What if the solution to burnout, disconnection, and disengagement isn’t more effort—but a system that’s already built in?
In this electrifying, science-backed keynote, Brandi Heather reactivates the part of your audience that stress and survival mode have shut down. With live interaction, heartfelt humor, and powerful insights from neuroscience and real-world experience, she helps teams rediscover the human operating system that keeps people engaged, adaptable, and connected.
When stress runs the show, people disconnect—from each other, from new ideas, and from themselves. Playful Intelligence™ is the reset button. It reactivates the part of us that’s built for connection, curiosity, and courageous thinking AND living.
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Key Takeaways:
Health and Wellbeing: Discover how releasing the “show home” mindset and embracing play can reduce stress, support mental wellness, and improve overall health, allowing us to approach our lives with renewed energy and resilience.
Empowerment Through Authenticity: Learn how embracing your innate playful nature helps you share your authentic strengths, ideas and talents.
Innovation and Connection: Gain practical strategies to integrate play into your professional life, fueling creativity, courage, and meaningful connections that foster long-term satisfaction and fulfillment.
The Brandi Heather Experience
When you bring Brandi into your event , you’re not just booking a speaker. You’re investing in an experience designed to take care of your people from your first phone call with her to long after the event ends.
1. Before The Event
Brandi asks the right questions, listens closely, and shapes the keynote around your people. She learns the challenges, the culture, the stressors, and the details that matter to make sure you're taken care of.
2. During The Event
She brings high energy, real connection, and a presence like no other. She adapts in real time, creates interactive moments that encourage participation, and helps even the most guarded teams open up. People feel seen, supported, and safe to explore new ideas.
3. After The Event
This is where she stands apart. Brandi stays connected. She offers follow up tools, check ins, and guidance so the message doesn’t fade the moment the room empties. Her goal is not to hype people up for an hour. It’s to help them create meaningful, sustainable change long after she’s gone.
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Energizer. Educator. Expert.
An award-winning college professor, best-selling author, and leading voice on the science of play at work, Brandi brings more than 25 years in education, inclusion, and lived-in mental health experience to the stage.
Equal parts energizer, educator, and expert, she brings laughter, movement, and meaning to every stage.
"Her keynote weaves science with storytelling, playfulness, practicality, and just the right amount of humor to help people let their guard down.
It’s real. It’s human. It’s honest. And it’s exactly what teams need right now."
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It's the small details that matter.
Each audience member will be able to take home a personalized, pocket-sized reminder of how to activate their Playful Intelligence in the office and in their day-to-day life.
*Remembering each others shapes of play, and knowing your people, place & place will change the way you work together.
