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Dr. Saara Haapanen

Dr. Saara Haapanen

PhD Performance Strategist | Speaker on Leadership, Burnout, Motivation & Neurodivergent Talent

Denver, Colorado, United States

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Dr. Saara Haapanen is a performance strategist, speaker, and PhD in Sport & Exercise Psychology who helps organizations improve leadership, retention, motivation, and human performance without burnout.

With more than 25 years of coaching high performers, from elite athletes to executives and growth-focused teams, she translates performance science into practical systems leaders can use immediately.

Her work focuses on leadership effectiveness, workplace well-being, communication, accountability, and unlocking the strengths of neurodivergent talent in modern organizations.

Saara has been featured in Forbes Health, Shape, Reader’s Digest, and other national media. Known for energetic, thought-provoking sessions, she helps audiences rethink what drives performance and what quietly destroys it.

Her sessions help leaders identify costly blind spots and the strategic initiatives worth funding next.

Area of Expertise

  • Government, Social Sector & Education
  • Health & Medical
  • Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Physical & Life Sciences

Topics

  • Leadership development
  • Women in Leadership
  • Design Leadership
  • People & Culture
  • corporate culture
  • Engineering Culture & Leadership
  • Neurodiversity
  • adhd
  • Women with ADHD
  • ADHD in tech
  • Autism ADHD Education Disabililty Families Challenging Behaviour Social Enterprise
  • wellness
  • Wellness & Self-Care
  • Mental Wellness
  • Mental Resilience
  • Mental Health at Work
  • Motivation
  • Motivational Design
  • fitness motivation
  • Fitness
  • Health & Wellness
  • Behavioral Change
  • Behavioral Science
  • Movement Science
  • Movement as Medicine: Using The Body To Process Emotion
  • Wellness Coaching
  • team coaching
  • Mindset Coaching
  • Performance Optimization
  • performance consulting
  • motivational science
  • optimal wellbeing
  • Neurodiversity in the Workplace
  • Neurodiversity in Tech
  • Neurodiversity at Work: “An open mindset is as important as open source

Dr. Saara Haapanen

PhD Performance Strategist | Speaker on Leadership, Burnout, Motivation & Neurodivergent Talent

Denver, Colorado, United States

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