Dr. Chloe Carmichael

MENTAL HEALTH SPEAKER • Dr. Chloe Carmichael

Clinical psychologist who makes mental health fun and interesting for intelligent, discriminating audiences.

USA Today Best-Selling Author • Women’s Health Magazine Advisor

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In Person Speaker Fee: Starting at $15k

About Chloe

Dr. Chloe Carmichael is an internationally known speaker, clinical psychologist, and USA
Today bestselling author. Known for her warm yet direct style, Dr. Chloe connects easily with diverse audiences while tackling complex, high-stakes topics. She appears regularly in national media, including ABC Nightline, Inside Edition, VH1, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times, and she serves on the advisory board of Women’s Health magazine.

Dr. Chloe is the author of two acclaimed books. Her first, Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety (Macmillan), shows high-performing individuals how to channel anxiety into focus, motivation, and sustainable success rather than burnout. The book was endorsed by Deepak Chopra and praised by Jim McCann, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS. Her newest book, Can I Say That? Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use It Fearlessly (Skyhorse), explores the mental-health costs of self-censorship and provides practical tools for navigating difficult conversations with confidence and emotional intelligence. The book has been praised by Dr. Phil McGraw, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dr. Daniel Amen, and other leading voices in psychology, media, and culture.

Her keynotes and workshops—delivered both virtually and in person—have earned rave reviews and repeat invitations from organizations including Baker McKenzie, WikiHow, NerdWallet, Young Presidents’ Organization, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y. Drawing on her background as a yoga teacher turned psychologist, Dr. Chloe brings a grounded, engaging presence to conversations about performance, resilience, leadership, and communication around sensitive topics.

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How to Turn Your Anxiety Into a Superpower

In this signature talk based on techniques from Dr. Chloe’s bestselling book, Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety, Dr. Chloe will outline up to nine tools with step-by-step instructions to help attendees reframe anxiety into a positive source of energy and focus that actually facilitates a more productive and fulfilling life.

Attendees Will Learn:

Reframing Anxiety as a Positive Source of Stimulation:
If managed properly, the nervous energy that some people label as anxiety can actually be a welcome source of stimulation.
Directing and Controlling Excess Energy:
How to direct and control excess energy in a positive, productive way.
Increasing Creativity and Motivation:
How to increase creativity and motivation through building skills of focus and concentration.
This talk can be customized to be as brief as a one-hour keynote with a curated selection of tools or as a comprehensive three-hour workshop with more extensive opportunities for attendees to try the techniques and have deeper discussions. Either way, attendees will acquire practical skills and knowledge they can implement the very same day!

Dr. Chloe is a kind, compassionate, and engaging speaker whose simple and effective approach will help transform attendees' professional (and/or personal) lives for the better!

Stress Management for Leaders 

Leaders are typically willing and able to continuously take on new responsibilities, and they are often ready to embrace situations that take them out of their comfort zone. This can be a strength, but it can also become a vulnerability in terms of stress. This workshop helps to reframe stress as a potentially healthy opportunity for growth, while also offering practical ways to reduce or manage stress in the moment.

This talk also provides strategies to put boundaries around stress and become intentional about which stressors we're willing to take on as challenges and which ones we're better off delegating or eliminating altogether.

This workshop encompasses both personal and professional stressors and can be customized to be specific to the unique life situations of individual audiences.

WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:
Relaxing the Body and Mind:
  • Attendees will learn techniques to relax the body and mind to combat the unhealthy effects of stress.
Proactively Managing Sources of Stress:
  • Attendees will learn strategies to proactively manage sources of stress and prioritize stressors that are growth opportunities while decreasing investment in stressors that don't offer a good ROI.
Reframing Stress as a Growth Opportunity:
  • Attendees will explore their relationship with stress and learn to reframe it as part of a healthy growth pattern, thereby reducing "stress about stress".
  • This talk can also be tweaked for audiences who don’t specifically identify as leaders by changing the title to Stress Management for Resiliency and substituting the phrase "Strong people" for "Leaders" in the first sentence of the talk’s description.

NAVIGATING SENSITIVE TOPICS IN THE WORKPLACE

Today’s workplace requires employees to navigate sensitive topics with precision, emotional intelligence, and professionalism. In this timely keynote, Dr. Chloe equips leaders and teams with psychologically grounded tools and techniques to communicate clearly, reduce unnecessary conflict, and preserve trust—without walking on eggshells. Based on her new book, Can I Say That? Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use It Fearlessly, this talk helps teams and organizations foster thoughtful dialogue while maintaining strong culture, morale, and performance.

WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:
Attendees learn over a dozen practical tools for both speaking up and exercising self-restraint in high-stakes workplace conversations, including:
  • Reflective Listening - Learn how to reduce defensiveness and escalation in real time by helping others feel accurately heard —leading to clearer communication, faster alignment, and fewer misunderstandings.
  • Owning Past Self-Censorship - Gain a way to acknowledge prior silence without losing credibility, allowing you to speak up with greater clarity, confidence, and professional authority going forward.
  • Thought Replacement - Develop the ability to interrupt emotionally charged thinking in real time, helping you respond calmly, reduce escalation, and model emotionally regulated communication for others.

Awards & Publications

Books published

Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety

Can I Say That? Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use It Fearlessly?

More About Dr. Chloe

Dr. Chloe graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from Columbia University and holds a PhD in clinical psychology from Long Island University. She has taught psychology at the university level and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.

A skilled listener and strategic thinker, Dr. Chloe works closely with event organizers to tailor each talk for maximum impact. She is equally effective in keynote settings, interactive workshops, and panel discussions—especially where nuance, clarity, and thoughtful dialogue matter most.

Reviews

The best!

- Ernie Anastos

Dr. Chloe is really the best. She’s one of the few people that really understands completely how to connect with people in a very personal way to change lives and make people feel comfortable about who they are; and give them guidance and direction.

Memorable

- Jim McCann

Dr. Chloe was a very engaging speaker. Her advice was easily understandable, memorable, and practical. Would definitely invite her back again!

terrific keynote

- Mark Hennes

Dr. Chloe was a terrific keynote speaker. Rather than other speakers who seem stiff, or like they are just transmitting information, Dr. Chloe is very dynamic and engaging. We got tons of interaction in the chat from attendees who were really enjoying the keynote

a favorite

- Britta Conroy-Randall

Dr. Chloe is a favorite at The 92nd Street Y. She has been very well received as a speaker at multiple events, both online reaching around the globe, and in-person in New York City. We have recommended her to others due to the positive feedback we received. She is extremely professional, easy to work with, and offers a fresh and engaging perspective!

engaging

- Anastasia Phillips

Dr. Chloe’s Networking Nerves workshop for SYNLawn was very well received by our group. She was well-organized, informative, and engaging. She provided practical networking tools that I saw participants put to use later that very same day.

fantastic

- Kay Sorin

Thank you SO much for taking the time to talk to our IVY NYC members last week. It was a fantastic event, and everyone definitely learned a lot.

Relatable tips

- Lindsey Soroka

Dr. Chloe was able to not only provide employees with many principles for taking care and managing anxiety but also tools and practical techniques that they can start to implement right away. I appreciated all of the real-life examples Dr. Chloe shared to bring her tips and concepts to life.

excellent

- Maggie Jaqua

Dr. Chloe was excellent. Several attendees told me it was their favorite session of the event! I look forward to working with her again in the future.

terrific!

- Juliet Scott-Croxford

Dr. Chloe was terrific. Her advice is so helpful for the community and me personally.

New insight

- Meredith Arthur

She brought a whole new angle into things that I really appreciated.

inviting her back!

- Jim McCann

Dr. Chloe was a very engaging speaker. Her advice was easily understandable, memorable, and practical. Would definitely invite her back again!

Dynamic and Engaging

- Mark Hennes

Dr. Chloe was a terrific keynote speaker. Rather than other speakers who seem stiff, or like they are just transmitting information, Dr. Chloe is very dynamic and engaging. We got tons of interaction in the chat from attendees who were really enjoying the keynote

So helpful

- Juliet Scott-Croxford

Her advice is so helpful for the community and me personally.

wonderful reputation

- Sean Trulby

We value the annual Goal Attainment workshops that Dr. Carmichael has offered. The workshops are high quality, high energy, and have a wonderful reputation in our office.

Impactful

- Anastasia Phillips

Dr. Chloe’s Networking Nerves workshop for SYNLawn was very well received by our group. She was well-organized, informative, and engaging. She provided practical networking tools that I saw participants put to use later that very same day.

compassionate

- Scott Brandman

Her approach is warm and compassionate yet highly practical.

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