Leadership and Resilience Keynote Speaker for
Your Next Event
Helping Organizations
Solve Workplace Disconnection and
Build Engaged, Resilient Teams
Dorice brings contagious energy, practical tools, and meaningful connection to every audience.
Leadership and Resilience Keynote Speaker for Your Next Event
Helping Organizations Solve Workplace Disconnection and Build Engaged, Resilient Teams
A message for Event Planners:
You want more than just a speaker—you want a motivational keynote speaker who connects with your audience, delivers real value, and leaves a lasting impression. Someone who’s easy to work with, brings contagious energy to the stage, and understands the heart of your event. That’s exactly what I’m here to do.
I believe every audience has an untapped champion within them. My job is to bring that champion out—using joy, neuroscience, and practical tools that last long after the applause.
Welcome! I’m honored you’ve stopped by this page, created especially for decision-makers and event planners like you. My goal is simple: to make your job easier and your event unforgettable.
Here you’ll find everything you need to decide if I’m the right fit for your audience—including keynote and workshop descriptions with clear outcomes, client testimonials, video clips, podcast appearances, my bio, references, and downloadable resources for quick access.
I specialize in helping organizations bring out the best in their people, so they lead, thrive, and succeed. Move them from disconnection to engagement, transforming “Oy” moments into strategic joy that fuels performance, resilience, and leadership growth. Whether you’re planning a conference, leadership retreat, or corporate training, I’ll bring the perfect blend of energy, inspiration, and science-backed tools to deliver lasting impact.
I believe every audience has an untapped champion within them. My job is to bring that champion out—using joy, neuroscience, and practical tools that last long after the applause.
Welcome! I’m honored you’ve stopped by this page, created especially for decision-makers and event planners like you. My goal is simple: to make your job easier and your event unforgettable.
Here you’ll find everything you need to decide if I’m the right fit for your audience—including keynote and workshop descriptions with clear outcomes, client testimonials, video clips, podcast appearances, my bio, references, and downloadable resources for quick access.
I specialize in helping organizations bring out the best in their people, so they lead, thrive, and succeed. Move them from disconnection to engagement, transforming “Oy” moments into strategic joy that fuels performance, resilience, and leadership growth. Whether you’re planning a conference, leadership retreat, or corporate training, I’ll bring the perfect blend of energy, inspiration, and science-backed tools to deliver lasting impact.
Everything You Need to Plan Your Event
Why Event Planners Choose Dorice
Dorice makes your job easier by delivering an engaging, customized experience that connects with your audience and supports your event goals.
- Proven Expertise: One of the first 45 certified Positive Intelligence® coaches worldwide, Dorice combines mental fitness, neuroscience, and practical leadership strategies.
- Energy That Engages: Her humor, storytelling, and audience interaction create a memorable experience that keeps people involved.
- Tools That Last: Participants leave equipped to strengthen connection, resilience, collaboration, and performance long after the event.
- A Customized Experience: Every keynote or workshop is tailored to your audience, organization, and desired outcomes.
What I Offer to Event Planners
Whether you need an energizing keynote or an extended workshop, I bring with me a contagious enthusiasm designed to spark positive transformation. I help individuals access their inner “Champion,” resulting in increased joy, resilience, and productivity. My signature talks include:
- Building a Wholeheartedly Resilient Workforce
- AMEN to CORE: A unique framework to help audiences achieve lasting success.
- Train Your Brain and Become Unsinkable
- Three Mindset Shifts for the Champion Leader
- CHOOSE to Be A Champion: Motivational talk grounded in neuroscience.
- Rise to Your Champion Level. Think Clearly. Choose Intentionally. Act Confidently.
Let’s Make Your Event Unforgettable
If you’re looking for a speaker who can spark lasting transformation—turning stress into growth, setbacks into resilience, and disconnection into genuine engagement—let’s talk.
With my blend of energy, storytelling, neuroscience, and practical tools, I help audiences not just feel inspired in the moment, but leave ready to take action.
Ready to elevate your event with resilience and joy? Let’s make it happen.
Sample Motivational Keynotes
The Four Chambers of Wholehearted Resilience™ Four Secrets to Get You There!
Resilience isn't about pushing harder—it's about strengthening what keeps you whole.
When life feels overwhelming, our instinct is often to work longer, try harder, or simply "power through." Yet lasting resilience doesn't come from doing more; it comes from strengthening the parts of ourselves that keep us grounded, connected, and hopeful.
In this inspiring keynote, Dorice Horenstein introduces The Four Chambers of Wholehearted Resilience™, a powerful framework inspired by the human heart. Just as each chamber of the heart plays a vital role in sustaining life, each chamber of resilience helps us navigate change, overcome adversity, and flourish under pressure.
Objectives
Navigate change without sacrificing their well-being.
Create daily practices that cultivate resilience, joy, and lasting fulfillment.
Engage your 4 P’s- People, Power, Perspective, and Positivity in combating setbacks.
Build a Champion Workforce™ Bringing Out the Best in Your People— Even Under Pressure
Every organization faces the same hidden challenge: disconnection.
When people become disconnected from themselves, their colleagues, and their purpose, stress increases, communication breaks down, engagement declines, and performance suffers. While organizations invest heavily in technical skills, lasting success depends on something deeper: helping people strengthen the way they think, connect, and lead under pressure.
In this high-impact keynote, Dorice Horenstein introduces The Champion Journey™, a practical leadership framework that equips people at every level of the organization to think clearly, choose intentionally, and act confidently.
Objectives
Adapt to change with resilience, confidence, and emotional agility.
Build stronger relationships through intentional communication and trust.
Celebrate your champion within and increase your joy.
Becoming Unsinkable, Even If You Can’t Swim
Dorice was on a ship that caught on fire. She survived and conjured a plan to navigate through our own distractable “fire.” What if you realized that you have “fire,” that can destroy everything you are trying to build? What are the ways you can stay with your head above water, able to breathe? Dorice navigates through the “rough waters of the ocean,” the inevitable changes in life, and inspires you to not only keep your head above water but swim like a dolphin through your own journey of life.
Objectives
Addressing the impact of “negative fire" ( self-defeating behaviors), within us, and shifting mindset to positively influence our work environment and relationships.
4 Mental Fitness tools to overcome challenges.
Empowering participants to grow in resilience so they enjoy better health, Leadership Development in their career, and relationships.
5 min IFMA @ NIKE HQ RELOK by Dorice Horenstein
Sample Workshops
Train Your Brain for Ultimate ROI
T.E.A.M. Together Everyone’s Attributes are Magnified. Each one of us is the sum of our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Is your team stressed? Are they experiencing conflict in relationships? What are the ways you can shift your thoughts to consistently convey positive emotions, translating into behavior that creates an empowered T.E.A.M.? Are we capable of converting our emotions from present pain to future benefit? And can we lead others to achieve healthy collaboration and positive relationships?
Learning Outcomes:
Understand and gain awareness of behaviors that support and sabotage our performance.
Retrain the mind to look for opportunities rather than problems
4 actionable steps to move toward desired behavior: less stress, better relationships, and healthy communication
The Four Principles to Unlock Your Leadership Champion.
As a leader, what keeps you up at night? Is it productivity? Relationship with your team? Conflicts? Balancing all your commitments? Not having enough time, feeling of frustration, worry, and disappointment? How can you improve your leadership development skills? Attending Dorice’s session puts leaders on the path of ease and flow. Implement the 3 mindset shifts to conquer AMEN to CORE.
Learning Outcomes:
Learn and own the four principles AMEN to CORE that will positively impact your leadership and your life.
Implement 3 mindset shifts to strengthen your leadership skills.
Gain an awareness of your behavior and influence. Learn what sabotage you and coach yourself from a struggling to a champion leader.
See what participants say about Dorice’s keynotes and workshops.
What every event planner should read when hiring Dorice!
Dorice’s Short Bio
Dorice Horenstein helps organizations bring out the best in their people by creating a path to human flourishing under pressure. The results? Leadership that thrives and succeeds.
Dorice equips leaders and teams to think clearly, choose intentionally, and act confidently so they build connected workplaces where both people and performance flourish.
She is an international speaker, author, and mental fitness expert who transforms stress and disconnection into joy, engagement, resilience, and peak performance. Known as the Joy Champion Catalyst, she brings her trademark energy, humor, and practical wisdom to audiences worldwide.
Arriving in America with just $600 and a vision for possibility, Dorice went on to spend 30 years in education—including 16 years in educational leadership writing K–12 curriculum, teaching, and managing teams. She later transitioned to make the world her classroom, equipping leaders and organizations with brain-retraining tools to strengthen resilience, elevate engagement, and lead with clarity and connection.
Dorice is the author of Moments of the Heart, an award-winning bestseller, and Choose to Be Your Own Champion: The Six-Step Playbook to Become Your Best Self (October 2025). Recognized as a Top 25 Global Thought Leader in Coaching by Thinkers360. Dorice elevates the Human Potential. Her frameworks—CHOOSE and AMEN to CORE—give audiences practical strategies to shift from reaction to resilience. Dorice’s keynotes inspire leaders to discover their inner champion and rise from “oy” to joy—in work, leadership, and life.
Dorice equips leaders and teams to think clearly, choose intentionally, and act confidently so they build connected workplaces where both people and performance flourish.
She is an international speaker, author, and mental fitness expert who transforms stress and disconnection into joy, engagement, resilience, and peak performance. Known as the Joy Champion Catalyst, she brings her trademark energy, humor, and practical wisdom to audiences worldwide.
Arriving in America with just $600 and a vision for possibility, Dorice went on to spend 30 years in education—including 16 years in educational leadership writing K–12 curriculum, teaching, and managing teams. She later transitioned to make the world her classroom, equipping leaders and organizations with brain-retraining tools to strengthen resilience, elevate engagement, and lead with clarity and connection.
Dorice is the author of Moments of the Heart, an award-winning bestseller, and Choose to Be Your Own Champion: The Six-Step Playbook to Become Your Best Self (October 2025). Recognized as a Top 25 Global Thought Leader in Coaching by Thinkers360. Dorice elevates the Human Potential. Her frameworks—CHOOSE and AMEN to CORE—give audiences practical strategies to shift from reaction to resilience. Dorice’s keynotes inspire leaders to discover their inner champion and rise from “oy” to joy—in work, leadership, and life.
TV appearance- Afternoon Live KATU
Past Speaking engagements
I have had the privilege of speaking in over 25 locations recently. I am proud to be of service to these organizations, companies, conferences, and summits. Please connect with me if you have any questions and I hope to add you to this growing list.
References
I value relationships and connections. I make an effort to connect and build positive and genuine relationships in the places I am invited to speak. These references have become my friends. I hope to have a similar experience with your organization.
