
The best parts of life happen outside your comfort zone. If you want to thrive, you need to grow.
But change is hard!
Too often, people get stuck in the comfort zone, and shy away from the unfamiliar. Individuals, teams and organizations stagnate when they struggle to embrace change.
That’s where we come in.
Our keynote, “Outside Your Comfort Zone” gives your audience the courage to grow. It’s a bombastic one-hour experience that includes personal growth, practical strategies, and (of course) a dance montage. It equips your audience to adapt to change and move outside the comfort zone – without burning out.
Outside Your Comfort Zone can be delivered as a virtual training, but it’s best as an in-person keynote so we can bring the full experience (like the dance montage!) Depending on the needs of your event, we can we can add group discussion or reflection opportunities, or add deeper trainings on related topics.
Your audience will learn:
- The importance of the comfort zone and how healthy growth requires a balance of effort and rest
- The barriers to growth and why people struggle to change or escape the comfort zone
- How burnout and overwhelm are created, and what to do about them
- Our best practical strategies for moving outside the comfort zone and finding sustainable growth.
- Specific applications to your audience and event
Oh, and your audience will have a blast too! Honestly, we love putting on this talk, and we make sure that your audience is having just as much fun as we are.
Keynote speakers Dr. Wendler & Dr. Shumway

I co-present Outside the Comfort Zone with fellow psychologist Dr. Kyler Shumway. We’ve each been speaking professionally for over a decade, and we teamed up to maximize our impact for this topic.
A few of our bona fides:
- I’m a TEDx speaker, and so is Kyler
- We’re the co-authors of the Great Courses Audible exclusive Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal.
- We’ve spoken to corporations, nonprofits, universities, hospitals, research laboratories, federal and state government agencies, the US Army and Navy…the list goes on!
A taste of our comfort zone keynote:




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Ready to unleash your team’s potential for growth? You’ve come to the right place.
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