Claire Hayek knows what it means to spend a lifetime searching for one's own voice. Born with her mother's umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, she entered the world without breath or sound. It is a metaphor, she says, for how long it took her to truly "own" her voice. "It took me fifty years to find it back," she reflects. Now a neuroscience leadership expert, keynote speaker, and founder of Mind. Soul. Purpose (MSP) Teambuilding, Hayek is determined to make sure others don't have to wait that long.
Her upcoming book weaves together her personal journey of resilience along with her thesis on mental fitness; from her life, growing up in Lebanon, immigrating to Canada, and navigating a dual life as both an engineer and musician, combined with a framework she believes is urgently needed in today's workplaces. For Hayek, mental fitness is about cultivating the ability to quiet the inner critic, take up your own space, and be the 'CEO of your brain.'
