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 - Resilience Speaker, USA Gymnast, Emmy-Winning News Anchor, Tech Executive & Author:

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is an influential thought leader, whose experience as a communicator powers her ability to share her framework for handling a challenge. As someone who’s adapted through a lifetime of major challenges as an elite athlete, Emmy winning news anchor and Corporate Leader, she openly shares her struggles and how she overcame the challenges along the way.

Referred to as a rare ‘triple-threat’ in the speaking world, for her experience in sports, television and tech, Nina connects with audiences on multiple levels.

Nina was a member of the USA Gymnastics team in the 1980’s, then became an award-winning journalist and Emmy-award winning television news anchor. Nina left TV for Tech and spent 12 years on the leadership team of a technology company during its hyper-growth expansion and highly successful IPO.

Nina’s repeated successes, the highs, are only part of her story. Her ability to adapt and find new levels of success after each devastating plot twists in her life (the lows) is a testament to resilience and determination. After repeatedly being asked, “How’d you do that?”, she began her research into why some people thrive while others struggle or get stuck when faced with adversity. Years of research and two books later, she identified the specific actions and mental shifts needed to ‘adapt in a positive way’ to the challenges that life hands us. She created a proven framework that anyone can use to handle adversity and reach new levels of success..

An expert on Resilience, Nina uses her story as a backdrop to show how the highs and lows in each person’s story create a lifetime of learning and new strength. She challenges audiences to rethink their own life journey, identify strengths, and take on new challenges, and she gives them tools to handle anything that gets in their way.

Her first book, This is Not The End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life (2019 Morgan James Publishing) is for readers going through life changing events. It offers readers strategies to handle life’s most difficult challenges and control their own destiny. Nina is also the host of the podcast “This Seriously Sucks, the Right Podcast When Life Goes Seriously Wrong”, where she shares stories of amazing people who have overcome devastating challenges.

Nina sits on several non-profit boards and is an Executive Advisor with the Alzheimer’s Association. She focused her efforts on Alzheimer’s when it took her father from her in 2017.

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What Nina Sossamon-Pogue Talks About:

You’re Wired for ‘THIS’

Welcome High Achievers! If you are in this room, you’re already wired to handle change. Nina inspires high achievers to take on change and thrive through tough times. (This session is great for groups going through a challenging time, industry changes, M&A, or new leadership.)

This presentation reminds today’s workforce of the inherent power they possess. Nina shows audiences how to tap into their ability to adapt to change, and gives them a framework to handle anything life throws at them!

First we jump into our world already in motion, with technological advances, innovation, and global interconnectedness. Second we look at how we are feeling about all this change. Then we flex some mental muscles to become pros at handling anything that comes our way.

This presentation is a fun, Aha! experience into personal strength. Using the word ‘THIS’ to represent challenges of all sizes, Nina shows audiences how to efficiently put ‘THIS’ in its place, take control of the anxiety and stress that ‘THIS’ creates, and confidently keep moving forward.

Audience Outcomes:

Learn their Psychological Response to Change.
Recognize the ‘Success Cycle’ and stress they are creating for themselves.
Learn ‘THIS’ Framework to efficiently navigate adversity of all sizes.
Build a growth mindset towards change.

Your LifeTIME TIMEline’

Tough times don’t last AND no one stays on top forever. Nina challenges high achievers to rethink success from a ‘goal’ to a lifetime of achievements.

A session for all the smart, ambitious, humans working hard in today’s constantly connected comparison culture to help them unleash unwavering confidence and give them a framework to handle any challenges ahead.

Facing changes and constantly raising the bar, creates significant stress and uncertainty within an organization. People get stuck working in a low gear and it’s costing organizations millions in people and productivity.

Nina takes audiences from feeling unsure and stressed – to confidently embracing where they are in their life story and feeling optimistic about all the blank pages ahead.

This powerful time together is packed with actionable insights to improve mental well-being, increase productivity, and improve culture.

Audience Outcomes:

Unpack their lifetime timeline to gain perspective.
Uncover their ‘Reverse Resume’ to recognize the high and lows they have overcome.
Learn THIS Resilience framework to navigate challenges and achievements.
Build the resolve to face future challenges with a growth mindset and mental wellness.

Recent Publications

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.