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Henna Pryor is an award-winning TEDx and global keynote speaker, virtual presenter, author, professional executive coach, and dynamic workplace performance expert.
As a workplace performance expert, Henna Pryor’s keynotes and workshops take a science-based approach to improve strategic risk management and workplace success. Her talks blend 2 decades of work experience with a playful style and high-impact takeaways. Henna Pryor is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Henna Pryor’s fees.
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After graduating with an honors degree in Finance from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Virginia, Henna Pryor initially began working in external auditing for Ernst & Young LLP before pivoting into her 14-year career in staffing.
During that stage of her career, Henna broke multiple records and successfully matched thousands of finance and accounting professionals into new opportunities, with companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 global organizations. While there, she won Rookie of the Year, Performer of the Year (#1 in the firm), and was a perennial top 10% performer, earning the attention of several top media outlets.
But her heart broke every time she helped a high-performing employee exit their high-potential team. Over and over, these high achievers left those teams – often leaving the leaders and colleagues scratching their heads. They couldn’t figure out why their people were so unhappy. She told them: “Maybe you’re not repelling anyone…but you’re sure as heck not compelling anyone either.”
Eventually, she decided that it was time to use her years of expertise and education to change this paradigm.
Since then, Henna has become an accomplished speaker and author, been invited to speak at SXSW and TEDx twice, and brings her expertise to a variety of global organizations including Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorgan Chase. SUCCESS Magazine recognized her as one of their 2024 Woman of Influence, and she has been featured in Forbes, NBC, Washington Post, Fast Company, Inc., Business.com, HuffPost, and many more. Today, her clients call her their “secret weapon for impossible change.”
Henna also founded Pryority Group to realize a vision that transformational speaking, coaching, and performance growth workshops should be available to everyone, and because she believes the key to most people’s success is learning to strengthen mental and social muscles to boost risk-taking, maximize influence, and be braver in the work that we do.
Her best-selling book, Good Awkward, was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR editor Karen Dillon, and has won a host of prestigious awards including Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Book of the Year.”
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Clients around the globe hire Henna Pryor for her science-backed, transformational keynotes and workshops. Henna’s playful and high-impact delivery style works equally well virtually or in person at larger events, intimate corporate sessions, and workshops. Specifically, Henna’s offerings are rooted in her Workplace Performance expertise. She loves to use stories and humor as tools to engage her audiences and open people up to new, unexpected possibilities.
Her background blends over 20 years of work with corporate leaders and teams, with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work.
Your Surprising Secret Weapon for Navigating Uncertainty, Rapid Change, & The Future of Work
Advances in technology have made it easy to avoid real human interaction. While texting, online ordering, and “swiping right” are convenient, we’re losing the skills of relating to others, building trust and connection, and enduring the critical friction and messiness we get from being in proximity to each other. This new reality is weakening our social muscles and slowly destroying our ability to have the conversations needed to connect at the highest level, take smart risks, and navigate today’s increasingly complicated world of work.
Navigating uncertain times sounds obvious enough, but most of us have a hard time moving from wishful thinking to execution. Why? Because when we stumble through those moments, we feel awkward – and that awkwardness bumps up against our deep desire for others to approve of us and what we do. As it turns out, it’s what we improve in the face of these moments – often despite others’ judgment – that leads to the greatest growth.
In this keynote, Henna Pryor helps you unlock your highest level of power and influence to navigate the world around you. Audiences will leave feeling more confident, equipped to build stronger teams, and ready to lead to their highest potential, all wrapped in the laughter and relatability her audiences can’t get enough of.
How to Overcome Resistance to Move Your Ideas Forward in the Modern Era
In the modern workplace, the psychology for creating new actions, influence, inspiration, and navigating through uncertainty has changed. We need to take a new approach to create new actions in our teammates and in ourselves, to persuade prospects, to have difficult conversations, and to maximize opportunities for partnership.
If you’ve ever found yourself facing resistance to your ideas – you’re not alone. Even when we have a great idea that will affect enormous change, we don’t always get the reaction – or action – we’re hoping for.
That’s because we spend the majority of our energy making our ideas and changes more compelling, more interesting, more attractive — pouring on the fuel — that we rarely discover the frictions that are working against us, and all humans have them.
In this interactive session, Henna Pryor uncovers the 3 specific reasons why people resist change, and more importantly, concrete strategies to overcome them so we can move our ideas, initiatives, mission, and team members forward.
How to Strengthen Social Muscles and Prevent Team Atrophy in a Fast Changing World
We’ve never been more connected — or more disconnected. Technology has made it effortless to reach anyone, anywhere, anytime… yet, 44% of workers describe their workplace relationships as “superficial,” and 1 in 3 employees would rather scrub a toilet than ask a colleague for help.
So, the real question is: How can we feel as connected socially as we are technologically?
In this high-energy, insightful, and first-of-its-kind keynote based on her pioneering national research study, Workplace Performance Expert Henna Pryor reveals what’s really holding teams back—and it’s not lack of skill, resources, or talent. It’s Social Muscle Atrophy (SMA) — a hidden performance killer that weakens trust, silos collaboration, and slows innovation. The good news? Social Muscle Strength (SMS) isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build.
You’ll learn the Social Muscle Framework — an actionable, digestible, and easy-to-implement process that addresses the two key levers that unlock peak team performance: Design and Dimension.
She’ll share how today’s top leaders are rethinking relationship-building, reengineering communication, and creating conditions where collaboration and innovation happen naturally, so teams can perform even better with the resources they already have.
If you’re ready to future-proof your team’s ability to perform at the highest level — this is the keynote that will change the way you think about team success forever.
Unlocking the Mental & Social Skills for Success in a Fast-Changing World of Work
With changing landscapes, tough competition, and information overload, pushing for growth and inspiring teams feels harder than ever. We may have achieved high levels of excellence, but that excellence comes at a surprising cost – it keeps us stagnant and quietly discourages taking the risks and tackling the problems we need to tackle to grow today. Why?
The dark side of success is that we often focus on what we already excel at instead of leaning into the discomfort of what excelling today requires: heightened adversity tolerance, escaping silos, and thinking outside of the box. Luckily for us – we already know the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong. Today, with change around every corner, that means to learn new ways to become excellent at embracing the discomfort of disruption.
In this keynote, Henna Pryor will share the modern strategies and skills for skyrocketing your team’s performance, frontloading the new mindsets needed to embrace disruption, and unlocking the innovation needed to tap into new sources of success.
Not only will you feel more empowered to stretch into new spaces personally, but you’ll walk away with specific mindset tactics and strategies for your teams to be more resilient, less stressed, and more empowered by disruption in your own lives.
Her energy was contagious and her competence shined through from the very first call. Not only was she spot on with her content and messaging, but we couldn’t have asked for a better partner in the process. She was a delight to work with, her content resonated meaningfully with our participants. We cannot wait to work with Henna again! – Robyn Ginese, Global Head for Executive Leadership and Development, FIS Global
Henna’s work helped us sharpen our awareness and focus, so that we were working with what is real and on what we can contribute…The workshops we have done with Henna have helped build confidence, understand drive and resilience and practice endurance. With the business landscape where it is today, these are essential mental skills and attributes.
If you want an engaging speaker who is authentic, motivational and understanding of what it takes to have a bias for action, then Henna is it. – John Dougan, Senior Director, Global Sales Delivery & Coaching, Workday
Henna Pryor combines insightful research and a playful writing style to bring a fresh perspective to taking the professional risks we all need to take to succeed – in work and in life. – Russell Wilson, American NFL Quarterback, Denver Broncos
Her session gave our team so much energy (as in, I had to cut my team off and move on to dinner at the end of the day). Her real-world applications and solid guidelines to high-performance growth are pretty incredible. 10/10…do recommend! – Rebecca Black, VP of Marketing, RevUnit
Awkwardness isn’t a weakness to fix - it’s your greatest asset for professional and personal growth.
In a time of blurred realities and filtered faces, embracing your awkwardness may seem counterintuitive. As 2x TEDx Speaker and Executive Coach Henna Pryor shows, relishing your “Good Awkward” is essential to becoming more bold, boosting your confidence, and taking the necessary professional risks at work that help you be braver and meet your true potential.
In this book, Pryor taps her signature playful and lighthearted writing style to share stories, science-based tools, and simple action steps to guide you to:
If your biggest goals have felt elusive or you’re eager to find a fresh edge in the crowded marketplace, Good Awkward can teach you how to create a new outlook on moments that once caused embarrassment or cringe and use them as a force for good, so you can become the bravest you.
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