Jason O. Harris – U.S. Air Force Officer Special Operations Pilot, Motivating Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork

Booked by: Cisco Systems, Caterpillar, Ford, Lockheed-Martin

Lieutenant Colonel Jason Harris is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, best-selling author, expert thought leader, and professional pilot. As a fourth-generation military member, Jason’s distinguished career in the US Air Force has spanned more than two decades. He has served (continuously) on active duty and currently as Squadron Commander in the Air Force Reserve Command. Since graduating from the United States Air Force Academy, he has flown multiple aircraft over the course of his career including 11 deployments with more than 2,000 combat hours and 470 combat sorties around the globe.

These high-risk combat experiences have all served as the launching point for his proprietary “No Fail Trust™” methodology. His proven methodology serves organizations and teams as a tool to empower executives and team members to foster an environment of mutual trust, responsibility, and productivity.

More about Jason: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/jason-o-harris/

Ryan Jenkins | Wall Street Journal Bestselling Leadership Author, and #1 Team Connection & Generations Expert

Booked by: Salesforce, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, State Farm

yan Jenkins is a Wall Street Journal bestselling leadership author on the topics of team connection, generational differences, and the future of work. Ryan’s thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune, and CNBC.

He is also the owner of Rivet, the AI powered connection tool trusted by Netflix, Walmart, and PepsiCo to strengthen their teams and engage their audiences.

Today, Ryan is on a mission to help leaders and organizations Be Connectable™— unlocking the essential trait to move teams from isolated to all in.

More about Ryan: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/ryan-jenkins/

Erica Dhawan | Leading Authority on Collaboration and Innovation

Booked by: Coldwell Banker, McDonalds, Google, The Walt Disney Company,

When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan.

Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, she is the author of two bestselling books, Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.

As we continue to experience an increasingly digital world where work practices are changing at a blistering pace, Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers list, Erica frequently appears in the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal.

More about Erica: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/erica-dhawan/

Brent Gleeson | Navy Seal Combat Veteran & Motivational Leadership Speaker

Booked by: Amazon, Bank of America, Hanley Wood, Hilton

Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with combat tours to Iraq and Africa. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and acclaimed speaker and consultant on topics ranging from leadership and building high-performance teams to culture and organizational transformation.

Brent is the Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership, a progressive leadership and organizational development consulting firm with a focus on business transformation and building high-performance cultures. Brent was named a Top 10 CEO by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2013.

He is the bestselling author of TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail-Safe Principles for Leading Through Change, which was a #1 New Release on Amazon in Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment. Brent’s latest book, Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life was #1 on Amazon in the self-help, self-esteem, and military leadership categories.

More about Brent: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/brent-gleeson/

Mike Robbins | Motivational Leadership Speaker, Author, Executive Coach, Former Professional Baseball Player

Booked by: Google, Microsoft, NBA

Mike Robbins is a former pro baseball player turned leadership expert who helps teams and leaders unlock their full potential through the transformational power of authenticity and appreciation.

Playing baseball for 18 of the first 25 years of his life taught him a lot about individual and team performance…and, specifically, the importance of the intangible qualities of mindset, collaboration, and culture. Dealing with the abrupt and devastating end of his playing career, provided him a painful but important opportunity to learn about change, adversity, and resilience.

For more than two decades, Mike has taken the lessons he learned early in his life and coupled it with extensive research and experience working with some of the top teams and companies in the world…offering tangible techniques that help people, leaders, and teams to keep things in perspective, build trust, come together, and perform at the highest level.

More about Mike: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/mike-robbins/

Robyn Benincasa | Firefighter, CNN Hero and Motivational Adventure Racer

Booked by: Allstate, Exxon Mobil, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, HP

When the challenges are steep and the competition fierce, Robyn Benincasa provides the tools individuals and organizations need to cross their most challenging finish lines.

As a two-time World Champion Adventure racer, San Diego Firefighter, and CNN Hero, Robyn knows a thing or two about creating Human Synergy, or as she puts it, “That magic that allows ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things together.” Through harrowing experiences in places like the jungles of Borneo and the Himalayan peaks, Robyn has studied the good, the bad, and the not-so-pretty of Extreme Teamwork. Her refreshing and unique techniques build and foster impactful, inspired teams that succeed against all odds and turn setbacks into comebacks.

Robyn was named one of 2020s World’s Top 50 Keynote Speakers (Real Leaders Magazine), the #1 Female Speaker for Meetings.net, and is one of the Top 10 Speakers featured by Harvard Business Review.

More about Robyn: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/robyn-benincasa/

Mike Massimino | Former NASA Astronaut, NY Times Bestselling Author, Media & TV Personality

Booked by: 3M, American Express, Arm & Hammer, Oracle

A spacewalker on the final two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions, Mike Massimino and his crews traveled faster (Mach 26) and higher (350 miles) than any other astronauts in the 21st century while increasing the discovery capabilities of arguably the greatest scientific instrument ever built by a factor of 100.

During the final Hubble servicing mission, Mike was faced with both success and life-threatening challenges as he performed the most intricate repair ever attempted in space. Mike set a team record for cumulative spacewalking time on a single space shuttle mission, was the last person to work inside of the Hubble Space Telescope, and was the first person to tweet from space. He persisted through three rejections over 7 years on his way to becoming an astronaut, including overcoming a medical disqualification by training his eyes and brain to see better.

Mike uses humor and his unique storytelling ability to inspire audiences to identify the passion in their work, to use teamwork and innovation to solve problems, to provide leadership in the face of adversity and crisis, and to never give up when pursuing a goal.

More about Mike: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/mike-massimino/

Eric Boles | Speaker on Leadership and Peak Performance

Booked by: Dunkin’ Donuts, Nationwide Insurance, AVIVA Insurance, Alaska Airlines

Eric Boles is the president of The Game Changers Inc., a training and development company dedicated to maximizing the human asset. Through assessment, consulting, coaching and corporate training, The Game Changers Inc. has set the standard for helping organizations enhance their culture and develop greater levels of commitment and performance.

Eric Boles is also a highly acclaimed keynote speaker and consultant for some of the most recognized and respected organizations in the world. His insights on Leadership, Peak Performance, Team Dynamics, and Managing Change has been shared with clients such as Dunkin’ Donuts, Nationwide Insurance, AVIVA Insurance, Alaska Airlines, State Farm Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, USAA, MetLife, and Novo Nordisk . Eric also speaks to a variety of organizations and associations, including those in sales, education, government, healthcare, manufacturing and financial services.

Prior to becoming an authority on high performance, Eric learned many principles of team dynamics and leadership from his experience playing in the National Football League (NFL) with the New York Jets and the Green Bay Packers. While in the NFL, he had the privilege of being coached and mentored by some of the finest coaches and players in the game.

More about Eric: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/eric-boles/

Clint Pulver | The Ultimate Experience to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your People

Booked by: Keller Williams, AT&T, Hewlett Packard

Clint Pulver is a motivational keynote speaker, author, musician, and workforce expert. He’s also fun, dynamic, entertaining – and the no-stress speaker clients love to work with.

A professional drummer for over 20 years, he’s played with top headlining fellow musicians in venues like the Vivint Arena, the Stadium of Fire, and the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. He founded the UVU Drumline known as the Green Man Group, which he directed for six years and went on to direct the Drumline for the NBA’s Utah Jazz until 2015.

Clint was featured in Business Q Magazine as one of their “Top 40 Under 40” as a premiere Corporate Keynote Speaker. He has appeared on America’s Got Talent and in feature films with actors such as Jack Black (School of Rock) and John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite).

Known as the Leading Authority on Employee Retention, Clint helps organizations retain, engage – and inspire their team members from the front desk to the board rooms and everyone in between. He expertly helps audiences navigate generational complexities,  communication  challenges,  leadership mis-steps, and culture cues.

More about Clint: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/clint-pulver/

Adrian Gostick | Acclaimed Author and Speaker on Leadership, Anxiety in the Workplace and Employee Engagement

Booked by: ADT, Bank of America, Bridgestone, Morgan Stanley

#1 New York Times bestselling author Adrian Gostick provides advice to some of the world’s most successful organizations on building culture, managing change, and leading high performance teams.

Gostick is a global thought leader in the fields of corporate culture, leadership, and engagement. He is founder of the work placetraining and consulting company The Culture Works and author of the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and Anxiety at Work. His award-winning books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world.

Gostick is a leadership strategy columnist for Forbes, and his work has been called “fascinating,” by Fortune magazine and “creative and refreshing” by the New York Times. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CNN, and CNBC, and is often quoted in The Economist, Financial Times, Newsweek, and Wall Street Journal. In 2022, Adrian was ranked as a top 10 Global Guru in Leadership and Organizational Culture.

More about Adrian: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/adrian-gostick/

Dr. Nicole Lipkin | Organizational Psychologist & Speaker on Leadership and Mental Agility

Booked by: Berkshire Hathaway, Google, JD Power, Toyota

Dr. Nicole Lipkin is an organizational psychologist, speaker and the author of What Keeps Leaders Up At Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues and Y in the Workplace: Managing the ‘Me First’ Generation. Nicole’s aim is to help organizations, leaders and their teams develop behaviors and practices that increase personal and organizational resilience and sustainability by integrating the science of human behavior with practical approaches to business and leadership challenges.

Nicole is the CEO of Equilibria Leadership Consulting, an international business/organizational solutions company based in the US that provides leadership and management development, executive assessment and executive and emerging leader coaching. She also is the owner of Equilibria Psychological and Consultation Services, a mid-sized group psychology practice located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

More about Dr. Lipkin: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/dr-nicole-lipkin/

Jim Murphy | F-15 fighter pilot & Founder of Afterburner, Speaker on Leadership and Teamwork

Booked by: JP Morgan, Nestlé, Mongo DB, NY Giants

Jim “Murph” Murphy, the Founder of Afterburner, Inc., has a unique and powerful mix of leadership skills in both the military and business worlds.

Growing up on a Kentucky farm, Jim learned early that progress comes from aligned action, not just hard work. This fundamental truth would shape his journey from farm boy to fighter pilot to Fortune 50’s most trusted transformation advisor.

Today, Murph is the force behind some of corporate America’s most dramatic transformations. His work with 85% of Fortune 50 companies isn’t just about strategy—it’s about creating inertia within the business & marketplace to create long-term momentum.

As founder of a consultancy that’s made the Inc 500 list eleven times, Murph doesn’t just teach transformation—he lives it. His seven bestselling books on leadership and execution have become required reading in boardrooms worldwide, and his insights have been featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week.

More about Jim: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/jim-murphy/

Jack Becker | Decorated U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot, Founder & CEO, Flight Level Solutions, Inc., Leadership, Teamwork, Safety, and Peak Human Performance Expert

Booked by: Northrop Grumman, General Electric, AkzoNobel, Architectural Woodwork Institute

Renowned as one of the most dynamic keynote speakers in the industry, Jack Becker has spoken to some of the highest-performing organizations in the world including General Electric, Allied Transportation, the American Heart Association, and Truist Bank.

His keynotes deliver action-packed lessons of fighter pilot combat missions to instill a culture of continual process improvement. Regardless of your business, Jack’s keynotes simply reduce human error. Your team will make fewer mistakes! Within all seven regions of GE Power and Water alone, Jack’s program has reduced OSHA recordable mishaps over 60%.

As one of the Navy’s most highly decorated Landing Signals Officers (LSO), Jack was instrumental in incorporating the process improvement model of CRM to help pilots improve quickly while landing supersonic fighter jets on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

He was responsible for over 21,000 mishap-free carrier landings. Jack’s unique experience as both an LSO and as the Navy’s top CRM instructor, he saw an opportunity to relay the same skills of Brief-Execute-Debrief-Perfect to the American workplace. From healthcare groups to manufacturing, construction, sales teams, and insurance firms, Jack’s dynamic keynotes, and seminars leave a lasting impression.

More about Jack: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/jack-becker/

Patrick Lencioni – Management & Teamwork Consultant and Speaker on Organizational Health

Booked by: Equinix, Steel Tech, Sybase, Oracle

Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement.

Lencioni’s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking and executive consulting. He is the author of eleven best-selling books with over five million copies sold. His capstone book, The Advantage, is the pre-eminent source on organizational health. After sixteen years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a weekly fixture on national best-seller lists. Released in 2016, The Ideal Team Player is a much-anticipated follow-up to his team book and also a Wall Street Journal best-seller. In his latest book The Motive Lencioni shifts his attention toward helping Leaders understand the importance of why they’re leading in the first place. In doing so, he helps leaders avoid the pitfalls that stifle their organizations and even hurt the people they are meant to serve.

The wide-spread appeal of Lencioni’s leadership models have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, schools and churches.

More about Patrick: https://thesweeneyagency.com/speakers/patrick-lencioni/