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.
- The REINVENT•ABLE MINDSET: How to grow and thrive during change and uncertainty
- 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
- THE HAPPIER METHOD: 5 science-backed skills to live with more joy and aliveness
The REINVENT•ABLE MINDSET: How to grow and thrive during change and uncertainty
In a world of accelerating change and uncertainty, especially with AI transforming how we work and live, leaders and teams need more than just resilience—they need a completely new mindset to turn disruption into opportunity.
In this dynamic keynote, Nataly shares her science-backed REINVENT•ABLE Mindset that helps organizations and individuals not just navigate change, but use it as a catalyst for growth and innovation.
Drawing from her remarkable journey from refugee to successful tech CEO, best-selling author, and artist, Nataly reveals the five essential qualities that separate those who thrive through change from those who struggle to adapt.
Through compelling stories, research in neuroscience and psychology, and interactive elements, audiences learn how to:
- Shift from resisting change to using it as a catalyst to grow their skills and abilities
- Lead with a mindset of possibility vs. being overwhelmed by obstacles
- Recognize the brain’s fear response and build confidence through action
- Identify and challenge limiting beliefs that block innovation and growth
- Manage difficult emotions that arise during change and lead with authenticity
This keynote is perfect for:
- Leadership conferences and corporate events
- Organizations navigating significant change or digital transformation
- Teams seeking to build innovation and adaptability
- Companies looking to empower their workforce for the future of work
Attendees will leave with practical tools to develop their REINVENT•ABLE Mindset, actionable strategies to lead through uncertainty, and renewed energy to embrace change as an opportunity for growth.
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
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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