By Curt Steinhorst –  Speaker on Strategic Communications & Digital DistractionsFiring, rehiring and training is expensive. When an employee is underperforming, the best course of action is an improvement plan. While it’s part of the job, every leader dreads communicating negative feedback that will hopefully lead to improved performance. Good news: There is a better way ...

A new study with a surprising twist…By Dr. Rebecca Heiss – Inspiring Keynote Speaker on Fearless Leadership & AccountabilityIf you want to be a leader start talking.At least that’s the conclusion drawn from a new study that has been deemed, the babble hypothesis.While controlling for other factors including intelligence, personality experience and backgro...

By Diana Kander – Entrepreneur, Author, and Speaker on InnovationPsychologists have long understood that we forget about 50 percent of new information within an hour of hearing it. That goes up to 70 percent within twenty-four hours and 90 percent after a week.This is a death sentence for most B2B (or as some call them, “Boring to Boring”) presentations, because by the...

At The Sweeney Agency, we are always on the lookout for the best and brightest keynote speakers to meet our clients’ needs. From Workplace Culture to Teamwork; Leadership to Inspiring Stories, our job is to find the best speakers for YOUR events.In adding these keynote speakers to our roster in 2022, we believe we are doing just that.Get in touch to book one of these great speak...

By Colette Carlson – Author & Motivational Speaker on Human Behaviour and CommunicationsWhen was it that people first started to chat about their digital connections? I’m sure Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn would know. LinkedIn was founded around December of 2002 and, for those of you who are internet historians you might already know it officially came on the...

By Dr. Susan David – Award-Winning Harvard Medical School Psychologist; Co-Founder, Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital; and CEO, Evidence-Based PsychologyI’ve consulted for hundreds of businesses and organizations, and no matter the industry, executives preach the gospel of innovation.In the era of Silicon Valley, disruption, and “move fast and break things,” it’s e...

You need a leadership makeover if you’re just focused on getting things done. Here’s how to do itBy Mark C. Crowley – Leadership and Management AuthorA recent McKinsey study on the Great Resignation arrived at a stunning conclusion: Despite the fact that millions of workers have been leaving their jobs every month for nearly two years, companies still “don’...

By Denise Lee Yohn – Leading Authority and Speaker on Building Exceptional BrandsIn today’s influencer-marketing, Amazon-dominated, supply-chain-driven business world, it may seem that value of brands is on the decline. And now that we’re headed toward a recession (or at least a significant market downturn), people are likely to question the power of brands to influence purch...

By Dorie Clark – Leadership, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Keynote SpeakerThe power of serendipity is hot in business circles. Silicon Valley campuses have been constructed to foster more “random collisions.” One key to creativity, many thinkers say, is unexpected interactions.  “Create spaces where you’re wandering around and exposing yourself to new people,” Joh...

By Lisa Bodell – Global Leader on Culture Change Focused on Simplification and InnovationIn 1944, the United States’ Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) — forerunner to the C.I.A. — wrote a field manual for agents tasked with sabotaging enemy organizations in the name of American national security. Among its recommended strategies? Complication. The O.S.S. encouraged saboteurs t...