Nina Sossamon-Pogue Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

No one said THIS would be easy. This presentation is an unapologetic wake up call to remind today’s workforce of the inherent power they possess. Adversity of all sizes is sidetracking and stressing even our best and brightest. It has whole companies working in a low gear and many of them don’t realize it. It’s costing organizations millions in people and productivity. Nina unpacks why some people take on a challenge and handle change while others falter. She enlightens audiences that there will always be challenges as we strive to reach new levels of success. Then she poses the question, what if everyone confidently rose to the challenge. Nina gets audiences to reframe how they think about a challenge, the strengths they bring to a project, and their role. She emboldens them to be part of the solution, then gives them an elegant, repeatable framework to handle anything that gets in their way. This presentation is an Aha! experience into personal strength. Using the word ‘THIS’ to represent challenges of all sizes, Nina shows audiences how to put ‘THIS’ in its place and take control of the anxiety and stress that ‘THIS’ creates. Audience Outcomes: •Discover their ‘Reverse Resume’ to recognize their past accomplishments and strengths •Learn THIS Resilience framework to navigate unexpected situations effectively •Build the confidence to face any future challenges with the mindset, "You can handle THIS!"

Our best people, making their numbers and hitting their targets, are often the most stressed, questioning their ability to push to that next milestone. Nina takes smart audiences from stressed by the struggle to proud to be the high achievers doing the hard work. She empowers leaders and teams to break through THIS and achieve unprecedented success. Nina hits top contributors who are setting goals, hitting KPIs, and making their quarterly numbers with the reality that they can carry the most stress! This is an Aha! lesson in being a high achiever, and audiences leave with a framework to handle the constant challenges ahead. Addresses FOMO, social pressures, and imposter syndrome, Nina uncovers the Machine Learning that has today’s hard workers in a constant feedback loop of ‘you could do better.’ Using her own very public successes and failures as a backdrop, she helps audiences embrace the constant stress that comes with success. Nina expertly takes you from feeling you are ‘stuck in the spin’ of our technologically advancing era and its immense cognitive load, to feeling ‘excited to be on the ride’ and harnessing the momentum. This powerful session is packed with actionable insights to increase productivity and improve culture. Audience Outcomes: • Understanding The High Achiever Success Cycle and its impact on mental health • Embracing the excitement of working your success instead of feeling stuck in a stressful spin. • Crafting a Reverse Resume to acknowledge achievements and strength gained over time • Equipping themselves with the Resilience framework to effectively tackle upcoming challenges

Young people today will face challenges we can’t yet imagine and aim for milestones beyond anything we’ve achieved, but do they know how to fail and keep going? Nina dives into how our constantly connected FOMO culture can make us doubt ourselves and want to give up, then she gets young audiences excited about all the ways their future could play out and gives them a framework to handle any challenge, so they know ‘They Can Handle This’. Success isn’t simple and sh*t happens, so learning to handle problems like a pro is a key to your success. Unless you plan to sit on the sidelines and watch someone else succeed, you’re in the game, and knowing what to do when things don’t go as planned is like having a cheat code! Nina gets young audiences to think in new ways about the highs and lows that will come with trying to succeed in today’s technology-infused, FOMO world. Using her own stories as a successful athlete in high school and college, her years being ‘popular’ on TV, and decade as a ‘successful’ Tech executive, Nina authentically shares the failures that accompanied her success and takes young audiences into their own possible futures full of successes and failures. A parent of three recent college graduates, Nina’s talk is current and connects today’s digital overload, constant connectivity, machine learning and FOMO culture. Audiences facing the stress of this era of hyper-advancing technology are pressure to succeed are empowered to take control of their cognitive load, be themselves, and get excited about all the different ways their futures could play out. Audience Outcomes: • Discovering the link between adapting, resilience, and success • Understanding the significance of technology on mental health • Acquiring the Resilience framework to confidently navigate future challenges.