Tanyika Mayhew Butler
Disruptor of High- Functioning Survival Mode  

Speaker | Author  of No More UGLY Wins™

Bring the No More UGLY Wins™ Conversation to Your Organization

Your team may be getting excellent results while repeating habits and work practices that leave people exhausted.

Explore a keynote or training experience that helps your leaders and employees look beyond the burnout assumption and examine how they're getting the win.

Booking & Training Information

• Customized Training: Keynotes and workshops can be tailored to your organization's needs and goals.

• Virtual Training: Sessions are available through Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or your organization's preferred platform.

• Delivery Options: Virtual, in-person, and hybrid options are available based on scheduling and event needs.

• Training Packages: Multiple sessions can be combined into a training series upon request.

• Training Materials: Digital resources or presentation materials may be provided depending on the session.

• Audience Size: Training can be adapted for small teams, leadership groups, or larger audiences.

Bring This Conversation to Your Organization

Ready to help your team recognize hidden exhaustion, improve employee well-being, and rethink how they achieve success?

Signature Keynotes  & Workshops

Keynote

Ginger Ale & Crackers™: What If Your Exhaustion Isn't Burnout?

A thought-provoking keynote that challenges what we've normalized as the price of getting results. Audiences discover how performance can camouflage exhaustion, recognize UGLY Wins™, and learn to change how they win without sacrificing excellence.

Book Experience

No More UGLY Wins™: The Workplace Book Experience

Take the learning beyond the event with bulk book purchases, guided reflection, and optional author-led discussions. Equip employees and leaders to recognize exhausting patterns, question what they've normalized, and make meaningful changes without sacrificing excellence.

Bring the Book Into Your Organization

You can get bulk copies of No More UGLY Wins™ when you book a keynote or workshop, or simply as a separate professional development resource.

Workshops

Signature Offer: The Disruptor Framework™ — 3-Part Professional Development Series

Book the full series or select individual workshops to meet your organization's needs.

1. Look Again™: What If Exhaustion Isn't the Whole Story?

Just because performance looks good doesn't mean everything is fine. In this workshop, you'll learn to spot hidden exhaustion, figure out what might be causing it, and see where changes could help before problems get bigger.

2. Disrupt the Automatic Yes™: Stop Overcommitting Without Stopping Your Success

Learn how to stop the habit of always saying yes to every responsibility and expectation. This session gives you practical tools to protect your time, cut down on extra demands, and choose where to focus your energy.

3. Basketball in the Boardroom™: Build Stronger Teams Without Exhausting Your Best People

This is all about Rhythm, Role Clarity & Recovery. Equip leaders to recognize workplace habits that overload their most dependable employees. Participants learn practical strategies to clarify responsibilities, strengthen teamwork, and protect employee capacity while maintaining strong performance.

Ready to change how your organization wins?

Let's explore the keynote, training, and book experience that best fits your team's goals.

 I Got the Ribbons.

Then I Started Asking Different Questions.

At my first professional conference, I noticed the colorful ribbons hanging beneath people's name badges. President. Board Member. Presenter. Committee Chair. I didn't have any. I remember thinking, “I'm going to get me some ribbons too.”

And I did. Over the next five years, I pursued leadership opportunities, served on committees, earned recognition, and built a career in education that I loved. The ribbons kept coming. So did the responsibilities.

Then, in the summer of 2015, something happened. 35,000 feet in the air, sitting in my favorite window seat on a flight from Arizona to Atlanta, I couldn't get comfortable. I had just attended a wonderful national leadership conference. I was on track toward a goal I'd worked five years to achieve: becoming president of my state professional association. But one thought kept coming back. I don't want this anymore.

I wanted to want it. I knew I could do it. But I also knew how many people I would disappoint if I changed my mind. And there was something else. I had spent years honoring commitments to others while postponing a promise I'd made to myself.

I loved my career. I wasn't ready to walk away from it. I simply wanted control of my EXTRA back. My extra time, energy, effort, and where I chose to give them. I eventually stepped away from that leadership path and returned to school.

Looking back, I recognize that flight as a mile marker. It marked the beginning of the end of what I now call my UGLY Win cycle. I didn't have that language in 2015. It took years of reflection to recognize that some of my greatest accomplishments had come through patterns that were becoming too expensive to repeat.

That discovery eventually became my third book, No More UGLY Wins™, and the foundation of my work today as the Disruptor of High-Functioning Survival Mode™. Through keynotes and training, I challenge leaders and high-achieving professionals to look beyond their results and examine the patterns producing them.

Because sometimes the problem isn't that you've stopped succeeding. It's that you've become so good at winning, you've stopped questioning what it takes to keep winning.