Rebecca Heiss, PhD Speaking Topics

• THE STRESS SOLUTION

  Transforming Fear into Rocket Fuel to Supercharge Performance

  Stress isn’t inherently bad. In fact, the highest-performing athletes and leaders have learned the secrets to the upside of stress, using it to fuel their performance rather than hinder it.

  Rather than allowing our environments and our natural biological tendencies toward anxiety to hold us back, we can use the same energy to work with us, unlocking our highest potential and learning that when we fear(less), we make room for so much more.

  Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

  • Understand the root of our stress response and recalibrate it to work with us in the modern world.
  • Engage with our fears to reframe them as energy that can optimize performance.
  • Adopt a simple plan for rewiring our brains to respond differently to threats as challenges, to reduce burnout and restore purpose and fulfillment to our work.

• THE ALL-IN EFFECT

  Leading Teams to Excel Through Change

  The past years have brought increased stress, challenge, and unpredictable change to all industries, resulting in a confidence gap with leaders – afraid to step up, afraid to be vulnerable, afraid that they will flounder.

  Imagine if you could instead lead from a space that allows you to go ALL-IN, transforming fear into fuel, and allowing you to enhance productivity by more than 25%, stay more focused, more creative, more motivated, and more engaged … all by fearing less. That’s the ALL-IN Effect.

  Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

  • Utilize a 3-step science-backed strategy to recalibrate the stress response to work to your advantage immediately, rather than working against you.
  • Discover a key method for harnessing an adventure mindset to become more resilient in high-pressure situations.
  • Experience an inspired ability to link the challenge of change, to purpose and connection in order to increase engagement across your organization."

FEAR(LESS) LEADERSHIP

Leading with Awe

Our brains aren’t built for optimal performance, happiness, or inspired leadership. They are built simply to keep us alive. The result? We avoid difficult conversation, and confrontations, workers are disengaged, and we exist our way through work and live. MEH. But the solution lies within each of us. Rather than allowing our biology to hold us back, we can use it to work for us, unlocking our highest potential and learning that we fear(leads), we make room for so much more.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

• Identify and break through personal biological barriers to optimal performance
• Evaluate and neutralize subconscious fears that prevent them from playing all in
• Utilize awe in place of fear to drive performance, collaboration, and engagement

FEAR(LESS) MINDSET

Finding Adventure in Ambiguity

Our brains believe the stories we tell them. Without conscious effort, they are negativity seeking missiles, but we have the power to change that.

By consciously crafting a mindset that helps us lean into these challenges rather than treat them as threats, we’ll be able to avoid the burnout, frustration, and turnover that might otherwise plague us and our clients. Rather than allowing our stress to spiral resulting in decreased performance and an array of health problems, we can use our biology to work with us, turning stress into a positive experience that pushes us into better outcomes.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

• Re-categorize stress as a strength that can drive performance
• Utilize a 3-step scientific technique to shift stress mindsets from ordeal to adventure
• Enable positive communication, ideation, and creative collaborations to lead through ambiguity with a beginner’s mind

Our brains aren’t built for this rapidly changing world… But they are adaptable.

By consciously crafting a mindset that helps us lean into these challenges rather than treat them as threats, we’ll be able to avoid the burnout, frustration, and turnover that might otherwise plague us and our clients. And, perhaps most importantly, we can deepen the connections we had to the purpose and people that drew us into this industry we love to begin with.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

Re-categorize stress as a strength that can drive performance Utilize a 3-step scientific technique to shift stress mindsets from ordeal to adventure Enable positive communication, ideation, and creative collaborations to lead through ambiguity with a beginner’s mind"

FEAR(LESS) DIVERSITY

Celebrations & Critical Conversations

No blame. No finger pointing. No guilt. Fear(less) Diversity is all about not running away from the critical conversations we need to better understand the instincts and systems that drive us to carry bias. No matter our background, we all carry some shortcuts and biases about others (and ourselves!). It doesn’t make us bad people – it makes us human! But when we understand the programming that drive these stories, we can be more effective in intervening before they negatively affect out relationships and performance.

Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

• Understand the root of subconscious bias and stories that lead to unproductive behaviours
• Engage with these fear in difficult conversations
• Adopt a clear common external enemy to decrease internal conflict and increase cooperation and connection