Eliz Greene Speaking Topics

• Navigating the Storm: Your Guide Through the Sea of Uncertainty

  Change is happening! No matter who you voted for, the current landscape of political unrest, economic fluctuations, workplace shifts, and personal challenges has created an unprecedented level of uncertainty.

  This heightened uncertainty is a breeding ground for stress. The human brain naturally seeks stability, but when confronted with the unknown, it triggers a stress response, hindering focus, critical thinking, and progress.

  Without the right tools, individuals and teams can become stagnant, disengaged, and overwhelmed. It’s now more crucial than ever for organizations to arm their people with effective strategies to combat the stress of unpredictability and transform chaos into confidence.

  This talk blends insights from Eliz Green's stress research with real-life lessons from the helm of a sailboat on Lake Michigan. It's packed with practical, science-based tools to help people lead, perform, and live well—especially when nothing feels predictable.

• Stress-Proof Leadership

  Humorous stories and powerful insights about stress & leadership.

  Reduce stress. Enhance performance and productivity. High-performance teams need Stress-Proof Leaders!

  Stress management is a HARD SKILL essential to success.

  Stress-Proof Leaders leverage this critical skill to propel their own performance and team performance by:

  • Creating a culture of value and security to support productivity in high-stress professions, during change, and in crisis.
  • Managing contagious stress
  • Understanding generational differences in the reaction to overwhelm and uncertainty

  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.

• Active Recovery for Unavoidable Stress

  High Performance Under Pressure

  Recover

  • like an athlete. High-Performance Under Pressure 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

  4 Decisions Essential to Weathering Unrelenting Stress

  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.

• Stress-Proof Your Heart

  A keynote with humorous stories and powerful insights about stress and heart health.

  We can’t get rid of all stress, and we wouldn’t want to even if we could.

  Our bodies’ natural reaction to stress is what gives us a boost to get the job done, but too much stress decreases brain function, critical thinking and can cause problems for the heart.

  Stress-Proof Your Heart is the culmination of Eliz’s two-decade career as a heart health advocate, speaker, and author. It also includes insights from her study on job stress.

  Participants walk away with implementable strategies to live longer, feel better, and protect their health.

  … and they will have fun too!

• Coping with Stress Dumping

  Dealing with stress caused by other people

  The phone rings

  • stress happens. 3 steps to deal with stress caused by other people What do you do when a phone call from an upset client, your college-aged offspring, or a stressed-out friend causes your stress to increase? Mimicking other people’s stress is part of how our brains create empathy, which is why it can feel awful to have someone dump their stress all over you.

  This program, created specifically for high-performance teams in high-pressure occupations as part of Eliz Greene’s work with hotel managers, call centers, and relocation professionals, reveals how to protect yourself from stress dumping with steps to:

  • Recognize the signs of stress dumping.
  • Frame the interaction to decrease the stress impact.
  • Wipe off the stress rather than passing it along.

  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.

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