Dr. Kathy Gruver is an internationally recognized speaker and motivational powerhouse.
Kathy offers Communication & Stress Virtual Keynotes.

Dr. Kathy Gruver is an internationally recognized speaker and motivational powerhouse. She will move you with her passionate storytelling, provide you with actionable tools, and leave you empowered to change your life. Gruver has written 7 books, which have earned 12 awards, and has presented on 4 continents, 3 cruise ships, and a handful of islands.

Dr. Gruver speaks on topics such as transforming your corporate and organizational culture, enhancing communication, creating true leadership with practical presence, decreasing stress, personal and professional growth, and building a powerful team.

Kathy helped develop a stress reduction program for the US military and has studied mind/body medicine at the famed Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Harvard. Dr. Gruver is an award-winning author, health practitioner, PhD, and two-time TEDx speaker, and is the host of the national TV series, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet. She has been studying psychology and human behavior her entire life.

Dr. Kathy Gruver has earned her PhD in Natural Health and is a Santa Barbara-based natural health practitioner with over two decades of experience in massage and hypnotherapy. She has been featured as an expert in numerous publications including Glamour, Fitness, Time, More, Women, Wall Street Journal, CNN, WebMD, Prevention, Huffington Post, Yahoo.com, Marie Claire, Ladies Home Journal, Dr. Oz's The Good Life, First, and Women. Dr. Gruver has appeared as a guest expert on over 250 radio and TV shows including NPR, SkyNews London, Every Way Woman, Morning Blend in Las Vegas, CBS Radio, and Lifetime Television. She is also the co-host of the hot new podcast The Fire and Earth Podcast.


SIGNATURE KEYNOTES [Virtual & In-Person Keynotes Available]:

★ CONQUER YOUR STRESS: GO FROM WORRIER TO WARRIOR
PRACTICAL STRESS REDUCTION TECHNIQUES, SELF-CARE, WORK/LIFE BALANCE

Perfect for high stress individuals and professions such as first responders, teachers, executives and medical professionals.

It's estimated that stress is responsible for 60-90% of doctor's visits and, one million workers miss work each day because of stress, costing companies $602 per employee per year, according the American Institute of Stress.

It is imperative that we recognize that stress is not the problem - it's our reaction to our stress and we can learn to control it. Acquire cutting edge self-care techniques - affirmations, visualization, mindfulness techniques and mini-meditations - that staff can do on their own for better health. A stress-free staff is a productive, healthy and happy staff. Dr. Gruver will share her decades of experience and you will walk away inspired to make positive changes in your life, your company and your staff.

Objective Points:
• What is stress?
• How stress is impacting your bottom line and your health
• Stress indicators
• How we relate to stress is the key
• Cutting edge stress reduction techniques
• Vital health and well being
• Learn to meditate even if you think you can't
• Master practical techniques that you can do in the moment to stop stress


★ BUILD RESILIENCE AND SHIFT MINDSET
BE POSITIVE NOW TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES, INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY, AND ENHANCE LIFE SATISFACTION

Objective Points:
• Learn to live life to its fullest and ‘go for it’
• Examine the role of perception and focus in our interpretation of events
• Reframe the stories of your life for more resilience, happiness and satisfaction
• Make changes in your viewpoint to see the positive in any situation
• Discover how to find the choices available to you every time
• Experience affirmations, visualization and mindfulness and how they make all the difference in how we view our world
• Look at the role of gratitude in changing focus
• Practice cognitive restructuring, which gives us options in how we focus our view


★ COMMUNICATION CONNECTIVITY
Best Audience: CEO's, Management Teams, Sales Groups, Company Employees, Organizations

Objective Points:
• Defining effective communication
• Being fully present
• React or Respond: take a pause
• Flexibility
• Different communication styles
• Practical exercises to help get your message out

Efficient and effective communication is so much more than just "listening" and repeating back what you think the person just said. It's about being present and fully in the moment, it's about taking a pause to choose whether you respond or react. It's about understanding the lenses through which other people are viewing the world and themselves, and adapting to that lens. It's about having the flexibility to adjust your communication to match that of whom you are speaking to, and it's about not being hesitant to ask questions, clarify, and dig deeper on an issue. Many people feel like they aren't being heard, but in reality aren't clearly communicating anything to hear. Dr. Gruver's background consulting with individual clients, psychology and hypnotherapy training, presence and mindfulness study, and learning different communication exercises and styles combine to create a comprehensive and practical program to help you get your message to those who need to hear it.


Additional Keynotes include:
★ WORK/LIFE BALANCE; THE KEY TO INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND ENHANCED HEALTH
★ JUST BE YOURSELF BUT WHO THE HELL IS THAT?