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I have two goals for every event:
1. Make your job as easy as possible.
2. Be the best partner possible to help make the event a huge success!
I’m committed to being easy to work with and be your favorite speaker ever!
“Working with Heather was truly a delightful and stress-free experience. She is a meeting planner's dream speaker!”
- Paula Sanders, GHPCO CEO and Event Planner
Event Resources
Hiring the right keynote speaker isn't an expense; it's an investment in your event's success.
The right speaker doesn't just deliver content. She creates a memorable experience with takeaways that resonate long after attendees head home.
Heather's live speed paintings and rich storytelling, grounded in her science-backed Hodges 12 framework, create the kind of moment audiences will still be talking about at next year's conference.
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Breakout Sessions to Pair with Keynotes
Retention Rx
How to Build a Culture No One Wants to Leave
The number one cause of turnover isn’t pay: it is workload, burnout, and feeling disconnected. The good news is that retention isn’t complicated when you know how to build a culture where people feel valued, heard, and supported.
In this energizing and practical breakout, Heather shares key research on why employees really leave and what makes them want to stay. Participants will explore simple, high-impact leadership behaviors that boost engagement and prevent turnover.
Through a hands-on activity using Heather’s original Stay Conversations Card Deck™, leaders will experience how easy it can be to have meaningful, trust-building conversations with their team. You’ll walk away with ready-to-use tools and confidence to start Stay Conversations in your own organization to create a culture no one wants to leave.
Thriving Through Change
With LEGO® Serious Play®
When organizations experience a lot of change, morale plummets, nerves are frazzled, conflict bubbles up, and productivity slows to a crawl. To navigate change as a leader means you must guide people through uncertainty while keeping their focus, morale, and performance strong. Not an easy task!
In this interactive session, participants will use the LEGO® Serious Play® method alongside Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ Change Curve to explore how individuals and teams experience change.
By mapping where they and their teams fall on the Change Curve, participants will discover how to adapt their leadership approach, communication, and support to meet people where they are. Attendees will leave with a practical framework and hands-on tools to foster resilience, maintain engagement and productivity, and lead their organizations with confidence through any transition.
Radical Teamwork
The Conversations Your Team Needs to Have But Never Does
Is your team stuck in poor communication, mistrust, clashing personalities, or conflicting work styles? It’s probably a trust problem. Low trust quietly eats away at creativity, collaboration, and performance. When teams don’t have the conversations they need to build trust, they waste time, lose talent, and fall short of their potential.
Work shouldn’t feel like walking on eggshells. Every team deserves the kind of trust that fuels bold thinking, open collaboration, and real results.
In this highly interactive breakout, Heather guides your team through an energizing experience designed to spark the conversations that build deep trust using her Radical Teamwork Card Deck™. Through structured dialogue and guided reflection, participants will: uncover hidden team dynamics, build empathy, understand work styles, and strengthen the foundation of collaboration.
Building Blocks of Culture
Designing Your Dream Culture With LEGO® Serious Play®
Many teams feel disconnected and burned out. The work gets done, but the joy of working together is missing. When team culture is unhealthy, trust is hard to build, collaboration slows, the quality of work is subpar, and your best people eventually look elsewhere for belonging and purpose.
But a healthy culture doesn’t just retain people, it helps them flourish, take creative risks, and achieve more together than they ever could alone.
In this hands-on session, participants will experience the LEGO® Serious Play® method to build their ideal team culture. Through creative modeling and shared storytelling, team members will identify their unique strengths, connect them to a shared vision, and co-create the environment where everyone can thrive. You’ll leave with renewed clarity, stronger trust, and practical actions to build a dynamic culture.
Also explore our Team Innovation Programs
(Half-day, Full-Day, and 90-Day Programs)