Bring Morra to Your Organization
Morra helps leaders transform stress and anxiety into strategic advantages, offering research-backed tools to reframe mindset, enhance decision-making, and boost team effectiveness during times of uncertainty.
Her sessions also cultivate emotional intelligence and resilience, equipping participants to lead with greater authenticity, clarity, and capacity in high-pressure environments.
Helping people rethink mental health and leadership at work.
Keynotes, workshops, executive education, and fireside chat formats available.
Thriving in Uncertainty: Reframe Your Relationship with Stress and Anxiety
Strong Feelings: Mental Wellbeing For Peak Performance
Discover Your Hidden Superpowers and Unlock Your Greatest Leadership Gifts
The Anxious Achiever: Understanding Anxiety Is A Leadership Superpower
What Introverts Can Teach All Of Us About Becoming Phenomenal At Our Jobs
Who Is Morra?
Morra Aarons-Mele is a researcher, author, and leadership trainer. Her mission is to help people rethink the relationship between mental health and leadership at work.
Speaker, Author, Advocate for Mental Health at Work
Host of The Anxious Achiever podcast
Contributor to Harvard Business Review
Author including The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower
Contributor to the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Wall Street Journal.
"The best session of the whole two weeks."
- Harvard Executive Education
Most Requested Workshop
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 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 stress 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.”)
Featured Speaking Engagements

Bring a Workshop to Your Company
Custom sessions for teams of any size.
Most Requested Keynotes and Workshops
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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.
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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. Our emotions are the invisible energy shaping every room we’re in. 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
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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!
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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.
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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.
Audiences Weigh In:
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“Morra really helped the PhD students in the audience understand where their drives for perfectionism are coming from, and why it's so important to understand what triggers them throughout the day. She offered useful and simple advice that advanced our students' self-knowledge and ability to manage their own anxiety and energy.”
–MIT
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"Morra helped us create a truly memorable event that brought essential skills for better mental health and leadership to Googlers and guests. Together we created an engaging and groundbreaking day."
–Google
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“We’re fans. The participation number was the highest we’ve seen. Morra covered a ton of information in a limited window, without while still creating space for breath and stillness.”
–National Geographic
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“Morra’s amazing keynote provided a welcome antidote to the ‘rah-rah’ tales typically found at conferences.”
–Alt Summit
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“AMAZING! So powerful. We can’t wait to have you talk to more of our audiences.”
–Forte Foundation
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“The single best motivational talk I’ve heard in my entire career.”
–Senior Partner, PWC
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“The best session of the whole two weeks."
- Harvard Executive Education
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“Morra brought inspiring and practical life skills. She left students empowered as they navigate the complex world.”
–Brown University
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"Morra killed it, she nailed it, she transcended it, she reinvented it..."
–Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital