Founder & CEO of Employee Fanatix; Bestselling Author, Organizational Culture Strategist & Employee Engagement Expert; Host of "Leadership with Heart"
Heather R. Younger Biography
Heather R. Younger, JD, CSP is a globally recognized keynote speaker, organizational culture strategist, and leading expert on Caring Leadership®. A former attorney who shifted from the courtroom to the boardroom, she helps leaders turn empathy into action to create connected, resilient, high-performing teams.
She is the founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, a premier workplace culture consulting firm serving Fortune 100 companies. Younger has personally reviewed over 30,000 employee surveys and led more than 100 focus groups—including her signature “Art of Active Listening Sessions™”—to ensure organizations build culture strategies rooted in employee voices, not assumptions.
Named to the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar 25 list of top global management thinkers, Younger brings over 25 years of leadership experience across industries including tech, healthcare, financial services, and staffing. She blends current data, storytelling, and her Caring Leadership Transformation Model™ to deliver practical tools leaders can apply immediately.
Younger is a two-time TEDx speaker, host of the Leadership with Heart podcast, a LinkedIn Learning instructor, and a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, NBC, and ABC. She is also the bestselling author of "The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty," "The Art of Active Listening," "The Art of Caring Leadership," and her latest release, "The Art of Self-Leadership."
Her mission is deeply personal—shaped by her experiences as the only child of an interfaith, interracial family—and grounded in a passion for creating workplaces where every voice is heard, valued, and empowered.
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Heather R. Younger Speaking Topics
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The Unshakable Team
Navigate high-stress situations, rebuild trust after setbacks, and sustain performance without losing focus
Only 27% of managers feel enthusiastic about their work. Over 40% of workers are experiencing significant stress, and just one in five feels fully engaged. The numbers tell the story: Today’s teams are operating under sustained pressure-constant change, higher expectations, fewer buffers, and faster decision cycles.
When leaders are running on empty, teams feel it. And telling people to “be more resilient” without changing how they lead, decide, communicate, and recover only fuels burnout and disengagement.
n this keynote based on Heather R. Younger’s forthcoming book by the same title, she draws on 20+ years of leading teams through reorgs, mergers, acquisitions, technology shifts, and layoffs to show what actually builds team resilience: a practical system for leading sustainably under pressure.
Audiences walk away with a clear framework, shared language, and repeatable tools to navigate high-stress situations, rebuild trust after setbacks, and maintain focus without exhausting people.
The audience will walk away with:
- A practical framework for resilient leadership under pressure that helps teams tackle high-stakes challenges together
- Strategies to sustain high performance without burnout
- A shared language for how teams move, decide, and recover together—so resilience becomes a team practice, not an individual burden
- Tools to reduce ambiguity and increase clarity, even when certainty isn’t available
- A repeatable approach for rebuilding trust and momentum after setbacks
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The High-Performance Culture Code
Build high-trust teams, boost engagement and retention, and drive excellence
“Care at work” has been misunderstood and often dismissed as soft, optional, or in conflict with performance. Yet in a world of AI acceleration, change fatigue, and increasing pressure on leaders, care is not a perk. It’s a strategy. Caring leadership builds the trust that enables clarity, accountability, and execution, especially across remote and hybrid teams.
In this keynote, based on Heather R. Younger’s bestselling book, "The Art of Caring Leadership," and her analysis of 40,000+ employee comments, she makes the business case for caring leadership and shows what care actually looks like at scale: measurable, operational, and leader-owned. Leaders leave with practical behaviors that strengthen culture, improve employee experience, and reduce preventable turnover—without lowering standards.
The audience will walk away with:
- The nine daily behaviors of Caring Leadership® that build trust, strengthen accountability, improve engagement, and reduce preventable turnover
- Practical strategies to scale care across remote, hybrid, and distributed teams
- Repeatable actions that create a high-trust culture where people stay, perform, and grow-
- A clear framework for making care operational, not an afterthought, but a leadership practice
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Heather R. Younger, J.D., CSP, is a leadership and workplace culture keynote speaker, four-time bestselling author, and creator of the C.A.R.E....
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