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Build resilience.
Master disruption.
Thrive.

Global Speaker | Coach | Consultant

With decades of international experience, Heather Wokusch promotes resilience during times of change or disruption. She provides practical tools and inspiration to transform resistance into fuel for personal and organizational growth.

Future of Work

Change Navigation

Productive Team Mindset

Measurable Results

Impact Areas

Questioning conventional wisdom, Heather Wokusch delivers fresh perspectives on leadership in 2025 and beyond. She shares practical tools, frameworks, and techniques for optimizing change processes and related leadership, management and cultural roadmaps.

From AI to politics, the world today is experiencing massive structural change like never before. This transformation will break some organizations and empower others. The key? Being resilient, aware, and dynamic enough to deal with uncertainty. At the workplace, this means engaging employees as creative problem solvers to navigate moments of crisis and identify transformative opportunities.

Forbes lists ‘Employee well-being and mental health’ as key in 2025. Heather Wokusch guides individuals and organizations through the complexities of psychological well-being, ensuring they emerge stronger and better prepared to face future challenges. She has built lasting impact on four continents by supporting the development of innovations prioritizing emotional resilience and holistic health.

In today’s increasingly polarized world, disagreements at the workplace are also rising. And this division is impacting both performance and the bottom line. With a proven track record of supporting teams and other groups in conflict, Heather Wokusch provides motivation and actionable tools for sustainable (re)solutions.

At Your Service

Speaking

Motivating keynotes,
Engaging presentations

Workshops

Impactful interactions,
Lasting results

Virtual Assets

Customized eLearning,
Sustainable messaging

Consulting

Global experience,
Personal approach

Sample Presentations

(All Presentation topics can also be Workshops)

  • Build Resilience: Live Better, Work Smarter, Feel Stronger
  • Master Disruption in 2025 and Beyond
  • Transformational Leadership Today
  • Future of Work: Are You Ready?
  • Emotional Intelligence: Why You Need It, How to Get It
  • Managing Stress and Increasing Energy
  • Beyond Burnout: Practical Tools for Lasting Results
Book Heather

Multimedia Creation

Interested in customized resources? Get in touch! Samples below.

Video and Print

A New Model for Dealing with Burnout

An article for the Global Mental Health Action Network.

Existential Threats and Interconnected Solutions

A panel discussion (held at a major climate conference) which was later scaled on US television.

How to Thrive in Your New Home Office

A Medium article on increasing productivity and avoiding burnout.

Biodiversity: Broadcast and Multimedia

A multimedia initiative aimed at creating awareness about biodiversity.

Games and eLearning

Intro to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

An eLearning course describes how to develop and implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the workplace and beyond.

Digital Bowling: Hiring Bias Game

A fun digital interaction introducing key terms and techniques for preventing hiring bias.

Senior Instructional Designer USPs

An engaging method of showcasing a skill set.

Ocean Stewardship 2030: An Interactive Approach

An eLearning course covering a roadmap for industries and policymakers to ‘secure a healthy and productive ocean by 2030.’

In Action

Experience

Heather’s international career in organizational development, instructional design, strategic management, multimedia, cross-culture, and advocacy has spanned five continents and multiple fields.

As Executive Director of MESPERO: Impact for Resilience, she consults corporations, governmental groups, educational institutions and other entities on digital transformation, leadership development, workforce experience, change management, and globalization. She specializes in promoting mental health and emotional wellbeing on organizational levels.

A firm believer in Impact Tech and the democratization of knowledge, Heather is an expert in eLearning. As the founder and CEO of elearn.works, she creates customized digital solutions for an array of public and private entities and has developed multiple Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

Public outreach is a specialty, whether keynoting at global events, moderating high-level diplomatic panels, guiding technical-expert interactive workshops, or moderating a televised broadcast with an in-person audience of 10,000 people. Heather’s Manhattan-based television interview series has won national awards.

A sample, including how Heather Wokusch contributed:

TEDx Innsbruck
Austria
Speaker
October 2024

Mental Health Forum
USA
Speaker
November 2023

Summit of the Future Event
United Nations, New York
Speaker
September 2024

Warsaw Human Dimension Conference
Poland
Panel Moderator
October 2023

MNN Television Production
USA
Television Program Host
September 2024

Democracy Workshop Forum
Austria
Moderator, Workshop Lead
September 2023

Democracy Workshop Forum
Austria
Moderator, Workshop Lead
July 2024

Democracy Workshop Forum
Austria
Moderator, Workshop Lead
July 2024

Permanent Mission of France Event
Austria
Panelist
June 2024

Bridging Climate Divides Event
United Nations, Vienna
Organizer, Moderator, Workshop Lead
July 2023

Heather Wokusch has an MA in Psychology with an emphasis on Organizational Development.

Samples of her certifications:

Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption
University of Leeds
2024

Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2024

Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation
University of Toronto
2023

Human-Centered Design for Inclusive Innovation
University of Toronto
2023

Inclusive Analytic Techniques
University of Toronto
2023

As Executive Director of SDG2030.me and Director of Development for the International Forum for Understanding, Heather Wokusch creates activities around the Sustainable Development Goals on a pro bono basis. Emphasis is on developing HUBs of community, action and virtual learning.

A feature she designed for the SDG 5 HUB was showcased at the United Nations’ High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.

Dedicated to climate change prevention and mitigation, the SDG 13 HUB features an Interactive Project Showcase and a digital Learning Center.

The Human Trafficking Awareness HUB emphasizes inclusion of those with lived experience. Heather has also organized large-scale related activities such as Breaking Free from Human Trafficking: An Interactive Event and Exhibition (Vienna) and SDGs and Human Trafficking: Lived Experience Leads (London).