Turn Challenges Into Fuel For Growth
High performers face great expectations. They struggle with perfectionism, burnout, anxiety, and bad habits. Morra helps leaders break free from common traps and become stronger, more effective, resilient. When leaders, teams, and organizations work with Morra, they find the freedom to unlock hidden parts of themselves, becoming better leaders.
Morra delivers keynotes, workshops, and consulting that help high performing leaders and teams drive emotional intelligence, positive mental health, engagement, and excellence, especially in anxious times.
What’s possible when you unlock your “hidden” leadership superpowers?
Most leaders feel they need to hide pieces of themselves to achieve a high level of performance.
Yet, it’s only when they learn to embrace their emotions and tap into their challenges that they are able to access the greatest source of growth, empathy, and resilience– the very qualities that make exceptional leaders.
Morra—an anxious achiever herself—is:
Winner of Mental Health America’s media award (2023)
Host of “The Anxious Achiever,” a top 10 management podcast
Author including The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower (Harvard Business Review Press) - named one of the 10 Best Management Books of 2024 by Thinkers50
An expert on leadership in challenging times
“A truly memorable, groundbreaking day. Morra brought essential skills for better leadership and mental health.” –Google
“#1 among all our speakers.” –Private Equity Chair
“A frank, funny voice for our high-achieving professionals.” –O’Melveny & Myers
“Highly recommended. Over 2300 learned how to make anxiety a strength.” –Alumni Learning Consortium
“Morra killed it, she nailed it, she transcended it, she reinvented it..." –Educational Administrator at Harvard teaching hospital
Watch Morra in Action at SXSW
Watch Morra’s Featured Speaker talk at SXSW
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KEYNOTES
✓ Reframe “negative” emotions into leadership strengths and learn a powerful new model to manage the anxiety that comes with leading and succeeding
✓ Inspire self-discovery that lessens burnout, distraction, and overwhelm
✓ Catalyze healthier, more engaged teams.
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WORKSHOPS
✓ Break free from emotions that keep us ashamed, stressed, and stuck-- and help our teams feel that way, too
✓ Develop evidence-based skills to manage the anxiety that comes from leading in uncertain times
✓ Gain a quieter mind, make better decisions, and make positive change possible–for yourself, and your team.
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CONSULTING
✓ Optimize your workplace mental health spending and program delivery
✓ Minimize employee strain and anxiety through uncomfortable organizational changes and transformation
✓ Repair teams stuck in bad habits, poor communication, and burnout.
Here’s what you can expect after working with Morra:
Executives
Who can connect and inspire because they've cultivated a profound self-awareness.
Leaders
Who can navigate uncertain times with a calm, steady hand because they've learned to manage their own anxieties.
Managers
Who create high performing work environments and team members who want to come to work.
Morra’s Award-Winning Books
Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower
Financial Times Best Book of the Month
Top 10 Management Book of the Year, Thinkers50
Next Big Idea Club book pick
Featured in Boston Globe, Wall St. Journal, TED, Fortune, Quartz, and CNBC
How to Get Out There When You’d Rather Stay Home
Amazon bestseller
Popular keynote
Praised by Susan Cain, Publishers Weekly, Wall St. Journal, and more
Morra’s Podcast
The Anxious Achiever from LinkedIn Presents
Top 10 Management podcast
Signal Award winner for "Best Commute Podcast"
Webby Awards honoree Best Business podcast
World’s expert guests address psychological safety, accent bias, anxiety, perfectionism, ADHD, depression. and entrepreneurship