Henna Pryor

Henna Pryor, CSP is a dynamic Workplace Performance Expert and an award-winning 2x TEDx and global keynote speaker, virtual presenter, author, and professional executive coach. Her playful style and high-impact talks blend 2 decades of work with corporate leaders and teams, with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work.

• Her clients call her their “secret weapon for impossible change,” an honor she wears proudly.
• She does not accept excuses, and believes that the very qualities that have led high achievers to their current success are precisely what hold them back from even greater levels of accomplishment and personal fulfillment. She is known for her science-backed approach to improving the performance, habits, and actions of hungry high achievers – in her fun, no-nonsense, no-jargon way – to move them from their first level of success to their next one.
• An accomplished speaker and author, she has been invited to speak twice for TEDx and on the Workplace track at SXSW, and brings her expertise to a variety of global organizations including Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorganChase. She’s recognized as a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence, and has been featured in top TV, podcast, and print media including Forbes, NBC, Washington Post, Fast Company, Inc., Business.com, HuffPost, and many more.
• Henna founded Pryority Group to realize a vision that transformational speaking, coaching, and performance growth workshops should be available to everyone, and because she believes the key to most people’s success is leaning into awkwardness a little more and worrying about stinking a little less. (She might just have you do both.)
• Throughout a 14 year career in staffing, Henna broke multiple records and successfully matched thousands of finance and accounting professionals into new opportunities, with companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 global organizations. While there, she won Rookie of the Year, Performer of the Year, and was a perennial top 10% performer, earning the attention of several top media outlets.
• She’s a lifelong learner – she’s been studying human behavior and performance for over 2 decades and loves to bring a fresh energy to business practices and conversations. Her best-selling book, Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become the Bravest You, was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR editor Karen Dillon, and has won a host of prestigious awards including being named a Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Book of the Year.”
• She graduated with honors with a BS in Finance from the University of Delaware and her MS in Accounting from University of Virginia. She also earned her Coaching Certification from American University and achieved her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation.
• Finally, she loves traveling the world with her husband and 2 kids and spoiling the Cavapoo puppy that she swore she never wanted (and now can’t get enough of).