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About Nataly Kogan
Nataly Kogan is a former VC and the founder of Happier, a best practices collective that serves individuals and organizations seeking to realize full potential by providing the tools to find, create, and celebrate life’s small, overlooked moments.
From her teenage years as a Russian refugee learning English in the projects of Detroit, to becoming a leading venture capitalist in a predominantly male industry while still in her twenties, Nataly has continually achieved at the highest of levels.
She has held top positions at Manhattan-based firms McKinsey and Co. and Hudson Ventures, served as the only female board member at Constant Contact, worked at Microsoft’s state-of-the-art Future of Social Experiences Lab (FUSE), and served as Vice President of Consumer Experience at WHERE, which she helped sell to PayPal in 2011.
Despite a lifetime of accomplishments, Nataly found herself vastly unfulfilled. Initially a skeptic of the research related to the positive effects of happiness, fulfillment and balance on our daily lives, Nataly decided to incorporate happiness into her own life—solely in order to prove the research wrong.
But the more she applied these techniques, the more she immersed herself in and embraced the science and research—experiencing firsthand how effective happiness can be as a tool for realizing full potential in all aspects of work and life.
Rather than chasing “The Big Happy” of career, money and achievements, Nataly soon decided to dedicate her life to discovering and sharing the tools and best practices required to reframe the concept of “I’ll be happy when…” to the more powerful “I’m happier now because…”
With this mission in mind, Nataly launched Happier to an overwhelming global response and has since built a community that has shared over five million happy moments (and counting) on the Happier mobile application.
Since launching Happier, Nataly has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Magazine and Time Magazine, and has appeared as an expert on Dr. Oz, Bloomberg TV, and “One World” with Deepak Chopra.
She is a sought-out keynote speaker, having appeared at events that include at Million Dollar Roundtable, Fortune’s Tech Brainstorm, Blogher, SXSW, the 92nd St. Y, Harvard Women’s Leadership Conference, TEDx Boston, and many more.
Nataly lives in Boston with her husband and daughter, and can usually be found wearing orange, overusing the word “awesome,” doing art projects with her daughter, collecting large rings, and searching for the next amazing food spot—all of which make her happier.
The Power of Emotional Health @ Work During Challenge And Uncertainty
How to manage stress, avoid burnout, and strengthen your emotional fitness skills during difficult times
Uncertainty and workplace challenges are dramatically increasing employee stress, overwhelm, and burnout. This is our collective wake-up call to recognize that our well-being has a direct impact on every aspect of work and performance and to make emotional fitness a non-negotiable priority as a workplace skill.
Engaging the minds and the hearts of participants with her vulnerability, warmth, and humor, Nataly reveals insights about the human brain and simple, yet transformative mindset shifts to struggle less so you can bring your full capacity to your work and inevitable challenges that arise.
Nataly shares straight talk, research in neuroscience and psychology, and her powerful, personal story of success and burnout to activate audience members to practice their emotional fitness skills using the science-backed Happier Method™. Employees and leaders leave with immediate, super-practical ways to reduce stress, feel uplifted, boost their resilience, and foster a greater sense of connection with their colleagues (even when working remotely).
Leading Through Change and Adversity
Practical skills to help you struggle less and optimize your team’s capacity to thrive through challenges
To be a great leader means to positively impact other people’s capacity to thrive. And you can’t positively impact others if you’re burned out, overwhelmed, and ignoring your own emotional, mental, and physical well-being.
In this practical and inspiring session, Nataly Kogan, a leading expert on emotional fitness and leadership, shares research, straight talk, and her powerful personal story of burnout to activate leaders to make their emotional fitness their number one priority as a leadership skill.
Leaders will walk away with tangible takeaways and science-backed practices to improve their own emotional awareness and better manage stress. They will gain immediate strategies to help their team cultivate emotional openness, improve well-being, and create a culture of psychological safety and gratitude.
Happiness is a Skill
Science-backed skills to help you struggle less and experience more joy and meaning!
In this vulnerable and practical talk, nationally recognized emotional fitness expert Nataly Kogan shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive “big happy” through achievements and how she finally made the essential mindset shifts that allowed her to live with more self-compassion, joy, and meaning.
Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate and using her science-backed Happier Method™, shares simple yet transformative skills and practices — used by more than one million people! — to help you experience more joy in everyday moments and get through tough times with greater ease. Stop saying “I’ll be happy when…” and use the proven practices Nataly shares to feel happier today.
Women @ Work: Fire Up the Awesome and Unlock Your True Potential
How to remove mental obstacles, struggle less, and achieve meaningful, sustainable success
In this powerful and honest talk, Nataly fuels women to break through mental barriers that hold them back, cultivate their true purpose, and tap into their full potential so they can lead from an authentic place of strength, regardless of the obstacles.
Having spent her career in male-dominated industries of venture capital, finance, and technology, Nataly offers frank personal stories with vulnerability and humor, while acknowledging the significant challenges women face in the workplace. She shares insightful research and reveals powerful mindset shifts and strategies to help women get out of the perfection trap, achieve sustainable success, and unlock their full capacity to lead, thrive, and grow.
The Science of Gratitude
Cultivate a human-centered culture of gratitude to boost engagement and performance
An overwhelming amount of research has shown that cultivating a culture of gratitude, kindness, and trust has a dramatic positive impact on productivity, creativity, innovation, resilience, and ultimately, on the performance of an organization as a whole. Nataly has helped hundreds of thousands of people and companies develop a daily gratitude practice with transformational results. In this practical and inspiring talk, Nataly shares mindset shifts, hard-hitting research, and easy-to-implement practices that employees and teams can do in only minutes a day to help them improve their emotional fitness, increase resilience, and derive fulfillment from their contribution at work.
Testimonials
“Nataly’s background and experience on what really drives a happier existence at work & home was very well received. She brings a lot of credibility to the topic as she is very honest about her own experiences. It was refreshing to hear. I can’t recommend enough adding an element of Happier to a company event.”
– Gillette
“Nataly has an amazing personal story, and has created an impressive brand based on her believe in making each moment in life matter. Her passion for and belief in the power of happiness is palpable and allows her to connect with her audience in a unique way that provokes them to in turn reflect on how they can bring more happiness into their own lives. The power of Nataly’s words continued to resonate within our walls long after she had left the building!”
– Mullen
“As the keynote speaker at our biggest event of the year, Nataly immediately captivated our audience of entrepreneurial young professionals. Her witty sense of humor, genuine passion for her work, and real world stories gave us inspiration (and many head nods and laughs!). Her positive energy is infectious, and our audience left feeling ready to take their careers to the next level thanks to her unique advice and words of wisdom. I’d highly recommend her as a speaker at any event.”
– Young Women in Digital
“Nataly’s message of gratitude and mindfulness complimented our integrative wellness philosophy and her workshop activities were extremely well received by our discerning guests.”
– Canyon Ranch
“Nataly’s accessible and personal approach made it easy for a diverse audience to connect with her message. She dared us to be happier and we are excited for the challenge!”
– Wentworth Institute of Technology