Keynote Speaking

Speaking & Workshops for Leaders Who Prioritize Their People

Build Your Power helps fast growing businesses bring the human side of performance back into focus through powerful keynotes and interactive workshops that help people develop personally and professionally.


Whether you need a powerful talk for a leadership event or a hands-on workshop for your team, every session helps people understand what's holding them back what needs to change, and how to move forward with more clarity.


High Performance Should not Require Personal Sacrifice.

Most scaling businesses are great at managing the Head—the goals, metrics, and systems.


But few know how to handle the uncomfortable Heart issues that show up during rapid growth: stress, friction, communication silos, and burnout.


That is where Build Your Power comes in. Through practical keynotes and workshops, Brennan Hilleary helps leadership and their teams step out of autopilot and look honestly at how they work and communicate.


The goal isn't temporary inspiration. It is to equip your leaders with the language and tools to balance high business performance with healthy human capacity.

Alignment is the new hustle:

Breaking Free from Burnout

This talk is about something deeper than stress. It’s about what really causes burnout—and what it takes to create success that doesn’t leave you feeling drained or disconnected.


Brennan speaks to high achieving business owners, professionals, and purpose-driven teams who want to keep growing without burning out in the process. Some are already feeling the pressure. Others just want to understand what burnout actually looks like so they can avoid it. Either way, this conversation will shift how they see their work, their energy, and themselves.


Brennan breaks down the real patterns that keep high performers stuck and introduce a simple but powerful framework that helps people get clear on what’s fueling them—and what’s slowly wearing them down.


This talk is raw, practical, and real. It’s for anyone who wants to stop running on empty and start building a version of success that actually feels good to live in.



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Keynote Speaking that goes Deeper than Stress Management

Brennan speaks to teams, leaders, and organizations about burnout, fulfillment, sustainable performance, and the hidden cost of hustle and grind culture.


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His talks are built for people who are used to pressure — high performers, leaders, service professionals, and teams that care deeply about doing good work but may be losing themselves in the process.


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As a Marine Corps veteran and former corporate leader, Brennan brings lived experience from high pressure environments where performance is expected, sacrifice is normalized, and people often wait too long to admit they're not okay.


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His message is practical, honest, and human. He helps people understand that success isn't just about pushing harder — it's about building a life and workplace where people can perform, recover, grow, and stay whole.

Popular Speaking Topics Include


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Burnout and Sustainable Success


How high performers can stay energized without burning out. Practical tools for self-awareness, energy management, and fulfillment in and outside of work.
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The Head and the Heart of Performance


Why strong systems aren't enough if the people carrying the work are exhausted.
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership


Helping growing leaders build strong trust, delegate effectively, and navigate everyday accountability and tough conversations with confidence.
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Culture, Trust, and Safety


How to create a safe, supportive space where teams can communicate clearly, resolve friction easily, and stay aligned as the business grows.
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Breaking Free From the Burnout Cycle

When a business scales quickly, operational systems get all the attention. Leaders focus heavily on strategy and performance metrics. However, the human side of the company often gets left behind to absorb the friction.

Burnout isn't just an individual issue; it spreads across entire teams when the speed of a growing company outpaces the actual capacity of its people.

In this signature keynote, Brennan Hilleary explores how everyday personal habits shape broader workplace dynamics. Using his Behind the Business framework™, he breaks down the capacity gaps that can show up at every level, from frontline staff to c-suite leaders.

Brennan helps audiences see how common behaviors—like overachieving or avoiding tough conversations—unintentionally keep people in a chronic cycle of stress.

Ideal for any audience from frontline staff to the CEO, this keynote gives event organizers and associations a powerful way to support their people. Brennan shares a practical approach that shows audiences exactly how to break free from the hustle culture cycle and live differently.

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Choose the Right Format for your Team


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Keynote Speaking

Best for conferences, company events, leadership retreats, and large team gatherings. A powerful session that introduces the message, challenges the room, and gives people a new way to think about work, pressure, and fulfillment.


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Interactive Team Workshop

Best for teams that need deeper reflection and practical application. A guided session where participants explore burnout, energy, communication, boundaries, and sustainable performance through exercises and

group discussion.



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Speaking and Workshop Combination

Best for organizations that want both inspiration and application. Start with a keynote to create shared understanding, then follow with a workshop that helps the team apply the message to their real work environment.


Built for Growing

Businesses and High-Pressure Teams

Perfect for:

  • Leadership retreats
  • Company meetings and all-hands events
  • Professional development days
  • Team offsites
  • Employee well-being events
  • Manager trainings
  • Culture and engagement initiatives
  • Growing teams experiencing stress, turnover, or low morale
  • Organizations that want to support their people in a more honest and practical way

Upcoming Appearances & Speaking Engagements

Upcoming events, past appearances, and opportunities to engage Brennan for your next conference or gathering.

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Why this work is different.

Build Your Power doesn't approach burnout as a personal weakness.

It doesn't treat culture like a poster on the wall. And it doesn't give people generic advice to just manage their time better.


This work looks at the real pressure people are carrying and helps organizations build a healthier relationship with performance.


Brennan brings the perspective of someone who has lived inside high-demand environments and understands what happens when people push too hard for too long. That lived experience allows him to connect with teams in a way that feels honest, grounded, and real.


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Strengthening the Heart of the Business

The Head of a business is the strategy, systems, goals, and operations. The Heart is the people, trust, communication, well-being, and daily experience of the team. Most established companies already know how to manage the Head. Speaking and workshops from Build Your Power help strengthen the Heart.


Because when people feel seen, supported, and equipped, they don't just work harder — they work better.

Bring this Conversation to Your Team


If your organization is ready to talk honestly about burnout, pressure, and healthier performance, Build Your Power can help. Book a keynote, schedule a workshop, or start with a conversation about what your team needs most.