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CENTERED

Dr. Whitney helps professional women find success in the workplace and at home.


GO FROM 
CONFLICTED 
TO
CENTERED

Dr. Whitney helps professional women find success in the workplace and at home.


Dr. Whitney Casares, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing board-certified pediatrician, author, speaker, and full-time working mom. Dr. Whitney is a Stanford University-trained private practice physician whose expertise spans the public health, direct patient care, and media worlds. She holds a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Journalism degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also CEO and Founder of Modern Mommy Doc and The Modern Mamas Club App.


Dr. Whitney advocates for the success of career-driven caregivers in all facets of their lives, guiding them toward increased focus, happiness, and effectiveness despite the systemic challenges and inherent biases that threaten to undermine them. She speaks nationally about her Centered Life Blueprint, which teaches working caregivers how to pay attention to what matters most amid pressure, at multibillion-dollar corporations like Adidas and Nike, and at executive-level conferences. She is a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics and medical consultant for large-scale organizations, including Good Housekeeping magazine, Gerber, and L’Oreal (CeraVe). Her work has been featured in Forbes, Thrive Global, and TODAY Parenting. She is a regular contributor to Psychology Today.


Dr. Whitney practices medicine in Portland, Oregon, where she and her husband raise their two young daughters. 

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Stanford University-trained private-practice pediatrician

Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California, Berkeley

Journalism Degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

A modern framework for career-focused moms who want to live more purposeful, fulfilling lives.

Dr. Whitney Casares is the author of three game-changing books for modern moms; The New Baby Blueprint; The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning At Parenting Without Losing Yourself; and Doing it All: Stop Over-Functioning, and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be.

What you can expect from Dr. Whitney

Dr. Casares's speaking style, like her writing, is dynamic and thought-provoking, challenging health organizations and patients alike to re-examine early motherhood and the forces that influence it. 


Her newest book, Doing it All: Stop Over-Functioning, and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be (January, 2024), gives practical, expert-rooted advice and support for modern working moms who are ready to level-up their motherhood experiences and find purpose and success in their homes and at the office. 

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SIGNATURE KEYNOTE



Signature Keynote

Go From Conflicted To Centered

Professional moms everywhere describe their experience with one word: conflicted. If they’re great at work, they’re not the mom they want to be. If they’re focused on their kids, their work begins to suffer. And somewhere in all of this, they’re supposed to carve out quality time for their partners, their friends, their relatives, and themselves—not to mention passion projects and other responsibilities. It’s a situation that leaves them feeling at odds with themselves...and drained. 


There’s a better way. 


She knows, because she's been there too. But true change is possible when you build a life that’s CENTERED.  Dr. Whitney is sharing her intentional motherhood approach with others so they can go from surviving to THRIVING as a modern mom. 


Dr. Whitney Casares, a mama-mindset thought leader, pediatrician, and the author moves working moms from conflicted and guilty to centered and grounded in their motherhood experience. 


Mindset: Creating a centered vision for your life matters—and now more than ever. A mama with a healthy mindset can weather any storm and ride any wave that comes her way.  


Self-Attunement: You’re already fierce as a modern mama. Knowing and attuning to yourself sets you up to be strong and grounded, not just moment to moment, but for your whole life. When you take care of you, you can take better care of everyone and everything in your life. 


Prioritization: A mom’s time is precious and limited. Using it efficiently and productively allows you to focus and spend more of your time on what you care about most. 


Consistency: You want to be strong and steady long-term. Sustainable change takes mindfulness and expert guidance. 

Professional moms everywhere describe their experience with one word: conflicted. If they’re great at work, they’re not the mom they want to be. If they’re focused on their kids, their work begins to suffer. And somewhere in all of this, they’re supposed to carve out quality time for their partners, their friends, their relatives, and themselves—not to mention passion projects and other responsibilities. It’s a situation that leaves them feeling at odds with themselves...and drained. 


There’s a better way. 


She knows, because she's been there too. But true change is possible when you build a life that’s CENTERED.  Dr. Whitney is sharing her intentional motherhood approach with others so they can go from surviving to THRIVING as a modern mom. 


Dr. Whitney Casares, a mama-mindset thought leader, pediatrician, and the author moves working moms from conflicted and guilty to centered and grounded in their motherhood experience. 


Mindset: Creating a centered vision for your life matters—and now more than ever. A mama with a healthy mindset can weather any storm and ride any wave that comes her way.  


Self-Attunement: You’re already fierce as a modern mama. Knowing and attuning to yourself sets you up to be strong and grounded, not just moment to moment, but for your whole life. When you take care of you, you can take better care of everyone and everything in your life. 


Prioritization: A mom’s time is precious and limited. Using it efficiently and productively allows you to focus and spend more of your time on what you care about most. 


Consistency: You want to be strong and steady long-term. Sustainable change takes mindfulness and expert guidance. 


This keynote empowers women to:



✓  Make an intentional shift in their lives and their families’ lives.


✓  Schedule their time around a centered vision.. 

✓  Live according to what matters most to them.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.




6 PART

ADD-ON SERIES


This deep dive keynote empowers women to:


✓  Build awareness around the energy drains and energy sources in their personal and professional live.


✓  Identify 5 major areas of importance (Center Points), and understand the underlying values that drive these life tenets.


✓  Assess the definition of success in each core Center Point, and differentiate short-term, external indicators of achievement from long-term, internal measures.


✓  Set SMART goals around each Center Point, accounting for potential barriers, necessary incremental steps, and trade-offs likely to be

considered.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.





CONFLICTED TO CENTERED DEEP DIVE:

1. Prioritizing Your Values-Based Personal and Professional Goals

In this framework deep dive, Dr. Whitney gives expert guidance on how to identify your Center Points: what matters most to you, and where you want to place the majority of your time, energy, and focus. In this session, participants identify their individual values and energy drivers, creating a plan for setting sustainable goals and intentions around those areas of importance.


CONFLICTED TO CENTERED DEEP DIVE:

2. Developing Habits and Systems for Increasing Efficiency and Productivity as You Complete the Professional and Personal Tasks Only You Can Do

In this framework deep dive, Dr. Whitney gives expert guidance on how to tackle all the non-negotiables in your life: the tasks and projects that you and you alone have to accomplish. This presentation gives evidence-based direction on how to optimize your time, making the time participants give to obligatory personal and professional chores and assignments well-spent.


This deep dive keynote empowers women to:


✓  Discover the brain biology behind maximizing time and effort on essential responsibilities.


✓  Understand the difference between tasks and

responsibilities, and how to divide attention between them. 

✓  Identify daily energy peaks and valleys, and how to use them for optimized productivity.


✓  Learn specific strategies for setting daily priorities, and for handling overwhelm and procrastination.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.





This deep dive keynote empowers women to:


✓  Understand the systemic biases that lead to a

disproportionate mental load, unseen labor, and

childcare burdens for professional women.


✓  Learn communication strategies for building a team approach with partners and co-workers.


✓  Establish strategies for dividing work and engaging others to take ownership over task initiation and completion.


✓  Discover new ways to automate routine responsibilities and minimize effort on inconsequential assignment completion.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.





CONFLICTED TO CENTERED DEEP DIVE:

3. Automating, Delegating, and Sharing the Load So You Can be More Effective (and Experience Less Burnout) at Work and at Home

In this framework deep dive, Dr. Whitney gives expert guidance on how to create relationships based on equity at the office and at home. She teaches working professionals how to develop systems for streamlined efficiency and collaborative contribution with their families and professional teammates.


CONFLICTED TO CENTERED DEEP DIVE:

4. Setting Boundaries So You Can Balance Home, Work, and YOU Life Without the Burnout (or Baggage)

In this framework deep dive, Dr. Whitney gives expert guidance on how to set healthy boundaries with everyone working professionals interact with—from co-workers to in-laws—so they can spend more time and focus on what makes them most effective—and less on what drains them (or weighs them down).


This deep dive keynote empowers women to:


✓  Understand what boundaries are and what they aren’t.


✓  Define which boundary types are the most important and troublesome (and why).


✓  Identify when boundaries are crossed and when boundaries are weak vs. healthy.


✓  Learn how to set healthy boundaries and to protect them.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.





This deep dive keynote empowers women to:


✓  Understand the “why” behind over-functioning, hustle culture, and over-commitment.


✓  Audit current energy and time obligations, assessing alignment with core values.


✓  Distinguish individual skill-value from skill- performance pairings.


✓  Create strategies for minimalism professionally, environmentally, and personally.



Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.





CONFLICTED TO CENTERED DEEP DIVE:

5. Saying Goodbye to the Clutter and Guilt on Your Calendar, in Your Physical Environment, and on Your To-Do List

In this framework deep dive, Dr. Whitney gives expert guidance on how to de-clutter your life from guilt-driven requests on your time to the overwhelming amount of stuff in your home, to your never-ending to-do list.


CONFLICTED TO CENTERED DEEP DIVE:

6. Building Awareness of Your Needs, Caring for Yourself, and Banishing Burnout

In this framework deep dive, Dr. Whitney gives expert guidance on how professional women can develop a deeper understanding of their needs, attunement to their feelings, and trust of themselves in order to stay in alignment with their personal and professional values, freeing them to reduce burnout, increase bandwidth, and prioritize with confidence.


This deep dive keynote empowers women to:


✓  Understand the science behind true self-care, and the societal, workplace, and household factors that make prioritizing self-attunement challenging.


✓  Recognize the signs of self-abandonment and chronic self-criticism, and how they influence stress and overwhelm cycles.


✓  Learn the 4 S’s of True Self-Care: Self-Awareness, Self-Control, Self-Attention, Self-Compassion.


✓  Develop a Sustainable Self-Care Ritual: Daily, Weekly, and Moment-to-Moment.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.




Dr. Whitney empowers women in the workplace. Thought-provoking and fresh, Dr. Casares energizes her audiences with her inspiring vision for successful self-care, family care, and work-life balance, providing a revolutionary perspective on how to make modern motherhood not just tolerable, but truly successful.

OTHER SIGNATURE KEYNOTES



This keynote empowers women to:


✓ Create a framework for when to lean in or lean out at the workplace and at home.


✓ Prioritize themselves as they support their children and their families.


✓ Develop a system that provides sustainable energy and perspective throughout the day and week.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.






Capturing the Modern Motherhood Dream: Empowering Successful Women to Win at Parenting Without Losing Themselves


Modern women face full-time pressures in the workplace, at home, and in their social circles as they start out on their motherhood journeys, often within organizational and societal constructs that don’t fully support or understand their needs. 


Tempted to do and be it all, the vast majority of new mothers struggle to reach their work-life balance and self-care goals, often facing disappointment and guilt once they enter motherhood. 


Career-minded women need a new paradigm for motherhood success — one that acknowledges that winning at work matters, but that working moms want to win at parenting, too (without losing themselves). 


They want an approach that recognizes their commitment to finding balance and, above all, their desire to promote the social-emotional health of their kids and themselves.



→ Unrealistic expectations and significant pressures as they transition to motherhood.


→ Lack of credible resources and knowledgeable support in relatable and accessible formats


→ Postpartum depression and anxiety


→ Breastfeeding failures, sleep deprivation, and social pressures

Modern women face full-time pressures in the workplace, at home, and in their social circles as they start out on their motherhood journeys, often within organizational and societal constructs that don’t fully support or understand their needs. 


Tempted to do and be it all, the vast majority of new mothers struggle to reach their work-life balance and self-care goals, often facing disappointment and guilt once they enter motherhood. 


Career-minded women need a new paradigm for motherhood success — one that acknowledges that winning at work matters, but that working moms want to win at parenting, too (without losing themselves). 


They want an approach that recognizes their commitment to finding balance and, above all, their desire to promote the social-emotional health of their kids and themselves.



→ Unrealistic expectations and significant pressures as they transition to motherhood.


→ Lack of credible resources and knowledgeable support in relatable and accessible formats


→ Postpartum depression and anxiety


→ Breastfeeding failures, sleep deprivation, and social pressures


The Future of Healthcare is Now: Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Reach Tech-Savvy New Mothers and Their Infants

Healthcare providers must understand the unique needs and fears of pregnant and new mothers in order to successfully help moms-to-be make postpartum self-care plans and help new moms thrive. 


Especially in the peripartum period, healthcare providers and healthcare organizations must use the social-media and blogging platforms of this parenting generation to reach mothers right where they are: on their smartphones and computers. Beyond the constructs of planned social-media posts and controlled web content, patients need direct lines of communication with vetted professionals so they can cut through the noise of social-media crowdsourcing and the false advice that bombards them as they search the web. 


This speech will inspire those who have been hesitant to take on the vast opportunities that await them in this arena and will encourage experienced organizations with established informatics strategies to think bigger and broader about the ever-growing reach of provider-patient technologies.



This keynote empowers women to:


✓ Develop a plan for reaching patient audiences using cutting edge technology 


✓ Broaden their exposure to moms and their babies in new ways 


✓ Expand and diversify their outreach and support opportunities.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.






This keynote empowers women to:


✓ Identify the unique challenges new mothers face in the United States. 


✓ Establish a structure for promoting mother-baby dyad success within community and hospital-based medical systems.


✓ Identify actionable steps toward policy and system change in the U.S.


Dr. Whitney will work to ensure her content is customized for your group and event needs, goals, and attendees.







Lost in the Shuffle: How the U.S. Healthcare System is Failing Modern Mother-Baby Dyads and the Pathway Toward Re-Prioritizing Their Success

Modern parenthood in the U.S. is increasingly difficult, especially for new moms. Despite the modernization of the baby-gear industry, and despite our expectations that families fold new babies seamlessly into their pre-existing lives, infants’ needs are still primal, addressed best by parents who have the perspective and support they need to cope with the unpredictable struggles of this fragile moment in both an infant's and a woman’s life.


In our current paradigm, expectant mothers face unrealistic expectations and significant pressures as they transition to motherhood, yet lack quality, credible resources and knowledgeable support in relatable and accessible formats. Breastfeeding failures, sleep deprivation, and social pressures often quickly contribute to a sinking feeling for fledgling mothers that they’re “lesser than” other first-time parent peers and often set the stage for postpartum depression and anxiety.  


This speech exposes the organizational and healthcare-policy contributors to struggles in the peripartum period and shares a vision toward advocating for and achieving improved mental and physical health outcomes for mothers and babies alike. It challenges our current postpartum paradigms — both economic and structural — and paves a pathway toward reduced healthcare costs, improved quality metrics, and healthier families.



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