Signature Speaking Topics
The Balance Axis™: Leading Without Losing Yourself
Dr. Peggi Trusty introduces her Balance Axis™ framework, helping leaders in high-impact fields create sustainable rhythms for decision-making, responsibility, and personal wellbeing. This session equips participants with practical tools to balance leadership demands while protecting the very thing that makes their leadership possible—their well-being.
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Caring for the Caregivers
Helping professionals spend their lives supporting others—but who supports them? In this practical and insightful session, Dr. Peggi Trusty explores how organizations can create cultures that prioritize the emotional and mental well-being of caregivers. Participants will learn actionable strategies to reduce burnout, strengthen resilience, and sustain those who serve on the front lines of care.
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Overflow vs. Exhaustion
Purpose-driven work often places leaders at the intersection of deep meaning and deep fatigue. In this thought-provoking keynote, Dr. Peggi Trusty examines the tension between passion and burnout, helping leaders understand the difference between healthy overflow and unsustainable exhaustion. Participants will leave with practical strategies for restoring balance while remaining fully engaged in meaningful work.
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When Life Hands You Lemons: Leadership, Loss,
and Letting Go
In this interactive keynote, Dr. Peggi Trusty uses a powerful visual demonstration with lemons to explore the emotional weight leaders and helping professionals often carry. Through storytelling and practical insight, she shows how unprocessed stress, grief, and responsibility accumulate—and how partnership, healthy boundaries, and intentional wellness can help us release what was never ours to carry alone.
Signiture Frameworks
Dr. Peggi Trusty’s work integrates a collection of original frameworks designed to help individuals and organizations translate complex emotional and leadership challenges into practical strategies for sustainable living and leadership.
These models are used in her speaking, workshops, and written resources to support clarity, emotional awareness, and long-term well-being.
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Signature frameworks include:
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Individual Wellness Support Plan (IWSP) – A structured system for building personalized wellness practices.
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Balance Axis™ Framework – A leadership model centered on planning, prioritization, and partnership.
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W.I.S.H. Wellness Framework – A four-part approach to sustainable well-being.
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The Healing Arc – A model for understanding the movement through grief and recovery.​
Additional models such as the A.GAME Framework and Emotional Response Continuum further support emotional awareness and decision-making in high-impact environments.​​
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What People Are Saying about Dr. Peggi Trusty
Dr. Peggi Trusty is one of the most compelling storytellers I’ve had the opportunity to hear.
She has a rare ability to fully captivate an audience while delivering insight that is both
deeply moving and immediately applicable. --Kymone Hinds, Leadership Trainer
Petula Flavius, FL
"From the beginning, her insight, conversations, and teachings were consistently deep, thoughtful, and empowering."
Robert Kennedy, MD
"Dr. Peggi Trusty is a treasure trove of wellness info and a speaker worth listening to. Her command of story and her warm connection with audiences is inspirational and aspirational!"
Dorian Stewart, AL
"Her powerful and inspirational words resonated deeply, leaving an indelible mark that continues to influence me. Dr. Trusty’s ability to connect with her audience, and convey profound insights is truly remarkable."
Organizations and Audiences Dr. Trusty Has Worked With:
Dr. Peggi Trusty has spoken to and worked with organizations across healthcare,
ministry, education, and mission-driven leadership spaces.
Featuring reflections from: Ann Roda, Vice President of Mission Integration & Spiritual Care, Adventist HealthCare | Pastor Ontkean Maynard, Staff Chaplain, Shady Grove Behavioral Health, Adventist HealthCare | Ryan Comeau, Staff Chaplain, White Oak Medical Center, Adventist HealthCare | Dr. Cheryl Wilson-Bridges, Staff Chaplain, Fort Washington Medical Center, Adventist HealthCare
Does this sound familiar?
Your team is deeply committed—but deeply tired.
Helping professionals give their energy to everyone else. Dr. Peggi Trusty helps teams develop sustainable rhythms so their care for others doesn’t come at the cost of their own wellbeing.
Leadership feels like carrying everyone’s burdens.
Leaders in healthcare, ministry, and service work often hold more than anyone sees. Peggi equips leaders with practical tools for clarity, resilience, and sustainable leadership.
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You want to care for the people who care for everyone else.
Organizations thrive when their caregivers are supported. Peggi helps teams build cultures where wellness and mission grow together.
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Dr. Peggi Trusty helps leaders and helping professionals build sustainable rhythms that support both people and mission.​
Let’s create sustainable wellness for the people who serve others.
Start Your
Wellness Reset
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The W.I.S.H. Wellness Reset is a printable reflection guide designed to help helping professionals pause, reset, and begin rebuilding sustainable wellness rhythms.
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Built around Dr. Peggi Trusty’s W.I.S.H. Wellness Framework—Willingness, Investment, Structure, and Healing, this guide offers simple prompts and mindset shifts that help transform wellness from something you hope for into something you practice.
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Perfect for leaders, caregivers, clergy, and helping professionals who spend their lives supporting others but rarely pause to care for themselves. No complicated routines—just thoughtful reflection and small steps that help you reconnect with your energy, boundaries, and purpose.
Build a Culture of Wellness at Work
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The Wellness at Work model is a practical framework designed to help organizations move beyond surface-level self-care and build sustainable cultures of wellness.​
Grounded in Dr. Peggi Trusty’s Balance Axis™ Framework—Planning, Prioritization, and Partnership, this model outlines 12 essential practices that support people not just in what they do, but in how they experience the work itself.
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From protected time boundaries and clear workload expectations to emotional check-ins and post-stress recovery, each practice is designed to reduce burnout, support capacity, and create environments where people can thrive—not just perform.​
Ideal for leaders, teams, and organizations ready to move from reactive wellness efforts to intentional, sustainable practices that truly support their people.