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Dr. Rebecca Heiss

Inspiring Keynote Speaker on Fearless Leadership & Using Stress as your Greatest Advantage

Transform Stress to Work FOR You

Perfect for: Organizations looking for a high-energy keynote that empowers audiences to excel through change and boost performance to unleash their full potential.   

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Meet Rebecca

Rebecca knows fear. As a stress physiologist, Dr. Rebecca Heiss is dedicated to helping us overcome our instinctual limitations - the ancient, often subconscious fears that hold us back from our optimal performance and our happiest lives. Her research has been designated "transformative" by the National Science Foundation and it is waking up audiences around the world. 


As the author of two books, Springboard and Instinct, founder and CEO of the leadership 360-review mobile application, icueity, and highly sought-after professional speaker, Rebecca has found her calling in helping others recognize the power of biological applications in their lives. A former educator, Dr. Heiss spent much of her earlier career in the classroom at both the high school and college levels and was recruited to be a founding member of an innovative charter school with a focus on entrepreneurial thinking and impact-based learning. Today she shares her Fear[less] Stress formula to transform fear to fuel from stages around the world as a full-time speaker and facilitator of her Fearless Masterclass. She continues her research on how we can turn trauma into Post 

Traumatic Growth (PTG) rather than PTSD. 


Rebecca's "fear (less)" message inspires hope and actionable insights to train our brains to work for us, rather than against us in times of change and uncertainty. With surprising humor and palpable energy, no matter if Dr. Heiss is delivering virtually or on stage, she wins over her audiences with interactive, inspiring, and timely takeaways. 


Rebecca lives in South Carolina with her spoiled rotten dogs named Guinness & Murphy and every day tries to live her life motto: "Spread Happy." 

"Rebecca was terrific! Her takeaways continue to change the entire conversation for our teams around how we handle stress and change (and the language we use to address both!). I cannot recommend her highly enough!”

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Rebecca's Keynote Topics

We’ve gone through pandemics, supply chain issues, and uncertainty in global markets and now it’s time to get back to work. What if instead of trying to fight stress, we could transform it into a competitive advantage?


In this eye-opening keynote, Dr. Rebecca reveals the secret upside of stress that the highest-performing athletes and leaders use to fuel their performance. Helping to move individuals and companies from symptoms of PTSD to PTG (Post Traumatic Growth), she shares her simple science-based framework that allows anyone to stop fighting stress, and start leaning into it – improving productivity, increasing connection to others, and growing through challenges.


This presentation is perfect for leaders and teams:

  • Trying to battle increasing levels of stress, burnout, and disengagement
  • Ready to return to performance growth
  • Feeling stuck on a treadmill that’s always moving faster
  • Wanting to alleviate stress, but wary of the traditional “stress management” techniques that only add MORE “to do’s” (and stress) to their plates


The audience will leave able to:

  • Understand the biological root of their stress response and recalibrate that response to work for their benefit in the modern world
  • Effectively engage with their fears and reframe them as energy that can optimize performance and growth
  • Adopt a simple framework for rewiring their brains so they can respond differently to challenges, reduce burnout, and restore purpose and fulfillment to their work


The past years have brought increased stress, challenge, and unpredictable change to all industries, resulting in a confidence gap with leaders – afraid to step up, afraid to be vulnerable, afraid that they will flounder.


Imagine if you could instead lead from a space that allows you to go ALL-IN, transforming fear into fuel, and allowing you to enhance productivity by more than 25%, stay more focused, more creative, more motivated, and more engaged … all by fearing less. That’s the ALL-IN Effect.


Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

  1. Utilize a 3-step science-backed strategy to recalibrate the stress response to work to your advantage immediately, rather than working against you.
  2. Discover a key method for harnessing an adventure mindset to become more resilient in high-pressure situations.
  3. Experience an inspired ability to link the challenge of change, to purpose and connection in order to increase engagement across your organization.


Stress isn’t inherently bad. In fact, the highest-performing athletes and leaders have learned the secrets to the upside of stress, using it to fuel their performance rather than hinder it.


Rather than allowing our environments and our natural biological tendencies toward anxiety to hold us back, we can use the same energy to work with us, unlocking our highest potential and learning that when we fear(less), we make room for so much more.


Keynote audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:

  1. Understand the root of our stress response and recalibrate it to work with us in the modern world.
  2. Engage with our fears to reframe them as energy that can optimize performance.
  3. Adopt a simple plan for rewiring our brains to respond differently to threats as challenges, to reduce burnout and restore purpose and fulfillment to our work.


See Rebecca in action

The Trick to Making Stress Work for You

Is stress helpful or harmful?  Debilitating or enhancing?  Your answer....may very well become your reality. 

Dr. Rebecca Heiss TEDx

Dr. Rebecca Heiss explores the dynamics of gender and power by re-imagining the hit Barbie movie from a male perspective. 

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