Welcome — I’m so glad you’re here.
I’m Dr. Claire Green-Forde, The Culture & Well-Being Architect™. I’m a transformational speaker, leadership strategist, and mental health executive helping organizations connect equity, well-being, and performance in ways that honor both people and purpose.
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Dr. Claire SPEAKS!™, is a strategic advisory and thought-leadership firm helping organizations move beyond performative approaches to address the systemic drivers of workplace harm. Through speaking, workshops, and strategic advisement, we partner with leaders across healthcare, corporate, social impact, and professional health education sectors to build cultures where care, equity, and clarity, strengthen people and profitability. Our work is in operationalizing well-being as a driver of retention, performance, and organizational health.
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Whether I’m speaking on stage, guiding an executive team, or architecting a culture blueprint, I lead with curiosity, empathy, and an unwavering belief that work should never come at the expense of someone’s humanity.
Leading with Empathy and Authenticity!
Work Shouldn’t Hurt™
Healthy workplaces don’t happen by accident, they are architected. People carry more than job descriptions; they carry identity, stress, family, trauma, purpose, and hope.
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When organizations overlook the human experience, the entire system feels the impact. However, when leadership, well-being, and equity align, organizations reduce harm, strengthen trust, and create the conditions where people and performance thrive.
What’s Hurting Your People Is Hurting Your Business
​When organizations create conditions where people are overwhelmed, unsupported, or forced to navigate harm, the consequences ripple across the entire system. It shows up in turnover, risk exposure, productivity losses, compliance failures, and reputational decline.
Organizational well-being is a strategic imperative and the data is clear: when leaders fail to address the human experience at work, the financial and reputational costs are immediate, measurable, and entirely preventable.
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Here’s what the numbers reveal:
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Toxic workplaces and untreated mental health concerns cost U.S. companies nearly $300 billion each year through turnover, absenteeism, burnout, and legal exposure. (NAMI,2024)
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Global disengagement drains $8.8 trillion annually; nearly 9% of the world’s GDP. (Gallup, 2025)
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70% of workers globally say their manager impacts their mental health more than their spouse or therapist. (UKG, 2023)
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Organizations lose $20,000–$100,000+ per employee per year due to lost productivity, absenteeism, presenteeism, burnout, and turnover-related costs. (WHO, SHRM, Gallup)
When cultures erode, risk rises and organizations pay for it in lost trust, stalled innovation, and preventable turnover. But when leadership, well-being, and equity are aligned, organizations reduce harm, strengthen stability, and create environments where people and performance thrive.
How We Architect Leadership, Culture, and Well-Being
Inspire. Equip. Transform™
At Dr. Claire SPEAKS!™, we blend organizational strategy, mental health expertise, leadership psychology, neuroscience-informed insights, and equity-centered design to architect cultures where people and performance thrive.
Our work is anchored in our proprietary L.E.A.D. with C.A.R.E.™ methodology and supported by the Leadership Architect Compass™ ecosystem, which informs every keynote, workshop, and strategic advisement partnership we deliver.
We help leaders understand what’s driving harm, misalignment, and burnout, and give them the strategic clarity, tools, and pathways needed to strengthen trust, reduce risk, and lead with purpose and integrity
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Our Three-Part Approach
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Inspire: We catalyze mindset shifts through transformational keynotes rooted in truth, data, and lived human experience.
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Equip: We build leadership capability through experiential workshops that strengthen self-awareness, deepen emotional intelligence, and cultivate the behaviors that create psychologically honoring environments where people thrive.
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Transform: Through short-term strategic advisement partnerships, powered by our L.E.A.D. with C.A.R.E.™ methodology and the Leadership Architect Compass™ ecosystem, we assess cultural dynamics, evaluate organizational readiness, and architect leadership blueprints that improve alignment, reduce risk, and create conditions where both people and performance thrive.
Why Organizations Partner with Us
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We inspire leaders to lead differently, illuminating the root causes behind disengagement, cultural erosion, leadership fatigue, and harm with clarity, honesty, and evidence-informed insight.
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We equip teams with actionable frameworks and tools, blending leadership psychology, mental health expertise, equity-centered design, and neuroscience-informed insights to strengthen decision-making, well-being, leadership behavior, and alignment.
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We transform systems through strategic advisement, architecting evidence-informed blueprints and culture solutions that reduce organizational risk, improve retention, enhance innovation, and create the conditions where both people and performance thrive.
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Let’s Architect Your Legacy Together
We don’t just improve workplaces. We inspire and equip leaders and organizations to architect the leadership, culture, and well-being systems that support human dignity, strengthen performance, and sustain growth with clarity, integrity, and care.
"I had the opportunity to recruit and manage many of the top thought leaders and content experts in the behavioral health space for platformed national presentations. Dr. Claire's presentation, ' Beyond Hate & Towards Love: Social Workers' Role in Confronting and Dismantling Oppression', was by far one of the most engaging, professional, and informative that I've witnessed. In addition, a key component of Dr. Claire's presentation was a live Q&A with behavioral health professionals from across the country- she displayed a level of empathy and relatability that stood out, especially in an academic setting. Dr. Claire was able to take challenging cultural and academic content and present it in a way that was uniquely impactful and empowering"
Cliff Gates
Co-Founder, Map to Hope
