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BIO and INTRODUCTION

Karen's Short Program BIO

Karen Eddington is a 20 year resilience researcher, keynote speaker, and author, who teaches you connection skills based on her research in The Under Pressure Project. Featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills, Karen teaches you The A.R.T. of Interaction.

Karen's Speaking Introduction

Please note Karen’s stage introduction is different than her bio. At our pre-event call Karen will ask who is in charge of the intro and outro. Karen has a copy of her introduction that day, and at 6 weeks out Karen typically asks if you’d like her to connect with the MC in advance. Here is the link to Karen’s standard introduction.

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Our speaker is a 20-year researcher on The Under Pressure Project and is the author of Understanding Self-Worth. She has done over 50 TV interviews based on her Strong Under Pressure work, and she has been featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills.

Her daily goals include making the grocery cashier laugh, getting a stranger to take off their headphones in public, and for introverts to enjoy meetings.

When she is not speaking, you can find her singing off key to Sweet Caroline.

Here to help YOU lead through the safest and most isolated generation please welcome…

KAREN EDDINGTON!

Programs can be customized. If you want a deep dive for your industry Karen can provide you with your unique program description.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

Karen helps organizations INTERACT so people want to come back.

Repeat business. Retain relationships. Recover from setbacks.

The A.R.T. of Interaction

Create a welcome experience in a leave me alone era. Connection takes effort. Learn interaction building solutions based on Karen’s research in The Under Pressure Project. Have an opportunity to cheer each other on as we navigate doing business in the “safest and most isolated” generation. The effort to connect is worth it. Get skill sets and an invitation to:

Ask. Improve our communication skills.

Repair. Restore relationships. Learn the Repair Framework.

Trust. Build confidence in interaction. There’s a reason we keep people at arm’s length. Explore what you need in place to interact with more trust.

Inconvenient Community

A thought provoking look at being uncomfortable in connection.

You can’t have a community without experiencing inconvenience. Learn why many people have a defensive reaction to connecting. Find out what Karen learned in her work in The Under Pressure Project that you need to know. Develop a community people want to come back to. Karen will help you lead through the inconvenience of connection

Understand differences between online communities and in person communities to help professionals thrive in each environment.
Explore how accountability and generosity offset relationship scarcity.
Recall the reasons why we are living and doing business with the safest and most isolated generation and what you can do about it.

Strong Under Pressure

Lessons Learned from the Under Pressure Project

Fuel up! Rally around community as we talk about what it means to be strong under pressure. Find out what patterns researcher, Karen Eddington noted while interviewing people across the country about stress. Explore how we can uphold excellence while making people feel seen, genuinely cared for, and resilient.

Explore Stress Surfing and be able to recall a series of “life waves.” For example an IMPACT WAVE, explain why morale can go up after something like a natural disaster and what to do when it dips.

Get the S.O.S. Method to stress helping you understand when you are being pushed too far and when you are not being enough.

Learn how to rest and repair when you are tired.

Discover how laughter, community, and creativity can be part of your tool kit to navigate stress.

(An alternate title for this program is “Stress Surfing: Get Skills to Ride the Wave. Tell me about your meeting theme and I can often customize to fit what you need.)

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Audio Video and Event Day Review

Your meeting matters.

I’m here to serve your event and will flex to meet your needs. Here are some planning guides that can set us up for success. Ask for anything you need.

Audio visual requests: I prefer to use a handheld microphone as I often share my mic with the crowd. 80% of presentations are done with NO power point projections and are focused on connecting with the audience. 20% of my presentations will use a simple power point when we have a request for a more visual or content centered session. I travel with my laptop, slide advance clicker, adapters, and have a USB flash drive. IMAG is helpful with over 500 attendees. I appreciate a stage comfort screen and clock timer (I bring a backup timer so I keep you on time).

First contact and A/V check: As part of our meeting pre-event plan I will make note of our onsite check in. I would love to have a designated A/V check to get to know your team and our stage.

For room set up over 100 people: I recommend a raised platform and lighting as it will help the audience have a better experience.

Clean stage space: As possible, please place any needed lectern to the side of the stage. I recommend any door prizes or stage gear be set to the side below the stage.

Dietary requests: No restrictions. Thank you for asking. This is such a thoughtful request. I have no food allergies. On the road I eat like an athlete for performance. I travel with my own protein packs and re-fillable water bottle. Please know I often use meal times to connect with audience members.

If you want to go above and beyond…I love water. Travel can make water scarce. Access to a fresh water bottle on the road makes me feel like I won the lottery.

Travel: I typically travel out of the Salt Lake City, Utah airport. Have you traveled here? It’s great. My home airport is one of my favorite places.