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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This Thanksgiving, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the journey—an adventure full of creativity, teamwork, and connection.
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