Mental health literacy · Inclusive culture · Neurodiversity
Nora
Plambeck
Keynote speaker · Inclusive culture strategist · Mental health advocate
Burnout is not weakness. It is a signal the system needs to adapt.
Nora helps individuals embrace the uniqueness of their diverse minds, so they can feel empowered to explore their potential. Personal storytelling, critical research, and practical insight, delivered nationwide.
Nebraska
Her core move, in your hands
Flip the frame.
Most workplaces read a struggle as a flaw in the person. Nora reads it as a signal about the system. Tap a card to make the shift yourself.
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The distinction at the center of her work
Awareness told them it matters.
Literacy lets them do something.
Same workplace, two very different rooms. Drag across to feel the gap Nora closes.
We ran the awareness training.
- A poster went up in the break room.
- A one-time workshop, ticked off the list.
- Everyone agrees the topic matters.
- And almost nothing actually changed.
We built literacy.
- People can name what's happening, in themselves and others.
- They know how to ask for what they need.
- Policies account for real differences.
- The culture adapts, instead of asking people to cope.
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Signature program
One keynote, and the work behind it.
Personal storytelling, critical research, and practical insight, in her own three word description of how the session runs.
Every Mind Matters: Creating Workplaces and Communities Where Every Person Thrives
Culture and community profoundly shape a person's ability to thrive, yet many systems unintentionally undermine that very foundation. Wellbeing is not simply the absence of illness. It shows in how people feel valued, supported, and connected in their daily lives and work.
Her central argument: struggles like stress, exhaustion, burnout, and disengagement are not signs of weakness, they are signals that environments and systems need to adapt. Most organizations acknowledge this. Few have the inclusive structures and strategies required to sustain wellbeing for diverse minds and needs.
Through poignant personal storytelling, critical research, and practical insight, Nora shows how today's wellness and inclusion strategies operate from a lack of public and individual literacy, which leads to stigma, fear, and shame, and stops people getting the help they need. True culture inclusion has to go beyond mental health awareness and DEI training. It needs to be informed, adaptable, and built so individuals can advocate for themselves.
- Apply a self literacy framework as a central aspect of awareness and policy development
- Build sharper awareness of one's own emotions and feelings, and the difference between each
- Understand the continuum of mental health, from illness through to wellness
- Take away proven strategies and resources to promote diversity in mental health culture
Inclusive workplace culture work, beyond the keynote
Alongside speaking, Nora runs inclusive workplace culture solutions. If your event is the start of a longer piece of work, this is what she can carry into it.
- Strength based leadership. Built on the Gallup strengths work she is certified in.
- Neurodiversity. Practical, not theoretical, and grounded in her ADHD coaching practice.
- Culture maturity assessments. Where the organization actually is, rather than where the values poster says.
- Emotional intelligence. As a TalentSmart certified emotional intelligence coach.
One of her stated outcomes
Mental health is not a switch. It is a continuum.
Wellbeing is not simply the absence of illness. Move the slider to see where most awareness work stops, and where literacy keeps going.
Getting by with strategies and willpower. This is where a lot of awareness training leaves people, and then stops.
Her point: you cannot policy your way to wellbeing if everyone is only ever taught to cope. Literacy is what moves people along the line, toward feeling valued, supported and connected.
Why Nora
Fifteen years inside organizations, before she spoke about them.
A coaching career spent helping companies build strength based cultures, a decade of volunteering in mental health organizations, and a stack of certifications behind the message.
Nora on stage.
One of the best speeches, she had middle aged men in IT talking about feelings.
Very enlightening session. Learned helpful information to adjust my outlook for how to support my youth to adapt to their new environment.
- Kiewit
- PayPal
- Werner
- Farm Credit Services
- Banyan Medical Systems
- Nebraska Families Collaborative
Meet Nora
There is no one size fits all.
“Everyone has a disability, some just show it more than others.”
Nora is a passionate, personable, and vigorous person who thrives on adventure, and she is devoted to inspiring individuals to embrace their unique strengths and inherent worth.
Her journey has been shaped by living in different countries, each with its own culture and beliefs, alongside parenting children with ADHD and more than fifteen years helping organizations create and sustain cultures of empowered teams. That combination gave her a deep appreciation for the diversity of our minds, and it is what she brings to a stage.
Her career started in project management in 2007, where she found her natural pull toward supporting individuals in using their own abilities. Consultancy work followed, and in tracking progress across organizations she kept finding the same pattern: missions and values built around economic value, with individuals expected to adjust themselves to fit. By 2017, coaching organizations through transformation, she had identified what sat underneath it. People were not being helped to understand their own needs and advocate for them. They were being handed coping strategies instead.
In 2023 she founded Agile Mindfulness to work on that directly, and she carries the same argument onto the stage. Her mission, in her words, is to empower individuals to embrace their unique strength and cultivate the confidence to self advocate for what they need to thrive, instead of struggling to cope in an environment that does not suit them.
The quote she keeps coming back to is from Dave Dame: everyone has a disability, some just show it more than others. She asks audiences to imagine what the world would look like, especially for the next generation, if we treated different as an opportunity rather than a problem.
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- Audience
- Workplaces, schools, nonprofits, senior living communities, community health organizations
- Known for
- Mental health literacy, inclusive culture, neurodiversity, emotional intelligence, self advocacy
- Based in
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Reach
- Delivered nationwide
- Virtual
- Yes
- Delivers
- Keynote, in person or virtual
Your selections travel into the copied brief, so your committee sees Nora against your event, not a generic listing.
Straight answers
Quick answers for event planners.
What topics does she speak about?
Mental health literacy, self empowerment, emotional intelligence, and a strength based mindset, brought together as inclusive culture. She also works in neurodiversity and ADHD, drawing on her coaching practice.
Who is she best suited to speak for?
Her keynote has been delivered nationwide at conferences, school districts, community health organizations, and assisted living communities. She names schools and educational organizations, nonprofits, senior living and assisted living communities, local business and networking events, and corporate workplace awareness events as the best fits.
What types of events does she speak at?
Conferences, staff and professional development days, school district events, community health gatherings, senior living community programs, and local business and networking events.
Does she offer virtual presentations?
Yes. She presents both in person and virtually.
Where is she based, and will she travel?
She is based in Omaha, Nebraska, where she runs Agile Mindfulness, and her keynote has been delivered nationwide.
What outcomes can her audience expect?
Applying a self literacy framework as a central part of awareness and policy development, sharper awareness of one's own emotions and feelings and the difference between the two, education on the continuum of mental health from illness to wellness, and proven strategies and resources for promoting diversity in mental health culture.
What are her credentials?
She is a Board Certified Mental Health Coach, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, a TalentSmart Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach, a Certified Professional Coach, a Core Energy Coach, and a Certified SAFe 6 Program Consultant, with certifications in positive psychology and ADHD coaching. She has more than fifteen years of experience coaching organizations toward strength based cultures.
How do I book her?
Book time with her directly through her speaking events intake link, email her at nplambeck@agilemindfulness.org, or call 531-225-4420.
Could Nora be right for your room?
Start with your community.
Tell her your event date, who is coming, and what your organization is actually wrestling with. She keeps a booking link open for speaking event intake, so you can put time on the calendar directly.
Email: nplambeck@agilemindfulness.org
Phone: 531-225-4420
Website: agile-mindfulness.org
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