Rebecca Heiss, PhD

Rebecca Heiss, PhD Speaking Topics

• 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 fulfillment to their work

• FEAR(less) 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 and/or concerned about how failure might be perceived
  • 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
  • Adopt an adventure mindset that will fuel their resilience and adaptability in high-pressure situations

FEAR(less) Sales Fueling Profitable Growth

Winning streaks exist. In sports and sales, the winner’s effect is real, measurable, and simple to execute when you understand the science that drives these clutch performances. Welcome to your competitive edge. The Fear(less) Sales framework motivates individuals and teams to find a new peak performance level by harnessing the stress and pressure they feel to work for them (rather than against them). Olympic athletes don’t break world records during practice • they break records when the stress and pressure are at their highest. With a shift in our mindsets, we, too, can smash records, all while finding deeper meaning and purpose in our work.

This keynote is ideal for leaders & teams who are:

• Looking to use stress and change as a catalyst for growth
• Stalled, plateaued, or settled into apathetic patterns of behavior
• Ready to level up their performance and springboard their growth potential.

Keynote audiences will leave able to:

• Develop personalized strategies for transforming pressure into performance.
• Tackle tough goals with a positive, fearless approach that builds confidence in both the individual and the team.
• Harness the physiological and psychological power of the "winner’s effect."

Finding Fearless

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 fulfillment in their lives.
• Develop their own unique Superpower and show up “all in” as their authentic selves to help others.