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Garrison Wynn: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Change & Influence | Bestselling Author | Business Performance Expert
Influence People. Navigate Change. Get Better Results.
Why do some people get cooperation, gain support and achieve results—while others with equally good ideas struggle to be heard?
Garrison Wynn is a bestselling author, business expert and highly entertaining keynote speaker on leadership, change, influence and workplace performance.
Why Book Garrison Wynn?
Garrison tackles a reality every organization faces: being right isn't enough. You still have to get people to buy in.
Whether leaders are introducing change, salespeople are influencing customers or teams are trying to work more effectively together, success often depends on the ability to gain cooperation from other people.
Garrison shows audiences how to increase their influence, communicate in ways people respond to and become more effective at getting things done.
His presentations are funny, fast-paced and practical, making complex workplace challenges easy to understand and immediately relevant.
What Makes Garrison Wynn Different?
- Business-focused message — connects communication and influence directly to results
- Highly entertaining — uses humor to keep audiences engaged
- Practical strategies — gives people ideas they can immediately apply
- Influence expertise — explores why people listen, cooperate and buy into ideas
- Change relevant — helps leaders gain greater support during uncertainty and transformation
- Broad audience appeal — effective for executives, managers, salespeople and frontline employees
- Real-world perspective — focuses on what actually works when dealing with people
- Memorable delivery — combines useful content with an entertaining keynote experience
Why Is Garrison Right for Your Audience?
Garrison is an excellent choice when you need your people to communicate more effectively, gain greater cooperation and produce results in situations they can't completely control.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales meetings, corporate events, association conferences and organizations navigating change.
Book Garrison when your audience needs to:
- Gain greater buy-in for their ideas
- Communicate more effectively with different personalities
- Influence without relying on authority
- Build stronger workplace relationships
- Navigate resistance to change
- Improve collaboration across teams
- Strengthen customer and client relationships
- Get better results through other people
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to communicate ideas in ways people will hear
- Understanding why good ideas don't automatically gain support
- Equipped with practical strategies for increasing influence
- More effective at gaining cooperation from others
- Better prepared to communicate during change
- More aware of how trust affects business relationships
- Ready to adapt their communication to different people and situations
Garrison Wynn Keynote Programs
Being the Best vs. Being Consistently Chosen
Why aren't the best products, services or ideas always the ones people choose?
Garrison explores the factors that influence how people make decisions and why technical excellence alone doesn't guarantee success.
Audiences discover how trust, communication, relationships and perceived value can influence whether customers, colleagues and decision-makers choose to support them.
Ideal for: Sales conferences, customer-facing teams, association events and business-development meetings.
Change Management: Creating Buy-In
Change doesn't succeed simply because leadership says it needs to happen.
Garrison helps audiences understand why people resist change and what leaders can do to create greater cooperation.
He shares practical strategies for communicating change, building trust and helping people understand why moving forward is in their interest.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating significant change.
The Truth About Success
What really separates consistently successful people from everyone else?
Garrison challenges conventional assumptions about talent, intelligence and hard work and explores the behaviors that help people gain trust, build relationships and achieve results.
Through humor, research and real-world examples, he shows audiences how to become more influential and effective in their interactions with others.
Ideal for: Corporate meetings, leadership events, sales kickoffs and association conferences.
Why Book Garrison Wynn Through The Sweeney Agency?
Garrison Wynn combines business insight, practical strategies and humor to create a keynote that is both useful and entertaining—but the real value comes from matching his message to the results you want your audience to achieve.
Contact The Sweeney Agency [email protected] to check on book Garrison Wynn's availability and current speaking fee.
About
Edith Yeung is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and a China Internet expert. She is also the author and creator of the China Internet Report, an annual report on China technology trends that is widely popular among investors and corporate executives.
Selected by Inc Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley investors you must know, Yeung is a partner at 500 Startups - the world’s most active early seed investor. She has invested in over 40 mobile, AI and blockchain startups including Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), AISense , DayDayCook, AppOnBoard, Hooked, Oasis, Stellar, Solana, CoCos-BCX, and many more.
Before 500, Edith was previously a GM at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Yeung also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless and Autodesk.
Yeung has been featured on CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, SCMP, the BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NPR, TechCrunch, Asia Society, the Economist, and many more.
Denise Lee Yohn
Leading Authority and Speaker on Building Exceptional Brands
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Denise talks about how to future-proofing your business with a strong brand and vital culture.
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Audiences learn how to align and integrate employee and customer experience to unleash their combined power to fuel growth.
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Denise is a leading authority on building great brands and exceptional organizations, as well as an author of the best-selling books What Great Brands Do and FUSION.
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Past clients include: Sony, Frito-Lay, Pursuant, Burger King, Lexus, Facebook, and Target.
Click Here to Watch Denise's Virtual Presentation
Through her expertise and personal approach, Denise Lee Yohn has become an in-demand keynote speaker inspiring business leaders around the world to build great brands and exceptional organizations. Her keynote presentations have captivated international audiences at conferences including TEDx, the Consumer Electronics Show, The Art of Marketing, the National Restaurant Show, and Sustainable Brands, among others, and at corporate events for Facebook, Lexus, NFL, and more.
Denise enjoys challenging readers to think differently about brand leadership. With that goal in mind, she has written several books including the bestseller What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest and the new book FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies.
She is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes and has been a sought-after writer for publications including Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Knowledge@Wharton, ChangeThis, Seeking Alpha, QSR Magazine, among others. News media including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times call on Denise when they want an expert point-of-view on hot business issues.
Denise initially cultivated her brand-building approaches through several high-level positions in advertising and client-side marketing. She served as lead strategist at advertising agencies for Burger King, Land Rover, and Unilever and as the marketing leader and analyst for Jack in the Box restaurants and Spiegel catalogs. Denise went on to head Sony Electronic Inc.’s first ever brand office, where she garnered major corporate awards as the vice president/general manager of brand and strategy. She has served clients as an independent consulting partner since 2004.
For her work with some of the world’s greatest organizations, Denise has won awards from the American Marketing Association (EFFIE). HOW Magazine’s Interactive Design competition, the Financial Communications Society, Sony Corporation, and Sony Electronics Inc.
Heather R. Younger
Founder & CEO Employee Fanatix, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Workplace Culture
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Heather taps into her own personal and professional experiences as well as stories of strength and perseverance to share empowering proven tools for resetting the resilience of every attendee.
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Audiences learn the three steps to strengthening resilience & reframe adversity to unlock new mindsets for empowerment and positive self-worth.
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Heather is the founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, an International TEDx speaker on Adversity, Leadership Podcast Host, Business Coach, Facilitator and Attorney, who has earned a reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”. She holds a law degree, is a regular contributor to "Forbes" and "LinkedIn" and is the best-selling author of The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty
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Past clients include: Harvard Business Review Brasil, FirstBank, Salas O'Brien, Stark Aerospace, and Colorado Bankers Association.
Heather R. Younger, J.D., CSP, is a leadership and workplace culture keynote speaker, four-time bestselling author, and creator of the C.A.R.E. framework for Unshakable LeadershipTM. Named an Inc. Top 50 Leadership and Management Expert and a Thinkers50 Radar Thought Leader, she helps organizations build leaders and cultures strong enough to handle what's next.
With more than 20 years leading teams through reorgs, mergers, acquisitions, and technology shifts, Heather knows what it takes to stay grounded when the pressure won't let up. Her research includes analysis of 40,000+ employee survey comments and 350+ leader interviews, grounding her work in what people actually experience, not just what looks good on paper.
She is the author of The Art of Active Listening, The Art of Caring Leadership, The Art of Self-Leadership, and the forthcoming book The Unshakable Team, and she hosts the podcast Becoming Unshakable. Her clients include United Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, the CDC, Prudential, DuPont, and Xerox.
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Benjamin Zander is the conductor of The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and a guest conductor around the world. With London's famed Philharmonia Orchestra, he is recording the complete cycle of Mahler symphonies for Telarc, recordings which have been received with extraordinary critical acclaim and several awards. Their latest recording of Bruckner's 5th Symphony was nominated for a 2010 Grammy, and has received critical acclaim both for the performance and Zander's now famous full-length disc explaining the music for the lay listener. They recorded their next release, Mahler's 2nd Symphony, in January 2012.
In 1967, Mr. Zander joined the faculty at New England Conservatory, where he taught an interpretation class, conducted the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted the conservatory orchestras. For the past 28 years, he was the Artistic Director of the joint program between New England Conservatory's Preparatory School and The Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts.
Benjamin Zander has an extensive speaking career, traveling the world lecturing to organizations on leadership. He has appeared four times as a keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was presented with the Crystal award for 'outstanding contributions in the Arts and international relations.'
A true renaissance man, Benjamin is also co-author of The Art of Possibility, and holds a degree in English Literature from University College in London. As world-renowned leadership coach and highly in-demand keynote speaker, his presentations are interactive and innovative, and most of all - fun.
Zander was awarded the 2002 'Caring Citizen of the Humanities' Award by the International Council for Caring Communities at the United Nations.
Mark Zandi
Chief Economist of Moody’s Analytics and Speaker on International Finance
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Dr. Mark Zandi is a speaker on international finance and economics. He is the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, where he directs research and consulting. Moody's Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation - is a leading provider of economic research, data and analytical tools.
Mark's research interests include macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. His recent research has focused on the determinants of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy, analyzed the economic impact of various tax and government spending policies - and assessed the appropriate policy response to bubbles in asset markets. Mark also conducts regular briefings on the economy. He is often quoted in national and global publications and interviewed by major news media outlets. He is the author of Financial Shock, an exposé of the financial crisis, and Paying the Price, which provides a roadmap for meeting the nation's daunting fiscal challenges.
A trusted adviser to policymakers and an influential source of economic analysis for businesses, journalists and the public, Mark has frequently testified before Congress on topics including the economic outlook, the merits of fiscal stimulus, financial regulatory reform - and foreclosure mitigation.
Dr. Zandi received his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, where he did his research with Gerard Adams and Nobel laureate Lawrence Klein, and received his B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Joel Zeff
Humorist, Author, and Dynamic Speaker on Teamwork, Change, and Leadership
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About Joel Zeff - Dynamic Collaboration, Leadership, and Change Speaker, Improvisational Humorist, and Author:
Since 1997, Joel has inspired audiences from Wells Fargo to Samsung to KPMG and even the IRS. Yes, the IRS. Joel is a masterful public speaker and a nationally renowned motivator, lifelong humorist and improvisational actor.
He connects to his audience with humor that has them laughing so uncontrollably that their mascara runs, their cheeks hurt, and their bellies ache. And he doesn't do it alone. Volunteers from the audience join him on stage and play an integral role in an improvisation game in front of hundreds or thousands of people—something the audience members have never done. He expects nothing less than their success. He expects the volunteers to focus and work together as a team; communicate effectively; positively support each other; and take responsibility.
Joel makes his audience laugh so hard that they forget about the corporate nonsense of conference calls, "strategic deliverables," PowerPoint presentations with upside-down triangles, or "paradigm shifts in a cross-functional organization." Make the Right Choice is conversational, funny, and very informative. Yes, Joel will make you laugh, but he'll also make you think. This presentation delivers a combination of inspiration, essential business knowledge, and significant ideas to help audience members reconnect with their own passion and success.
As discussed in his book, Make the Right Choice, Joel believes that we all encounter choices in our careers. We always have the opportunity to make the right choice to live a more creative, passionate, and productive life. How do you “make the right choice”? You can choose to provide opportunity. You can choose to provide positive support. And along the way, you can choose to have fun. It’s really that simple. Joel teaches us just how easy it is to make these choices.
When he is not speaking, Joel expresses his creativity as an actor, writer and comedian. He started performing professionally in 1992. In Dallas, he was co-host of The Movie Zone on UPN 21. He has appeared in dozens of commercials for numerous clients, including the Dallas Cowboys, Harrah's Casino, Mydiscountbroker.com, Time Warner Cable, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Eagle Country Markets, and Extraco Bank. He has appeared in hundreds of corporate videos. He has also appeared on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. He has been featured in The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, The Kansas City Star, and many other media outlets.
Click Here to Watch Joel's Virtual Presentation
Peter Zeihan
Geopolitical Strategist; Global Energy, Demographic, and Security Expert
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Peter talks about the future of energy, agriculture, finance, and the role America will play in the world.
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Audiences leave with insights on global trade and everything that comes from it — cheap Asian goods, international energy markets, global agriculture, stable finance — is about to unravel. Out of all this the Americans — cast in both the role of disruptor and survivor — are making decisions that will shape both themselves and the rest of the world for decades.
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Peter Zeihan is an author, the Former Vice President of Analysis at STRATFOR and Founder of Zeihan on Geopolitics.
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Past clients include: Brasada Capital Management, CFA Society, CoBank, CVC Advisers, Industrial Asset Management Council, North West Farm Credit Services, and Rimrock Capital.
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.
Peter is a critically acclaimed author whose books - The Accidental Superpower and The Absent Superpower - have been recommended by Mitt Romney, Fareed Zakaria and Ian Bremmer. Peter is also a highly sought after public speaker. With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines - his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible, relevant takeaways for audiences of all types.
Penny Zenker
Leadership Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, and Productivity Expert
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Penny Zenker (AKA “The Focusologist”) is a sought-after international leadership speaker, 2x bestselling author, and former C-Suite executive of a global top-five research company. Over the past three decades, she has built and sold multiple multimillion-dollar companies—including an award-winning tech firm she founded.
Throughout her career, Penny has been responsible for hundreds of employees and millions of dollars in turnover, initiating huge organizational changes and business turnarounds to service their competitive advantage. She has worked with countless CEOs, leaders, and teams to develop the strategies and critical skills needed to create healthy cultures, huge profits, and sustainable growth.
Today, Penny speaks to organizations around the world about how to navigate change, challenge, and uncertainty with greater ease, creativity and focus. She helps people and companies reach their potential and achieve seemingly impossible goals. Penny has shared her expertise with industry giants like Deloitte, Pfizer, SAP, Samsung, and NASA, and been featured by NBC News, ESPN, FORBES, INC., and many more.
She has written two best-selling books: The Reset Mindset (USA Today Best Seller, Success Magazine Top 10 Business Books), redefining our approach to how we work, live, and lead, and The Productivity Zone to help people stop their tug of war with time. Her popular TEDx talk, The Energy of Thought has surpassed one-million views worldwide. And her podcast, Take Back Time, ranks in the top 2% worldwide, reflecting her commitment to helping others regain control of their focus and achieve peak performance.
Scott Zimmer
Speaker, Writer, and Market Researcher on Generational Differences in the Workplace
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Scott Zimmer is a dynamic and influential generational speaker renowned for his insightful perspectives on bridging the generational gaps in today’s diverse and ever-evolving workforce. With a captivating presence and an in-depth understanding of the multiple generations, he has become a leading authority on generational dynamics, communication, and collaboration.
As a generational speaker, Scott has delivered captivating keynote speeches, workshops, and training sessions to a wide range of audiences, including corporate leaders, HR professionals, and employees across various industries. His expertise extends beyond merely identifying generational differences; he delves deeper into exploring the common values that unite individuals across age groups.
Through his engaging presentations, he works to inspire individuals and organizations to build meaningful connections, ultimately fostering thriving environments where every generation can flourish and contribute their best.
Over the past decade, Scott has worked with a diverse mix of companies across the world, helping to hone industry and organization-specific tools and insights for clients including Adidas (Germany), Visit Iceland (Iceland), Nike, Six Flags, Progressive, and Mattel (given his love of Hot Wheels and He-Man growing up, the latter was especially exciting).