Wednesday Keynote Speaker
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific time
Leadership: Taking the Wheel in Complex Times
Description: In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, leadership requires more than just strategy, it demands connection, resilience, and emotional insight. In this energizing and thought-provoking keynote, clinical psychologist and organizational practitioner Dr. Jody Carrington explores what it truly means to lead in complex times.
Drawing from her experience working with diverse teams, Dr. Carrington emphasizes that the most successful leaders are those who know how to repair and reconnect. She shines a light on the often-overlooked essentials of leadership: building strong, healthy relationships that create a positive and dynamic workplace culture. With her signature blend of humor, heart, and real-world wisdom, Dr. Carrington challenges leaders and teams to rethink how they show up for one another. She offers fresh perspectives on classic challenges and inspires audiences to lead from the inside out.
At the heart of this talk is emotional intelligence, long considered a “soft skill,” but now more essential than ever. While policies and procedures provide structure, it’s emotional intelligence that fuels connection. And in a world where technology allows us to work faster and with less face-to-face interaction, one truth remains: we cannot automate relationships.
Dr. Carrington helps audiences understand how to better perceive, regulate, and evaluate emotions, both in themselves and in others. This emotional awareness leads to stronger leadership, reduces burnout, and equips people to navigate difficult conversations and change with greater confidence.
Whether you're leading a team, supporting colleagues, or simply striving to be a more impactful communicator, this presentation will leave you inspired, empowered, and ready to take the wheel.
Dr. Jody Carrington – Renowned Psychologist | Human Connection Expert | Bestselling Author
Bio: Dr. Jody Carrington is a renowned psychologist, and a charismatic keynote speaker celebrated for her profound expertise in human connections. As a leading authority in addressing complex, human-centered challenges, Dr. Carrington excels in guiding individuals and organizations through the intricacies of re-establishing relationships in today's increasingly disconnected society. She boldly believes that all humans have the capacity for good; however, so many of us these days, because of isolation and burnout, have lost access to that good.
Through her insightful analysis, Dr. Carrington explores how societal detachment occurs and outlines practical, meaningful solutions for reconnection. Her approach combines a deeper understanding of how necessary acknowledgment has become, and she underscores how this need is so much bigger than recognition. Her dynamic and heartfelt presentations, infused with humor and honesty, captivate and energize audiences worldwide.
She is the Founder and Principal Psychologist at Carrington & Company, she has served as a civilian member of Canada's national police force, the RCMP, and practiced with the most complex cases on a psychiatric inpatient unit. Dr. Carrington’s balance as a devoted practitioner and brilliant communicator results in an ability to authentically connect through impactful presentations that has set a new bar in talking about the shifting landscape of mental health.
Dr. Carrington has authored three best-selling books, including Feeling Seen (Harper Collins, 2022) and hosts the widely celebrated podcast, "Everyone Comes from Somewhere." From major theatres and convention halls of 5,000 attendees, to boardrooms of 20 senior leaders, she revels in connecting and delighting an audience of any size, championing the profound need for genuine human connection in an era often dominated by digital communication. Her work is trusted by many of the world's Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, education and healthcare leaders all working to solve similar core challenges in creating a new set of rules to support and motivate their teams.
She is a mom to three, a wife to her (very lucky) husband, a hockey coach, a daughter, and a sister, navigating this world, alongside everyone she has the privilege to learn from and serve.
*Sessions and presentations are subject to changes.