Empowering Authentic Leaders: Speaking & Workshops

Durable Skills for Dedicated Professionals who want to Leverage their Peculiar Genius and Lead lives of Joy and Impact – at home and work.

What can you expect? All of Heidi Esther’s workshops and presentations are crafted with the end goal in mind: to provide a solution to a problem – whether that be how to handle emotions in the workplace or solving the global stress epidemic.

She creates safe, playful, and curiosity-focused environments and facilitates instructor-led and participant-centered sessions. By inviting in a beginner’s mindset, or growth mindset, and allowing for multiple modalities of learners to engage with her materials and activities, she creates transformational experiences.

Below are her topics; she can also create a custom workshop to fit your organization’s needs. If you’d like to discuss bringing Heidi Esther to your organization, please book a consult call.

Topics

Goldfish Authentic Leadership (Keynote)

Only 24% of people know who ‘the real them’ is and just 16% feel that they can bring their real selves to where they work. However, research shows that when people are themselves at work, their performance can be positively impacted by up to 85%.

Become part of the solution and unearth your Authentic Leader. Learn the 5 Disciplines of Authentic Leadership to unearth your Peculiar Brilliance at work and Liberate more Joy in your life. Create a steady foundation of professional success through learning the 5 invisible career saboteurs and the 5 Disciplines of Authentic Leadership.

Outcomes

• Understand the 5 Limiting Beliefs, or Lies, you believe that keep you from taking empowered steps towards your authentic, peculiar brilliance.
• Practice 5 new behaviors to counteract the Limiting Beliefs.

Unearthing Superwoman (Workshop & Keynote)

It’s estimated that roughly 85% of people worldwide have low self-esteem. And its costing them their precious time and costing their employers billions. We are in an invisible epidemic rooted in unworthiness. What can we do?

An Empowerment Experience. Get your cape ready, because it’s time to overcome the barriers to creating a way to set boundaries, find balance, and take brave steps. Builds self-acceptance and the foundations of building personal power.

What stories are you telling yourself – one of the Damsel in distress, or perhaps one of the evil Stepmother? Or maybe you are the quiet, trusty Sidekick? In Unearthing Superwoman, we will pull back the curtain to see what’s happening behind the scenes when we stay quiet, exhausted or stuck. We walk through practical and playful exercises to empower ourselves to move forward as the Hero.

Outcomes

• Learn the underlying cause of many Recognize the hidden ways we self-sabotage and WHY
• Learning practical steps to take responsibility for our actions
• Practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods to resolve distorted thinking patterns.
• Engage compassion to increase more realistic self-awareness

BulletProof Mindset (Workshop)

The World Health Organization has declared stress as the global epidemic of the 21st century. And from a recent study from the American Institute of Stress, approximately 80% of US workers now report feeling stressed at the workplace. What’s the antidote?

Building Resilience to Recover Faster. As someone who is dedicated to your career and helping others, you know how important and fulfilling what you’re doing is. You combine your strengths and talents and are constantly learning and leveraging new knowledge. And you’re sure you’re on the right path. But what happens when things don’t go the way you thought?

Outcomes

• Becoming aware of our triggers
• Understand how to recognize and treat ourselves when we’re stressed to complete the stress cycle
• Rewrite our Learned Responses to Adversity
• Cultivate the 6 Facets of Resilience (Compassion, Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Patience, and Positivity)

Breaking the Curse of The Independent Woman (Workshop)

People who are isolated have a 50% greater risk of premature death than those with stronger social connections. Gallup has repeatedly shown that having best friends at work is key to employee engagement and job success.Engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave their jobs; highly engaged employees can even increase profitability by 21%. The evidence is clear in every corner of life: friends and trusted environments are critical to success and longevity. But In 2021, 12% of U.S. adults said they did not have any close friends, up from 3% in 1990. How can we change that?

A Strong Support Network. A fresh look at why being independent is a curse to our happiness, longevity, and success. The three kinds of strategic support we need to have to take risks and become our best, healthiest, happiest, most engaged selves.

Outcomes

• Tools for and practicing creating authentic, safe connections
• Understanding what being Givers and not Receivers is costing us
• Identifying 3 kinds People we need to thrive to take risks and move forward
• Learning the 4 agreements in our relationships to cultivate honest relationships

Eat your Feelings! Emotional Intelligence (Workshop)

Emotional intelligence has a 58% influence on job performance, and 90% of top performers at work have high emotional intelligence. Up to 60% of people are emotionally detached from work. Employees with empathetic leaders report an increase in engagement (76%) and creativity (61%), leading to higher performance levels. A company that prioritizes emotional intelligence is 22x more likely to perform higher than companies that do not.

Emotional Intelligence. Welcome to a ground-level experience of Emotional Intelligence! Receive practical tools and participate in reflective and active discussions to increase knowledge in each of the 5 disciplines: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation, Empathy, and People Skills.

Outcomes

• Understand the importance of EQ and Identify the 5 Pillars
• Regulate internal environment and identify strategies to self-motivate
• Identify specific strategies to implement when we experience compassion fatigue
• Utilize our Emotional Intelligence to navigate difficult conversations

Your Peculiar Genius (Workshop)

Comparing yourself to others can be harmful to your mental well-being and lead to feelings of dissatisfaction, guilt, and remorse. Even worse, In a 2022 YouGov poll, 49% of American adults surveyed identified as people-pleasers. On average, U.S. workers lose 1 hour and 18 minutes per workday to distractions. Between comparing ourselves, pleasing others, and being distracted, we have lost touch with ourselves. And we’re letting our potential rot away. What’s the answer?

Authenticity. It’s time to peel back our layers and leverage our Zones of Genius to blaze a trail to our most productive, brilliant, joy-full selves! How? We look at the intersection of your personality, strengths, core values, core beliefs, weirdnesses, the hats you wear, and allll the skills you have. In other words, it’s time to unearth Your Peculiar Genius.

Outcomes

• Understanding the dangers of living for others
• Dive into the many layers of you –
• Looking at your Gallup Strengths and Core Values
• Working with pieces of us we try to fix, manage, or hide
• Weeding the Onion: Core Beliefs

Ready to bring an effective and empowering experience to your organization or group? Book a Consult Call. Reviews & Testimonials

What’s it like to work with me?

Hi, I’m Francie Hinrichsen, founder of Founding Females. Every year, our company hosts a women’s entrepreneur conference. I handpicked Heidi to speak at our event for several reasons.

First, I need speakers who are authentic and relatable. Heidi definitely is. Her messages create transformation so our audience can apply Heidi’s ideas to take them from where they are now to who they hope to become as people.

Second, as an event organizer and a business owner, it’s important to me that our speakers are dependable. Heidi definitely is. She does what she says she’s going to do. She comes prepared. She communicates well up until the event. She knows her stuff. Truly, she’s a professional. 

She’s thought through not just how to be wildly successful in her role, but she’s also thought through how her role contributes to the overall success of the event. 

That’s a very rare quality you don’t find in many speakers. With many speakers, it’s all about the spotlight being on them. With Heidi, her focus is how her role contributes to the overarching mission of the organization, it’s like music to my ears. And because of that, my investment in hiring her yields returns, it’s not just a cost.

That’s why I’m so glad I chose her to speak at our Founding Females event and I would encourage you to do the same.

Francie Hinrichsen, Founding Females

It’s always so fun to hear Heidi speak. She brings in a nice sense of humor with vulnerability and empathy and she can really relate to you. Getting the opportunity to listen to her speak is always a gift. I always feel like I can leave with some sort of aha moment or a good takeaway to remember.

– Danielle Scarzello, Program Manager, gBeta Distillery Labs

People leave Heidi’s speaking engagements feeling very inspired, motivated, and empowered. You can’t walk away from listening to Heidi speak without feeling like you’re gonna change the world! She makes you feel like you can do it and will support you every step of the way. 

–Lesa Brandt, Annual Giving Director, Parkland Community College 

Our afternoon conference was dragging on. But when Heidi started, the whole energy changed. They were laughing. They woke up. She has a smile a mile wide! She brought both energy, a feeling of support, and created the camaraderie in the room that you hope to get at a conference…and we certainly did! Heidi was a perfect cap to our day!  – Jackie N. Billhymer, SHRM-CP, University of Illinois System Human Resource Services