Henna Pryor

Hire Henna Pryor

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.

Awkward and Upward!

Your surprising secret weapon for taking more professional risks

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 weakening of our social muscles is slowly destroying our ability to take smart risks at work – like collaborating with colleagues, initiating tough conversations, speaking up, and sharing new ideas.

Risk-taking sounds good in theory, but most of us have a hard time moving from wishful thinking to execution. Why? When we have a chance to take a risk, in that moment, we feel awkward – and that awkwardness bumps up against our deep desire for others to approve of us and what we do. However, the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong.

In this keynote, Henna Pryor teaches audiences how embracing the Good Awkward is your secret weapon for skyrocketing teamwork, speaking up boldly, and strengthening your risk-taking muscle.

Key Takeaways:

• Pinpoint the exact reason it’s been difficult to take risks – and how to move past it.
• Use deliberate discomfort and strategic micro stressors to rebuild our social and risk-taking muscles
• Create a custom plan for collaborating, speaking up, sharing ideas, and being brave and risk-ready whenever the chance arises

The Changing Psychology of Influence in the Modern Era

How to overcome resistance to move your ideas forward

In the modern era, the psychology of creating action, influence, inspiration, and navigating through uncertainty has changed.  We need to take a new approach to ignite action in our teams, persuade prospects, have difficult conversations, and maximize partnership opportunities.

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.

In this interactive session, Henna Pryor uncovers the 4 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.

Key Takeaways:

• Shift away from problem-solving to a more valuable strategy.
• Understand how being the “expert” is hurting your influence instead of helping.
• Position your idea from several new angles that increase trust and get the green light you need for people to say yes.

Pushing Limits, Igniting Excellence

Unlocking the New Mindset of Success

With changing landscapes, tough competition, and information overload, winning market share is harder than ever. We may have high levels of excellence, but that excellence comes at a surprising cost – it keeps us stagnant and quietly discourages taking the risks we need to grow. Why?

The dark side of success is we often focus on what we already excel at instead of leaning into the discomfort of what today’s success requires: more innovation, creative collaboration, and thinking outside of the box. But fear not – we already know the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong. Today, that means we need to become excellent at being uncomfortable.

In this keynote, Henna Pryor will share the modern mental skills for skyrocketing your team’s performance, frontloading discomfort, and unlocking the innovation needed to tap into new sources of success.

Key Takeaways:

• Cultivate innovative, outside-the-box thinking.
• Use the tools of neutral thinking and deliberate discomfort to expand mental muscle.
• Formulate a personalized game plan to be risk-ready whenever the chance arises.

Additional Content

Henna also offers additional content in other critical Workplace Performance buckets like:

• Presence, Communication, Empowerment, Persuasion/Influence, and Elevating Impact
• Professional and Personal Mindset Growth
• Time Management and Productivity
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Workshops

Additionally, Henna has curated a list of workshops and breakout sessions that can be delivered both in-person and virtually:

• Building and Maintaining Boundaries that Stick
• Your AI Intern: How to Be a Human Seller with a Robot Helper
• New Strategies for Modern-Day Work-Life Harmony
• Banishing Imposter Thoughts and Addressing Self-Doubt
• Strengthening Your Professional Network
• Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias
• The Art and Science of Prioritization
• Unearthing Your Leadership Superpowers
• Skyrocketing Trust & Collaboration in the Modern Era
• Building a Strong Personal Brand
• Sales Messaging Mistakes to Fix Today
• Time is Money: Communicating in a Hybrid Workplace
• When to Grit and When to Quit
• Take Action Now: Frameworks for Better Decision-Making