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Dr. Jody Carrington
Clinical Psychologist & One of North America's Most Sought-After Speakers on Human Connection | Bestselling Author of Feeling Seen | Founder of Carrington & Company
Dr. Jody Carrington is a clinical psychologist and one of North America's most sought-after speakers on human connection. Drawing on more than twenty years in practice, she helps people and organizations reconnect in a disconnected, burnt-out world, and shows why feeling seen is the key to healthy relationships and strong teams. The bestselling author of Feeling Seen and Kids These Days, she speaks on hundreds of stages worldwide each year.
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Dr. Jody Carrington biography
Psychology speaker Dr. Jody Carrington is a clinical psychologist and one of North America’s most sought-after speakers on the single thing she believes we have lost, and most need to recover: human connection. Equal parts authentic, honest, and often hilarious, she has become a fearless champion for the idea that, in a world where we look all the time but rarely see, and listen but rarely hear, we were never meant to do any of this alone. Drawing on more than twenty years as a psychologist, she helps people and organizations reconnect, with themselves, with each other, and with the work that matters.
Carrington’s expertise is grounded in deep clinical experience. A child psychologist by training, she spent years assessing, treating, and supporting some of the most vulnerable people imaginable, and came to believe that the key to almost everything, resilience, mental health, leadership, and beating burnout, is reconnection. As the founder and principal psychologist of Carrington & Company, she now works with everyone from families and first responders to teachers, farmers, business leaders, and major institutions, bringing the same message to boardrooms and arenas alike: our power lies in our ability to acknowledge one another first.
Feeling Seen
Carrington is the bestselling author of three books, Kids These Days, Teachers These Days, and the chart-topping Feeling Seen: Reconnecting in a Disconnected World (HarperCollins), which together have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. She hosts the widely celebrated podcast Everyone Comes from Somewhere, and speaks on hundreds of stages globally each year, to audiences of up to five thousand people, pairing rigorous psychology with warmth, humor, and raw honesty. Few speakers can move a room, from tears to laughter and back again, the way she does.
As a speaker, Dr. Jody Carrington is electric, deeply human, and unforgettable, blending the insight of a clinical psychologist with the heart of someone who truly gets what people are carrying. She speaks on connection and reconnection, emotional regulation and mental health, leadership and culture, and how to combat loneliness and burnout in our teams and our lives. Audiences leave not just informed but moved, and reminded of a simple, powerful truth: we are wired to do the hard things, but we were never meant to do them alone.
Dr. Jody Carrington Speaking Videos
Emotional Regulation with Dr. Jody Carrington
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Dr. Jody Carrington Keynote Topics
Based on her chart-topping book, Dr. Jody Carrington's signature keynote tackles the quiet epidemic of our time: disconnection. With warmth, humor, and hard-won psychological insight, she explains how we drifted so far apart, why feeling seen is the most powerful thing we can offer one another, and how to find our way back, to ourselves, to each other, and to the people we lead and love. Moving, funny, and deeply practical, it is an experience audiences don't forget.
The best teams aren't built on strategy alone, they're built on connection. Dr. Jody Carrington shows leaders why acknowledgment and belonging are the foundation of high-performing, resilient cultures, and how the simple, often overlooked act of making people feel seen transforms engagement, trust, and results. Drawing on her work with everyone from boardrooms to first responders, she gives leaders a genuinely human playbook for leading in hard times. An essential keynote on culture, leadership, and connection.
Burnout, overwhelm, and loneliness have become the backdrop of modern life and work. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Jody Carrington brings both deep expertise and real compassion to one of the most important conversations any organization can have. She explains what burnout really is, why emotional regulation matters so much, and the practical, science-backed ways we can protect our own mental health and support the people around us. Honest, hopeful, and immediately useful.
Resilience, Dr. Jody Carrington argues, is not about toughing it out alone, it's about connection. In this powerful keynote she reframes how we think about hard times, grief, and adversity, showing that we are wired to do hard things, but never meant to do them in isolation. She gives audiences the tools and the permission to lean on one another, stay in the room when it's difficult, and come out the other side stronger. An emotional, uplifting talk about resilience and the human need for each other.
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FAQs on Booking Dr. Jody Carrington
Why Dr. Jody Carrington?
Booking Dr. Jody Carrington brings audiences a rare combination: the rigor of a clinical psychologist and the heart, humor, and raw honesty of one of North America's most sought-after speakers. With more than twenty years of experience and three bestselling books, she speaks on hundreds of stages worldwide each year, to audiences of up to five thousand, on the thing she believes matters most, human connection. Electric, deeply human, and unforgettable, she moves rooms from tears to laughter and leaves audiences genuinely changed. She is ideal for events on connection and culture, leadership, mental health and burnout, resilience, and education. To bring Dr. Jody Carrington to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Dr. Jody Carrington?
Dr. Jody Carrington is a Canadian clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and one of North America's most sought-after speakers on human connection. With a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and more than twenty years of experience, she began her career as a child psychologist before founding Carrington & Company, through which she works with families, first responders, educators, business leaders, and major institutions. She is the bestselling author of three books, Kids These Days (2019), Teachers These Days (2021), and Feeling Seen: Reconnecting in a Disconnected World (HarperCollins), which have reached hundreds of thousands of readers, and she hosts the widely celebrated podcast Everyone Comes from Somewhere. Known for pairing psychological insight with warmth and humor, she speaks on hundreds of stages globally each year. She lives in Olds, Alberta, with her husband and three children.
What is "Feeling Seen," and what is Dr. Jody Carrington's core message?
Feeling Seen: Reconnecting in a Disconnected World is Dr. Jody Carrington's bestselling book and the heart of her message as a speaker. Her central idea is both simple and profound: disconnection has become an epidemic, fueled by isolation, burnout, and a world where we look without seeing and listen without hearing, and the antidote is reconnection. She argues that acknowledgment, truly making another person feel seen, is the key to almost everything that matters: healthy relationships, strong and resilient teams, better mental health, and our ability to get through hard times. Drawing on her twenty-plus years as a clinical psychologist, she offers a "road map of reconnection" and, crucially, a way back for when we inevitably lose our way. Her signature line captures it perfectly: we are wired to do the hard things, but we were never meant to do any of this alone.
What topics does psychology speaker Dr. Jody Carrington cover?
Dr. Jody Carrington speaks on connection and reconnection ("Feeling Seen"), the power of connection in teams and leadership, emotional regulation, mental health and burnout, and resilience through connection. Her keynotes suit events on psychology and human connection, leadership and culture, mental health and wellbeing, resilience, and education, for corporate, healthcare, education, and general audiences. To book Dr. Jody Carrington as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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