Workplace Performance Expert and an award-winning 2x TEDx and global keynote speaker, author, and executive coach. Henna’s best-selling book, Good Awkward, published in September 2023 and has been endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson, former HBR Editor Karen Dillon, and received the rare Kirkus Star for excellence in writing.
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Henna’s signature keynotes explore a bold new edge of workplace performance: where AI meets human connection.
Her talks focus on the intersection of AI + our uniquely human skills, revealing how emerging tech isn’t replacing our soft skills – it’s exposing how essential they are AND teaching us how we can use AI to enhance them. With her trademark blend of science-backed insights and razor-sharp humor, Henna helps high achievers upgrade the mindsets, communication habits, and leadership moves they’ll need to stay future-ready. From decoding tone with AI to building trust in high-stakes conversations, she equips teams with unexpected, practical tools to level up what matters most: their ability to connect, persuade, and perform – human to human.
HIGH-TECH, DEEPLY HUMAN – STRENGTHENING WORKPLACE RELATIONSHIPS USING AI
BEST FOR: NAVIGATING CHANGE, ADAPTABILITY IN DISRUPTION, INNOVATION/RISK-TAKING,
TEAMWORK/COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, MINDSET, WOMEN’S EVENTS
Use AI to prepare for high-stakes conversations with greater empathy and clarity AI isn’t replacing your soft skills – it’s revealing how badly we need them.
USING AI In a workplace racing toward automation, many worry AI will strip our interactions of humanity, flattening communication into transactional exchanges. But here’s the surprising flip: AI, when used intentionally, can become an unexpected ally in strengthening relationships. In this energizing keynote, Workplace Performance Expert Henna Pryor reveals how AI acts like a “prescription lens” that sharpens empathy, clarity, and emotional presence at work. Instead of letting automation dilute human connection, Henna shows leaders and teams how to wield AI as a tool to design connection – not just hope for it. Audiences will discover how to role-play tough conversations, catch blind spots in tone, personalize outreach at scale, and, most importantly, stay deliberately, courageously human in a high-tech world.
After this Keynote, you’ll be able to:
-Use AI to prepare for high-stakes conversations with greater empathy and clarity
-Spot and correct tone misfires before they derail trust
-Personalize your communication at scale without losing authenticity
-Strengthen your “human edge” to stand out in an AI-driven workplace
Because in today’s workplace, the edge won’t go to the ones who automate the fastest – it’ll go to the ones who stay deeply human and use AI to prove it.
THE PERSUASION PLAYBOOK – USING AI TO AMPLIFY YOUR INFLUENCE
Use AI to sharpen and tailor your messaging for maximum impact. AI can’t make you persuasive – but it can make you unstoppable.
BEST FOR: INFLUENCE/PERSUASION, LEADERSHIP, SALES/REVENUE GROWTH, COMMUNICATION, ADAPTABILITY IN DISRUPTION, MINDSET, FUTURE OF WORK, WOMEN’S EVENTS.
We’re living in an age of AI-generated noise: more emails, more pitches, more content… but we’ve known for years that more noise doesn’t equal more influence. Can we actually use technology to help? In this provocative keynote, Workplace Performance Expert Henna Pryor shows why real influence still comes down to trust, relevance, and emotional connection – and how AI (when used wisely) can amplify all three. Audiences will learn to harness AI as their ultimate persuasion partner: a backstage coach that sharpens messaging, flags emotional cues, role-plays pushback, and tailors outreach without losing our uniquely human edge.
After this Keynote, you’ll be able to:
-Use AI to sharpen and tailor your messaging for maximum impact
-Identify and address emotional cues and hidden objections
-Prepare for resistance and pushback with confidence
-Balance authenticity with technology to build trust and spark buy-in
With her trademark blend of humor, sharp insight, and actionable tools, Henna empowers professionals with the cutting-edge techniques to rise above the noise, earn trust, spark buy-in, and influence even when they’re not in the room.
Because in a world where anyone can automate a message, the real power lies with those who can make it matter.
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Awkward and Upward!: Your surprising secret weapon for taking more professional risks
Advances in technology have made it easy to avoid real human interaction. While texting, online ordering, and “swiping right” is convenient, we’re losing the skills of relating to others, building trust and connection, and enduring the critical friction and messiness we get from being in proximity to each other. This weakening of our social muscles is slowly destroying our ability to take smart risks at work – like collaborating with colleagues, initiating tough conversations, speaking up, and sharing new ideas.
Risk-taking sounds good in theory, but most of us have a hard time moving from wishful thinking to execution. Why? Because when we have a chance to take a risk in the moment, we feel awkward – and that awkwardness bumps up against our deep desire for others to approve of us and what we do. As it turns out, it’s what we improve in the face of taking risks – often despite others’ judgment – that leads to the greatest growth. After all, the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong.
Join 2x TEDx Speaker, Executive Coach, and Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor, to learn how embracing the Good Awkward is your secret weapon for skyrocketing teamwork, speaking up boldly, and strengthening your risk-taking muscle.
After this keynote, you’ll be able to:
-Pinpoint the exact reason it’s been difficult to take risks – and how to move past it
-Use deliberate discomfort and strategic micro-stressors to rebuild our social and risk-taking muscles
-Create a custom plan for speaking up, sharing ideas, and being courageous and risk-ready whenever the chance arises
The Changing Psychology of Influence in the Modern Era: How to overcome resistance to move your ideas forward
In the modern era, the new psychology for creating new actions, influence, inspiration, and navigating through uncertainty has changed. We need to take a new approach to create new actions in our teammates and in ourselves, to persuade prospects, to have difficult conversations, and to maximize opportunities for partnership.
If you’ve ever found yourself facing resistance to your ideas – you’re not alone. Even when we have a great idea that will affect enormous change, we don’t always get the reaction – or action – we’re hoping for.
That’s because we spend the majority of our energy making our ideas and changes more compelling, more interesting, more attractive — pouring on the fuel — that we rarely discover the frictions that are working against us, and all humans have them.
In this interactive session, join 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker, Author, and Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor, to uncover and explore the 4 specific reasons why people resist change, and more importantly, concrete strategies to overcome them so we can move our ideas, initiatives, team members, prospects, and mission forward.
After this keynote, you’ll be able to:
-Shift away from problem-solving to a more valuable strategy
-Understand how being the “expert” is hurting your influence instead of helping
-Position your idea from several new angles that increase trust and get the green light you need for people to say yes
The Inner Game of Influence (with Collin Henderson)
Buyers today are not the same buyers of 5 years ago. Between changes in consumer behavior and information overload in the digital era, our buyers are different, and we need to be different. Sellers today need an updated approach to connect on a deeper level and bring a new kind of value.
While markets will always have problems to solve, the real problem in the current market is that we focus on ‘metrics’ more than the ‘mindsets’ that lead to the behavioral changes we need to create real results.
The truth is a single mental shift can activate measurable change: When we optimize mindset, we automatically optimize metrics as a result. Which means in this season of sales, we need to learn the Inner Game of Influence– a multi-step method that helps sellers develop unshakeable clarity, tools to break free from the internal and external limits we don’t realize we have, while learning what motivates modern buyers and drives them to action today.
This speaking duo model is ideal for Sales Kickoffs, Revenue Kickoffs, and National Sales Meetings.
Pushing Limits, Igniting Excellence: Unlocking the New Mindset of Success
With changing landscapes, tough competition, and information overload, winning market share is harder than ever. We may have high levels of excellence, but that excellence comes at a surprising cost – it keeps us stagnant and quietly discourages taking the risks we need to grow today. Why?
The dark side of success is we often focus on what we already excel at instead of leaning into the discomfort of what excelling today requires: more innovation, creative collaboration, and thinking outside of the box. But fear not – we already know the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong. Today, that means we need to become excellent at being uncomfortable.
In this keynote, author and 2x TEDx and Keynote Speaker, Henna Pryor will share the modern mental skills for skyrocketing your team’s performance, frontloading discomfort, and unlocking the innovation needed to tap into new sources of success.
After this keynote, you’ll be able to:
-Pinpoint the exact reason it’s been difficult to take risks – and how to move past it
-Use the tools of neutral thinking and deliberate discomfort to expand mental muscle
-Formulate a personalized game plan to be risk-ready whenever the chance arises Not only will you feel more empowered to stretch into new spaces, but you’ll walk away with specific mindset tactics and strategies to be more resilient, less stressed, and more inspired by change in your own
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Henna Pryor’s Bio:
Henna Pryor, PCC is a dynamic Workplace Performance Expert who speaks and writes about performance mindset, interpersonal dynamics, high-impact communication, and embracing bumps in a world that keeps optimizing for smoothness.
She’s a regular Expert Columnist for Inc. Magazine, 10x award-winning author of Good Awkward, and an in-demand global keynote speaker. Her playful personality and insightful talks blend 2 decades of working with corporate leaders and teams with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work.
She’s been invited to speak twice for TEDx in NYC and Wilmington, DE, and brings her expertise to a variety of global organizations including Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorganChase. She’s also frequently tapped for her fresh perspectives by top media outlets like INSIDER, NBC, Washington Post, Fast Company, Business.com, HuffPost, and more.
Henna founded Pryority Group – a fast-growing performance growth firm – to expand on her belief that the key to most people’s success is learning to strengthen mental and social muscles in order to boost risk-taking, maximize influence, and be braver in the work that we do.
She’s been named a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence and SXSW Workplace track speaker, and her bestselling book was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR Editor Karen Dillon, and was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of the Year.
Collin Henderson’s Bio:
Collin Henderson is the founder and CEO of Master Your Mindset, a leader in the field of mental conditioning. Collin left his corporate role as a #1 ranked medical sales professional and national sales trainer to now be considered by many – including acclaimed broadcaster Jim Rome – “One of the best mindset coaches in the industry.” Collin has written 7 books and 2 journals and his podcast has hundreds of thousands of downloads worldwide.
Collin’s trainings on mindset and sales psychology have been utilized by some of the world’s best organizations including: Nike, Zillow, Los Angeles Dodgers, Lululemon, Anaheim Ducks, Microsoft, Salesforce, Alaska Airlines, FedEx, and Amazon. He’s also the Director of Mental Conditioning with the UCLA Women’s Basketball program, and along with Henna Pryor, is a sales and mindset keynote speaker to Russell Wilson’s groundbreaking corporate mindset training company, Limitless Minds.
