and create meaningful workplace connections.
–Marisol Kroll - Kruger
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This isn't about another motivational speech. It's about rewiring how professionals authentically engage, lead, and create meaningful workplace connections.
–Marisol Kroll - Kruger
It’s a huge relief to experience a motivational speaker with no PowerPoint. You are authentic, hilarious and relatable.
–Donna Balter - Cambridge Health Alliance