Heidi Dening

This wellbeing presentation is designed to show you simple, actionable micro-changes that you can make in life, to transform your daily stress and often overwhelming feelings of uncertainty into productivity and performance. These strategies will help you take back control of your life even when family, flatmates, fur-babies and frequent work distractions are preventing you from moving into a calm state of focus and flow.

You will learn:
1. How to recognise the warning signs of burnout that your body and brain are sending to you, before it’s too late.
2. Structured self-care habits to help you focus and concentrate when it matters, and rest and rejuvenate when it’s needed.
3. A four-part resilience formula to help you remain cool, calm and collected in this ever-changing world.

This presentation is designed to give you the courage, confidence and capability to lead yourself, your organisation, your colleagues and your remote teams during uncertain times. Learn how to better deal with our ever-changing business environment by embracing challenges so you can continuously bounce forwards, not backwards.

You will learn about:
• Collaboration – How to achieve the impossible through connecting and partnering with the right people.
• Comfort Zone – How to be brave enough to learn from your challenges and step outside your comfort zone to find new solutions.
• Celebration – How to keep your momentum by acknowledging the small milestones along the way.

This inspiring presentation is based on the insights Heidi learned from leading the planning, building (and eventual destruction) of a community library on a remote pacific island, and the impact that courage has when striving to achieve professional goals.

This wellbeing presentation is designed to show you practical micro-changes that you can make in life, to transform daily stress and feelings of overwhelm into productivity and performance. These mindset and self-care strategies will help you take back control of your physical, mental and social health even when family, flatmates, fur-babies and frequent work distractions are preventing you from reaching your professional goals.

You will learn about:
• Boundaries - The five 'non-negotiable' boundaries to incorporate that will improve your mental health and ability to cope with setbacks.
• Burnout Buffer – A work de-stress formula ensure you can effectively create a buffer between your work life and your home life (even if you WFH) so you don’t burn out.
• Body and Brain Reboot - Structured self-care habits to help you focus and concentrate when it matters, and rest and rejuvenate when it is needed.

This inspiring presentation is based on the mindset and self-care insights Heidi learned after contracting two random viruses – one that left her without use of her legs for eight months and one that caused so much pain when she moved it felt like every bone in her body was smashing.

To have a resilient organisation we first need resilient leaders and teams. This presentation is designed to help you build your professional resilience so you can better deal with the curveballs and cannonballs that we can’t control. Whether you are experiencing changing business models, financial challenges, disengaged teams, or feelings of overwhelm in this uncertain world, this impactful session will empower you with practical strategies that you can immediately implement.

You will learn about:
1. Priorities – Gain an insight into which of your professional strengths and capabilities are decreased when there are too many rusty holes in your resilience bucket.
2. Performance - A strategy on how to flip your automatic response to stress into a powerful process so you can perform at your fullest potential.
3. Perseverance - To proactively build your resilience with a 5-part formula so you can bend rather than break during high-pressured times.

This inspiring presentation is based on the resilience and perseverance insights Heidi learned from hitting rock bottom after petrol bombs were thrown at her room during an overseas volunteer mission, with the intention to burn her and her team alive while they slept.