Dr. Rebecca Heiss helps audiences transform stress, fear, and uncertainty from barriers into fuel for greater resilience, adaptability, confidence, and performance.
Drawing on the science of human behavior and our instinctive responses to pressure, she gives people practical tools to recognize the subconscious fears that can limit decision-making, hold back potential, and make change feel threatening. Through her Fear[less] Stress formula, Rebecca shows audiences how to train their brains to work for them rather than against them—turning pressure into possibility, navigating uncertainty with greater courage, and performing at their best when it matters most. With surprising humor, captivating storytelling, and palpable energy, she makes complex science accessible, memorable, and immediately actionable.
A stress physiologist whose research has been designated “transformative” by the National Science Foundation, Rebecca is the author of Springboard and Instinct and founder and CEO of Icueity, a leadership 360-review mobile application. A former high school and college educator, she was also recruited as a founding member of an innovative charter school focused on entrepreneurial thinking and impact-based learning. Today, Rebecca brings her research and Fear[less] methodology to audiences around the world as a keynote speaker and facilitator of her Fearless Masterclass. She continues to explore how our biology influences behavior and how people can move beyond instinctive limitations to turn adversity into growth and thrive through change.
- The Stress Advantage – Harnessing the Power of Stress to Boost Performance
- 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 All-in Effect: Leading Teams to Excel Through Change
- 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.
- Audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:
- Utilize a 3-step science-backed strategy to recalibrate the stress response to work to your advantage immediately, rather than working against you.
- Discover a key method for harnessing an adventure mindset to become more resilient in high-pressure situations.
- Experience an inspired ability to link the challenge of change, to purpose and connection in order to increase engagement across your organization.
- The Stress Solution: Transforming Fear into Rocket Fuel to Supercharge Performance
- 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.
- Audiences will leave with tools that enable them to:
- Understand the root of our stress response and recalibrate it to work with us in the modern world.
- Engage with our fears to reframe them as energy that can optimize performance.
- 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.