Women’s Health Advocate, Breast Cancer Survivor and Self-Care Strategist

Women’s Health Advocate, Breast Cancer Survivor and Self-Care Strategist, Kelli Jaecks delivers fast-paced, engaging keynote speeches and workshops that provide a plan for personal and professional resilience with self-care strategies to slay burn-out, and live your best life. Kelli quickly connects with audiences, shares inspiring personal stories, and innovative, research-based content. All this, and she’ll make you laugh while she does it.

With a working background as a healthcare provider and a breast cancer survivor, Kelli understands workplace burn-out and the importance of self-care.

Kelli Jaecks, MA, RDH is the founder of Kelli Jaecks | Verbal Impact!, an educational company whose mission is to empower people to optimal health through education and entertainment. She is a nationally published author, speaker and blogger on a variety of healthcare related topics in the arenas of women’s health, oral and overall heath, and leadership.

Kelli is the author of the Amazon best seller: Martinis & Menopause — Strategies, Science and Sips that Empower Women to Beat the Hormone Groan.

Her information is accessible and easy to understand, while offering useful, practical tips to feel better and live better. Kelli is committed to health and wellness. She lives it, writes about it, speaks about it, and empowers others about it!

From small groups of high-level executives to large scale seminars and keynote speeches at national meetings, Kelli is comfortable with audiences of all sizes.

Kelli is an active member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), Oregon Chapter Board of Directors. She is a leader in the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and was the national president in 2014-15.

When she’s not traveling to speak and workshop around the country, you’ll find her pursuing one of her greatest passions, acting and singing in theater productions in her hometown of Salem, Oregon.

NOTE: The Certified Virtual Presenter Badge verifies that a professional speaker has the right equipment, the right environment, and the right skill level to deliver an amazing virtual experience for every customer.

Virtual Programming Options

The world is changing. This recent virus scare has us all taking precautions and for good reason. How can meeting professionals adapt to this new reality for their conference models?

Have no fear! Kelli’s webinars are here! Kelli’s virtual real-time presentations offer your attendees online options for keynotes, workshops, and continuing education. A virtual presentation is an excellent way to provide cutting-edge content, while saving on travel budgets, and protecting the health of your staff and attendees.

As always, her presentations are highly relevant and provide your team, conference, or meeting with the perfect blend of information, insight, inspiration, and humor. Attendees will leave motivated to show up as their best selves, armed with tips and tools to implement what they’ve learned – all from the comfort (and safety!) of their own homes.

Virtual presentations have been part of Kellii’s service offerings for years with high attendee satisfaction. She is committed to providing this service to organizations who otherwise couldn’t offer informational sessions due to our global health crisis and travel limitations.

Any of the topics below can be adapted to virtual formats.

Most Popular Topics:

OXYGEN, PLEASE!
Self-Care Strategies to Slay Workplace Burnout

Self-care is as important as oxygen. While companies are working hard to stay competitive in today’s fast -paced, overstressed world, many employees are burned out, stressed out, and maxed-out. This results in low employee morale, and decreased performance -the opposite of what a thriving, successful business wants.

By incorporating simple, self-care strategies into our lives, we can slay workplace burnout and rejuvenate our sense of purpose. The simple truth is this: caring for yourself will allow you to show up as your best self at work and at home.

This fast-paced, activity-driven keynote offers important self-care strategies that will empower your leaders and employees to experience a renewed sense of self and positive workplace culture.

In this keynote, we will:

• Discover why self-care needs to be a non-negotiable in our lives
• Investigate simple, positive changes to increase personal wellness
• Evaluate and employ effective stress management techniques
• Have fun doing it!

 

BELIEVE, INVEST, PLAY:

Three Keys to Personal and Professional Growth

In today’s fast -paced, over-stressed world, many of us long for change. As we are buried in to-do lists and seemingly never-ending demands on our time, we forget to dream, we forget to stop and evaluate where we are, what we want and how to get there.

Imagine your world where you feel momentum, you are moving forward, you are experiencing joy in meeting your goals. Picture yourself happy and fulfilled – developing new skills for your workplace, mastering a hobby, discovering for fun! Looks good, doesn’t it?

How does one begin? How do we key into our desires, our longings, our goals?
How do we then work towards fulfilling those?

This fast-paced engaging presentation will provide three concrete ways to jump-start your goals. You will walk away with new tools to use in fulfilling your dreams and desires, whether they are personal or professional.

Objectives:

• Investigate ways to increase self-affirmations and positive thought about yourself.
• Discover blocks to investing in yourself, and overcoming them
• Reignite the power of play and its positive effects

 

MARTINIS, MILLENNIALS, MOTHERHOOD & MENOPAUSE
Self-Care Strategies to Beat the Hormone Groan

Let’s be real: throughout our lives as women, our bodies change, and our hormones groan. Whether we are dealing with our Periods and PMS, Pregnancy, or Perimenopause- many women find themselves feeling alone and confused by the changes in their bodies. As our hormones fluctuate, they affect our emotional and physical selves. Most workplaces seldom recognize this, much less provide a safe space for these very real changes. How can we best support ourselves and each other throughout these differing seasons of life? The more we learn about what is happening in our bodies and empower ourselves with positive lifestyle choices, the better we will be as moms, daughters, employers and employees.

Self-care is as important as oxygen. Women at every age, must take this to heart. By incorporating simple strategies into our lives, we can beat that hormone groan and rejuvenate our sense of purpose. The simple truth is this: All women have the power to feel better and live better.

This fun, fast-paced, activity-driven keynote focuses on key areas in physical and mental wellness that will empower women to live their best lives.

Course Objectives:

• Discover how much your hormones impact your health and your happiness
• Explore simple strategies in mental and physical wellness to beat the hormone groan
• Learn and explore ways to build women-focused community and inspire one another to connect and collaborate.

Hormones affect us ALL. Let’s talk about it. Let’s laugh about it. Let’s do something about it!

 

RESILIENCE & REINVENTION: THE NEW R&R
How to Thrive in Times of Change

Throughout life’s journey we are presented with many situations and realities that we do not choose. 2020 comes to mind. The kinds of challenges that sneak up on us and leave us reeling. Consider these: Employment restructuring, work norms undone, parents falling ill, children needing extra resources, changes in your primary relationship status, Covid-19 upending your world, or cancer striking!

When life’s challenges hit, they can throw us into a negative spin of despair and fear, with outcomes of anxiety, depression, and becoming the slug on the couch – unable to motivate ourselves.

Or – They present us with the opportunity to change, to shift our focus, to see new opportunities. To see what is possible. The choice is ours.

Resilience is just that, the ability to recover quickly from adversity, shift mindset and actions, and adapt to your new reality. And the outcome of resilience is the opportunity to change and reinvent ourselves for the future we are excited about.

How do we get there?

Take a journey of exploration into what is possible when we set ourselves up to thrive in times of change, creating foundational habits to be resilient and to reinvent ourselves so we can take actionable steps to achieve our dreams!

Objectives:

• Discover 5 pillars of resilience- and how to shore them up in your life
• Explore self-care strategies necessary to thrive thru times of change
• Create your non-negotiables- so you can be ready for the unexpected
• Invest in your personal reinvention for the future you dream of

 

TOPICS FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

SELF-CARE IS HEALTH CARE
Strengthening the Practitioner to Better Serve the Patient

In today’s fast -paced, over-stressed world, those of us who professionally care for the health and well-being of others often place ourselves at the bottom of the list when it comes to self-care. Everyone else’s needs come before our own; both at work and at home. The adage of “patient first” has unintentionally created an environment in health care that places the practitioner last. It makes no sense and often leads to personal and professional burn-out. What if we spin this practice on its head?

Practitioner first. My own physical and mental well-being first. Place the oxygen mask on myself first.

This fun, activity-driven presentation empowers health care professionals to make positive choices for their physical and mental selves, resulting in a renewed sense of purpose. Health promotion strategies will focus on four areas: physical wellness, sleep, nutrition, and mental wellness. Healthy practitioners better ensure healthier patient outcomes.

Course Objectives:

• Investigate simple, positive changes you can make to increase your personal wellness
• Discover strategies for better nutrition and sleep hygiene
• Evaluate and employ effective stress management techniques
• Create a personal plan to increase your overall wellness and better serve your patients.

 

LADY LOVE: A Focus on Women’s Health for 2020 and Beyond

A celebration of women and their uniqueness! Women have health considerations distinctive to their gender and hormonal make-up. Today, there are over 126 million women in the U.S. alone. They are our mothers, daughters, patients, us. With nearly 80% of healthcare practitioners being female, our industries need a clear focus on women’s health.

There are unique conditions presenting themselves to a woman as she ages, from cognitive changes to physical risks, including bone, brain and breast health. Brain fog, hot flashes, food cravings, irritability- all these can affect us.

The good news? Women can be proactive in making lifestyle choices to get healthier and live longer. To show up as our best selves, at work and at home.

This presentation will examine multiple systems within the female body that are affected as we age. We will explore practical, loving strategies to reduce disease risk and increase wellness. As healthcare providers, we can use this knowledge to educate and empower ourselves and our patients with habits that will positively affect our overall health and longevity.

Course Objectives:

• Discover hormone related changes in brain and body
• Explore strategies to increase cognitive and physical health
• Investigate nutrition and exercise as anti-aging practices
• Empower practitioners to employ wellness strategies to increase overall health

 

CANNABIS CULTURE 2.0
Clinical Considerations in this Growing Weed World

There has been rapid change in both public opinion and reported science concerning cannabis use and its effects. In fact, each year more states legislate to legalize Cannabis. The health professional will increasingly treat individuals who freely use cannabis in all its forms. What do we need to know? What questions do we need to be asking?

This course will take a closer look at the changing Cannabis Culture; our history with cannabis in the U.S., attitudinal shifts concerning the journey of cannabis from ‘gateway drug’ to accepted medicine, and address these questions –“ What is the difference between hemp, marijuana, cannabis, THC and CBD?” “What about medical vs. recreational use?” “What is the appropriate action when a patient self-medicates with marijuana before an appointment?” “How does cannabis work in the body?

The jury is still out on the question,” Is cannabis making a shift from historical vice to current virtue in issues of health?” Come find out.

Course Objectives :

• Understand historical perspectives of cannabis in the United States
• Describe methods for ingesting cannabis, how it works and its health effects
• Discover the difference between THC and CBD, and their effects on the body
• Explore the differences between hemp, marijuana, and cannabis