Heidi Dening is an award-winning speaker and best-selling author who believes that education changes lives. She has dedicated her career to empowering thousands of people globally with resilience, self-leadership and wellbeing programs from small children on remote pacific islands to leaders and their teams across 19 different industries. She is currently on a crusade to make sure leaders and their teams are resilient enough to work at their fullest potential, despite change, stress and uncertainty. This has meant she has delivered onstage and online programs and presentations to thousands of leaders from across the globe. Some of the Australian companies have included Financial Planners Association, Metcash, University of Sydney and MLC Wealth. Heidi’s empowering education content is a unique compilation of: • science-based facts from her degree; • over 22yrs of experience educating organisations and their people with performance-enhancing programs; • insights from rising above real-life adversities such as a paralysing illness, gunpoint kidnapping, tsunami terror, and narrowly escaping being burnt alive. Heidi often appears in the media as a resilience expert, including a recent segment on Channel Nine’s Weekend Today, a full-page newspaper article the mental health pandemic following COVID-19, plus dozens of radio, podcasts and print media interviews. She has been named Best International Keynote Speaker in the Asia Pacific region at the Influential Businesswoman’s Awards, is the author of an amazon best-selling self-leadership book called ‘Her Middle Name Is Courage’ and an expert at supporting leaders to find the courage to keep moving forward during tough times.