Nina Sossamon-Pogue

  • Charleston, SC
  • Fees* $10,001 - $20,000

Nina Sossamon-Pogue presents in:

  • English

Tagline: Motivational Speaker

Talent Highlights

  • Nina talks about creating success after change. recover quickly, learn – and ultimately grow stronger.
  • Audiences leave understanding their role in their own success and the corporations’ success with new strategies to keep going and not just survive change but thrive and find new levels of success.
  • Nina is a hyper-growth tech executive, USA Gymnast, and Emmy-winning television news anchor and keynote speaker- who expertly blends big data, current events and brain science research into an energetic multi-media stage performance.

Keynote Topics

Nina helps – Hard-working Humans Thrive Through Tough Times. With her innovative, science backed, data driven, stoic philosophy infused framework to handle adversity of all sizes, Nina makes you feel like you can handle anything life throws at you.

No one said THIS would be easy. This presentation is a reminder for today’s workforce of the inherent power they possess. Adversity of all sizes is sidetracking and stressing even our best and brightest. It has whole companies working in a low gear and many of them don’t realize it.

Nina enlightens audiences that there will always be challenges as we strive to reach new levels of success. Then she poses the question, what if everyone confidently rose to the challenge?

Audiences reframe how they think about a challenge, the strengths they bring to a project, and their role. Nina emboldens them to be part of the solution, then gives them an elegant, repeatable framework to handle anything that gets in their way.

This presentation is an Aha! lesson into personal strength. using the word ‘THIS’ to represent challenges of all sizes, Nina shows audiences how to put ‘THIS’ in its place and take control of the anxiety and stress that ‘THIS’ creates.

Audiences:

  • Discover their Reverse Resume to recognize their accomplishments and strengths.
  • Learn THIS Resilience Framework to navigate unexpected situations effectively.
  • Build confidence to face any future challenges with the mindset, You Got THIS! mindset, You Got THIS!

THIS is not easy, but THIS is necessary. A session for all the smart humans doing the hard work and being asked to reach new ambitions targets. Nina reminds them how far they’ve come and the inherent strength that they possess.

Navigating new challenges can place significant stress on key leaders within your organization. To break through to the next level, they must tap into their innate strength and have unwavering confiding in their ability to handle uncertainties and obstacles ahead.

Designed for the individuals leading the way in organizations, setting goals, hitting KPIs and quarterly targets, who may need a reminder and reinforcement that ‘THIS’ is not too much, and they are exactly who is needed to make THIS happen.

Nina shows leaders the High Achievers Success Cycle and unpacks the continuous stress it can create. Then she takes them from feeling ‘stuck in the spin’ of working to achieve great heights, to feeling ‘excited to be on the ride’ harnessing momentum.

This session is an Aha! lesson in being a High Achiever and provides a framework to support their ambitions. This powerful time together is packed with actionable insight to increase productivity and improve culture.

Audiences:

  • Discover their ‘High Achiever’ status and what that entails.
  • Uncover their Reverse Resume to recognize the challenges they have overcome.
  • Learn THIS Resilience Framework to navigate unexpected situations effectively.
  • Build the resolve to face future challenges with a growth mindset and mental wellness.

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a sought-after Motivational Speaker dedicated to researching and sharing how we can all become more resilient and mentally healthy in this era of constant change, being fueled by new technology, massive amounts of new data and machine learning. Nina was a hyper-growth tech executive (2007-2019, Benefitfocus), Emmy-winning television news anchor (1992-2007) and […]

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a sought-after Motivational Speaker dedicated to researching and sharing how we can all become more resilient and mentally healthy in this era of constant change, being fueled by new technology, massive amounts of new data and machine learning.

Nina was a hyper-growth tech executive (2007-2019, Benefitfocus), Emmy-winning television news anchor (1992-2007) and USA Gymnast (1982-1984).

Nina is the author of two best-selling books:

  1. This is Not the End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life. (2019 Morgan James Publishing) Offering a proven approach to get through devastating life events and empowering people to take control of their future.
  2. But I Want Both: The Working Mom’s Guide to Creating a Life She Loves. (revised and updated edition to be release Fall 2023) Offering a proven approach to working and parenting for high achieving individuals.

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is the host of the podcast – This Seriously Sucks: The Right Podcast When Life Goes Seriously Wrong. Offering a platform for sharing strategies and coping techniques for anyone going through a tough life event. Along with her own insights, It includes the ‘overcoming’ stories of successful people who are at least 10 years past their traumatic event.

Nina Sossamon-Pogue | Motivational Speaker

Nina Sossamon-Pogue enjoyed success at some of the highest levels of sport, television and corporate America. She also endured painful public failures, trauma and devastating life events, including an injury that ended her athletic career, a very public lay off from her TV job, and a devastating car accident that put her at the center of a story gripping the headlines and left her flirting with self-sabotaging and suicidal thoughts.

Often asked how she managed to rebuild and reach even higher levels of success throughout her life, she stepped away from her corporate job to develop a framework to help others. She creates content that helps people manage through tough times, reframe change, strengthen their resilience and emerged even stronger.

Nina brings a wealth of experience and passion to everything she does. Her energy and passion to help others comes through in all her work.

Along with acting as CEO of her communications company, she sits on several non-profit boards, passionately works with the Alzheimer’s Association, and was named a ‘Woman of Distinction’ by the state of South Carolina. Nina Sossamon-Pogue inspires you to examine your life in a new way and empowers you to take control of your future and overcome anything that gets in your way.

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