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Campbell Macpherson
Global Change Expert and Motivational Speaker on Leadership and Change
About
Campbell Macpherson: Change Expert and Author | Speaker on Leadership, Influence and Making Change Work
Why Book Campbell Macpherson?
Campbell connects change plans with the conversations and leadership behaviors that bring them into everyday work. His message encourages organizations to consider where people need clarity, involvement, or support rather than treating agreement as evidence that a change is complete.
Why Is Campbell Macpherson Right for Your Audience?
Campbell is a strong fit for leadership conferences, transformation programs, executive meetings, and management events. Consider him when an organization needs people to engage with a new direction.
Book Campbell when your audience needs to:
- Explain the purpose behind organizational change
- Recognize concerns that affect participation
- Strengthen influence across working relationships
- Involve people in the transition
- Connect change plans with everyday behavior
- Clarify what leaders need to model
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the human demands of change
- Ready to review a conversation their team needs
- More aware of barriers to participation
- Equipped with questions for building commitment
- Focused on a practical step toward a new way of working
Keynote Programs
Change Is Inevitable. Successful Change Isn’t.
Campbell explores what makes change difficult and how leaders can support it. Ideal for organizations undertaking transformation.
Leading with Influence
Campbell examines how people create commitment beyond formal authority. Ideal for leaders working across teams, functions, and stakeholders.
Is Campbell Macpherson Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change your organization is making and the leadership behaviors it needs to support. We can help select Campbell’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Rachel Mahoney
Communication & Relatability Expert, Media personality, and Author
About
Rachel Mahoney (formerly Rachel DeAlto): Author of The Relatable Leader | Speaker on Communication and Human Connection
Why Book Rachel Mahoney?
Rachel makes connection tangible. Her presentations invite audiences to consider how they make others feel seen and heard, then give them ways to improve conversations with colleagues, customers, and the people they lead. Her keynotes can be shaped for leadership, sales, customer experience, or company-wide audiences.
Why Is Rachel Mahoney Right for Your Audience?
Rachel is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, customer experience events, association meetings, and gatherings focused on workplace culture. She is especially relevant when an organization wants to improve collaboration and engagement by changing how people communicate with one another.
Book Rachel when your audience needs to:
- Build trust across teams and departments
- Help people feel heard, valued, and included
- Communicate with greater clarity and empathy
- Strengthen relationships with customers and clients
- Reduce friction in everyday interactions
- Lead through connection while maintaining accountability
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More aware of the behaviors that help people feel seen
- Equipped to build trust through everyday conversations
- Ready to listen and respond with greater intention
- Better able to connect across roles and perspectives
- Focused on one practical way to improve a working relationship
Keynote Programs
RELATABLE
Rachel shows how relatability can strengthen communication, trust, and influence. The keynote can be tailored for leaders building engaged teams, colleagues working across silos, or sales and customer experience professionals who need to understand the people they serve. Ideal for audiences seeking stronger relationships that support better results.
SEEN
Rachel explores what it means to acknowledge, include, and understand people at work. Through stories, reflection, and practical tools, she helps leaders and teams recognize when people feel overlooked and change the interactions that shape belonging and contribution. Ideal for culture, engagement, and leadership events.
Is Rachel Mahoney Right for Your Event?
Tell us which relationships your audience needs to strengthen and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help choose Rachel’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Col. Nicole Malachowski
First Woman Thunderbird Pilot, Combat Veteran, Fighter Squadron Commander, White House Fellow & Adviser, and Indomitable Spirit
About
Col. Nicole Malachowski: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Resilience & High Performance | First Female Thunderbird Pilot | Combat Veteran | White House Fellow
Harness Headwinds. Lead Through Adversity.
What do exceptional leaders do when the unexpected changes everything?
Nicole brings audiences inside the cockpit and behind the scenes of an extraordinary career to reveal what it takes to lead under pressure, earn trust, adapt when circumstances change and keep moving forward when the original plan is no longer possible.
Why Book Nicole Malachowski?
Nicole has lived the leadership lessons she shares.
From becoming the first female Thunderbird pilot to serving as a White House Fellow and senior military leader, her career was built in environments where preparation, trust, teamwork and decision-making under pressure were essential.
Then an unexpected health challenge forced her to confront an entirely different kind of adversity.
Nicole turns these experiences into a compelling and highly relevant keynote that challenges audiences to rethink obstacles, embrace change and recognize that sometimes the headwinds standing in our way can ultimately help us rise.
What Makes Nicole Malachowski Different?
- Historic aviation career — the first woman selected to fly as a Thunderbird pilot
- Combat-tested leadership — real lessons from high-pressure environments where teamwork and trust matter
- Powerful resilience story — a deeply personal perspective on navigating unexpected adversity
- Senior leadership experience — brings lessons from the military, government and White House
- Authentic and relatable — combines extraordinary accomplishments with vulnerability and humanity
- Practical business relevance — connects her experiences directly to leadership, change and organizational performance
- Memorable storytelling — powerful aviation stories that stay with audiences long after the keynote
Why Is Nicole Right for Your Audience?
Nicole is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to lead confidently through uncertainty, respond constructively to adversity and understand what high-performance teamwork really requires.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, women's leadership events, association conferences and organizations navigating significant change.
Book Nicole when your audience needs to:
- Lead effectively through uncertainty and change
- Build resilience when circumstances don't go as planned
- Turn obstacles into opportunities for growth
- Strengthen trust and teamwork
- Perform confidently under pressure
- Challenge assumptions about what is possible
- Adapt quickly when the original plan changes
- Take greater ownership of their response to adversity
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better prepared to navigate unexpected challenges
- Understanding how trust strengthens high-performing teams
- More confident leading when circumstances are uncertain
- Ready to rethink their response to setbacks
- Equipped with practical lessons for adapting to change
- Inspired to challenge perceived limitations
- Motivated to turn their own “headwinds” into opportunities for growth
Nicole Malachowski Keynote Programs
Harnessing Headwinds: What if the forces working against you could actually help you rise?
Nicole uses the aviation concept of headwinds as a powerful metaphor for adversity, uncertainty and change.
Drawing from her extraordinary career and personal journey, she shows audiences how to recognize opportunities hidden inside difficult circumstances, adapt when the original flight plan no longer works and continue moving forward with purpose.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating change.
The Mach 2 Mindset: High performance isn't simply about individual talent. It's about trust, preparation and commitment to the team.
Drawing on lessons from fighter aviation and the Thunderbirds, Nicole takes audiences inside one of the world's most demanding performance environments.
She explores how elite teams build trust, maintain high standards, communicate effectively and remain focused when the margin for error is small.
Ideal for: Leadership, teamwork, sales kickoffs and high-performance events.
Leading Through Change and Adversity: Leadership matters most when the path forward isn't clear.
Nicole shares practical lessons from her experiences as a fighter pilot, senior military officer and leader navigating profound personal adversity.
Audiences discover how effective leaders maintain perspective, build trust and help their people move forward when circumstances change unexpectedly.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, organizational transformation and resilience-focused events.
Why Book Nicole Malachowski Through The Sweeney Agency?
Nicole Malachowski has an extraordinary story—but the real value comes from connecting her experiences directly to the leadership, change and performance challenges your audience is facing.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Nicole Malachowski's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Nicole Malachowski keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Nicole with other leading leadership, resilience and motivational speakers
Is Nicole Malachowski Right for Your Event?
Tell us the headwinds your organization or audience is facing.
We'll help you determine whether Nicole is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, sales kickoff or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today at [email protected] to discuss booking Col. Nicole Malachowski as your keynote speaker.
Gaby Natale
Transformative Motivational Speaker, Triple Daytime EMMY-Winning Journalist, Bestselling Author & Entrepreneur
About
Gaby Natale: Emmy Award-Winning Journalist | Author and Entrepreneur | Speaker on Pioneering, Leadership and Personal Growth
Why Book Gaby Natale?
Gaby combines personal storytelling with a message about the pioneer spirit. Her presentations encourage audiences to value their distinct perspective, develop a clearer direction, and take action when familiar paths do not match their ambitions.
Why Is Gaby Natale Right for Your Audience?
Gaby is a strong fit for leadership conferences, women’s leadership events, employee gatherings, and professional development programs. Consider her when people need encouragement to bring their own perspective to new opportunities.
Book Gaby when your audience needs to:
- Recognize the value of their individual perspective
- Take a more active role in personal growth
- Build an action plan around an ambition
- Approach unfamiliar opportunities with greater confidence
- Strengthen purpose through daily choices
- Contribute ideas beyond established approaches
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an ambition they want to pursue
- Ready to identify a practical development step
- More aware of strengths they can contribute
- Encouraged to approach an unfamiliar opportunity
- Focused on becoming an active participant in change
Keynote Programs
PIONEER
Gaby explores creating a path through individuality, purpose, and action. Ideal for leadership and professional growth audiences.
The Virtuous Circle
Gaby examines the development of personal strengths and a plan for achievement. Ideal for employee and emerging leader programs.
Is Gaby Natale Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the opportunities your audience needs to pursue and the confidence you want it to build. We can help select Gaby’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Deborah Perry Piscione
Authority on Changing Mindsets, Best-selling Innovation Author and Entrepreneur
About
Deborah Perry Piscione: Co-Author of Employment Is Dead | Entrepreneur | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work
Why Book Deborah Perry Piscione?
Deborah encourages organizations to examine the conditions that allow ideas to develop. Her presentations bring technology change into a broader discussion about calculated risk, participation, and the future capabilities of the workforce.
Why Is Deborah Perry Piscione Right for Your Audience?
Deborah is a strong fit for executive meetings, innovation conferences, HR events, and transformation programs. Consider her when leaders need to connect technological change with people and organizational design.
Book Deborah when your audience needs to:
- Consider how AI may reshape work
- Review assumptions about future workforce needs
- Distinguish calculated risk from unexamined action
- Invite ideas from more parts of the organization
- Connect experimentation with business priorities
- Prepare leaders for changing employment models
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on questions surrounding technology and work
- Ready to review an innovation barrier
- More aware of assumptions behind talent plans
- Equipped to discuss risk more deliberately
- Focused on an opportunity for organizational experimentation
Keynote Programs
Risk-taking for Leaders
Deborah examines calculated risk as a leadership capability. Ideal for executives and managers seeking a more deliberate approach to innovation.
Improvisational Innovation
Deborah explores how ideas can emerge across an organization. Ideal for teams building wider participation in improvement.
The Era of Physical AI
Deborah considers AI and its implications for work and business. Ideal for audiences reviewing future workforce and technology assumptions.
Is Deborah Perry Piscione Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the technology changes your organization faces and the innovation capabilities you want to develop. We can help select Deborah’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Connie Podesta
Powerful Motivator and Humourist, Author, Educator, Licensed Counselor and Consultant.
About
Connie Podesta: Human Behavior Expert | Author and Humorist | Speaker on Communication, Change and Workplace Relationships
Why Book Connie Podesta?
Connie encourages audiences to consider their own part in an interaction. Her presentations connect self-awareness with practical questions about how people express needs, respond to different styles, and navigate uncertainty together.
Why Is Connie Podesta Right for Your Audience?
Connie is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, employee events, and organizations navigating change. Consider her when people need a candid, engaging conversation about how they work with others.
Book Connie when your audience needs to:
- Recognize patterns in their own communication
- Respond more thoughtfully to different working styles
- Discuss needs and expectations more clearly
- Navigate disagreements with greater self-awareness
- Adapt their response to changing conditions
- Take more responsibility for workplace relationships
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a communication habit they want to examine
- Ready to approach a conversation differently
- More aware of their own reaction to conflict
- Equipped with questions for understanding colleagues
- Focused on a practical relationship improvement
Keynote Programs
StandOut Communication
Connie explores connection, collaboration, and the way people communicate needs. Ideal for sales, leadership, and employee audiences.
StandOut Change
Connie examines responses to uncertainty and shifting workplace conditions. Ideal for organizations moving through change.
StandOut Success
Connie invites people to examine the alignment between their choices and their definition of success. Ideal for professional development programs.
Is Connie Podesta Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to have and the relationships you want to strengthen. We can help select Connie’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Johnny Quinn
Former Pro Football Wide Receiver, U.S. Bobsled Olympian, and Inspirational Speaker on Change
About
Johnny Quinn: U.S. Olympic Bobsledder | Former Professional Football Player | Speaker on Readiness, Resilience and Team Performance
Why Book Johnny Quinn?
Johnny connects the story with the routines that support performance. His presentations encourage people to stay prepared for opportunity, work with the resources around them, and choose a constructive next step after disappointment.
Why Is Johnny Quinn Right for Your Audience?
Johnny is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, employee events, and performance programs. Consider him when teams need renewed commitment to preparation and consistent effort.
Book Johnny when your audience needs to:
- Build routines that support readiness
- Respond constructively to rejection
- Strengthen collaboration under pressure
- Prepare for opportunities before they arrive
- Connect ambitious goals with disciplined effort
- Take a useful next step after a setback
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a preparation habit they want to strengthen
- Ready to reconsider their response to disappointment
- More aware of the team behind performance
- Encouraged to remain open to a different path
- Focused on consistent actions within their control
Keynote Programs
Push What’s Possible
Johnny explores preparation and teamwork through his athletic journey. Ideal for sales and performance-focused audiences.
When “No” Means Next
Johnny examines responding to rejection and finding another direction. Ideal for teams navigating setbacks or change.
Winning Leadership
Johnny connects leadership with the preparation and collaboration behind team performance. Ideal for management meetings.
Is Johnny Quinn Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the goals your audience is pursuing and the preparation or resilience it needs to strengthen. We can help select Johnny’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Michelle Ray
Sought-After Keynote Speaker on Change, Communication and Leadership.
About
Michelle Ray: Leadership Expert | Speaker on Change, Communication and Leading in Real Time
Why Book Michelle Ray?
Michelle brings the discussion into everyday leadership situations. Her presentations encourage people to examine how they listen, respond to uncertainty, and show up when a familiar approach no longer meets the needs of the moment.
Why Is Michelle Ray Right for Your Audience?
Michelle is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management meetings, employee events, and organizations navigating transition. Consider her when leaders need to be more responsive and intentional in their relationships.
Book Michelle when your audience needs to:
- Respond more thoughtfully to changing conditions
- Build trust through everyday communication
- Strengthen relationships with employees
- Examine their own leadership habits
- Give clearer direction during uncertainty
- Connect authenticity with visible behavior
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a leadership response they want to improve
- Ready to approach a team conversation differently
- More aware of how their behavior affects trust
- Equipped with questions about changing employee needs
- Focused on a practical next leadership action
Keynote Programs
Real-Time Leadership
Michelle explores being ready and responsive in a changing environment. Ideal for managers and leaders navigating uncertainty.
The Transformational Leader
Michelle examines authenticity and the relationships leaders build with their teams. Ideal for leadership development and management programs.
Is Michelle Ray Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes your leaders face and the working relationships you want them to strengthen. We can help select Michelle’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
April Rinne
Global Authority on the New Economy, Future of Work, and Navigating Constant Change, Humanistic Futurist
About
April Rinne: Author of Flux | Change Navigator and Futurist | Speaker on Adaptability and Navigating Uncertainty
Why Book April Rinne?
April encourages audiences to examine the assumptions they carry into unfamiliar circumstances. Her presentations offer a way to discuss adaptability as an ongoing practice, helping people identify what they can reconsider when the future does not follow a predictable path.
Why Is April Rinne Right for Your Audience?
April is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, strategy retreats, and organizations navigating transition. Consider her when people need a more open, intentional approach to uncertainty.
Book April when your audience needs to:
- Reconsider expectations about constant change
- Build greater comfort with not having every answer
- Question assumptions about a predictable future
- Approach unfamiliar circumstances with curiosity
- Discuss adaptability more openly
- Identify a practical response to uncertainty
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on their own relationship with change
- Ready to examine an assumption that limits adaptability
- More aware of choices available in uncertain conditions
- Equipped with questions for navigating a transition
- Focused on a practice they can develop over time
Keynote Programs
Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
April explores practices for approaching an uncertain world with greater adaptability. Ideal for leaders and teams working through ongoing change in their organizations and careers.
Is April Rinne Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the transitions your audience faces and the adaptability you want it to develop. We can help select April’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Mel Robbins
Best-Selling Author, and Life-Changing Change and Motivational Speaker
About
Mel Robbins: Bestselling Author of The Let Them Theory | Host of The Mel Robbins Podcast | Speaker on Change and Motivation
Why Book Mel Robbins?
Her candid stories, humor, and energetic delivery make a large room feel personal. Mel gives people a way to take the next step, build confidence through action, and approach change with greater ownership.
Why Is Mel Robbins Right for Your Audience?
Mel is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings, and events focused on change or personal growth. She is especially relevant when people understand the goal but need help overcoming hesitation and following through.
Book Mel when your audience needs to:
- Take action on goals that have stalled
- Build confidence by starting before they feel ready
- Replace unhelpful habits with more useful ones
- Stay motivated through change and uncertainty
- Inspire colleagues and teams through everyday behavior
- Leave with a practical tool they can use immediately
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on why hesitation can keep them from making progress
- Equipped with a simple way to interrupt overthinking and act
- More aware of how small choices shape habits and results
- Ready to encourage themselves and the people around them
- Motivated to put one specific change into practice
Keynote Programs
The 5 Second Rule: The Simple Science-Backed Secret to Changing Anything
Mel introduces her signature tool for moving through hesitation and taking action. Through stories and practical examples, she shows audiences how five-second decisions can help them begin new habits, pursue goals, and respond to change. Ideal for an opening or closing keynote that calls people to act.
The High 5 Habit: How to Inspire Yourself and Those Around You to Be Their Best
Mel explores how people can support their own motivation and bring that encouragement to others. She connects the habit to leadership, team culture, and the way people show up for one another. Ideal for leadership and employee audiences seeking a more supportive mindset and a readiness to act.
Is Mel Robbins Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change you want to inspire, and what you want people to do after the event. We can help identify Mel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
About
Dr. David Rock: Co-Founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute | Author of Your Brain at Work | Speaker on Leadership, Coaching and Behavior Change
Why Book Dr. David Rock?
David connects that perspective with the conversations managers have every day. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how they ask questions, give feedback, and create conditions that support learning and different ways of working.
Why Is Dr. David Rock Right for Your Audience?
David is a strong fit for leadership conferences, HR events, executive meetings, and management development programs. Consider him when an organization wants to strengthen the people skills behind its leadership practices.
Book David when your audience needs to:
- Develop more intentional coaching conversations
- Review the way feedback is exchanged
- Consider how work demands affect attention
- Support learning and behavior change
- Ask questions that help others think
- Connect leadership development with daily habits
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an aspect of their coaching approach
- Ready to reconsider a feedback conversation
- More aware of the role of attention in work
- Equipped with questions for supporting another person’s thinking
- Focused on a leadership habit they can practice
Keynote Programs
Options include Turning Managers Into Coaches and a tailored presentation on organizational change:
Turning Managers Into Coaches
David explores coaching as an everyday management capability. Ideal for leaders responsible for developing others.
The Human Side of Organizational Change
David connects leadership practices with learning and behavior change. Ideal for HR and executive audiences reviewing how they support transformation.
Is Dr. David Rock Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the people skills your leaders need to develop and the behavior changes your organization wants to support. We can help select David’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Sebastien Sasseville
Best-selling Author, Leadership and teamwork expert, Motivational keynote speaker, Endurance athlete
About
Sébastien Sasseville: Endurance Athlete and Everest Climber | Speaker on Mission-Centered Leadership, Teamwork and Change
Why Book Sébastien Sasseville?
Sébastien brings the story back to organizational life. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how they communicate purpose, develop other people, and respond when conditions require a different plan.
Why Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Audience?
Sébastien is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, employee gatherings, and transformation events. Consider him when teams need a stronger connection between their daily contribution and a common goal.
Book Sébastien when your audience needs to:
- Connect individual work with a shared mission
- Develop greater trust within a team
- Adapt plans when conditions change
- Recognize when to seek support
- Give others room to lead and contribute
- Build accountability around collective goals
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the mission their team is working toward
- Ready to examine a leadership habit
- More aware of the support behind achievement
- Encouraged to adapt their approach when needed
- Focused on a contribution to the team’s next step
Keynote Programs
Mission-Centered Leadership
Sébastien explores leadership that gives people a clear purpose and room to contribute. Ideal for management and executive audiences.
Change, Agility, and Transformation
Sébastien connects endurance experiences with responding to changing conditions. Ideal for organizations navigating transition.
Teamwork and Performance
Sébastien examines interdependence and the team behind demanding achievements. Ideal for sales and employee events.
Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the mission your audience needs to advance and the teamwork or leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Sébastien’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speake
Debra Searle
British Adventurer, Television Presenter, Author and Motivational Speaker
About
Debra Searle: Motivational Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Mindset & Change | Solo Atlantic Rower | Entrepreneur | Author
Choose Your Attitude. Change Your Outcome.
What happens when the plan falls apart, circumstances change and giving up feels like the easiest option?
Debra Searle is an entrepreneur, adventurer and inspiring keynote speaker on resilience, mindset, change and overcoming adversity.
Why Book Debra Searle?
Debra's story immediately captures an audience—but the real power of her keynote is how easily people can apply its lessons to their own challenges.
Alone on the Atlantic, Debra couldn't control the weather, the waves or many of the obstacles she encountered. She could control how she responded.
That distinction became central to her approach to resilience and performance.
Debra helps audiences understand how their mindset, language and daily choices can influence the way they navigate uncertainty, change and setbacks. Her keynote is inspiring without being simply motivational—it gives people practical ideas they can use long after the event.
What Makes Debra Searle Different?
- Extraordinary Atlantic rowing story — a powerful real-world example of resilience
- Authentic experience with adversity — lessons developed when quitting would have been understandable
- Practical mindset strategies — turns an incredible adventure into useful workplace lessons
- Change focused — highly relevant for organizations navigating uncertainty and disruption
- Personal accountability — emphasizes taking ownership of what you can control
- Engaging storyteller — combines vulnerability, humor and inspiration
- Business relevant — connects resilience directly to leadership and performance
- Broad audience appeal — resonates with leaders, sales teams and employees at every level
Why Is Debra Right for Your Audience?
Debra is an outstanding choice when you need your audience to build resilience, take greater ownership and maintain momentum when circumstances become difficult.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings, association conferences and organizations experiencing significant change.
Book Debra when your audience needs to:
- Build greater resilience during uncertainty
- Adapt positively when plans change
- Focus on what they can control
- Maintain motivation during difficult periods
- Take greater responsibility for their attitude
- Recover more quickly from setbacks
- Keep moving toward long-term goals
- Approach change with greater confidence
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how attitude influences their response to challenges
- Better able to separate what they can control from what they can't
- Equipped with practical strategies for maintaining resilience
- More aware of how internal dialogue influences performance
- Ready to take greater ownership of their response to change
- Better prepared to maintain momentum when progress feels difficult
- Inspired to make small choices that create meaningful results
Debra Searle Keynote Programs
Choose Your Attitude. You can't always choose what happens to you. You can choose how you respond.
Drawing from her extraordinary Atlantic journey, Debra demonstrates how consciously choosing your attitude can influence resilience, decision-making and performance.
She gives audiences practical strategies for managing their mindset when circumstances are difficult, uncertain or outside their control.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating uncertainty.
Resilience: Keep Moving Forward. How do you keep going when the destination feels impossibly far away?
Debra shares the strategies that helped her continue rowing day after day despite isolation, setbacks and constantly changing conditions.
She connects those lessons to the workplace, helping audiences understand how small actions, clear goals and the right mindset can create momentum during challenging periods.
Ideal for: Sales teams, high-performance organizations, leadership events and employee conferences.
Navigating Change. When the conditions change, the original plan may no longer be the right plan.
Debra uses lessons from the Atlantic to show audiences how to adapt when circumstances shift unexpectedly.
Rather than wasting energy fighting realities they can't change, people learn how to refocus on what they can influence and continue making progress.
Ideal for: Organizational transformation, leadership development and companies experiencing significant change.
Why Book Debra Searle Through The Sweeney Agency?
Debra Searle has an extraordinary story of resilience, courage and determination—but the real value comes from connecting those experiences directly to the challenges your audience is facing.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Debra Searle's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Debra Searle keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Debra with other leading resilience, change and motivational speakers
Is Debra Searle Right for Your Event?
Tell us the challenge, change or uncertainty your people are navigating.
We'll help you determine whether Debra is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, sales kickoff or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Debra Searle as your keynote speaker.
Ross Shafer
Emmy Award-Winning Network Talk Show Host, Best-selling Author, and Hilarious Change Expert
About
Ross Shafer: Emmy Award-Winning Host | Business Author | Speaker on Relevance, Leadership and Customer Experience
Why Book Ross Shafer?
Ross encourages teams to look closely at the interactions that shape their reputation. His presentations connect adaptability with practical choices about service, communication, and developing the confidence to lead.
Why Is Ross Shafer Right for Your Audience?
Ross is a strong fit for company conferences, leadership meetings, customer service events, and association gatherings. Consider him when an organization wants an engaging conversation about relevance and relationships.
Book Ross when your audience needs to:
- Review how customer expectations are changing
- Recognize friction in everyday interactions
- Bring fresh thinking into established routines
- Build confidence through manageable leadership actions
- Connect team culture with customer experience
- Strengthen rapport in professional conversations
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a customer interaction worth improving
- Ready to question a familiar workplace practice
- More aware of the relationship between relevance and adaptation
- Equipped with questions about leadership confidence
- Focused on a practical step toward stronger connection
Keynote Programs
How to Sustain a Relevant Culture
Ross examines adaptability, customer expectations, and the interactions that shape an organization. Ideal for leadership and service audiences.
How to Groom Confident Leaders
Ross explores developing leadership confidence through experience and action. Ideal for management and emerging leader programs.
Is Ross Shafer Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the customer expectations you need to meet and the leadership capabilities you want to strengthen. We can help select Ross’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Scott A. Snook
Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School and Speaker on Leadership Development
About
Scott Snook: Harvard Business School Executive Fellow | Retired U.S. Army Colonel | Speaker on Authentic Leadership and Leader Development
Why Book Scott Snook?
Scott uses cases, stories, and discussion to invite reflection. His presentations encourage audiences to question assumptions about motivation and leadership style, then connect those insights with the choices they make in their own teams.
Why Is Scott Snook Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for executive retreats, management conferences, leadership development programs, and senior team meetings. Consider him when an audience needs a thoughtful, interactive examination of its leadership approach.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Examine the values behind their leadership choices
- Question assumptions about motivating people
- Build greater self-awareness
- Consider different leadership approaches
- Connect personal development with team needs
- Reflect on the example they set for others
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an aspect of their leadership identity
- Ready to reconsider a management assumption
- More aware of the influence of leadership style
- Equipped with questions for continued development
- Focused on a behavior they want to practice
Keynote Programs
Authentic Leadership Development
Scott explores the personal development behind effective leadership. Ideal for executives and managers seeking a deeper examination of their approach.
A Tale of Two Coaches
Scott uses contrasting coaching cases to prompt discussion about motivation and leadership. Ideal for interactive leadership meetings and development programs.
Is Scott Snook Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership assumptions you want to examine and the capabilities your audience needs to develop. We can help select Scott’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Nina Sossamon-Pogue
USA Gymnast, Sought-after Motivational Speaker on Resilience & Change Management
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Nina Sossamon-Pogue: Former USA Gymnast | Emmy-Winning News Anchor and Former Technology Executive | Speaker on Resilience and Change
Why Book Nina Sossamon-Pogue?
Nina uses her THIS framework to help audiences think through challenges without allowing one setback to define the whole story. Her message is especially relevant to people who are accustomed to achieving and now need a more sustainable response to pressure.
Why Is Nina Sossamon-Pogue Right for Your Audience?
Nina is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales events, and change programs. Consider her when an audience needs encouragement and a practical way to approach an uncertain next chapter.
Book Nina when your audience needs to:
- Respond constructively to unexpected setbacks
- Put a difficult moment into perspective
- Build confidence during transitions
- Discuss pressure among high achievers
- Support colleagues through change
- Choose a useful next step
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how they frame a current challenge
- Introduced to the THIS framework
- Ready to recognize strengths developed through setbacks
- More aware of the strain of constant achievement
- Focused on a manageable action that moves them forward
Keynote Programs
You Got THIS
Nina explores confidence and perspective when facing difficult circumstances. Ideal for broad employee and change audiences.
Resilience for High Achievers
Nina examines the pressure to keep surpassing previous success and ways to approach achievement more sustainably. Ideal for leaders and performance-focused teams.
Is Nina Sossamon-Pogue Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes your people are navigating and the confidence you want to strengthen. We can help select Nina’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Dr. Paul G. Stoltz: Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Leadership & Adversity | Creator of the Adversity Quotient® | Bestselling Author
Turn Adversity Into Advantage. What separates the people and organizations that struggle with adversity from those that use it to become stronger?
Best known as the creator of the Adversity Quotient® (AQ®), Paul helps leaders and teams understand how they respond when circumstances become difficult—and how to strengthen their capacity to navigate uncertainty, overcome setbacks and continue performing when the pressure rises.
Why Book Dr. Paul G. Stoltz?
Paul doesn't simply tell audiences to be more resilient. He gives them a framework for understanding and improving how they respond to adversity.
His pioneering work on Adversity Quotient® explores why some people remain resourceful and determined when faced with challenges while others become overwhelmed or disengaged.
Paul translates decades of research into practical strategies leaders and employees can use to respond more effectively to disruption, strengthen resilience and turn difficult circumstances into opportunities for growth and performance.
What Makes Paul Stoltz Different?
- Creator of Adversity Quotient® — a distinctive framework for understanding responses to adversity
- Decades of research — extensive work focused on resilience, performance and human potential
- Bestselling author — recognized internationally for his work on adversity and resilience
- Practical and measurable — moves beyond motivational theory toward tools audiences can apply
- Leadership relevant — helps leaders strengthen both their own resilience and that of their teams
- Built for today's uncertainty — highly relevant during disruption, transformation and rapid change
- Business focused — connects resilience directly to performance, adaptability and results
Why Is Paul Right for Your Audience?
Paul is an excellent choice when you need your people to respond more effectively to adversity, remain productive through uncertainty and find a way forward when circumstances become difficult.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, corporate events, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating transformation, competitive pressure or significant disruption.
Book Paul when your audience needs to:
- Build greater resilience and adaptability
- Respond more effectively to adversity
- Maintain performance during uncertainty
- Recover more quickly from setbacks
- Take greater ownership of challenges
- Lead teams confidently through difficult circumstances
- Turn obstacles into opportunities for improvement
- Strengthen organizational capacity for change
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how their response to adversity influences performance
- Better equipped to recognize unproductive responses to difficult situations
- Able to apply practical strategies for strengthening resilience
- More prepared to maintain momentum when setbacks occur
- Ready to take greater ownership of what they can influence
- Better equipped to help teams navigate uncertainty
- Focused on turning adversity into productive action
Dr. Paul G. Stoltz Keynote Programs
Adversity Quotient®: Turning Adversity Into Advantage
You can't always control the adversity you face. You can strengthen how you respond to it.
Paul introduces audiences to the principles behind his groundbreaking Adversity Quotient® research and explores how responses to adversity can influence performance, resilience and results.
Audiences gain practical strategies for responding more effectively to setbacks, uncertainty and difficult circumstances—helping them turn adversity from an obstacle into a catalyst for growth.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating disruption.
GRIT: The New Science of What It Takes to Persevere, Flourish, Succeed
When talent and experience aren't enough, what keeps people moving toward difficult goals?
Paul explores the behaviors and mindset required to pursue challenging objectives when progress becomes difficult.
He gives audiences practical strategies for strengthening perseverance, adaptability and resilience while ensuring that effort remains focused on the goals that matter most.
Ideal for: Sales teams, leadership conferences, high-performance organizations and groups pursuing ambitious goals.
Leading Through Adversity and Change
People don't need leaders only when things are going well. Leadership matters most when circumstances become difficult.
Paul helps leaders understand how their response to adversity influences the people around them.
Audiences learn strategies for maintaining perspective, strengthening resilience and helping teams stay focused, resourceful and productive during uncertainty and organizational change.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, transformation initiatives and organizations experiencing significant change.
Why Book Dr. Paul G. Stoltz Through The Sweeney Agency?
Paul Stoltz's Adversity Quotient® methodology and decades of research give organizations a distinctive approach to resilience—but the real value comes from connecting those insights directly to the adversity, change or performance challenge your people are facing.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Dr. Paul G. Stoltz's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Paul Stoltz keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Paul with other leading resilience, change and leadership speakers
Is Paul Stoltz Right for Your Event?
Tell us the adversity, change or performance challenge your audience is facing.
We'll help you determine whether Paul is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, sales kickoff or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Dr. Paul G. Stoltz as your keynote speaker.
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Nick Tasler: Organizational Psychologist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Change and Decision-Making
Why Book Nick Tasler?
Nick makes change feel manageable. He gives audiences practical ways to challenge old assumptions, get curious about new possibilities, and turn a broad goal into the next useful decision.
Why Is Nick Tasler Right for Your Audience?
Nick is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, strategy sessions, and company events during periods of growth or change. He is especially valuable when teams need to move beyond uncertainty, align around priorities, and make progress together.
Book Nick when your audience needs to:
- Respond to change with curiosity and confidence
- Make decisions without getting stuck in analysis
- Recognize when past success is limiting future growth
- Turn a strategy into consistent daily action
- Get clearer about priorities and direction
- Build momentum during uncertainty
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to identify the assumptions shaping their choices
- Equipped to approach change as an opportunity to learn
- Clearer on how individual decisions support a larger strategy
- Ready to question practices that no longer serve their goals
- Focused on a practical next step they can take with their team
Keynote Programs
Your Year of Wonders
Nick’s signature keynote invites audiences to replace the instinct to resist change with curiosity. Based on his book of the same name, it helps people see how a different response to uncertainty can open the door to growth. Ideal for organizations navigating change or setting a new direction.
One Decision at a Time
Nick addresses the gap between strategy and execution. He gives leaders and teams a repeatable way to make the choices that move a plan forward, even when the full path is not yet clear. Ideal for leadership meetings and teams focused on follow-through.
Ping Pong Paradox
The habits that brought success can become obstacles to the next stage of growth. Nick helps audiences spot when a familiar approach is holding them back and consider what needs to change. Ideal for established organizations adapting to new demands.
Winning with Agile Optimism
Nick explores how people can move through worry and find a productive response to uncertainty. His agile optimism framework helps audiences look for possibilities while doing the work needed to make progress. Ideal for teams facing disruption or ambitious goals.
Is Nick Tasler Right for Your Event?
Tell us what is changing for your organization, which decisions your audience faces, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We can help select Nick’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
James Taylor
Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Author, Inspiring Keynote Speaker on a Global Mission to Unlock Creativity, Increase Productivity, and Accelerate Innovation
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James Taylor; Keynote Speaker on Creativity, Innovation & AI | Author of SuperCreativity | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts | Global Innovation Expert
James Taylor is an internationally recognized keynote speaker on creativity, innovation, artificial intelligence and human-AI collaboration.
For more than 20 years, James has helped leaders and organizations understand how technology is changing the way we work, create and compete. His message is optimistic and practical: AI doesn't diminish the importance of human creativity—it makes creativity an even greater competitive advantage.
Through highly visual, engaging and customized presentations, James shows audiences how to combine uniquely human capabilities with the extraordinary power of artificial intelligence.
Why Book James Taylor?
James helps answer one of the biggest questions facing organizations today:
How do we capture the benefits of AI without losing the human creativity, collaboration and judgment that drive breakthrough performance?
His perspective comes from an unusual background. James began his career managing high-profile rock stars and creative talent before becoming an internationally recognized authority on creativity, innovation and AI.
He has since interviewed more than 750 of the world's leading creative minds and delivered over 3,000 events around the world.
The result is a keynote that combines inspiration, emerging technology and practical strategies audiences can immediately apply.
What Makes James Taylor Different?
- Creativity + AI expertise — connects human ingenuity with artificial intelligence
- 3,000+ events delivered — extensive experience with corporate and association audiences
- Global perspective — has presented across more than 50 countries
- 750+ creative leaders interviewed — draws insights from innovators, entrepreneurs and AI pioneers
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts — recognized for his contribution to creativity and innovation
- Author of SuperCreativity — explores augmenting human creativity with artificial intelligence
- Former music-industry leader — brings an unusual perspective from working with highly creative performers
- Highly customized — builds presentations around the audience, industry and event objectives
- Practical frameworks — gives audiences tools for turning ideas into action
Why Is James Right for Your Audience?
James is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand AI without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the uniquely human capabilities that will matter even more in the future.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI events, innovation summits, association meetings and organizations navigating digital transformation.
Book James when your audience needs to:
- Understand how AI is changing work and business
- Develop greater creativity across the organization
- Build effective human-AI collaboration
- Generate and implement better ideas
- Become more comfortable with technological disruption
- Strengthen collaboration across teams
- Lead people confidently through change
- Turn innovation into competitive advantage
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding why creativity becomes more valuable as AI advances
- Better prepared to work alongside artificial intelligence
- Equipped with practical tools for generating stronger ideas
- Understanding how human-AI collaboration can improve performance
- More confident navigating technological change
- Better prepared to create cultures that encourage innovation
- Recognizing the importance of communication and persuasion
- Inspired to turn ideas into action
James Taylor Keynote Programs
SuperCreativity™: Accelerating Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. When AI can generate ideas in seconds, where does human creativity create competitive advantage?
James explores how organizations can combine the imagination, empathy and original thinking of humans with the extraordinary processing capabilities of artificial intelligence.
Drawing from his research with hundreds of leading creative thinkers, he shows audiences how to develop their creative capacity and use AI as a partner in the innovation process.
The goal isn't simply to become more comfortable with AI. It's to use AI to amplify what humans do best.
Ideal for: Innovation summits, AI conferences, leadership meetings and organizations navigating technological disruption.
SuperCollaboration™: The Rise of Human-AI Collaboration. The future isn't humans versus machines. It's humans working more effectively with machines.
James explores how AI, digital twins, robotics and intelligent technologies are transforming the workplace.
He shows audiences how high-performing organizations are combining human judgment, creativity and collaboration with the capabilities of intelligent machines.
The result is a practical roadmap for building teams that are more innovative, adaptive and future-ready.
Ideal for: AI conferences, future-of-work events, executive meetings and organizations accelerating AI adoption.
SuperCommunication™: How the World's Best Leaders Inspire, Influence and Drive Action In a world where AI can generate unlimited information, the ability to inspire people to act becomes even more valuable.
James explores the communication principles used by highly effective leaders to turn ideas into action.
Audiences discover how to communicate ideas more clearly, build support for change and persuade others to move from understanding an idea to actually doing something about it.
Because innovation isn't just about having great ideas.
It's about getting people to believe in them.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings, sales events and organizations navigating transformation.
Why Book James Taylor Through The Sweeney Agency?
James Taylor combines creativity, innovation, AI and highly engaging storytelling to help audiences understand how human potential can be amplified rather than diminished by technology.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm James Taylor's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which James Taylor keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare James with other leading AI, innovation and future-of-work keynote speakers
Is James Taylor Right for Your Event?
Tell us how AI, innovation or technological change is affecting your organization—and what you need your people to do differently.
We'll help you determine whether James is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an AI conference, innovation summit, leadership meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking James Taylor as your keynote speaker.
Sebastian Terry
Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Best Selling Author, TV Host, & Founder of the 100things Movement
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Sebastian Terry: Keynote Speaker on Purpose, Leadership & Human Connection | Founder of 100 Things | Author | Inspirational Adventurer
Turn Purpose Into Action. What happens when people stop simply going through the motions and start pursuing what truly matters?
Best known for his journey to complete a list of 100 Things he wanted to achieve in his lifetime, Sebastian transformed a personal challenge into a global movement. His experiences reveal powerful lessons about setting meaningful goals, overcoming fear, helping others and creating cultures where people feel inspired to take action.
Why Book Sebastian Terry?
Sebastian doesn't just talk about living with purpose. He built his life around it.
What began as a list of 100 personal goals became an extraordinary journey filled with adventure, setbacks, human connection and unexpected opportunities to help others achieve their own dreams.
Sebastian brings those lessons into the workplace, challenging audiences to think differently about purpose, goals, connection and what motivates people to perform at their best.
His keynote is inspiring, entertaining and highly interactive—leaving audiences not only motivated but asking an important question: What's on my list?
What Makes Sebastian Terry Different?
- Creator of 100 Things — transformed a personal bucket list into a global movement
- Extraordinary storytelling — memorable stories of adventure, risk and human connection
- Purpose-driven message — helps people reconnect with what genuinely matters
- Highly interactive — creates an experience rather than simply delivering a speech
- Universal appeal — resonates across roles, generations and industries
- Workplace relevance — connects personal purpose with engagement, culture and performance
- Action oriented — inspires audiences to turn intentions into meaningful goals
- Feel-good impact — creates energy and connection that can continue long after the event
Why Is Sebastian Right for Your Audience?
Sebastian is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to reconnect with purpose, think bigger and take meaningful action.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences, employee events and organizations focused on culture and engagement.
Book Sebastian when your audience needs to:
- Reconnect with what motivates them
- Turn meaningful goals into action
- Think beyond perceived limitations
- Build stronger human connections
- Increase engagement and personal ownership
- Create a greater sense of purpose at work
- Support and inspire the people around them
- Bring renewed energy to their personal and professional goals
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Thinking more intentionally about what matters most
- Inspired to identify meaningful personal and professional goals
- More willing to take action despite fear or uncertainty
- Understanding the importance of helping others succeed
- Better connected with colleagues and teammates
- Energized about what's possible
- Ready to turn ideas and intentions into action
Sebastian Terry Keynote Programs
100 Things: What's on Your List?
If you knew your time was limited, what would you do differently?
Sebastian shares the remarkable story behind his journey to complete 100 goals and the lessons he discovered along the way.
Through entertaining stories and powerful insights, he challenges audiences to identify what genuinely matters, overcome the fears that keep them stuck and begin taking meaningful action.
Ideal for: Corporate conferences, association meetings, employee events and organizations looking for an inspirational closing or opening keynote.
Purpose at Work: People perform differently when they feel connected to something that matters.
Sebastian explores how personal purpose, meaningful goals and human connection can influence engagement and performance.
He challenges organizations to create environments where people feel seen, supported and encouraged to pursue goals that matter—both professionally and personally.
Ideal for: Leadership, culture, employee engagement and workplace wellbeing events.
Building Cultures of Connection: What happens when people stop focusing only on their own goals and start helping others achieve theirs?
Sebastian shares lessons from the 100 Things journey to demonstrate the extraordinary impact people can have when they support one another.
Audiences discover how greater empathy, connection and generosity can strengthen relationships, teamwork and organizational culture.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, team events, culture initiatives and organizations focused on collaboration.
Why Book Sebastian Terry Through The Sweeney Agency?
Sebastian Terry delivers much more than an inspirational story. The real opportunity is connecting his message about purpose, goals and human connection to what you want your audience to think, feel and do differently.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Sebastian Terry's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Sebastian Terry keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Sebastian with other leading motivational, purpose and workplace-culture speakers
Is Sebastian Terry Right for Your Event?
Tell us what you want your audience to think differently about—or what you want to inspire them to do next.
We'll help you determine whether Sebastian is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a corporate conference, leadership meeting or sales kickoff? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Sebastian Terry as your keynote speaker.
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Mark Thompson: Executive Coach | Former Charles Schwab Executive and Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership, Innovation and Engagement
Why Book Mark Thompson?
Mark examines the leadership choices behind innovation, customer relationships, and team commitment. His presentations encourage audiences to consider how daily management practices can support the changes they want to achieve.
Why Is Mark Thompson Right for Your Audience?
Mark is a strong fit for executive retreats, leadership conferences, sales meetings, and transformation events. Consider him when leaders need to align growth ambitions with culture and execution.
Book Mark when your audience needs to:
- Connect leadership behavior with strategic goals
- Encourage initiative during transformation
- Strengthen customer and employee relationships
- Review incentives that shape innovation
- Build commitment across the leadership team
- Turn growth priorities into clearer action
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a leadership practice they need to change
- Ready to examine barriers to employee initiative
- More aware of the connection between engagement and experience
- Equipped with questions about innovation culture
- Focused on a step toward more consistent execution
Keynote Programs
Business Transformation
Mark explores how leaders can support change and build a culture that encourages innovation. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.
Most Admired Leadership
Mark examines the teamwork and leadership practices behind sustained organizational success. Ideal for management conferences and leadership retreats.
Is Mark Thompson Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the growth priorities your leaders share and the behaviors needed to support them. We can help select Mark’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Waldo Waldman
Former Fighter Pilot, Hall of Fame Speaker on Leadership, Sales, Teamwork and Change.
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Margie Warrell
Global Thought Leader in Human Potential and Brave Leadership
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Margie Warrell: Author and Leadership Adviser | Speaker on Courage, Confidence and Leading Change
Why Book Margie Warrell?
Margie invites audiences to examine the conversations they avoid, the opportunities they hesitate to pursue, and the values they want to act on. Her message gives leaders a way to discuss courage as a daily practice rather than a rare dramatic moment.
Why Is Margie Warrell Right for Your Audience?
Margie is a strong fit for leadership conferences, women’s events, company meetings, and change programs. Consider her when capable people need to speak more candidly or take a necessary step beyond familiar territory.
Book Margie when your audience needs to:
- Speak up about important concerns
- Act on values despite discomfort
- Build confidence during transitions
- Recognize the cost of avoiding difficult conversations
- Encourage thoughtful risk-taking
- Support greater candor within a team
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a situation that calls for courage
- Ready to examine a fear behind hesitation
- More aware of how leaders influence candor
- Equipped with questions about personal values
- Focused on a brave and practical next step
Keynote Programs
Options include Lead Bravely and a tailored presentation on confidence through change:
Lead Bravely
Margie explores the courage required to lead through complexity and act with conviction. Ideal for executives, managers, and emerging leaders.
Confidence and Courage Through Change
Margie can shape a presentation around the decisions and transitions facing your audience. Ideal for company meetings and professional development events.
Is Margie Warrell Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to have and the courageous action you want to encourage. We can help select Margie’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Liz Wiseman
Leadership Speaker, Best-selling Author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
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Liz Wiseman: Leadership Researcher | Bestselling Author of Multipliers and Impact Players | Speaker on Leadership and Team Performance
Why Book Liz Wiseman?
Her two signature programs address both sides of team performance: how managers bring out others’ capabilities and how individuals make a more valuable contribution. Liz gives audiences language to discuss these challenges and practices they can apply in meetings, decisions, and everyday work.
Why Is Liz Wiseman Right for Your Audience?
Liz is a strong fit for leadership conferences, executive retreats, manager development programs, and company events. She is especially relevant when an organization has capable people but wants more ownership, better use of expertise, and stronger contributions across the team.
Book Liz when your audience needs to:
- Make better use of the talent already in the organization
- Recognize leadership habits that discourage initiative
- Give people room to think and solve problems
- Strengthen ownership without constant intervention
- Focus effort on work that matters most
- Develop a shared approach to leadership and contribution
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Better able to recognize when their leadership helps or holds others back
- Equipped to apply the five Multiplier disciplines
- Clearer on the five practices of Impact Players
- Ready to approach unfamiliar challenges as opportunities to contribute
- Prepared to make a specific change in how they lead or work
Keynote Programs
Multipliers: Are Your Leaders Geniuses or Genius Makers?
Liz explores how leaders can draw out the capabilities of their teams. Participants learn the five Multiplier disciplines, recognize ways they may unintentionally diminish others, and consider how to respond to diminishing leadership. Ideal for executives, managers, and emerging leaders.
Impact Players: Are Your People Contributing to Their Fullest?
Liz examines the mindsets and practices of people who make an exceptional contribution. Audiences learn how to respond to uncertainty, take initiative, and deliver work that creates value. Ideal for company gatherings, professional development programs, and teams seeking greater ownership and impact.
Is Liz Wiseman Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership or performance challenges it faces, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help choose between Liz’s leadership and contribution programs, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Cassandra Worthy: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Transformation | Founder of Change Enthusiasm® | Bestselling Author
Turn Change Into Your Competitive Advantage
What if your people didn't just cope with change—but learned how to use it as fuel for growth?
Cassandra Worthy is a bestselling author, leadership expert and highly engaging keynote speaker on change, transformation, resilience and workplace culture.
Why Book Cassandra Worthy?
Cassandra tackles one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: change fatigue.
Most people understand that change is necessary. The challenge is getting them to embrace it rather than resist it.
Cassandra gives audiences a practical framework for recognizing the emotions that surface during disruption and turning those emotions into productive action. Rather than simply telling people to “embrace change,” she shows them how to do it.
Her keynotes are energetic, interactive and highly actionable—making Cassandra an excellent choice when you want people to leave the room thinking differently, feeling energized and ready to move forward.
What Makes Cassandra Worthy Different?
- Creator of Change Enthusiasm® — a distinctive methodology for navigating change
- Real-world corporate experience — understands transformation from inside major organizations
- High-energy delivery — dynamic, engaging and memorable on stage
- Emotion meets action — helps people understand their response to change and do something productive with it
- Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can apply right away
- Relevant at every level — connects with executives, managers and employees
- Customizable — Cassandra can align her message with your organization's specific transformation or change initiative
Why Is Cassandra Right for Your Audience?
Cassandra is an outstanding choice when your organization needs people to move beyond change resistance and actively participate in what's next.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences and organizations undergoing transformation, restructuring, rapid growth or cultural change.
Book Cassandra when your audience needs to:
- Embrace rather than resist organizational change
- Navigate uncertainty with greater confidence
- Turn change fatigue into forward momentum
- Build greater resilience and adaptability
- Take ownership of their response to disruption
- Lead teams more effectively through transformation
- Strengthen engagement during periods of uncertainty
- See opportunity where they previously saw disruption
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding why change triggers powerful emotional responses
- Able to recognize the signals that influence their reactions to disruption
- Equipped with practical tools for navigating uncertainty
- Better prepared to turn difficult emotions into productive action
- More resilient and adaptable when circumstances change
- Ready to take greater ownership of their response to transformation
- Energized about their ability to influence what happens next
Cassandra Worthy Keynote Programs
Change Enthusiasm®: Harness the Power of Emotion to Fuel Transformation: What if the emotions people experience during change could become fuel for moving forward?
Cassandra introduces audiences to her signature Change Enthusiasm® methodology, showing them how to recognize the emotions associated with disruption and consciously use those signals to make better choices.
Instead of treating difficult emotions as something to suppress, audiences learn how to use them as information—and transform uncertainty into growth, resilience and action.
Ideal for: Organizational transformation, leadership conferences, corporate meetings and organizations experiencing significant change.
Leading Through Change: Successful transformation requires more than a new strategy. It requires leaders who understand how people actually experience change.
Cassandra helps leaders recognize the emotional side of transformation and gives them practical strategies for guiding teams through uncertainty.
Leaders learn how to create greater trust, maintain engagement and help their people move from resistance toward ownership and action.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, management conferences and transformation initiatives.
Building a Change-Ready Culture: Change isn't an occasional event anymore. It's an everyday reality.
Cassandra challenges organizations to move beyond simply managing individual change initiatives and instead build cultures where adaptability becomes a competitive advantage.
Audiences learn how to develop the mindset, behaviors and emotional awareness required to respond more effectively when disruption arrives.
Ideal for: Culture, innovation, transformation and future-of-work events.
Why Book Cassandra Worthy Through The Sweeney Agency?
Cassandra Worthy's energy and Change Enthusiasm® methodology make her a compelling choice for organizations experiencing transformation—but the real value comes from matching her message to the specific change your audience is being asked to navigate.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Cassandra Worthy's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Cassandra Worthy keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's change initiative
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Cassandra with other leading change, leadership and motivational speakers
Is Cassandra Worthy Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your organization—and how you want your people to respond.
We'll help you determine whether Cassandra is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Garrison Wynn: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Change & Influence | Bestselling Author | Business Performance Expert
Influence People. Navigate Change. Get Better Results.
Garrison Wynn is a bestselling author, business expert and highly entertaining keynote speaker on leadership, change, influence and workplace performance.
Combining research, real-world business experience and humor, Garrison helps audiences understand what makes people listen, trust and cooperate. His practical approach gives leaders and employees strategies for communicating more effectively, navigating change and getting results—even when they don't have complete control over the people or circumstances around them.
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.
Joel Zeff
Humorist, Author, and Dynamic Speaker on Teamwork, Change, and Leadership
About
Joel Zeff: Improvisational Performer | Author of Make the Right Choice | Speaker on Teamwork, Communication and Change
Why Book Joel Zeff?
Joel’s approach makes participation part of the message. Audiences see how listening, flexibility, and encouragement influence a shared task, then connect those experiences with the way they collaborate at work.
Why Is Joel Zeff Right for Your Audience?
Joel is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales events, and team gatherings. Consider him when you want an energetic, participatory presentation that gives people a shared experience of collaboration.
Book Joel when your audience needs to:
- Listen and respond more attentively
- Offer positive support to teammates
- Stay flexible when circumstances change
- Recognize the choices behind communication
- Encourage participation within a group
- Bring more constructive energy to work
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A memorable experience of working together
- More aware of how support affects participation
- Ready to improve a communication choice
- Encouraged to respond more flexibly to change
- Focused on an action that helps a colleague succeed
Keynote Programs
Joel’s interactive presentations can be shaped around the following areas:
Teamwork and Positive Support
Joel uses improvisation to explore communication, encouragement, and shared success. Ideal for broad employee and team audiences.
Leading Through Change
Joel connects flexibility and positive support with the choices leaders make during uncertainty. Ideal for management and change events.
Is Joel Zeff Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the collaboration you want to strengthen and the level of audience participation you have in mind. We can help select Joel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Scott Zimmer
Speaker, Writer, and Market Researcher on Generational Differences in the Workplace
About
Scott Zimmer: Generational Speaker and Market Researcher | Speaker on Communication, Collaboration and Workplace Change
Why Book Scott Zimmer?
Scott also emphasizes the shared values that make connection possible. His presentations encourage teams to replace assumptions with conversation and consider how leaders can introduce new ways of working while maintaining trust.
Why Is Scott Zimmer Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for leadership conferences, HR meetings, company events, and communication programs. Consider him when teams need to navigate differences in perspective or the human response to new technology.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Improve communication across age groups
- Question assumptions about colleagues
- Recognize shared values within a diverse team
- Discuss reactions to workplace technology
- Build trust during organizational change
- Encourage collaboration across different experiences
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a generational assumption worth revisiting
- Ready to ask colleagues more useful questions
- More aware of shared priorities across age groups
- Equipped with ideas for communicating during change
- Focused on a practice that improves connection within the team
Keynote Programs
Options include AI Across Generations and a tailored presentation on generational communication:
AI Across Generations
Scott examines the human response to AI and ways leaders can support trust and adaptability. Ideal for leadership, HR, and change audiences.
Communication Across Generations
Scott explores differences and common ground in a multigenerational workplace. Ideal for company meetings and team development events.
Is Scott Zimmer Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the communication challenges your teams face and the workplace changes you want people to navigate together. We can help select Scott’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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