Erin Stafford

Success today demands more than just effort—it requires focus, energy, and strategies that drive sustainable, peak performance without sacrificing well-being. For high-performing teams and leaders, the challenge isn’t just reaching the top; but staying energized, motivated, and fulfilled in order to stay at the top for the long haul.

In this transformative keynote, Erin delivers a powerful framework in her signature entertaining and high-energy style, designed to help leaders and teams unlock next-level performance while maintaining balance and resilience. Packed with actionable insights and inspiring stories drawn from her hyper-growth leadership background and decades of research with CEOs, Fortune 100 leaders, Olympians and celebrities, Erin empowers audiences to move beyond hustle culture and
embrace strategies that drive exceptional results without burning out.

This keynote is more than a roadmap for success—it’s a call to inspire action, recharge your team, and create unstoppable momentum. Leaders and teams will walk away energized, focused, and equipped to achieve extraordinary results with balance, clarity, and purpose. Ready to burn
bright, not out? This session is your blueprint for unstoppable success.

• Burn Bright, Not Out: Learn how to maintain energy and focus while achieving ambitious goals.
• Prioritize What Matters: Identify high-leverage actions that drive results and fulfillment.
• Align Purpose with Performance: Inspire teams to perform at their best by reconnecting with what drives them.
• Master Energy Management: Learn how to maximize output without burning out.
• Sustain Momentum: Develop sustainable habits that keep you and your team at the top of your game.
• Redefine Success: Shift from a grind mentality to a balanced approach that continually energizes and inspires.

In a world defined by constant demands and uncertainty, it’s easy to feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your purpose. The hustle-and-grind mentality has left many drained, searching for a better way to succeed—not just professionally, but personally as well.

Erin’s high-energy, motivational keynote delivers exactly what today’s leaders and teams need: an inspiring and actionable framework to reignite passion, build resilience, and create a path to sustainable success. Through her humorous, yet vulnerable, storytelling and transformative strategies drawn from her diverse international career as an MTV advertising executive, celebrity stylist, journalist, author, hyper-growth healthcare leader, and decades of research, Erin empowers audiences to reconnect with their “why,” prioritize what truly matters, and inspire those around them to do the same.

This isn’t just a motivational talk—it’s a wake-up call to lead with purpose, resilience, and joy. Erin’s powerful message inspires leaders to rethink success, recharge their energy, and turn their vision into reality. Audiences leave re-engaged, confident, and equipped to tackle challenges with clarity and impact. Ready to fuel your fire? This keynote will show you how.

• Recognize Burnout Warning Signs: Learn how to spot the subtle signals of burnout before they take a toll.
• Reignite Passion and Purpose: Transform feelings of overwhelm into clarity, confidence, and motivation.
• Cultivate Resilience: Develop mental health strategies to stay grounded, even during high-pressure moments.
• Shift from Hustle to Harmony: Reevaluate priorities to create more energy, joy, and balance in life and work.
• Inspire Lasting Change: Build a toolkit to sustain peak performance and lead by example, inspiring your team to thrive.
• Leave Empowered: Walk away with practical steps to create a life and career that energizes, fulfills, and inspires.

Leadership isn’t just about strategy—it’s about sparking action, igniting passion, and fueling sustainable success. In today’s high-pressure world, leaders must inspire their teams, navigate complexity, and deliver results, all while maintaining their own energy and balance. The most
impactful leaders don’t just manage—they energize, motivate, and empower those around them to thrive.

In this transformative keynote, Erin reveals The Spark EffectTM, a powerful framework for leaders who want to drive extraordinary outcomes while fostering resilience and purpose. Drawing from
her leadership experience in hyper-growth organizations, her work with Fortune 100 executives, and decades of research, Erin shares practical strategies and inspiring stories in her signature entertaining and high-energy style—empowering leaders to unlock their own capabilities and
bring out the best in their teams.

This keynote is a rallying cry for leaders to spark meaningful change, energize their teams, and achieve extraordinary results without burning out. Erin equips leaders with the tools to build trust, align vision with action, and create a culture where teams feel valued and motivated to deliver their best. Ready to see what The Spark EffectTM can do for you and your team? This session is for you.

• Ignite Energy and Purpose: Learn how to inspire and sustain peak performance for yourself and your team.
• Empower Your Team: Build a leadership style that fosters trust, collaboration, and engagement.
• Model Resilience: Equip yourself with tools to stay grounded and lead effectively through uncertainty.
• Create a Culture of Growth: Foster an environment where teams feel energized, valued, and motivated to excel without burning out.
• Drive Extraordinary Outcomes: Develop the mindset and strategies to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.

After years of uncertainty, people from all industries and walks of life are feeling tired, disillusioned 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 leaders 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.

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 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.

Remote and hybrid work is here to stay. But keeping teams happy and productive has created a new paradigm. 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 exact three-step process she used as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest healthcare staffing company to keep over fifty thousand clinicians and three thousand corporate employees engaged and connected, all while the company grew by 9x. 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.