<p>Heather R. Younger empowers organizations to build trust, boost engagement, and create inclusive environments where employees thrive. </p><p>A trusted advisor to global companies and a contributor to leading news outlets like Forbes, Fast Company, NBC and ABC, Heather R. Younger, J.D. is an expert on Caring Leadership® and active listening at work. She is the Founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, a preeminent employee engagement and workplace culture consulting firm conducting annual research on workplace culture, to help companies redefine their culture strategy. </p><p>With over 25 years of successfully managing teams, she has worked in customer experience, sales, and large account management for multi-million dollar accounts within multiple industries such as tech, staffing, healthcare, professional services, the public sector, and the financial sector. She's a renowned keynote speaker, drawing insights from current data and putting into practice what she teaches in her Caring Leadership Transformation Model™. Heather’s strategies yield tangible business results, including heightened employee engagement, unwavering loyalty, seamless collaboration, and robust connectivity. </p><p>Heather is a former practicing attorney, a LinkedIn Learning course partner, three-time bestselling author, TEDX speaker and host of the popular “Leadership With Heart” podcast. She is also an Adjunct Organizational Leadership Professor at University College at Denver University.</p><p>Heather's personal journey, rooted in her challenging experiences growing up as the only child of an interfaith and interracial marriage and being excluded because of her race, fueled her unwavering determination to ensure that workplaces around the world make both employees and customers alike feel heard, valued and seen.</p>
Leadership development and workplace culture expert; TEDx speaker; Forbes contributor
<ul><li><strong>The Art of Caring Leadership® : The Key to Unleashing the Full Potential in Your People</strong></li><li>The Caring Leadership® principles delivered in this keynote serve as a powerful reminder of everyone’s responsibility to uplift their team and organization and drive real business results. Heather will provide her proprietary and proven framework to follow step-by-step. Audience walk away with a practical understanding of the concrete actions they can take to uplift and engage those they lead, and strategies to inspire loyalty by becoming more present, caring, and compassionate.</li><li><strong>The Art of Self-Leadership: The Key to Inspiring Team Performance by Taking Ownership</strong></li><li>In this empowering program, Heather R Younger guides leaders to take ownership of their personal and professional growth and navigate challenging situations with resilience. Through The Art of Self-Leadership, leaders will learn to take control of their own paths, transforming the way they inspire and uplift their teams. Audience leave with a deeper self-awareness and the motivation to initiate personal growth, strategies for resiliency, and actions to elevate team productivity and effectiveness.</li><li><strong>The Art of Active Listening: The Key to Making Anyone Feel Valued and Engaged</strong></li><li>Active listening is the doorway to increased belonging, loyalty, profitability and innovation. It is the difference between thinking we understand what people want and knowing what they want and integral to Caring Leadership. For the last 12 years, Heather has reviewed over 25,000 employee engagement surveys as well as facilitated numerous listening sessions. She has distilled that knowledge into actionable insights that equip your people with the interpersonal skills they need to make others feel seen, heard, and valued in every interaction.</li></ul><p><br></p>