Keynotes & Seminars
Why Try to Manage Behavior, When You Can Design It?
Life-changing insight,
delivered with warmth, clarity,
and a no-nonsense edge.
Fawn reveals how spaces shape stress, trust, attention, and performance—before anyone says a word.
Audiences leave with practical shifts they can apply immediately to reduce burnout, strengthen collaboration, and create healthier and more profitable outcomes.
Fawn Chang
40+ years experience
2,500+ talks
Fortune 100 & 500 companies
Measurable impact
Research-backed positioning
Fawn Chang is a Behavioral Interior Designer turned performance-through-environment strategist who translates neuroscience into humane leadership levers. For four decades she has worked with architects, educators, healthcare systems, and Fortune 100 and 500 organizations to reveal how spaces shape behavior before a single thought occurs. Creator of accredited CEU programs and founder of The Gentle SHIFT Academy, she is known for turning complex science into everyday decisions leaders can use the next morning.
Fawn is unparalleled in her ability to engage, inspire and educate audiences, re-igniting their passion for their own capacity, once they know how to engage the power in their spaces that nourish their relationships, careers, and life.
Fawn weaves together current scientific research, modern design sensibilities, ancient body wisdom, all with a healthy dose of humor.
Fawn’s talks focus upon the ability of our environments to shape our lives. She explains how design promotes behavior, more importantly how to change our spaces to return to our core of joy, vibrant health and passion.
With genuine thoughtfulness, approachability and fresh insights, Fawn delivers easily implementable tips and trick that resonate with audiences and move them to action!
Fawn’s personal warmth, kindness and substantive knowledge inspire audiences, who leave excited about the possibilities and power they can uncover in their own homes, offices and lives.
Powerful Keynotes that Change Lives, Health & Communities
Small Shifts, Million-Dollar Impact
How the Visual Environment Shapes Behavior Before Thinking Begins
● Discover how thhe nervous system views and reacts to the enviornment and how to change it.
● Learn simple environmental design shifts that automatically restore the nervous system, empower higher order thinking, creativity, engagement and success.
● Create the healthy culture that thrives while bilding the bottom line
Minding the Mindset and Mental Health
Behavioral Psychology tells us that the #1 trigger for habital behavior is the neviornment.
● Discover how the nervous system views and reacts to the enviornment and how to change it.
● Learn simple environmental design shifts that automatically restore the nervous system, empower higher order thinking, creativity, engagement and success.
● Create the healthy culture that thrives while bilding the bottom line
From Surviving Spaces to Thriving, Successful Lives
Address Every Person In the Environment
Powerful, actionable takeaways – understanding how space affects engagement and burnout
Tools to shift the “invisible script” of for each person’s function in the workplace
Practical low-cost design levers that covetted workplaces that support people
Designing Belonging and Economic Vitality
Every aspect of our spaces speak the body language directing us to either come together or isolate.
● Learn vital insight and cues to design better environments
● This talk is taiored to your environment and needs showing simple changes to uplevel relationships, effectiveness and economic vitality.
Why This Work is Different
Most leadership training focuses on strategies to shift teams, uplevel mindset and empower behavior, and of course those are helpful.
Fawn shows how the physical environment is shaping decisions, stress, trust, collaboration, and performance before mindset even enters the picture.
When we change the room, we change the outcomes.
That is radically different positioning…with fundamental change availing people and companies access to significant untapped resorces.
What to Expect
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We identify the hidden stressors in the environment
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I translate the neuroscience into simple, doable choices
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Your audience leaves with a clear “next 10 shifts” they can act on
“The most overlooked lever to modify behavior: the design elements in the environment:
“The visual, spatial, sensorial layer
—color, contrast, and proportion—
speak directly to the nervous system.”
Fawn Chang
The Environment Holds The Invisible Script
Mechanical Indoor Environmental Quality design strategies have shown:
• 35% fewer short-term absences
• 19% lower absenteeism
• 5–7% rent premiums
Neurodesign of Environmentals:
• Up to 30% jump in perceived productivity
• Color use and application alone increased engagement by 100%
• 15-20% reduction in stress hormones in neuroaesthetically designed spaces
Powerful Results
“I walked out seeing my workplace differently—immediately. I can’t unsee what she showed us.”
“This changed how I lead and how my team collaborates.”
“Practical, human, and surprisingly powerful.”
“Fawn Chang is an incredibly creative, talented designer, a polished and captivating public speaker, as well as an organized, focused project leader!”
Steve Wray, President, CEO, Lord & Evans, Charleston, SC
“What Fawn brings to the table is enormous, we are excited to work with her.”
Ian Kenyon, President, Harris Paints International
Barbados
“We want to thank you… it was Awesome! Fawn shared her contagious passion in a very professional and perfect way to understand. She`s Great! Everyone that attended to the presentation where very happy!!! “We are very Happy.”
ING. Adrian Pereira Vidal – Pinturas Pevi,
Baja California, Mexico
“Fawn is a fascinating orator. Her passion and authenticity are apparent in her presentations. I recommend Fawn for a company looking for adding an element of fun to their corporate wellness program.”
Angie Piermani, PHR, Human Resources Manager, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP
“Not at all what I expected, I am very pleased.”
Tyrone Mapp, President, Barbados Institute of Architects
AIA/IDCEC Accredited HSW CEUs - Powerful for the Design Industry
The Neuroscience of Design for Multi-Family Environments
Environmental design cues trigger the body into behavior.
With simple shifts in color and design, health, community and economic stability occur – by design.
Better Learning Success For All Ages
Learning & Engagement become nearly effortless with simple design tips and tricks. Because our environment directly impacts our unconscious behavior, we can turn any environment into a success-generating machine by using validated principles of design and neuroscience to talk to the body with Case Studies.
It's Just One Variable But Drives 85% of Behavior
For any environment, color is the first design element bodies read to set the expectation and behavior. To design with color for well-being, learn the 3 biggest mistakes being made today that foil well-being and learn the 10 simple shifts to reclaim resilience and vitality.
Color's Role in Restoring Global Health
AIA & IDCEC Accredited Continuing Education Programs and Lunch-and-Learns For Design Professionals