Dr. Heidi Hanna
About
Dr. Heidi Hanna: Author of Stressaholic and Recharge | Stress and Performance Educator | Speaker on Energy Management and Resilience
Why Book Dr. Heidi Hanna?
Dr. Heidi Hanna helps audiences examine how stress and daily routines affect the energy they bring to work. Author of Stressaholic and Recharge, she offers an accessible approach to understanding pressure and making room for recovery.
Heidi’s presentations combine explanations with practical reflection on habits, attention, and responses to demanding situations. She encourages people to create a realistic recharge practice and consider how an organization’s working environment supports or drains its people.
Why Is Dr. Heidi Hanna Right for Your Audience?
Heidi is a strong fit for employee wellbeing programs, leadership conferences, healthcare meetings, and company events. Consider her when your audience needs a useful discussion about managing energy and responding more deliberately to ongoing demands.
Book Heidi when your audience needs to:
- Recognize habits that affect their daily energy
- Respond more thoughtfully to stressful moments
- Build recovery into demanding workdays
- Examine the impact of workplace expectations
- Use humor and connection constructively
- Develop a realistic personal recharge routine
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of their patterns of stress and recovery
- Ready to identify an achievable recharge practice
- Clearer on the importance of managing energy
- Equipped with ideas for pausing before reacting
- Focused on a small change to their daily routine
Keynote Programs
Recharge Your Brain and Your Business
Heidi explores practical shifts for managing energy and creating a recharge routine. Ideal for busy professionals and leadership audiences.
The Cure for Stress
Heidi presents her framework for understanding and responding to stress. Ideal for organizations seeking an engaging educational session about pressure and recovery.
Beyond Funny
Heidi explores humor as part of everyday connection and a personal stress toolkit. Ideal for broad employee and wellbeing audiences.
Is Dr. Heidi Hanna Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the daily demands your audience faces and the habits you want the event to encourage. We can help select Heidi’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Topics and Audience Takeaways
What Dr. Heidi Hanna Talks About:
Brain Fitness – Recharge Your Brain and Your Business
In this session, Dr. Heidi Hanna will guide participants in an exploration into the most valuable resource we have – human capital and the power of the brain. Based on the latest neuroscience of stress, mindfulness and motivation, Dr. Hanna uncovers research-driven guiding principles and a simple framework for optimizing brain health and fitness, even in challenging times. Through interactive discussions around best-practices, participants will create a Recharge Toolkit with specific strategies for their daily routine and team rituals to best support relationships at home and work.
Participants will:
- learn the key organizing principles of the brain and how non-conscious bias can be both a challenge and an asset
- understand the new science of stress and how it can be used to fuel positive change
- practice a quick Brain Recharge technique to calm the body and quiet the mind
- create individual and team action plans for integrating simple daily shifts to use stress to drive performance and build health and resilience
Stress Mastery – Using Stress to Fuel Positive Change
Neuroscience research demonstrates that our brain and nervous system can adapt in both positive and negative ways to stress. It’s not the stress itself that causes the problem but our response to it that creates the positive or negative impact in our lives. In this session, Dr. Heidi Hanna will guide participants through a process that trains you to have a challenge versus threat mindset and transform stress into a catalyst for positive change, growth and performance.
Participants will:
- recognize how stress impacts the mind and body, for better or worse
- learn the difference between stressed and stressed out
- understand how to shift from reacting to responding
- explore various stress mindsets, and how they impact health and performance
- create an individual and team action plan to navigate stress more effectively personally and professionally
Energy Management – Putting your “Oxygen Mask” on First: Fostering Resilience and Energy in a High Stress Environment
Everything you hope to achieve personally and professionally, presumes you have the energy to accomplish it. The more stressful your environment, the more rapidly it will dissipate your energy, leading to a loss of focus, passion, perspective and eventually even hope. This program will provide you the 5 keys to building a solid foundation of energy and resilience, so you can help the most important people in your life during these uncertain times.
Participants will learn:
- how to manage personal energy through oscillation patterns of stress and recovery throughout the day, especially in challenging circumstances
- the what, when and how of nutrition
- simple strategies to incorporate exercise and movement into your daily routine
- specific ways to prime the brain and body to foster a good night’s sleep
- practical tools and techniques to recharge throughout the day for optimal energy and performance, personally and with your teams
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