You're either training your energy, or you're going negative by default. There's no neutral.
Sara Schaeffer teaches leaders and teams how to fight the negativity bias, reclaim their energy in real-time, and build the muscle for resilience before the pressure hits. Through her signature keynote Train Your Energy or Go Negative, Sara delivers the Hand Guide: a 5-finger tool audiences use immediately when stress, overwhelm, or negative spirals kick in.
Her approach blends neuroscience, boxing discipline, and contagious energy to give organizations both the urgency and the tools to lead strong, live light, and create a culture where energy training becomes the norm.
Train Your Energy or Go Negative: The Hand Guide for Leaders and Teams Who Refuse to Collapse Under Pressure
Book Sara for her signature keynote Train Your Energy or Go Negative. Audiences walk away with the Hand Guide: a 5-finger tool they use immediately when stress, overwhelm, or negative spirals start. Real tools. Real results. Energy that spreads.
From half-day workshops to custom team activations, Sara creates high-energy experiences where teams learn to train their energy together. Expect interactive strategies, the full Hand Guide deep dive, and real tools that strengthen trust, communication, and resilience under pressure.
Through 1:1 or small-group coaching, Sara helps leaders reclaim their energy, break the negativity default, and build daily habits that fuel resilience and clarity. Coaching clients don't just perform better at work. They lead stronger and live lighter in every area of life.
Train your team to use the Hand Guide when stress hits. They'll reclaim energy in 60 seconds instead of spiraling, staying strong when the pressure's on.
Equip leaders to regulate their energy, communicate with clarity, and build trust. So their teams stay steady even when everything else feels chaotic.
Transform negativity into momentum. Learn practical ways to create a culture where energy training becomes the norm and people feel connected, valued, and driven.
Strengthen relationships across teams with the Hand Guide's connection finger. Clear communication and trust-building strategies that fuel faster results.
Teach simple, science-backed tools (like the Energy Audit) that help people focus, recharge, and perform at their best without burning out.
Build the muscle for positivity before you need it. Teams that train their energy daily don't just survive change. They create momentum that lasts.
From mainstage keynotes to hands-on workshops, Sara's Train Your Energy framework can be customized around the outcomes your organization needs most. Each topic is designed to give leaders and teams practical tools to fight the negativity default, reclaim energy under pressure, and build momentum that lasts.
Whether you need to reduce burnout, strengthen resilience, or re-energize your culture, Sara delivers the science-backed strategies and contagious energy to help your team lead strong and live light.In today's high-pressure world, going negative isn't the exception. It's the default.
Your brain is wired to go negative 5x faster than positive. That's negativity bias, and it's costing organizations talent, innovation, and momentum. Sara Schaeffer shows audiences how to train their energy like a muscle using the Hand Guide: a 5-finger tool they use immediately when stress, overwhelm, or negative spirals start.
Using her Practice Your Positive™ framework, she transforms "positivity" from a feel-good concept into a trainable skill set that helps teams perform under pressure and stay strong when everything else feels chaotic.
Takeaways
Sara knows what it means to train before you need it. With 15+ years in healthcare leadership, she learned how to stay steady when everything went sideways—managing high-stakes teams, navigating constant change, and leading through pressure that didn't let up.
But she also knows what happens when you stop training your energy. After years of burning out the good people (including herself), she made a choice: train the muscle, or go negative by default.
As a former competitive boxer (Philadelphia Golden Gloves champion), registered dietitian, and certified personal trainer, she applies the same discipline to energy that athletes apply to performance. Reps. Consistency. Showing up when you don't feel like it.
Her message is real, lived, and tested. Through stories, strategies, and humor, she proves that energy training isn't soft—it's survival. And when you train it daily, you don't just survive pressure. You lead through it.Audiences leave with tools to:
Real results. Real impact.
Here’s what organizations and audiences say after bringing Sara to their stage and organization.
Sara delivers high-energy keynotes and team activations that move people and create lasting momentum. With a background in healthcare, fitness, and resilience training, she helps teams rise through change with practical, actionable tools.
Sara’s signature keynote, Train Your Energy or Go Negative, teaches teams the Hand Guide and gives them a tool they’ll use for life. Walk out with energy, clarity, and a system to stop the spiral before it starts.
A high-energy workshop where teams learn the full Hand Guide system, practice the Energy Audit together, and build the muscle for resilience before pressure hits. Bespoke to your team’s challenges. Built to stick
Need something custom?
Sara designs bespoke energy training for your team’s specific challenges.
Whether it’s burnout prevention, leadership resilience, or culture reset, we’ll build it to fit your goals and schedule.
Practice Your Positive
Sara Schaeffer delivers high-energy keynotes and activation experiences that help teams reset, re-energize, and rise through change. Her Practice Your Positive framework combines real-life resilience, emotional intelligence, and audience interaction to spark momentum that actually sticks.
From keynotes to events, her work is designed to move your people—not just emotionally, but literally.
Less theory, more energy. Less fluff, more fire.
Practice Your Positive A high-energy, interactive keynote designed to reset team culture, build emotional resilience, and spark renewed momentum—in a fun and approachable way.
Available as a standalone keynote or paired with Sara’s signature Positivity Party—an immersive, post-keynote activation that blends music, movement, connection, and wellness to lock in transformation and make your event unforgettable.
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