- Boston, MA
Nataly Kogan Keynote Speaker
- Leading expert on thriving and leadership, 3x entrepreneur and mindset mentor to high performers with purpose
- Creator of the Happier Method™, Founder & CEO of Happier, a company that’s helped more than 1 million people live happier lives
- Bestselling Author of The Awesome Human Journal, The Awesome Human Project & Happier Now
Nataly Kogan's Biography
Nataly Kogan is a leading expert in transformation, emotional fitness, and leadership, whose mission is to help awesome humans grow through change and unlock their next level of potential, impact and joy.
She is a sought-after keynote speaker, best-selling author, former tech CEO, and the creator of the REINVENT•ABILITY™ Framework. Nataly immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee from the former Soviet Union when she was 13. She began her American life in the projects and on welfare, learning English by watching Who’s the Boss? on repeat. She went on to achieve extraordinary career success at McKinsey and Microsoft, served as a Managing Director at a venture capital fund, and was the founder or executive at five startups and tech companies. But after years of chasing success without fulfillment, Nataly experienced a profound burnout that led her to completely rethink how she lived and worked. She founded Happier Inc., whose gratitude-sharing app, leadership programs, and courses have helped over a million people strengthen their emotional fitness and well-being.
Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Time, and hundreds of other media outlets. Nataly is the author of Happier Now, The Awesome Human Project, and The Awesome Human Journal, and the host of the REINVENT•ABILITY™ Podcast. She has delivered hundreds of talks and keynotes at organizations like Google, Dell, Disney, and Capital One, helping people reconnect to what energizes them and expand what’s possible in their work and lives.
When she turned 40, Nataly began painting. She’s a self-taught abstract artist who believes deeply in the power of creative expression to fuel our well-being and growth. She loves the color yellow, overuses the word “awesome,” and is proudly the funniest person in her family. (Just ask her husband and daughter—her favorite awesome humans.)
Nataly Kogan's Speaking Topics
The REINVENT•ABLE MINDSET: A Framework to Grow and Thrive During Change and Uncertainty
In a world of relentless change—where AI is reshaping how we live and work—resilience is no longer enough.
To lead, thrive, and innovate in this new era, there’s one essential skill every person and team must develop: the ability to reinvent.
Because reinvention isn’t just a response to disruption. It’s the meta-skill of our time. Amidst constant uncertainty and change, your ability to reinvent is your greatest advantage.
In this dynamic, story-rich experience, Nataly Kogan shares her science-backed REINVENT•ABLE™ Mindset: a practical framework to help individuals and organizations grow through uncertainty, unlock possibility, and turn change into a catalyst for innovation.
Drawing on her personal journey—from refugee to tech CEO to best-selling author and artist—Nataly reveals the five core mindset shifts that separate those who evolve and thrive from those who stay stuck in fear, doubt, and resistance.
With research from neuroscience and psychology, interactive moments, and deeply relatable stories, audiences learn how to:
- Shift from resisting change to using it as a launchpad for growth and impact
- Lead with a mindset of possibility instead of being paralyzed by uncertainty
- Rewire their brain’s fear response and build confidence through action
- Spot and challenge limiting beliefs that block innovation
- Manage emotional friction and show up as grounded, authentic leaders
Available as a powerful keynote or an interactive workshop experience.
Perfect for:
- Leadership offsites and corporate events
- Organizations navigating disruption or transformation
- Teams seeking to build cultures of innovation and adaptability
- Companies preparing their workforce for the future of work
Attendees leave energized and equipped with practical tools to develop their REINVENT•ABLE™ Mindset—ready to thrive through uncertainty with clarity, confidence, and creativity.
The Power of Authentic Leadership: Creating Trust and Empowering Your Team to Thrive
Leaders are constantly given advice to be authentic and vulnerable.
But for many, this feels like a contradiction to the qualities they’ve come to believe leaders should embody: confidence, strength, unwavering positivity.
With vulnerability, humor, and scientific insights, Nataly shares mistakes she made and lessons she learned during her 20-year career as a business leader wearing a “confident and positive” mask. She offers powerful mindset shifts to help leaders communicate with authenticity and immediately-accessible practices that leaders can use to lead with more compassion and humanness.
Key Takeaways:
- An innovative concept of the Emotional Whiteboard, and how to practice it to improve trust and psychological safety within your team
- Practical strategies to overcome fear of vulnerability
- How to cultivate greater authenticity and human connection within your team to fuel engagement and top performance
Unleash Your Awesome Human!: Fuel Your Emotional Fitness, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life
Based on Nataly’s best-selling book, The Awesome Human Project, this keynote will activate you to prioritize your emotional fitness, fuel your energy, and show up as your best, thriving self in every aspect of your work and life.
With her signature mix of vulnerability, humor, and scientific research, Nataly shares her journey as a refugee who achieved immense career success, suffered a debilitating burnout, and discovered how changing her relationship with herself and strengthening her emotional fitness not only improved her well-being, but her ability to unleash her full awesome potential.
This keynote won’t just inspire you, but empower you with Nataly’s signature simple yet surprisingly powerful practices to manage your energy, edit negative thoughts, and live and work with greater joy and purpose.
Nataly can turn this keynote into a 90-minute interactive workshop, including her newly released Awesome Human Journal, for every participant.
Key Takeaways:
- What is emotional fitness and simple daily practices to strengthen it
- A fresh take on self-care as the skill of fueling your mental, emotional and physical energy
- Powerful mindset shifts on how improving your relationship with yourself unlocks your full potential and capacity to lead with compassion
The Happier Method: 5 Science-Backed Skills to Live with More Joy and Aliveness
Based on Nataly’s best-selling book Happier Now
We’ve all gotten stuck in the “I’ll be happy when…” trap, believing that achievements or seeking perfection will bring us happiness. In this vulnerable and practical keynote, Nataly, the founder of Happier—a company that has helped more than one million people live happier lives—and author of the best-selling book Happier Now, shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive “big happy” and how she finally made the mindset shifts that enabled her to live with more self-compassion, joy, and meaning.
Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate, and activates the audience to practice 5 core Happier Skills based on her science-backed Happier Method™. Audience members will be elevated, inspired, and armed with simple practices that can immediately fuel their joy.
Key Takeaways:
- Happiness is a skill you can improve
- Learn the 5 Happier Skills: Acceptance, Gratitude, Self-Care, Intentional Kindness, and the Bigger Why—and simple yet surprisingly powerful ways to practice them in your daily life and at work
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