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Earning trust and influence in a world where polish is cheap and skepticism is free The formula for winning a room used to be simple: prepare thoroughly, polish relentlessly, deliver with confidence. Then AI made flawless communication free. A warm, personalized note now takes four seconds to generate, and a gorgeous deck comes from a template. When perfect words cost nothing, audiences stopped trusting perfect words. We're working inside two realities at once: a Modern Believability Crisis, where skepticism is the default, and the Information Access Era, where most of the room believes itself to be a Google Expert. And your audience — whether it's one meeting planner or a ballroom of 1,000 — has logged thousands of hours with unscripted, candid humans and recalibrated their radar for what real actually sounds like. Against that baseline, the over-rehearsed keynote and the machine-smooth message trigger the same reaction: something feels off. So if polish stopped working, what earns belief now? Closing what Henna Pryor calls a signal gap – the space between what you mean and what your audience actually experiences. In these two interactive sessions, based on her hotly-anticipated new book The Signal Gap, Workplace Performance Expert, 2x TEDx speaker, and Inc. Magazine columnist Henna Pryor, CSP unpacks the three specific reasons people resist your ideas, then walks the four layers of congruence – Communication, Belief, Context, and Character – so your message survives any scrutiny it meets, on the platform and in the sales call. Charisma opens doors, but believability keeps them open. After these sessions, you'll be able to: Recognize why "more polished" now reads as "less believable," and what to send instead Replace cheap signals with costly ones: visible reasoning, named trade-offs, and the honest specifics skeptical audiences still trust Close the signal gaps hiding across the four congruence layers before they fracture your credibility Stand out as the real thing in an AI-saturated market – the most future-proof edge a speaker has.

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.