10 Speakers That Are Trending Now
Each month we keep careful track of the Speakers and Topics Clients are asking about.
Covering a vast range of topics, these speakers have been booked by organizations across North America.
Here are the most requested speakers in August 2023:
Terence Mauri – Innovation & Disruptive Leadership Speaker

Leaders from Alibaba, HSBC and Facebook choose Terence to ignite Mindset 2.0 – a disruption mindset to break the rules and reimagine your business today.
Terence Mauri is the Founder of global think tank Hack Future Lab and is a Partner with MIT Solve, an initiative to address world challenges. He brings decades of experience and knowledge sharing cutting edge principles on the future of leadership beyond disruption. He is a Bestselling Author and his new book The 3D Leader: Take Your Leadership to the Next Dimension is an actionable and robust guide for ALL people to realize that a new dimension in personal leadership is at the core of creating opportunity. The 3D Leader is for every person who wants to learn three winning mindsets – THINK BOLD, CHOOSE BRAVE, GO BEYOND – that will equip you with a practical set of actions for you to completely reimagine how you lead.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/terence-mauri/
Heather McGowan – Top Futurist and Speaker on the Future of Work, Best-selling Author

Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Post Pandemic world of work. The last few years have forever changed where we work, who works, how we work and measure work, what we do for work and, most importantly, why we work. McGowan is a sense maker, a dot connector, a deep thinker, and a pattern matcher who sees things that others miss. Heather gives people the courage and insight that illuminates their path forward. She’s transforming mindsets and entire organizations around the globe with her message about how the next phase of work will focus on continuous learning, rather than simply learning once in order to work. Pulitzer Prize–winning NYT columnist Thomas Friedman frequently quotes Heather in his books and columns and describes her as “the oasis” when it comes to insights into the future of work. In 2020 Heather was recognized as one of the top 50 female futurists in the world by Forbes. Heather’s sessions help employees and leaders alike prepare for and adapt to jobs that do not yet exist.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/heather-mcgowan/
Jason Hewlett – “Promise Making & Promise Keeping” Hall of Fame Leadership Speaker

Jason Hewlett has delivered thousands of presentations over 2 decades, and is the only speaker in the world teaching leadership in a performance of uncanny musical and comedy impressions – utilizing the legends of stage. The Promise: Become a Legendary Leader and Discover your Signature Moves is a keynote presentation that feels like a show – with proven processes and immediately implementable takeaways to transform your business and leadership skills.
Why set a goal when we can make a promise? Promises are no small things. They’re commitments. Game-changers. Life-transformers.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/jason-hewlett/
Bobby Jones – Author, Speaker & Expert on Purpose as a Force for Good & Growth

Bobby Jones is a pioneer in purpose transformation in business. He is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, speaker, and one of the most influential voices in the worldwide movement of conscious capitalism. His work has helped leaders in over 150 countries to develop solutions to global challenges.
Bobby is a renowned international speaker whose keynotes and workshops provide business leaders with key principles and tools to drive growth and impact with purpose. Audiences walk away empowered with roadmaps to find lasting fulfillment and meaning in their work, igniting a fire that transforms their lives, work, and the world for the better.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/bobby-jones/
Diana Kander – Entrepreneur, Author, and Speaker on Innovation

Diana Kander revolutionizes the way businesses look at innovation and curiosity. A New York Times best-selling author, innovation consultant and keynote speaker, she asks some big questions. What kind of culture needs to exist in an organization to ensure innovative ideas and practices? How has Snoop Dogg continued to innovate decade after decade to stay relevant to the next generation? What causes name brands to lose relevance with their customers and go out of business? Can organizational decline be prevented? Diana has spent her career challenging assumptions and asking thought-provoking questions…and helping teach leaders and teams how to do the same.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/diana-kander/

As the founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company, Suneel Gupta helped thousands of people build better habits for life and work. Now as a bestselling author and Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, Suneel has taken his mission one step further –helping people achieve sustainable peak performance by bolstering emotional resilience and engagement. Suneel asks, “How can an organization excel on the outside if its people are exhausted on the inside?” Grit and hustle are simply not a long-term answer to dealing with non-stop change and stress. Suneel offers leaders and teams a better way to work; one that results in sustainable innovation, productivity, and fulfillment. He arms people with science-based habits that will avoid burnout, boost energy, and improve their professional and personal lives.
Suneel is a business survivor and the author of the international bestselling book Backable(2020). That book is rooted in his inner journey from twice-failed entrepreneur to becoming a leader behind two IPOs and being named “The New Face of Innovation” by the New York Stock Exchange. The book reveals the mindset shifts and hidden habits of people who are extraordinary at pushing new ideas forward.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/suneel-gupta/
Heather Hansen – Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author & Award-Winning Trial Attorney

Heather Hansen know how to build belief. She was a trial attorney for over 20 years and was consistently named one of the Top 50 Female Attorneys in Pennsylvania. She combines that experience with her psychology degree, her mediation training. and her experience as a TV anchor to help her clients build belief and advocate for their ideas, products and services.
For over twenty years Heather was a trial attorney. Her job was to help diverse groups of people believe in her case so that her client could win. She honed the tools for her clients to build credibility quickly so they could persuade diverse juries to see things from their perspective. Now she is sharing the tools with you.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/heather-hansen/
Peter Zeihan – Geopolitical Strategist; Global Energy, Demographic & Security Expert

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, which is a fancy way of saying he helps people understand how the world works. Peter combines an expert understanding of demography, economics, energy, politics, technology – and security to help clients best prepare for an uncertain future.
Over the course of his career, Peter has worked for the US State Department in Australia, the DC think tank community – and helped develop the analytical models for Stratfor, one of the world’s premier private intelligence companies. Peter founded his own firm – Zeihan on Geopolitics – in 2012 in order to provide a select group of clients with direct, custom analytical products. Today those clients represent a vast array of sectors including energy majors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities and the U.S. military.
Video: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/peter-zeihan/

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