Heidi Dening

Heidi Dening believes that education changes lives. Combining the insights she has learned from surviving a paralysing illness, a gunpoint kidnapping, a life-threatening tsunami, a catastrophic earthquake and petrol bombs with her impressive business and health education background, she has a unique ability to elevate the professional resilience of leaders and their teams. This enables them to make better decisions, be more innovative, have more energy, optimism and empathy, and successfully deal with change, stress, and uncertainty. Heidi has dedicated her career to inspiring people with practical strategies that improve professional resilience and self-leadership qualities, from small children on remote Pacific islands to professional teams across 21 different industries. This has meant she has delivered onstage and online presentations and programs to tens of thousands of professionals worldwide, including Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), Raine and Horne, Financial Planners Association, Metcash, Insurance Council of Australia, and Westpac. She was named ‘Best International Keynote Speaker’ in the Asia Pacific region and is the author of an Amazon best-selling leadership book called ‘’Her Middle Name is Courage – How Self-Leadership Transforms Pressure into Performance, Chaos into Clarity and Rage into Resilience”. Heidi is frequently sought out as a resilience expert across all media platforms (radio, podcast, print and TV) with has had notable features in Channel Nine's Weekend Today, SBS news, Sydney Morning Herald, Women's Agenda, Smart Company, and Mamamia.