Nataly Kogan
Transformation Catalyst
- Leading expert on thriving and leadership, 3x entrepreneur, bestselling author, and mindset mentor to high performers with purpose
- Creator of the Happier Method™, founder and CEO of Happier, a company that’s helped more than 1 million people live happier lives
- Bestselling author of The Awesome Human Journal, The Awesome Human Project, Happier Now
- Creator of Happier @ Work™, Leading Through Change, and Elevating Women Leaders popular leadership training programs
- Creator of the REINVENT•ABILITY™ framework for high performers and host of the DARE YOURSELF Podcast
- Held top positions at McKinsey and Microsoft, was a Managing Director at a venture capital fund, and founded or was an executive at 5 startups and tech companies
- Featured in hundreds of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, TEDx Boston, and SXSW
- Came to the United States as a refugee from the former Soviet Union
- Client list includes: SAP, Disney, Workhuman, Cisco, Vanguard, Comcast, Google, Dell, Bristol Myers Squibb, and MDRT
Nataly’s transformative, virtual and in-person keynote presentations will activate your audience with accessible, science-backed skills, inspiring leadership insight, and her incredible life story brought to life on stage with her vibrant energy, humor, and creativity.
- The REINVENT•ABLE™ MINDSET: A framework to grow and thrive during change and uncertainty
- THE POWER OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: Creating trust and empowering your team to thrive
- UNLEASH YOUR AWESOME HUMAN!: Fuel your emotional fitness, struggle less, and thrive more in work and life
- THE EMOTIONALLY FIT LEADER: Unlocking clarity, resilience, and high performance in a world of constant change
- THE HAPPIER METHOD: 5 science-backed skills to live with more joy and aliveness
- WORKSHOP: The REINVENT•ABLE™ Mindset: A leadership workshop experience. Change as the catalyst for growth
The REINVENT•ABLE MINDSET™: A framework to grow and thrive during change and uncertainty
In a world of relentless change—where AI is reshaping how we live and work—resilience is no longer enough.
The leaders and teams who thrive aren’t the ones who manage change best. They’re the ones who use it to grow and to expand into their fullest potential and impact.
That is the capability Nataly helps leaders and organizations build: REINVENT•ABILITY™: a mindset and science-backed framework for moving forward within uncertainty by shifting limiting beliefs, taking action to learn and experiment, and using change as fuel for growth rather than a drain on energy.
THE EXPERIENCE
In this dynamic, story-rich keynote, Nataly draws on her own journey—refugee, McKinsey consultant, VC, tech CEO, burnout survivor, and self-taught artist—to show what growing through change actually looks like from the inside out. With insights from neuroscience and psychology, real-time reflection and interactive moments, attendees don’t just learn a framework. They begin to use it.
Audiences leave with:
- Clarity on their Zone of Greatness—and how to lead from it
- A limiting belief reframed into one that fuels their growth
- A concrete bold step they’re ready to take
- A repeatable mindset system for navigating any future change
- A new relationship with uncertainty: not something to endure, but a catalyst to expand
- A personal Dare—a bold, specific commitment they make before leaving the room
THE REINVENT• ABILITY ™ FRAMEWORK
Anchor in Your Zone of Greatness – Identify the intersection of your strengths, what energizes you, and where you create your deepest impact—so you lead from alignment and purpose, not pressure.
Envision What’s possible – Break the brain’s habit of focusing on obstacles. Build a Map of Possibilities — expanding what your mind allows you to pursue.
Reframe Limiting Beliefs – Surface the beliefs shaping your choices and rewrite the ones keeping you anchored to the past instead of expanding toward your future.
Act to Learn – Clarity doesn’t come before action—it comes from it. Take small, intentional steps that create momentum and transform doubt into confidence.
Experiment and Evolve – Treat every challenge as data. Build the capacity to prototype, adapt, and keep moving—without waiting for a perfect outcome.
THE DARE YOURSELF™ EXPERIENCE
Every keynote closes with the Dare Yourself™ activation—one of the most distinctive elements of Nataly’s work.
Participants receive a custom Dare Card and write down one bold action they dare themselves to take. When they email it to Nataly, she follows up a week later, creating powerful accountability.
The dares are added to the digital Dare Wall at natalykogan.com—a growing collection of real commitments from real people choosing to grow and expand.
ADD-ON INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: THE DARE CANVAS™
The Dare Canvas™ is an interactive experience that turns the keynote’s core message into something people can see, touch, and take with them. Nataly guides participants to contribute to a large collective canvas, mirroring exactly what they just learned about taking action without having a plan or feeling confident. The result is a one-of-a-kind artwork that can be cut so each person takes a piece home, or live permanently in your office as a reminder of what this team created together.
Ideal for:
- Companies integrating AI and navigating rapid transformation
- Leaders managing through restructuring, growth, or significant role shifts
- Teams experiencing change fatigue or loss of momentum
- Organizations building a culture of adaptability and impact
THE POWER OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: Creating trust and empowering your team to thrive
Leaders are constantly given advice to be authentic and vulnerable.
But for many, this feels like a contradiction to the qualities they’ve come to believe leaders should embody: confidence, strength, unwavering positivity.
With vulnerability, humor, and scientific insights, Nataly shares mistakes she made and lessons she learned during her 20 year career as a business leader wearing a “confident and positive” mask. She offers powerful mindset shifts to help leaders communicate with authenticity and immediately-accessible practices that leaders can use to lead with more compassion and humanness.
Key takeaways:
- An innovative concept of the Emotional Whiteboard, and how to practice it to improve trust and psychological safety within your team
- Practical strategies to overcome fear of vulnerability
- How to cultivate greater authenticity and human connection within your team to fuel engagement and top performance
Based on Nataly’s best-selling book, The Awesome Human Project, this keynote will activate you to prioritize your emotional fitness, fuel your energy, and show up as your best, thriving self in every aspect of your work and life.
With her signature mix of vulnerability, humor, and scientific research, Nataly shares her journey as a refugee who achieved immense career success, suffered a debilitating burnout, and discovered how changing her relationship with herself and strengthening her emotional fitness not only improved her well-being, but her ability to unleash her full awesome potential.
This keynote won’t just inspire you, but empower you with Nataly’s signature simple yet surprisingly powerful practices to manage your energy, edit negative thoughts, and live and work with greater joy and purpose.
Nataly can turn this keynote into a 90-minute interactive workshop, including her newly- released Awesome Human Journal, for every participant.
Key takeaways:
- What is emotional fitness and simple daily practices to strengthen it
- A fresh take on self-care as the skill of fueling your mental, emotional and physical energy
- Powerful mindset shifts on how improving your relationship with yourself unlocks your full potential and capacity to lead with compassion
In today’s volatile, high-pressure environment, strategy alone isn’t enough. The leaders who perform at their best — and bring out the best in their teams — share one essential skill: emotional fitness.
Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and real-world leadership, this keynote reveals why emotional fitness is the non-negotiable foundation of high performance. When leaders strengthen their emotional fitness, they unlock their ability to:
- Make clear, strategic decisions under pressure.
- Lead through constant change with confidence and calm.
- Inspire resilience and engagement in their teams — even in uncertainty.
- Sustain their own energy and well-being so they can perform at their best without burning out.
With her signature mix of science, powerful storytelling, and practical tools, Nataly Kogan shares her journey from refugee and tech executive to debilitating burnout — and the breakthrough that emotional fitness brought to her leadership, impact, and joy.
This is not a “soft skill” talk. It is a performance multiplier session, equipping leaders with simple, actionable practices to reset under pressure, fuel their energy, and lead with clarity through the toughest challenges.
Key takeaways:
- Neuroscience behind emotional fitness and its impact on decision-making, resilience, and high performance.
- The “Fit vs. Unfit Leader” framework — how your state directly drives your team’s capacity to thrive.
- Science-backed practices to reset in minutes and perform at your best in uncertainty.
- Why emotional fitness is the new leadership superpower for building thriving, adaptable teams.
THE HAPPIER METHOD: 5 science-backed skills to live with more joy and aliveness
Based on Nataly’s best-selling book Happier Now
We’ve all gotten stuck in the “I’ll be happy when…” trap, believing that achievements or seeking perfection will bring us happiness. In this vulnerable and practical keynote, Nataly, the founder of Happier, a company that has helped more than one million people live happier lives, and author of the best-selling book Happier Now, shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive “big happy” and how she finally made the mindset shifts that enabled her to live with more self-compassion, joy, and meaning.
Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate, and activates the audience to practice 5 core happier skills based on her science-backed Happier Method™. Audience members will be elevated, inspired, and armed with simple practices that can immediately fuel their joy.
Key takeaways:
- Happiness is a skill you can improve
- Learn the 5 happier skills: Acceptance, Gratitude, Self-Care, Intentional Kindness and the Bigger Why and simple yet surprisingly powerful ways to practice them in your daily life and at work.
In a world of relentless change—where AI is reshaping how we live and work—resilience alone is no longer enough. The leaders and teams who thrive aren’t the ones who manage change best. They’re the ones who use it to grow and expand into their fullest potential and impact.
That is the capability this workshop builds: REINVENT•ABILITY™ — applied to real leadership challenges, in real time. The day follows a single arc: Awareness → Clarity → Action. Leaders don’t just leave with insight. They leave with a real shift already underway.
The Five Step R E I N V E N T • A B I L I T Y ™ Framework
- Anchor in Your Zone of Greatness
Identify the intersection of your strengths, what energizes you, and where you create your deepest impact — so you lead from alignment and purpose, not pressure. - Envision What’s Possible
Break the brain’s habit of focusing on obstacles. Build a Map of Possibilities — expanding what your mind allows you to pursue. - Challenge Limiting Beliefs
Surface the beliefs shaping your choices and rewrite the ones keeping you anchored to the past instead of expanding toward your future. - Act to Learn
Clarity doesn’t come before action — it comes from it. Take small, intentional steps that create momentum and transform doubt into confidence. - Experiment & Evolve
Treat every challenge as data. Build the capacity to prototype, adapt, and keep moving without waiting for a perfect outcome.
The Dare Yourself Experience™
Every workshop closes with the Dare Yourself™ activation. Each leader receives a custom Dare Card and writes down one bold action they dare themselves to take. When they email it to Nataly, she follows up a week later, creating powerful accountability.
The dares are added to the digital Dare Wall at natalykogan.com—a growing collection of real commitments from real people choosing to grow and expand.
Add-On: The Dare Canvas™
The Dare Canvas™ is an interactive experience that turns the workshop’s core message into something people can see, touch, and take with them. Nataly guides participants to contribute to a large collective canvas, mirroring exactly what they just learned about taking action without having a plan or feeling confident. The result is a one-of-a-kind artwork that can be cut so each person takes a piece home, or live permanently in your office as a reminder of what this team created together.
Available as an add-on to the workshop or as a standalone experience for offsites and retreats.
Leaders Walk Away With
- Clarity on their Zone of Greatness and how to lead from it
- A limited belief reframed into one that fuels growth and forward motion
- A concrete 14-day action sprint with a virtual follow-up call
- A repeatable mindset system for any future change
- A new relationship with uncertainty as fuel for growth
Workshop Details
Format: Half or full day
Group Size: 15–35 leaders
Delivery: In-person preferred
Audience: Emerging & senior leaders
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