Abby P. Martin Keynote Speaker from Irvine, CA

Abby P. Martin is an author, founder, speaker, and workplace culture expert challenging leaders to rethink what they’ve been taught about building a “great place to work.” After years working inside organizations—including as an HR leader at Google—Abby saw firsthand how well-intentioned efforts to create more engaged employees can quietly evolve into more meetings, more programs, more emotional overhead, and less clarity about the work that actually matters. She calls it Culture Bloat: what happens when companies begin prioritizing how people feel over what they produce. As the author of Work is…WORK!, Abby helps leaders move beyond performative culture and build organizations grounded in clarity, accountability, meaningful work, and measurable results. Her approach isn’t about caring less about employees. It’s about creating workplaces that are better for both the people inside them and the bottom line. Abby speaks on workplace culture, burnout, productivity, leadership, decision-making, employee engagement, and why today’s CEOs need to stop acting like “Chief Emotional Officers” and get back to leading the business. Audiences leave with a provocative new lens on modern workplace culture—and practical ways to create healthier boundaries, stronger performance, and better work.