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Eliz took our breath away, right from the start, with her inspiring video. Her down to earth approach to relating everyday experiences right alongside serious and overwhelming situations, kept the audience engaged, laughing and crying. The interactive game and fun visuals provided the audience with a different way to look at stress levels while learning the coping strategies for living a life of peace and good health. We had a ball! -- Jan Pejsas, Community Education Specialist, Mayo Clinic Health System, Menominie, WI
Women's Wellness, Stress and Heart Health Expert
Eliz Greene is a keynote speaker, author, and researcher whose work focuses on what it takes to perform well in demanding environments. She equips high-performing leaders and teams to recognize and respond to Capacity Signals before they affect decision quality and performance.
For more than two decades, Eliz has studied the impact of stress and sustained pressure on health, decision-making, and performance. Her original research with more than 4,000 people examined job stress and the factors that contribute to it, providing the foundation for practical strategies leaders and teams can use to recognize changes sooner, recover more effectively, and make better choices about effort and support.
Her work began with an experience that changed Eliz’s life. At 35, while seven months pregnant with twins, she survived a heart attack. An emergency cesarean delivery and open-heart surgery saved three lives, and her recovery sparked a determination to understand stress and its impact on heart health. Eventually, her work expanded to a broader question: What does it take to continue performing well when pressure remains high?
Eliz is the author of Stress-Proof Your Life: High Performance Under Pressure and has spent her career translating research into practical approaches people can use in demanding work and lives. She has spoken for organizations including NASA, CVS Health, UPS, the American Heart Association, healthcare organizations, professional associations, and companies across the country.
Her perspective has been featured on CNN, PBS, Lifetime, TNT, and other national media. Onstage, Eliz combines research, relatable stories, humor, and audience interaction to make important ideas memorable and useful long after the event.
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STRESS-PROOF YOUR HEART
Subtitle: Performing Under Pressure Without Paying for It Later
Performance doesn’t reveal the physical burden.
Capable people can carry a remarkable amount of pressure and continue to perform. Because the work is still getting done, it can be easy to assume the body is handling that pressure well.
In Stress-Proof Your Heart, keynote speaker, author, and researcher Eliz Greene connects sustained pressure with heart health and gives audiences practical ways to offset the physical burden of unavoidable stress. Rather than giving audiences another list of things they already know they “should” do, Eliz gives them practical ways to make heart-healthy choices work in demanding lives
Participants will:
- Recognize how sustained pressure can affect heart health, even when performance remains strong.
- Understand why knowing what is heart-healthy doesn’t always make it easy to do, especially in demanding lives.
- Use practical strategies to offset the physical burden of unavoidable stress through recovery and realistic heart-healthy choices.
IDEAL AUDIENCES
- Go Red for Women and women’s heart-health events
- Hospital and health system community programs
- Women’s leadership and professional development events
- Corporate women’s health initiatives and employee events
- American Heart Association and cardiovascular health programs
- Healthcare conferences and professional groups
- Corporate events focused on health, stress, and performance
AVAILABLE FORMATS
Keynote | Extended Keynote or Workshop | Virtual Heart Month Program
The Virtual Heart Month Program gives organizations a practical way to bring meaningful heart-health programming to employees, members, or communities across locations during American Heart Month.
EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
Copies of Eliz Greene’s Stress-Proof Your Heart can be incorporated into the engagement as a practical companion participants can return to after the program.
For book quantities, signing opportunities, and other engagement options, please inquire.
NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY
Protecting Decision Quality When Conditions Remain Unpredictable
How do you move forward when you don’t know what happens next?
Decisions still need to be made. Work still needs to move forward. People are counting on you. Yet incomplete information, changing conditions, and unanswered questions can make all of those things more difficult.
Uncertainty creates work of its own.
We anticipate possibilities. Reconsider decisions. Try to prepare for multiple outcomes. Look for answers that may not exist yet.
Meanwhile, the rest of the work hasn’t gone away.
In Navigating Uncertainty, keynote speaker, author, and researcher Eliz Greene gives you practical ways to recognize how uncertainty is affecting the way you think, react, decide, and recover.
Through relatable stories, research, humor, and interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to interrupt unproductive reactions, create enough space to choose a more intentional response, and build a way forward without needing to know exactly what happens next.
Because navigating uncertainty isn’t about becoming comfortable with it or pretending it isn’t stressful. It is about recognizing your response and focusing on what you know, what you have, and what you can do next.
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS
Participants will:
- Recognize when uncertainty is consuming valuable capacity by noticing changes in how they think, decide, react, and recover.
- Interrupt unproductive reactions to uncertainty using practical strategies that protect decision quality and create space for a more intentional response.
- Create a way forward without waiting for certainty by focusing on what they know, what they can control, the resources available to them, and what they can do next.
IDEAL AUDIENCES
Navigating Uncertainty is especially relevant for:
- Leadership meetings and retreats
- Corporate events and conferences
- Association conferences
- Healthcare organizations and professional groups
- Professional services organizations
- Leadership development programs
- Teams navigating significant change
AVAILABLE FORMATS
Keynote | Extended Keynote or Workshop
EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
Copies of Eliz Greene’s book, Stress-Proof Your Life: High Performance Under Pressure, can be incorporated into the engagement, giving participants a practical resource they can return to after the event.
For book quantities, signing opportunities, and other engagement options, please inquire.
WHAT IT TAKES TO GET IT DONE
Recognizing Capacity Signals Before They Affect Decisions and Performance
The work is getting done. But what is it taking?
The work is getting done. Deadlines are being met. Decisions are being made. From the outside, performance may look exactly as it should.
But strong results do not reveal what it took to produce them.
Capable people are remarkably good at compensating. When familiar work begins requiring more time, effort, attention, recovery, or support, high performers often respond by working harder. They concentrate more, push through, and find a way to deliver.
That response can keep results strong while concealing an important change in what producing those results requires.
In What It Takes to Get It Done, keynote speaker, author, and researcher Eliz Greene gives audiences a practical way to recognize those changes sooner. She identifies Capacity Signals, early indications that familiar work is requiring more from the people doing it and explores what to do when increased effort is useful and when it may consume capacity without the expected return.
Through research, relatable stories, humor, and practical strategies, Eliz equips audiences to recognize Capacity Signals earlier and make more intentional choices about effort, recovery, and support before those changes affect decision quality and performance.
The question is not simply, “Can I get this done?” but “What is it taking to get it done?”
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS
Participants will:
- Recognize Capacity Signals earlier by noticing changes in the time, effort, attention, recovery, or support familiar work requires.
- Identify when the usual response may need to change, including when increased effort is useful and when it may consume capacity without the expected return.
- Make more intentional choices about effort, recovery, and support based on what the work requires now, protecting decision quality and performance under sustained pressure.
IDEAL AUDIENCES
What It Takes to Get It Done is especially relevant for leaders, leadership teams, corporate and professional audiences, and associations working in demanding environments where expectations remain high, strong performance depends on good decisions, and capable people are expected to keep delivering.
AVAILABLE FORMATS
Keynote | Extended Keynote or Workshop
EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
Copies of Eliz Greene’s book, Stress-Proof Your Life: High Performance Under Pressure, can be incorporated into the engagement, giving participants a practical resource they can return to after the event.
For book quantities, signing opportunities, and other engagement options, please inquire.
Booking Information
- Based in: Milwaukee, WI (travels nationally and internationally)
- Fee range: On request
- Travel expenses: Coach airfare or mileage at current government rate, hotel accommodations (typically 1–2 nights depending on schedule), ground transportation, and meals.
- Formats: Keynote, workshop, virtual, hybrid events
- CE’s: Available for nursing and healthcare audiences
If you’re planning a women’s health conference, heart health event, corporate event, or ERG, reach out and let’s talk about if Eliz is the right fit for your event.
Check Eliz’s Availability
— barbara@speakwellbeing.com | 503-699-5031, or click here.
Eliz is available for booking through The Speak Well Being Group for women’s health conferences, heart health events, women’s leadership events, corporate wellness programs, and ERG’s. You get 28 years of vetting, personal knowledge of Eliz’s work, and someone in your corner from first inquiry through event day.
