Nataly Kogan
Thriving & Leadership
- Leading expert on thriving and leadership, 3x entrepreneur, bestselling author, and mindset mentor to high performers with purpose
- Creator of the Happier Method™, founder and CEO of Happier, a company that’s helped more than 1 million people live happier lives
- Bestselling author of The Awesome Human Journal, The Awesome Human Project, Happier Now
- Creator of Happier @ Work™, Leading Through Change, and Elevating Women Leaders popular leadership training programs
- Creator of the REINVENT•ABILITY™ framework for high performers and host of the REINVENT•ABILITY Podcast
- Held top positions at McKinsey and Microsoft, was a Managing Director at a venture capital fund, and founded or was an executive at 5 startups and tech companies
- Featured in hundreds of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, TEDx Boston, and SXSW
- Came to the United States as a refugee from the former Soviet Union
- Client list includes: SAP, Disney, Workhuman, Cisco, Vanguard, Comcast, Google, Dell, Bristol Myers Squibb, and MDRT
Nataly’s transformative, virtual and in-person keynote presentations will activate your audience with accessible, science-backed skills, inspiring leadership insight, and her incredible life story brought to life on stage with her vibrant energy, humor, and creativity.
- HARNESSING REINVENT•ABILITY: Embrace growth, unlock your potential, and create the positive impact only you can have
- THRIVING THROUGH CHANGE: Harnessing change as a catalyst for growth
- THE POWER OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: Creating trust and empowering your team to thrive
- UNLEASH YOUR AWESOME HUMAN!: Fuel your emotional fitness, struggle less, and thrive more in work and life
- UNLOCKING CONFIDENCE: Craft an empowering inner narrative, bust through doubt, and create the impact only you can have
- THE HAPPIER METHOD: 5 science-backed skills to live with more joy and aliveness
In times of rapid change and uncertainty, one skill has become essential: the ability to reinvent ourselves. REINVENT•ABILITY is the dynamic ability to grow through change, uncover your unique gifts and dimensions, and continuously expand into your fullest potential — so you can create the lasting impact only you can have.
In this transformational keynote, Nataly shares her unique 5-step REINVENT•ABILITY™ Framework, designed to help individuals and leaders embrace transformation, unlock their unique gifts and top performance, and create a lasting positive impact. Drawing from her personal journey of reinvention as a refugee, entrepreneur, and artist, and the science of hopefulness, Nataly weaves together inspiring stories and practical tools to help you break free from limiting beliefs, take meaningful action, and unleash your true potential.
You’ll leave this keynote feeling empowered not just to grow through change, but to leverage your reinvention as a pathway to deeper fulfillment and positive impact.
Key takeaways:
- The 5-step REINVENT•ABILITY™ Framework to help you embrace transformation and uncover new possibilities
- How to break through limiting beliefs that hold you back
- Powerful strategies to take bold, aligned action, and continuously evolve with confidence
- How to align your growth with your values and purpose, so you can share your unique gifts and make the lasting impact only you can create
THRIVING THROUGH CHANGE: Harnessing change as a catalyst for growth
In today’s world, change isn’t just constant–it’s accelerating. AI and other technologies are reshaping the way we work and live at a breathtaking pace. In this environment, resisting change is no longer an option. The key to success lies in learning how to embrace and thrive through it.
Nataly knows this firsthand. Arriving in the U.S. as a teenage refugee, she had no choice but to navigate uncertainty and find a way to thrive. Drawing from her “refugee mindset” of possibility and hope, Nataly excelled through constant change during her 20-year career as a serial entrepreneur and executive in tech and finance.
In this eye-opening keynote, Nataly shares her science-backed T.H.R.I.V.E. blueprint, empowering audiences to reframe change as an opportunity for growth, envision new possibilities, reconnect with their purpose, and lead with authenticity.
Key takeaways:
- The neuroscience of change and uncertainty–what happens in our brains and how to work with it.
- T.H.R.I.V.E. Blueprint: 6 science-backed strategies to grow through change, manage discomfort, prioritize learning over perfection, and lead with vulnerability.
- How to shift from resisting change to using uncertainty as a catalyst for curiosity, expanded perspectives, and new skills.
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 powerful mindset shifts to help leaders communicate with authenticity and immediately-accessible practices that leaders can use to lead with more compassion and humanness.
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
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.
Nataly can turn this keynote into a 90-minute interactive workshop, including her newly- released Awesome Human Journal, for every participant.
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
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 best-selling 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, embrace their unique abilities, 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 -mode 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
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 self-compassion, 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
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