There is a particular kind of person who seems to carry two full careers inside one life, and Heidi Solomon-Orlick is exactly that kind of person. By day, and often well into the evening, she is a business leader and a voice for women in sales. In every spare hour she can find, she is a children’s book author, a speaker, and an advocate who wants every reader, whether they are seven or forty-seven, to walk away believing their voice matters.
It would be easy to describe Heidi as someone who simply wears many hats. That description, though, misses the thread that ties her work together. Whether she is writing a picture book for a child learning to navigate big feelings or addressing a room full of women in leadership, her message stays remarkably consistent: confidence is not something you are born with in full supply. It is something you build, page by page and choice by choice.
Writing for the Youngest Readers, With the Oldest Truths
Heidi’s children’s titles are not simple bedtime stories meant only to fill a few quiet minutes. They are built with intention, designed to support emotional growth, self-expression, kindness, and resilience in young readers. Anyone who has spent time around children knows how much of their inner world goes unspoken. Heidi’s books give that world language.
Take her book More Than Pretty, written for young girls who are just beginning to understand how the world sees them, and how they want to see themselves. The story follows a girl who is told, as so many girls are told, that she should be seen and not heard. Rather than accepting that, she goes on what the book calls a quest, discovering that her real gift is not her appearance but her voice, her curiosity, and her willingness to help others. By the story’s end, she stands in front of her friends and says plainly that beauty is not only about how a person looks. It is about showing up for others.
That message, delivered through rhyme and gentle humor, is the same one Heidi carries into boardrooms and conference stages. It simply changes its clothing depending on the audience.
A Voice for Women in Business
Long before she published her first children’s book, Heidi built a reputation as a female sales leader in an industry that has not always made space for women at the top. That experience shaped her second body of work: books written for women navigating careers in sales and business leadership. Readers looking for a women in sales book or a motivational read grounded in real professional experience often find their way to her writing, drawn by the promise of guidance that comes from someone who has actually lived through the challenges she describes.
Her business-focused work is not theoretical. It reflects years spent closing deals, managing teams, and learning firsthand what it takes for women to rise, lead, and thrive in competitive spaces. That authenticity is part of what separates her books from the crowded shelf of general career advice.
Taking the Message to the Stage
Writing books is only one half of Heidi’s platform. She is also a women empowerment speaker and motivational speaker, appearing before audiences to talk about leadership, confidence, purpose, and creating lasting impact. Those who have heard her speak often describe the experience as less like a lecture and more like a conversation, one where the audience leaves with practical steps rather than vague inspiration.
That combination is rare. Plenty of authors write compelling books. Plenty of speakers can hold a room. Few people manage to do both while also running a business and raising the next generation of confident readers through their children’s work. Heidi’s ability to move fluidly between a picture book about a little girl finding her courage and a keynote about women leading sales teams speaks to a consistency of values that cannot be manufactured.
A Mission Rooted in Confidence
At the center of everything Heidi Solomon-Orlick creates is a simple belief: every person, regardless of age, deserves to feel confident enough to use their voice. Her growing catalog of children’s books nurtures that belief in young readers from the very beginning, while her business titles carry the same message forward for women building careers.
For families looking for meaningful books that teach kindness and resilience, for educators searching for stories that open real conversations, or for professional women seeking guidance from someone who has walked the path herself, Heidi’s work offers something increasingly hard to find: honesty paired with genuine encouragement. In a publishing world often crowded with noise, that combination is exactly what makes her voice, and the voices she helps others discover, worth listening to.
