Taking Care of You in 2025 Webinar

In this webinar, Deborah will explore how healthy levels of stress can enhance goal-setting, task prioritization, and performance, while excessive stress can lead to physical illness, poor performance, and burnout. She will discuss how stress can spread within teams and become ingrained in workplace culture. Additionally, she will examine research showing that women are nearly twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, and how women often respond to stress by ruminating rather than using active, problem-focused coping strategies.

Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant who has taught leadership communication for Wharton Business School, Duke’s Fuqua Business School, Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program, and the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University. She writes on leadership communication and presentation skills for Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, Forbes, and Fast Company, and has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

She is the author of “Go to Help: 31 Strategies to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help” and “Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life” and consults and speaks for clients including Amazon, Google, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, Johnson & Johnson, KraftHeinz, L’Oreal, Novartis, PepsiCo, and The United States Army.

1. Healthy levels of stress can help us set clear goals, prioritize our tasks, and improve our overall performance. However, when we experience too much stress, it can lead to physical illness, poor performance, and burnout.

2. Stress is contagious, spreading between people who work together, and can quickly become “baked into” the culture.