Session Description

HR leaders spend their careers taking care of people, protecting workplace culture, navigating challenges, and supporting the success of others. But who is creating space for the people who are always creating space for everyone else?

In today's workplace, success requires more than strong goals, strategic plans, and organizational initiatives. Sustainable leadership requires emotional capacity: the ability to manage responsibility, change, expectations, and personal well-being without operating from depletion.

In this engaging and reflective session, Dr. Terah invites HR professionals to move beyond simply doing more and explore how to lead from a place of greater awareness, intention, and sustainability.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify personal and professional demands impacting their emotional capacity.
• Recognize patterns that contribute to overwhelm, stalled progress, and burnout.
• Develop intentional strategies to strengthen well-being while continuing to lead and support others effectively.

About the Speaker

Dr. Terah Davis-Henderson is a Licensed and Nationally Certified Counselor with 16+ years of experience in clinical and mental health. She is the author of The Couch: Where Life Happens and has spent 11 years in higher education as a professor and Department Chair, mentoring Master's and PhD students

Now, as Chief Mental Health + Wellness Educator at Live With Lyfe, LLC - a personal and rofessional development business she co-owns with her husband - Dr. Terah leads workshops, fireside chats, panels, and keynotes, partnering with organizations to bring real, practical mental health strategies to those who need them most.

From Guam to the Bahamas, government agencies to coffee shop tours, her mission remains the same: helping busy leaders prioritize mental well-being and cultivate a healthy work-life rhythm.

She's a wife, bonus mom to her 18-year-old son, and loves exploring local coffee shops. Her motto? Take me anywhere but Starbucks.