Emily Golden
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Keynotes & Speeches
The New Golden Rule: Transform Yourself, Transform Your Leadership
A high-impact keynote for modern leaders ready to rewrite the rules.
In this powerful, story-rich talk, Emily reimagines the classic Golden Rule—“Treat others the way you want to be treated”—into a bold new call for self-leadership: “Treat yourself the way you want others to treat you.”
Perfect for leadership conferences, company kickoffs, or high-potential programs.
Audience Takeaways:
◆ The New Golden Rule: Transform Yourself, Transform Your Leadership
◆ Self Activate & Promote: The Keys to Effective Self-Advocacy
â—† Practical tools to unlock emotional intelligence and sustainable success
The Golden Edge: Leading Through Uncertainty
How to make bold decisions when the path isn’t clear.
Designed for executives and emerging leaders navigating rapid change, this talk equips audiences with a clear decision-making compass rooted in clarity, courage, and self-trust.
Audience Takeaways:
â—† The five questions that clarify any high-stakes decision
◆ How to tap into intuition without losing strategic rigor
◆ A model for leading from values—even in chaos
Mastering Power Skills AI Can’t Teach
Emotional intelligence is the new executive edge.
As AI reshapes the workplace, the most in-demand leadership traits are the most human. This future-forward keynote focuses on “power skills” like emotional regulation, feedback fluency, and trust-building—skills that can’t be automated.
Audience Takeaways:
◆  The three power skills most predictive of leadership effectiveness
◆  How to operationalize trust and transparency on your team
◆  Practices to build resilience and authentic connection
Resilience 2.0: How The New Golden Rule Transforms Adversity Into Impactful Leadership
Redefining resilience through self-leadership.
Resilience isn’t about powering through anymore. Today’s most effective leaders succeed by practicing something far more nuanced: self-leadership. In this energizing keynote, Emily Golden dismantles outdated grit-based models and introduces a fresh framework for resilience—one grounded in The New Golden Rule: treat yourself the way you want others to treat you.
With clarity and warmth, she unpacks three common leadership traps and reveals a powerful reframe that turns emotional presence into strategic advantage.
Audience Takeaways:
◆  A modern framework for resilience rooted in self-compassion
◆  How emotional regulation becomes a leadership superpower
◆  Practices to remain steady, clear, and values-aligned in complexity
Healing to Lead: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Resilience and Self-Leadership
Leading not in spite of your story, but because of it.
Leadership shaped by adversity requires a different kind of resilience. In this powerful and deeply human keynote, Emily Golden shares how her own lived experiences—from childhood medical challenges to caregiving and beyond—shaped her path as a trauma-informed coach and leader. She invites participants to explore how invisible wounds can become sources of wisdom, and how self-leadership, nervous system awareness, and The New Golden Rule can help leaders show up whole, grounded, and fully themselves.
Audience Takeaways:
◆  A practical framework for trauma-informed, emotionally present leadership
◆  Strategies to regulate your nervous system and lead with clarity, even under pressure
◆  Tools to transform past pain into a source of authentic power and connection
