Jody Urquhart

Keynote Speaker | Calgary, Alberta

Burnout Prevention
Health and Wellness and Healthcare Expert

Jody Urquhart Expertise Adaptability & Agility, Burnout Prevention, Stress Management, Employee Management, Health & Wellness, Workplace Culture, Happiness & Positivity, Employee Engagement and Communication.

Jody Urquhart

About Jody Urquhart

Jody Urquhart is a Canadian motivational speaker, workplace culture expert, and award winning author known for using stand up comedy to address burnout, disengagement, and human connection at work. With more than twenty six years of professional speaking experience, she has delivered programs for over two thousand audiences across North America and presents at more than fifty events each year. Her background includes years as a professional stand up comedian and over a decade as the writer of the nationally syndicated column The Joy of Work. Jody Urquhart is the author of the Canadian bestselling books All Work and No Say and Bliss Out. Her work focuses on building belonging, strengthening team connection, and helping leaders create resilient workplace cultures.

Jody Urquhart Videos

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Jody Urquhart Interviews & Podcasts

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JODY URQUHART BIOGRAPHY

Jody Urquhart is a Canadian motivational speaker and workplace culture expert recognized for integrating stand up comedy with evidence informed insights on human connection at work. Her work centers on how belonging, nervous system regulation, and leadership presence influence engagement, retention, and performance.

Her professional background includes more than twenty six years of experience delivering keynote presentations and leadership sessions across Canada and the United States. Jody Urquhart presents at more than fifty events annually for corporate, healthcare, education, and association audiences.

Before entering professional speaking full time, she built a career in stand up comedy, developing an approach grounded in timing, audience awareness, and clean observational humor. This foundation informs how Jody Urquhart designs highly interactive sessions that rely on real time engagement rather than scripted delivery.

She has spent years studying workplace disengagement, burnout, and professional disconnection through direct research and observation. Jody Urquhart has conducted hundreds of interviews with leaders and employees to understand how stress, pressure, and pace affect communication and trust.

Her research output includes the creation and production of more than one thousand original videos examining burnout, presence, emotional regulation, and workplace connection. Jody Urquhart translates these findings into practical strategies leaders can apply immediately.

She is the author of the Canadian bestselling books All Work and No Say and Bliss Out, which examine the relationship between meaning, humor, and sustained performance at work. Her writing emphasizes clarity, accountability, and the importance of human centered leadership practices.

For more than a decade, she also wrote the self syndicated column The Joy of Work, which explored everyday workplace behaviors and cultural patterns. Jody Urquhart used this platform to document how small leadership choices influence morale and long term engagement.

Her keynote sessions focus on leadership presence, team connectivity, burnout prevention, and talent retention. Jody Urquhart addresses how leaders can create cultures where people feel seen, valued, and psychologically safe.

She is known for delivering sessions without slides or scripted lectures, relying instead on dialogue, humor, and audience participation. This approach allows Jody Urquhart to respond directly to the dynamics of each room.

Organizations engage her when teams are experiencing fatigue, change saturation, or declining engagement. Jody Urquhart works with leaders to rebuild trust, improve communication, and restore clarity around purpose and expectations.

Her work also addresses the role of the nervous system in leadership behavior, decision making, and stress response. Jody Urquhart helps leaders understand how regulation and presence influence how teams respond under pressure.

She regularly delivers both in person and virtual keynote sessions, adapting her content for distributed and hybrid workplaces. Jody Urquhart designs virtual experiences that maintain interaction, momentum, and accountability.

Her audiences include frontline professionals, senior leaders, and executive teams across multiple sectors. Jody Urquhart is frequently selected for conferences and internal leadership events focused on culture, wellbeing, and performance.

Throughout her career, she has maintained a focus on practical application rather than motivational abstraction. Jody Urquhart emphasizes behaviors leaders can implement immediately to improve connection and reduce burnout.

Her work positions connection as a functional requirement for effective leadership rather than a cultural add on. Jody Urquhart continues to support organizations seeking sustainable engagement, resilience, and clarity in an evolving workplace.

Jody Urquhart Topic Presentations

Jody Urquhart Calgary, Alberta, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

This Would Be Funny... If It Wasn't Happening to Me! : How to Navigate Change by Mastering Human Connection

How to Speak Human: Make Your Leadership More Relatable

Crazybusy: Relief to Find Immediate Balance in a Fast-paced World

The Joy of the Job Take This Job & Love It: Your Work, Your Way!

Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You! : Where Leadership Meets Real-life

Jody Urquhart Books & Articles

All Work & No Say... Ho Hum, Another Day: How to Captivate Your Workforce, Boost Morale and Increase Productivity by Jody Urquhart
All Work & No Say... Ho Hum, Another Day: How to

"All Work & No Say... Ho Hum, Another Day: How to Captivate Your Workforce, Boost Morale and Increase Productivity" by Jody Urquhart is a...

Bliss Out: Feel-good Habits to Lift Your Hustle Hangover by Jody Urquhart
Bliss Out: Feel-good Habits to Lift Your Hustle

"Bliss Out: Feel-Good Habits to Lift Your Hustle Hangover" by Jody Urquhart is an uplifting guide designed to help readers combat burnout...

Jody Urquhart Speaking Testimonials

"Thank you, Jody Urquhart, for coming out to speak to us. You were awesome and I received all good feedback from our attendees!  We’ll definitely be in touch to have you come back for future events."

Shannon Dolezalik

Administrative Assistant
Canadian Energy Workers Association (CEWA)

"Jody Urquhart has a very warm and natural sense of humour – she’s very funny!"

Maria Shryer

CIBC

"Jody Urquhart, you tell such rich and provocative stories, I find myself saying, I can relate!"

Toby Merlin

Association Executive

"Incorporating Brain-based training for enhanced learning and peak performance. The exercises and audience participation made the information really easy to use."

John Ricklin

IPAC

"Well done. My colleagues were commenting on how we are privileged to have had you speak at our AGM. I agree! Excellent topic for nurses, well presented and very entertaining!"

C. Hamming

LPN

"You couldn’t have said it better! I kept saying, “Wow, me too!” I feel inspired and hopeful. Thank you."

M. Reigler

Physiotherapist

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