Shaman Dr. YY Baker

Shaman Dr. YYBaker - I Am H.I.S.™—The Human Intelligence Strategist—a keynote speaker, trauma-informed educator, traditional healer, dysfunction disruptor, retired U.S. Army Veteran, and founder of the WISE Warrior Institute. For more than 30 years, she has worked where pain, power, learning, leadership, and healing meet. In the age of artificial intelligence, her work preserves what technology cannot replace: trust, sound judgment, courage, empathy, and real human connection. Through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Real-Time Regulation™, she teaches people to understand what is happening inside them, regulate themselves, read the room, and make wiser choices when pressure is high.

Her message was not created from a slide deck. It was forged through 22 years of military service, three combat tours, and years of leading people through fear, change, loss, and high-stakes decisions. She led 168 Soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan and provided cryptography to thousands of Soldiers and Department of the Army civilians in South Korea. She is also a survivor of military sexual trauma and she knows what it means to keep serving while the body carries fear, anger, grief, shame, and the weight of survival. Her lived experience allows her to speak with truth about military sexual trauma, trauma recovery, veteran wellness, post-traumatic growth, leadership under pressure, and the systems that often fail the very people they were built to protect.

At the center of her work is one clear rule: Regulate B4 You Educate. When the nervous system is fighting for safety, learning takes a back seat. That is why her work is grounded in Social and Emotional Learning, nervous-system regulation, and the TEACH model: Trauma-Informed, Equitable, Accessible, Community-Based, and Healing-Centered. She creates learning spaces where people can feel safe enough to listen, speak, connect, and grow. Real-Time Regulation™ gives people simple tools they can use while the hard moment is happening—before stress becomes shutdown, conflict, rage, withdrawal, or harm. Her work reaches educators, students, executives, veterans, survivors, caregivers, women, faith communities, and leaders who are ready to create real change.

Dr. YYBaker comes from a bloodline of warriors and a lineage of healers. Her work brings together Shamanic wisdom, spirituality, chakra healing, energy work, breath, body awareness, neuromuscular massage therapy, and craniosacral therapy. As a licensed massage therapist and trained healing practitioner, she understands that the body often carries what the mouth cannot say. Her range is not random—it is her power. She can move from the boardroom to the classroom, from the battlefield to the treatment room, and from the nervous system to the spirit. Her keynote speaking and training topics include human intelligence and AI, trauma-informed education, Social and Emotional Learning, military sexual trauma, nervous-system regulation, emotional fitness, spiritual healing, authentic leadership, workplace trust, and human connection. She does not take the stage to make broken systems comfortable. She turns over tables, tells the truth in language people can understand, and creates change people can feel, practice, and live. Her mission is to shift how the human world understands trauma, education, leadership, and healing—one regulated human at a time.