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Nataly Kogan        

Reinvention Catalyst, Best-Selling Author, Well-Being Champion & Mindset Mentor

Nataly Kogan is an emotional fitness expert, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and keynote speaker dedicated to helping people embrace their full potential and thrive in work and life. She immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee from the former Soviet Union at the age of 13, starting her American journey in the projects and on welfare. Kogan learned English by watching "Who's the Boss?" and has since climbed to significant professional heights.

She attained high levels of success at McKinsey and Microsoft, served as a Managing Director at a venture capital fund, and held founding or executive roles at five startups and tech companies. However, after a period of intense pursuit of success, Kogan experienced severe burnout, prompting her to develop new strategies for living and working. Today, she leads Happier, Inc., a global technology and learning platform focused on improving emotional health through scientifically-proven practices.

Kogan has authored best-selling books including "Happier Now," "Gratitude Daily," and "The Awesome Human Project." She also hosts the "Awesome Human Podcast," which has been described as a crucial resource for personal development. Her keynotes and workshops are revered for their practical application of neuroscience and psychology, particularly her discussions on emotional fitness, resilience, leadership, and promoting a culture of gratitude in the workplace.

Apart from her professional achievements, Kogan began painting as a self-taught abstract artist at the age of 40, embracing bright colors and creativity in her art. She is known for her vibrant personality, often described as the funniest person in her family, and frequently uses the word “awesome” to express her enthusiasm. Kogan's profound impact on personal and organizational growth is recognized internationally, making her a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the domains of well-being and emotional health.

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UNLEASH YOUR AWESOME HUMAN!

Fuel your emotional fitness, struggle less, and thrive more in work and life

Based on Nataly’s best-selling book, The Awesome Human Project, this keynote will activate you to prioritize your emotional fitness, fuel your energy, and show up as your best, thriving self in every aspect of your work and life.

With her signature mix of vulnerability, humor, and scientific research, Nataly shares her journey as a refugee who achieved immense career success, suffered a debilitating burnout, and discovered how changing her relationship with herself and strengthening her emotional fitness not only improved her well-being, but her ability to unleash her full awesome potential.

This keynote won’t just inspire you, but empower you with Nataly’s signature simple yet surprisingly powerful practices to manage your energy, edit negative thoughts, and live and work with greater joy and purpose.

Key takeaways:

  • What is emotional fitness and simple daily practices to strengthen it A fresh take on self-care as the skill of fueling your mental, emotional, and physical energy
  • Powerful mindset shifts on how improving your relationship with yourself unlocks your full potential and capacity to lead with compassion

THE POWER OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP

Creating trust and empowering your team to thrive

Leaders are constantly given advice to be authentic and vulnerable.

But for many, this feels like a contradiction to the qualities they’ve come to believe leaders should embody: confidence, strength, unwavering positivity.

With vulnerability, humor, and scientific insights, Nataly shares mistakes she made and lessons she learned during her 20-year career as a business leader wearing a “confident and positive” mask. She offers profound mindset shifts to empower leaders to lead with more compassion and authenticity, and simple but powerful practices that leaders can use to build trust and openness within their organizations.

Key takeaways:

  • An innovative concept of the Emotional Whiteboard, and how to practice it to improve trust and psychological safety within your team Practical strategies to overcome fear of vulnerability
  • How to cultivate greater authenticity and human connection within your team to fuel engagement and top performance

THE HAPPIER METHOD

5 science-backed skills to live with more joy and aliveness

Based on Nataly’s best-selling book HAPPIER NOW

We’ve all gotten stuck in the “I’ll be happy when…” trap, believing that achievements or seeking perfection will bring us happiness. In this vulnerable and practical keynote, Nataly, the founder of Happier, a company that has helped more than one million people live happier lives, and author of the best-selling book Happier Now, shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive “big happy” and how she finally made the mindset shifts that enabled her to live with more selfcompassion, joy, and meaning.

Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate, and activates the audience to practice 5 core happier skills based on her science-backed Happier Method™. Audience members will be elevated, inspired, and armed with simple practices that can immediately fuel their joy.

Key takeaways:

  • Happiness is a skill you can improve
  • Learn the 5 happier skills: Acceptance, Gratitude, Self-Care, Intentional Kindness and the Bigger Why and simple yet surprisingly powerful ways to practice them in your daily life and at work

THRIVING THROUGH CHANGE

Growing through change with a mindset of purpose and possibility

We’re living in a time of constant change and uncertainty. AI is accelerating the pace of change and creating seismic shifts in the way we work and live. It’s no longer an option to resist change. We must learn how to embrace and thrive through it.

Having come to the US as a refugee when she was a teenager, Nataly had no choice but to embrace uncertainty and learn how to thrive through it. She used her refugee mindset of possibility and hopefulness to excel through constant change during her 20 year career as a serial entrepreneur and tech and finance executive.

In this perspective-shifting keynote, Nataly shares her science-backed T.H.R.I.V.E. blueprint and activates the audience members to reframe change as an opportunity to grow and share more of their unique abilities in the service of others.

Participants will be inspired to tell a more empowering and expansive story about change, connect to their sense of purpose and value learning over safety.

Key takeaways:

  • The neuroscience of change and uncertainty
  • T.H.R.I.V.E. Blueprint: 6 science-backed strategies to create a positive change mindset, fuel hopefulness, and grow and evolve though change
  • How connecting to your sense of purpose empowers you to grow through change with more courage

UNLOCKING CONFIDENCE

Craft an empowering inner narrative, bust through doubt, and create the impact only you can have

From coming to the U.S. as a refugee when she was a teenager to becoming a venture capitalist at 25, being the only woman in the room for most of her career as a tech and finance executive, starting several start-up companies, writing two bestselling books, and becoming an artist at 40, Nataly is no stranger to having to overcome self-doubt and fear.

Weaving in vulnerable and powerful lessons she has learned on her journey, Nataly shares neuroscience insights, powerful mindset shifts and highly actionable strategies that audience members can use to break through limiting beliefs, create an empowering inner narrative, and boost their courage to do what feels deeply aligned with their purpose.

Key takeaways:

  • The neuroscience of self-doubt and fear and how to shift from survival fearmode and into the calm, centered, confident version of yourself
  • A powerful science-backed technique to edit negative fear-based thoughts and limiting beliefs
  • How to use your Bigger Why to shift from fear into courageous action

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