SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Productivity for real humans.
Sessions that actually help.
Practical ideas. Honest encouragement. Plenty of humor.
Betsy Tucker Hays brings a refreshingly realistic approach to conferences, companies, associations, and leadership events—helping people work, communicate, and move forward more effectively without waiting for perfect.
SEE BETSY IN ACTION
Engaging. Practical.
Actually helpful.
More than three decades of teaching, leadership, communication, and speaking experience—paired with ideas audiences can actually use.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
Handled(ish): Productivity for Real Humans
We’ve been sold a version of productivity that assumes we have perfect schedules, endless energy, organized inboxes, cooperative coworkers, and absolutely nothing unexpected happening.
Real life has other plans.
In this engaging, humor-infused keynote, Betsy offers a more realistic approach to getting things done—one built for actual human beings. Audiences learn how to identify what matters, escape perfection paralysis, make meaningful progress, and create simple systems that can survive real life.
Audiences will leave ready to:
• Choose priorities with greater confidence.
• Stop letting perfectionism masquerade as productivity.
• Make progress even when circumstances aren’t ideal.
• Build simple, sustainable systems instead of constantly starting over.
• Give themselves—and the people around them—a little more grace.
OTHER TALKS & WORKSHOPS
More ways to help your people work—and work together—better.
Perfectionism Detox for Anyone Who’s Tired
A practical and funny look at the impossible standards we set for ourselves—and how letting go of perfect can actually help us accomplish more.
Having Hard Conversations with Confidence
Practical tools for navigating difficult workplace conversations with greater clarity, confidence, and compassion.
Effective Communication in a Distracted World
Strategies for communicating clearly and effectively when everyone is busy, overloaded, multitasking, and approximately 44 notifications behind.
Need something specific?
Betsy also creates customized workshops and facilitated sessions around productivity, communication, leadership, meetings, email, presentations, and workplace effectiveness.
WHY BETSY
A speaker who understands the real world of work.
Betsy isn’t speaking about productivity and communication from theory alone.
She’s spent more than three decades teaching, leading teams, advising organizations, writing books, facilitating conversations, producing a weekly podcast, and figuring out how to get meaningful work done when real life doesn’t cooperate.
30+ YEARS
Teaching & leadership
AUTHOR
Books for adults and kids
125+ EPISODES
Handled(ish) podcast
APR + FELLOW PRSA
Communications expertise
What Audiences Say.
"Betsy Hays brought a tremendous amount of energy and value to our Industrious Women’s Summit . . . Betsy has that rare ability to both inspire and equip people with practical tools they can use right away. Betsy brings a spark that lifts the entire event and leaves audiences reflecting well beyond the closing remarks."
— Nate Gilbert, Regional Director, Better Business Bureau
"I left Betsy's presentation feeling motivated, energized and genuinely ready to take action."
— Tori Terhune, Co-Author & Social Media Coach
“Dynamic, energetic, and engaging, Betsy can hold the attention of any audience."
— Matthew J. Alanis, Business Instructor, Clovis Community College, and Owner of Lanna Coffee
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Built for rooms full of real humans.
Associations & Conferences
Keynotes, breakout sessions, professional development, and member events.
Companies & Organizations
Leadership development, team workshops, retreats, and employee learning.
Facilitation
Strategic conversations, planning sessions, difficult discussions, and meetings that need someone skilled at moving the room forward.
THE HANDLED(ISH) DIFFERENCE
Your audience doesn’t need another impossible system.
They need useful ideas they can remember on Monday morning.
Betsy’s sessions are designed to leave people feeling energized rather than inadequate, with practical strategies, memorable ideas, plenty of humor, and permission to make meaningful progress without doing everything perfectly.
Useful beats impressive.
Progress beats perfect.
Handled(ish) is plenty.
LET’S TALK
Bring Betsy to your event.
Planning a conference, company event, leadership retreat, workshop, or something else entirely?
Tell us a little about what you’re planning and what your people need.