8/27/2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST


Location: Technology Center at Innovation Park, 200 Innovation Boulevard - Room 243, State College, PA 16801


Registration ends on 8/26/2026
There are currently 65 spots remaining out of 65

Overview:
 
Employee engagement is often treated as a culture initiative, but engagement cannot be sustained when individual capacity is steadily declining. Burnout develops gradually, beginning with subtle shifts in energy, focus, and resilience that are easy to overlook until they begin affecting performance and team dynamics.
 
In this interactive and energizing session, leadership and organizational development practitioner Samm Smeltzer helps participants understand how burnout unfolds along a continuum and how personal capacity shapes engagement at work. Using Samm’s Burnout Stages Assessment —completed during registration—attendees will explore anonymized group insights and gain a clearer picture of how capacity levels influence communication, motivation, and workplace effectiveness.
 
Blending organizational development insight with practical approaches to rebuilding energy, this session leaves participants with a deeper awareness of their own capacity and a renewed perspective on how sustainable engagement begins with self-aware leadership.
 
Learning Objectives: 

1. Explain how burnout develops along a continuum and how individual capacity influences employee engagement and performance.
2. Interpret group burnout assessment data to identify patterns affecting engagement within their teams or organizations.
3. Recognize foundational principles of energy capacity and how they support sustained engagement and workplace well-being.

This program is valid for 1.75 PDCs for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification.
This program has been approved for 1.75 HR (General) recertification credit hour toward aPHR®, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
 
Presenter:
 
Samm Smeltzer, Energetic Health Advocate, Author of Five Books, and Founder of The HRart Center
 
Samm Smeltzer knows that when leaders care for their own energy, everyone benefits. With more than a decade of experience as an award-winning HR leader, Samm now leads The HRart (pronounced “heart”) Center, where she helps individuals and organizations create workplaces where people feel valued, balanced, and energized. Blending her background in HR and Classical Oriental Medicine, Samm bridges the gap between well-being and performance through her work as a Medical Qigong Therapist. She is the author of five books, including Workplace Healers and the children’s book The Little Healer, which introduces young readers to the magic of energy and self-care. Through her writing, speaking, and practice, Samm helps leaders and teams cultivate energetic awareness, recover from burnout, and reconnect with the vitality that drives sustainable growth and genuine human connection.