Corporate Health & Wellness Keynote Speaker: Alisa Turner
Only 20% of employees worldwide were engaged at work in 2025, and Gallup estimates low engagement cost the global economy $10 trillion in lost productivity. For high-performing teams, burnout is no longer a soft wellness issue. It is a metabolic, neurological, and organizational cost that shows up in sleep, focus, immune resilience, blood sugar, mood, recovery, and retention.
Alisa Turner is a corporate wellness speaker and health and wellness speaker for corporate audiences, leadership teams, retreats, conferences, and workplace wellbeing programs. She speaks about the biology of burnout, the metabolic cost of chronic stress, and the practical recovery framework high performers need to keep doing meaningful work without running themselves into depletion.
Signature Wellness Keynote Speaker Topic: The Metabolic Cost of High Performance
Why productivity is the reward for rest — and what your team is paying when they skip it.
This burnout keynote speaker topic reframes burnout as a biological state of resource depletion. Alisa explains what chronic stress does to the systems that drive energy, cognition, immune function, blood sugar regulation, mood, recovery, and sleep. The talk gives leaders a clear order of operations for rebuilding capacity instead of asking already-depleted teams to push harder.
Ideal for: corporate wellness programs, leadership conferences, high-performance teams, employee wellness weeks, workplace wellbeing initiatives, retreat programming, and HR teams looking for a rigorous corporate wellness speaker or burnout keynote speaker.
What Audiences Learn
- How chronic stress affects the HPA axis, mitochondria, gut barrier, immune signaling, neurotransmitters, blood sugar, autonomic tone, thyroid conversion, and circadian rhythm.
- Why rest, stable blood sugar, deep sleep, preserved muscle, and nervous system regulation are requirements for performance.
- How the recovery failure loop keeps high achievers stuck in fatigue, cravings, poor sleep, brain fog, and emotional volatility.
- What leaders can change first: meeting load, nutrition timing, sleep protection, recovery metrics, psychological safety, and realistic capacity planning.
Why Alisa Is Different as a Wellness Speaker
Alisa Turner is a functional nutritionist speaker and metabolic health specialist with a rare combination of corporate fluency, lived recovery, and clinical depth. As a wellbeing speaker, she brings the science of stress, nutrition, recovery, and performance into language professional teams can use.
Corporate fluency
Before Alisa Health, Alisa worked in B2B medical device sales, placing orthopedic bracing and ergonomic product lines into national retailers including Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, and Office Depot. She knows the pressure because she came from it.
Recovery lens
Alisa is seven years sober and brings multi-decade recovery from disordered eating and alcohol into the conversation with care, privacy, and clinical clarity. She names what many workplaces avoid: high-functioning addiction, emotional eating, and burnout often share biological roots.
Clinical depth
For more than a decade, Alisa has worked 1:1 with clients as a functional nutritionist and teaches a six-week nutrition curriculum at a Charleston addiction recovery facility. Her talks connect real physiology to daily decisions employees can act on.
“Productivity is the reward for rest. We have it backwards.”
Midlife in the Workplace: Why Stress Hits Harder & What It’s Costing Your Team
For executive women’s programming, women’s leadership networks, DEI initiatives, and employers with women in their late 30s, 40s, and 50s. Alisa explains how perimenopause changes the body’s stress response and why experienced women may need different recovery, nutrition, sleep, and workload strategies to stay healthy and effective.
GLP-1s and the New Workforce
For HR, benefits, and leadership teams trying to understand GLP-1 medications, employee health, muscle preservation, appetite changes, weight loss, and long-term metabolic outcomes.
Peptides for Performance & Recovery
A grounded talk for leadership audiences curious about the current peptide landscape, evidence, safety questions, and what may change as FDA approval pathways shift.
The Biological Intersection of Stress, Addiction, and High Performance
A candid, clinical conversation about how high-functioning addiction can develop in achievement-driven environments. Alisa connects corporate pressure, stress biology, food, alcohol, nervous system survival patterns, and recovery.
Wearables, Whoop, and What the Data Means
Training intensives on recovery metrics, strain, sleep, HRV, behavior change, and how leaders can use wearable data without creating more anxiety or performance pressure.
Corporate Wellness Speaker Formats
- Keynotes & Talks: 45–90 minute sessions with a wellness keynote speaker for companies, conferences, retreats, wellness events, and leadership programs.
- Workshops & Training Intensives: Half-day or full-day sessions with deeper teaching, team exercises, and Q&A from a corporate wellness speaker with clinical nutrition depth.
- Team Wellness Days / Ask Me Anything Sessions: A high-engagement format where Alisa rotates through short one-on-one consults with team members across a 2–4 hour block.
- Retreat & Leadership Conference Programming: Single-session or multi-session programming shaped around the event goals and audience needs.
- Podcast Appearances & Panel Discussions: Guest expertise from a nutritionist speaker on metabolism, hormones, burnout, recovery, GLP-1s, peptides, and functional nutrition.
All programs are tailored during a discovery call so the content fits the audience, event format, and business goal.
Selected Corporate Wellness Speaker Engagements & Partnerships
Corporate Events Booked Through Exubrancy:
Three-hour Ask-Me-Anything team wellness session.
Exubrancy:
Confirmed corporate wellness agency partner.
SERGE 2026:
Keynote: The Metabolic Cost of High Performance.
Gränges Americas Inc.:
Whoop training intensive for leadership conference, October 2026; pending confirmation.
Trident United Way:
Panel discussion.
Lantana Recovery:
Ongoing six-week nutrition curriculum.
About Alisa Turner, Nutritionist Speaker and Wellbeing Speaker
Alisa Turner is a functional nutritionist and metabolic health specialist based in Charleston and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Through Alisa Health, she helps individuals and teams understand the biology behind fatigue, cravings, emotional eating, stress, hormonal shifts, recovery, and sustainable weight loss.
Alisa’s background gives her a voice that resonates in professional rooms. She built her first career in high-pressure B2B medical device sales, recovered from alcohol and disordered eating, and now brings more than a decade of clinical work to the stage. Her message is direct: the body keeps score of chronic stress, and performance depends on the systems that restore it.
Her work as an integrative health coach and life coach gives her a practical lens for helping people turn clinical insight into daily decisions, behavior change, and long-term health.
Who Books Alisa as a Corporate Wellness Speaker
- Corporate wellness program managers and HR leaders searching for a corporate wellness speaker
- Conference organizers and event planners
- Retreat hosts and leadership programming directors
- Women’s leadership groups, executive wellness programs, and workplace wellbeing leaders
- Podcast producers and panel moderators seeking a clinical voice on metabolism, burnout, hormones, and recovery
Local and National Health and Wellness Speaker Availability
Companies searching for “health and wellness speakers near me” in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and the Southeast can book Alisa for in-person corporate wellness programs, leadership events, and team wellness days. She is also available nationally and virtually for organizations that need a wellness speaker with functional nutrition, metabolic health, burnout, and recovery expertise.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What does Alisa speak about as a wellness speaker?
A: As a wellness speaker, health and wellness speaker, and nutritionist speaker, Alisa speaks about corporate burnout, metabolic health, functional nutrition, high performance, perimenopause in the workplace, GLP-1 medications, wearable data, recovery, addiction, emotional eating, and the biology of chronic stress.
Q: Does Alisa speak outside Charleston, SC?
A: Yes. Alisa is based in Charleston and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and is available for regional, national, and virtual events. For buyers searching for health and wellness speakers near me in the Charleston area, she is local to the Lowcountry and available for in-person programs.
Q: Can Alisa tailor a talk for our company?
A: Yes. Each engagement begins with a discovery call to understand the audience, goals, event format, and the level of clinical depth that will serve the room best.
Q: Does Alisa offer workshops as well as keynote talks?
A: Yes. Alisa offers 45–90 minute wellness keynote speaker talks, half-day and full-day workshops, team wellness days, leadership retreat programming, panel discussions, and podcast appearances.
Q: Is pricing listed on the page?
A: No. Pricing is determined by event format, travel, preparation, audience size, and scope. The page should direct buyers to book a discovery call or submit an inquiry.
Book Alisa Turner as Your Corporate Wellness Speaker
Bring a clinically grounded and practical conversation to your team. As a corporate wellness speaker, workplace wellbeing speaker, and burnout keynote speaker, Alisa speaks to the biology behind burnout and gives high-performing audiences a framework they can use immediately.