Wow! Rebecca was fantastic! We had over 400 live customer attendees join our session (not including employees) and we received amazing feedback. It was an easy choice to bring Rebecca back to MicroStrategy for a second event - Rebecca is so wonderfully talented and brought so much energy to our virtual event. She was engaging from the start and was able to keep the session interactive, despite it being virtual
Dr. Rebecca Heiss
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Dr. Rebecca Heiss
Biography
Rebecca knows stress isn't going anywhere, and it's her biggest frustration to watch people try to "get rid of it!". As a stress physiologist, Dr. Heiss has focused her work allowing us all to transform our stress so that it can springboard us to our highest level of performance, passion, and purpose. Her research has been designated "transformative" by the National Science Foundation and it is waking up audiences around the world.
As an author of the acclaimed book Instinct, founder and CEO of the leadership 360-review mobile application, icueity, and highly sought-after professional speaker, Rebecca has found her calling in helping others recognize the power of using stress energy for good - even when we think it's not. A former educator, Dr. Heiss spent much of her earlier career in the classroom at both the high school and college levels and was recruited to be a founding member of an innovative charter school with a focus on entrepreneurial thinking and impact-based learning. Today she shares her T-minus 3 Technique to transform fears to fuel from stages around the world as a full-time speaker and facilitator of her Fearless Masterclass.
She continues her research on how we can turn anxiety, stress and trauma into Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) rather than PTSD.
Rebecca's "fear(less)" message inspires hope and actionable insights to train our brains to work for us, rather than against us in times of change and uncertainty. With surprising humor and palpable energy, no matter if Dr. Heiss is delivering virtually or on stage, she wins over her audiences with interactive, inspiring, and timely takeaway s.
Rebecca lives in South Carolina with her spoiled rotten dogs named Guinness & Murphy and every day tries to live her life motto: "Spread Happy."
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Featured Keynote Programs
Fearless Leadership
Excelling Through Uncertainty
In this engaging keynote, Dr. Rebecca leverages decades of research into stress and human behavior to share simple, science-backed techniques for transforming fear into the fuel that will propel leaders and their teams to greater confidence, focus, and performance.
This presentation is perfect for leaders and teams:
● Feeling overwhelmed by the stress, challenge, or unpredictable change they’re facing
● Ready to return to performance growth
● Hoping to understand the science behind stress and anxiety better so they can know how to manage it more effectively
● Needing to come together to drive performance forward
The audience will leave able to:
● Rapidly transform stress and fear into energy that works for, rather than against, them
● Recalibrate their stress response so they can step into uncomfortable changes and challenges and perform at their peak
● Teach their teams a framework that will enhance performance under pressure
The Stress Advantage
Harnessing the Power of Stress to Boost Performance
We’ve gone through pandemics, supply chain issues, and uncertainty in global markets and now it’s time to get back to work. What if instead of trying to fight stress, we could transform it into a competitive advantage? In this eye-opening keynote, Dr. Rebecca reveals the secret upside of stress that the highest-performing athletes and leaders use to fuel their performance. Helping to move individuals and companies from symptoms of PTSD to PTG (Post Traumatic Growth), she shares her simple science-based framework that allows anyone to stop fighting stress, and start leaning into it - improving productivity, increasing connection to others, and growing through challenges.
This presentation is perfect for leaders and teams:
● Trying to battle increasing levels of stress, burnout, and disengagement
● Ready to return to performance growth
● Feeling stuck on a treadmill that’s always moving faster
● Wanting to alleviate stress, but wary of the traditional “stress management” techniques that only add MORE “to do’s” (and stress) to their plates
The audience will leave able to:
● Understand the biological root of their stress response and recalibrate that response to work for their benefit in the modern world
● Effectively engage with their fears and reframe them as energy that can optimize performance and growth
● Adopt a simple framework for rewiring their brains so they can respond differently to challenges, reduce burnout, and restore purpose and fulfilment to their work
Finding Fear(less)
A journey to the most powerful version of yourself
This inspiring keynote incorporates science, storytelling, and audience improv to guide participants past the “shoulds” and “not enoughs” in their heads to own their role as protagonists of their own lives. Using a potent combination of science and heart, Dr. Rebecca motivates anyone to become the best versions of themselves - the version that their 8 (and 88) year old self would be proud of.
This presentation is perfect for leaders and teams:
● Struggling with negative self-talk and limiting expectations
● Feeling like imposters in their lives but unsure how to feel fully authentic
● Wanting to bring more purpose and meaning to the work they do
● Needing to come together to drive performance forward
The audience will leave able to:
● Cultivate an empowered sense of self and deeper connection to others in any situation
● Understand how challenges, changes, and stress can lead to greater purpose and fulfilment in their lives
● Develop their own unique Superpower and show up “all in” as their authentic selves to help others.
Dr. Rebecca Heiss
Featured Book
Instinct: Rewire Your Brain with Science-Backed Solutions to Increase Productivity and Achieve Success
by Dr. Rebecca Heiss
Evolutionary biologist Rebecca Heiss reveals the science behind our self-sabotaging behaviors that undermine our productivity, success, and happiness: instincts developed hundreds of thousands of years ago that are devastatingly mismatched to our current environments--and offers simple, actionable techniques to redirect those instincts to work for us rather than against us.
A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO UNLOCKING
YOUR INNATE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN BUSINESS AND IN LIFE
Why do we constantly feel overwhelmed by stress, dissatisfied in our careers and relationships, and lacking in real purpose? Why do we seem to sabotage ourselves, hampering our productivity and success? The answer lies in our instincts . . .
In every area of life, from business to relationships to health, we act on outdated instincts that were built to help us survive a world ruled by scarcity and danger. But in today's world, those same instincts stop us from succeeding in the environment in which we actually live: a diverse world of abundant choices, and almost limitless connections.
Now evolutionary biologist Dr. Rebecca Heiss offers a new approach that harnesses the power of our instincts, and redirects them to work for us rather than against us. Dr. Heiss reveals the science behind our self-sabotaging behaviors, then provides simple, actionable techniques that can rebuild our instinctive minds.
Both practical and inspiring, Instinct is a roadmap that anyone can use to finally stop living on autopilot, improve productivity and happiness, and consciously craft a better life.
Praise for Instinct
"A read for all Spartans and leaders looking to break out of the ruts of their ancestral brain pathways and charge through the discomfort to success!"
—Joe De Sena, Founder & CEO of Spartan Race and New York Times bestselling author of Spartan Up!
“Finally, leaders have a way to better understand the biological reasons why they get stuck when trying to develop and improve certain leadership competencies related to Emotional Intelligence. This book is a missing piece for all leaders dedicated to the pursuit of increasing their performance and enhancing their lies.”
—Heather Anderson, International Speaker, Trainer and Coach Emotional Intelligence.
“A practical manual for the inquisitive learner who is evaluating ways to improve outcomes in relationships and increase productivity in business.”
—Harold Hughes, Founder & CEO of Bandwagon
“In Instinct, Dr. Heiss brings a biologist’s perspective to understanding human behaviors that psychologists have studied for years. Her novel approach shines a unique new light on learning how to lead more productive and fulfilling lives.”
—Dorothy W. Cantor, PsyD. Former President, American Psychological Association
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