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Management

Essential Leadership: Take Risk. Make Decisions. Keep Ego in Check

2 October 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Change, Change Management, Closing Speaker, Communication, Employees, General, Leadership, Management, Opening Speaker, Resilience, Sales

By Michelle Ray – Change, Communication and Leadership Speaker Are you are leader who is comfortable taking risks, making decisions and keeping your ego in check? Great leaders possess the ability to harness these attributes at the appropriate time. Of course, not all decisions have equal weight or quality.

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5 Steps to Booking a Speaker

27 August 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Branding, Change, Change Management, Closing Speaker, Communication, creativity, Customer Service, Diversity, Economy, Employees, Entrepreneurship, Frequently Asked Questions, Future, General, Generational Differences, Health, Humour, Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Motivation, Opening Speaker, Organizational Culture, Peak Performance, Personal Health, Politics, Resilience, Sales, Teamwork, Technology, Wellness

Updated May 21, 2025 In March, our world changed and the speaking business was not immune. With grace & skill, our great speakers rose to the occasion, developing fascinating and inspiring content that they could deliver virtually. The good news is that booking a speaker with The…

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Top 10 Trending Speakers of Summer 2020

20 August 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Change, Change Management, Closing Speaker, Communication, creativity, Customer Service, Disruption, Diversity, Economy, Employees, Future, General, Generational Differences, Health, Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Motivation, Peak Performance, Resilience, Sales, Teamwork, Technology

The world changed in unprecedented ways in early 2020 and the effects of those changes are being felt on a global scale. With approximately 40 million people working remotely or working from home across North America right now, we have had to shift our ways of thinking about our businesses…

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Look to the Future for Help Working Through what Bothers You

10 August 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Change, Change Management, Closing Speaker, Communication, creativity, Disruption, Future, General, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Resilience

By Josh Linkner, Tech Entrepreneur, CEO, and Best-Selling Author In stressful times, it’s easy to get derailed by matters that might be viewed as trivial under ordinary circumstances. A colleague shows up late to a Zoom call, the client changes her mind mid-stream, the boss unleashes an unnecessary…

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Agility & Anticipation – A Vital Partnership

3 August 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Change, Change Management, Disruption, Future, General, Leadership, Management, Opening Speaker

By Daniel Burrus, Futurist Expert and Speaker on Business Strategy, Technology, Innovations & Their Impact While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. During the Coronavirus pandemic,…

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Why are Stock Prices Going Up When the Economy is in Ruins? Here’s some context…

27 July 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Economy, General, Leadership, Management, Politics

By Geoff Colvin It’s the question on every investor’s mind. Google “Why is the stock market going up?” and you get 2.8 billion answers. Yet many of them (we haven’t checked them all) ignore or minimize a significant factor. The once-a-century strangeness of this downturn has combined…

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What I Learned as a Crisis Communicator

24 July 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: General, Leadership, Management

By Libby Gill This week’s Twitter hack got me thinking about my past career as head of public relations and communications for three major Hollywood studios. You might not think that my entertainment background would qualify me to talk about crisis communication, but you’d be…

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Where’s Your What-If?

22 June 2020
Sweeney Agency
Categories: Innovation, Leadership, Management

About Josh Linkner Josh Linkner – who started his career as a jazz guitarist – personifies innovation,  entrepreneurship, and breakthrough disruption. He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million, and helps leaders successfully address critical…

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