Welcome — I’m so glad you’re here.
I’m Dr. Claire Green-Forde, The Culture & Well-Being Architect™ and CEO of Dr. Claire SPEAKS!™, a strategic advisory and thought leadership firm.
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As a transformational speaker, leadership strategist, and mental health executive, I help organizations strengthen leadership, culture, and well-being in ways that honor both people and performance.
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Through keynotes, workshops, and targeted strategic advisement, Dr. Claire SPEAKS!™ partners with senior leaders and executives across healthcare, government, corporate, and social impact organizations navigating high-stakes leadership, culture, trust, and well-being challenges.
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​Together, we address the patterns that drive burnout, risk, turnover, mistrust, and under-performance.​ Our work helps leaders move beyond performative policies and build psychologically honoring cultures where people are supported and accountability is practiced.
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This work is rooted in a clear belief: Work Shouldn’t Hurt™. No one should lose themselves, their health, or their humanity to do meaningful work.​
Helping leaders build workplaces
worthy of the people inside of them™
Work Shouldn’t Hurt™
Healthy workplaces do not happen by accident. They are shaped by leadership, strengthened by trust, and sustained by systems that honor the humanity of the people doing the work.
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People carry more than job descriptions. They carry identity, stress, family, purpose, lived experience, and hope. When organizations overlook the human experience, the impact is felt across culture, trust, retention, performance, and well-being.
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This is why I do this work.
What’s Hurting Your People Is Hurting Your Business
When organizations create conditions where people are overwhelmed, unsupported, disconnected, or forced to navigate harm, the consequences do not stay personal. They become operational.
They show up in turnover, absenteeism, presenteeism, disengagement, leadership fatigue, productivity loss, reputational risk, financial strain, and preventable harm.
Organizational well-being is not a soft concern. It is a strategic imperative. When leaders fail to address the human experience at work, organizations pay for it in ways that are measurable, costly, and often preventable.
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Here’s what the data tells us:
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Globally, low employee engagement costs the world economy approximately $10 trillion in lost productivity, or 9% of global GDP. (Gallup, 2026).
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Workplace stress costs U.S. companies more than $300 billion each year through health costs, absenteeism, poor performance, turnover, and diminished productivity. (CPH-NEW, American Institute of Stress).
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Globally, nearly 70% of workers say their manager impacts their mental health more than their spouse or therapist. (UKG, 2023)
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Replacing an employee can cost between one-half and two times that employee’s annual salary. (Gallup)
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Unaddressed mental health needs, including depression and anxiety contribute to 12 billion lost working days each year (WHO, 2024)
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When cultures erode, risk rises.
When leadership, well-being, and accountability align, organizations create stronger conditions for people to stay, contribute, innovate, grow, and sustain meaningful impact.
This is why, at Dr. Claire SPEAKS!™, we believe Leadership Is the Pivot Point™.
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 help organizations build cultures where people and performance thrive.
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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 to help leaders identify the behaviors, conditions, and systems driving burnout, misalignment, risk, and cultural erosion.
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Through our Inspire. Equip. Transform™ approach, we help organizations turn awareness into action through keynotes, workshops, and strategic advisement rooted in clarity, accountability, and strategy.
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Our Three-Part Approach
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Inspire: Transformational keynotes rooted in truth, data, and lived human experience that catalyze mindset shifts and help leaders understand how culture, well-being, and performance are shaped.
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Equip: Experiential workshops that build leadership capacity, strengthen accountability, deepen emotional intelligence, and offer practical tools for creating psychologically honoring workplace cultures.
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Transform: Short-term strategic advisement that assesses cultural dynamics, evaluates organizational readiness, and architects leadership blueprints to reduce risk, improve alignment, and support healthier, higher-performing organizations.
Why Organizations Partner with Us
Organizations partner with Dr. Claire SPEAKS!™ when they are ready to move beyond surface-level conversations and address the leadership and culture patterns affecting trust, profitability, retention, well-being, risk, and performance.
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Our work helps leaders name what is happening beneath the surface, understand what it is costing their people and their organization, and take practical steps toward healthier, more accountable, and higher-performing cultures.
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Through every engagement, we bring clarity, compassion, evidence-informed insight, and executive-level strategy to strengthen the conditions people work within.​​
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Let’s Architect Your Legacy Together
We help leaders and organizations architect the leadership, culture, and well-being systems that support human dignity, strengthen performance, and sustain growth with clarity, integrity, and care.
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Choose the pathway that best fits where your organization is now and what you are ready to build next.
"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
