Karen Eddington
Karen Eddington is a 20-year resilience researcher, keynote speaker, and author, who teaches connection skills based on her research in The Under Pressure Project. Featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills.
Price range
- $5,000 - $7,000
Expert
- Agriculture
- Emotional Intelligence
- Female Speakers
- Life Balance
- Mental Health
- Resilience
- Stress
Career
- 23 Years
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About
Keynote speaker Karen Eddington provides stress help based on her research in The Under Pressure Project. With a warm and engaging approach, she helps audiences who are dedicated to hard work.Get a speaker with HIGH ENERGY, COMPASSION, and RANGE. She keeps people off their cell phones and looking up. “You can feel her love for the audience and her work.”After interviewing producers across the nation, learn the top 5 pressures Karen Eddington discovered in the agriculture industry. She is a 20-year researcher on The Under Pressure Project and is the author of Understanding Self-Worth, who learned proven methods to combat stress by listening to people like you. Featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills, Karen now works to bring theseperformance skills to you.From rural Utah, Karen shares stress management skills with a focus on how to be strong under pressure.-Learn how to rest and repair when you’re tired.-Make decisions that bring peace.-Explore why pressure isn’t always bad.-Discover the ‘waves’ of life and how to hold on through the lows.Karen invites your audience to explore stress in its opposites: fun, relaxation, and meaning. Using a light, yet relatable approach, she will invite people to see meaning, community, and make it safer to ask for help.
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Video Clips
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Topics
Lighten the Load: Supporting Invisible Burdens of Women in Agriculture
Have you ever felt like there is a lot on your plate, and you didn’t order any of it? With levity and understanding explore the complex role of women in agriculture. Harvest, family life, bookkeeping, health, community, production, duty, and necessity of life add up to an unseen weight. Get resilience tools, capacity conversations, and self-care skills to improve your quality of life. Learn reasons we don’t ask for help and explore how laughter, community, and creativity help. Feel seen and supported so you can carry the weight of your work.
Strong Under Pressure – Get Skills to Ride the Wave
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.)
The A.R.T. of Interaction
Create a welcome experience in a leave me alone era. Disconnection is keeping people away. Learn interaction building solutions based on Karen’s research in The Under Pressure Project. Have an opportunity to cheer each other on as we learn to live and do business in a time of isolation. 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.
Brave and Creative Leadership
Can your shoes give you courage? Hear the story of the 7th grade teacher that inspired a student to start a courage shoe business called, “Brave and Creative” that had a ripple effect for good across the country. Get 3 take home skills that you can use from brightly colored shoes designed to make you brave. Learn from the lead researcher in The Under Pressure Project, who also happened to be the official post office chauffeur for this youth entrepreneur experience.
APPLY THE COURAGE SHOE EFFECT: Hope multiplies when one brave person steps into their idea.
OWNERSHIP MATTERS: People support what they help create. Hear how others contributed to the courage shoe business, and what YOU can do in your role.
D.I.P. THROUGH DIFFICULT: You’ll be able to recall how to Distress Isn’t Personal. They’re not giving you a hard time, they’re having a hard time.
(An alternate title used for this is “The Courage Shoe Effect: Lessons from a young entrepreneur)
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Testimonials
5 people have recommended this speaker
“She was GREAT! 10/10”
“This wasn’t just another speaker. It was a performance of words. Karen had the room glued to the stage.”
“She was great, the alumni and students loved her.”
“I am in awe of the intricate way Karen wove words, humor, research, application, and interaction to make each of us feel confident and important... As a fellow presenter, I had the privilege to witness a packed room of attendees swell with insight, laughter, help and hope. Her ability to recognize and relate, include and empower, was exactly what the Women in Agriculture needed at their exceptional event in Kansas.”
“Your presentation was exactly what we were looking for. I was also impressed by how much you knew about our organization. You had clearly done your research.”