I help rooms exhale.
Not the polite, sit-still-and-listen kind of quiet.
The kind where shoulders drop, jaws unclench, and people realize they’ve been holding their breath for months.
I’m Karli McNeill. Energy engineer for 15 years, breathwork facilitator rooted in curanderismo, and a mom who learned regulation in an emergency room at 2 AM.
I spent my engineering career studying how energy systems handle pressure. Now I work on the most important energy system in any organization: the people in it.
When I take the stage, your audience doesn’t just hear about regulation. They feel it in their own bodies, and they leave with tools they can use the next time a hard moment hits.
Every talk comes back to one truth.
You can’t breathe your way out of everything life hands you. But you can always breathe your way back to the person who can lead through it.
That truth came from my sons’ hospital rooms, my Grandma Dora’s kitchen, and a lifetime of asking why. Every keynote and workshop I offer is a different doorway into this core truth, built for the room you’re bringing me into.
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A hands-on experience for when the metrics still look fine but the people don’t feel fine. We surface where energy is leaking at the individual level — the meetings that drain, the decisions that stall, the patterns nobody wants to be the first one to name.
Includes:
60-minute live workshop, in-person or virtual
Pre-session intake with organization leader
Energy mapping framework delivered live with your team
Optional add-on: Written summary of findings and recommended next steps
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Practical nervous system skills for the leaders who set the tone.
Built on original survey research across 61 professionals in high-demand roles: 80% say their stress strategies aren’t fully working, and not one named a work task as the first thing to fall apart on a hard day. Regulation isn’t staying calm. It’s feeling what’s happening, coming back to baseline, and leading from there, because your team takes its cue from your nervous system before they hear a word. In this interactive session, leaders practice science-backed tools in the room, including how to land hard news in their own bodies before they pass it on to their team.
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For teams whose jobs don't involve emergencies but whose bodies don't always get the memo. Practical regulation tools built for back-to-back meetings, constant context switching, and days that somehow use everything you have.
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For teams whose jobs do involve high-stakes situations, emergency response, or sustained crisis work. Regulation tools calibrated to the specific demands of high-consequence roles — so your people can respond when it counts and recover when it's over.
Workshops
Hands-on sessions where your people practice nervous system tools together and leave with a ritual they’ll actually use.
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For leaders who sense the model they've been handed isn't the only one available. A personal talk about what happens when you stop leading the way you were taught and start leading from who you actually are.
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A keynote on control, surrender, and why a life with no valleys also has no peaks.
Keynotes
Story-driven, research-backed talks that change how your audience thinks about stress, leadership, and what’s possible on a hard day.
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A 20-minute reset for high-stakes moments. For individual executives walking into a critical call, or leadership teams mid-way through an all-day strategic session — the kind where the room needs to stay sharp long after most people's capacity has thinned out.
Includes:
20-minute live session, in-person or virtual
Pre-session intake to target the specific moment, meeting, or decision
Nervous system regulation calibrated to your current state
Practical tools to carry into the room
Monthly retainer and quarterly packages available.
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A longer engagement for organizations ready to do the deeper work. For companies whose culture is showing the strain — turnover, burnout, leadership fatigue, the sneaky dysfunction that doesn't show up until it's already cost you. A multi-month engagement that works at the level the problem actually lives, not the level it's easiest to address.
Includes:
Discovery phase with leadership and key stakeholders
Customized engagement structure, typically 3–6 months
Combination of 1:1, team, and organizational-level work
Ongoing measurement and recalibration
Executive and
Culture Work
Deeper work with leaders and teams to build regulation into how decisions get made and how messages get delivered.
Didn’t see exactly what you need?
If something here sparked an idea, let’s build it together. I’ll design a custom talk or workshop around your people, your goals, and the room you’re bringing me into.
A few places Karli has worked with:
