Keynote Speaker for Women
Resilience Keynote Speaker for Women's Leadership Events
The Thriving Mindset: build resilience, align with your values, create sustainable success.
Marilyn Gansel, PsyD is a performance psychologist and resilience keynote speaker who works with women's conferences, leadership summits, and professional associations. Her signature keynote is built for high-achieving women who look successful on the outside — but are ready to feel more energized, aligned, and fulfilled on the inside.
Built for women who hold themselves to a high standard
This keynote is designed for professional women — executives, clinicians, entrepreneurs, caregivers, and leaders — who have built impressive careers but find themselves running on empty. It is for women ready to move beyond survival mode and design a life of purpose, resilience, and sustainable success.
- Leadership conferences
- Women's professional associations
- Healthcare & caregiver forums
- Executive retreats
- Entrepreneurship events
- Wellness & resilience summits
Speaking Topics
Keynote topics for women's conferences and leadership events
Resilience keynote
How resilience is actually built — through recovery, boundaries, and evidence-informed wellbeing practices, not sheer willpower.
Burnout keynote
Recognizing burnout early in yourself and your team, and building prevention plans that hold up under real workloads.
Women's leadership keynote
Ambition without depletion: leading with clarity, values alignment, and a sustainable definition of success.
Midlife and reinvention
Navigating career transitions, shifting energy, and renewed purpose in the second half of a professional life.
What participants experience
From survival mode to thriving
In today's fast-paced world, many high-achieving professionals find themselves successful on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, depleted, and disconnected on the inside.
The Thriving Mindset is an engaging and interactive keynote designed to help individuals move beyond survival mode and create a life of greater purpose, resilience, wellbeing, and fulfillment.
Participants leave empowered with practical tools to strengthen their mindset, align their actions with their values, and develop a sustainable personal success strategy.
Audience Takeaways
What participants will learn
Replace limiting beliefs
Identify the thought patterns holding you back and reframe them into empowering, action-oriented beliefs.
Clarify your core values
Use your values as a clear guide for decisions — so your work and life feel aligned, not scattered.
Create energizing goals
Set goals that fuel you rather than deplete you, with built-in recovery and sustainability.
Recognize burnout early
Spot the warning signs before performance drops and build a prevention plan that actually fits your life.
Build resilience through wellbeing
Develop practical, evidence-informed wellbeing practices that strengthen you under pressure.
Leave with an action plan
Walk away with a concrete, personalized plan for lasting personal and professional growth.
Available Formats
Choose the experience that fits your event
Keynote Presentation
30–60 minutes
Conferences, leadership events, and professional associations.
Interactive Workshop
60–90 minutes
Groups ready to reflect, discuss, and build an action plan together.
Half-Day Training Experience
3–4 hours
A deeper dive into mindset, values alignment, resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable success.
About the speaker
Marilyn Gansel, PsyD
Marilyn Gansel, PsyD is a performance psychologist and coach who integrates functional medicine principles, behavioral psychology, and performance science to help high-achieving professionals thrive under pressure.
She works with clinicians, athletes, executives, and leaders — many of them women — who are navigating burnout, midlife transitions, and the tension between ambition and wellbeing. Her speaking style is warm, evidence-informed, and deeply practical.
Marilyn is also the author of three books, including Saved by Sport, Mac 'n Cheese: Mini Morsels for Positive Performance, and Pain, Purpose, Passion: That Was Then, This Is Now.
Let's talk about your event
Interested in bringing The Thriving Mindset to your conference, retreat, or team? Send a speaking inquiry and I'll reply within one business day with availability and next steps.
No pressure. Just a focused conversation about your audience, your goals, and how we can make the experience memorable.