Vivian Cobb is a dynamic keynote speaker who helps organizations discover how to manage emotions in the workplace and create a passionate company culture.

Calm the Drama. Create a Healthy Culture.

Your team is not as productive as it could be when members are struggling with feelings that hold them back. Insecurities, resentments, grievances. Personal grief, heartbreak, and anxieties. Every workplace has them.

Create a drama-free workplace. Foster a culture of openness and communication, a safe place for employees to feel and share things in a productive way.

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Popular Keynotes

Available Live or Virtually

Popular Keynotes Available Live or Virtually

Overcoming Emotional Overload:

Embracing Adversity to Create Resilience

There are two ways to look at the ups and downs of business: either see it as a series of unfortunate events or embrace it all as full of rich experiences. When Vivian unexpectedly lost her husband to cancer, she found she lost a great deal more than her life companion. Unbeknownst to her, her home was in foreclosure, there was no money in any of the bank accounts, and her once millionaire husband was financially ruined. Instead of cratering as a result of these overwhelming events, she embraced her emotions and challenges, leaned into her grief, and used the obstacles she faced as learning opportunities. She rebuilt her life, businesses, and emotional health.

Key Takeaways:

  1. 3 Steps to improve employee performance through perspective change
  2. Strategies to handle stress more effectively, resulting in happier and more resilient employees
  3. Ways to navigate through the varying emotions brought on by global events
Embracing Adversity to Create Resilience

Creating an Anti-Negativity Culture:

From Chaos to Calm that Creates a Culture Everybody Loves

From Chaos to Calm that Creates a Culture Everybody Loves

Our negative self-talk permeates every aspect of our lives. Bringing that mindset to work is detrimental to workplace culture. Vivian guides management teams and employees to identify the undercurrent of negativity and discover the benefits of setting a foundation of positivity in their culture. This powerful shift produces happier employees who are more productive, who sell more, and take better care of each other, and ultimately, the customers.

Key Takeaways:

  1. Exploring where negativity originates
  2. Increasing awareness of the damaging effects of negativity
  3. Strategies to turn negativity into positivity

Resentment to Respect:

Embracing Emotions to Create Workplace Balance

Leaders typically think of empathy, resilience, kindness, communication, and other so-called touchy-feely skills as the soft competencies that are not always a high priority in the management scheme of things. As companies struggle in a climate of high turnover, employee burn-out, and retaining top talent, softer skills awareness is an increasing strategy to creating happier teams and healthier workplace cultures. Embracing the emotional side of employees is critical to the adaptability of organizations in these challenging times.

Key Takeaways:

  1. Identifying the danger zone of unprocessed emotions in the organization
  2. Discovering the value of embracing emotions and how that translates into employee engagement
  3. Empowering employees to recognize and create a balanced and healthy workplace
Embracing Emotions to Create Workplace Balance
Client Testimonials

What They Say...

"Vivian Cobb speaks from her heart. She is intelligent, articulate, charming, clever, and entertaining. The emotion she brings to her presentations is matched only by the deep well of brilliance and meaning she conveys to her audiences. Although Vivian has navigated through many dark times, she is a courageously independent woman, which her listeners quickly recognize. She has committed to sharing her stories with the belief that others will sometimes identify, routinely grasp, and always appreciate her journey and her spirited delivery."

—Kathleen Saltmarsh-Voss, President, Rotary Club of Colorado Springs

Meet Vivian

Vivian Cobb is a keynote speaker and consultant who helps organizations of all sizes boost morale and productivity by getting to the heart of it — emotions in the workplace. She guides leaders and teams to embrace and express their emotions in a healthy way to foster effective communication and feedback. That reduces turnover and helps to retain top talent by creating a healthier culture and happier teams.

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