Henna Pryor

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Workplace Performance Expert, Global Keynote Speaker, Inc. Columnist, and Author of Good Awkward and The Signal Gap

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Henna Pryor, CSP is a global keynote speaker, Workplace Performance Expert, and author of Good Awkward and the upcoming The Signal Gap. Drawing on behavioral science and two decades of experience, she helps businesses overcome hidden barriers to momentum, influence, and change.

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Henna Pryor, CSP is a dynamic Workplace Performance Expert who speaks and writes about performance mindset, interpersonal dynamics, high-impact communication, and embracing bumps in a world that keeps optimizing for smoothness.

She’s a regular Expert Columnist for Inc. Magazine, 18x award-winning author of Good Awkward and the forthcoming The Signal Gap (out this fall!), and an in-demand global keynote speaker. Her playful personality and insightful talks blend 2 decades of working 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.

She’s been invited to speak twice for TEDx in NYC and Wilmington, DE, and brings her expertise to a variety of global organizations, including Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorganChase. She’s frequently sought after for her insights by top media outlets like INSIDER, NBC, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Business.com, HuffPost, and more.

Henna founded Pryority Group – a fast-growing performance growth firm – to expand on her belief that the key to most people’s success is learning to strengthen mental and social muscles in order to boost risk-taking, maximize influence, and be braver in the work that we do.

She’s also a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, Glassdoor WorkLife Pro, and two-time SXSW Workplace track speaker, and her bestselling book was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR Editor Karen Dillon, and was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of the Year.

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Oct. 29, 2026

How to Speak Up When You Feel Awkward—and Build Trust with Henna Pryor

Worried you’ll sound awkward if you speak up? You don’t need to feel confident first—but you do need to know how to recover and make your message land. In this episode of Loud & Lifted, Betsy talks with workplace performance expert, keynote speaker and author Henna Pryor about the awkward moments that keep us quiet, make us second-guess ourselves and leave us replaying a conversation long after everyone else has moved on. Drawing on her books Good Awkward and The Signal Gap, Henna explains how to build the confidence to speak up—and why good intentions don’t always translate into trust. We unpack the small communication habits that can make people doubt us, including overly polished messages, rushed responses and reassurance that skips over what people are actually feeling. For women navigating leadership, asking for more or having a conversation they’ve been avoiding, this episode offers practical ways to move through the discomfort and communicate with greater credibility.…
Guest: Henna Pryor