Stress-Proof Leadership

Humorous stories and powerful insights about stress & leadership from one of the top female keynote speakers.

Reduce stress. Enhance performance and productivity. High-Performance Teams Need Stress-Proof Leaders! Stress management is a HARD SKILL essential to success.

Stress-Proof Leaders leverage this critical skill to propel their own performance and team performance by:

• Creating a culture of value and security to support productivity in high-stress professions, during change, and in crisis.
• Managing contagious stress
• Understanding generational differences in the reaction to overwhelm and uncertainty

Wellness expert Eliz Greene delivers surprising insights and innovative, actionable strategies based on her research on job stress in this interactive, fun, and compelling keynote.

This presentation is customized through the Stress Proof Testing Tool which diagnoses the unique set of issues causing stress in the participants’ workplaces and benchmarks the results with other organizations in the study.

Through stories from a wide variety of leaders and employees interviewed during her study and her own experience surviving a heart attack while seven-months pregnant with twins, Eliz debunks work-life balance and provides a plan to protect your health, productivity, and sanity under stress

Whether she is kicking off a sales conference or closing a leadership development event, Eliz’s high-energy and high-content programs combine humor, stories, original research… and even a little dancing.

She uses humor and engaging activities to show it’s time to:

• Explore the major causes of stress based on the results of the Stress-Proof Testing Instrument.
• Examine emotional stress triggers to reveal why some people are bogged down by stressful environments while others thrive.
• Rewire assumptions about generations and gender to improve teamwork, communication, management, and performance through an engaging exercise.
• Understand different types of stress recovery strategies and identify their own recovery profile using an entertaining activity.
• Utilize a framework to create a plan to work well under pressure.
• Take one step toward being stress-proof by understanding the importance of motivation in behavior change.

Coping with Stress Dumping

Dealing with stress caused by other people

The phone rings - stress happens. 3 steps to deal with stress caused by other people What do you do when a phone call from an upset client, your college-aged offspring, or a stressed-out friend causes your stress to increase? Mimicking other people’s stress is part of how our brains create empathy, which is why it can feel awful to have someone dump their stress all over you.

This program, created specifically for high-performance teams in high-pressure occupations as part of Eliz Greene’s work with hotel managers, call centers, and relocation professionals, reveals how to protect yourself from stress dumping with steps to:

• Recognize the signs of stress dumping.
• Frame the interaction to decrease the stress impact.
• Wipe off the stress rather than passing it along.

Wellness expert Eliz Greene delivers surprising insights and innovative, actionable strategies based on her research on job stress in this interactive, fun, and compelling keynote.

This presentation is customized through the Stress Proof Testing Tool which diagnoses the unique set of issues causing stress in the participants’ workplaces and benchmarks the results with other organizations in the study.

Through stories from a wide variety of leaders and employees interviewed during her study and her own experience surviving a heart attack while seven-months pregnant with twins, Eliz debunks work-life balance and provides a plan to protect your health, productivity, and sanity under stress.

Whether she is kicking off a sales conference or closing a leadership development event, Eliz’s high-energy and high-content programs combine humor, stories, original research… and even a little dancing.

Active Recovery for Unavoidable Stress

High Performance Under Pressure

Recover - like an athlete. High-Performance Under Pressure The hectic pace, chronic high stress, uncertainty, and unavoidable negative influences can threaten productivity and creativity – AND suck the fun out of even the most enjoyable professions. This program, created specifically for high-performance teams in high-pressure occupations as part of Eliz Greene’s work with NASA, encourages active stress recovery similar to active physical recovery used by high-performance athletes.

Based on her book Stress-Proof Your Life and research on job stress, professional speaker Eliz Greene shares insights and strategies to limit the impact of stress to improve performance and quality of life.

It includes 5 essential skills to:

• Notice and address symptoms of high stress
• Decompress from pressure and stress you can’t avoid
• Signal your body to release cortisol to protect your health, performance, and quality of life
• Change the focus from problem-solving to achievement
• Find the motivation to make a change

Resilience is a choice

4 decisions essential to weathering unrelenting stress

Based on more than 100 interviews with leaders and team members, Eliz shares insights to weather the stress of crisis and change.

She discovered that highly capable people are often unequipped to deal with the stress of an unsolvable situation. For them, the stress of dealing with vulnerability amplifies the stress of crisis and change.

Ultimately, resilience is a choice. We choose to move forward in the face of failure, crisis, tragedy, pain, or life-altering (and business-altering) events we can’t control. Understanding your reaction to vulnerability is essential to becoming resilient.

In this program, Eliz shares 4 essential decisions to:

• Deal with the curse of capability.
• Get comfortable with the emotional reaction to vulnerability.
• Focus on what is possible rather than dwelling on what is difficult.
• Strengthen your resilience muscle.

Shattering the Myth of Work-Life Balance

Overcome overwhelm to live and work well.

Work and life are both part of your environment. Expecting one to balance out the other is unreasonable.

How do we deal with stress when life is so busy? In her research on job stress Eliz Greene discovered overwhelm is at the root of stress, not lack of balance. Her program brings clarity and a plan to prevent busy from standing in the way of productivity, creativity, problem solving, and quality of life.

Built with humorous and engaging stories, and based on unique research, this high-energy program explores the challenges of overwhelm and provides real-world, immediately implementable strategies to reduce stress, improve focus, and get more of what is important done.

Wellness expert Eliz Greene draws on her experience working with high performers and original research exploring how to work through stress rather than being bogged down by it. Using a copyrighted assessment tool, Eliz also shares unique insight into the stress environment faced by the attendees.

Eliz survived a heart attack at age 35 while seven months pregnant with twins and knows limiting stress is essential to a long, enjoyable and productive life.

Her laser focus on priority, warm and funny stories, and immediately implementable strategies inspire participants to reach new heights while protecting productive time, personal relationships, and wellness. Participants will:

• Utilize a copyrighted assessment tool to explore the unique stress environment faced by the audience.
• Uncover the elements of their personal stress environment and unconscious stress triggers using Post-it notes
• Discover their stress recovery personality type.
• Practice stress management skills* — including laughter!

*Warning: There may be dancing.