Nataly Kogan
Featured Keynote Programs
Thriving Through Change
Science-Backed Blueprint to Thrive Through Adversity
Challenge and change are constant. Struggle is optional.
Change is hard. It brings uncertainty and uncertainty is extremely difficult for the human brain to handle. So the human brain responds by increasing stress and over-focusing on everything that could go wrong, which drains our energy and prevents us from using our fullest capacity to move through change with a sense of purpose and possibility.
In this immediately actionable keynote, Nataly shares her science-backed T.H.R.I.V.E. blueprint for how to use emotional fitness skills to help your brain -- and yourself! -- struggle less so you can thrive and grow through adversity and change.
Key takeaways:
• The neuroscience of change (and why it’s so difficult for the human brain)
• 6 specific strategies to not just make it through, but thrive through change
• Powerful activational questions to move through change with more clarity, compassion, and a mindset of possibility
Emotionally Fit Leadership
Optimize Your Ability to Positively Impact Other People’s Capacity to Thrive
You are a leader if you positively impact other people’s capacity to thrive. And you can only do this if you positively impact your own capacity to thrive, first.
For 15 years, Nataly was a successful leader in tech, finance, and start-up companies. But, as she shares in this powerful keynote, by trying to be a servant leader she became a martyr leader, a mistake that not only caused her own burnout, but hurt her ability to be a compassionate, authentic leader who could successfully empower her teams to succeed.
Nataly shares specific lessons she learned and tangible, immediately actionable practices for leaders to improve their emotional fitness and optimize their ability to positively impact their teams’ capacity to thrive.
Key takeaways:
• Research about the direct relationship between leader well-being and their team's well-being and performance
• An innovative concept of the Emotional Whiteboard, and practices to improve emotional awareness and psychological safety
• A fresh take on self-care as a skill of managing energy and how to make it a realistic daily priority
The Power of Emotional Fitness @ Work
Science-Backed Skills to Fuel Your Energy, Reduce Stress, and Handle Challenges With Greater Resilience
Exhaustion, stress, and burnout are at an all-time high. We’re feeling less connected to ourselves, our work, and our colleagues. And constant change, uncertainty, and challenges have drained our energy reserves. But work doesn’t have to be an emotional drain or cause of burnout. As Nataly shares in this powerful keynote, it can be a source of meaning, connection, and joy -- yes, even during change and challenges!
With her signature contagious energy, straight talk, and plenty of humor, Nataly shares research from neuroscience and psychology, and her powerful, personal story of success and overcoming burnout. Using her science-backed Happier MethodTM, she activates you to strengthen your emotional fitness by integrating simple practices into your daily routine (please don’t call her a motivational speaker!)
Key takeaways:
• Emotional fitness skills to reduce stress and avoid daily burnout
• How to create a daily gratitude practice to experience more joy and satisfaction at work
• A fresh take on self-care as a skill of managing your energy and realistic ways to fit into your busy schedule
• How practicing Intentional Kindness can help you feel more connected and happier at work
Nataly’s science-backed method includes 5 Core Emotional Fitness Skills (Acceptance, Gratitude, Self-Care, Intentional Kindness, the Bigger Why) and she can focus her talk on a specific skill to best fit your organization’s needs and goals.
Happiness is a Skill
5 Science-backed Skills to Fuel Your Well-being and Joy
(Based on Nataly’s best-selling book HAPPIER NOW)
We’ve all gotten stuck in the “I’ll be happy when...” trap, believing that achievements, big life changes, or seeking perfection in ourselves and our lives will bring us happiness. In this vulnerable and practical keynote, Nataly, the founder of Happier, a company that has helped more than one million people live happier lives, and author of the best-selling book Happier Now, shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive “big happy” through achievements and how she finally made the essential mindset shifts that allowed her to live with more self- compassion, joy, and meaning.
Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate. Using her science-backed Happier MethodTM, shares simple yet powerful skills and practices to activate the audience to experience more joy in everyday moments and get through tough times with greater ease.
Key takeaways:
• A fresh new mindset of seeing happiness as a skill you can practice and improve
• Introduction to the 5 happier skills, based on Nataly’s Happier MethodTM
• The power of gratitude to fuel joy and reduce stress
• How kindness and compassion can fuel your happiness by cultivating a deeper sense of human connection
• Strategies to be happier at work, even amidst challenges and constant change
Leading With Purpose
Unlocking Motivation, Resilience, and Your Fullest Potential
Research shows that when we feel that what we do has meaning and purpose, we’re more motivated, more resilient, and bring our full capacities and abilities to the task. We’re energized, better able to handle stress, and feel a greater sense of satisfaction from our efforts.
According to a recent McKinsey & Co. study, 70% of Americans say they define their sense of purpose through work. If you’re a leader, guiding your team members to find more meaning in what they do at work isn’t optional -- it’s non-negotiable.
In this deeply transformative and actionable keynote, Nataly uses powerful stories, research, and her signature simple yet surprisingly powerful practices to activate audience members to lead with purpose -- at work and in their lives.
“I have a fundamentally different view of my job now and I’ve never felt more energized to do it,” is a comment audience members share most frequently after attending this keynote.
Key takeaways:
• How shifting into a pro-social mindset increases motivation, resilience and job satisfaction • Strategies leaders can use to activate their teams to find a greater sense of purpose in their work
• Simple yet surprisingly powerful ways to infuse your daily tasks with a sense of purpose
Embrace Your Awesome Human!
Break Free From Daily Burnout, Struggle Less and Thrive More in Work and Life
(Based on Nataly's best-selling book, THE AWESOME HUMAN PROJECT)
Every single one of us has unique potential and capacity to create positive, meaningful impact -- at work and in life. But the only way we can unleash our full capacity to be a force of good without burning out is by making our emotional fitness a top, non-negotiable priority. As Nataly says in this powerful keynote: “You can’t give what you don’t have.”
As a successful entrepreneur, executive and refugee, Nataly learned this lesson the hard way. For decades, she pursued a successful and meaningful career by pushing herself beyond her limits, wearing exhaustion as a badge of honor, and ignoring her emotional health. Until she burned out and almost lost everything that was meaningful to her, including the company she had founded.
With her signature straight talk, vulnerability, contagious energy, and humor, Nataly shares the essential mindset shifts, research, and super tangible practices to help you break free from daily burnout, struggle less and thrive more -- so you can embrace your Awesome Human!
Key takeaways:
• Common symptoms of daily burnout and tangible strategies to address them
• Why emotional fitness is an essential ingredient in success and meaningful impact
• The Awesome Human Daily Checklist of 5 science-backed daily practices to reduce struggle, create a more supportive relationship with yourself, and thrive!
Nataly can turn this keynote into a 90-minute interactive workshop, including her newly- released Awesome Human Journal for every participant.