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Claire Rogers

Keynote & Motivational Speaker
iTopia Coaching & Consulting Ltd
Country or state 
United Kingdom
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City 
London
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Languages 
English
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Personal Details

Current position (2)

Keynote & Motivational Speaker

iTopia Coaching & Consulting Ltd

Coaching & Consulting Director

iTopia Coaching & Consulting Ltd

Achievements (3)
Fearless Women's Summit 2019 Los Angeles

International Speaker Award

Fearless Women's Summit 2019 San Diego

International Speaker Award

Fearless Women's Summit 2019 Phoenix

International Speaker Award

Degrees (3)
Advanced Travel and Tourism Diploma
The Canadian Travel College
1996 to 1998
Improving Your Business Through a Culture of Health
HarvardX, an online learning initiative of Harvard University.
2019
Professional Certificate: Science of Happiness at Work
EdX University of California, BerkeleyX
2019

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About me...

Many people put up with unhappiness or dissatisfaction with the way things are due to a sense of duty, guilt, fear or financial obligation and are afraid to challenge the status quo. And, when people are stuck in a rut, it usually takes a major event to jolt them out “sleepwalking” through their life.

Two such major events happened to Claire Rogers that woke her up and changed her life forever.

The first was surviving an encounter with a 600lb angry grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains and the second was when a month later, Claire found herself at home, curled up on her bathroom floor suffering from a panic attack. The impacts of modern-day work culture had taken its toll on her in the form of:

Insomnia. Being in autopilot mode. Sleepwalking through life. Always being “on”. Email & screen addiction. Anxiety. Depression. Burnout.

At the time, she was a Director at an American Fortune 100 company responsible for successfully managing a team of global account managers with a $3 billion portfolio. Like many individuals in today’s society, she operated in a global environment accommodating multiple time zones, which led her to ‘always being on’ – meaning being contactable 24/7. Furthermore, constant re-structuring equated to increased working hours and unsustainable workloads, which saw her go from being an ambitious perfectionist and a high performer to becoming a highly stressed, burned out, overworked leader.

That first panic attack led to further panic attacks, which eventually led her to sink into her own private world of hell – chronic fear, anxiety, and depression, which lasted 18 months - a disturbing dark night of the soul, which steered her to explore not only how to recover her mental health but also to search for the meaning and purpose of life.

In Claire’s speeches, she combines the lessons she gained from her personal struggles and her twenty-year corporate experience, alongside a unique scientific understanding of happiness and creating a culture of health gained from her studies with UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School.

She energises, empowers, inspires and raises her audiences to their highest level of personal and professional growth – because it shouldn’t take a heart attack, bankruptcy, loss or an encounter with an angry grizzly bear for people to decide to change their life.

She challenges people to challenge the status quo.

Professional Bio

Claire Rogers specialises in mindset, wellbeing and personal empowerment. With her individual clients, she coaches them to rise to their highest level of personal and professional growth by creating healthy, purposeful lives. She does this by aiding her clients to re-discover their passions and develop healthy habits and empowering beliefs.

With her corporate clients, she trains and speaks on corporate wellness to support, improve and enhance employee wellbeing, talent retention, productivity and employee engagement. She is passionate about driving business strategies and ensuring results while also maintaining employee health and wellness.

Claire has as an honour’s Diploma in Advanced Travel and Tourism from the Canadian Travel College. She also holds a professional certificate from the University of California, Berkeley on The Science of Happiness at Work as well as a certificate from Harvard on Improving Business Through A Culture of Health. Claire has spoken at conferences sponsored by KPMG, Shell, LNG Canada, Encana, and Royal Bank of Canada amongst others.

Claire was born in the UK, raised in Canada and has lived in and travelled to 60+ countries. At the age of 18, Claire became a professional model and lived in Japan and Australasia for five years. At 23 she returned to her hometown of Vancouver, Canada where she attended college and earned a diploma in Travel and Tourism. For the next 20 years, Claire held senior global Director roles within the Travel Industry and Financial Services Industry, where she developed an expertise in building diverse, high performing sales teams across multiple regions.

The business and leadership skills she holds today she owes to the experience she gained in various management roles throughout her career. While working in these positions, her extensive responsibilities included sound decision making, managing complex negotiations, stimulating her teams to go beyond their annual objectives, and driving growth for the organisations she worked for. Having these responsibilities and more is what has enabled Claire to understand business on an operational and strategic development level. She understands the basics as well as complex core ideas of business growth, which she now utilises in her coaching & consulting practice.

Prior to forming her company, iTopia Coaching & Consulting, Claire was a Director at an American Fortune 100 company where she was responsible for the successful management of a team of global account managers with a portfolio of $3 billion.

Recognising her passion to inspire and empower others, Claire studied coaching for two years while still employed in the corporate world. Upon completion of her studies, she resigned from corporate life and founded iTopia. She created the name iTopia by playing on the words “individual” and “utopia” because she passionately believes everyone should be working towards and living their own version of utopia.

Presentations

Presentations (3)
Lessons From A Corporate Soldier: A Journey from Burnout to Recovery

Have you ever felt like Superwoman or Superman, trying to do it all but secretly inside you feel overwhelmed and lost? ​

You are not alone. Stress has been labelled the “Health Epidemic of the 21st Century” by the World Health Organization and is estimated to cost American businesses up to $300 billion a year.

The effect of stress on our mental and physical health can have significant impacts and, in this session, Claire will describe her journey from corporate burnout to recovery. Her story will help you to recognise and understand the signs of stress and burnout and will provide you with tangible, workable steps for building a balanced, fulfilling life.

How to Thrive in a VUCA World

Today in business, success does not come from peddling faster, yet we often don’t understand the difference between activity and productivity, but that is where success lies. Time pressures, family pressures, work pressures; how to balance it all without burning out? That’s the question.

In this session, using a unique scientific understanding of happiness at work and creating a culture of health gained from her studies with UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School as well as the lessons gained from her personal struggle to find balance in a changing world, Claire Rogers will provide tangible, workable steps for building a healthy, fulfilled workforce.

Leadership: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Have you ever worked for a motivating and inspiring leader that had such a significant impact on you, that it made you want to be your best self? Have you worked for a bad leader that you couldn’t seem to win with? Or worst yet, have you ever worked for an ugly leader – a bully, megalomaniac or tyrant, that left you feeling miserable and depressed?

In this session, Claire will describe her own experience of working for the good, the bad, and the ugly leaders. Her story and lessons will give you insights and practical tools on how to be an authentic, motivating and inspiring leader and how to demonstrate personal leadership. It will also illustrate how to work for and recover from working for bad and ugly leaders.

Past talks (7)
Management & Team Building
NHS NORTH WEST LONDON EMERGENCY MEDICINE REGIONAL TRAINING
Northwick Park Hospital, London
2016
Building a Career You Love
Bon Viveur Events
London
2017
Lessons from a Corporate Soldier: A Journey from Burnout to Recovery
Spark Women in Leadership Conference
Fort St John, British Columbia
May 17, 2017
Leadership: The good, The Bad & The Ugly
Spark Women in Leadership Conference
Fort St John, British Columbia
May 9, 2018
Lessons From A Corporate Soldier: A Journey from Burnout to Recovery
Fearless Women's Summit 2019 Los Angeles
Los Angeles
February 2, 2019
Lessons From A Corporate Soldier: A Journey from Burnout to Recovery
Fearless Women's Summit 2019 San Diego
San Diego
February 4, 2019
Lessons From A Corporate Soldier: A Journey from Burnout to Recovery
Fearless Women's Summit 2019 Phoenix
Phoenix
February 6, 2019
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Books & Articles (2)

Which one of your employees is hiding in the office bathroom cubicles, willing panic attacks to go away?
Running to slow down

Expertise (13)

Leadership
Health & Well-being
Business
Motivational speaker Mindset Job burnout Work-Life Integration Purposeful Living Meaning of life Creating New Habits Empowerment Employee Engagement Change

Awards & certifications (3)

President's Club
American Express
1997
Ambassador's Club
American Express
Advanced Travel & Tourism Diploma
The Canadian Travel College

Reviews

Testimonials (4)
  • Claire is a passionate and engaging speaker who effortlessly connects with people from all backgrounds. Her warm nature, clear delivery and genuine desire to help people all ensure that her audience remain captivated from start to finish. I was immediately impressed with Claire on meeting her and invited her to speak on a panel at a women's career event I hosted. She was fantastic and the value she added to the lives of those who attended is immeasurable.
    Ekaete Olowu
    Director
    Bon Viveur Events
    Verified
  • Our 2017 Spark Women's Leadership Conference planning team recently engaged Claire to speak at our annual conference. The topic: Lessons from a corporate soldier: a Journey from Burnout to Recovery. Her story touched many in the room. It was raw and authentic and each word was chosen thoughtfully and carefully to acknowledge the power that anxiety and depression has on many of us. I would not hesitate to recommend Claire to any organisation.
    Judy Kucharuk
  • One kind word can change someone’s entire day. Attending the Spark Women's Leadership Conference last year and hearing Claire Rogers speak, not only changed my day, it changed my whole life!! It was like she was speaking to only me, and yet the banquet hall was filled to capacity with about 400 attendees.
    Jeanette Johnson
  • ​Claire Rogers exceeded all expectations again. Her speech resonated with so many peoples life experiences and moments.
    Catharine Dragojevich
    Steering Committee
    Spark Women's Leadership Conference
    Spark Women's Leadership Conference
    09/05/2018
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Why choose me? 

I am authentic. I energise, empower & inspire audiences. I challenge the status quo.

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