Browse Hannah’s keynotes and workshops below
Keynotes
Many people are torn, afraid to speak up, be seen, or minimise their achievements and at the same time, are frustrated that they are getting in their own way. Feeling like you will be exposed to not know enough and being your own worst critic is a toxic combination.
In this powerful, science-backed session, led by Dr Hannah Roberts, Amazon #1 bestselling author of Intentional Careers for STEM Women, we’ll go far deeper than traditional imposter syndrome advice.
- Understand the Three Layers of Imposter Syndrome - and discover where they really come from.
- Meet Your Inner ‘Stress Team’ - uncover the subconscious ‘selves’ that hijack your confidence and learn how to separate from their outdated agendas.
- Break the Cycle - walk away with three gold-standard tools to stop pre-empting, ruminating, and over analysing so you can make clear, confident choices aligned with your true self.
This session is for you if you’re ready to stop battling yourself and start unlocking the calm clarity and authenticity that fuels confident leadership. Let’s rewrite the narrative, from “not quite good enough” to “enough.”
Perhaps your career naturally unfolded in front of you, the next opportunity presented itself to you? Maybe change outside of your control is happening to you in the workplace or you would simply like to gain more intentionality in your career.
During this 90-minute workshop, you will be guided through the 6-step Career Pivots®Compass methodology to find balance, confidence and fulfilment. Each step of the compass will elevate your career to give you clarity on 'what's next?' and make it happen.
- Uncover which stage of the Intentional Career™ journey you are at and what needs to shift to move you up through to fulfilled and valued.
- Discover if you are in the capability trap, career values conflict or disconnected vision and what to do about it.
- Leave with three clear action steps and the accountability in place to kickstart your journey
to an Intentional Career™
The Book, Intentional Careers for STEM Women:
Six strategic steps to balance, confidence and fulfilment, Amazon #1 Bestseller.
***All registered attendees will receive a copy of the book.***
Do you tell yourself, “when I finish this project/move roles, then I will reclaim balance in my life?”
Balancing the competing demands of work, family, and personal ambitions can feel overwhelming, often weighed down by guilt and unrealistic expectations. But achieving true effectiveness isn’t about doing more - it’s about doing what matters most without compromising your well-being.
Make your calendar sacred by immersing yourself in a transformational workshop led by Dr Hannah Roberts, Amazon #1 bestselling author of Intentional Careers for STEM Women.
- Create guilt-free time for your priorities - Master the art of balancing multiple responsibilities while staying true to what matters most.
- Reclaim your time and energy - Identify the ‘good enough’ tipping point to break free from perfectionism.
- Increase your impact with less effort - Overcome pseudo-productivity by reducing analysis paralysis and making faster, more effective decisions.
Get your questions answered and step into a new level of clarity, confidence, and effectiveness.
It’s time to move beyond a tick-box approach to DEI and embrace the real catalyst for change -intentional action grounded in insight.
In this thought-provoking workshop, you'll explore the latest research and practical strategies to create more equitable workplaces for everyone. Together, we’ll examine the hidden dynamics that hold systemic bias in place and learn how to dismantle them - one micro intervention at a time.
You’ll leave with:
- A fresh lens on what empowerment and allyship look like in your organisation today.
- Three simple, yet effective ways you can be an ally and change someone’s life significantly.
- Learn how to advocate for yourself and others, leveraging non-confrontational conversation templates.
This session is for those ready to move from awareness to agency. Join us and become a catalyst for the change you want to see in your workplace.
From Doer to Leader: Say Goodbye Pleaser, Hello Leader
Are you the go-to person for getting things done: reliable, diligent, and constantly juggling ‘just one more thing’? It’s a strength that gets noticed, but it can also hold you back. Too often, high performers find themselves stuck in a cycle of doing rather than leading, caught between wanting to progress and being typecast as the dependable workhorse.
In this engaging and practical keynote, you will:
- Uncover the hidden dynamic that keeps STEM professionals in the ‘doer’ trap and how to shift into a leadership mindset.
- Master leadership flex the ability to adapt your style for greater influence and impact across diverse teams.
- Learn how to influence upwards through values-based, win-win conversations that position you as a trusted thought partner to senior leadership.
Walk away with actionable strategies to elevate from doing to leading, without burning out or betraying your authentic self.
Career Development Workshops
Not knowing how impactful online tools really are, what to say or how to use them efficiently are some of the major reasons LinkedIn profiles under perform. No-one wants to lose focus, wasting time being sucked into consuming social media, leaving a permanent trace, and juggling
between so many platforms without the evidence it produces tangible results.
During this 1hr masterclass discover the 4 stages to developing a LinkedIn strategy and an all-star profile to future proof your career, transform your career trajectory, and increase your earning potential today.
- Pick a LinkedIn strategy which aligns to your professional goals for the next 6 months and identify and build your network full of ideal stakeholders for your strategy
- Create an impactful headline that draws key stakeholders to click on your profile
- Ensure you have maximised the opportunity of every section of your LinkedIn profile towards your strategy
1hr Webinar or Workshop
Part 1 - Personal Brand
Do you struggle to speak clearly and openly about your successes without it feeling like a humble brag?
Discover how to self-promote confidently and with integrity to elevate your professional profile with three quick and easy impactful exercises.
- Uncover the science of self-promotion and how to feel more comfortable to increase your visibility
- Identifying your niche, difference and brand
- Articulate your unique edge into a professional positioning statement which can be used as a bio on professional social media or an elevator pitch and will attract opportunities like a magnet.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Part 2 - Professional Positioning
What does your LinkedIn profile say about you? Most professional profiles are either stuck in the past like a dusty old CV, or languishing in the present.
Discover how to powerfully package and present your personal brand as a marketing strategy for future job opportunities, stakeholder engagement, networking, or increased visibility and impact, with three quick and easy exercises.
- Distil your skills into clear and concise templated formats for online professional positioning
- Learn the foundational strategies to build your network full of ideal employers, collaborators or key stakeholders
- Harness your network into ideal opportunities with 15 minutes of micro-actions
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
How to Accelerate Your Career Even If You Have No Time
Are you so busy working in your career, head down: producing, producing, producing that you forgot to look up and work on your career at the same time? You are not alone. The strategy of ‘proving yourself’ is unfortunately a paralysis trap causing the feelings of being overlooked, underappreciated and underpaid for all of that hard work.
During this 90-minute workshop, you will be guided through the 6-step Career Pivots® Compass methodology to find balance, confidence and fulfilment. There will be a special focus on time and energy management so that you can create your biggest impact while balancing the things and people that mean most to you.
- Learn how proving feeds the self-esteem depletion cycle and how to remove yourself from this paradox by focusing on one elevating element
- Discover how to unlock the mythical unicorn of work-life balance by prioritising 5 pillar areas in your life, fiercely protecting your career development with boundaries
- Leave with three clear action steps and the accountability in place to kickstart your journey
to an Intentional Career.
The Book, Intentional Careers for STEM Women:
Six strategic steps to balance, confidence and fulfilment, Amazon #1 Bestseller.
***All registered attendees will receive a copy of the book.***
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
How to Accelerate Your Career Without Imposter Syndrome Keeping You Small
Ever had a feeling that sooner or later you are going to be found out. That you actually don't really know what you are doing, you're a fraud? Maybe you have not gone for opportunities in anticipation that you are not quite good enough?
During this 90-minute workshop you will be guided through the 6-step Career Pivots® Compass methodology to find balance, confidence and fulfilment. There will be a special focus on overcoming personal limitations so that you can create a career pathway from an empowered and resourceful state.
- Discover your unique stress team of ‘selves’ and how to move beyond imposter syndrome by separating from their agendas and regaining real choice in your behaviours and actions.
- Utilise the 5-step VOICE™ methodology to break old patterns of behaviour and unlock your true potential
- Leave with three clear action steps and the accountability in place to kickstart your journey to an Intentional Career™
The Book, Intentional Careers for STEM Women:
Six strategic steps to balance, confidence and fulfilment, Amazon #1 Bestseller.
***All registered attendees will receive a copy of the book.***
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
How to Figure Out ‘What’s Next?’ and The Strategy to Make It Happen
Perhaps your career naturally unfolded in front of you, the next opportunity presented itself to you? Maybe change outside of your control is happening to you in the workplace or you would simply like to gain more intentionality in your career.
During this 90-minute workshop, you will be guided through the 6-step Career Pivots®Compass methodology to find balance, confidence and fulfilment. Each step of the compass will elevate your career to give you clarity on 'what's next?' and make it happen.
- Uncover which stage of the Intentional Career™ journey you are at and what needs to shift to move you up through to fulfilled and valued.
- Discover if you are in the capability trap, career values conflict or disconnected vision and what to do about it.
- Leave with three clear action steps and the accountability in place to kickstart your journey
to an Intentional Career™
The Book, Intentional Careers for STEM Women:
Six strategic steps to balance, confidence and fulfilment, Amazon #1 Bestseller.
***All registered attendees will receive a copy of the book.***
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Are you experiencing change in the workplace which is out of your control? From restructures to redundancies, and a myriad of other things. Change is constant and it is increasing exponentially.
You may fall into the trap of making the uncertain certain through excessive working, planning, or over-preparation to prove your value. The same situation has others feel demotivated and stuck in uncharacteristic procrastination or avoidance tactics. Either way you may hear a critical voice in your head telling you off, comparing you unfavourably to others, or seeding self-sabotaging doubts.
- Benchmark your natural response to change and learn how to work with these uncomfortable feelings so that they do not backfire and work against you.
- Discover how to make the best of your current situation and powerfully regain intentionality in your career.
- Leave with clear insight and an immediate implementation action plan.
WORKSHOP 1:
Yearly Planning & Goal Setting (3 hrs)
To create a stable platform for your leadership and make your greatest contribution to the world, you need to build strong foundations by paying attention to five key pillars: health, wealth, relationships, career and personal development. During the yearly planning workshop, I will guide you through the five-pillar planning system designed to achieve the unicorn of work-life balance.
- Gather your learning for the year ahead through a structured review, benchmarking your five key pillars.
- Reflect and refine your boundaries and non-negotiables for the year ahead.
- Complete the 4-helpfuls list so you know what to optimise, change, add or clarify.
- Connect with your longer-term vision and dream into the possibility of what’s next (guided meditation)
- Pinpoint the key milestones you need to hit in each quarter to move you towards that vision within the 5-pillar system and kickstart your 1-page first quarter plan.
WORKSHOP 2:
Quarterly Planning & Goal Setting (2 hrs)
During the quarterly planning workshop, I will guide you through the five-pillar planning system designed to achieve the unicorn of work-life balance.
- Gather your learning for the next quarter through a structured review of the previous quarter using the 4-helpfuls list.
- Realign to your longer-term vision and pinpoint key milestones you need to hit in the next quarter to meet your intentions.
- Get fine level planning completed for the next quarter.
Personal Development Workshops
Many people are torn – afraid to speak up, be seen, or minimise their achievements and at the same time, are frustrated that they are getting in their own way. Feeling like you will be exposed to not know enough and being your own worst critic is a toxic combination. It can result in procrastination, individualism, and ruminating thoughts. Learn the three layers to imposter syndrome, where these thoughts and beliefs originate from and three tools to overcome your imposter and fulfil your true potential.
- Discover your unique stress team of ‘selves’ and how to move beyond imposter syndrome by separating from their agendas and regaining real choice in your behaviours and actions.
- Leave with three gold standard tools to break the cycle of pre-empting, overthinking and ruminating and unlock your true potential.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
During this 90-minute webinar-workshop take 3-steps towards failing gracefully and increase your resilience exponentially.
Phase 1: The Reckoning
Discover the pivotal successes and failures throughout your life and what you can learn from the nature of your failures over time.
Phase 2: The Rumble
Use an alternative CV of failures to become more resilient in your approach, separating success and failure from your self-worth.
Phase 3: The Revolution
Leave with the leadership tools to address failure positively, give and receive candid feedback without taking it personally and use failure to drive innovation. You will become a beacon for authentic leadership and an inspiration to others.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Do you have a critical voice in your head that compares you unfavourably to other people, tells you off, and makes you feel ‘less than’?
During this workshop you will:
- Discover the structure and top 12 traits of the Inner Critic and develop practices to help you separate from from it’s agenda and regain real choice in your behaviours and responses.
- Learn how to work with (rather than be run by) your Inner Critic instead, and find your counterbalancing Inner Cheerleader.
- Integrate three embodiment tools to reduce the emotional impact of the Inner Critic and be able to show up as your true and authentic self.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Do you often say yes to more work, even when you don’t have enough capacity, or don’t even want to do the task? Do you struggle with people who are hierarchically above you, or strong characters that come across as confrontational or aggressive?
During this workshop you will:
- Discover the simmering resentment and guilt that underpins Super Helper Syndrome and how to regain control over your calendar commitments.
- Learn how to gracefully say no, and set unshakeable boundaries with non-confrontational conversation templates.
- Access the inner confidence to be able to show up confidently in situations which would have resulted in activating your Pleaser in the past.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Do you have very high standards for all that you do, which can often feel like it precipitates high expectations from others? Like to be strictly on time, or else you feel nervous?
During this 90-minute webinar-workshop reset your mind from perfect to functional not embarrassing.
During this workshop you will:
- Discover how The Perfectionist works hand in hand with The Inner Critic, locking you into self sabotaging behaviours such as overworking, not delegating, or procrastination and avoidance tactics.
- Overcome the feelings of being sub-standard when receiving feedback and tackle this more constructively using the 4As framework.
- Integrate tools to rebalance your Perfectionist and regain control over how much time and energy you spend on tasks.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Do you struggle to know what the right or best decision is to take? Does this result in pseudo-productivity, where you move on to a task that demonstrates you are visibly working to others but doesn’t necessarily move the needle forwards on your most impactful priorities?
During this workshop you will:
- Learn how to identify the iterative cycles of thinking that lead to indecision: pre-empting, worrying, ruminating, and catastrophising.
- Overcome your default response to indecision and learn how to reduce the length of time you spend in analysis paralysis by applying tools to make decisions with ease and grace.
- Utilise the impact ease grid and 4-helpfuls lists to learn how to prioritise new and ongoing projects and avoid the trap of pseudo-productivity.
Do you have very high standards for all that you do, which can often feel like it precipitates high expectations from others? Like to be strictly on time, or else you feel nervous?
Learn how to implement the latest research on building good habits and breaking bad ones.
During this workshop you will:
- Discover which three habits to focus your time and energy on so that they can lead the way for other habits to follow naturally through habit stacking.
- Craft activators for your habits to make habit forming easy
- Learn a new approach to dealing with 'bad habits' that works!
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Do you tell yourself, “when I finish this project/move roles, then I will reclaim balance in my life?”
Managing all of the different competing areas of our lives is a huge challenge, one that comes with the weight of expectations and guilt. We need a breakthrough in effectiveness to be able to make our biggest contribution in the world without our health and relationships suffering as a consequence.
During this 90-minute session, discover the five-pillar system to laying the foundations of time and energy management.
- Prioritise three shifts to increasing your energy and effectiveness.
- Uncover the biggest mistake that most of us make in the interest of time management and how to avoid it.
- Master the ability to prioritise and focus your workload utilising high performance habits so that you can achieve more in less time.
- Discover your keel zone and harness when you are at your most productive and gain control over your workload through consistency of action.
90 minute Webinar or Workshop
Career & Team Performance Workshops
Lack of trust is one of the five dysfunctions that can undermine individual and team performance and lead to reputational challenges. This workshop explores how to cultivate trust and credibility to effectively influence others, particularly in multidisciplinary teams or situations where you need to influence without formal authority. You'll learn the traits of highly influential people and how to apply them strategically and collaboratively.
During this 60-minute session you will:
- Build Trust: Discover the key behaviours that foster trust and learn how to apply them
within your sphere of influence. - Master Devoted Listening®: Strengthen your communication skills through a practical
exercise using an ICF (International Coaching Federation) approved coaching technique,
honing a critical but often overlooked skill. - Develop a Persuasive Plan: Create a personalised plan to leverage impactful influence
across your network, manage relationships with peers and superiors, and strengthen
stakeholder connections.
Fear of conflict is one of the key dysfunctions that can erode individual and team performance. When difficult conversations are avoided, it often leads to confusion, disengagement, backchannel communication, or even staff turnover.
During this 60-minute session you will:
- Explore Your Natural Response to Conflict: Participate in a simulated team environment to observe your instincts under pressure and gain insights for managing conflict with confidence.
- Unleash the Power of Synergy: Learn strategies to foster collaboration, mutual support, and
team dynamics that exceed the sum of individual contributions. - Build Your Personalised Action Plan: Develop a tailored approach for clear, open
communication to reduce workplace politics and drive team success.
In today's fast-paced business culture, pseudo-productivity is rampant: it’s the illusion of busyness -being constantly responsive and present, but rarely engaged in truly impactful work. This workshop will help you break free from the cycle of "busywork" and refocus on meaningful, high-impact tasks.
Drawing on the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule), which suggests that 20% of your actions drive 80% of your results, you’ll explore what that critical 20% looks like for you and your team (if you have one).
During this 60-minute session you will:
- Identify Leading and Lagging Indicators: Pinpoint the strategies and tasks that genuinely drive progress in your work, and assess the time you allocate to these high-impact activities.
- Develop a Role Scorecard: Define three measurable criteria for success that will truly move the needle, rather than relying on arbitrary KPIs.
- Measure to Improve: Use data to inform thoughtful, strategic decision-making that continuously drives improvement and results.
Is workplace change disrupting your sense of control? From restructures to redundancies, change is constant, and its pace is accelerating. While some respond by overworking, over-planning, or striving excessively to prove their value, others may feel paralysed, stuck in procrastination or avoidance. Both responses can amplify the inner critical voice, leading to self-doubt and self-sabotage.
This workshop equips you to navigate workplace change with resilience and intentionality, helping you transform uncertainty into opportunity.
During this 60-minute session you will:
- Understand Your Natural Response to Change: Identify how you react to discomfort and learn strategies to work with these feelings rather than against them.
- Regain Control: Explore practical techniques to take charge of your career and respond intentionally to your circumstances.
- Create an Action Plan: Develop a clear, actionable plan to apply your insights immediately and move forward with confidence.
Every leader has a default style that serves them well, until it doesn’t. When challenges arise and your usual approach falls short, it can lead to frustration, poor performance, or even resentment within your team.
During this 60-minute session you will:
- Identify Your Default Leadership Style: Assess the 5 energy centres of self and team leadership to uncover your strengths and blind spots.
- Tackle Your Toughest Leadership Challenge: Apply a practical framework to adapt your style and achieve better outcomes.
- Foster a Culture of Respect and Reverence: Develop a three-step plan to lead with flexibility, building trust and collaboration within your team.
Leadership Development Series
Designed as stand alone topics or combined into 1 or multi-day events
Workshop 1: Defining Leadership
A leader draws people towards a vision but it doesn’t mean that a leader is always in front. Discover the difference between a manager and a leader and your own authentic leadership qualities. Uncover how you are currently showing up in the world and the values and vision that you will need to prioritise in order to lead authentically.
Workshop 2: Leadership Styles
Each of us possesses a default leadership style, influenced by factors like personality, gender, and culture. Identify your unique style and delve into five distinct leadership types, discerning which are most adept at achieving specific objectives. Assess the need for leadership flexibility
to address challenges you currently encounter, potentially yielding different outcomes.
Workshop 3: Leadership Pathways
Ever wondered why certain responsibilities drain your energy while others ignite your passion? Uncover your leadership pathway, revealing your innate talents and how you can leverage them to create value. Reflect on your Talent Dynamics strengths profile to gain insights into your flow state.
Workshop 4: Team Dynamics & Conflict Resolution
Effective teamwork elevates individual performance. Engage in a simulated team environment to understand your response under pressure. Acquire strategies for navigating conflict within a supportive setting.
Workshop 5: Communication as a Leader
Enhance your communication prowess through an exercise focusing on a critical yet underutilized skill, employing an ICF (International Coaching Federation)-approved coaching technique. Learn to apply this skill across various scenarios, from one-on-one development meetings to group discussions and delivering and receiving feedback.
Workshop 6: Networking
Crafting a concise introduction about yourself and your work can be challenging. Utilise a five-part strategy to create your social pitch and seize the opportunity to practice and benefit from networking during our network primer exercise. You may just find yourself a new coach, mentor, peer, or sponsor.
Workshop 7: Allyship & Self Advocacy
Allyship involves understanding the imbalance in opportunity for underrepresented groups and working to change it. Discover three simple, yet effective ways you can be an ally and change someone’s life significantly. Learn how you can also advocate for yourself using non-confrontational conversation templates for saying no gracefully, setting and maintaining boundaries and asking for what you need.
Workshop 8: Imposter Syndrome
Many people are torn – afraid to speak up, be seen, or minimise their achievements and at the same time, are frustrated that they are getting in their own way. Feeling like you will be exposed to not know enough and being your own worst critic is a toxic combination. It can result in procrastination, individualism, and ruminating thoughts. Discover your unique stress team of ‘selves’ and how to move beyond imposter syndrome by separating from their agendas and regaining real choice in your behaviours and actions. Leave with three gold standard tools to break the cycle of pre-empting, overthinking and ruminating and unlock your true potential.
Workshop 9: Time & Energy Management
We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems, and according to Edward Demming, 94% of failures are systems failures, only 6% are people failures. Discover the latest research in developing atomic habits to create 1% incremental improvements to your time and energy which compound to create extraordinary results.
Workshop 10: Executive Presence
Discover the secret to confident speaking without the jaw clenching nerves hijacking your brain. Plus feel prepared to handle tricky questions elegantly. Learn how to communicate upwards clearly and succinctly with the exact information C suite leaders require.
Workshop 11: Performance Review Preparation
Preparation is the key to a productive performance review. Learn how to articulate what you have done, in a way that demonstrates the impact and the value to your organisations. Review your career values, the blueprint to your career fulfilment and determine your personal and professional development plan for the year ahead.
Workshop 12: Visibility: Developing Thought Leadership
We cannot rely on managers and sponsors for our career development, we have to take a more proactive an intentional approach. Learn how to increase your visibility through developing your own thought leadership topics and discover how to position yourself on panels, podcasts, in the media and other places to increase your impact and reach.
Workshop 13: Coaching Skills For Leaders
All great leaders are great coaches too. Learn the top 5 coaching skills as designated by the International Coaching Federation and explore role playing opportunities to practice and hone your new skills.
Workshop 14: Career Action Planning
Join all of the learning and insights together in a powerful vision planning exercise and map back your vision into a clear implementation action plan so that you can integrate your leadership learning immediately.
Workshop 15: Panels
It is easy to believe those in leadership positions have only ever experienced a career show reel of highlights, their biographies do not represent the vast majority of their efforts, mistakes, and failures. Hear from senior leaders within your community about their worse career failures, what they learned, and what happened as a result. Feel empowered to fail fast and learn quickly.
Workshop 16: Stress Management Class
We build up stress and emotional tension every single day. Learn how to find freedom from these stressors using movement, music, and embodiment. You will need to wear something you can move freely in, bring layers of clothing in case you get hot or cold, and a bottle of water. This is an optional (but highly recommended) class.
Class themes include:
- Community Together (great for
- International Women’s Day)
- Integrating Leadership Flex
- Activating Your Power
- The 4 Elements
- Yin-Yang
- BeYou: Self-Love
- Play On
- Celebration
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About Your Trainer
Dr Hannah Roberts
As founder of Intentional Careers™, author of Amazon #1 bestseller Intentional Careers for STEM Women and host of a top 10 UK podcast, top 5% globally Women in STEM Career & Confidence, Dr Hannah Roberts is an award-winning coach on a mission to eradicate inequity in the workplace by guiding professionals to design careers for fulfilment with a mindset for leadership to build progressive workplace cultures where every individual feels valued.
Hannah is uniquely positioned as a scientist, mum of three with a background in corporate and academia. She was managing director of a spin-out company before pivoting into coaching, speaking and training in 2019. She has clients spanning 6 continents and is a certified One of Many™ Women’s Leadership Coach and Trainer with the Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation and has been a member of the Forbes Coaches Council since 2022.
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