Henna Pryor

With the changing world of work, tough competition, and information overload, pushing for growth and inspiring teams feels harder than ever. We may have achieved high levels of excellence, but that excellence comes at a surprising cost – it keeps us stagnant and quietly discourages taking the risks and tackling the problems we need to tackle to grow today. Why?

The dark side of success is we often focus on what we already excel at instead of leaning into the discomfort of what excelling today requires:  heightened adversity tolerance, escaping silos, and thinking outside of the box. Luckily for us – we already know the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong. Today, with change around every corner, that means to learn new ways to become excellent at embracing the discomfort of disruption.

In this keynote, 2x TEDx and Keynote Speaker, Inc. Columnist and Author, and Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor will share the modern strategies and skills for skyrocketing your team’s performance, frontloading the new mindsets needed to embrace disruption, and unlocking the innovation needed to tap into new sources of success.

After this keynote, you’ll be able to:

* Pinpoint the exact reason it’s been difficult to take risks and embrace change – and how to move past them
* Use tools like ostentatious objectivity and deliberate discomfort to expand mental muscle
* Formulate a personalized game plan to be change-ready whenever the chance arises

Not only will you feel more empowered to stretch into new spaces personally, but you’ll walk away with specific mindset tactics and strategies for your teams to be more resilient, less stressed, and more empowered by disruption in your own lives.

We’ve never been connected — or more disconnected. Technology has made it effortless to reach anyone, anywhere, anytime… yet, 44% of workers describe their workplace relationships as “superficial,” and 1 in 3 employees would rather scrub a toilet than ask a colleague for help.

So, the real question is: How can we feel as connected socially as we are technologically?

In this high-energy, insightful, and first-of-its-kind keynote based on her pioneering national research study, Workplace Performance Expert Henna Pryor reveals what’s really holding teams back—and it’s not lack of skill, resources, or talent. It’s Social Muscle Atrophy (SMA) — a hidden performance killer that weakens trust, silos collaboration, and slows innovation. The good news? Social Muscle Strength (SMS) isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build.

You’ll learn the Social Muscle Framework — an actionable, digestible, and easy-to-implement process that addresses the two key levers that unlock peak team performance: Design and Dimension.

She’ll share how today’s top leaders are rethinking relationship-building, reengineering communication, and creating conditions where collaboration and innovation happen naturally, so teams can perform even better with the resources they already have.

By the end of this keynote, you’ll be able to:

* Recognize the early warning signs of Social Muscle Atrophy — and stop them before they derail your team
* Implement the Social Muscle Framework to create smarter, faster, and stronger collaboration, communication, and innovation
* Design systems that encourage trust, idea-sharing, and problem-solving in today’s modern world

If you’re ready to future-proof your team’s ability to perform at the highest level — this is the keynote that will change the way you think about team success forever.