Rayvene Whatley
Organizational Wellness Strategist & Licensed Professional Counselor | Audacity Wellness
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Rayvéne Whatley, LPC, is an Organizational Wellness Strategist and Licensed Professional Counselor based in Atlanta. Combining two decades of leadership experience with over 15 years as a licensed therapist, she specializes in how burnout, emotional overload, and leadership fatigue quietly shape performance, culture, and workforce stability across organizations.
As founder and executive director of a multi-clinician practice established in 2014, she leads a high-performing team with consistently low turnover, giving her firsthand insight into the leadership practices that sustain trust, clarity, and long-term team stability.
Rayvéne blends clinical mental health expertise with practical organizational strategy, offering tools that strengthen decision-making, expand leadership capacity, and support more stable teams. She has delivered trainings for corporations, nonprofits, and HR associations across the Southeast, bringing a grounded, research-informed approach to modern workplace challenges.
The Human Side of Strategic HR: Using Emotional Data to Strengthen Workforce Planning
Workforce planning often relies on performance metrics and turnover reports, but those numbers surface long after the real issue has taken hold. The earliest indicators of talent risk are emotional: a dip in emotional intelligence under pressure, leadership fatigue that erodes psychological safety, changes in communication tone, rising irritability, or the quiet withdrawal that signals burnout is already in motion. With ongoing restructuring, tightened budgets, and increased leadership turnover across industries, emotional data gives HR earlier visibility into the issues that will shape performance and organizational stability.
This session shows HR leaders how emotional data reveals workforce instability well before any dashboard changes. We will explore how emotional overload impacts decision-making, what leadership fatigue looks like in real time, and how early behavioral patterns forecast deeper culture and succession risks. For HR leaders who have spent years navigating complex employee dynamics, this session connects what you already observe to a framework that strengthens strategic planning. Attendees will learn how to turn emotional patterns into practical insights that support real workforce decisions, from identifying talent gaps earlier to guiding leaders during periods of high change.
Participants will walk away with a practical framework for integrating emotional insight into workforce planning and succession conversations so they can anticipate issues earlier, support leaders more effectively, and strengthen the organization’s long-term stability.
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