Natalie Siston Helping you reclaim who you have always been for greater resilience, happiness and performance

Today’s leaders are burned out—not just from doing too much, but from doing what no longer aligns. In a culture that rewards performance, perfection, and pushing through, many leaders have lost touch with the voice inside that says: there’s another way.

In this refreshing and high-impact keynote, Natalie Siston helps audiences trade burnout for boldness, and achievement for alignment. Drawing from her own leadership journey and coaching experience, she guides people to reconnect with their true selves—the version that’s been waiting for permission to lead with clarity, energy, and authenticity.

This isn’t about slowing down. It’s about tuning in. Because when people lead from within, they not only feel better—they perform better.

Perfect for leadership retreats, annual sales meetings, or team offsites, Permission Granted is the reset button today’s professionals need to show up fully and lead what’s next.

Audience Takeaways

• Learn how to identify the internal patterns that fuel burnout—and replace them with practices that restore clarity, confidence, and energy
• Reframe what it means to be a high performer—so your people stop pushing harder and start leading smarter
• Shift from autopilot to intention by aligning personal values with professional decisions
• Build emotional resilience and mental fitness skills to support retention, engagement, and sustainable growth
• Walk away with a personal “permission slip” to lead from within—unlocking real results through authenticity, not overachievement

This session can be delivered as an interactive keynote or immersive workshop.

Once we get to a certain level of success, we forget about the girl inside of us. She is the one who was the first to hop into a game of pickup basketball, but now all she does is pick up after others. She was the one who played the lead in the school musical, but now only sings in the shower. She wrote her deepest thoughts in a journal, but is stuck writing one business report after the other.

If you feel like your inner girl gets sent to the back of the line when the next deadline, meeting, or family obligation pops up, this is for you.

This interactive and inspirational keynote was created when Natalie found all of the diaries she has written since she was 8. She was reminded that she has always been who she was meant to be. Natalie’s debut book launched to bestseller status in November 2020 and since then she has shared the message with thousands of people around the world.

In this session, she’ll walk through her journey of reclaiming her authentic self in order to inspire you to experience greater resilience, growth, and confidence by discussing:

• Ideas and tactics to bring more fun and joy to your day-to-day
• Barriers that have been holding you back from your true self and how to overcome them
• The link between authenticity to personal growth and professional development

This session can be delivered as an interactive keynote or immersive workshop.

In most organizations, there is a belief that you need to make a trade-off between performance and wellbeing. The research and practical application behind Positive Intelligence demonstrates that you can achieve both performance AND wellbeing when you become mentally fit. This is imperative for leaders and team members who are exhausted, yet are required to make critical and strategic decisions and innovate for future success all while facing continual headwinds.

When leaders are not mentally fit, they feel mental stress -- anxiety, frustration, or unhappiness -- as they handle work and relationship challenges. The bad news is that 80% of people score below the minimum level of mental fitness required for peak performance, happiness and wellbeing.

During this session, your audience will understand how to achieve stress-free peak performance, what’s standing in their own way of peak performance and wellbeing and how to strengthen mental muscles that will support their ability to care, grow, and win together.

Participants will gain insight on:

• The top 10 ways they self-sabotage and how this interferes with their relationships, performance and wellbeing.
• The neuroscience of happiness & peak performance and 10-second techniques to activate their “right” mind.
• How they generate their own stress, and how they can generate peace of mind instead (even in the midst of great challenges).
• The mental muscle that gives top performers their edge, and how they can grow it with a few minutes of daily practice.
• A simple 4-step process to implement immediately following the session, to minimize self-sabotage and strengthen self-mastery.

This session is based on the Positive Intelligence work of Shirzad Chamine, a New York Times Bestselling author, Stanford lecturer, and coach to hundreds of CEOs and executive teams. As lead presenter and member of the Positive Intelligence leadership team, Natalie has had the opportunity to introduce thousands of audience members from around the world to this transformative work. She looks forward to your audience being transformed, too.

Participants have enjoyed discovering which Saboteurs present the greatest internal obstacles to their optimal achievement and well-being. And they are thrilled to learn simple science-based tools to remove these obstacles. An optional, free 5-minute Saboteur Assessment is available online to deepen engagement and personalize the material.

This session can be delivered as an interactive keynote or immersive workshop.