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About Dr. Heidi Hanna - Speaker on Performance and Wellness:

As a performance coach and keynote speaker, Dr. Heidi Hanna has trained thousands of individuals on practical ways to incorporate nutrition, exercise, and positive psychology strategies to improve their health, productivity, and performance. Her vast coaching experience and passionate coaching style help motivate individuals and teams to develop sustainable success at both a personal and professional level.

Heidi is CEO and founder of SYNERGY, a coaching and consulting company that specializes in customized health and wellness solutions for individuals and organizations. In the Spring of 2011, Heidi authored her first book, SHARP: Simple strategies to boost your brainpower, and the follow up title, The SHARP Diet: Food for thought.

From 2003 through 2011, Heidi worked as as a trainer, coach, keynote speaker and consultant for the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Florida. As an experienced speaker, Heidi has been featured at many national conferences, including the Fortune Magazine Most Successful Women in Business Summit and the ESPN Women’s Leadership Summit. She has also presented internationally, including countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and Greece. Heidi has fundraised, trained, and served as a mentor and nutritionist for several non profit organizations, including the Leukemia Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training, Livestrong Foundation and the Challenged Athletes Foundation. She also is an advocate and speaker on topics related to eating disorders awareness and prevention, as well as a volunteer speaker for the Alzheimer’s Association. Heidi holds a bachelors degree in communications from Penn State University, where she competed on the Big 10 softball team and received academic All-American honors. She holds a masters degree in mental health counseling from Rollins College and a Ph.D. degree in holistic nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health.

Clients have included Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, ESPN and Starbucks, as well as professional and amateur athletes. Heidi partnered with Janus Capital to develop the Ironman Advisor program which teaches financial advisors how to better manage their personal energy, particularly during periods of stress, and the BrainWorks program, based on her SHARP book series.

What Dr. Heidi Hanna Talks About:

SHARP: Simple strategies to boost your brainpower
Daily mental multitasking and our constant state of busyness can create a chronic level of stress on our brain, causing us to be unfocused, distracted and less productive. For most of our history, scientists believe that this was simply how our brain worked, that we’re hardwired to respond to our circumstances in a specific way, and our only solution was to try to change the amount of mental stress we experience.

While cognitive decline is an inevitable part of the aging process, studies show that we can prevent, or at least postpone, its development through intervention. Our brain is radically adaptable if we train it appropriately – like we do our bodies. The fitter our brain is, the more energy efficient it becomes, and the easier it is to do important mental tasks such as focusing attention and being creative.

In this presentation, Dr. Hanna discusses how common demands on your time and energy impact your mental capacity, and may speed up the rate of cognitive decline when left unmanaged.