Julie Renae Smith

THE INVISIBLE WORKDAY™ The Hidden Work Your People Are Doing Before the Work Even Gets Done Your employees aren't only doing the work you hired them to do. They're doing another job at the same time. They're carrying the tense conversation from 9:00 into the 10:00 meeting. The email they haven't answered. The decision they keep replaying. The body that's been sitting too long. The pressure to perform. The mental load from home. The frustration they didn't realize followed them into the room. Julie calls this The Invisible Workday™—the physical, mental, and emotional work happening underneath the visible workday. And it has a cost. Attention. Communication. Decision-making. Energy. Engagement. Performance. Retention. In this engaging and highly practical presentation, Julie helps audiences recognize the small, often unnoticed moments that accumulate throughout the day—and shows them how to interrupt those patterns before they become bigger performance and well-being problems. Using relatable stories, science, movement, and simple micro-moments that can be used in the middle of a real workday, participants discover that improving how they show up doesn't always require another wellness program, another hour in the day, or a complete lifestyle overhaul. Sometimes it starts with noticing one moment sooner. Audiences learn how to: • Recognize the hidden physical and mental load accumulating throughout the workday • Identify automatic patterns before they affect communication and performance • Use brief micro-moments to interrupt stress and physical tension • Move from automatic reaction toward intentional response • Build individual habits that support healthier, more sustainable performance Because what's happening underneath the work matters to the work.

CHANGE… CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE™ What If Change Isn't the Problem? Change happens. A new leader. A restructuring. A difficult conversation. An unexpected diagnosis. A relationship shift. A plan that suddenly isn't the plan anymore. The event may be the same, but people experience it very differently. Why? Because we don't respond only to what happens. We respond to what we notice, what we make it mean, and the patterns we've developed for what comes next. In Change… Choose Your Own Adventure™, Julie Renae Smith introduces audiences to the Human Perspective Method™ and a surprisingly simple idea: before we can change our response, we have to recognize the perspective we're responding from. Through relatable scenarios, storytelling, humor, and interactive experiences, Julie reveals how different people can encounter the exact same situation and immediately notice something different. One person asks, “What can I do?” Another, “What do I need to understand?” Someone else wonders, “How are we?” “What else is true?” Or, “What does this mean about me?” None is inherently right or wrong. But each starting point influences the story we build—and the choices we see available to us. Audiences learn how to: • Recognize where their attention naturally goes when change happens • Understand how perspective influences interpretation, communication, and behavior • Notice when a useful pattern has become limiting • See why other people may experience the same situation completely differently • Create space between automatic reaction and intentional response • Expand the possibilities they can see before choosing what to do next This isn't about becoming comfortable with every change. It's about recognizing that even when you don't get to choose what happens, there may be more choice in what happens next than you realized. Because choice lives in the space between what happens and what you do next.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE POOL Reflection Distorts Reality What if the way you see yourself isn't the whole truth? We all develop reflections of who we are—through family, relationships, work, success, failure, expectations, and experiences we've collected along the way. Some reflections are accurate. Others have been rippling for years. Yet we can build careers, relationships, decisions, and entire identities around what we see staring back at us. Drawing from her #1 bestselling book, The Elephant in the Pool: Reflection Distorts Reality, Julie Renae Smith uses the unforgettable image of an elephant looking into a distorted reflection to explore what happens when perception quietly becomes identity. Through deeply human stories, humor, and practical reflection, Julie helps audiences examine the assumptions and stories they've accumulated about who they are, what they're capable of, and what they're supposed to be. Audiences learn how to: • Recognize the reflections and stories influencing how they see themselves • Separate current reality from outdated assumptions and inherited expectations • Notice how identity influences behavior, relationships, leadership, and choice • Question interpretations that once served them but may no longer fit • Use discomfort and change as information rather than immediate evidence that something is wrong • Create room for a fuller, more flexible understanding of themselves This isn't a talk about “finding yourself.” It's about questioning whether the version of yourself you've been responding to is the whole picture. Because a distorted reflection can feel completely real when you've been looking at it long enough. Change what you can see, and you change what becomes possible.