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Resilience is not a mood. It is a skill, and Mona teaches it like one.

Mona Straub is a keynote speaker, resilience expert, and Certified Maxwell Leadership Coach who spent decades leading sales teams and building businesses before she ever stepped on a stage. She does not talk theory. She talks about the boardrooms, the hospital rooms, and the quiet, unglamorous mornings when getting out of bed was the bravest thing she did all day, and she hands audiences the exact tools she used to keep going.

Her signature keynote is built around the PULL UP framework, six moves anyone can use the moment life knocks them down.

Move 1: Pause and Process

Move 2: Unlearn the Labels

Move 3: Lay Down Bounderies

Move 4: Lean Into Fear

Move 5: Use Failure as Fuel

Move 6: Persist, No Whining

Speaking Topics

The PullUp Method: A Framework for Resilience and Moving Through Hard Things Mona's signature keynote, built around her six move PULL UP framework, drawn straight from her own hardest chapters.

Format: 

  • Keynote, expandable to a 60 to 90 minute workshop with extended exercises

Length: 

  • 45 minutes

Audience Fit: 

  • Women's leadership conferences

  • Corporate sales and professional development events

  • Business associations

  • Resilience and wellness summits

  • Audiences navigating change, loss, or high pressure growth

Life does not ask permission before it knocks you down, a diagnosis, a failed business, a boss who underestimates you, a grief you never saw coming. Drawing on her own story of survival, reinvention, and hard won success, Mona delivers a bold, funny, and unflinchingly honest keynote on what resilience actually looks like in practice. This is not a highlight reel talk, it is a permission slip to duck when you need to, swing when you are ready, and keep showing up one ordinary, no whining decision at a time.

Audiences leave able to:

  • Tell the difference between a healthy pause and permanent avoidance

  • Name the inherited labels and imposter stories that were never true, and replace them with their own

  • Set and hold a boundary without over explaining or apologizing

  • Build real confidence through action instead of waiting to feel ready

  • Reframe a setback with a simple two question tool that turns it into usable data

  • Leave with one concrete 24 hour action step and a personal accountability commitment

Themes Covered

  • Resilience as a daily practice, not a single triumphant moment

  • Emotional regulation and self permission during crisis

  • Identity, self worth, and unlearning inherited narratives

  • Boundaries, assertiveness, and protecting personal capacity

  • Confidence building and courage in the face of visible risk

  • Failure, entrepreneurship, and growth mindset

  • Grit, discipline, and follow through, without burnout or whining

  • Grief, loss, and continuing to build a life while carrying both

Key Takeaways

  • Mona teaches you to show up when nobody is clapping. Audiences leave able to:

    • Name the room they have been standing outside of, and what has kept them there

    • Build confidence from evidence and action, not from waiting to feel ready

    • Walk into a high stakes moment, a pitch, a promotion, a stage, without waiting for permission

  • Mona shows you why “no” is a complete sentence. Audiences leave able to:

    • Set a boundary and hold it without over explaining or apologizing

    • Tell the difference between a boundary and a wall

    • Protect their time and energy at work without losing the relationship

  • Mona helps you rebuild after the deal falls through or the partnership blows up. Audiences leave able to:

    • Reframe a failure as data, not a verdict on their worth

    • Build a first 48 hours recovery plan after a setback

    • Use the PULL UP framework to keep moving instead of spiraling

  • This framework is built for executives and managers who need to model resilience before they can ask their teams for it. Audiences leave able to:

    • Use the PULL UP framework to lead a team through a hard quarter, a reorg, or a crisis

    • Model boundaries and recovery in public, not just resilience in private

    • Turn a leadership setback into a case study their team can learn from, instead of a story everyone avoids

Who Books Mona?

Corporate sales teams and leadership conferences, women's business organizations and associations, healthcare and wellness audiences, and any group that is ready to stop making excuses and start moving.

Check Mona's Availability (LINK)