The Brain Economy: Rethinking How We Work, Think & Perform

Liane Davey is a bestselling author of four books, including You First, The Good Fight and her newest book Thoughtload: Manage the Madness and Free Your Team to Do Great Work. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and called on by media for her experience in leadership and team effectiveness. As the co-founder of 3COze Inc., she advises companies such as Amazon, UNICEF, and TD Bank. Liane has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology.

Across every industry, in businesses of every size, work has never felt heavier. People are logging long hours, juggling endless demands, and still struggling to keep up. Productivity is stalling, stress is peaking, and burnout is becoming the norm. If you’re thinking, “This isn’t sustainable,” you’re right. Something in the system is broken.

But here’s the twist: it’s not the workload that’s wearing people down—it’s the thoughtload.

This isn’t a motivation or a resilience problem. It’s what happens when the way we’ve structured work is working against us. Constant distractions, too many priorities, heightened emotions, never-ending meetings, conflict avoidance…We’re distracted, triggered, and running on empty. The real culprit is the invisible tax on our attention, our emotions, and our energy, and it’s baked into the systems we’ve built.

In this eye-opening and actionable keynote, Liane Davey introduces a radical reframe of what’s really driving burnout and disengagement. With groundbreaking research, sharp insight and relatable stories, she unpacks the three forces that make up the modern thoughtload—attention overload, emotional reactivity, and energy depletion—and shows leaders how to redesign the system that’s producing them.

You will learn how to:

• Diagnose where their organization's structure, not their people, is generating overload

• Recognize and regulate the emotional triggers baked into everyday team friction

• Build renewable energy back into how work actually gets done

This isn’t another time management talk. It's a case for why the answer isn't personal grit, it's structural change, because the organizations that figure this out first will out-perform the ones still asking their people to carry more

Thank you to our partners RBC and Watson Investments for making this event possible.