Most Requested Keynotes and Workshops

Thriving in Uncertainty: Reframe Your Relationship with Stress and Anxiety

As a leader, you're no stranger to pressure and high-stakes decision-making. What if the stress and anxiety that often accompanies leadership could be transformed into your greatest asset? Drawing from science and real-world examples, this session reveals how some of the most successful leaders leverage stress and anxiety to drive innovation, create more capacity, and achieve extraordinary results. You'll discover:

• How to reframe stress and anxiety: what the latest research tells us about the power of changing mindset

• Strategies to turn anxious energy into a catalyst for success

• Techniques to create environments that boost team trust, effectiveness, and productivity during chaotic times

• Methods to enhance your decision-making by harnessing anxiety's foresight

• Ways to authentically communicate and connect with your team, even in moments of stress (without becoming anyone’s “therapist.”)

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to reframe your relationship with anxiety and unlock your full potential as a leader. You'll leave with practical tools to not only manage stress but to harness it as a powerful force for positive change in your organization.

Strong Feelings: Mental Wellbeing For Peak Performance

Great leaders, elite athletes, and world-changers know this: the secret to your highest performance isn’t pushing harder, but allowing yourself to feel your feelings and face your challenges head on. This session helps increases self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and lessens the impact of work stressors and burnout.

• Uncover the strategic advantage of emotions, and why welcoming uncomfortable emotions is the key to strength and growth

• Learn how the latest research on human flourishing and post traumatic growth applies to our changing, chaotic world of work 

• Create new skills and routines that boost mind, body, and spirit

• Lessen the impact of stress, anxiety, and burnout

If you’re feeling anxious right now, you’re not alone. The world is scary, and new ways of working bring tremendous uncertainty. How can you lead with authority and strength when you feel anxious? How can you inspire and motivate others when your mind and heart are racing? What’s the best way to “gel” a hybrid team that’s feeling unsettled and unsure?

The Anxious Achiever: Understanding Anxiety Is A Leadership Superpower
Anxiety affects over one third of Americans. But anxiety at work has long been a taboo topic hidden in plain sight. Until now. In this session we will discuss:

• Understanding and managing how anxiety shows up for you at work

• How to use your leadership anxiety as an advantage

• Managing perfectionism, impostor feelings, and the need for control

• Creating guardrails that protect your boundaries, time, and energy

• Managing anxiety in teams 

Here’s the good news: Understanding what makes you feel anxious and burnt out is a leadership superpower! If you know how to manage it, anxiety can motivate us to be more resourceful, productive, and creative. It can break down barriers and create new bonds. It can help us find solutions in the toughest times and work through challenges. Morra Aarons-Mele helps you stop avoiding your anxiety and learn to thrive because of it.

What Introverts Can Teach All Of Us About Becoming Phenomenal At Our Jobs

“Network your way to the top.” “Always say yes.” “Crush it.” “Get out there!”

If phrases like these- not to mention typical networking events on Zoom or IRL- make you want to hide in the bathroom, join Morra Aarons-Mele for a whole new outlook on introverted leadership, one that won’t make you want to hide. You’ll leave with new insights and solid skills to build a phenomenal network, grow your career, and define your success- for you.

It’s a myth that extroversion is the key to success. In this session, you’ll gain valuable insights and practical skills to 

• Identify your introvert superpowers

• Communicate with confidence

• Build a robust network and master networking events

• Dazzle an audience, and lead with confidence—all without pretending to be an extrovert.

One of Morra’s most popular keynotes based on 17 years of research. If you’re a curious extrovert, bring an introverted friend and come along!

Love Your Tricky Brain and Unlock Your Greatest Leadership Gifts

After decades of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Morra Aarons-Mele discovered something unexpected:  Many driven and successful people struggle secretly with their mental health.  Maybe anxiety is your most loyal companion and your worst enemy. Maybe you’re neurodistinct, managing ADHD or a brain that just works differently, and you’re feeling stuck. Maybe you feel like you need to hide who you really are at work. In fact, every one of us has the version of us that we believe we are supposed to be, and other parts that we keep hidden. We hold ourselves to extremely high expectations and then punish ourselves for not measuring up.  But here’s the TRUTH:  The parts of us we are hiding are our gifts.

This session will help you discover how to turn your perceived leadership weak spots into your greatest source of empathy, authenticity, and impact. The anxieties, the challenges, the emotional sensitivities that you've spent years trying to suppress are actually your competitive advantage!

The key to unlocking your greatest potential as a leader lies in embracing those so-called "weaknesses.” 

Join Morra Aarons-Mele, author of the The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpowers and host of the Anxious Achiever podcast for this interactive session.

Fireside Chat Format: Bringing Your Workplace to Life.

Morra can interview one of your organization’s leaders or spokespeople as they share their own mental health journey and offer solutions for the workforce. This flexible, engaging format brings your company’s message to life with Morra’s expertise as an interviewer and podcast host.