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Nabeela Elsayed
Bestselling Author of Breaking Burnout | Former COO of Walmart Canada | Former CHRO of IKEA U.S. | Voice on Burnout, Leadership & Future of Work
Speaker Nabeela Elsayed is the former COO of Walmart Canada and former CHRO of IKEA U.S., and the bestselling author of Breaking Burnout. Drawing on 20+ years leading 100,000+ employees at Walmart, IKEA, and Starbucks, she equips executives to redefine success, prevent burnout at scale, and lead through transformation. Senior audiences leave with a usable system for sustainable high performance and a fresh, human-centered model of leadership.
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Nabeela Elsayed biography
Speaker Nabeela Elsayed is a former Walmart Canada COO turned bestselling author, keynote speaker, and executive coach who has spent more than two decades inside global brands including Walmart, IKEA, and Starbucks. She is the author of Breaking Burnout: How High Achievers Break the Success Myths Driving Exhaustion, Overwork, and Burnout, a #1 bestseller that is reframing how senior leaders think about ambition, productivity, and personal wellbeing.
As Chief Operations Officer at Walmart Canada, Nabeela led more than 400 stores, around 100,000 associates, and approximately 1.5 million customer interactions a day. Earlier in her career, she served as Chief Human Resources Officer at IKEA U.S. and held senior roles at Starbucks Coffee. Her work has been recognized by the Globe and Mail’s Top 50 Executives, WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, and HRD’s Top 100 HR Leaders. She sits on the boards of the Miracle Foundation and the National Council of Canadian Muslims and is a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches.
From Operations Leader to Voice on the Future of Work
Nabeela’s signature framework, Re-Imagine Success, challenges the outdated belief that exhaustion is the price of high performance. Drawing on her own experience at the top of corporate retail, she introduces the Burnout Loop, a model that helps organizations diagnose where ambition turns into depletion, and the Re-Imagine Success Roadmap, a practical system for building sustainable performance grounded in clarity, meaning, and trust. She is also the founder of MuslimHaqq and co-founder of Riple, a wellbeing initiative reshaping the conversation on identity and human-centered leadership.
She holds a dual degree in Marketing and Supply Chain Management from Indiana University and a master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Behavior from the University of Texas.
As a speaker, Nabeela Elsayed brings the rare combination of operational scale, executive seniority, and authentic storytelling that leadership audiences remember long after the keynote ends. Senior teams leave with a sharper definition of success, concrete tools to prevent burnout, and a renewed sense of what truly drives long-term performance.
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In an environment of accelerating change and economic uncertainty, leaders are expected to drive growth while keeping their organizations grounded. Nabeela Elsayed shares the operating principles she used to keep a 100,000-person retail business steady through disruption, market shifts, and supply chain shocks. Audiences leave with a practical model for protecting culture, performance, and people when everything around them is in motion.
The traditional definition of success, more hours, more output, more sacrifice, is producing burnout instead of breakthroughs. In this keynote, Nabeela introduces her Re-Imagine Success framework and the Burnout Loop, the same models behind her bestseller Breaking Burnout. Executives and senior teams walk away with a clear-eyed view of what success should mean now, and a workable roadmap to pursue it without depleting themselves or their organizations.
Hard skills are necessary, but they are not what people follow. Drawing on her years at Walmart, IKEA, and Starbucks, Nabeela makes the business case for belief as a leadership asset. She shows how hope, psychological safety, and emotional resonance compound into engagement, retention, and execution, and how leaders can build them deliberately, even inside cynical, high-pressure cultures.
DE&I has slipped into a defensive posture in many organizations. Nabeela reframes inclusion as a growth and innovation strategy, drawing on her work scaling diverse teams inside three Fortune 500 cultures. Leaders leave with a clear way to position inclusion in business terms, sharpen their talent strategy, and turn diversity from a reporting line item into a measurable performance lever.
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FAQs on Booking Nabeela Elsayed
Why Nabeela Elsayed?
Few keynote speakers combine the operational scale, executive seniority, and human depth that Nabeela Elsayed brings to the stage. She has led at the highest levels of three of the world's most recognizable brands, Walmart, IKEA, and Starbucks, and has translated that experience into a bestselling framework on sustainable success. Her keynotes give senior audiences something rare: an honest insider view of how to build performance without burning out the people who deliver it. Book Nabeela Elsayed through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring a credible, transformative voice on leadership, burnout, and the future of work to your next event.
What is Nabeela Elsayed's book Breaking Burnout about?
Breaking Burnout: How High Achievers Break the Success Myths Driving Exhaustion, Overwork, and Burnout is Nabeela Elsayed's #1 bestseller. The book unpacks seven cultural success myths that drive high performers into chronic exhaustion, introduces her Burnout Loop framework for diagnosing where ambition turns into depletion, and lays out the Re-Imagine Success Roadmap, a step-by-step system for executives and high achievers who want to keep performing at the top of their game without losing themselves in the process.
Which global brands has Nabeela Elsayed led inside?
Nabeela Elsayed has held senior leadership roles at three Fortune 500 global brands. She served as Chief Operations Officer of Walmart Canada, overseeing more than 400 stores, approximately 100,000 associates, and around 1.5 million daily customer interactions. She was previously Chief Human Resources Officer at IKEA U.S. and held senior roles at Starbucks Coffee. Across these positions she has been accountable for both large-scale operations and human capital strategy, a combination that is rare on the keynote circuit.
What audiences benefit most from a Nabeela Elsayed keynote?
Her keynotes are designed for senior leaders, executive teams, HR and operations functions, and high-achiever audiences inside large organizations wrestling with burnout, retention, and the future of work. Industry events, leadership summits, women's leadership programs, and Fortune 500 internal offsites are particularly strong fits. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to discuss whether Nabeela Elsayed is the right voice for your stage and how she can tailor her keynote to your audience's most pressing challenges.
How to book Nabeela Elsayed as a keynote speaker?
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Can I book Nabeela Elsayed for a virtual keynote?
Yes, Nabeela Elsayed is available for virtual keynotes and webinars. To book Nabeela Elsayed for a virtual event, please complete the contact form or send us an email to inquire about the special fees for virtual engagements.
