Kit Roberts

Kit Roberts is a high-energy speaker, facilitator, and certified life and recovery coach who knows how to light up a room and get people thinking. With a background in communications and over 20 years of experience in HR across healthcare, nonprofits, and academic systems, Kit blends practical insight with contagious enthusiasm. She’s the founder of A Renovated Life, where she helps individuals and organizations grow into their best selves—personally and professionally.

Drawing from her book A Renovated Life, Kit has developed engaging workshops that translate recovery principles into workplace wisdom. Her signature programs help build happy, healthy, and whole teams by addressing employee well-being, leadership, and workplace culture through a lens of resilience and transformation.

Kit is in long-term recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder. Her recovery story includes a 15-year journey of multiple attempts to achieve sobriety, participating in a 30-day in-patient rehab program all while effectively maintaining the outward appearance of “all is well.” She attributes her ability to finally achieve long-lasting sobriety to an employer who, when she unexpectedly shared her well-protected secret, made it possible for her to get the help she needed.

Whether she’s leading a keynote or facilitating a workshop, Kit speaks with honesty, humor, and heart. She lives in Western NC with her husband, her rescue dog, and a rotating stash of dark chocolate. Her son proudly serves in the U.S. Air Force Special Warfare Unit.

If you’re looking for a speaker who can energize your audience, tackle tough topics with grace, and leave people inspired to take action—Kit is your person. She doesn’t just talk about transformation—she helps spark it.

Speaker Presentation Summary

Kit Roberts delivers engaging, heartfelt presentations that inspire transformation from the inside out. Whether she’s working with individuals in recovery or guiding organizations toward happier, healthier, more resilient teams, Kit brings practical tools, powerful stories, and plenty of humor. Based on her book A Renovated Life, her workshops and keynotes help break down stigma, build emotional wellness, and create cultures where people—and performance—can thrive. With humor, heart, and a dose of tough love, Kit empowers audiences to become agents of change in both life and leadership.

Speaker Topics:

The Renovated Life Workshop Series
A four-part, interactive journey designed to help individuals in recovery rebuild their lives from the inside out. Using the powerful metaphor of home renovation, each session focuses on foundational tools like boundaries, emotional regulation, habit change, and self-worth. Through engaging activities, personal reflection, and practical strategies, participants gain the confidence and clarity to create a life that feels happy, healthy, and whole. Whether just beginning or continuing the recovery journey, this series offers a blueprint for lasting transformation.

Renovated Workplaces
An interactive workshop series designed to help employees become the best version of themselves—at work and in life. Based on the transformative concepts from Kit’s book, A Renovated Life, each session uses renovation metaphors to explore topics like mindset, emotional regulation, communication, and accountability. The series helps build self-awareness, strengthen soft skills, and promote a culture of well-being and personal responsibility. It’s practical, relatable, and rooted in the belief that when individuals thrive, organizations do too.

From Pain to Purpose: The Power of Your Profession

An inspiring, heartfelt interactive workshop that reminds addiction professionals just how powerful their work really is. Through the story of her rescue dog Gracie, Kit brings to life the impact of showing up with patience, empathy, and consistency. It’s a call to refuel, re-center, and remember—you are the ripple effect.

Rewired and Redeemed: Addiction, the Brain, and a Better Way
This powerful presentation bridges the gap between Scripture and science to help the Church better understand addiction—not as a moral failing, but as a complex struggle of the brain, body, and soul. Through biblical truth, neuroscience, and personal testimony, participants will discover how the brain can be rewired and lives can be redeemed. You’ll walk away with practical insight, renewed compassion, and a clearer call to be a place of healing—not hiding—for those in addiction and recovery.

A Renovated Life: Restoration Room by Room

Journey through the pages of A Renovated Life. Step inside and witness the profound impact addiction has on character flaws and discover the metaphorical tools that can breathe new life into our existence.

Each chapter serves as a window into a different room within the house of our lives. Drawing from personal experiences, Kit Roberts vividly depicts the challenges specific to each space and offers invaluable insights on how to renovate them.

This process of reflection and elimination becomes a daily ritual for growth. Available at Amazon.com.

From the moment I met Kit, I was taken by her clear, concise manner of speaking. I simply assumed that she was a professional presenter/trainer. I was right! Kit crafts a message for a specific audience and knows how to create lasting impact.

Mary Anne Radmacher,

Writer and Artist