Nina Sossamon-Pogue

About

Nina talks about creating success after change. recover quickly, learn – and ultimately grow stronger.
Audiences leave understanding their role in their own success and the corporations’ success with new strategies to keep going and not just survive change but thrive and find new levels of success.
Nina is a hyper-growth tech executive, USA Gymnast, and Emmy-winning television news anchor and keynote speaker- who expertly blends big data, current events and brain science research into an energetic multi-media stage performance.
Past clients include: GM, Benefitfocus, One Connection Management Group and Ellevate

About Nina Sossamon-Pogue - Award-winning Television News Anchor, Tech Executive, and USA Gymnast, inspiring audiences to find new levels of success through Change:

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is an Inspirational thought leader and best-selling author reframing ‘resilience’ and helping individuals and organizations thrive through tough times. A former USA Gymnast, Emmy-winning Television News Anchor and Tech Executive, Nina is known for adapting to adversity and achieving success. She expertly shares her unforgettable message of resilience and her science based, data driven, stoic philosophy infused framework to handle everything life throws at you.

Following her own success and failures in Sport, Television and Corporate America, Nina began researching why some businesses and individuals thrive during adversity while others fail. Nina’s first endeavor into writing garnered best-selling status - This is Not 'The End': Strategies to Get Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life (Morgan James Publishing, June 2019).

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a rare find in the speaking world. A professional presenter from her years on TV, combined with her years on the leadership team at a hyper-growth SaaS technology company, give her a unique ability to connect with a corporate audience. She blends big data, current events, and brain science research into an energetic multi-media stage performance.

Nina helps strengthen organizations during this fast-paced, uncertain time of digital overload, FOMO and machine learning. She unpacks today’s stress, simplifies the complex and shares her proven framework to handle the cognitive load created by today’s technologically advancing world.

Nina adds energy to any event, using her own gripping story as a backdrop, her presentation is all about your audiences, not her. She is the ideal opening or closing keynote for your next corporate meeting or event.

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What Nina Sossamon-Pogue Talks About:

THIS is Resilience, Sustaining Your Superpower?
What exactly is resilience? How do you handle adversity? Change and challenges are constantly part of life, so let’s get consistent at handling them like a pro. Nina gets audiences to reframe their thinking around success and failure and shares an elegant repeatable framework to handle anything life throws at you. With adversity of all sizes sidetracking todays’ workforce, causing stress, anxiety, and burnout, we need to help our people (which in turn helps productivity and profits). This presentation is an aha lesson in success and a journey to the intersection of personal and professional resilience. Audiences learn: their own style for handling adversity, their ‘Reverse Resume’, and a framework to tap into the next time something doesn’t go as planned, no matter how big that something is. You can handle ‘THIS’.

You’re Wired for THIS, Resilience for the High Achievers
A session for all the smart humans doing the hard work! The folks working to hit goals, KPI’s or that quarterly number. The folks who didn’t take the easy path and continue with persistence and grit to push forward. Using her own very public successes and failures as a backdrop, Nina shares an Aha! lesson in being a high achiever and gives audiences a framework to handle adversity of all sizes. She expertly takes audiences from feeling they’re ‘stuck in the spin’ of this technologically advancing, FOMO, machine learning era, to feeling ‘excited to be on the ride’ and harnessing the momentum. This powerful session is packed with actionable insights to increase productivity and improve culture. Audiences learn: The High Achiever Success Cycle, Their Reverse Resume, Why time seems to be moving faster, and the Resilience Reboot strategy for all the challenges ahead.

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Her energy is contagious! It's obvious that Nina takes time to prepare. She gives the audience useful advice they can take back to their companies - and use for their personal success too.