Heidi Dening

Award-winning workplace resilience and self-leadership expert

Heidi is like a cat with nine lives.

Heidi has survived a gunpoint kidnapping, paralysing illnesses, a life-threatening tsunami, and petrol bombs.

Combining this with her health education background, Heidi supports leaders and their teams to find the courage to persevere during challenging times.

Heidi was named ‘Best International Keynote Speaker’ in the Asia Pacific region at the Influential Businesswoman Awards. This was due to her brilliant storytelling ability which keeps audiences leaning in while she transfers empowering strategies that are easily implemented into corporate life.

Heidi believes that education changes lives and her resilience, self-leadership and wellbeing presentations have positively impacted small children on remote pacific islands as well as professional teams across 19 industries.

Some of Heidi's company audiences have included Oracle, Coca-Cola, Westpac, Metcash, University of Sydney and MLC Wealth.

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