Email: info@brandiheather.com | Phone: 403 391 1367
inspiring + insightful
keynote speaker
"Brandi truly invoked change, immediate change where the attendees implement her suggestions on the spot, without hesitation and throughout the rest of the conference; they were considering ways to bring it back to their communities before the day was over."
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Elizabeth Reekie, Sports and Program Director, Special Olympics Alberta
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Watch the audience change right before your eyes, take a collective breath and laugh out loud.​
With over 25 years of experience in business, education, human services, and healthcare, Brandi possesses a unique mastery for reinvigorating the heartbeat of people and organizations.
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She brings an innovative and fresh approach to counteract fatigue, burnout, and disengagement; the science of play and playfulness.
You Can't Play in A Show Home: Restore, Retain, and Revitalize Your Workforce
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Many people and organizations appear to have everything "in place", like a show home with perfectly placed pillows and fingerprint-free appliances. However, maintaining a show home workplace and personal life takes energy, and often causes anxiety and stress.
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In this interactive, laughter filled keynote Brandi Heather demonstrates that if you want to unleash the full potential, passion, energy of your team and reduce show home fatigue then you need to understand the science of play.
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Gain profound insight into how finding our playful mindset and strengths can change the way collaborate, cope and create.
Taking Care of People Who Have The Answers: The Art of Taking Our Own Advise
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People who spend their days untangling the knots of anxiety, burnout, disconnection, and the quest for mental wellness in others, are often sidestepping their own well-being.
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Laugh out loud about irony that the experts equipped with all the tools to architect our own serene existence, somehow manage to dodge doing just that.
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Discover that you can navigate back-to-back crises and create innovative solutions when you find your playful, creative nature and strengths.
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From Silos to Synergy: The Power of Play in Business
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In today’s fast-paced business landscape, many organizations unknowingly build “show homes”. Over performing, perfectionism, cliques, and hidden silos may appear to create a polished image on the outside but often mask deeper organizational challenges. In this fun, engaging keynote, Brandi Heather reveals the three critical signs that you may be fostering a “show home” culture in your business, and how to get back "in play".
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With evidence based research in organizational behaviour and neuroscience Brandi shows how reintroducing play can unlock creativity, flexible thinking, and resilience within your teams.
The Playful Effect: Where Mental Health & Play Fit Into the Workplace
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Steer your organization into the future with this informative, and entertaining talk that shifts “stigma” to “strength” and helps connect mental health and wellness to workplace innovation and collaboration.
Drawing from her own journey as a college professor who championed disability inclusion while managing her own mental health struggles, Brandi uses humor to reframe coping, courage, and connection.
Leave equipped to shift perspectives, solve pressing issues, and foster a culture of empathy and creativity in your organization by getting your team back "in play".
Healing Our Caring Systems: Rebuilding Resilience, Risk and Connection
So who is taking care of people who take care of people?
This brilliantly engaging talk uses a collaborative new lens for compassion-led workforces to THRIVE. Taking care of others professionally is rewarding and challenging, and people in frontline services often struggle to balance survival with thriving.
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Restore and reignite your people in human services, healthcare and education by showing them that what they want most for others they need to give themselves. Leave with strategies for increased personal and professional confidence and creativity and organizational effectiveness.
Something custom:
Not everything fits into a standard box
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As a play specialist and CEO, I have a huge toolbox of resources and understanding of caregivers, people and workplaces and the ramifications of neglecting one's playful side; a loss that extends to our ability to cope, connect, create and ultimately thrive.
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Let's work together to explore the needs of your team and create an engaging keynote designed for you.
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what clients say:
Alice Hink
Kansas School Counsellors Conference
It was an incredible we were thrilled with the keynote and breakout session. She makes us stop and think about how to take care of ourselves, it was so fun and memorable.
I would highly recommend Brandi for your conference she will leave people uplifted and joyful, it is an incredible start to any conference.
Vanessa Klettke
Superintendent, Finance & Business - Treasurer
CALGARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
The session was amazing and we still joke about being the shapes we are and it definitely brought us closer together so thank you for that!
The program was just what we needed without knowing we needed it.
It was like you “got” us.
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Thank you
Elizabeth Reekie
Special Olympics Alberta
Extraordinary!
I can easily say that 2 weeks after the event people are still talking actively about the keynote and are interested in attending next year and we project these conversations will continue.
The Keynote was a huge hit and fit our unique group of conference attendees perfectly!