Heather Younger
- Founder & CEO of Employee Fanatix - The "Employee Whisperer"
- TEDX speaker, Forbes contributor, and the host of the 'Leadership with Heart podcast'
- Bestselling Author: The Art of Caring Leadership, The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty
- Build A Culture Where Your Employees Feel Seen, Heard and Valued
In Person-Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$20,000 - $30,000
Virtual Fee:
$15,000 - $20,000
Travels From
Colorado
Heather Younger Speaker Biography
Heather R Younger, J.D. is a trusted contributor to leading news outlets, like Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, NBC and ABC and an expert on Caring Leadership® and active listening at work. She is the Founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, a preeminent employee engagement and workplace culture consulting firm to Fortune 100 companies. Employee Fanatix conducts annual research on workplace culture, relying on employee voices for what is relevant now, to help companies redefine their culture strategy. Heather has personally read over 30,000 employee surveys and facilitated over 100 employee focus groups, including her signature “Art of Active Listening Sessions.”
With over 25 years of successfully managing teams, she has worked in customer experience, sales, and large account management for multi-million dollar accounts within multiple industries such as tech, staffing, healthcare, professional services, the public sector, and the financial sector. She's a renowned keynote speaker, drawing insights from current data and putting into practice what she teaches in her Caring Leadership Transformation Model™.
Heather’s strategies yield tangible business results, including heightened employee engagement, unwavering loyalty, seamless collaboration, and robust connectivity. One of her clients, a leader at a bank, continues to win Top Workplace awards, and the feedback from employees is that they are connecting the dots and making employees feel informed and engaged. Another one of her clients, a leader at an oil and gas company, says employee feedback shows an increased sense of trust about voicing concerns without fear of negative consequences. This all results in better outcomes in our everyday work.
Heather is a former practicing attorney turned award-winning leader in the area of Employee Engagement as recognized by Inspiring Workplaces, is a LinkedIn Learning course partner, 3-time best-selling author, TEDX speaker and host of the popular, Leadership With Heart podcast. She is also an Adjunct Organizational Leadership Professor at University College at Denver University.
Her accolades include being a best-selling author of three books: "The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty," a Forbes Must-Read List topper for HR professionals, "The Art of Caring Leadership," wherein she shines a spotlight on the radical potential of compassionate leadership, and her latest best-selling book, "The Art of Active Listening," through which she equips individuals with the interpersonal skills required to make others feel seen, heard, and valued.
Heather's personal journey, rooted in her challenging experiences growing up as the only child of an interfaith and interracial marriage and being excluded because of her race, fueled her unwavering determination to ensure that workplaces around the world make both employees and customers alike feel heard, valued and seen.
What Makes Heather Different?
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE
Heather’s experience leading teams and building organizations is a valuable asset to you because she brings practical know-how and lessons learned that can be directly applied to your situation. Plus, participants love that she has been in their shoes and has practical insights they can use immediately.
DYNAMIC
If your group is a sales team kicking off a new program, a leadership audience looking for fresh perspective, or an all employee event, Heather leverages her unique capacity to navigate complex social dynamics in the workplace and achieve goals together through effective communication.
INSPIRING
She creates opportunities for leaders, teams, and individuals to reframe adversity and empower change, championing positive transformation in workplaces, communities, and the world at large. Heather is unique in her ability to facilitate high level interactions between herself and the audience, which leads to the audience interacting with one another, enhancing their learning and building new relationships.
RELEVANT
Because of Heather’s unique commitment to leveraging current research findings, listening sessions, and employee feedback to close the gap between what employees need and leaders want, her content is fresh, relevant and applicable now.
RELATABLE
Audiences love Heather’s warmth and genuine nature, and she will love them right back. She doesn’t just talk about Caring Leadership®, but she seeks to embody it in every interaction. It’s common practice for Heather to spend time after an event talking with participants, signing books, taking photos, and listening to their hopes and dreams for a workplace where everyone feels heard, valued and understood.
RESULTS FOCUSED
Her strategies yield tangible business results, including heightened employee engagement, unwavering loyalty, seamless collaboration, and robust connectivity.
CHANGING “I QUIT!” TO “I FIT!” - FIVE POWERFUL STRATEGIES TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE RETENTION AND CREATE AN AMAZING WORKPLACE CULTURE
Frustrated by the lack of engagement in your organization? Constantly battling high employee turnover? Is your employees’ favorite pastime updating their resumes? (Ouch!)
In this entertaining and enlightening keynote, leadership keynote speaker and adversity expert Heather R. Younger reveals the underlying actions organizations can take to create a more engaged and loyal workforce — even with budget restraints and a world that feels chaotic and challenging.
Attendees will leave more motivated, energized, and eager to collaborate as a team to create a positive, productive, and connected workplace.
Your leadership team will learn how to:
Successfully navigate their role in employee turnover and loyalty
Uncover the main catalyst for employee loyalty (it’s not money)
Develop solid capacities to help employees become more adaptable and less fearful
Manage change with agility and purpose and help lead others to do the same
Best Ensure employees feel safe, heard, seen, empowered, and valued
There has never been a more important time to lead with purpose, skill, adaptability, and resilience. Give your leadership team everything they need to stand out as an organization where employees can’t wait to help grow. Contact Heather today to learn more.
BUILDING RESILIENCE: HOW TO UNLEASH YOUR MINDSET AND OVERCOME ANY CHALLENGE
Most successful people in history had to overcome overwhelming obstacles to climb the ladder of success. From Abraham Lincoln to Walt Disney to Oprah Winfrey and leaders of significance all over the world – it’s inspired to see how they navigated rock paths that might have derailed others.
What is the secret ingredient to their success? Resilience. Whether they endured abuse, poverty, rejection, hurt, betrayal, trauma, or a combination of adversities, they leaned in, committed, and made conscious, difference-making choices, again and again, to keep moving forward and become their best selves.
In this life-changing message, keynote speaker and adversity expert Heather R. Younger taps into her own personal and professional experiences as well as stories of strength and perseverance to share empowering proven tools for resetting the resilience of every attendee.
Your audience will learn how to:
Leverage the three top daily steps for strengthening resilience
Uncover underlying beliefs that can fuel resistance to change
Reframe adversity into opportunities for leadership and growth
Develop the kind of core tenacity that can take them through any challenge
Unlock and unleash new mindsets that replace fear with a feeling of empowerment, strength, and positive self-worth
Ready to help your team develop the kind of resilience that will allow them to be happier, healthier, more balanced, and ready for anything in a world filled with challenges and distractions? Heather Younger has just the message for you.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: HOW TO BUILD A CULTURE OF BELONGING
This keynote draws from Heather’s personal experiences as the only child of an interfaith and interracial marriage to inspire leaders to flex their empathy muscles and master the art of active listening to ensure every employee feels valued, respected and supported.
This program is perfect for people who are:
• Building cultures of belonging at work
• Seeking to honor their colleagues’ diverse experiences and perspectives
• Educating themselves about other peoples’ challenges
The audience will leave with:
• A practical method to elicit feedback and unlock change and growth
• A greater understanding of the role they have to play in creating cultures of belonging at work
• The inspiration to show up each workday as their most authentic selves
SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY: REIMAGINING A BETTER WORKPLACE IN A CHALLENGING WORLD
Do you feel like your entire workforce has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the havoc unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic? Is your head spinning trying to define paths forward for your organization and employees in a world where change is happening at a seemingly warp speed?
In this empowering, interactive, and hope-filled message, keynote speaker and adversity expert Heather R. Younger inspires attendees to reimagine the workplace, their roles, and offers a high-level roadmap for succeeding with more ease.
Your audience will learn how to …
Use proven psychology to reframe challenges and see opportunities more clearly
Feel more confident, empowered, and in control – even in a chaotic world
Lean into their inherent resilience and reduce their stress
Collaboratively reimagine workspaces and roles to develop win-win processes and an inclusive culture
Become better advocates for themselves and others
Lead in new, powerful, and sustainable ways
If you’re ready to ease the impact of chaos for your team and help them develop the skills and mindsets necessary to navigate change with agility, confidence, compassion, and character, invite Heather to bring this timely topic to your next event.
