Christy Foldenauer | Keynote Speaker
Transform how your leaders think, connect, and lead.
Christy Foldenauer helps leaders and teams navigate pressure, complexity, and change without losing clarity, credibility, or one another. Her work equips people to lead well when the stakes are real and familiar habits are no longer producing the results they need.
With more than 20 years of experience in executive coaching, team dynamics, and leadership research, Christy delivers powerful keynotes that move leaders from awareness to action. Her work sharpens how leaders think, notice, and respond under pressure.
Audiences leave with practical leadership frameworks to navigate change, identify blind spots, and strengthen leadership presence. The result is insight that resonates during the keynote and continues shaping leadership decisions long after the event.
Featured Keynotes
Rekindle™: Why People Disconnect Under Pressure + How to Turn It Around
When pressure rises and complexity is high, people adapt.
Sometimes, that adaptation leads to unintentional disconnection, and that can happen in subtle, often invisible ways.
We drift. We misread each other. We overfunction, react, or withdraw. By the time it's obvious, trust, clarity, and momentum are already strained, and the team suffers.
Rekindle™ helps people recognize these patterns sooner, and respond with greater intention.
A Different Way to Understand Disconnection
This keynote introduces a practical, research-informed framework built around four patterns of disconnection that commonly emerge under pressure. Participants will learn to identify each pattern in themselves and in others and respond with greater awareness instead of defaulting to old habits.
Rather than asking people to work harder, Rekindle™ helps them see differently. When people can name what's happening, they can change it.
Participants leave with:
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A shared language for the subtle shifts that signal disconnection
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Greater awareness of their own and team members' patterns under pressure
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Practical tools to pause, recalibrate, and reconnect
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Increased capacity to move forward with clarity and steadiness
Rekindle™ is designed for: individuals, leaders, and teams, including cross-functional groups, organizations navigating change, and professionals in healthcare, research, and technical fields.
Delivery Options: Keynote (45–75 min) · Keynote + Interactive Session · Workshop Series
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Give Me A Lever: The Powerful Leadership Skill You May Be Missing
Most leadership-defining dilemmas don’t arrive with clarity. They come loaded with pressure, complexity, and real weight. What separates the leaders who navigate them well isn’t more effort. It’s knowing where to stand, and how to create leverage.
Give Me A Lever is a keynote for leaders navigating high-stakes decisions in complex environments. Drawing on Archimedes' law of the lever, it introduces the FACTORS™ framework—seven strategies for increasing leverage where it matters most.
This isn't about doing more, but rather positioning better.
A New Mental Model for High-Stakes Leadership
Participants will learn the seven strategies behind FACTORS™ — a practical, memorable framework designed to help leaders recognize leverage points, recalibrate under pressure, and make better decisions without burning out.
When leaders know how to gain leverage, everything moves more easily.
Leaders Leave With:
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A practical shift from working harder to leading smarter
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The ability to recognize leverage points already available to them
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Tools for making high-stakes decisions with greater steadiness
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A shared language their teams can use immediately
Give Me a Lever is designed for: senior leaders and executives, leadership teams under pressure, and organizations moving through complexity and change.
Delivery Options: Keynote (45–75 min) · Keynote + Interactive Session · Workshop Series
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Christy’s keynotes are available in live or virtual formats and can be customized for conference audiences, leadership offsites, or even all-hands meetings. Each session is crafted to meet your organization’s unique goals and audience profile.
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