Eliz Greene

The work is getting done. Deadlines are being met. Decisions are being made. From the outside, performance may look exactly as it should.

But strong results do not reveal what it took to produce them.

Capable people are remarkably good at compensating. When familiar work begins requiring more time, effort, attention, recovery, or support, high performers often respond by working harder. They concentrate more, push through, and find a way to deliver.

That response can keep results strong while concealing an important change in what producing those results requires.

In What It Takes to Get It Done, keynote speaker, author, and researcher Eliz Greene gives audiences a practical way to recognize those changes sooner. She identifies Capacity Signals, early indications that familiar work is requiring more from the people doing it and explores what to do when increased effort is useful and when it may consume capacity without the expected return.

Through research, relatable stories, humor, and practical strategies, Eliz equips audiences to recognize Capacity Signals earlier and make more intentional choices about effort, recovery, and support before those changes affect decision quality and performance.

The question is not simply, “Can I get this done?” but “What is it taking to get it done?”

AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS

Participants will:

Recognize Capacity Signals earlier by noticing changes in the time, effort, attention, recovery, or support familiar work requires.
Identify when the usual response may need to change, including when increased effort is useful and when it may consume capacity without the expected return.
Make more intentional choices about effort, recovery, and support based on what the work requires now, protecting decision quality and performance under sustained pressure.
IDEAL AUDIENCES

What It Takes to Get It Done is especially relevant for leaders, leadership teams, corporate and professional audiences, and associations working in demanding environments where expectations remain high, strong performance depends on good decisions, and capable people are expected to keep delivering.

AVAILABLE FORMATS

Keynote | Extended Keynote or Workshop

EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE

Copies of Eliz Greene’s book, Stress-Proof Your Life: High Performance Under Pressure, can be incorporated into the engagement, giving participants a practical resource they can return to after the event.

Uncertainty creates work.

We spend time and energy trying to interpret incomplete information, anticipate what might happen, reconsider decisions, prepare for multiple possibilities, and answer questions that may not yet have answers.

Meanwhile, the rest of the work hasn’t gone away.

In Navigating Uncertainty, keynote speaker, author, and researcher Eliz Greene gives audiences a practical way to recognize what uncertainty is requiring from them and which of their responses are actually useful.

Through relatable stories, research, humor, and interactive exercises, participants learn to recognize how uncertainty changes the way they think, decide, react, and recover. Eliz gives them practical ways to interrupt stress reactions that aren’t serving them and create enough space to choose a more intentional response.

But responding well to uncertainty doesn’t require knowing what happens next.

Eliz shows participants how to create a way forward by focusing on what they know, what they can control, the resources they already have, and what they can do next.

The goal isn’t to eliminate uncertainty. It is to protect the resources we need to make good decisions and keep moving while uncertainty remains.

AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS

Participants will:

- Recognize when uncertainty is consuming valuable capacity by noticing changes in how they think, decide, react, and recover.
- Interrupt unproductive reactions to uncertainty using practical strategies that protect decision quality and create space for a more intentional response.
- Create a way forward without waiting for certainty by focusing on what they know, what they can control, the resources available to them, and what they can do next.

IDEAL AUDIENCES

Navigating Uncertainty is especially relevant for:

-Leadership meetings and retreats
- Corporate events and conferences
- Association conferences
- Healthcare organizations and professional groups
- Professional services organizations
- Leadership development programs
- Teams navigating significant change

AVAILABLE FORMATS
Keynote | Extended Keynote or Workshop

EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
Copies of Eliz Greene’s book, Stress-Proof Your Life: High Performance Under Pressure, can be incorporated into the engagement, giving participants a practical resource they can return to after the event.

Getting everything done doesn’t mean the body is handling the pressure well.

Capable people can continue meeting deadlines, taking care of others, solving problems, and performing at a high level even while carrying the physical burden of sustained stress.

That matters for heart health.

In Stress-Proof Your Heart, keynote speaker, author, and researcher Eliz Greene brings the realities of demanding lives into the heart-health conversation. She explores the relationship between sustained pressure and physical health while addressing a practical challenge: knowing what is good for the heart doesn’t necessarily make it easy to do.

Through research, relatable stories, humor, and practical strategies, Eliz gives audiences realistic ways to offset the physical burden of unavoidable stress, recover in ways that work for them, and make heart-healthy choices more achievable in the lives they are actually living.

The goal isn’t a stress-free life. It is to understand how sustained pressure affects the body and make practical choices that protect heart health while continuing to do the work and live the lives that matter.

A PERSPECTIVE FEW SPEAKERS CAN OFFER

At age 35, while seven months pregnant with twins, Eliz Greene suffered a heart attack.

Following an emergency cesarean section and open-heart surgery, she met her daughters in the NICU 17 hours later. Eight days after that, she was finally able to hold them both at the same time.

That experience transformed the direction of her life.

Today, Eliz has spent more than two decades educating audiences about the relationship between stress, heart health, and performance. As the author of Stress-Proof Your Heart, she has presented programs for healthcare organizations, corporations, associations, and community organizations across the country, translating research into practical strategies audiences can apply in their own lives.

AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS

Participants will:

- Recognize how sustained pressure can affect heart health, even when performance remains strong.
- Understand why knowing what is heart-healthy doesn’t always make it easy to do, especially in demanding lives.
- Use practical strategies to offset the physical burden of unavoidable stress through recovery and realistic heart-healthy choices.

IDEAL AUDIENCES

Stress-Proof Your Heart is especially well suited for:

- Go Red for Women and women’s heart-health events
- Hospital and health system community programs
- Women’s leadership and professional development events
- Corporate women’s health initiatives and employee events
- American Heart Association and cardiovascular health programs
- Healthcare conferences and professional groups
- Corporate events focused on health, stress, and performance

AVAILABLE FORMATS
Keynote | Extended Keynote or Workshop | Virtual Heart Month Program

The Virtual Heart Month Program gives organizations a practical way to bring meaningful heart-health programming to employees, members, or communities across locations during American Heart Month.

EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
Copies of Eliz Greene’s Stress-Proof Your Heart can be incorporated into the engagement as a practical companion participants can return to after the program.