Eliz Greene
- Heart attack survivor, job stress researcher, female motivational and business speaker
- National Spokesperson and Heart Health Advocate
Speaker Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$15,000 - $20,000
Virtual Fee:
$5,000 - $10,000
Travels From
Wisconsin
Eliz Greene Speaker Biography
Surviving a heart attack at age 35 while seven months pregnant with twins, Eliz Greene knows stress management isn't a 'nice-to-have' but rather an essential survival skill. Just days after her heart stopped and she endured open heart surgery and a cesarean section delivery, Eliz held both her daughters together for the first time. Amazingly, despite the pain and uncertainty, what she felt most strongly was contentment. Her priorities were crystal clear. She knew she'd been given a second chance at life and a unique perspective for a reason. For over two decades, Eliz has been on a mission to inspire busy people to pay attention to their heart health. Recognizing stress as an essential and often under-addressed risk factor, Eliz conducted a research study on job stress. She developed the Stress-Proof System to protect high-performing people from the stress they can't avoid.
Eliz is an author and writes a Top Health and Wellness Blog. She was named a Top Online Influencer on Stress and Heart Health. She's been seen on CNN, PBS, Lifetime, TNT, and many national and local news programs. Eliz, a national spokesperson and advocate for the American Heart Association, received the Heart Hero Award in 2010. Organizations such as NASA and CVS have used her strategies to reduce workplace stress. Today, Eliz is happy and healthy living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her wonderful husband, Clay, and their amazing (now adult) daughters.
Stress-Proof Leadership for High-Performance Teams
Reduce stress. Enhance performance and productivity.
High-Performance Teams Need Stress-Proof Leaders!
Stress management is a HARD SKILL essential to success.
Stress-Proof Leaders leverage this critical skill to propel their own performance and team performance by:
-Creating a culture of value and security to support productivity in high-stress professions, during change, and in crisis.
-Managing contagious stress
-Understanding generational differences in the reaction to overwhelm and uncertainty
Coping with Stress Dumping
The phone rings - stress happens.
3 steps to deal with stress caused by other people
What do you do when a phone call from an upset client, your college-aged offspring, or a stressed-out friend causes your stress to increase? Mimicking other people’s stress is part of how our brains create empathy, which is why it can feel awful to have someone dump their stress all over you.
This program, created specifically for high-performance teams in high-pressure occupations as part of Eliz Greene’s work with hotel managers, call centers, and relocation professionals, reveals how to protect yourself from stress dumping with steps to:
-Recognize the signs of stress dumping.
-Frame the interaction to decrease the stress impact.
-Wipe off the stress rather than passing it along.
Active Recovery for Unavoidable Stress
Recover - like an athlete.
High-Performance Under Pressure
The hectic pace, chronic high stress, uncertainty, and unavoidable negative influences can threaten productivity and creativity – AND suck the fun out of even the most enjoyable professions. This program, created specifically for high-performance teams in high-pressure occupations as part of Eliz Greene’s work with NASA, encourages active stress recovery similar to active physical recovery used by high-performance athletes.
Based on her book Stress-Proof Your Life and research on job stress, professional speaker Eliz Greene shares insights and strategies to limit the impact of stress to improve performance and quality of life.
It includes 5 essential skills to:
-Notice and address symptoms of high stress
-Decompress from pressure and stress you can’t avoid
-Signal your body to release cortisol to protect your health, performance, and quality of life
-Change the focus from problem-solving to achievement
-Find the motivation to make a change
Resilience is a Choice
Based on more than 100 interviews with leaders and team members, Eliz shares insights to weather the stress of crisis and change.
She discovered that highly capable people are often unequipped to deal with the stress of an unsolvable situation. For them, the stress of dealing with vulnerability amplifies the stress of crisis and change.
Ultimately, resilience is a choice. We choose to move forward in the face of failure, crisis, tragedy, pain, or life-altering (and business-altering) events we can’t control. Understanding your reaction to vulnerability is essential to becoming resilient.
“Moving forward is a choice! ”
In this program, Eliz shares 4 essential decisions to:
-Deal with the curse of capability.
-Get comfortable with the emotional reaction to vulnerability.
-Focus on what is possible rather than dwelling on what is difficult.
-Strengthen your resilience muscle.
Shattering the Myth of Work-Life Balance
Work and life are both part of your environment. Expecting one to balance out the other is unreasonable.
How do we deal with stress when life is so busy? In her research on job stress Eliz Greene discovered overwhelm is at the root of stress, not lack of balance. Her program brings clarity and a plan to prevent busy from standing in the way of productivity, creativity, problem solving, and quality of life.
Built with humorous and engaging stories, and based on unique research, this high-energy program explores the challenges of overwhelm and provides real-world, immediately implementable strategies to reduce stress, improve focus, and get more of what is important done.
Wellness expert Eliz Greene draws on her experience working with high performers and original research exploring how to work through stress rather than being bogged down by it. Using a copyrighted assessment tool, Eliz also shares unique insight into the stress environment faced by the attendees.
Eliz survived a heart attack at age 35 while seven months pregnant with twins and knows limiting stress is essential to a long, enjoyable and productive life.
Her laser focus on priority, warm and funny stories, and immediately implementable strategies inspire participants to reach new heights while protecting productive time, personal relationships, and wellness. Participants will:
-Utilize a copyrighted assessment tool to explore the unique stress environment faced by the audience.
-Uncover the elements of their personal stress environment and unconscious stress triggers using Post-it notes
-Discover their stress recovery personality type.
-Practice stress management skills* — including laughter!
*Warning: There may be dancing.
Donning an Emotional Hazmat Suit
How do you maintain your sanity, performance, relationships, and health in the face of chronic high stress, change, and uncertainty?
Based on her book Stress-Proof Your Life and research on job stress, Eliz Greene shares insights and strategies to create what she calls “an emotional hazmat suit” to limit the physical and emotional impact of stress you can’t avoid.
Eliz created this program specifically for those who work in high-pressure occupations where stress is a natural part of the job.
This engaging and humorous program details how to develop a system to protect your health, performance, sanity, and relationships by:
-Understanding the physical and psychological impact of chronic stress
-Creating a sense of security during change, uncertainty, or crisis
-Changing the focus from problem-solving to achievement
-Developing boundaries to protect your health and performance
-Implementing a framework to work and live well under unrelenting pressure.
