Author, TEDx Speaker, Keynote Presenter
Helping people rewrite their narratives, realize their potential, and improve their social interactions.
About DeAngelo
DeAngelo Burse is an adjunct psychology professor, author, and speaker who uses research from the behavioral sciences to help people improve their social interactions, realize their potential, and enhance the quality of their lives. Through his company, Breakroom Huddle, he offers mindset coaching, group training workshops, and keynote presentations. His work centers on empowering individuals to enact positive changes within themselves, their families, and communities. DeAngelo’s primary mission is to develop better people who treat people better. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and three children. In his spare time, DeAngelo enjoys relaxing with his family, exercising, grilling, and watching NFL football.
About DeAngelo
DeAngelo Burse is a behavioral scientist, TEDx speaker, and author of Yours To Design: Constructing a Life That Is Meaningful. He developed the NIMBLE framework to help people navigate hereditary and environmental influences to become their ideal selves. As a PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Birmingham in England, his research explores self-regulation, character education, and applied behavioral science. He earned a Master of Science in Psychology, specializing in social psychology, and is certified in Choice Theory® and Reality Therapy.
DeAngelo teaches social psychology and abnormal psychology as a university professor. He is also CEO of Breakroom Huddle, where he works as a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and coaching psychologist, delivering evidence-based programs for Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems, and government agencies. His work has been featured on ABC, CBS, and NBC-affiliated channels.
Additionally, DeAngelo is the creator of 90-Second Psychologist, a video series that transforms complex psychological concepts into immediately applicable insights in just 90 seconds. He also hosts the Social Curiosity Podcast and speaks globally on the Science of Becoming—exploring character development, personal transformation, and human flourishing. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, DeAngelo enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids, outdoor activities, grilling, and watching NFL football.
Keynotes and Workshops
Keynotes and workshops embody DeAngelo’s training, utilizing behavioral science and his Nimble framework to overcome heredity and environmental constraints while helping participants reframe narratives, improve social interactions, and maximize their potential.
Behavioral Science Coaching
Coaching sessions integrate behavioral science to improve decision-making, resolve problems, reduce unhelpful thoughts and feelings, and promote responsibility, constructive choices, resilience, adaptability, stronger relationships, and overall life satisfaction.
Unconventional Approach
DeAngelo is known for his scholarly yet unconventional approach, which combines philosophy and psychological research, stories, humor, passion, audience interaction, and personal connection—all directed toward advancing human flourishing.
Inspiring Change with Corporate Clients
Self-Improvement Framework
A unique approach to helping people reach their full potential and become their ideal selves.
Inherited Traits
Understand the genetic predispositions that underpin certain behavioral patterns and outlooks. Inherited traits carry a blueprint that influences how people respond to various situations.
Environmental Influences
Early childhood experiences, peer groups, and societal pressures play a crucial role in influencing an individual's beliefs, values, and behavior patterns. Learn how the environment shapes identity and personality.
Nimble Concept
Gain insights into how individuals can harness their creative abilities to shape their identity and who they become, as well as effectively manage both genetic and environmental influences.
Self-Transformation
DeAngelo's I.D.E.A.L. approach to personal growth, as well as his S.T.A.R. model for pursuing meaningful careers, assist people in learning effective principles for self-transformation and purposeful career paths.
Personal/Social Flourishing
Explore principles of virtue ethics, the pursuit of purpose, and the concept of flourishing, which provides a comprehensive framework for why people should strive to be their best selves.
BREAKROOM HUDDLE
Breakroom Huddle leverages the power of behavioral science in corporate environments to foster individual growth and drive positive changes in organizational culture. This process is built on the Design-You Method. We’ve put together a team of highly qualified coaches with backgrounds in psychology, counseling, and therapy to use the best therapeutic methodologies within the Design-You Method framework to help people address personal challenges and start their journey to becoming their ideal selves.
By utilizing behavioral science and the Design-You Method, we assist individuals in developing greater self-awareness, better coping strategies for setbacks and stress, a stronger sense of autonomy and self-control, increased productivity, and a more supportive and healthy work environment.
Our executive and leadership coaching incorporates The Design-You Method into both in-person and virtual individual and group sessions, offering significant benefits. Drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Choice Theory/Reality Therapy, we help clients:
- Understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
- Focus on problem resolution and reduce unhelpful negative thoughts and feelings
- Provide tools to examine and test beliefs to facilitate life changes
- Encourage clear and profound thinking, emotion management, and reduction of self-limiting beliefs that lead to negative attitudes and behaviors
- Promote personal responsibility in decision-making
- Encourage better choices for improved mental health and behavioral changes
- Discover and create purpose in their lives by setting and achieving goals to enhance life satisfaction and, in turn, work satisfaction
- Journey towards becoming their ideal selves
- Reach full potential by tapping into unique strengths, passions, and aspirations
- Create more meaningful moments in their lives by appreciating the present, practicing gratitude, and cultivating fulfilling relationships
Utilizing Social Psychology for Positive Workplace Culture Enhancement
Social psychology is the scientific study of human social interaction. With training in the behavioral sciences, DeAngelo can assist companies in solving interpersonal problems and improving social interactions to foster a more positive work culture. By taking an inductive approach, DeAngelo has the expertise to start with a specific social issue and analyze a variety of social psychological theories, ultimately finding better solutions that address the root causes of problematic behavior.
Social Psychology is the scientific investigation of social interactions whereby practitioners seek to understand how people’s attitudes, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.
With training in the social sciences, DeAngelo is able to assist companies with solving problems and improving performance to create a more positive work culture. By taking an inductive approach, DeAngelo possesses the skills to begin with a specific social issue and analyze a diversity of social psychological theories to better understand ways to offer solutions that address root causes of problem behavior .
Corporate Solutions
Speaker Training
Keynotes and lunch & learns on topics related to emotional intelligence, mindset theory, the psychology of grit, and interpersonal relations.
Reinforcement Training
Group reinforcement training through emotional Intelligence masterclasses and mindset workshops. Designed for employees, managers, leaders, and teams.
Technology Solutions
E-Learning Courses and virtual presentations designed for personal, interpersonal, and leadership development. Prescreening, onboarding, and team assessments.
Testimonials
How Clients Describe Our Work
DeAngelo was a keynotes speaker for our “Elevate Your Purpose” series and spoke to our Memory Makers on the practical power of Narrative Identity. He provides practical help for breaking through the false identities that we may cling to from our past to adopt a vision of a future version of ourselves. DeAngelo can help you become an architect of “You” and design a life that’s meaningful.
We were incredibly fortunate to have DeAngelo Burse as our final keynote of the day at our annual conference and retreat. He absolutely nailed what our audience needed to hear, delivering a thought-provoking message about the social science of people. DeAngelo brings with him both a positive energy and an emotionally sensitive insight that truly connected with our attendees. From discussions about interacting with others in a value-building way to a challenge about building one's legacy the right way, Mr. Burse was potent and affecting.
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