About Heather
Heather R. Younger’s expertise in adversity started early. As the only child from an interracial and interfaith marriage, she was shunned and excluded by extended family. While it left her with a lot of questions growing up, it led her to develop a high level of resilience and a deeply inspired commitment to advocate for the voiceless. Heather is dedicated to creating opportunities for people to learn strategies for reframing their own adversities and stories to lead more productive and joyful lives.
With humor, warmth, and an instant relatability – she helps organizational leaders, teams, and individuals create a laser-focused clarity into what makes them tick. She shows why that’s important while delivering clear and purposeful strategies for embracing change and recognizing the tremendous strength in diversity.
As a champion for positive change in workplaces, communities, and our world at large, Heather inspires others by teaching the kind of intentional leadership that drives real business results such as increased employee engagement, loyalty, collaboration, and connectivity.
The result?
- Team members feel heard, seen, and valued
- Companies create safe environments and a culture of trust
- Diversity and creativity are celebrated
- Resilience rises
- Stress falls
- Productivity goes through the roof
- Customer retention and referrals soar
Everyone wins – sometimes in ways they didn’t even realize possible.
Heather is the founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, an International TEDx speaker on Adversity, Leadership Podcast Host, Business Coach, Facilitator and Attorney, who has earned a reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”. She holds a law degree, is a regular contributor to "Forbes" and "LinkedIn" and is the best-selling author of The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty, which hit the top of the "Forbes Must-Read List for HR Professionals." Her upcoming book, The Art of Caring Leadership, was picked up by Berrett Koehler Publishers and teaches the radical power of caring support in leadership and in the workplace. She is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management, on the boards of Mile High SHRM, National Speakers Association of Colorado, and the American Cancer Society.That’s a lot of accolades and titles – but what is most important to know about Heather is that she brings a breadth of experience, extensive quantitative and qualitative research, and a truly deep passion for advocacy, resilience, human relations, and connection to every audience, every workshop, every consultation.
She’s also a mother of four who, like so many parents and business professionals, gets just how difficult and challenging everything can be – and she’s bringing the solutions and strategies to make change less scary, more manageable, and sometimes – even adventurous!
Ready to create a win-win for your team, organization, and customers? Invite Heather to speak to your next audience.
Heather R. Younger’s Intro for Building Resilience
Are you feeling stuck by what is happening all around you?
Could you use some great ideas to help you get back on track and thriving?
If you answered yes, then you are in the right place!
Today's presenter is known as the “Employee Whisperer” - is a best-selling author on employee loyalty and leadership - has a TED talk on “Transforming
Adversity into Opportunity” - and is the host of the popular "Leadership with Heart" podcast.
Let's welcome from Denver, Colorado, a self-professed lover of warm chocolate chip cookies—Heather Younger!
Heather R. Younger’s Intro for Changing “I Quit!” to “I Fit!”
Do you wish you knew the #1 reason why employees leave their companies?
If you knew the secret potion for making employees want to stay, would you be excited to do more of it?
If you answered "yes" to these questions, then you are in the right place!
Today's presenter is known as the “Employee Whisperer” - is a best-selling author on employee loyalty and leadership - is the host of the popular "Leadership with Heart" podcast - and she is a former attorney (please don’t hold that against her).
Helping us today to 'Retain Our Employees through Caring Leadership,' let's welcome from Denver, Colorado - a soccer mom and self-professed lover of warm chocolate chip cookies—Heather Younger!
Heather R. Younger’s Technical Requirements - Live Events
Heather’s presentation uses a heavy amount of images, all embedded into her Keynote deck that she runs from her Dell Inspiron 14 5000.
**Due to the custom nature of her presentation, it is not possible to run the slides from another machine or provide them prior to the presentation.
Heather's requirements are as follows:
- Prior to the presentation, a cup of hot black tea with honey and lemon
- A 16.9 digital data projector, ideally with a HDMI connection
- 3.5mm sound lead to play audio from her laptop
- A fold-back screen (a monitor so Heather can see which slides are on-screen from anywhere on stage).
- No lectern required - please allow for ease of movement on the entire stage
- A wireless lapel or headset microphone
- A bottle of water on stage
- Walk on/walk off song: “Remember the Name” by Fort Minor (can be played up to 40 second mark as a continuous or just as instrumental)
SOUND CHECK: Heather requires no more than 30 minutes. The sound check needs to occur within two (2) to three (3) hours of her presentation time.
RECORDING: Heather is happy to be video-taped; a separate Right of Use Agreement must be authorized by the Customer if they are taping her presentation.
Heather R. Younger’s Technical Requirements - Virtual Events
- Customized Virtual Session – PRE-RECORDED
- Heather will provide her pre-recorded session five (5) days in advance, as a 4K video file for the client to load into their meeting platform
- The client will provide the meeting platform of their choice, invite their attendees and screen the pre-recorded video to participants
- No technical rehearsal is necessary for the digital keynote product
- Heather will join the virtual meeting for a moderated, live Q & A with participants
- After the session, Heather will provide a PDF summary of insights and a planning guide for next action steps
- Customized Virtual Session - LIVE
- Heather will present with a green screen for a chroma-key broadcast where she appears seamlessly in front of animated video slides, or using a monochromatic warm background
- A technical rehearsal is required prior to the event
- The client will provide the meeting platform of their choice, invite their attendees and screen Heather live to participants
- Her ATEM pro switcher allows her multi-camera setup to simply appear as a webcam to your conference platform
- NOTE: Heather will not provide her slides in advance, as they have been custom-coded and are designed to work as visual aids only
- After the session, Heather will provide a PDF summary of insights and a planning guide for next action steps
INSIDE HEATHER'S STUDIO
- Camera A: Logitech Brio 4K web camera
- Camera B: Canon EOS 250D / SL3 with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III Lens
- Blackmagic ATEM pro switcher and hardware streaming encoder
- 3 Newer continuous LED location lights
- Dell Inspiron 14 5000 Laptop (for slides)
- Dell Inspiron Laptop (for accessing the platform)
- Movo Photo WMX-1 Wireless Lavalier Microphone System (2.4 GHz)
Heather Younger Articles
Being more intentional in everything you do will give you great results. Heather R. Younger shares the top three things you can do to be more intentional about during this trying time.
Hello, I'm Heather R. Younger, keynote speaker and author on all things leadership, employee loyalty and engagement. Today I wanted to share just one positive message with you, which is to be more intentional.
Intentional? "What's that?" you might ask?
I don't mean intentional by sitting around in a robe and eating a jelly doughnut, and doing nothing that day. Unlike me...kidding! I don't mean that.
What I mean is to be intentional first in your mindset. And that means before you even go to sleep at night, figure out the kind of day you want the next day. And if you didn't have a great day today, make a decision in your mind that you will not have the same day the next day.
Number two, be intentional in your language. Our words mean everything. And what we say to ourselves and to those around us has a huge amount of impact. So choose to be positive to yourself. Choose to be uplifting to yourself and to others.
And lastly, be intentional in your behaviours. Set a plan for yourself for the day, maybe the night before or the day of, about what it is you want to achieve. And maybe it's not a whole bunch. Maybe it's just getting out of bed. Whatever that is for you during this time. Just be intentional.
Being intentional will make you feel like you've succeeded a lot more during this time when we're all sitting at home remotely. But know that you have the power and the strength to get through it all. But you have to first start with your mind, your language, your behaviours. Your results will all produce great things for you.
In the meantime, be intentional!
Listen to Heather's Leadership with Heart Podcast for more stories on employee engagement, loyalty, and leadership!
Book Heather for your virtual or live event today
What do truly inclusive workplace cultures look like?
They look like places where leaders sit with their people and empathize with them. Where they embrace their people for who they are and what they stand for. They sit with them and ask them how they're doing inside and outside of work.
I know what it feels like not to be included or to feel like I don't belong, from a painful experience in my past. Being shunned from my own family because of what I look like, because of my race. But I use that pain from the past and transform it into a positive catalyst to help leaders understand what they need to do to create inclusive workplaces, where employees truly feel like they belong.
Now, I know right now is a tough time. Many of us don't know all the right words to say. But if we lead first with empathy and compassion, we will all be just fine. Come with me as we explore what it looks like to have a truly inclusive workplace where our employees can finally feel like they belong.
