Shift the narrative.
Overcome negativity.
Improve well-being
and performance.
Shift the narrative.
Overcome negativity.
Improve well-being
and performance.
When change surfaces—and it always does—uncertainty rises. Your people can slip into negativity, wasting precious time on navigating a cynical workplace culture and the burnout that follows.
Hire Dr. Cindy Howard as your keynote speaker so she can show your team how to SHIFT™ the narrative, turning setbacks into comebacks.
Give your team the tools that work-even after the ballroom empties
Your people want to feel capable to change-especially when everything around them keeps evolving.
Dr. Cindy blends science, humanity, and well-timed humor to show audiences how to SHIFT™ their response, reset their perspective, and build meaningful endurance that actually holds under pressure.
47%
What you're up against
We're wired to dwell on the mess, not the message. Science tells us that we spend nearly half of our waking hours (47%) mentally wandering, and this wandering consistently predicts unhappiness.
Stress hijacks the brain, adaptability tanks, and teams get stuck reacting instead of choosing. Before you know it, you have negativity spreading throughout your workplace culture.
Trusted by corporate and health care teams alike
Dr. Cindy built a multidisciplinary business from the ground up-shifting again and again as the world, her patients, and ever her own health and well-being changed. She's an award-winning author who has spent 25+ years helping people thrive under pressure.
Dr. Cindy brings that same grit to the stage, delivering a keynote that blends humor and human truth.
Signature keynote
Dr. Cindy's keynote distills decades of business leadership, medicine, and lived adversity into a relatable, practical framework your people can use immediately.
Through the SHIFT™ Method, Dr. Cindy helps audiences:
- Reframe challenges into choice.
- Build micro-habits that sustain well-being.
- Shift their perspective from "this is happening to me" to "I get to choose how I experience change."
Your SHIFT™ Plan
Collaborate with Dr. Cindy or her Client Success Manager to clarify your event needs and goals.
Customize your experience
Dr. Cindy tailors her keynote or workshop to your audience's real pressures and change landscape with a high-energy and engaging approach.
Watch your people SHIFT™
Your people leave with perspective, tools, and permission to handle change in a healthier, more productive way.
Whom do you support?
If you don't address change, it addresses you
When teams don't learn how to shift their perspective:
Negativity dominates.
Engagement drops.
Leaders lose influence.
Talent leaves.
Employee sick days increase.
What the power, permission, and tools to choose look like.
Communication gets calmer.
Teams recover from setbacks faster.
Energy rises and burnout drops.
Change feels navigable.
People take fewer mental days.
When teams don't learn how to shift their perspective:
Negativity dominates.
Engagement drops.
Leaders lose influence.
Employee sick days increase.
What the power, permission, and tools to choose look like.
Communication gets calmer.
Teams recover from setbacks faster.
Energy rises and burnout drops.
Change feels navigable.
People take fewer mental days.
Dr. Cindy's award-winning book
Positively Altered: Finding Happiness at the Bottom of a Chemo Bag
Positively Altered is thirty-four stories from the trenches of adversity-told with humor, grit, and proof that meaning survives the mess. In this honest, big-hearted collection, Dr. Cindy Howard walks readers through the moments that nearly broke her and the mindset shifts that rebuilt her.
It's perspective you can feel. And life lessons you can use.
The Positively Altered Podcast
Shift your mindset. Shift your day.
Shift your life.
Guided by Cindy's signature philosophy that we get to choose our experience of change, each episode explores how belief, perspective, and small shifts in language can transform challenge into clarity, burnout into resolve, and adversity into a catalyst for growth.
Dr. Cindy's Daily Loves
Celebrate the good with her daily guide.
Think gratitude journal on steroids—a month's worth of Dr. Cindy's grateful moments and daily prompts.
Science tells us that a daily dash of gratitude does wonders for the brain and body.
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