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Dr. Emily Anhalt is a clinical psychologist, keynote speaker, author, and Co-founder of Coa, the gym for mental health. For the past two decades, Dr. Anhalt has worked clinically with executives, founders, and high-performers, and has conducted extensive research with prominent psychologists and entrepreneurs about how leaders can improve their emotional fitness. Dr. Anhalt has collaborated with companies like Google, Salesforce, NBC Universal, NASDAQ, and the NBA, and her debut book, Flex Your Feelings (published with Penguin Randomhouse) is available now.

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The Seven Traits of Emotional Fitness

Learn about the importance of working on your mental and emotional health proactively. Explore the research-backed seven traits of emotional fitness, and kickstart your emotional fitness regimen in real time. This experiential workshop can be tailored for any kind of team, or specifically for leaders.

Building An Emotionally Fit Culture

There are plenty of apps and products that claim to help with wellness, but a true culture of mental and emotional health must be built from the inside out. This workshop will teach you how to support your team with their emotional fitness and gives practical, concrete tips for building a culture of wellness.

Reclaiming Focus in the Age of Distraction

In a world engineered to hijack our attention - scroll by scroll, ping by ping - focus has become our most endangered and valuable asset. In this data-driven, experiential keynote, Dr. Emily explores decades of research on learning and work styles and shares actionable strategies to pay attention and reclaim your focus.

Resilience Through Uncertainty & Change

Change is constant, but that doesn’t make it easy. Anxiety and burnout are on the rise, and resilience isn’t just a nice-to-have - it’s essential. This keynote offers practical, psychology-backed strategies to help individuals and teams adapt effectively and protect their well-being in the face of ongoing uncertainty.

Working Through Imposter Syndrome

This workshop is designed for anyone who has ever felt inadequate, intellectually fraudulent, or inferior at work. This hands-on and interactive presentation will help your team recognize and understand their imposter syndrome, and will share 11 practical techniques to disrupt their self-doubt in work and at home.

Managing Anxiety & Preventing Burnout

In today’s fast-paced, always-on world, anxiety and burnout can drastically affect job satisfaction (and the bottom line). In this engaging and practical keynote, Dr. Emily offers science-backed strategies for managing stress and building emotional resilience in the face of relentless demands.

Custom Talk or Workshop for Your Team

Work with Dr. Anhalt to design a workshop or presentation to meet the specific needs of your company or organization. Examples of past custom workshops include Managing Stress, The ADHD Executive, How to Deal with Difficult People, Team Bonding After Rapid Onboarding, and How to Set and Execute Goals.

Testimonials

Dr. Emily Anhalt is a world-class expert in the field of psychology and emotional fitness. Her work to shift mental health from a reactive practice to a proactive practice has personally impacted me, and I now do Dr. Emily's emotional exercises on a regular basis to improve my well-being.
– Kevin Love, NBA All-Star
Dr. Anhalt is clearly an expert in her field. Dr. Anhalt's workshops on self-awareness and emotional health in tech were excellent; in the words of one participant, ‘Dr. Anhalt was incredible and the insights and exercises she had for us were fantastic.’
– Brittany Walker, Events Manager, GitHub
Engaging, insightful, and authentic. It was an absolute pleasure partnering with Dr. Anhalt and her presentation on the Importance of Mental Health in Tech was absolutely fantastic. Our team commented on how hers was one of the best presentations we've ever had.
– Nolan Cox, Recruiting Manager, Indiegogo
I would recommend Emily to every company. She took very difficult subject matter and translated it into an easy to understand format. Everyone walked away with a fresh and insightful perspective about how to do their job better and how to deal with day-to-day stress.
– Dani Bicknell, Advocacy Manager, LendUp

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