In this transformative keynote, Nawaz reveals how anyone can harness the constant pressures of work and life to drive exponential growth. Sharing insights honed from years of CEO coaching, she presents an actionable framework for leveraging pressure as a catalyst for growth. The result? An audience equipped to live fully, succeed in their careers, and be the productive, collaborative employees their team and organization need. This keynote is perfect for any audience experiencing misunderstanding and conflict at work, which is decreasing their productivity and increasing their stress; feeling bogged down by stressors outside of their control and looking for ways to be more strategic with their time and focus; and are trying to meet their career goals but struggling to make substantial progress toward them.

The audience will leave with:

• The motivation and mindset to embrace pressure as a positive catalyst for growth in their work and lives
• Practical, field-tested tools for recognizing and avoiding the most common pressure pitfalls that hinder teamwork and communication, including:
  • The Yes List: an easy-to-use tracking tool to monitor and reinforce the micro habits that will help them achieve outsized goals
  • Multiple Meanings: a fun approach to building mutual understanding and improving collaboration
  • Time Portfolio: a radically simple way to see and choose the right priorities, improving productivity, innovation, and job satisfaction

*Based on Sabina’s book You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)

Discover how to transform workplace tension into teamwork, clarity, connection, and unparalleled growth. The dynamic between bosses and employees can feel destined for dysfunction, caught in endless loops of bad-boss jokes and disgruntled-worker memes. But those jokes are far less funny when you live them. When work becomes a source of frustration rather than fulfillment, when colleagues feel like adversaries instead of allies, productivity isn’t the only casualty, it wears down our souls.

In this groundbreaking keynote, Nawaz upends conventional thinking about boss-employee relationships. She reveals that behind workplace dysfunction lie two powerful forces: pressure and power. Through compelling stories and practical, field-tested strategies, Nawaz demonstrates how to transform pressure into clarity and power into genuine connection—creating healthier relationships, happier teams, and wildly productive organizations.

The audience will leave with:

• A fresh perspective on the boss-employee dynamic and the skills and strategies they need for successful teamwork.
• Road-tested tools and tactics for navigating power and pressure to deliver high-impact results, including:
  • Unmet Hungers: A simple tool to identify and address emotional needs, like affirmation and belonging, that can inadvertently sabotage communication, collaboration, and decision-making.
  • Multiple Meanings: A straightforward strategy for interpreting colleagues’ behaviors more constructively, reducing misunderstandings, and enhancing team collaboration.

In this inspiring, deeply personal keynote, Nawaz reveals a five-step process anyone in your audience can take to reliably shut down the voice of their inner critic, pursue their dreams, and unleash their most courageous self. This keynote is perfect for any professional trying to fulfill their dreams but finding something holding them back, feeling stuck or frustrated with where they are in their career or life, and struggling to articulate their desires or goals

The audience will leave with:

• A deeper understanding of the role interior voices currently play in their successes and failures
• Concrete steps they can take to attract, cultivate, and curate positive voices to help them achieve their dreams
• Five practical steps they can take to conquer their fear, propel themselves to action, and achieve their dreams

This insightful session reveals how the most successful high-level executives design the right kinds of filters to deal with their mental junk mail more effectively so they can continue advancing business growth and achieve their goals. This keynote is perfect for any career-focused audience feeling stuck in negative thought spirals or paralyzed by a fear of failing, lacking the confidence to pursue their goals and aspirations boldly, and taking action to move forward in their career but not seeing any progress. 

The audience will leave with:

• An insider look into how successful people overcome negative thought patterns
• The three most effective filters they can use (Pause It, Name it, Accept It) to limit the voices of discouragement and fear in their heads

The four action steps they can take immediately to overcome negative thought patterns and build the positive ones that will help them achieve their goals:

• Start small
• Focus on something else
• Embrace compliments
• Talk to someone else