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 REINVENT•ABILITY 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: Dare Yourself LIVE
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.
To lead, thrive, and innovate in this new era, there’s one essential skill every person and team must develop: the ability to reinvent.
Reinvention isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about growing into the fullest expression of who you are meant to become. It’s a deliberate way of leading yourself through uncertainty so you can unlock possibility within it rather than get drained by it. When you embrace change as a catalyst for growth, you reclaim control, expand your energy, and open doors you couldn’t see before.
In this dynamic and story-rich experience, Nataly Kogan shares her science-backed REINVENT•ABILITY™ Framework that helps people shift out of fear and into choice, possibility, and action. Drawing on her personal journey from refugee to tech CEO to best-selling author and artist, Nataly reveals the five essential capabilities that allow individuals and organizations to evolve, thrive, and reinvent, even when things are challenging.
With insights from neuroscience and psychology, interactive reflection moments, and deeply relatable stories, audiences learn how to:
- Anchor in their Zone of Greatness so they lead from clarity, strength, and authentic value
- Envision what’s possible instead of defaulting to old patterns or shrinking in uncertainty
- Challenge and rewrite limiting beliefs that block growth and expansion
- Act to learn to build confidence through small, strategic moves rather than waiting for certainty
- Experiment and evolve by treating change as a testing ground rather than a threat
Available as a high-impact keynote or an interactive workshop.
Perfect for:
- Leadership offsites and all-hands events
- Organizations navigating transformation
- Teams who want to build cultures of innovation and adaptability
- Companies preparing their workforce for an AI-driven future
Attendees leave energized, more courageous, and equipped with practical tools to grow through uncertainty — ready to lead themselves and others with clarity, creativity, and meaningful 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.
We all have something extraordinary within us. But too often, it stays hidden behind hesitation, overthinking, or limiting beliefs about ourselves.
In this powerful workshop, Nataly Kogan — artist, speaker, serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and creator of the REINVENT•ABILITY™ Framework — guides participants through a transformative journey to uncover what’s been holding them back and translate that breakthrough into bold, meaningful action.
Grounded in neuroscience and real-world application, Dare Yourself LIVE™ helps participants reconnect to their confidence, creativity, and capacity for growth.
Participants will:
- Identify inner blocks and self-limiting beliefs
- Reframe those beliefs into constructive, fueling narratives
- Reconnect to their Zone of Greatness: the intersection of what they love, what they are great at, and where they want to have a positive impact
- Envision new possibilities for growth and contribution
- Declare their personal Dare: one meaningful action to move forward and bring it to life through a powerful creative exercise
All of the participants’ dares become part of the Dare Yourself Collective Installation. Every participant receives a digital print of this powerful artwork, a reminder that you don’t have to take bold steps alone.
What participants experience:
- Renewed activation energy, confidence, and momentum
- Shift from self-doubt to mindset of possibility
- A deeper sense of connection: with themselves, their team, and their vision for how they want to expand and grow
Each participant receives a custom Dare Yourself journal featuring Nataly’s artwork and a digital print of the Collective Artwork created during the session. These become lasting reminders to keep daring boldly long after the workshop ends.
DARE YOURSELF LIVE is designed for:
- Leadership teams seeking momentum, creativity, and stronger connection
- Organizations that want an activating experience for offsites or retreats
- Conference or summit audiences ready for something participatory and memorable
- Creators, innovators, and changemakers who want to expand beyond what feels comfortable
Format options
- 90-minute immersive session
- Half-day team experience
- Full-day retreat with art-based expansion and guided reflection
- Available in-person at Nataly’s Boston art studio (max 20 participants), on-site at your offices or event, or virtually
Dare Yourself LIVE is an unboring, interactive, creative experience that will leave people buzzing with energy, clarity, and the momentum to act!
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