Leading with Awe

Our brains aren’t built for optimal performance, happiness, or inspired leadership. They are built simply to keep us alive. The result? We avoid difficult conversation, and confrontations, workers are disengaged, and we exist our way through work and live. MEH. But the solution lies within each of us. Rather than allowing our biology to hold us back, we can use it to work for us, unlocking our highest potential and learning that we fear(leads), we make room for so much more.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

Identify and break through personal biological barriers to optimal performance

Evaluate and neutralize subconscious fears that prevent them from playing all in

Utilize awe in place of fear to drive performance, collaboration, and engagement

Finding Adventure in Ambiguity

Our brains believe the stories we tell them. Without conscious effort, they are negativity seeking missiles, but we have the power to change that. Rather than allowing our stress to spiral in resulting in decreased performance and an array of health problems, we can use our biology to work with us, turning stress into a positive experience that pushes us into better outcomes.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

Re-categorize stress as a strength that can drive performance

Utilize a 3-step scientific technique to shift stress mindsets from ordeal to adventure

Enable positive communication, ideation, and creative collaborations to lead through ambiguity with a beginner’s mind

Celebrations & Critical Conversations

No blame. No finger pointing. No guilt. Fear(less) Diversity is all about not running away from the critical conversations we need to better understand the instincts and systems that drive us to carry bias. No matter our background, we all carry some shortcuts and biases about others (and ourselves!). It doesn’t make us bad people – it makes us human! But when we understand the programming that drive these stories, we can be more effective in intervening before they negatively affect out relationships and performance.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

Understand the root of subconscious bias and stories that lead to unproductive behaviours

Engage with these fear in difficult conversations

Adopt a clear common external enemy to decrease internal conflict and increase cooperation and connection

Excelling Through Uncertainty

In
this
engaging
keynote
,
Dr.
Rebecca
leverages
decades
of
research
into
stress
and
human
behavior
to
share 
simple
,
science
-
backed
techniques
for
transforming fear
into the
fuel that
will
propel leaders
and
their
teams
to
greater confidence
,
focus
,
and
performance
.

This presentation is perfect for leaders and teams:

Feeling
overwhelmed
by
the
stress
,
challenge
,
or
unpredictable

Ready
to return to
performance
growth and
/
or concerned
about
how
failure
might
be
perceived

Hoping
to
understand
the
science
behind
stress and anxiety better 
so
they
can
know
how
to manage it
more
effectively

Needing
to come together
to
drive
performance forward

The audience will leave able to
: 

Rapidly
transform
stress
and
fear
into
energy
that
works
for
,
rather
than
against
,
them

Recalibrate
their
stress
response
so
they can
step
into
uncomfortable
changes and challenges

Adopt
an adventure
mindset
that
will fuel their resilience and
adaptability
in
high
-
pressure
situations

Harnessing the Power of Stress
to
Boost Performance

We've
gone
through pandemics
,
supply
chain issues
,
and
uncertainty
in
global
markets
and
now
it's
time
to
get
back
to
work
.
What if instead
of trying
to fight
stress
,
we
could
transform it
into
a
competitive advantage
? 

In
this
eye
-
opening
keynote
,
Dr.
Rebecca
reveals the
secret
upside of
stress
that
the
highest
-
performing
athletes
and
leaders
use to fuel
their
performance
.
Helping
to move
individuals and companies
from
symptoms
of PTSD to PTG
(
Post
Traumatic
Growth
)
,
she shares
her
simple
science
-
based framework
that
allows
anyone
to
stop
fighting
stress
,
and
start
leaning
into
it
-
improving
productivity
,
increasing
connection
to
others
,
and
growing
through
challenges
.

This presentation is perfect for any audience
: 

Trying
to
battle
increasing
levels
of
stress
,
burnout
,
and
disengagement

Ready to
return
to performance
growth

Wanting
to
alleviate
stress,
but
wary
of
the
traditional
“
stress
management
"
techniques
that only
add
MORE
"
to
do's
”
(
and
stress
)
to
their
plates

The audience will leave able to: 

Understand
the
biological root
of
their
stress response
and
recalibrate
that
response
to work
for
their
benefit
in
the
modern
world

Effectively
engage
with
their
fears
and
reframe them
as
energy
that
can
optimize
performance
and
growth

Adopt
a
simple
framework
for
rewiring
their
brains
so
they
can respond differently
to
challenges
,
reduce
burnout
,
and
restore purpose
and
fulfillment
to
their
work

A journey
to
the most powerful version of yourself 

This
inspiring keynote
incorporates
science
,
storytelling
,
and
audience improv
to
guide
participants
past
the
"
shoulds
"
and
"
not
enoughs
"
in their heads
to
own
their role
as
protagonists
of
their
own
lives
.
Using
a potent
combination
of
science
and 
heart
,
Dr. Rebecca
motivates
anyone to
become
the
best
versions
of
themselves
-
the
version
that
their
8 (
and
88
)
year
old
self
would be
proud
of
.

This presentation is perfect for
leaders and
teams
: 

Struggling with negative
self
-
talk
and
limiting
expectations

Feeling
like imposters in
their
lives
but
unsure
how
to
feel
fully
authentic

Wanting
to
bring
more
purpose
and
meaning
to
the
work
they
do

The audience will leave able to
: 

Cultivate
an
empowered
sense
of
self and
deeper
connection to
others in
any
situation

Understand
how challenges
,
changes
,
and
stress
can
lead
to
greater
purpose
and
fulfillment in
their
lives

Develop
their
own
unique
Superpower
and
show
up
"
all
in
"
as
their
authentic
selves
to
help
others