Erin Stafford

Burnout and Peak Performance Expert, Bestselling Author, Cambridge Social Psychologist

Topics: Inspirational & Motivational, Corporate Culture, Resilience, Best Selling Author, Elite Performance, Employee Engagement, Empowerment, Future of Work, Health & Well-Being, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Productivity, Storytelling, Success

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Biography

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Erin Stafford has blazed a trail of action-oriented success fueled by trial and error, bold decisions, and unwavering self-confidence. Her figure-it-out mentality has shaped her career journey from being a fledgling public relations intern to a high-powered marketing executive at a hyper-growth company.

Erin Stafford is a multi-faceted, marketing jack-of-all-trades. Her career has stretched from Paris and London to LA and San Diego. As an MTV advertising executive, she’s worked with the world’s biggest brands including Apple, Nike, Coke, and American Express. As a celebrity stylist and fashion journalist, she’s dressed celebs for the Emmy’s, Grammy’s, and Academy Awards, and had her work featured in numerous international publications. As the head of marketing for the biggest healthcare staffing company in the country, Erin Stafford led marketing for the largest deployment of healthcare personnel in history while helping to grow the company by 27x in six years.

In short, Erin Stafford has surrounded herself with some of the most motivated, ambitious, famous overachievers in the world for her entire, diverse career – people at the highest levels of success, but who often think burnout is something that happens to weak people, lazy people, those people, not high achievers like them. Yet leaders in all sectors today are suffering from severe cases of burnout as they struggle to adjust to a post-pandemic world and the pressures it puts on their personal and professional lives.

Using lessons gleaned from her distinct international career and interviews with dozens of high achievers from all walks of life, Erin Stafford shares impactful and inspiring mindset shifts for leaders to move from exhaustion and burnout to kicking ass and thriving again. Ultimately, Erin Stafford helps businesses revitalize their workforce by providing them with tools and tactics to sustain peak performance without burning out. Leaders experience renewed excitement and engagement in their work and personal lives.

Her book, The Type A Trap, outlines a simple five-step process that draws on years of research, interviews with the world’s highest achievers and her own lived experience to help readers recognize burnout before it’s too late, create thriving teams, maximize retention, and be happier, balanced, and more fulfilled.

Top 8 Reasons to Book Erin Stafford:

Ridiculously Easy to Work With

Erin’s job is to make your job easier. She is always on time, doesn’t complain, is prepared and goes to the extra mile to make sure you look like a rock star, your audience is happy and your event is a success.

Super Relatable, No-BS Approach

No clichés, no tricks, no pandering — Erin prides herself on a message that’s transparent and honest while getting to the truth about burnout and peak performance.

Infectious Energy and Dynamic Stage Presence

Erin’s infectious personality and onstage persona draws audiences in and is every bit as captivating as her message itself, creating a can’t-miss experience for every event.

Simple Tactics, Long-Term Results

While Erin’s message is focused on long-term, sustainable success, it’s built on principles that can be implemented in a single day with tremendous and immediate impact.

Expert and Research-Backed Messages

Every technique, mindset shift, and process Erin includes in her message is supported by extensive research and industry expertise.

Bold Ideas Without the Woo-Woo Clichés

Rather than sharing vague messages of general motivation, Erin shares bold ideas, specific traits, mindsets, and processes used by highly successful people to challenge the status quo and generate genuine change.

Vulnerable Yet Entertaining Storytelling

With vulnerable stories and anecdotes ripped from the headlines and her own life, Erin helps audiences feel seen, heard and understood while also laughing along the way.

Next-Level Customization

From the pre-booking call to the kick-off discussion and on-stage experience, Erin ensures her remarks always meet your audience’s unique needs.

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Escape the Type A Trap: Three Steps to Beat Burnout and Sustain Peak Performance

After years of uncertainty, people from all industries and walks of life feel tired, disillusioned, stuck, overwhelmed and burnt out. They want a better way to succeed and stay at peak performance without the constant hustle and grind that ultimately leads them to burn out.

Helping individuals and organizations break free from burnout is Erin’s mission with every keynote. Her three practical and easy-to-implement steps, coupled with her unique and inspiring message lead to real, measurable outcomes. Audiences leave feeling excited, re-engaged, motivated and fired-up again, not only about their work, but their lives. And most importantly, they leave with a toolkit they can put to use immediately to start seeing results quickly.

As a result of this program attendees will:
- Identify burnout warning signs before it’s too late.
- Reevaluate priorities and processes to increase energy and joy.
- Cultivate a mental health toolkit to maximize wellbeing when overwhelmed or burnt out.
- Transform their perspective to increase resilience and sustain peak performance.
- Feel seen, heard and hopeful.

Hyper-Growth Happiness: Reengage, Reconnect and Reinvigorate Your Workforce

Remote and hybrid work is here to stay. But keeping teams happy and productive has created a new paradigm, especially when hyper-growth is involved. Leaders are struggling to recruit, engage and retain employees while maintaining a company culture that is strong, inclusive and thriving.

In this practical, tactical session, Erin lays out the three-step process she used as the head of marketing for a hyper-growth healthcare company to keep over fifty thousand clinicians and three thousand corporate employees engaged and connected, all while the company grew by 27x. If you want a new model and actionable tools to reinvigorate your workforce, create a thriving community, maximize retention and breathe life into a tired and overwhelmed group, Erin’s message will do that and more.

As a result of this program attendees will:
- Discover a new human-centered way to connect with their team.
- Understand what makes their team light up and how to reignite that flame.
- Create a renewed feeling of trust and community within their team.
- Build a culture of belonging where team members know they can ask for help.
- Gain actionable takeaways to boost team morale and reduce burnout immediately.

The Slingshot Method: Get Unstuck, Discover a New Path and Find Your Way Without Burning Out

Big, audacious goals are what drive successful individuals and companies forward. But often, these goals can feel so far out of reach for individuals and teams that they end up feeling stuck, scared and unsure of how to get started.

Based on personal experiences of spotting a seemingly unattainable desired outcome and conquering it anyway, and hundreds of interviews with some of the world’s highest achievers who have done the same, Erin reveals a step-by-step approach to seizing the opportunities you crave without starting from the bottom or burning out along the way. If you want to supercharge your audience, help individuals and teams become more confident and self-reliant, even when facing challenges or starting over, build tenacity, resilience and courage, Erin’s message will do just that.

As a result of this program attendees will:
- Discover it’s never too late to live the life of their dreams.
- Understand how to use envy as energy to make a change.
- Recognize how to pivot without starting at the bottom.
- Learn Erin’s simple three-step process to make any dream a reality.
- Walk away with a new lease on work and life.

Testimonials

Our Independent Business Owners thoroughly enjoyed your talk. Your insights were truly valuable, and we hope they will implement everything they learned. It was a fantastic segment, offering the perfect blend of inspiration and actionable advice!

– Alma Macias, Global Events Manager, Sunrider

Erin's energy and unique tools went straight to the heart of our audience! She presents a toolkit that speaks directly to combating burnout without being overwhelming. Her positivity is captivating and we left hopeful and energized.

– Gina James, Director of Communications, UAPCS

You made us look so smart by booking you. Thank YOU for your sincerity and your genuine heart. We were blessed to have you grace our stage.

– Sev Scaglia, Director, Florida Realtors Association

I've heard so much positive feedback from our attendees about your presentation—great energy, strong conviction, expert-level knowledge. It was well done. I will be sure to keep you in mind for our future events, and will also spread the word to our business associates and my friends about the level of product and experience you bring to the table.

– Brendan Rokke, Chief Strategy Officer, Ovation Healthcare

Thank you so much for a fabulous keynote. It is hard to master engaging on a virtual platform, but you make it look easy! I’ve already gotten so many positive responses about this being exactly what people needed.

– April Allen, Co-Founder & Partner, Allen & Unger

Erin was absolutely fantastic to work with. Leading up to our event, she was diligent in understanding our attendees to customize her content for our group. I recognized this as she was speaking, picking up on words and references I'd made during our initial conversations and pulling those thought processes through in her presentation. She was funny, informative and struck the exact tone we needed for our audience. Everyone raved about her post event!

– Patrick Crosson, President, ILEA

Erin's insights were nothing short of remarkable, offering practical strategies and actionable steps that our participants could immediately apply in their own professional lives. What truly sets Erin apart is not only her profound expertise but also her down-to-earth demeanor and unwavering passion for her work in combating burnout in today's demanding world. Her ability to connect with our audience on a personal level was evident, leaving a lasting impact on all those in attendance. Her ability to engage our audience, coupled with her expertise and professional approach, undoubtedly made her keynote one of the highlights of our event.

– Steven Smith, Executive Director, Utah SHRM

Energy, Passion, and Impactful. All three words encompass what Erin brought to her session, and more! We could not have been more pleased with how the entire process flowed. From the beginning to end, everything we needed was executed and the end product exceeded any expectations. Thank you for your invaluable experiences and insight!

– Chris Walther, Project Manager, Siemens

Simply inspirational! Erin's message needs to be heard by all leaders. Burnout happens to everyone, and we need to understand the signs and tools to sustain peak performance.

– Jeff Stewart, Product Manager, National Interstate Insurance Company

The lessons our team took from Erin’s keynote were invaluable. She gave us tangible ways to recognize burnout in ourselves and in our teams, as well as actionable steps and tools to get out of the burnout cycle and help prevent it from beginning in the future. Erin was great to work with from start to finish, and her passion for her message was clear. This presentation is applicable for everyone – from executive leaders to entry-level team members – and is so engaging that your team will be left feeling energized and ready to make positive changes that have an impact on their work and personal lives.

– Rachel Anderson, Senior Director of Operations, Northwestern Mutual