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Henna Pryor

Boosting Mental and Social Fitness at Work

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  • Dynamic Workplace Performance Expert, award-winning 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker, and Author
  • Her playful and high-impact talks blend 2 decades of work with corporate teams, with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work
  • Clients call her their “secret weapon for impossible change”
  • Named a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence and SXSW Speaker on the Workplace Track
  • Bestselling book, Good Awkward, was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of the Year.

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Henna Pryor, PCC is a dynamic Workplace Performance Expert and an award-winning 2x TEDx and global keynote speaker, virtual presenter, author, and professional executive coach. Her playful style and high-impact talks blend 2 decades of work with corporate leaders and teams, with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work.

She has been invited to speak twice for TEDx in NYC and Wilmington, DE, and brings her expertise to a variety of global organizations including Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorganChase. She has also been featured in top media including Forbes, NBC, Washington Post, Fast Company, Inc., Business.com, HuffPost, and many more.

Henna founded Pryority Group – a fast-growing performance growth firm – to expand on her belief that the key to most people’s success is learning to strengthen mental and social muscles in order to boost risk-taking, maximize influence, and be braver in the work that we do.

She’s been named a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence and SXSW Workplace track speaker, and her best-selling book, Good Awkward, was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR Editor Karen Dillon, and was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of the Year.

EASY AI: How to be a Human Seller with a Robot Helper

In this modern era, choosing *not* to engage in new AI technologies isn’t an option – we’re either using it, or we’re being used. (A new MIT study says that those who use ChatGPT are 40% more productive than those who don’t!) Trying to keep up can feel uncomfortable, but by avoiding it entirely, our teams are falling behind and losing a key competitive advantage.

The problem is we believe our ability to leverage AI requires a total change in approach, when the reality is we can use “robot help” in simple, time-saving ways WHILE sharpening the increasingly critical human skills — even in a virtual world. We’ve seen how tech has helped us in the past, and by designing our sales process to work WITH artificial intelligence instead of on top of it, we see measurable leaps in our results.

You’ll leave this session learning the exact strategies I used that helped me more than double my own personal revenue this year – all using a simple and manageable combination of human-driven, robot-supported sales skills. You’ll learn:

  • How to use generative AI as your personal assistant and shake off the shackles of administrative tasks
  • The simple path to becoming an industry expert in just 45 minutes
  • Specific prompts that every seller must have in their toolkit to upgrade prospect research, build better sales conversations, and close more deals
Addition by Subtraction: The 4 Hidden Secrets to Increasing Engagement and Reducing Burnout

Employees today are not the same employees of 5 years ago. Between shifts in personal priorities, information overload, and an abundance of choice, our high-performing team members are different, and we need to be different. We need an updated approach to retain and engage employees, reduce burnout, and do more with less.

If you’ve faced resistance to your engaging through challenging times – you’re not alone. Even when we carefully plan to improve morale and build excitement, we don’t always get the reactions – or actions – we’re hoping for.

The problem? We spend the majority of our energy making our ideas and changes more compelling, more interesting, more attractive — pouring on the fuel — that we don’t consider the frictions that are working against us, and removing these frictions is a can’t-miss element to boosting our workplace performance, reducing burnout, and reengaging our highest performers.

In this interactive session, join 2x TEDx Speaker and Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor, helps to discover how the key to solving our engagement and burnout issues doesn’t lie in adding more solutions, but surfacing and subtracting the hidden obstacles to that success. You’ll walk away with a fresh toolkit to address the 4 main reasons your top performers hit performance walls AND a fresh strategy for addressing workplace performance blocks now and in the future.

Managing Uncertainty + Finding Action in a Time of Change: How to Optimize Performance in Stormy Weather

We’ve all learned in the last few years that the only thing that’s certain is uncertainty. With change being inevitable, we need a toolkit for how to not only endure those changes as they’re happening, but to use them to position ourselves for growth and find ourselves stronger on the other side.

In this powerful session, the audience will learn concrete strategies for navigating any professional change – from a new boss to a massive restructuring to global organizational shifts – and leave with a set of 5 action-oriented tools to make navigating any professional change feel easier.

Self-Advocacy, Negotiation, & The Art of Difficult Conversations

Have you ever struggled to have a tough conversation or negotiation in the workplace, whether it be advocating for yourself in a meeting, advancing the company’s agenda, or mediating difficult conversations across differences in gender, power, or experience level?

During this actionable session, participants will learn:

  • The new way to understand difficult conversations and negotiation in 2022
  • The difference between the 5 main challenging conversations we encounter at work
  • 3 productive principles to drive every dialogue
  • The specific Power Words that work to move conversations forward

Join Henna Pryor, Speaker, Executive Coach, and CEO of Pryority Group in this interactive session on self-advocacy, negotiation, and the subtle art of nailing difficult conversations. You’ll walk away with new tools and tips you can use to improve your conversation skills immediately – as well as take-home handouts and resources. We hope to see you there!

The Changing Psychology of Influence in the Modern Era: How to overcome resistance to move your ideas forward

In the modern era, the new psychology for creating new actions, influence, inspiration, and navigating through uncertainty has changed. We need to take a new approach to create new actions in our teammates and in ourselves, to persuade prospects, to have difficult conversations, and to maximize opportunities for partnership.

If you’ve ever found yourself facing resistance to your ideas – you’re not alone. Even when we have a great idea that will affect enormous change, we don’t always get the reaction – or action – we’re hoping for.

That’s because we spend the majority of our energy making our ideas and changes more compelling, more interesting, more attractive — pouring on the fuel — that we rarely discover the frictions that are working against us, and all humans have them.

In this interactive session, join 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker, Author, and Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor, to uncover and explore the 4 specific reasons why people resist change, and more importantly, concrete strategies to overcome them so we can move our ideas, initiatives, team members, prospects, and mission forward.

After this keynote, you’ll be able to:

  • Shift away from problem-solving to a more valuable strategy
  • Understand how being the “expert” is hurting your influence instead of helping
  • Position your idea from several new angles that increase trust and get the green light you need for people to say yes
The Changing Psychology of Influence in the Modern Era - and How It'll Transform Your Business

In this new era, the new psychology for influence, inspiration, sales, and revenue growth has changed and we need to take a new approach to persuade our employees, earn new customers, increase referrals, and maximize opportunities for partnership and repeat business.

If you’ve ever found yourself facing resistance to your ideas – you’re not alone. Even when we have a great idea that will affect enormous change, we don’t always get the reaction – or action – we’re hoping for.

We spend the majority of our energy making our ideas and changes more compelling, more interesting, more attractive — pouring on the fuel — that we don’t consider the frictions that are working against us.

In this interactive session, join Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor, to uncover and explore the 4 main reasons why people resist change, and more importantly, how to overcome them to leverage the NEW psychology of influence, so we can move our ideas, initiatives, team members, and mission forward.

Pushing Limits, Igniting Excellence: Unlocking the New Mindset of Success

With changing landscapes, tough competition, and information overload, winning market share is harder than ever. We may have high levels of excellence, but that excellence comes at a surprising cost – it keeps us stagnant and quietly discourages taking the risks we need to grow today. Why?

The dark side of success is we often focus on what we already excel at instead of leaning into the discomfort of what excelling today requires: more innovation, creative collaboration, and thinking outside of the box. But fear not – we already know the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong. Today, that means we need to become excellent at being uncomfortable.

In this keynote, author and 2x TEDx and Keynote Speaker, Henna Pryor will share the modern mental skills for skyrocketing your team’s performance, frontloading discomfort, and unlocking the innovation needed to tap into new sources of success.

After this keynote, you’ll be able to:

  • Pinpoint the exact reason it’s been difficult to take risks – and how to move past it
  • Use the tools of neutral thinking and deliberate discomfort to expand mental muscle
  • Formulate a personalized game plan to be risk-ready whenever the chance arises

Not only will you feel more empowered to stretch into new spaces, but you’ll walk away with specific mindset tactics and strategies to be more resilient, less stressed, and more inspired by change in your own life.

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