Culture at the Workplace
Our Workplace & Organizational Culture speakers are experts at helping leaders build cohesive teams that adapt and thrive through change in 2026.
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Shawn Achor: Keynote Speaker on Happiness, Positive Psychology & Human Potential | Bestselling Author | Harvard-Trained Researcher
What if one of the biggest opportunities to improve performance, engagement and resilience is changing the way people think about happiness?
Shawn Achor is a bestselling author and internationally recognized keynote speaker on happiness, positive psychology, leadership and human potential.
Known for bringing positive psychology research to life with humor, memorable stories and practical strategies, Shawn challenges the traditional belief that we have to become successful before we can be happy. Instead, he shows audiences how cultivating a more positive mindset can help people improve performance, strengthen resilience and bring greater energy to their work.
Why Book Shawn Achor?
Shawn takes a topic everyone understands—happiness—and connects it directly to the challenges organizations care about: performance, engagement, resilience, leadership and change.
His approach isn't simply about encouraging people to “think positively.” Shawn translates research in positive psychology into practical behaviors people can incorporate into their everyday lives.
The result is a keynote that is funny, thought-provoking and highly actionable—giving audiences a fresh perspective on how they approach work, relationships, challenges and success.
What Makes Shawn Achor Different?
- Leading voice in positive psychology — helped bring the science of happiness into the business world
- Bestselling author — known for books including The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential
- Research-based message — connects positive psychology with workplace performance
- Exceptionally entertaining — combines research with humor and memorable storytelling
- Immediately actionable — practical habits audiences can begin using right away
- Broad audience appeal — relevant to leaders, sales teams and employees across an organization
- Positive and energizing — leaves audiences thinking differently about success and their own potential
Why Is Shawn Right for Your Audience?
Shawn is an excellent choice when you want your audience to leave energized, optimistic and equipped with practical strategies for improving their performance and wellbeing.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences, employee events and organizations focused on engagement, resilience and workplace culture.
Book Shawn when your audience needs to:
- Increase engagement and motivation
- Build greater resilience during challenging periods
- Improve performance without simply increasing pressure
- Create more positive and productive workplace relationships
- Strengthen optimism during uncertainty and change
- Improve collaboration and social connection
- Develop practical habits that support wellbeing
- Recognize how individual behavior can influence team performance
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding the relationship between mindset, happiness and performance
- Equipped with practical positive-psychology strategies they can use immediately
- Better prepared to maintain optimism during challenges
- More aware of how their behavior influences colleagues and teams
- Ready to strengthen relationships and social connection
- Motivated to create habits that support sustainable performance
- Inspired to rethink the traditional relationship between happiness and success
Shawn Achor Keynote Programs
The Happiness Advantage: What if happiness doesn't follow success—but actually helps create it?
Shawn challenges the conventional formula that says we'll be happy once we become more successful.
Drawing on positive psychology research, he shows audiences how developing a more positive mindset can influence motivation, creativity, resilience and performance.
Audiences leave with practical strategies for creating positive habits and bringing greater energy and optimism to both work and life.
Ideal for: Corporate conferences, leadership events, sales kickoffs, employee meetings and workplace wellbeing programs.
Big Potential: Our greatest potential isn't achieved alone. It's influenced by the people around us.
Shawn explores how individuals and organizations can move beyond focusing exclusively on individual achievement and instead create environments where people help one another perform at a higher level.
He demonstrates how stronger relationships, collaboration and positive influence can help teams unlock greater collective potential.
Ideal for: Leadership, teamwork, culture, collaboration and employee-engagement events.
Positive Leadership Through Change: During uncertainty, a leader's mindset doesn't affect only the leader—it can influence the entire team.
Shawn shows leaders how optimism, connection and positive behaviors can help teams remain engaged and resilient when circumstances are difficult or changing.
Audiences gain practical strategies for creating environments where people can continue learning, collaborating and performing despite uncertainty.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating change.
Why Book Shawn Achor Through The Sweeney Agency?
Shawn Achor's combination of research, humor and practical positive psychology makes him an engaging choice for a wide range of audiences—but the real value comes from connecting his message directly to what you want your people to think, feel and do differently.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Shawn Achor's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Shawn Achor keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Shawn with other leading motivational, leadership and workplace-culture speakers
Is Shawn Achor Right for Your Event?
Tell us what you want to improve—performance, engagement, resilience, leadership or workplace culture.
We'll help you determine whether Shawn 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 Shawn Achor as your keynote speaker.
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David Allen: Creator of Getting Things Done® | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Productivity, Focus and Managing Commitments
Why Book David Allen?
His approach gives people a practical way to reduce mental clutter and make clearer decisions about what to do next. Drawing on decades of developing and teaching GTD®, David connects everyday habits with the space people need for focused work, creative thinking and a greater sense of control.
Why Is David Allen Right for Your Audience?
David is a strong fit for leadership meetings, professional development events, association conferences and company gatherings. He is particularly relevant when people are juggling multiple projects, responding to constant incoming requests or struggling to keep track of everything they have agreed to do.
Book David when your audience needs to:
- Manage competing commitments with greater clarity
- Turn vague tasks into specific next actions
- Build a reliable system for tracking work
- Reduce the distraction of unfinished obligations
- Review projects and priorities more consistently
- Create more room for focused and creative thinking
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Familiar with the five GTD® steps: capture, clarify, organize, reflect and engage
- Better able to define the next action on a project
- Ready to move reminders out of their heads and into a trusted system
- Clearer on why regular review supports effective decisions
- Equipped with practical habits they can begin applying at work and at home
Keynote Programs
Getting Things Done®
David introduces the principles behind his approach to productivity, explaining how people can organize commitments and choose their next actions with greater confidence. Ideal for audiences seeking practical ways to handle demanding workloads and maintain focus.
The presentation can provide a starting point for audiences new to GTD® or a deeper discussion of its principles for those familiar with the method. Tell us whether your priority is managing incoming work, clarifying projects or strengthening review habits so we can discuss the most relevant focus for your event.
Is David Allen Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the demands on its attention and the working habits you want people to improve. We can help discuss the presentation’s focus and format, and confirm David’s availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Lior Arussy
Leading Global Expert on Customer Experience & Customer-Centric Transformation
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Lior Arussy: Customer Experience Strategist | Founder of Strativity Group | Speaker on Change and Employee Engagement
Make Change Matter to Customers and Employees
Lior Arussy helps leaders close that gap. As the founder of Strativity Group, he connects customer strategy to the actions employees take and the value customers experience. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Lior Arussy?
Lior brings a practitioner’s view of change. He has worked with organizations on customer experience and employee engagement, and he shows audiences why a new strategy succeeds only when people can make it real in their work.
His keynotes challenge leaders to look beyond slogans and technology investments. Lior focuses on what customers value and how employees can deliver it consistently.
What Makes Lior Different?
- Experience helping organizations change customer and employee experiences
- A direct connection between culture, execution, and business results
- A human perspective on how AI is changing customer expectations
- Ideas that speak to leaders and customer-facing teams
- An emphasis on making change visible in everyday behaviour
Why Is Lior Right for Your Audience?
Lior is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, sales and service meetings, and organizations working through transformation. He is particularly relevant when a team has an ambitious customer strategy but needs greater commitment and consistency across the organization.
Book Lior when your audience needs to:
- Build more valuable, lasting customer relationships
- Connect employee engagement to customer experience
- Respond to changing expectations in the AI era
- Turn a customer strategy into daily decisions and actions
- Strengthen adaptability during ongoing change
- Create a culture that supports exceptional performance
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer about what makes a customer experience valuable
- Ready to identify gaps between their promise and their delivery
- Better able to involve employees in making change work
- Equipped to examine where digital tools help or hinder human connection
- Motivated to take ownership of the experience they create
Keynote Programs
The One and Only: The Gen AI-Empowered Customer
Lior explores how generative AI is changing customer expectations and the ways people engage with brands. He asks organizations to reconsider how they create relevant value for customers who expect more individual attention and choice.
Customer Experience as an Engine for Growth
Lior examines how organizations can make customer relationships a source of lasting business value. Drawing on successes and setbacks from real organizations, he connects customer strategy to execution and growth.
Change Resilience: The New Core Competence
Lior focuses on the human side of transformation and how organizations can become more capable of adapting as change continues. Ideal for teams facing a major strategic shift or repeated disruption. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us about the gap between your organization’s customer promise and what people experience. We’ll help you assess which of Lior’s programs fits your event, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.
Is Lior Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change you are trying to make, and the customer or employee outcome you want. We’ll help you assess Lior’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Mariana Atencio
Peabody Award-winning Journalist, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, Inspiring Storyteller, and Host/Moderator
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Mariana Atencio: Peabody Award-Winning Journalist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Trust, Authenticity and Communication
Build Trust by Showing Up as Yourself
Mariana Atencio brings a journalist’s instinct for finding the human story to that question. The author of Perfectly You helps leaders and teams communicate with greater authenticity, build trust, and recognize the strength in what makes each person different. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Mariana Atencio?
Mariana combines the energy of a compelling storyteller with experience reporting, interviewing, and speaking to diverse audiences. She connects her own journey with challenges people face at work: finding their voice, communicating through uncertainty, and building relationships across differences.
Her keynotes give audiences practical ways to communicate with clarity and empathy. For leaders, that can help create the trust people need to collaborate and contribute their best work.
What Makes Mariana Different?
- A journalist’s experience telling stories that connect people
- A personal message about authenticity grounded in her own journey
- Practical communication lessons for leaders and teams
- An interactive, energetic style that invites audience reflection
- Versatility as a keynote speaker, host, and moderator
Why Is Mariana Right for Your Audience?
Mariana is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, women’s programs, and organizations working to strengthen communication or culture. She is especially valuable when an audience needs both an inspiring story and a reason to examine how it builds trust day to day.
Book Mariana when your audience needs to:
- Communicate more credibly during uncertainty
- Build trust across teams and with customers
- Lead with authenticity and empathy
- Value individual differences as a source of strength
- Speak up with greater confidence
- Strengthen connection and belonging at work
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More aware of how authenticity affects trust
- Ready to communicate with greater clarity and empathy
- Better able to recognize and use their own strengths
- More confident sharing ideas and stories that matter
- Motivated to create stronger connections with colleagues
Keynote Programs
Real Matters: Building Trust in an Unreal World
Mariana explores why genuine communication matters when employees and customers are surrounded by polished narratives and AI-generated messages. She gives leaders ways to build credibility, strengthen connection, and guide teams through uncertainty.
Perfectly You: Leveraging the Power Within
Drawing on her book and personal story, Mariana shows audiences how embracing what makes them different can strengthen confidence, resilience, and purpose. Ideal for employee events and women’s leadership programs.
Communicating Confidently: Cut Through the Noise and Get Heard
In this interactive keynote or breakout, Mariana shares techniques for distilling a message, speaking with confidence, and connecting across in-person and digital settings. Ideal for leaders and client-facing teams. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us whether your audience most needs to build trust, find its voice, or communicate more effectively. We’ll help you choose the right program, discuss customization, and confirm Mariana’s availability and current fee.
Is Mariana Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, where trust or communication needs to improve, and what you want people to do differently. We’ll help you assess Mariana’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
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Sarah Aviram: Change and Motivation Speaker | Former Fortune 500 HR Leader | Author of Remotivation
Help People Find Momentum During Change
Sarah Aviram helps leaders and teams find that momentum. Drawing on her HR leadership experience and her time working across 12 countries in 12 months, she shows audiences how to reconnect with what drives them and take ownership of their next steps. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Sarah Aviram?
Sarah addresses a challenge leaders recognize: people may understand a change and still struggle to commit to it. Her Remotivation Method focuses on the internal drivers behind engagement, helping audiences identify what motivates them and what they can do when circumstances are uncertain.
Her sessions combine relatable stories with reflection and practical exercises. Audiences leave with a way to discuss motivation more openly and take useful action.
What Makes Sarah Different?
- Experience leading HR and talent development work in large organizations
- A practical framework focused on the drivers of motivation
- A personal story shaped by working across 12 countries in one year
- Interactive sessions that help attendees apply ideas during the event
- A message that speaks to leaders and individual contributors alike
Why Is Sarah Right for Your Audience?
Sarah is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee meetings, HR events, and organizations navigating restructuring, new technology, or shifting ways of working. She is especially relevant when people feel change happening around them and need to see where they still have agency.
Book Sarah when your audience needs to:
- Rebuild motivation during uncertainty
- Take greater ownership of choices and actions
- Help teams move from hesitation to commitment
- Understand what drives engagement and fulfillment
- Lead change with more empathy and clarity
- Create momentum without waiting for circumstances to settle
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the factors that motivate them at work
- Able to recognize where they have influence during change
- Equipped to use Sarah’s six-driver Remotivation Method
- Ready to take a practical step toward renewed momentum
- Better prepared to support colleagues through transitions
Keynote Programs
Get Remotivated: Navigate Change from the Inside Out
Sarah shows audiences how to activate personal agency and reconnect with the internal drivers that support commitment and performance. Ideal for teams facing transformation, disruption, or a demanding new chapter. Available as an interactive keynote or virtual presentation.
Get Remotivated: Team Activation Workshop
This hands-on follow-up gives teams time to apply the keynote’s ideas to their own challenges through exercises and discussion. Ideal for groups that want to turn insight into shared actions. Sarah Aviram
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us what changes your people are experiencing and what you want them to do afterward. We’ll help you assess whether Sarah’s approach fits, choose the right format, and confirm her availability and current fee.
Is Sarah Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change it is facing, and where motivation or engagement needs support. We’ll help you assess Sarah’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Chris Bashinelli
National Geographic Explorer & TV Host, United Nations Moderator, Actor from The Sopranos (HBO), Expert on Human Connection & Happiness in Business
About
Chris Bashinelli: National Geographic Explorer | Host of Bridge the Gap | Speaker on Human Connection, Trust and Leadership
Why Book Chris Bashinelli?
As host of Bridge the Gap, a travel series featured on PBS and National Geographic Channel, Chris brings global stories and footage to the stage. His energetic presentations combine humor, audience interaction and practical exercises, giving people opportunities to reflect on how they connect with customers, colleagues and the teams they lead.
Why Is Chris Bashinelli Right for Your Audience?
Chris is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings and culture-focused events. He is especially relevant when an organization wants people to feel more connected, strengthen customer relationships or lead with greater empathy during change.
Book Chris when your audience needs to:
- Build trust with clients and colleagues
- Listen with greater curiosity and attention
- Strengthen belonging across teams
- Lead through uncertainty with authenticity
- Connect individual strengths with shared goals
- Bring renewed purpose to everyday interactions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of how presence and listening influence trust
- Equipped with practical ways to strengthen human connection
- Ready to recognize the person behind a role or transaction
- Better prepared to support colleagues through change
- Motivated to create a culture where people feel valued and heard
Keynote Programs
The Power of Human Connection
Chris explores how understanding people and serving their interests can strengthen relationships with clients and teams. Ideal for sales, customer service and leadership audiences seeking deeper trust.
Leading Through Change
Chris shares stories of resilience and personal growth to explore how leaders can remain grounded and connected during uncertainty. Ideal for organizations navigating change and seeking renewed employee inspiration.
Building Unbreakable Teams
Through global stories and interactive moments, Chris introduces his PACT of Connection: Presence, Authenticity, Care and Trust. Ideal for teams seeking stronger collaboration, belonging and open communication.
The Happiness Effect
Drawing on his travels and mindfulness practice, Chris explores the role of gratitude, perspective and happiness in work and relationships. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed purpose and practical ways to support well-being.
Is Chris Bashinelli Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the relationships you want to strengthen and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Chris’s most relevant program, discuss customization and audience interaction, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Jack Becker
Decorated U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot, Founder & CEO, Flight Level Solutions, Inc., Leadership, Teamwork, Safety, and Peak Human Performance Expert
About
Jack Becker: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Accountability & High Performance | Former U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot | Founder of Supersonic Success
Bring Fighter-Pilot Precision to Business Performance
What could your team accomplish if they prepared, communicated and executed with the discipline of elite fighter pilots?
Jack Becker is a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and dynamic keynote speaker on leadership, accountability, teamwork and high performance.
Why Book Jack Becker?
Jack doesn't simply tell exciting fighter-pilot stories. He translates the disciplines of military aviation into practical strategies business teams can use.
His message focuses on the behaviors that drive consistent performance: preparation, accountability, communication, execution and learning from every experience.
For organizations looking to improve performance rather than simply motivate people for an hour, Jack delivers a keynote designed to help audiences turn lessons into action and action into better results.
What Makes Jack Becker Different?
- Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot — brings lessons from an elite performance environment
- Business-focused message — translates aviation principles into workplace strategies
- Accountability driven — encourages people to take ownership of their performance
- Execution focused — helps close the gap between strategy and results
- Practical debriefing approach — emphasizes learning and continuous improvement
- Team performance — demonstrates why trust and communication matter under pressure
- High-energy delivery — engages audiences with compelling aviation experiences
- Actionable takeaways — gives teams concepts they can apply immediately
Why Is Jack Right for Your Audience?
Jack is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to improve execution, strengthen accountability and work together more effectively.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings, management events and organizations focused on operational excellence.
Book Jack when your audience needs to:
- Turn strategy into consistent execution
- Strengthen personal accountability
- Improve communication across teams
- Build greater trust and collaboration
- Prepare more effectively for important opportunities
- Learn quickly from wins and mistakes
- Perform more consistently under pressure
- Create a culture of continuous improvement
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how preparation improves execution
- More willing to take ownership of results
- Better equipped to communicate when the stakes are high
- Recognizing the importance of effective debriefing
- More focused on learning rather than assigning blame
- Better prepared to collaborate across teams
- Ready to apply continuous improvement to everyday performance
Jack Becker Keynote Programs
Supersonic Success: What can business teams learn from the way fighter pilots prepare, execute and improve?
Jack takes audiences inside the world of military aviation to demonstrate how high-performing teams prepare for demanding missions and execute when the pressure is on.
He then translates those lessons into practical business strategies that can help organizations improve communication, accountability and performance.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, management teams and organizations focused on execution.
The Fighter Pilot Mindset: High performance doesn't happen by accident.
Jack explores the habits and disciplines that help elite performers stay focused, make decisions and deliver results in demanding environments.
Audiences learn how stronger preparation, clearer expectations and personal accountability can improve performance across an organization.
Ideal for: Sales kickoffs, leadership meetings and high-performance teams.
Debrief to Win: What happens after the mission may be just as important as what happens during it.
Jack demonstrates how effective debriefing can help teams identify what worked, understand what didn't and continuously improve without creating a culture of blame.
Applied to business, this approach can strengthen communication, accelerate learning and help teams perform better on the next mission.
Ideal for: Leadership teams, sales organizations, project teams and companies building a culture of continuous improvement.
Why Book Jack Becker Through The Sweeney Agency?
Jack Becker combines fighter-pilot experience with practical business strategies for improving execution, accountability and teamwork—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons to the performance challenges facing your organization.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Jack Becker's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Jack Becker keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your event objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Jack with other leading leadership, teamwork and high-performance speakers
Is Jack Becker Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your team needs to improve execution, accountability or collaboration.
We'll help you determine whether Jack 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 Jack Becker as your keynote speaker.
About
Amy Blankson: Author of The Future of Happiness | Digital Wellness Leader | Speaker on Flourishing and Positive Psychology
Help People Thrive in a Changing World
Amy Blankson helps audiences turn the science of happiness into practical choices at work and in life. As co-founder and Chief Evangelist of the Digital Wellness Institute, she explores how people can use technology well, build positive habits, and create conditions in which they and their teams can flourish.
Why Book Amy Blankson?
Amy brings a constructive perspective to challenges many organizations share: stress, change, engagement, and the impact of technology on well-being. She translates positive psychology into small actions that people can try immediately, while giving leaders a broader way to think about the environments they create.
Her talks can help audiences move from concern about the future toward a clearer sense of what they can influence today.
What Makes Amy Different?
- Author of The Future of Happiness, which examines well-being in a digital world
- Co-founder and Chief Evangelist of the Digital Wellness Institute
- Experience connecting positive psychology with workplace challenges
- Current programs on flourishing, AI, and resilience amid uncertainty
- An engaging style that makes ideas about well-being practical and accessible
Why Is Amy Right for Your Audience?
Amy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, education and nonprofit gatherings, and programs focused on workplace culture or digital change. She is especially relevant when an audience needs a thoughtful, encouraging way to address uncertainty without dismissing its real pressures.
Book Amy when your audience needs to:
- Navigate change with greater optimism and agency
- Support employee well-being alongside performance
- Build small habits that make positive change more sustainable
- Consider how AI can support human creativity and judgment
- Create healthier relationships with technology
- Make flourishing a meaningful part of workplace culture
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to identify actions within their control during uncertainty
- Equipped with practical ideas for building positive daily habits
- Clearer on how leaders can support people who are adapting to change
- Ready to use technology more intentionally
- Inspired to connect well-being, purpose, and performance
Keynote Programs
The Future is Flourishing: Why Thriving People and Cultures Will Define What’s Next
Amy invites audiences to look beyond simply coping with change and consider what allows people and organizations to thrive. She offers a practical framework for bringing purpose and well-being into decisions about culture, engagement, and performance. Ideal for leadership and workplace culture events.
SuperThinkers: How to Innovate, Lead, and Thrive in an AI-Driven World
Amy explores how leaders can use AI to deepen thinking, ask better questions, and support human creativity. Ideal for audiences looking for a people-centered approach to technological change.
Fearless Positivity: Mastering Mindset in the Midst of Uncertainty
Amy shares ways to reframe challenges, build resilience, and take purposeful action when the path ahead is unclear. Ideal for organizations navigating change, disruption, or sustained pressure.
Additional Workshop: The Joy Game
In this interactive workshop, Amy helps teams make joy a practical part of daily work through small changes in mindset and behavior. Ideal for groups seeking more engagement and connection.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us whether your audience is focused on flourishing, AI, uncertainty, or digital well-being. We can help select the right keynote or workshop, discuss customization, and confirm Amy’s availability and current fee.
Is Amy Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressures it faces, and what you want people to think or do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Amy’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Lisa Bodell
Global Leader on Simplification & Banishing Complexity, Innovation, Leadership, Change, Collaboration, and Transforming Culture
About
Lisa Bodell: Keynote Speaker on Simplification, Innovation & Leadership | Founder & CEO of FutureThink | Bestselling Author of Why Simple Wins
Simplify Work. Unlock Better Thinking. What could your people accomplish if they stopped wasting time on unnecessary work and focused their energy on what actually matters?
Lisa helps organizations eliminate the complexity, bureaucracy and low-value work that prevent people from thinking, leading and innovating at their best. Her message is provocative, practical and immediately actionable: stop adding more—and start removing what gets in the way.
Why Book Lisa Bodell?
Lisa doesn't just inspire people to work differently. She gives them practical tools to actually do it.
Her keynotes challenge one of the biggest problems facing organizations today: people are overwhelmed by meetings, processes, approvals and unnecessary complexity while leaders simultaneously ask them to innovate, move faster and accomplish more.
Lisa shows audiences how to create capacity by eliminating low-value work, simplifying decision-making and giving people more space to think.
The result is a keynote that can change not just how your audience thinks—but how they work the very next day.
What Makes Lisa Bodell Different?
- Founder & CEO of FutureThink — helping organizations simplify and innovate since 2003
- Bestselling author — author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company
- Simplification expert — helps organizations eliminate unnecessary complexity
- Innovation authority — teaches people how to challenge assumptions and think differently
- Highly interactive — incorporates audience participation and live exercises
- Immediately actionable — audiences leave with tools they can actually use
- Human-centered AI perspective — focuses on strengthening the capabilities technology can't replace
- Extensive corporate experience — has worked with leading organizations around the world
Why Is Lisa Right for Your Audience?
Lisa is an outstanding choice when your people are overwhelmed, moving too slowly or spending too much time on work that doesn't create enough value.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation summits, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating AI-driven change.
Book Lisa when your audience needs to:
- Eliminate unnecessary complexity
- Create more time for meaningful work
- Make decisions faster
- Reduce bureaucracy and low-value processes
- Give leaders more capacity to actually lead
- Challenge outdated assumptions
- Strengthen innovation and creative problem-solving
- Determine where humans add the greatest value in an AI-enabled workplace
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Identifying unnecessary work they can stop doing
- Better equipped to simplify meetings, processes and decision-making
- Understanding how complexity can undermine innovation
- More willing to challenge outdated rules and assumptions
- Equipped with practical tools they can apply immediately
- Better prepared to create space for higher-value work
- Thinking differently about leadership in an AI-enabled workplace
- Ready to simplify how work gets done
Lisa Bodell Keynote Programs
Unleash the Power of Simple: Eliminate Complexity, Reclaim Control, and Win in the Age of AI
Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to eliminate unnecessary complexity before using AI to accelerate the way work gets done. Drawing on more than 25 years of global experience and examples from organizations including Netflix, AT&T, and Pfizer, she shares practical tools for reducing noise, improving focus, and creating simpler ways of working. Attendees learn why AI can amplify broken processes rather than fix them—and how simplification can create the conditions for greater speed, innovation, and performance. Ideal for organizations navigating AI adoption, transformation, and increasing workplace complexity.
Let Leaders Lead: It’s Time to Fix What’s Broken
Lisa examines why leadership has become unnecessarily difficult and what organizations can do to change it. She challenges systems that ask leaders to move quickly while burdening them with excessive process, competing expectations, and unclear authority. Through practical tools and real-world examples, Lisa shows how leaders can replace complexity with clarity, establish stronger boundaries, make better decisions, and balance empathy with accountability. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations that want to improve execution, engagement, and performance.
Igniting Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led
Lisa explores how organizations can use AI to strengthen rather than replace the human thinking that drives innovation. She shows audiences how curiosity, judgment, and creative problem-solving can be combined with AI to challenge assumptions, explore possibilities, and make better decisions. Through interactive exercises and ideas from Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, participants learn practical ways to question the status quo and approach change more boldly. Ideal for innovation conferences, transformation initiatives, and teams exploring how AI can support more creative and effective work.
Why Book Lisa Bodell Through The Sweeney Agency?
Lisa Bodell combines provocative thinking with practical tools audiences can use immediately—but the real value comes from identifying where complexity is getting in the way of your organization's performance.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Lisa Bodell's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Lisa Bodell keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's challenges
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Lisa with other leading innovation, change and leadership speakers
Is Lisa Bodell Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's slowing your people down—and what you want them spending more time doing instead.
We'll help you determine whether Lisa is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, innovation summit or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Lisa Bodell as your keynote speaker.
About
Kris Boesch: Founder of Choose People | Author of Culture Works | Speaker on Workplace Culture and Team Connection
Make Work a Place People Want to Be
Kris Boesch helps leaders and teams answer that question with practical changes to the way they work together. As founder of Choose People and a former company CEO, she combines research on workplace culture with firsthand experience improving morale, collaboration, and retention.
Why Book Kris Boesch?
Kris makes culture specific. She helps audiences see how everyday behaviors—recognition, candid communication, kindness, and shared responsibility—shape the experience of coming to work.
Her ideas grew out of the challenges she faced while leading a moving company with high turnover and a struggling culture. She brings that experience to presentations designed to give participants tools they can use with their own teams.
What Makes Kris Different?
- Experience improving workplace culture as a company CEO
- Founder of Choose People and author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace
- Research-informed tools for strengthening employee experience
- Interactive presentations that invite people to apply the ideas
- Practical approaches to difficult conversations, trust, and teamwork
Why Is Kris Right for Your Audience?
Kris is a strong fit for leadership conferences, HR events, employee gatherings, and team meetings. She is especially valuable when people want to improve culture but need a clearer picture of what to do differently on Monday morning.
Book Kris when your audience needs to:
- Strengthen trust and camaraderie at work
- Address conflict directly and constructively
- Reduce divisions between teams or departments
- Support employees facing change or burnout
- Make accountability feel shared and constructive
- Build a workplace where people feel their work matters
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to identify behaviors that strengthen workplace culture
- Equipped to approach difficult conversations with care and candor
- Ready to create more connection across team boundaries
- Clearer on how leaders can support shared ownership
- Motivated to take practical steps toward a healthier work experience
Keynote Programs
Social Super Glue
Kris explores how kindness, connection, and shared identity encourage people to collaborate and support one another. Ideal for organizations seeking a more cohesive culture and stronger employee commitment.
Freedom from Funkytown
Kris gives audiences a framework for raising concerns and resolving conflict with communication that is kind, candid, and constructive. Ideal for teams that want less workplace drama and more trust.
Beat Burnout & Renew Vitality
Kris helps audiences examine patterns of overwhelm and find ways to regain energy and enjoyment in their work. Ideal for teams under sustained pressure.
Real Deal Change Management
Kris addresses the human side of change, helping audiences understand resistance, expand their comfort zones, and take part in what comes next. Ideal for organizations navigating a transition.
Break Down Silos & Build Up Trust
Kris helps colleagues recognize how their work depends on one another and build a stronger sense of shared responsibility. Ideal for cross-functional teams and organization-wide meetings.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us what is getting in the way of a stronger culture: conflict, silos, burnout, or change. We can help choose the most relevant program, discuss the format, and confirm Kris’s availability and current fee.
Is Kris Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the culture you want to create, and the behaviors you want to see afterward. We’ll help you assess Kris’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected]
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Peter Bregman
Best-selling Author and Top-ranked Global Speaker on Leadership & Personal Growth
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Peter Bregman: Founder and CEO of Bregman Partners | Bestselling Author and Executive Coach | Speaker on Leadership, Emotional Courage and Accountability
Why Book Peter Bregman?
The author of 18 Minutes and Leading with Emotional Courage, Peter gives audiences practical ways to address difficult conversations, competing priorities and follow-through. His presentations combine stories and exercises with guidance people can apply to their own leadership challenges.
Why Is Peter Bregman Right for Your Audience?
Peter is a strong fit for executive retreats, leadership conferences, manager meetings and company events focused on accountability. He is especially relevant when leaders need to communicate more directly, help others develop or concentrate effort on their most important work.
Book Peter when your audience needs to:
- Address difficult conversations more confidently
- Strengthen accountability and follow-through
- Focus on priorities that matter
- Help colleagues make sustainable changes
- Build commitment across leadership teams
- Act with greater courage during uncertainty
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the role of emotional courage in leadership
- Equipped with ideas for more productive conversations
- Better able to recognize distractions from important work
- Ready to support others’ development more deliberately
- Motivated to turn priorities into consistent action
Keynote Programs
Leading with Emotional Courage
Peter explores how leaders can speak up, address difficult issues and create accountability while staying connected to others. Ideal for executives and managers seeking more effective leadership behavior.
You CAN Change Other People
Peter introduces a four-step approach to helping others make meaningful changes. Ideal for leaders and coaches seeking more constructive ways to support performance and development.
18 Minutes
Peter shares practices for focusing attention, managing distraction and following through on priorities. Ideal for audiences seeking greater discipline in how they use their time and energy.
Is Peter Bregman Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen and the work you need people to prioritize. We can help select Peter’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.
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Kevin Brown: Creator of The Hero Effect® | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership and Customer Experience
Why Book Kevin Brown?
Kevin brings the message to life through stories and business experience. As part of the leadership team that helped grow SERVPRO into a major franchise brand, he saw how culture, customer loyalty, and individual commitment work together. His keynotes give audiences a memorable reason to show up at their best when it matters most.
Why Is Kevin Brown Right for Your Audience?
Kevin is a strong fit for leadership conferences, franchise meetings, sales kickoffs, customer service events, and company gatherings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants employees at every level to feel responsible for the experience they create for customers and colleagues.
Book Kevin when your audience needs to:
- Take greater ownership of daily actions and results
- Strengthen customer relationships through personal service
- Build a culture where people look for ways to help
- Connect individual purpose with organizational goals
- Turn stated values into visible behavior
- Leave energized and ready to make a positive difference
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how small actions shape a customer’s experience
- Ready to take responsibility for the moments they can influence
- More aware of the difference between meeting expectations and exceeding them
- Equipped to build stronger relationships with customers and teammates
- Motivated to follow through on what they say matters
Keynote Programs
The Hero Effect®: Being Your Best When It Matters the Most
Kevin’s signature keynote shows how people in any role can create meaningful moments for those they serve and work beside. Ideal for broad employee, sales, and customer experience audiences.
The Hero Effect® for Leaders: Creating a Culture of Extraordinary
Kevin focuses his message on leaders who want to help people perform at their best. Drawing on his executive experience, he explores how to build commitment, connect personal and organizational goals, and develop others. Ideal for management and leadership events.
If It Matters, Prove It!™
Kevin challenges teams to close the gap between good intentions and consistent action. Ideal for audiences that need stronger accountability, follow-through, and visible progress toward their goals.
Is Kevin Brown Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the experience you want people to create, and what you want them to do differently after the event. We can help select Kevin’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.
Marcus Buckingham
Global Expert in Leadership, Management, Strengths-based Talent Development & Reinventing an Organization
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Marcus Buckingham: Strengths Researcher | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership, Engagement and Performance
Why Book Marcus Buckingham?
His current work also explores how leaders can build love into work and the experiences they create for employees and customers. With research, stories and practical examples, Marcus gives audiences a fresh way to examine performance, creativity and commitment.
Why Is Marcus Buckingham Right for Your Audience?
Marcus is a strong fit for executive conferences, leadership development programs, HR events and manager meetings. Consider him when an organization wants to improve engagement by changing how managers understand and support their people.
Book Marcus when your audience needs to:
- Recognize the strengths of individual team members
- Create work that people find meaningful
- Improve everyday coaching and management
- Question assumptions about performance
- Connect employee experience with customer experience
- Build teams where different talents can contribute
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how individual strengths influence performance
- Better prepared to discuss what energizes people at work
- Ready to examine management practices that limit contribution
- More aware of the link between meaningful work and engagement
- Equipped with ideas for improving team and customer experiences
Keynote Programs
How to Unleash the Most Powerful Force in Business
Marcus examines how to design love into work, leadership and customer experiences. Ideal for leaders exploring performance, creativity, wellbeing and advocacy.
What the World’s Best Managers Do Differently
Marcus explores how managers turn talent into performance through role selection, expectations, attention and development. Ideal for manager and leadership audiences.
Strengths-Driven Performance
Marcus shows how people can make greater use of their strengths at work and how organizations can support that contribution. Ideal for talent development and employee events.
Is Marcus Buckingham Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your leaders, the employee experience you want to improve and the performance challenges you want to address. We can help select Marcus’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.
Michael C. Bush
CEO of Great Place to Work, Entrepreneur, Investor, Former member of President Obama’s White House Business Council
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Michael C. Bush: CEO of Great Place To Work® | Author of A Great Place to Work for All | Speaker on Trust, Culture and Leadership
Why Book Michael C. Bush?
His message focuses on building a great workplace for everyone across an organization. Michael makes trust, fairness and inclusion concrete leadership issues, helping audiences examine whether employees experience the culture their leaders intend to create.
Why Is Michael C. Bush Right for Your Audience?
Michael is a strong fit for executive conferences, HR events, leadership retreats and manager meetings. Consider him when an organization wants to strengthen trust and make its culture more consistent across roles, teams and locations.
Book Michael when your audience needs to:
- Understand how trust shapes the employee experience
- Examine gaps in workplace fairness
- Make inclusion part of everyday leadership
- Connect culture priorities with business goals
- Listen more effectively to employees
- Create conditions that help more people contribute
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the role of trust in workplace culture
- More aware of differences in employees’ experiences
- Ready to examine their own leadership behavior
- Familiar with the principles of For All leadership
- Prepared to discuss culture as a business priority
Keynote Programs
Become Great
Michael draws on workforce research to explain how an inclusive, high-trust culture can support organizational performance. He introduces the For All Leadership Model and encourages leaders to examine the experience they create. Ideal for executive, HR and management audiences.
Is Michael C. Bush Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the culture you want to build and the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Michael’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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Virtual Events can:
- Reach a wider audience
- Offer a great experience at a much lower cost
- Create long term impact with recorded elements that allow for content to be watched over a period of time
- Have an increased impact over time, as viewers re-watch, discuss and connect over social media and other channels
And, most importantly: offer the ability for inspiring and impactful presentations to connect in a one-on-one way, directly to the attendee.
WHO is your audience?
Who are your virtual event attendees? Are they across a specific group within your organization, or are you serving clients across a wide range of levels? Determining who you are speaking to will help you determine a format for your event that will captivate your audience.
WHAT is your key message?
Are you focusing on change? Innovation? Leadership?
Creating a single focus or mission will allow you to hone in on the type of speaker(s) you need to engage your audience and help event producers to format the event into a dynamic program that balances inspiration with information and audience interaction.
WHAT type of event suits your audience?
- Virtual Conference
- Webinar
- Hybrid Event
Virtual event technology has come a long way over the last few months, offering a huge range of different options from pre-recorded webinars, to multi-day virtual conferences, to hybrid events with some attendees in the audience while the event is live streamed.
OUR ADVICE
A COMBINATION of live and pre-recorded elements will allow your virtual event to run smoothly and stay on time.
Many of our clients are also opting for multi-day virtual conferences with shorter segments spaced over a few days.
This allows some flexibility for attendees in different time zones and accommodates different teleworking situations for attendees, allowing them to tune in when it is convenient.
WHERE? It’s all about Tech.
Virtual meeting technology has exploded over the last few months as teleworking became the norm.
Consider your needs:
- Interactive elements like breakout rooms, polls & Q&A
- Seamless blend of live & pre-recorded elements
- Ability to replay segments
- Live tech support
If you plan for rain, it’s likely the sun will shine…
Tech isn’t perfect so don’t forget to test, rehearse and have a back up plan ready to go for your virtual event.
Pro Tip: Think of a virtual presentation like a podcast. Viewers can view the content multiple times and refer back to it.
WHEN? A Date… or Dates?
As we have all noticed, our attention spans for meeting in real life versus meeting online are a lot longer.
When deciding on a date, consider spreading your virtual event out over a few days, with a variety of speakers, interactive elements and information.
The benefits of a multi-day format:
- Viewers watch content fresh for a short period every day
- Allows attendees in different time zones to stay on top of the content
- Attendees can review & re-engage with content
Virtual Event Checklist:
Is your event?
- Interactive?
- Informative?
- Able to be rewatched?
WHY? Pandemic 2020
Just because you are online instead of in person, it doesn’t mean you are missing out on connection.
Using the technology that we have become so accustomed to over the last few months, our keynote speakers have the ability to connect to your viewers one-on-one, in a way that was impossible in live events.
FIND YOUR WHY…
What do you want the audience to leave thinking at the end of the presentation?
Apply this question to all the presentations and segments in your event to create a cohesive, impactful virtual event.
HOW? Virtual Event Checklist
To wrap it all up
- TECH: Find the right tech platform & don’t forget to test drive before your event
- AGENDA: Use a mix of live and pre-recorded segments, mixed with interactive elements, to ensure a smooth flow of events & audience engagement
- ANTICIPATION: Build up your event with emails, teasers and sneak peeks into what content will be offered
- NETWORKING: Create and encourage online chat functions, an event specific hashtag or even a dedicated event page to allow attendees to network virtually. Maximize the networking opportunities offered by your tech platform.
- EXTEND YOUR IMPACT: A dedicated social media page is a great place for attendees to connect after an event to discuss ideas and implement some of the learnings from the event.
Offer a password protected, limited time recording of keynote presentations to continue the conversation long after the virtual event has ended.
Continue the conversation with post-event touch points like emails or questions based on the key presentations.
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Dr. Daniel Crosby
President of IncBlot Organizational Psychology, Speaks on Leadership, Organizational Development, and Behavioral Finance
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - Psychologist and Behavioral Finance Expert | Chief Behavioral Officer at Orion | Speaker on Investor Behavior and Financial Decision-Making
Why Book Dr. Daniel Crosby?
As Chief Behavioral Officer at Orion, Daniel develops tools, training and technology that help financial advisors apply behavioral science. The co-author of the New York Times bestseller Personal Benchmark and author of The Laws of Wealth and The Behavioral Investor, he connects research with the conversations and decisions advisors and investors face every day.
Why Is Dr. Daniel Crosby Right for Your Audience?
Daniel is a strong fit for financial advisor conferences, wealth management events, investment team meetings and client education programs. He is especially relevant when an organization wants to strengthen client relationships, address emotional reactions to markets or build more disciplined decision-making processes.
Book Daniel when your audience needs to:
- Understand the psychology behind financial decisions
- Recognize biases that can undermine sound judgment
- Help clients navigate uncertainty and market volatility
- Connect financial plans with personal goals
- Strengthen communication about money and risk
- Build processes that support consistent behavior
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
More aware of their own emotional and behavioral tendencies
Better able to recognize common investor mistakes
Equipped with ideas for improving financial conversations
Clearer on the value of goals and decision-making discipline
Ready to apply behavioral insights to client relationships and team processes
Keynote Programs
The Behavioral Investor
Daniel examines the social, neurological and psychological influences behind investment decisions. Ideal for investors, advisors and investment teams seeking greater self-awareness and a more structured approach to judgment.
The Laws of Wealth
Daniel translates behavioral finance into practical principles for managing investor behavior and the investing process. Ideal for financial professionals and client audiences who want to understand how discipline can support long-term goals.
The 5 Obsessions of Exceptional Investment Teams
Daniel explores courage, conviction, consistency, clarity and conservation as foundations for stronger investment team processes. Ideal for asset managers and investment professionals seeking to manage emotion, focus attention and improve how decisions are made.
Is Dr. Daniel Crosby Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the financial conversations it needs to improve and what you want attendees to do differently. We can help select Daniel’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.
Dr. Amy Cuddy
Social Psychologist, Award-Winning Harvard Lecturer, and Bestselling Author
About
Amy Cuddy: Social Psychologist | Author of Presence | Speaker on Confidence, Trust and Leadership
Why Book Amy Cuddy?
Her presentations connect psychological research with familiar challenges: a difficult conversation, a high-stakes presentation, or a leadership decision. Amy gives audiences language for discussing confidence and trust, along with approaches they can consider in their own work.
Why Is Amy Cuddy Right for Your Audience?
Amy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, professional development programs, sales meetings, and events focused on confidence or workplace culture. Consider her when capable people need help bringing their expertise into demanding situations.
Book Amy when your audience needs to:
- Communicate with more grounded confidence
- Prepare for presentations and difficult conversations
- Understand how others perceive their behavior
- Build trust during uncertainty
- Support colleagues facing performance pressure
- Create conditions where people feel able to contribute
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of their responses to social pressure
- Better prepared to approach challenging interactions
- Clearer on the role of presence in communication
- Ready to consider how warmth and credibility build trust
- Equipped with ideas for supporting others under pressure
Keynote Programs
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Amy explores presence, body language, and mindset in demanding situations. Ideal for leaders, client-facing professionals, and audiences developing confidence.
Perform: The New Science of Human Performance Under Social Pressure
Amy examines how the social environment affects performance. Ideal for teams whose work involves evaluation, visibility, and high expectations.
Trust Under Pressure
Amy focuses on building and maintaining trust amid disruption. Ideal for leaders navigating uncertainty and changing team dynamics.
Is Amy Cuddy Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the moments where your people need greater confidence, connection, or trust. We can help select Amy’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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Pandit Dasa: Former Monk | Author | Speaker on Mindful Leadership and Workplace Culture
Why Book Pandit Dasa?
His presentations encourage audiences to pause before reacting, recognize their own patterns, and approach colleagues with greater understanding. Pandit makes these ideas relevant to daily work, from managing pressure to supporting a teammate or leading a difficult conversation.
Why Is Pandit Dasa Right for Your Audience?
Pandit is a strong fit for leadership meetings, HR conferences, employee gatherings, and workplace well-being events. Consider him when your organization wants practical discussion of personal responsibility, respectful communication, and a more supportive team environment.
Book Pandit when your audience needs to:
- Build a culture of respect and appreciation
- Listen more carefully before responding
- Develop greater self-awareness as leaders
- Navigate change with a calmer approach
- Strengthen collaboration across teams
- Make employee well-being part of workplace conversations
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of how their reactions affect colleagues
- Ready to practice more attentive listening
- Equipped with mindfulness ideas to use during busy days
- Better prepared to respond thoughtfully to uncertainty
- Focused on small actions that support team culture
Keynote Programs
Creating a Mindful and Positive Workplace Culture
Pandit explores behaviors that strengthen trust, appreciation, and collaboration. Ideal for broad employee audiences and culture initiatives.
Mindful Leadership and the Future of Work
Pandit connects self-awareness with leadership in a changing workplace. Ideal for managers and emerging leaders.
Thriving Through Change: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity
Pandit addresses how people respond to uncertainty and approach new possibilities. Ideal for teams navigating organizational transitions.
Is Pandit Dasa Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the culture you want to build and the pressures your people are experiencing. We can help select Pandit’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.
Dr. Susan David
Renowned Psychologist, and Expert on Emotions, Happiness, and Achievement.
About
Dr. Susan David: Psychologist | Author of Emotional Agility | Speaker on Leadership, Culture and Change
Why Book Dr. Susan David?
Susan brings that framework into leadership, culture, and the future of work. Her presentations encourage audiences to acknowledge what they are experiencing, examine their assumptions, and choose actions that reflect what matters. That makes her message relevant when organizations need adaptability without losing direction.
Why Is Dr. Susan David Right for Your Audience?
Susan is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, HR events, and organization-wide development programs. Consider her when your people need a more constructive way to work through uncertainty, difficult conversations, or competing demands.
Book Susan when your audience needs to:
- Build adaptability during organizational change
- Lead difficult conversations with greater openness
- Connect daily decisions with shared values
- Respond thoughtfully to challenging emotions
- Strengthen the human skills needed alongside AI
- Make culture visible through leadership behavior
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on what emotional agility means in practice
- More aware of the difference between feelings and chosen actions
- Ready to examine familiar patterns of response
- Better prepared to make decisions connected to their values
- Equipped with a framework for approaching uncertainty
Keynote Programs
The Real Revolution Isn’t Artificial. It’s Human
Susan explores the human capabilities organizations need in the AI era, including adaptability and connection. Ideal for future-of-work and transformation audiences.
The Leaders We Need Now
Susan focuses on leadership grounded in clarity, courage, and emotional agility. Ideal for executives and managers navigating competing demands.
Culture Is What You Do, Especially When It’s Hard
Susan examines how actions reveal organizational values when circumstances are difficult. Ideal for leadership and culture-focused events.
Is Dr. Susan David Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes your organization faces and the leadership or cultural habits you want to strengthen. We can help select Susan’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.
Dr. Ken Dychtwald
Futurist, Best-Selling Author, Entrepreneur, Psychologist, Gerontologist and Recognized Speaker on the Aging Population.
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Dr. Ken Dychtwald: Founder of Age Wave | Psychologist and Gerontologist | Speaker on Longevity, Aging and Retirement
Why Book Dr. Ken Dychtwald?
Ken makes the implications of aging concrete for decision-makers. His presentations encourage organizations to examine assumptions about older adults and consider how products, services, and policies can respond to changing lives. He brings a long-term perspective to challenges that extend across generations.
Why Is Dr. Ken Dychtwald Right for Your Audience?
Ken is a strong fit for financial services conferences, healthcare meetings, executive strategy events, and organizations serving older consumers. Consider him when your audience needs to understand demographic change as a factor in future planning.
Book Ken when your audience needs to:
- Recognize opportunities in the longevity economy
- Reconsider assumptions about retirement and later life
- Understand changing expectations among older consumers
- Explore the implications of an aging workforce
- Address connections between family, care, and financial security
- Include demographic change in strategic discussions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A broader perspective on the consequences of longevity
- More aware of changing needs across generations
- Ready to question outdated assumptions about older adults
- Better prepared to discuss retirement as a life transition
- Equipped with ideas for serving a longer-lived population
Keynote Programs
The Longevity Revolution: Triumph or Tragedy?
Ken examines the opportunities and societal challenges of longer lives. Ideal for executive and policy audiences.
Reinventing Retirement: Your Grandparents’ Retirement Is Over
Ken explores changing retirement expectations and the questions they create for advisors. Ideal for financial services audiences.
How the Age Wave Will Transform the Marketplace, the Workplace and Our Lives
Ken connects demographic shifts with consumer needs, work, and business opportunities. Ideal for leaders planning for long-term change.
Is Dr. Ken Dychtwald Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the demographic changes affecting your organization and the opportunities you want to explore. We can help select Ken’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.
Maddy Dychtwald
Speaker on Generational Marketing Trends, Co-founder and Senior VP of Age Wave
About
Maddy Dychtwald: Co-Founder of Age Wave | Author of Ageless Aging | Speaker on Longevity, Women and Retirement
Why Book Maddy Dychtwald?
Maddy combines demographic research with stories that make the subject relevant to individuals and organizations. Her presentations encourage audiences to think beyond age-based assumptions and consider how people can prepare for a longer, more varied life.
Why Is Maddy Dychtwald Right for Your Audience?
Maddy is a strong fit for financial services conferences, women’s leadership events, healthcare and senior living meetings, and consumer strategy programs. Consider her when your audience wants a clearer understanding of longevity or the needs and influence of women over 50.
Book Maddy when your audience needs to:
- Understand how longevity changes life planning
- Explore women’s experiences of aging and retirement
- Recognize the influence of consumers over 50
- Reconsider assumptions about later-life possibilities
- Connect retirement conversations with purpose and well-being
- Prepare products and services for changing expectations
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A broader view of what longer lives can involve
- More aware of women’s distinct longevity considerations
- Ready to challenge familiar stereotypes about age
- Better prepared to discuss retirement beyond finances alone
- Equipped with questions about serving older consumers
Keynote Programs
The New Retirement in the Age of Longevity
Maddy explores the changing meaning of retirement and preparation for longer lives. Ideal for financial professionals and client audiences.
Ageless Aging: Are You Prepared?
Maddy discusses longevity and the possibilities of living well as people age. Ideal for audiences interested in later-life planning and well-being.
50+ Women: A Force to Be Reckoned With
Maddy examines the influence of women over 50 and what organizations should understand about them. Ideal for marketers and business leaders.
Is Maddy Dychtwald Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the longevity, retirement, or consumer questions most relevant to your event. We can help select Maddy’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.
Meridith Elliott Powell
Award-winning Author, Keynote Speaker and Business Growth, Sales & Leadership Expert
About
Meridith Elliott Powell: Hall of Fame Speaker | Business Growth Strategist | Speaker on Change, Sales, and Leadership
Why Book Meridith Elliott Powell?
Meridith brings energy, audience interaction, and a practical plan to her presentations. She shows leaders how to develop people who think for themselves, take ownership, and spot opportunities as conditions change. For sales teams, she connects that same approach to winning customers in a shifting marketplace.
Why Is Meridith Elliott Powell Right for Your Audience?
Meridith is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and company events. She is especially valuable when an organization needs to keep growing while its customers, workforce, or competitive landscape changes.
Book Meridith when your audience needs to:
- Respond to uncertainty with greater confidence
- Find opportunities during disruption
- Build accountability throughout the organization
- Develop the next generation of leaders
- Adapt sales strategies to changing buyer expectations
- Leave with a plan they can put into action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to identify where uncertainty creates opportunity
- Ready to give team members more ownership and room to contribute
- Clearer on how to stay focused while adapting their approach
- Equipped with ideas for building a stronger leadership pipeline
- Motivated to take a specific action that supports growth
Keynote Programs
THRIVE: Turn Uncertainty To Your Competitive Advantage
Meridith shares research, business stories, and a practical method for finding opportunity in changing conditions. She helps audiences stay flexible, focus on what matters, and create a personal plan for moving forward. Ideal for leadership conferences and organizations navigating disruption.
Sales Redefined: Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver
Meridith shows sales teams how to adjust when customer expectations and buying decisions change. She explores ways to reach decision-makers, build credibility, ask better questions, and give customers a clear reason to choose them. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing teams.
Succession Planning Redefined: Closing The Succession Gap
Meridith challenges leaders to develop talent throughout the organization, including managers, sales professionals, and people in critical specialist roles. She offers practical ways to build a stronger bench before a key departure creates a crisis. Ideal for executive and leadership meetings.
Is Meridith Elliott Powell Right for Your Event?
Tell us whether your priority is navigating uncertainty, growing sales, or developing future leaders. We can help select Meridith’s most relevant program, discuss the event format, and confirm her availability and fee.
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Chester Elton
Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Developing an All-In Culture & Engaging your People
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Chester Elton: Bestselling Author | Executive Coach | Speaker on Workplace Culture, Recognition and Leadership
Why Book Chester Elton?
Chester brings research and practical leadership examples into an engaging conversation about how people experience work. His presentations encourage managers to move from general praise and stated values to specific actions that show employees what matters and why their contribution counts.
Why Is Chester Elton Right for Your Audience?
Chester is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management meetings, HR events, and company gatherings. Consider him when your organization wants to strengthen engagement and help managers make appreciation and accountability part of the same conversation.
Book Chester when your audience needs to:
- Make employee recognition more specific and meaningful
- Build trust through consistent leadership behavior
- Translate organizational values into visible actions
- Clarify expectations and strengthen follow-through
- Encourage cooperation across teams
- Help employees connect their work with shared priorities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how daily leadership shapes culture
- Ready to recognize contributions more thoughtfully
- More aware of the relationship between trust and accountability
- Equipped with ideas for strengthening team commitment
- Focused on one management habit they can improve immediately
Keynote Programs
Recognition Keynote: The Most Underrated Driver of Performance
Chester examines how appreciation can reinforce useful behaviors. Ideal for managers and employee experience audiences.
Employee Engagement Keynote: Commitment to Daily Action
Chester explores clarity, trust, and everyday leadership practices that support contribution. Ideal for leaders strengthening engagement.
High-Performance Culture Keynote: From Values to Daily Behavior
Chester focuses on making organizational values part of how teams work. Ideal for culture initiatives and leadership events.
Is Chester Elton Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the culture you want to build and the leadership behaviors you want to reinforce. We can help select Chester’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. Tasha Eurich: Organizational Psychologist | Author of Insight and Shatterproof | Speaker on Self-Awareness and Leadership
Why Book Dr. Tasha Eurich?
Tasha’s presentations encourage audiences to examine patterns that can limit their effectiveness and consider more constructive responses. Her combination of storytelling, research, and practical exercises makes self-awareness relevant to everyday leadership and to the moments when familiar approaches stop working.
Why Is Dr. Tasha Eurich Right for Your Audience?
Tasha is a strong fit for leadership summits, professional development events, women’s conferences, and organizational change programs. Consider her when your audience needs to build greater self-awareness or rethink how it responds to persistent pressure.
Book Tasha when your audience needs to:
- Develop a more accurate view of their leadership impact
- Seek and respond to candid feedback
- Recognize patterns that limit effectiveness
- Approach setbacks with greater curiosity
- Navigate changing expectations with more flexibility
- Strengthen understanding and communication within teams
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the role of self-awareness in leadership
- Ready to ask more useful feedback questions
- More aware of habitual responses to pressure
- Equipped with ideas for approaching setbacks constructively
- Focused on a practical change in how they lead or work
Keynote Programs
Becoming Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos
Tasha explores approaches to adversity and adaptability. Ideal for audiences navigating disruption or major transitions.
Shatterproof Women: A New Path to Peace, Purpose, and Power
Tasha addresses competing demands, boundaries, and confidence. Ideal for women’s leadership and professional development events.
Leading with Insight: How Self-Awareness Helps Teams Work and Win Together
Tasha connects leadership self-awareness with team effectiveness. Ideal for executives, managers, and emerging leaders.
Is Dr. Tasha Eurich Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership challenges your audience faces and the changes you want participants to make. We can help select Tasha’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.
Keith Ferrazzi
Best-Selling Author of Never Eat Alone and Speaker on Business Relationship Development
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Keith Ferrazzi: Author of Never Eat Alone and Never Lead Alone | Executive Team Coach | Speaker on Collaboration and Teamship
Why Book Keith Ferrazzi?
Keith connects his work on professional relationships with the demands of organizational change. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how their teams collaborate, support one another, and make room for better ideas.
Why Is Keith Ferrazzi Right for Your Audience?
Keith is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, and transformation events. Consider him when important work depends on cooperation across departments or organizational boundaries.
Book Keith when your audience needs to:
- Break down silos around shared priorities
- Build more candid team conversations
- Strengthen mutual accountability
- Develop relationships before they are urgently needed
- Include more perspectives in important decisions
- Improve collaboration during change
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the difference between leadership and teamship
- Ready to examine team habits that restrict collaboration
- Better prepared to give and request support
- More aware of how relationships enable execution
- Equipped to choose a practical change in how their team works
Keynote Programs
The Future of Leadership Is Shifting to Teamship
Keith explores collective leadership, candor, and shared accountability. Ideal for executives and teams adapting to a more interdependent workplace.
A Journey from Never Eat Alone to Never Lead Alone
Keith connects relationship-building with the practices of effective teams. Ideal for leadership, sales, and professional development audiences.
Is Keith Ferrazzi Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the collaboration challenges your organization faces. We can help select Keith’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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Libby Gill: Leadership Expert | Author of The Hope-Driven Leader | Speaker on Change and Employee Engagement
Why Book Libby Gill?
Her perspective draws on communications leadership at Sony, Turner Broadcasting, and Universal, followed by work with leaders and organizations. Libby brings a practical understanding of how a shared vision becomes meaningful through everyday conversations and decisions.
Why Is Libby Gill Right for Your Audience?
Libby is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, women’s leadership events, and change initiatives. Consider her when managers need to rebuild confidence and help employees see their role in what comes next.
Book Libby when your audience needs to:
- Communicate a shared direction during uncertainty
- Connect optimism with concrete action
- Engage employees in meaningful goals
- Help emerging leaders develop confidence
- Identify obstacles to progress
- Support colleagues through organizational change
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how hope can inform leadership decisions
- Ready to connect a goal with an actionable next step
- More aware of messages that build confidence
- Equipped to discuss change more constructively
- Focused on a leadership habit they can improve
Keynote Programs
Leading Through Change & Challenge
Libby explores how leaders can sustain engagement and create direction during disruption. Ideal for organizations navigating new priorities or difficult transitions.
Women Leading the Way Forward: Learn to Lift As You Climb
Libby focuses on developing leadership confidence and supporting the growth of others. Ideal for women’s leadership programs and emerging leader events.
Mastering the Clarify, Simplify, Execute Process™
Libby presents an approach to defining goals, identifying priorities, and moving into action. Ideal for teams seeking stronger focus and follow-through.
Is Libby Gill Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes your people face and the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Libby’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.