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When the Results Look Fine, It Is Easy to Miss What Has Changed

High-performing people and teams are remarkably good at finding ways to get the work done. When demands increase, they adjust, compensate, put in more effort, and draw on the resources available to them.
Often, it works. Deadlines are met, clients are served, decisions are made, and the numbers continue to look good.
 
But the result doesn’t reveal what it required.
 
Perhaps decisions are taking longer, routine work requires more concentration, or people need more recovery after periods of intense demand. At the team level, producing the same result may require more coordination, more support, or greater reliance on the people who can always be counted on to pick up the slack.
 
Those changes matter because they can appear before performance declines enough to demand attention.
 
Eliz calls them Capacity Signals.
 
Learning to recognize those signals allows people and teams to adjust while the work is still getting done and more options are available.

 

The Keynote

What It Takes to Get It Done

High performers know how to get things done. When familiar work begins to require more, they adjust, compensate, put in more effort, and draw on the resources available to them. That response has worked for us many times, which is exactly why it can be difficult to recognize when something has changed.
 
What if the work is still getting done, but it is taking more to do it?
 
In this engaging and highly relatable keynote, Eliz Greene gives audiences a new way to think about what happens when familiar work begins to require more time, effort, attention, recovery, or support.
 
Through stories, research, humor, and interactive exercises, Eliz introduces Capacity Signals and shows participants how to recognize changes in what familiar work requires from them. They explore why our instinct is often to increase effort, why that response sometimes works beautifully and sometimes doesn’t, and how individual differences in recovery affect the capacity we have available for what comes next.
 
The result is a practical way to notice what is changing and respond while more options are available.
 
Participants leave with a different question to ask when work starts feeling harder:
Not simply, “Can I get this done?” but “What is it taking to get it done?”

Audience Takeaways:

Participants will:

✅ Recognize Capacity Signals earlier by noticing changes in the time, effort, attention, recovery, or support required to get the work done.

✅ Identify when their usual response may need to change, including when increased effort is useful and when it may be consuming capacity without producing the expected return.

✅ Make intentional choices about effort, recovery, and support based on what the work requires now, protecting decision quality and performance under sustained pressure.

Why Eliz Greene?

For more than two decades, Eliz Greene has studied stress, its physical impact, and how people perform under pressure.
 
Her work began after surviving a heart attack at 35 while seven months pregnant with twins, an experience that made the physical impact of stress impossible to ignore. What began as a personal question became a professional pursuit, including original research into job stress and years of work with leaders and organizations facing sustained demands.
 
Over time, that work led Eliz to look beyond whether the work was getting done and examine what it takes to get it done and what we can learn when those requirements begin to change. That perspective is now at the center of her work on capacity.
 
Eliz has brought her research, insights, and practical tools to audiences at organizations including NASA, CVS Health, and the American Heart Association.
 
Eliz combines research, storytelling, audience interaction, and humor to make complex ideas easy to understand and useful in real life. Her audiences recognize themselves in the stories, laugh along the way, and leave with practical ways to apply what they’ve learned.

See Eliz in Action:

What Clients Are Saying:

“A special thank you to Eliz Greene for an impactful and authentic presentation. Your message resonated deeply and sparked meaningful conversations well beyond the room. I loved your storytelling and humor. You kept me fully engaged. Your book signing was also very generous.”

Gabriele Niederauer, PhD

 

“Just what the doctor ordered for our group of high-level decision makers in Retail & Hospitality.”     

Scott Stolz, Vice President, TTI Logistics

 

“Eliz’s insights were spot on.”

Brenda Broberg, Director, H&B NA Brokerage & Advisory, Willis Towers Watson

A Strong Fit For:

What It Takes to Get It Done is especially relevant for audiences working in demanding environments where expectations remain high, strong performance depends on good decisions, and capable people are expected to keep delivering.

The program works particularly well for:

    • Leadership meetings and retreats
    • Corporate events and conferences
    • Association conferences
    • Healthcare organizations and professional groups
    • Professional services organizations
    • Leadership development programs

Program Formats

What It Takes to Get It Done can be tailored to the audience, event goals, and time available.

Keynote
An engaging, practical program that introduces Capacity Signals and gives audiences useful ways to recognize and respond when what it takes to get the work done begins to change.

Extended Keynote or Workshop
Additional time allows participants to interact with the concepts, explore their own Capacity Signals and recovery needs, and apply practical strategies to the demands they are facing.

Let's Talk About Your Event

Every audience is different. Let’s talk about what your participants are facing and how What It Takes to Get It Done could fit your event.

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