Biography

Eliz Greene is ridiculously excited about stress. She finds the chemical reaction in the body caused by stress fascinating, and stress is also her favorite topic to speak about, write about, or discuss in line at the grocery store.

With a surgically repaired heart, Eliz also knows stress management isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’ but rather an essential survival skill. Surviving a heart attack at age 35 while seven months pregnant with twins propelled Eliz on a mission to share her story to inspire other busy people to pay attention to their health. Just days after her heart stopped and she endured open heart surgery and a cesarean section delivery, Eliz held both her daughters together for the first time.

Amazingly, despite the pain and uncertainty, what she felt most strongly was contentment. Her priorities were crystal clear. She knew she’d been given a second chance at life and a unique perspective for a reason. Eliz firmly believes she is responsible for showing others how to manage stress and find contentment, and she is dedicated to leading others on a path to low stress and great success.

She has traveled the country for nearly two decades, sharing her story and down-to-earth, well-researched methods to improve heart health. She honed practical and implementable strategies to manage stress for herself and the thousands of audience members and readers she reaches each year.

Her research uncovered the secrets of how purpose-driven organizations create corporate cultures immune to overwhelm and uncertainty.

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Stress Proof Leadership

Wellness expert Eliz Greene delivers surprising insights and innovative, actionable strategies based on her research on job stress in this interactive, fun, and compelling keynote.

This presentation is customized through the Stress Proof Testing Tool which diagnoses the unique set of issues causing stress in the participants’ workplaces and benchmarks the results with other organizations in the study.

Through stories from a wide variety of leaders and employees interviewed during her study and her own experience surviving a heart attack while seven-months pregnant with twins, Eliz debunks work-life balance and provides a plan to protect your health, productivity, and sanity under stress.

Whether she is kicking off a sales conference or closing a leadership development event, Eliz’s high-energy and high-content programs combine humor, stories, original research… and even a little dancing.

She uses humor and engaging activities to show it’s time to:
• Explore the major causes of stress based on the results of the Stress-Proof Testing Instrument.
• Examine emotional stress triggers to reveal why some people are bogged down by stressful environments while others thrive.
• Rewire assumptions about generations and gender to improve teamwork, communication, management, and performance through an engaging exercise.
• Understand different types of stress recovery strategies and identify their own recovery profile using an entertaining activity.
• Utilize a framework to create a plan to work well under pressure.
• Take one step toward being stress-proof by understanding the importance of motivation in behavior change.

Coping with Stress Dumping

Wellness expert Eliz Greene delivers surprising insights and innovative, actionable strategies based on her research on job stress in this interactive, fun, and compelling keynote.

This presentation is customized through the Stress Proof Testing Tool which diagnoses the unique set of issues causing stress in the participants’ workplaces and benchmarks the results with other organizations in the study.

Through stories from a wide variety of leaders and employees interviewed during her study and her own experience surviving a heart attack while seven-months pregnant with twins, Eliz debunks work-life balance and provides a plan to protect your health, productivity, and sanity under stress.

Whether she is kicking off a sales conference or closing a leadership development event, Eliz’s high-energy and high-content programs combine humor, stories, original research… and even a little dancing.

Active Recovery for Unavoidable Stress

Recover - like an athlete. The hectic pace, chronic high stress, uncertainty, and unavoidable negative influences can threaten productivity and creativity – AND suck the fun out of even the most enjoyable professions. This program, created specifically for high-performance teams in high-pressure occupations as part of Eliz Greene’s work with NASA, encourages active stress recovery similar to active physical recovery used by high-performance athletes.

Based on her book Stress-Proof Your Life and research on job stress, professional speaker Eliz Greene shares insights and strategies to limit the impact of stress to improve performance and quality of life.

It includes 5 essential skills to:
• Notice and address symptoms of high stress
• Decompress from pressure and stress you can’t avoid
• Signal your body to release cortisol to protect your health, performance, and quality of life
• Change the focus from problem-solving to achievement
• Find the motivation to make a change

Resilience is a Choice

Based on more than 100 interviews with leaders and team members, Eliz shares insights to weather the stress of crisis and change.

She discovered that highly capable people are often unequipped to deal with the stress of an unsolvable situation. For them, the stress of dealing with vulnerability amplifies the stress of crisis and change.

Ultimately, resilience is a choice. We choose to move forward in the face of failure, crisis, tragedy, pain, or life-altering (and business-altering) events we can’t control. Understanding your reaction to vulnerability is essential to becoming resilient.

In this program, Eliz shares 4 essential decisions to:
• Deal with the curse of capability.
• Get comfortable with the emotional reaction to vulnerability.
• Focus on what is possible rather than dwelling on what is difficult.
• Strengthen your resilience muscle.


Shattering the Myth of Work-Life Balance

Built with humorous and engaging stories, and based on unique research, this high-energy program explores the challenges of overwhelm and provides real-world, immediately implementable strategies to reduce stress, improve focus, and get more of what is important done.

Wellness expert Eliz Greene draws on her experience working with high performers and original research exploring how to work through stress rather than being bogged down by it. Using a copyrighted assessment tool, Eliz also shares unique insight into the stress environment faced by the attendees.

Eliz survived a heart attack at age 35 while seven months pregnant with twins and knows limiting stress is essential to a long, enjoyable and productive life.

Her laser focus on priority, warm and funny stories, and immediately implementable strategies inspire participants to reach new heights while protecting productive time, personal relationships, and wellness.

Participants will:
• Utilize a copyrighted assessment tool to explore the unique stress environment faced by the audience.
• Uncover the elements of their personal stress environment and unconscious stress triggers using Post-it notes
• Discover their stress recovery personality type.
• Practice stress management skills* — including laughter!

Warning: There may be dancing.

Donning an Emotional Hazmat Suit

How do you maintain your sanity, performance, relationships, and health in the face of chronic high stress, change, and uncertainty?

Based on her book Stress-Proof Your Life and research on job stress, Eliz Greene shares insights and strategies to create what she calls “an emotional hazmat suit” to limit the physical and emotional impact of stress you can’t avoid.

Eliz created this program specifically for those who work in high-pressure occupations where stress is a natural part of the job.

This engaging and humorous program details how to develop a system to protect your health, performance, sanity, and relationships by:
• Understanding the physical and psychological impact of chronic stress
• Creating a sense of security during change, uncertainty, or crisis
• Changing the focus from problem-solving to achievement
• Developing boundaries to protect your health and performance
• Implementing a framework to work and live well under unrelenting pressure

Testimonials

Just what the doctor ordered for our group of high level decision makers in Retail & Hospitality.
– Scott Stolz, Vice President, TTI Logistics
Our attendees found Eliz to be insightful, to the point, and “real” with her stories, experiences, and recommended actions.
– Steve Turner, National Leader, GDP Group
Eliz is a delightful individual with a compelling story to share. She is very easy to work with and did an outstanding job with the diverse audience at both events. All of the participants gave great feedback on the presentation Eliz gave at both events.
– Alison Martin, Executive Director, American Heart Association
The best presentation on stress management I have ever heard. Very engaging and applicable!
– Call Center Manager from 1 Call Seminar via Talk-a-Dot
I was skeptical, but these tools work in a bizarre range of work place and life stressors.
– High Tech Engineer
This is stress management for people who don't like WOO WOO.
– IT Professional
I didn't know what I was feeling was stress, I thought I was just bad at handling things. I needed the data and science to really understand the danger I've been ignoring.
– Logistics Engineer
Your presentation was the most impactful of any that I have ever had an opportunity to be a part of. Everything you shared was so relatable and I can honestly say that I think your stories and having the opportunity to read your book will change my life. I have a one-year-old daughter and I am pregnant with my second (we just found out), and I am someone who tends to get very stressed out - very easily.
– Cameron Sanderson, Healthcare Relocation Professional
Thanks for being our speaker at our meeting in Winthrop Harbor yesterday. When you hear from a speaker that makes you reflect and think, you know that you have heard something worthwhile. And it was. Thanks again!
– Perry Johnson, Director of Corporate Business Development, Federal Allied Van Lines
It’s been months and our team is still talking about Eliz’s program on stress!
– Gary Rifkin, Chief Learning Officer, CoreClarity, Inc.
Eliz is better than caffeine – we used her tips to stay engaged all day.
– Jennifer Dickie, CMP
People stayed just to hear the closing.
– Zina Haworth, President, Women in Higher Education Leadership
People will stick around for Eliz’s fun, insightful, and purposeful keynote.
– Shawna Suckow, CMP, Founder of the Senior Planners Industry Network

Booksby Eliz Greene

Stress-Proof Your Life

Stress-Proof Your Heart

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