Heather Younger

Frustrated by the lack of engagement in your organization? Constantly battling high employee turnover? Is your employees’ favorite pastime updating their resumes? (Ouch!)

In this entertaining and enlightening keynote, leadership keynote speaker and adversity expert Heather R. Younger reveals the underlying actions organizations can take to create a more engaged and loyal workforce — even with budget restraints and a world that feels chaotic and challenging.

Attendees will leave more motivated, energized, and eager to collaborate as a team to create a positive, productive, and connected workplace.

Your leadership team will learn how to:

Successfully navigate their role in employee turnover and loyalty
Uncover the main catalyst for employee loyalty (it’s not money)
Develop solid capacities to help employees become more adaptable and less fearful
Manage change with agility and purpose and help lead others to do the same
Best Ensure employees feel safe, heard, seen, empowered, and valued
There has never been a more important time to lead with purpose, skill, adaptability, and resilience. Give your leadership team everything they need to stand out as an organization where employees can’t wait to help grow. Contact Heather today to learn more.

Most successful people in history had to overcome overwhelming obstacles to climb the ladder of success. From Abraham Lincoln to Walt Disney to Oprah Winfrey and leaders of significance all over the world – it’s inspired to see how they navigated rock paths that might have derailed others.

What is the secret ingredient to their success? Resilience. Whether they endured abuse, poverty, rejection, hurt, betrayal, trauma, or a combination of adversities, they leaned in, committed, and made conscious, difference-making choices, again and again, to keep moving forward and become their best selves.

In this life-changing message, keynote speaker and adversity expert Heather R. Younger taps into her own personal and professional experiences as well as stories of strength and perseverance to share empowering proven tools for resetting the resilience of every attendee.

Your audience will learn how to:

Leverage the three top daily steps for strengthening resilience
Uncover underlying beliefs that can fuel resistance to change
Reframe adversity into opportunities for leadership and growth
Develop the kind of core tenacity that can take them through any challenge
Unlock and unleash new mindsets that replace fear with a feeling of empowerment, strength, and positive self-worth
Ready to help your team develop the kind of resilience that will allow them to be happier, healthier, more balanced, and ready for anything in a world filled with challenges and distractions? Heather Younger has just the message for you.

This keynote draws from Heather’s personal experiences as the only child of an interfaith and interracial marriage to inspire leaders to flex their empathy muscles and master the art of active listening to ensure every employee feels valued, respected and supported.
This program is perfect for people who are:
• Building cultures of belonging at work
• Seeking to honor their colleagues’ diverse experiences and perspectives
• Educating themselves about other peoples’ challenges

The audience will leave with:
• A practical method to elicit feedback and unlock change and growth
• A greater understanding of the role they have to play in creating cultures of belonging at work
• The inspiration to show up each workday as their most authentic selves

Do you feel like your entire workforce has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the havoc unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic? Is your head spinning trying to define paths forward for your organization and employees in a world where change is happening at a seemingly warp speed?

In this empowering, interactive, and hope-filled message, keynote speaker and adversity expert Heather R. Younger inspires attendees to reimagine the workplace, their roles, and offers a high-level roadmap for succeeding with more ease.

Your audience will learn how to …

Use proven psychology to reframe challenges and see opportunities more clearly
Feel more confident, empowered, and in control – even in a chaotic world
Lean into their inherent resilience and reduce their stress
Collaboratively reimagine workspaces and roles to develop win-win processes and an inclusive culture
Become better advocates for themselves and others
Lead in new, powerful, and sustainable ways
If you’re ready to ease the impact of chaos for your team and help them develop the skills and mindsets necessary to navigate change with agility, confidence, compassion, and character, invite Heather to bring this timely topic to your next event.