TEDx Speaker · Leadership Strategist
Lead withClarity.
Change stalls when the next step is unclear. Keynotes on confidence and leadership that hand your audience that next step, grounded in Petite Practice®.
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What Is Petite Practice®
Big Change Starts Small
Petite Practice® turns big goals into small, repeatable actions, designed to work with how the brain actually makes decisions, not against it. It is the framework behind my keynotes, my book, and 20+ years of research.
How to Work With Me
Simple, Clear, and Built Around You
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Tell me about your event, your audience, and what you want them to walk away with.
Align
We have a quick call to align on goals, tone, and the right talk for your room.
Deliver
I show up prepared, prompt, and ready to make you look good. Your audience leaves with tools they will actually use.
Dr. Christiane Schroeter, Answered
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Who is Dr. Christiane Schroeter?+
Dr. Christiane Schroeter is a behavioral economist, TEDx speaker, and leadership strategist known as The Small Steps Doctor. She is the host of Happy Healthy Hustle, a top 1% global podcast named 2025 Woman Podcaster of the Year in the education category, and the creator of Petite Practice®.
She has taught the small-steps method to more than 10,000 professionals over 20 years.
What is Petite Practice®?+
Petite Practice® is her research-backed system for making real change through small, steady steps... without burning out. It is the framework behind her keynotes, her podcast, and her book.
The method has a name: the STEP System. Simplify. Tell. Examine. Praise. Repeat.
What is the STEP System?+
The STEP System is the engine of Petite Practice®: Simplify, Tell, Examine, Praise, Repeat.
It adds the step most habit advice skips... awareness. You pause and examine before you build, so change comes from design rather than willpower.
Who does she help?+
Leaders and entrepreneurs doing more than ever, yet feeling further from the life they want. People done with hustle... but not done growing.
She works with them from the keynote stage, through her podcast, Happy Healthy Hustle, and in her books.
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Real Tools. Real Change.
Clarity
They leave knowing exactly what to focus on next, and what to set down.
Confidence
They feel grounded in their voice, their decisions, and how they show up.
Momentum
They take a small, doable step the same week, and another the next.
Clarity isn’t a one-time win.
It’s a practice.
Dr. Christiane
The Small Steps Doctor
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Bring Clarity to Your Stage
Whether it is a keynote, a working session, or a conversation for your audience, here is how we can work together.
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Keynote
A signature talk for your conference, leadership summit, or corporate event. Research-backed, story-driven, built around your audience.
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Workshop
An interactive session that takes your team deeper into the Petite Practice® framework, turning ideas into habits that hold.
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A warm, quotable guest on leadership, confidence, and behavioral science. Top 1% podcast host who makes a host look good.
Invite Me On →Like sitting in the middle of a motivational master class. Calm, grounded, but full of energy and truth. Her ability to turn fear into something functional is rare.
Watch the Talk
The TEDx Talk That Started Petite Practice®
The Podcast
The Keynote Stage, In Conversation
Practical conversations on leadership, confidence, and momentum, the same ideas I bring to the stage, in your ears each week.
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The New Book · August 16, 2026
The Petite Practice® Philosophy in Print
Petite Practice® arrives August 16, 2026. Small, steady steps to a life of momentum and real change. And while you wait, four earlier books turn the ideas behind my keynotes into steps you can use today.
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