Heather R. Younger
About
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Heather 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.
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Audiences learn the three steps to strengthening resilience & reframe adversity to unlock new mindsets for empowerment and positive self-worth.
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Heather is the founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, an International TEDx speaker on Adversity, Leadership Podcast Host, Business Coach, Facilitator and Attorney, who has earned a reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”. She holds a law degree, is a regular contributor to "Forbes" and "LinkedIn" and is the best-selling author of The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty
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Past clients include: Harvard Business Review Brasil, FirstBank, Salas O'Brien, Stark Aerospace, and Colorado Bankers Association.
About Heather R. Younger - Founder & CEO Employee Fanatix, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Workplace Culture:
Heather R. Younger, J.D., CSP, is a leadership and workplace culture keynote speaker, four-time bestselling author, and creator of the C.A.R.E. framework for Unshakable LeadershipTM. Named an Inc. Top 50 Leadership and Management Expert and a Thinkers50 Radar Thought Leader, she helps organizations build leaders and cultures strong enough to handle what's next.
With more than 20 years leading teams through reorgs, mergers, acquisitions, and technology shifts, Heather knows what it takes to stay grounded when the pressure won't let up. Her research includes analysis of 40,000+ employee survey comments and 350+ leader interviews, grounding her work in what people actually experience, not just what looks good on paper.
She is the author of The Art of Active Listening, The Art of Caring Leadership, The Art of Self-Leadership, and the forthcoming book The Unshakable Team, and she hosts the podcast Becoming Unshakable. Her clients include United Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, the CDC, Prudential, DuPont, and Xerox.
Topics and Audience Takeaways
What Heather Younger Talks About:
The Self-Leadership Imperative – Turning Personal Growth into Collective Impact
Self-leadership is the foundation of resilient, high-impact influence. It’s what allows people to navigate uncertainty, bounce forward from setbacks, and model the kind of adaptability their teams need now more than ever.
In this transformative keynote based on her book, Heather R Younger empowers leaders to trade perfectionism for progress, fear for flexibility, and burnout for balance — without sacrificing performance. She’ll share actionable strategies to help leaders harness resilience as a competitive edge and unlock their full potential in the face of constant change.
- 90% of top-performing employees demonstrate high emotional resilience (Harvard Business Review)
- Organizations that invest in leadership development see 2.4x higher revenue growth and 3x better retention (Deloitte)
Because when leaders lead themselves well — they elevate everyone around them.
Ideal for leaders and team members who:
- Want to develop resilience strategies to fuel agility, adaptability, and sustainable success
- Are navigating rapid change, uncertainty, or high-pressure environments and need a mental framework to thrive
- Struggle with perfectionism and want to shift their mindset to prioritize progress over unattainable ideals
- Are ready to step into greater ownership as a leader, by fostering a growth mindset and self-empowerment
- Want to inspire teams to stay engaged, motivated, and high-performing—despite obstacles
The audience will walk away with:
- The Self-Leadership Framework – A proven model to stay strong, flexible, and focused through change
- Progress Over Perfection – A mindset shift to embrace growth, adaptability, and continuous improvement
- A Self-Empowerment Toolkit – How to take control of your career trajectory and leadership influence
- How to Foster a Culture of Resilience – Inspire teams to become adaptable, solution-oriented, and engaged
- Emotional Agility & Decision-Making Mastery – Strengthen clarity, composure, and effectiveness under pressure
This keynote equips leaders to redefine challenges as opportunities, embrace change without fear, and step fully into their leadership power—turning personal growth into enterprise-wide success.
The Unshakable Team – Navigate high-stress situations, rebuild trust after setbacks, and sustain performance without burnout
Today’s teams are operating under sustained pressure.
Only 27% of managers feel enthusiastic about their work, more than 40% of employees report significant stress, and just one in five feels fully engaged. Leaders are facing constant change, higher expectations, faster decision cycles, and fewer buffers to absorb the impact.
The most effective teams don’t rely on heroic effort or constant hustle. They build shared systems that allow them to navigate pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, and maintain focus even when uncertainty is high.
This keynote, based on her forthcoming book The Unshakable Team, Heather R. Younger draws on more than 20 years of leadership experience guiding teams through mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, layoffs, and major technology shifts.
She shares a practical framework for leading and working together under pressure, helping teams create the clarity, trust, and alignment they need to move forward, even in the most demanding environments.
Audiences will leave with:
- A practical framework for resilient leadership under pressure that helps teams tackle high-stakes challenges together
- Strategies to sustain high performance without burnout
- Tools to reduce ambiguity and increase clarity, even when certainty isn’t available
- A repeatable approach for rebuilding trust and momentum after setbacks
The Case for Caring Leadership – Build high-trust teams, boost engagement and retention, and drive performance
“Care at work” is often dismissed as soft or optional. But in a workplace defined by AI acceleration, change fatigue, and increasing leadership pressure, the absence of care creates disengagement, turnover, and fractured teams. Caring leadership isn’t a perk, it’s a business strategy. Leaders who intentionally build trust create teams that communicate better, execute faster, and stay engaged, even across remote and hybrid environments.
Based on her bestselling book The Art of Caring Leadership, Heather R. Younger shares insights from 40,000+ employee comments to reveal what care actually looks like at scale: measurable, operational, and leader-owned. She introduces the Nine Daily Behaviors of Caring Leadership®, a practical framework that helps leaders strengthen culture, improve employee experience, and reduce preventable turnover, without lowering standards.
Audiences will leave with:
- The Nine Daily Behaviors of Caring Leadership® that build trust and accountability
- Practical ways to scale care across remote, hybrid, and distributed teams
- Repeatable actions that increase engagement, retention, and performance
- A clear framework for making care an operational leadership practice
Recent Publications
Heather's talk to out HR conference was practical and down-to-earth. Her topic was well-received and delivered with easy-going enthusiasm and a sprinkle of humor. Practical and actionable -- you can take it to work on Monday and see results.
Stark Aerospace
