Dr. Hodges and her team create and deliver inspiring, science-anchored, actionable learning experiences and keynotes that equip people to live wholehearted, balanced lives and bring their highest potential to their families and businesses.

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Less Stress, More Calm is a resource to help you get to know who you are under stress, why you show up that way, and what you can do about it. You’ll learn the science behind stress personalities, practical strategies to better manage your stress and build more resilience, and learn about the hidden superpowers that lie within all of us when it comes to how we show up under stress.

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ABOUT LAUREN:

Lauren earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree from the University of Central Florida in 2011 (Go Knights!) in curriculum design and experiential learning.

She has additional certifications in coaching, strength and conditioning, performance nutrition, and an advanced certificate in Neuroscience for Business from MIT Sloane School of Management. Lauren brings together her experience working both in the health and wellness field and higher education to explore the intersections between well-being and human performance, and leadership and performance potential. She co-founded Performance on Purpose after spending over ten years consulting in the human performance space, researching, learning from the founding theorists in these areas, and building learning experiences for the global leaders in human performance and well-being.

Her purpose is to serve others by helping them thrive in body, mind and spirit so that their organizations can thrive, too. Her mission is to advance leadership and performance potential through deep, meaningful learning experiences in the field of human performance and well-being sciences.

SERVICES

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Lauren speaks to groups both large and intimate on the topics of health and human performance. She creates deep, meaningful learning experiences, blending science, engaging exercises, storytelling, and action steps.

Traditional executive coaching often focuses on the tactical and “harder” skills of leadership development; performance coaching is a whole-human approach to leadership.

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Lauren creates customized, engaging learning experience for global leaders in well-being and human performance. She also has off the shelf content available for licensure.

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Speaking

LAUREN SHARES UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON CULTIVATING MORE HIGH PERFORMING, AGILE, RESILIENT LEADERS, WORKPLACES, AND COMMUNITIES.

Blending research and storytelling, Lauren's live and virtual keynotes will help you build awareness, take action, and design the life you want. Participants walk away with tools and strategies they can implement immediately to maximize their happiness, energy and performance at work, at home and within.

KEYNOTES THAT ARE PRACTICAL, POWERFUL, AND ACTION-FOCUSED.

Bring science-based strategies to everyday challenges of stress and burnout.

Create healthier work environments that supports resiliency.

Help your people show up at their best both personally and professionally.

Create deeper connections across all levels of the organization.

Help your team shift their mindsets around stress, challenge, and change.

DISCOVER YOUR STRESS PERSONALITY AND MAKE IT YOUR SUPERPOWER
Key Takeaways:
- Actionable strategies to maximize happiness, energy and performance at work, home and within.
- Better awareness of the different stress personalities and how they can affect the workplace.
- Understanding of science backed principles of stress and how they can affect health and well-being.
- Shift team mindsets by creating deeper connections and resilience.
What if you could anticipate the stress response of each person in your organization and have a customized solution for their specific "stress personality"?
This is precisely what Dr. Lauren Hodges, an esteemed consultant and designer of instructional courses in human performance, well-being, and learning sciences, is offering leaders in Fortune 100 companies around the country.
As the lead designer for Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global Flagship Courses, Thriving Performance and Thriving Mind, it is no surprise that Dr. Hodges is being called upon by some of the most elite corporate teams in the world to create a “go-to” toolkit for moving past stress experiences and finding practical solutions. Accenture, in particular, adopted this course, making it their most widely completed program with 250,000 participants worldwide.
By highlighting the wide variety of stress responses among individuals, Dr. Hodges empowers her audience to make meaningful changes without drastic alterations to their behavior.

WITH BRAIN TRAINING
Key Takeaways:
- Identify tools to recharge energy, focus and attention
- Leverage brain science to build new workplace habits that drive high performance, not burnout
- Increase energy, build resilience, and thrive at work and in life with small changes that lead to lasting results
Sometimes our workload and daily demands feel endless: the to do’s, calls, meetings, projects, planning, birthdays, kids sports schedules…the list goes on. How often do your days leave you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and disengaged from the people and things that matter the most?
Did you know that there is brain science behind why you feel this way? And, there’s a way to combat it? The science of cognition, stress, and human performance provide us new insights about why we aren’t meant to go full force all day, and what we truly need to be high performers at work and in life.
In this session, you will learn a new framework to rethink what it means to perform, recover, and thrive. You’ll use brain and human performance sciences to tell the story of burnout and offer tools you can use right away to have more energy, feel less stressed, and take your performance to the next level.

YOUR LONG-TERM GAMEPLAN FOR THRIVING THROUGH STRESS
Key Takeaways:
- Better awareness of how the biology of stress impacts performance, and how to make it work for you and not against you.
- Deeper understanding of the influence of limiting “stress mindsets” to our growth, resilience, and performance potential.
- Strategies to leveraging vision, values, and mindset to strengthen agility through even the toughest of storms.
Did you know there is a science-rooted formula to truly thriving through stress, challenge, and change? What does it really take to move from merely bracing for storms and reacting to unexpected challenges, to taking control over our lives and moving to a place of thriving, and even growth, through stress, challenge, and change? How do we move from reactive and “bouncing back” to leveling up in life? That’s where Agility comes in.
Agility is more than being resilient: it’s a formula for real, sustainable change and thriving in our lives. Why Agility? Because it’s not just a word reserved for elite athletes and supercharged workouts. Agility is about maneuvering and even thriving through stress and storms. It’s about doing more with less, without burning out. An agile person is self-aware: they have the right mindset for success, a vision of who they want to be and what matters most, and they create an environment to be that person most of the time. Agility doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a rewiring of your brain.
In this session you’ll learn a formula to build agility and walk away with simple techniques to help you create new habits and mindset to support lasting change. This is the first step to putting yourself back in the driver’s seat of your own success.

HOW DO WE SUSTAIN HIGH PERFORMANCE WITHOUT SACRIFICING WHAT MATTERS?
Key Takeaways:
- Learn three critical skills needed to sustain high performance in high demand environments.
- Understand the relationship between human performance and high performance.
- Identify 1-3 rituals to implement right away in your personal and professional life.
What does the field of human performance sciences tell us are three key skills needed to sustain high performance in high demand, high pressure roles and environments...without sacrificing our health, happiness, or relationships along the way?
We'll dive into over 40 years of research to identify these three skills, how they directly relate to our ability to lead and thrive in any environment, and identify at least one ritual to implement right away to increase our energy and create greater alignment between our mission for work and our mission for life.

Do Your Know You

“Stress Personality”?

A LINKEDIN LEARNING COURSE

Learn recent advances in the neuroscience of stress, and new insights that can help us better manage, leverage stress for growth, and possibly reduce our risk of burnout.
Identify your stress personality and how it may complement or clash with others.

In a recent Gallup Well-being at Work survey, only 33% of employees reported that they're thriving in their overall wellbeing, and half of the workforce reports consistent stress in their lives. Chronic stress can sabotage your health and well-being, making you more vulnerable to depression, disease, and disengagement from your work, family, and life. In this course, human performance expert Dr. Lauren Hodges shares recent advances in the neuroscience of stress, which have uncovered new insights that can help us better manage, leverage stress for growth, and possibly reduce our risk of burnout. Learn about the science of stress and how to identify your stress personality. Are you a Fighter, Runner, Worrier, Freezer, Pleaser, or Thriver? Find out how your stress personality may complement or clash with others. Then find ways to turn your new insight into action with a “stress reset.”
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P.S. There are more Stress Personalities! Take the quiz to find out yours and receive a FREE Stress Personality report with tips and tools to manage yours.