Speaking
Lindsay Scola is a TEDx speaker and sleep educator. She will make your audience fall in love with a topic they've been ignoring for years. Her storytelling makes audiences feel seen in their own experience.
Signature Talks:
Sleep Is the Power Move: The Talk to wake your team up
For Companies
Sleep is the highest-leverage performance tool most companies aren't using. The most driven people in your company are likely the ones sleeping the least. We've spent decades telling high-performers that exhaustion is the price of ambition and that sleep can wait. But the truth is: it can't. Because when you sacrifice sleep your focus and memory take a hit, emotional regulation breaks down, decision-making suffers, and creativity disappears.
Combine this with an epidemic of undiagnosed sleep disorders and the problem runs even deeper. 1 in 5 adults have sleep apnea and 81% have never been tested or diagnosed. These aren't people making bad choices about sleep. They need medical intervention and most have no idea that what they're experiencing isn't normal.
This isn't just a personal problem. It's a business one.
The cost of fatigue in an average-sized Fortune 500 company consisting of approximately 52,000 employees is about $80 million annually. Addressing employee sleep could recover nearly half of that.
This talk is where it starts.
Lindsay reframes sleep as a competitive advantage. She helps teams understand exactly what they gain from prioritizing it. Better health, emotional resilience, focus, creativity, decision-making, and increased productivity. Prioritizing sleep gives you the building blocks of high performance.
She backs it up with real science, delivers it with humor, and makes sure everyone leaves with real sleep strategies they can start using that night.
She also helps people understand what sleep disorders actually look like, why so many go undiagnosed for years, and exactly where to go for evaluation and treatment. For 1 in 5 people in that room, better sleep habits aren't the answer, a diagnosis is. And this talk makes sure they know that.
Eye-opening and genuinely fun. This isn't your average wellness talk.
Here’s what your people will leave with:
A fresh lens on sleep as a performance driver.
An honest look at what consistently shorting your sleep costs you — in focus, your health, and your long-term performance.
Real sleep strategies to start using that night, even with a demanding schedule.
A better understanding of sleep disorders, the signs to look for, and how to get the right help. This is critical for at least 20% of your employees participating.
Available as a 60-minute talk or 90-minute interactive workshop, in person or virtually.
Wide Awake: What Becomes Possible When You Finally Get Answers
High-achievers are exceptionally good at one thing that quietly destroys them. Turning their struggles into evidence of their own inadequacy.
Lindsay spent nearly 2 decades doing exactly that — and she did it from some of the highest-pressure rooms in the country: Congress, the US Mission to the UN, New York City Hall, the Emmys, and the advance teams for President and Michelle Obama. She was one of the most driven people in the room and secretly convinced she was the laziest.
It took her longer than everyone else to get things done. She was napping in bathrooms and cars. She felt foggy and always felt pulled in a million directions. A chaos monster fighting to keep up with people who made it look effortless. She didn't know she had narcolepsy and ADHD. She just thought something was wrong with her.
Nothing was wrong with her.
For 19 years, Lindsay raised her sleepiness to doctors. For 19 years, she was told she was fine. At 35, she walked into her doctor's office and refused to leave without real answers. That single act of self-advocacy changed everything. 2 months later, she was diagnosed with narcolepsy. At 41, ADHD.
Lindsay wasn’t the sleepy chaos monster she’d labeled herself. She’d been fighting it all along. When she finally got answers, she didn't just get her health back. She found her voice and her purpose.
Wide Awake is the talk for every high-achiever who has ever quietly wondered why things feel harder for them. It's about what happens when you stop treating your struggles as personal failings and start demanding real answers. And what becomes possible on the other side — the version of you that's been waiting all along.
This is a permission slip for everyone in the room who suspects something is off but doesn't know how to ask. For everyone who has spent years convinced their struggle is a them problem.
It's not. And this talk is their wake-up call.
Audiences Leave with:
Permission to want more than just getting through the day.
A completely different lens on the traits they've been apologizing for their whole career.
The possibility that what they've written off as a limitation might actually be a strength.
The confidence to demand better answers in any area of their life, not just health.
The realization that their biggest life might be one honest question away.
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