Speaking Offerings — Sue McKinley
Helping individuals and organizations understand why modern life is overwhelming human capacity—and how to restore resilience, health, and sustainable performance.
Sue McKinley is a systems health strategist, keynote speaker, and facilitator who helps organizations and communities re-imagine what’s possible—and then guides them toward it with clarity, warmth, and rigor.
Drawing on more than 20 years of experience leading large-scale change initiatives across corporate, government, and international settings, Sue brings a systems-level lens to modern health, stress, and performance. She is the Founder of the Wellness System Roadmap™, a framework that integrates human load, capacity, and sustainable performance across individuals and organizations.
Sue’s work bridges systems thinking, lived experience, and practical action helping audiences understand why strain and breakdown are rising, and where leverage actually exists to restore resilience.
Speaking Topics
CORE THESIS
Modern chronic illness is a systems mismatch: when modern environments exceed human capacity, susceptibility rises.
FROM SUSCEPTIBILITY TO STRENGTH
Ideal for conferences, wellness summits, and community audiences
Rising rates of chronic illness reflect increasing load on the human system—not personal failure. This talk explores how the body signals stress long before breakdown occurs, why susceptibility varies, and how to reduce personal load to increase wellness, vitality, and resilience. This talk reframes health from “fixing what’s broken” to understanding how load, capacity, and systems design shape resilience and recovery.
Before: Recognize early signals of stress and understand how cumulative load drives illness.
After: Learn simple, realistic ways to reduce susceptibility and build personal strength.
HEALTHY SYSTEMS, HIGH PERFORMANCE
Ideal for leadership teams, HR, and organizations navigating burnout
Organizations face rising health costs, burnout, and disengagement—yet most solutions focus on surface fixes. This talk offers a systems-level lens on how load accumulates across people and then organizations in the same way, and how reducing load restores capacity, resilience, and sustainable performance.
Connect why chronic stress is a systems issue, not a personal failure, and is becoming a strategic imperative. See how hidden load erodes capacity before performance declines.
Learn practical levers to reduce strain and build sustainable performance.
Rather than focusing on individual resilience, this talk examines how systems quietly erode or restore capacity — and why performance declines long before metrics show it.
21ST CENTURY HEALTH: THE WELLNESS SYSTEM
Ideal for healthcare, public health, and systems-change audiences
Modern medicine is necessary—but insufficient for addressing the cumulative load driving today’s chronic illness.
This talk explores why a complementary wellness system is essential and how redesigning health at the system level can restore capacity and resilience.
Understand why healthcare alone cannot address modern chronic illness.
Learn what a wellness system is and why it matters now. See how health can be redesigned at the system level.
Audiences leave with a clear framework for how personal habits, workplace design, and health systems interact—and where leverage actually exists.
Sue’s talks are known for being intellectually grounded, deeply human, and immediately useful—meeting audiences where they are, without blame or oversimplification.
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