What I speak about
Topics I come back to.
These are the places I start. Each one can be a keynote, a workshop or a conversation, and the titles change to fit your event.
Topic 1
Building a business that fits your life
Most business advice is written for one season: growth. Heather shows owners how to read the season they're actually in, decide where their energy belongs, and build something that bends with real life instead of breaking under it.
- Your Business Should Fit Your Life
- Grow Through Every Season
Great for: Entrepreneur conferences, summits, masterminds and retreats
Topic 2
Starting over, more than once
Law school, a career that changed course after losing her dad, an event business she grew with a partner and sold, years of advising owners, and then a law firm with her husband. What it takes to let a version of your business go and build the next one on purpose.
- Full Circle: From Law School to Law Firm, 22 Years Later
- Outgrowing On Purpose
Great for: Keynotes, founder stories, podcasts
Topic 3
Leading through the season you never planned for
When Heather's daughter London was diagnosed with cancer at nine, her family spent six years between hospitals and home while she kept a business running. An honest talk about choosing what matters, what you can let go of, and how to lead when life gets loud.
- What Matters Most When Everything Changes
- The Business That Kept Going
Great for: Story-led keynotes, women's events, leadership gatherings
Topic 4
Motherhood and business, honestly
A baby in her forties, a pandemic, homeschooling, miscarriages and two businesses. Heather talks about the real tradeoffs of building while raising a family, and why seasons are a kinder and more useful lens than balance.
- Raising Kids and a Business in the Same Season
- Not Balance, Seasons
Great for: Mom and women's conferences, creator events, panels
Topic 5
Partners, teams and selling what you built
Bringing on a business partner, growing a team, selling a company after eleven years, and now running a firm with her husband. What partnership really asks of you, and how to plan for the exit before you need one.
- Building With a Partner, Selling What You Built
- In Business With Your Spouse
Great for: Founder events, panels, fireside chats
Topic 6
Running your firm like a business
Events, advising and law. Heather has run businesses in all three, and the lessons travel. For professional and industry audiences who are great at their craft and want the business side to run as well as the work does.
- Run Your Firm Like a Business
- What Three Industries Taught Me About Running One
Great for: Legal, construction and professional services events
Topic 7
Your next move (live workshop)
A hands-on session where attendees get clear on where their business is right now, what they want the next twelve months to look like, and the one move worth making first. Everyone leaves with a map, not just notes.
- Your Next Move: A Live Workshop for When You've Outgrown the Business You Built
Great for: Breakouts, workshops, retreats and in-person intensives