Cait Donovan Keynote Speaker

Cait Donovan Keynote Speaker FRIED. Burnout Recovery Services are designed to help you end burnout and live a fulfilling life.

04/29/2026

Get this girl a camera man.

03/24/2026

The B.R.A.T. Method was something I designed for coaching clients years ago. I also share it in a keynote titled: Boundaries Make You More Generous.

These 4 words can change your relationships that are fraught with resentment because of your tendency to overgive.

As an added benefit, other people get to build self sufficiency and ownership because you pass the power back to them to have agency in their own lives.

This doesn’t mean you never help anyone. This should be used specifically in spaces when you’re overwhelmed, resentful, and generally huffing and puffing.

Do this enough and you’ll get back to feeling generous and like you WANT to help and that’s an energy change that is worth it!

03/03/2026

Stuck in people pleasing mode? Start disappointing people.

Not in major ways. Don't be selfish or rude.

When someone is trying to solve a problem and you're in the room - don't jump in and try to solve it for them before they ask for help. (listen, if there's an emergency, that's not the time to practice this ;)).

If you're a leader and you've been taking care of tasks that belong to one of your team members, gently pass the buck back to them.

If you're a team member who always brings the cookies, cakes, and snacks for birthdays and you're feeling resentful about it, stop doing it (if you love it, keep doing it!).

I believe that in order to create community well, we need to allow each other to own the stuff that aligns with us best and let other people do ... the other stuff. We can help each other MORE and BETTER when we enjoy the help we are giving and we aren't feeling resentful about it.

By the way - that's your clue - when resentment pops up, there's likely some pulling back from a situation that you'll need to find a way to do. If you cannot, absolutely cannot, then you have to find more ways to fill your cup so that you can handle what is in front of you.

02/27/2026

Belonging and inclusion are not the finish line.

You can be welcomed.
You can be invited to play.
And still feel like no one would notice if you stopped showing up.

In this clip, pulls these apart:

Belonging = being picked for the team
You’re welcomed, accepted, part of something.

Inclusion = being asked to play
You’re invited to take an active, equal role.

Mattering = knowing the team wouldn’t be complete without you
Your specific presence, story, and gifts are needed, not just there.

Most organizations stop at belonging and inclusion on a slide deck… while people burn out because, in real moments, nobody is actually signaling, “You are needed here.”

If you’re a leader or event planner, this is the real question:

👉 Are you building spaces where people feel welcome—
or spaces where they have proof they matter?

Micro-step for your next meeting:
Name one concrete way someone’s presence changes the outcome:
“Without your perspective on X, this would look very different.”

🎧 From my conversation with on FRIED. The Burnout Podcast.
Full episode: link in bio.

02/26/2026

Perfectionism doesn’t just live in people.
It lives in cultures.

Most high performers didn’t wake up one day and choose perfectionism.
They were trained into it — by families, school, and then by workplaces that reward output and 24/7 availability.

Perfectionism works.
It gets results.
It’s why so many of your best people got where they are.

The problem isn’t that your team is full of perfectionists.
The problem is when the way you work requires them to abandon themselves to keep succeeding:

Saying yes past capacity
Ignoring their bodies and boundaries
Treating “overdelivering” as the price of belonging
That’s where burnout, resentment, and quiet quitting start to brew.

In this keynote clip from Toastmasters International, I’m inviting leaders to see perfectionism not as a personal flaw to “fix,” but as a survival strategy your systems keep rewarding.

My work with organizations is about exactly this:
Creating cultures where people can do meaningful, high-quality work without destroying their health in the process.

If you’re planning your next conference, offsite, or leadership development series and you want your people walking away with language, frameworks, and next steps to prevent burnout at the systems level — this is what I do.

📩 Event organizers & HR/People leaders: DM me “KEYNOTE” or hit the link in my bio to inquire about booking.

02/25/2026

Hurry and care can’t co‑exist.

You cannot truly care for anything if you’re always in a rush.

Zach shared a McKinsey study that found people managers spend only 22% of their time with their people. The rest is swallowed by admin, metrics, and meetings about meetings.

No wonder everyone feels disconnected and burnt out.

But here’s the part I love:
Even inside that system, leaders still have one power no one can take away:

👉 The power to show up in your next interaction in a way that helps someone feel seen, heard, and valued.

You do not need a new program, budget, or your organization’s permission to:

Notice someone
Affirm their specific contribution
Show them how they’re needed

Culture is just the accumulation of these tiny interactions.

Your micro-step:
In your very next 1:1, slow down for 30 seconds and say,
“Here’s one way you made a difference this week…”

🎧 Clip from my conversation with on FRIED. The Burnout Podcast.
Full episode: link in bio.

Leaders: what gets in the way of you using your interactional power?

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