Innovation
Tom Koulopoulos
Chairman and Founder of Delphi Group, Author and Speaker on Innovation & The Future
About
Tom Koulopoulos: Keynote Speaker on AI, Future Trends & Innovation | Futurist | Founder of Delphi Group | Author of Gigatrends
Understand What's Next—Before It Changes Everything. How do you prepare your organization for a future being reshaped by AI, digital workers and technologies moving faster than ever before?
As Chairman and founder of Delphi Group, Tom has spent decades studying how disruptive technologies change organizations, industries and human behavior. His latest book, Gigatrends, explores the powerful forces shaping how we will live, work and compete throughout the 21st century.
Tom helps audiences look beyond today's headlines to understand what's coming next, why it matters and what leaders should be doing about it now.
Why Book Tom Koulopoulos?
Tom doesn't simply showcase futuristic technologies. He connects emerging technology directly to the decisions leaders need to make today.
His presentations explore AI, digital workers, changing demographics, frictionless commerce, autonomous technologies and other forces transforming business and society.
But Tom's message isn't that technology will determine the future. People will.
With a combination of research, provocative ideas, humor and compelling examples, Tom helps audiences understand disruption without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the opportunities hidden inside enormous change.
What Makes Tom Koulopoulos Different?
- Founder of Delphi Group — a Boston-based technology and futures think tank
- Author of 14 books — including Gigatrends, The Gen Z Effect and Cloud Surfing
- Deep AI expertise — explores AI's impact on work, business and human behavior
- Decades studying disruption — brings long-term perspective to today's technology changes
- Innovation authority — former Director of the Dell Innovation Lab
- Academic perspective — professor at Boston University
- Business experience — combines futurist thinking with real organizational insight
- Engaging delivery — makes complex technology understandable, relevant and entertaining
Why Is Tom Right for Your Audience?
Tom is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where technology is taking their industry and become more confident navigating what's next.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, association meetings, technology events, executive meetings and organizations navigating AI-driven transformation.
Book Tom when your audience needs to:
- Understand how AI will reshape business
- Prepare for humans and digital workers working together
- Anticipate major technological shifts
- Identify opportunities created by disruption
- Understand how emerging technologies change customer behavior
- Navigate generational changes in the workforce
- Challenge assumptions about the future
- Turn uncertainty into strategic opportunity
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better prepared for the business impact of AI
- Understanding how digital workers may reshape the workplace
- More aware of the major trends influencing their industry
- Better able to separate meaningful technological change from hype
- Thinking differently about the relationship between humans and technology
- More confident navigating disruption and uncertainty
- Ready to identify opportunities created by emerging technologies
Tom Koulopoulos Keynote Programs.
Gigatrends: The Technologies Shaping Our Future. What forces will have the greatest impact on how we live, work and compete over the coming decades?
Drawing from Gigatrends, Tom takes audiences on a fast-paced exploration of the technological forces reshaping society and business.
From AI and digital workers to frictionless commerce, autonomous vehicles and changing generations, he helps leaders understand how seemingly separate trends are converging to create profound change.
More importantly, Tom explores what these shifts mean for your organization and the decisions leaders need to start making today.
Ideal for: Executive conferences, association meetings, strategy events and organizations preparing for long-term disruption.
The Future of Work: Humans + Digital Workers. What happens when your next colleague isn't human?
AI is rapidly changing what technology can accomplish, creating a workplace where people and increasingly capable digital workers will operate side by side.
Tom explores how this transformation will change jobs, organizations and leadership—and why the opportunity isn't simply to replace human work, but to raise the bar on what people can accomplish.
Audiences leave with a positive but realistic roadmap for navigating a workplace being transformed by AI.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, HR events, corporate meetings and organizations navigating AI transformation.
AI: Navigating the Next Great Business Transformation. AI isn't simply another technology trend. It's changing how organizations think, decide and compete.
Tom cuts through the hype to help leaders understand where artificial intelligence is heading and what its rapid evolution could mean for their businesses.
He explores how organizations can use AI to reduce friction, improve decisions and unlock new opportunities while keeping human judgment, creativity and trust at the center.
Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations developing their AI strategy.
Innovation in an Age of Constant Disruption. How do you innovate when the future refuses to slow down?
Tom challenges audiences to rethink traditional assumptions about innovation and recognize how rapidly changing technologies create entirely new possibilities.
He shows leaders how to become more comfortable with uncertainty, identify emerging opportunities and build organizations capable of adapting as technology and customer expectations evolve.
Ideal for: Innovation summits, leadership conferences, strategy meetings and organizations navigating disruption.
Why Book Tom Koulopoulos Through The Sweeney Agency?
Tom Koulopoulos combines deep technology expertise, futurist thinking and practical business insight—but the real value comes from connecting those trends directly to your industry and the decisions your audience needs to make.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Tom Koulopoulos's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Tom Koulopoulos keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and business challenges
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Tom with other leading AI, futurist and innovation keynote speakers
Is Tom Koulopoulos Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about what's coming next.
We'll help you determine whether Tom is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, association meeting, AI summit or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Tom Koulopoulos as your keynote speaker.
Dr. Daniel Kraft
Stanford and Harvard Trained Physician-Scientist, Inventor and Entrepreneur
About
Dr. Daniel Kraft: Physician and Scientist | Healthcare Futurist | Speaker on Technology, Innovation and the Future of Medicine
Why Book Dr. Daniel Kraft?
Daniel brings developments from across the innovation landscape into one conversation. His presentations help leaders consider where technologies may intersect, what questions adoption raises, and how their organizations can prepare to evaluate new possibilities.
Why Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Audience?
Daniel is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, life sciences meetings, health technology events, and executive strategy programs. Consider him when an audience needs a broader view of innovation beyond its own specialty.
Book Daniel when your audience needs to:
- Understand developments across health technology
- Connect emerging tools with organizational questions
- Consider opportunities in connected care
- Evaluate assumptions about technology adoption
- Discuss the role of data and artificial intelligence
- Prepare for changes in healthcare delivery
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on technologies influencing healthcare
- Ready to ask more useful adoption questions
- More aware of connections across innovation areas
- Equipped to discuss opportunities within their organization
- Focused on a development worth investigating further
Keynote Programs
The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?
Daniel explores converging technologies and their potential implications for healthcare. Ideal for clinicians, industry leaders, and organizations planning for changes in care and health innovation.
Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the healthcare questions your audience faces and the innovations it needs to understand. We can help select Daniel’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.
Kaihan Krippendorff
Futurist, Strategy and Innovation Expert & Founder of Outthinker
About
Kaihan Krippendorff: Keynote Speaker on Strategy, Innovation & AI | Founder of Outthinker | 6-Time Bestselling Author | Former McKinsey Consultant
What if your biggest competitive advantage is seeing opportunities your competitors haven't recognized yet?
Kaihan Krippendorff is a globally recognized strategist, bestselling author and highly sought-after keynote speaker on strategy, innovation, AI, disruption and the future of business.
As the founder of Outthinker, Kaihan works with senior leaders and strategists to understand the forces reshaping business and identify unconventional opportunities for growth. His message is both provocative and practical: don't simply react to disruption—learn how to create the future your competitors will have to respond to.
Why Book Kaihan Krippendorff?
Kaihan doesn't just tell audiences that disruption is coming. He gives them frameworks for deciding what to do about it.
Drawing from decades of research into strategy and innovation, conversations with hundreds of executives each year and his work with organizations around the world, Kaihan reveals how successful companies challenge assumptions, identify strategic options others overlook and move before competitors recognize the opportunity.
His presentations combine big-picture thinking with practical tools, giving audiences a way to turn emerging trends, AI and disruption into competitive advantage.
What Makes Kaihan Krippendorff Different?
- Founder of Outthinker — a global network of strategy, innovation, growth and transformation executives
- Former McKinsey consultant — combines rigorous strategic thinking with practical business application
- 6-time bestselling author — including Outthink the Competition, Driving Innovation from Within and Proximity
- Globally recognized management thinker — recognized by Thinkers50 and Global Gurus
- Deep AI and technology perspective — connects emerging technology directly to business strategy
- Proven strategic frameworks — gives audiences tools they can immediately put into practice
- Innovation from within — shows organizations how to unlock ideas from employees at every level
- Highly customized — connects trends and strategies directly to the client's industry and objectives
Why Is Kaihan Right for Your Audience?
Kaihan is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to think more strategically, recognize opportunities earlier and take action before competitors do.
He is particularly effective for executive conferences, leadership meetings, association events, strategy sessions, innovation summits and organizations navigating AI-driven disruption.
Book Kaihan when your audience needs to:
- Anticipate disruption rather than react to it
- Identify new opportunities for growth
- Challenge traditional industry assumptions
- Understand the strategic impact of AI
- Turn employees into everyday innovators
- Build greater organizational agility
- Create competitive advantages that are difficult to copy
- Translate strategy into action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better equipped to identify opportunities competitors may overlook
- Understanding how emerging technologies could reshape their industry
- Able to challenge assumptions that limit strategic options
- Equipped with practical frameworks for strategic thinking
- More confident navigating disruption and uncertainty
- Better prepared to unlock innovation across their organization
- Ready to translate new ideas into action
- Energized to shape the future rather than wait for it
Kaihan Krippendorff Keynote Programs
Outthink the Competition. What if the best strategic option is the one your competitors haven't considered?
Kaihan gives audiences a proven framework for challenging assumptions, identifying overlooked strategic options and creating defensible competitive advantages.
Using his Outthinker IDEAS Process, he shows leaders how to think differently about markets, competitors and opportunities—and translate that thinking into action.
Ideal for: Executive conferences, leadership meetings, strategy events and organizations focused on growth and competitive advantage.
Driving Innovation from Within. What if your organization's next breakthrough idea is already inside the company?
Kaihan challenges the assumption that disruptive innovation primarily comes from startups and outsiders.
Using his IN-OVATE Framework, he shows organizations how to remove internal barriers, empower employees to think like intrapreneurs and turn promising ideas into measurable business results.
The goal is to make innovation part of the culture—not simply the responsibility of an innovation department.
Ideal for: Innovation summits, leadership conferences, transformation initiatives and organizations looking to accelerate innovation.
Winning with AI, Technology, and People. How do you capture the power of AI without overlooking the human capabilities that create real competitive advantage?
Kaihan explores how AI, automation and emerging technologies are reshaping how organizations work, make decisions and compete.
Rather than framing the future as humans versus technology, he shows leaders how to combine AI's capabilities with human creativity, judgment, contextual understanding and strategic thinking.
Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations navigating digital transformation.
Proximity Revolution. How will AI and emerging technologies change where, when and how value is created?
Drawing from his book Proximity, Kaihan helps leaders make sense of AI, machine learning, 3D printing, data, renewable energy, personalization and other forces transforming business.
He gives audiences a practical Proximity Roadmap for understanding these shifts, identifying opportunities and preparing their organizations for what's next.
Ideal for: Future-of-business conferences, association meetings, executive events and organizations facing significant technological disruption.
Why Book Kaihan Krippendorff Through The Sweeney Agency?
Kaihan Krippendorff combines strategic depth, emerging-technology insight and practical innovation tools—but the real value comes from connecting those ideas directly to your industry, competitive environment and business priorities.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Kaihan Krippendorff's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Kaihan Krippendorff keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and strategic priorities
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Kaihan with other leading strategy, innovation and AI keynote speakers
Is Kaihan Krippendorff Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and where your organization needs to find its next competitive advantage.
We'll help you determine whether Kaihan is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an executive conference, innovation summit, association meeting or leadership event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Kaihan Krippendorff as your keynote speaker.
Polly LaBarre
Co-author, Mavericks at Work; Co-Founder, Management Lab; Founding Writer, Fast Company
About
Polly LaBarre: Management Thinker | Author | Speaker on Innovation, Reinvention and the Future of Work
Why Book Polly LaBarre?
Polly brings examples and questions that move the conversation beyond a general call for change. Her presentations encourage audiences to examine how work is organized and where a different approach could make experimentation and learning more possible.
Why Is Polly LaBarre Right for Your Audience?
Polly is a strong fit for executive retreats, innovation conferences, leadership meetings, and transformation programs. Consider her when an organization wants to rethink the practices behind its culture and performance.
Book Polly when your audience needs to:
- Question management habits that slow adaptation
- Give more people a voice in improvement
- Make experimentation part of everyday work
- Recognize barriers to employee initiative
- Approach reinvention with greater curiosity
- Translate change ambitions into organizational choices
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a practice worth reconsidering
- Ready to ask better questions about how work happens
- More aware of ideas beyond traditional hierarchies
- Equipped to identify a manageable experiment
- Focused on making adaptation a shared responsibility
Keynote Programs
Roll With Change
Polly explores approaches to reinvention and resilience. Ideal for leaders and teams responding to changing demands.
Leading in the New Work Order
Polly examines the organizational choices that shape how people contribute. Ideal for leadership audiences reconsidering management and workplace practices.
Is Polly LaBarre Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the organizational practices you want to rethink and the changes your leaders need to enable. We can help select Polly’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.
About
Charlene Li: Author of The Disruption Mindset | Founder of Altimeter | Speaker on AI Strategy, Leadership and Organizational Change
Why Book Charlene Li?
Charlene moves the AI conversation toward the choices executives need to make together. Her message encourages organizations to clarify priorities, align leadership, and consider how culture and execution affect the value of a technology strategy.
Why Is Charlene Li Right for Your Audience?
Charlene is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider her when an organization needs a shared direction for AI and the changes surrounding it.
Book Charlene when your audience needs to:
- Connect AI initiatives with business priorities
- Build alignment across executive teams
- Examine readiness for organizational change
- Clarify the leadership role in technology adoption
- Consider cultural barriers to execution
- Move from scattered initiatives toward a shared strategy
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the decisions an AI strategy requires
- Ready to question an adoption assumption
- More aware of the connection between culture and execution
- Equipped to discuss priorities across functions
- Focused on a next step toward organizational alignment
Keynote Programs
Winning With AI
Charlene explores how leaders can approach AI strategically. Ideal for executive teams connecting emerging capabilities with business direction.
Creating a Unified AI Strategy
Charlene examines alignment and the choices behind a coherent approach to AI. Ideal for organizations coordinating initiatives across functions.
Is Charlene Li Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the strategic questions your leaders face and the AI or organizational changes you want to address. We can help select Charlene’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.
Greg Lindsay
Speaker and Author on the Future of Travel, Technology, and Urban Development
About
Greg Lindsay: Futurist and Urbanist | Co-Author of Aerotropolis | Speaker on Cities, Mobility and the Future of Work
Why Book Greg Lindsay?
Greg connects developments that are often discussed separately. His presentations invite leaders to consider how changes in physical space, digital systems, and human behavior may interact—and what that could mean for their industry or community.
Why Is Greg Lindsay Right for Your Audience?
Greg is a strong fit for real estate conferences, mobility events, executive strategy meetings, and future-of-work programs. Consider him when an audience needs a wider view of connected changes.
Book Greg when your audience needs to:
- Connect technology trends with changes in place
- Reconsider assumptions about work and collaboration
- Understand developments in mobility and automation
- Explore how cities may evolve
- Think across industry boundaries
- Include multiple scenarios in long-term planning
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on connections among cities, technology, and work
- Ready to question a planning assumption
- More aware of developments beyond their sector
- Equipped with questions about future operating environments
- Focused on a scenario worth exploring further
Keynote Programs
The Way We’ll Live Next
Greg explores changes in how people inhabit and move through the world. Ideal for real estate, community, and business audiences.
Autonomous Everything
Greg considers automation and its implications for mobility and everyday systems. Ideal for technology and transportation events.
How to Work, Together
Greg examines collaboration and the changing organization of work. Ideal for leadership and workplace strategy programs.
Is Greg Lindsay Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the long-term changes your audience needs to understand and the assumptions it wants to test. We can help select Greg’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.
Josh Linkner
Serial entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, and venture capital investor
About
Josh Linkner: Entrepreneur and Investor | Author of Big Little Breakthroughs | Speaker on Creativity, Innovation and Resourcefulness
Why Book Josh Linkner?
Josh connects ambitious outcomes with smaller acts of experimentation. His message encourages teams to move beyond the assumption that innovation requires a rare genius or a dramatic invention, and to look for opportunities to improve what is already in front of them.
Why Is Josh Linkner Right for Your Audience?
Josh is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, innovation events, and company meetings. Consider him when an organization wants more people to contribute ideas and act resourcefully.
Book Josh when your audience needs to:
- Build greater confidence in creative thinking
- Look for small opportunities to improve
- Question familiar approaches to business problems
- Develop ideas through manageable experiments
- Use constraints as prompts for resourcefulness
- Make innovation part of everyday work
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an opportunity for a small breakthrough
- Ready to question a familiar assumption
- More aware of their own capacity to contribute ideas
- Equipped to discuss a practical experiment
- Focused on turning creativity into useful action
Keynote Programs
Find A Way™
Josh explores resourcefulness and creative problem-solving. Ideal for teams facing obstacles that require a different approach.
Big Little Breakthroughs
Josh examines how smaller innovations can contribute to meaningful progress. Ideal for leadership and employee audiences seeking wider participation in improvement.
Is Josh Linkner Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the problems your audience needs to solve and the innovation habits you want to encourage. We can help select Josh’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.
About
TERENCE MAURI - Global Authority on the Future of Leadership | AI & Disruption Expert | MIT Entrepreneur Mentor | Thinkers50 Author:
Lead What’s Next
Terence Mauri helps leaders think boldly, act decisively and turn uncertainty into opportunity. The founder of Hack Future Lab, an MIT Entrepreneur Mentor and a five-time bestselling author, he combines provocative insights, compelling stories and practical frameworks that prepare organizations to lead from the future.
Why Book Terence Mauri?
Terence does more than explain emerging trends. He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, build trust and create value when the rules are changing.
Drawing on his experience advising Fortune 500 leaders and billion-dollar startups, Terence translates complex issues—including AI, disruption and the future of work—into clear choices audiences can act on immediately. His energetic presentations create urgency without fear and leave leaders ready to move forward with greater courage and confidence.
What Makes Terence Different?
- A powerful combination of global research and practical business experience
- Fresh thinking on AI, leadership, trust and organizational change
- Provocative ideas that challenge conventional assumptions
- Actionable frameworks leaders can use immediately
- A message that can be customized around the organization’s priorities
Why Is Terence Right for Your Audience?
Terence is an excellent choice when leaders need to anticipate what is next while delivering results today. He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation events, client programs and organizations navigating AI or major transformation.
Book Terence when your audience needs to:
- Lead confidently through uncertainty and disruption
- Turn AI from a technology conversation into a leadership opportunity
- Challenge outdated thinking and accelerate better decisions
- Build trust, resilience and agility across the organization
- Translate emerging trends into strategic priorities
- Find the courage to act before every answer is known
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better prepared to lead from the future rather than react to it
- Equipped to identify opportunity within disruption
- Ready to replace outdated assumptions with future-ready thinking
- Clearer about where human judgment creates an advantage in an AI-first world
- Motivated to think boldly, act decisively and play to win
Keynote Programs
Lead What’s Next
Terence shows leaders how to build future readiness, learn at the speed of change and make courageous decisions before certainty arrives. Ideal for organizations navigating transformation, competitive pressure or a major new strategic direction.
The Human Edge
In an AI-first world, technology alone is not the advantage—how people lead, decide and build trust is. Terence explores how courage, unlearning and radical trust help organizations unlock the upside of disruption. Ideal for AI, culture, leadership and future-of-work events.
Future IQ
Terence helps audiences turn megatrends into meaningful milestones. Leaders learn how to strengthen strategic courage, team resilience and agility while solving tomorrow’s challenges with new thinking. Ideal for executive audiences, innovation conferences and strategy meetings.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
The right speaker must do more than talk about the future. They must understand your audience, connect their message to your business priorities and create momentum beyond the event.
Contact us to:
- Confirm Terence’s availability and current fee
- Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
- Discuss customization, format and event logistics
- Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit
Is Terence Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the disruption they are facing and what you want them to think, feel or do differently. We will provide an honest assessment of Terence’s fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you move forward with confidence.
Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Terence Mauri.
Scott McKain
Best-selling Author and Dynamic Speaker on Sales, Innovation & Customer Service
About
Scott McKain: Author of ICONIC | Hall of Fame Speaker | Expert on Distinction and Customer Experience
Why Book Scott McKain?
Scott connects strategy with the choices employees make in sales, service, and leadership. His customized keynotes help audiences identify where they are becoming too similar to competitors and what they can do to stay relevant as customer expectations change.
Why Is Scott McKain Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, customer experience events, and industry gatherings. He is especially valuable when an organization competes in a crowded market or wants to strengthen customer loyalty beyond price and product features.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Explain clearly why customers should choose them
- Stand out in a crowded or changing market
- Improve the experiences that build customer loyalty
- Communicate distinctive value in sales conversations
- Align leadership and culture with the brand promise
- Adapt as technology changes customer expectations
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on what makes their organization valuable to customers
- Better able to spot gaps between promised and delivered experiences
- Ready to identify moments that strengthen trust and loyalty
- Equipped to communicate differences that matter to buyers
- Focused on actions that help their organization remain relevant
Keynote Programs
Beyond Distinction
Scott’s current flagship keynote helps leaders examine whether their organization remains meaningful to its customers. He connects clear purpose, adaptation, communication, and the customer experience to lasting relevance. Ideal for executive and industry audiences navigating change.
Create Distinction
Scott shows organizations how to identify and express value that sets them apart. Ideal for sales and business audiences competing in markets where buyers see similar offerings.
ICONIC
Drawing on his book, Scott explores how leaders build and sustain a culture that reinforces what makes an organization distinctive. Ideal for leadership teams focused on consistency and long-term performance.
The Ultimate Customer Experience®
Scott examines the moments customers remember and how teams can turn those moments into stronger relationships. Ideal for service, customer experience, and retention-focused events.
Is Scott McKain Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, your competitive landscape, and the customer experience you want to improve. We can help select Scott’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.
Kaplan Mobray
Internationally Acclaimed Best-selling Author, Motivational Speaker, Career Consultant, Founder of The Kaplan Mobray Leadership Institute
About
Kaplan Mobray: Author of The 10Ks of Personal Branding | Founder of the Kaplan Mobray Leadership Institute | Speaker on Leadership and Performance
Why Book Kaplan Mobray?
Kaplan brings energy and participation to the conversation. His presentations encourage audiences to examine how others experience their work and what they can do more deliberately to strengthen their influence and performance.
Why Is Kaplan Mobray Right for Your Audience?
Kaplan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, employee events, and career development programs. Consider him when people need to take greater ownership of their professional impact.
Book Kaplan when your audience needs to:
- Clarify what they want to be known for
- Connect personal reputation with consistent behavior
- Strengthen accountability for their contribution
- Communicate their value more effectively
- Build more purposeful leadership habits
- Approach growth with greater intention
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the professional impression they create
- Ready to identify a leadership habit to strengthen
- More aware of how behavior shapes reputation
- Equipped with questions for personal development
- Focused on an action that demonstrates their value
Keynote Programs
Elevate Leadership Excellence
Kaplan explores leadership practices that support stronger teams. Ideal for managers and emerging leaders.
Maximizing the Power of Your Personal Brand
Kaplan examines how people communicate and demonstrate their professional value. Ideal for sales, career development, and broad employee audiences.
Is Kaplan Mobray Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen and the professional impact you want people to make. We can help select Kaplan’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.
Natalie Nixon
Strategy, Foresight, and Innovation Expert, Award-winning Author
About
Natalie Nixon: Creativity Strategist | Author of The Creativity Leap | Speaker on Innovation, AI and the Future of Work
Why Book Natalie Nixon?
Natalie connects this perspective with the changes surrounding AI and workplace expectations. Her presentations invite leaders to examine how they organize work and whether their routines give people space to think, learn, and contribute new ideas.
Why Is Natalie Nixon Right for Your Audience?
Natalie is a strong fit for innovation conferences, leadership meetings, future-of-work events, and employee programs. Consider her when an organization wants to develop human creativity alongside technological change.
Book Natalie when your audience needs to:
- Make creativity a broader workplace responsibility
- Ask more useful questions about familiar problems
- Consider the human capabilities needed alongside AI
- Create space for reflection and new ideas
- Rethink habits that narrow attention
- Connect experimentation with organizational priorities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the role of inquiry and imagination
- Ready to reconsider a work routine
- More aware of conditions that support creative thinking
- Equipped with questions about human and technology collaboration
- Focused on an opportunity to try a different approach
Keynote Programs
The New I in AI
Natalie explores human creativity in a changing technological environment. Ideal for leaders and teams considering their contribution alongside AI.
Burnout to Breakthrough
Natalie challenges familiar assumptions about productivity and the organization of work. Ideal for audiences seeking more room for thinking, creativity, and adaptation.
Is Natalie Nixon Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the creative capabilities you want to develop and the working habits you want to reconsider. We can help select Natalie’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. Roch Parayre
Speaker and Expert on Innovation, Decision-Making, Scenario Planning and Blue Ocean Strategy
About
Dr. Roch Parayre: Strategy Advisor | Speaker on Scenario Planning, Innovation and Strategic Thinking
Why Book Dr. Roch Parayre?
Roch encourages teams to look at how they frame the problem before settling on an answer. His presentations and workshops make room for structured discussion about scenarios, choices, and the capabilities a strategy may require.
Why Is Dr. Roch Parayre Right for Your Audience?
Roch is a strong fit for executive retreats, strategy meetings, innovation conferences, and leadership workshops. Consider him when an organization needs to test its direction rather than rely on one forecast.
Book Roch when your audience needs to:
- Explore different plausible business futures
- Question assumptions behind strategic plans
- Frame complex problems more clearly
- Identify opportunities for distinctive value
- Connect strategic choices with organizational capabilities
- Improve the quality of executive discussions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a strategic assumption worth testing
- Ready to consider more than one future scenario
- More aware of how problem framing affects decisions
- Equipped with questions about differentiation
- Focused on a planning discussion their organization needs
Keynote Programs
Scenario Planning
Roch explores how organizations can examine their direction against different futures. Ideal for executive strategy programs.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Roch introduces frameworks developed by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne for exploring new market space. Ideal for teams considering differentiation and growth.
Innovative and Critical Thinking
Roch examines how leaders frame issues and recognize thinking traps. Ideal for management and decision-making programs.
Is Dr. Roch Parayre Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the strategic choices your leaders face and the assumptions they need to test. We can help select Roch’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.
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Matt Phillips
Serial Entrepreneur, Leading Expert & Keynote Speaker on Innovation and Creativity
About
Matt Phillips: Founder of Phillips & Co. | Innovation Adviser and Entrepreneur | Speaker on Creativity, Leadership and Breakthrough Thinking
Why Book Matt Phillips?
Matt combines that business background with an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and improv training at The Second City. His presentations use humor, examples, and practical tools to help people reconsider a challenge and move promising ideas toward action.
Why Is Matt Phillips Right for Your Audience?
Matt is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation meetings, strategy retreats, and company events. Consider him when teams feel stuck, need new approaches to a business challenge, or want more people to contribute ideas.
Book Matt when your audience needs to:
- Approach a familiar problem from a different angle
- Turn promising ideas into practical next steps
- Build confidence contributing to innovation
- Recognize opportunities beyond existing routines
- Encourage creative thinking across roles and departments
- Strengthen leadership support for experimentation
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Introduced to Matt’s five principles of breakthrough thinking or leadership
- Equipped with tools for reconsidering a current challenge
- More confident participating in innovation
- Ready to encourage creative contributions from colleagues
- Focused on a practical step toward testing or developing an idea
Keynote Programs
The Breakthrough Thinking Toolbox
Matt introduces principles and tools for getting unstuck, reframing challenges, and developing new possibilities. He connects creative thinking with the work of putting an idea into practice. Ideal for innovation, strategy, and broad employee audiences.
Breakthrough Leadership
Matt explores how leaders can encourage new thinking and help their teams develop ideas. Audiences examine leadership mindsets and ways to create conditions that support innovation. Ideal for executives, managers, and leadership development events.
Is Matt Phillips Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the challenges it needs to approach differently, and the ideas you want people to put into action. We can help select Matt’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Vince Poscente
Peak performance speaker, Olympic skier and best-selling author.
About
Vince Poscente: Olympic Skier | New York Times Bestselling Author | Speaker on Resilience, Sales and Peak Performance
Why Book Vince Poscente?
Vince combines high-energy storytelling with practical ideas for salespeople, leaders, franchise teams, and safety-conscious organizations. He encourages people to clarify what matters, act consistently, and find a way forward when circumstances change.
Why Is Vince Poscente Right for Your Audience?
Vince is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership meetings, franchise conventions, and industry conferences. He is especially valuable when an organization needs renewed drive and specific actions that support a demanding goal.
Book Vince when your audience needs to:
- Pursue ambitious goals with greater focus
- Stay resilient through obstacles and setbacks
- Build confidence in a competitive environment
- Turn commitment into consistent daily action
- Align franchise or sales teams around shared priorities
- Approach performance and safety with greater intention
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Inspired by Vince’s journey from recreational skier to Olympian
- Clearer on the purpose behind their goals
- Ready to identify routines that support consistent performance
- Better able to respond constructively to setbacks
- Motivated to take action in a challenging environment
Keynote Programs
Full Speed Ahead
Vince uses his Olympic journey to show sales and leadership audiences how clarity of purpose, commitment, consistency, confidence, and effective routines support ambitious goals. Ideal for sales kickoffs and leadership events.
Confidence on Demand
Vince helps teams regain momentum when uncertainty or setbacks leave them feeling stuck. He introduces ways to use collaboration, curiosity, and creativity to find a productive path forward. Ideal for organizations navigating change.
Accelerate Franchise Growth
Vince focuses on alignment, agility, and adaptability in a competitive franchise environment. Ideal for franchise conventions and retail audiences that want attendees to put conference ideas into action.
Peak Performance Health/Safety
Vince applies performance and mindset lessons to safety-conscious workplaces. Ideal for health, safety, and risk-focused events seeking an engaging conversation about everyday choices and behavior.
Is Vince Poscente Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the goal it is pursuing, and the obstacles it needs to overcome. We can help choose Vince’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.
John Sanei
Best-selling Author, Futurist & Keynote Speaker with a passion for psychology & technology
About
John Sanei: Futurist and Author | Speaker on AI, Adaptability and Organizational Transformation
Why Book John Sanei?
John connects future thinking with questions about leadership and organizational design. His presentations invite audiences to examine what they need to learn, how they approach uncertainty, and where a different structure or mindset could support progress.
Why Is John Sanei Right for Your Audience?
John is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, innovation events, and transformation programs. Consider him when an organization needs a shared conversation about AI and its future direction.
Book John when your audience needs to:
- Clarify questions about AI and business opportunity
- Build greater adaptability into leadership
- Examine assumptions about future competitiveness
- Connect organizational structure with changing demands
- Consider human capabilities alongside technology
- Move from uncertainty toward purposeful next steps
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a future-facing question their organization needs to answer
- Ready to examine an established assumption
- More aware of the connection between adaptability and strategy
- Equipped to discuss organizational choices
- Focused on a capability worth developing
Keynote Programs
AI Frontiers
John explores strategic choices and opportunities in the age of AI. Ideal for executives reviewing their direction.
The Intelligence Shift
John considers the human capabilities and mindset changes associated with AI. Ideal for leadership development audiences.
The Architecture of Change
John examines organizational design in a changing economic and technological environment. Ideal for transformation programs.
Is John Sanei Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the future your leaders are preparing for and the changes your organization needs to consider. We can help select John’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.
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.
About
Stephen Shapiro: Innovation Adviser | Hall of Fame Speaker and Author of Invisible Solutions | Speaker on Problem-Solving, Collaboration and Innovation
Why Book Stephen Shapiro?
Stephen’s presentations turn the audience into participants. Through exercises, examples, and programs such as Personality Poker®, he makes differences in thinking tangible and gives teams a shared way to discuss how they solve problems together.
Why Is Stephen Shapiro Right for Your Audience?
Stephen is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation summits, strategy meetings, and team development events. Consider him when an organization has plenty of ideas but needs better problem definition or more effective collaboration.
Book Stephen when your audience needs to:
- Clarify which problems are worth solving
- Ask questions that reveal overlooked possibilities
- Bring different perspectives into decisions
- Recognize blind spots in a team’s approach
- Improve collaboration among people who think differently
- Focus innovation effort on meaningful opportunities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Ready to reframe a current business challenge
- Introduced to practical approaches for asking better questions
- More aware of the perspectives their team may be missing
- Equipped with a shared language for collaboration
- Focused on a specific problem or opportunity to examine next
Keynote Programs
Solve Your Toughest Problems
Stephen explores how reframing a challenge can reveal options that familiar questions overlook. Ideal for leadership, strategy, and innovation audiences working through complex problems.
Personality Poker®
An interactive card-based experience helps participants explore their strengths, differences, and approaches to innovation. Ideal for teams that want to understand one another and collaborate more effectively.
Stability in an Uncertain World
Stephen examines how identifying what should remain stable can help leaders direct change and concentrate on the priorities that matter. Ideal for executive meetings and transformation events.
Is Stephen Shapiro Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the problems your teams need to solve, and the collaboration you want to strengthen. We can help select Stephen’s most relevant program, discuss customization and participation requirements, and confirm availability and fee.
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Peter Sheahan
About Peter Sheahan – Bestselling Author on Innovation & Accelerating Growth
About
Peter Sheahan: Business Growth Advisor and Author | Speaker on Transformation, Differentiation and Creating Value
Why Book Peter Sheahan?
Peter encourages audiences to reconsider what made them successful and what their next stage may require. His presentations bring examples and practical questions to the work of changing priorities, reducing friction, and developing a more distinctive position.
Why Is Peter Sheahan Right for Your Audience?
Peter is a strong fit for executive conferences, sales meetings, leadership retreats, and transformation events. Consider him when an organization wants to connect its growth ambitions with specific changes in how it operates.
Book Peter when your audience needs to:
- Connect transformation with business priorities
- Build alignment around a new direction
- Question assumptions about competitive advantage
- Create value that customers can recognize
- Reduce friction that slows organizational change
- Make progress while working through ambiguity
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a change their growth strategy requires
- Ready to examine an alignment problem
- More aware of opportunities for differentiation
- Equipped with questions about customer value
- Focused on a practical step toward transformation
Keynote Programs
Accelerating Growth Through Transformation
Peter explores the alignment and leadership choices behind organizational change. Ideal for executive and management audiences.
Winning on Value Not Price
Peter examines differentiation and creating value in a changing market. Ideal for sales, business development, and leadership programs.
Is Peter Sheahan Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the growth your organization is pursuing and the value you want customers to recognize. We can help select Peter’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Anders Sorman-Nilsson
Author of Thinque Funky, Speaks on Future Thinking, Innovation, and Generational Trends
About
Anders Sörman-Nilsson: Global Futurist | Founder of Thinque | Speaker on AI, Digital Transformation and Customer Experience
Why Book Anders Sörman-Nilsson?
Anders brings a particular focus to the relationship between digital convenience and personal connection. His presentations invite teams to consider where automation creates value, where people remain essential, and how those decisions shape a brand.
Why Is Anders Sörman-Nilsson Right for Your Audience?
Anders is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, innovation meetings, and strategy retreats. Consider him when your organization needs a clearer connection between its technology plans and the people it serves.
Book Anders when your audience needs to:
- Connect digital investment with customer needs
- Recognize emerging technology opportunities
- Preserve personal connection as services change
- Question assumptions about future customers
- Explore responsible uses of AI
- Build a shared direction for innovation
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the human implications of a technology decision
- Ready to examine friction in a customer journey
- More aware of changing consumer expectations
- Equipped with questions about responsible innovation
- Focused on a practical opportunity to improve an experience
Keynote Programs
The Future Is AI with a Human Soul
Anders explores how organizations can approach AI with human needs and ethical considerations in view. Ideal for leadership and technology audiences.
Digilogue Dynamics
Anders examines the combination of digital capability and personal connection in customer experience. Ideal for marketing, brand, and service teams.
Is Anders Sörman-Nilsson Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the customer expectations you need to understand and the technology choices ahead. We can help select Anders’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.
Jason Sosa
Technologist and keynote speaker on AI and the future of finance.
About
Jason Sosa: Founder of Sosa Research | Technology Entrepreneur | Speaker on AI and the Future of Finance
Why Book Jason Sosa?
Jason connects technical developments with commercial decisions. His presentations encourage leaders to examine where AI could improve work, what implementation requires, and how to evaluate a promising idea against an actual business need.
Why Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Audience?
Jason is a strong fit for executive meetings, financial services conferences, technology events, and innovation programs. Consider him when an audience needs a practical discussion of AI adoption and digital transformation.
Book Jason when your audience needs to:
- Understand AI beyond headline claims
- Identify useful applications for their organization
- Review assumptions about the future of work
- Connect technology choices with business priorities
- Evaluate modernization opportunities
- Ask better questions about implementation
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an AI opportunity worth exploring
- Ready to examine a workflow that could change
- More aware of implementation tradeoffs
- Equipped with questions for technology partners
- Focused on a business outcome before choosing a tool
Keynote Programs
AI & The Future of Work
Jason examines how AI is changing tasks, leadership, and competition. Ideal for executives and teams planning adoption.
Digital Transformation in Finance
Jason discusses modernization in financial services, including the balance between new capabilities and organizational stability. Ideal for banking, insurance, and wealth management audiences.
Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the technology decisions your leaders face and the business outcomes you want to pursue. We can help select Jason’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 Steinberg
About Scott Steinberg – Business Strategist & Technology Futurist
About
Scott Steinberg: Business Strategist | Technology Futurist and Author | Speaker on Innovation, Change and Emerging Trends
Why Book Scott Steinberg?
Scott connects trend awareness with decisions about products, services, leadership, and skills. His presentations encourage people to look beyond familiar approaches and consider small experiments that could reveal useful opportunities.
Why Is Scott Steinberg Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for executive meetings, innovation conferences, industry events, and employee development programs. Consider him when your organization wants people to respond to change with curiosity and initiative.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Recognize trends relevant to their business
- Question assumptions about existing practices
- Explore new product and service opportunities
- Build confidence approaching unfamiliar technology
- Encourage experimentation within teams
- Connect future thinking with current decisions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a trend they should investigate
- Ready to challenge a familiar business assumption
- More aware of practical innovation opportunities
- Equipped with questions about future capabilities
- Focused on an experiment that could inform the next decision
Keynote Programs
Leading with Innovation
Scott explores ways to respond to disruption and encourage new thinking across an organization. Ideal for leadership and change audiences.
Think Like a Futurist
Scott introduces approaches to spotting emerging opportunities and considering their implications. Ideal for strategy, industry, and innovation events.
Is Scott Steinberg Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the market changes you need to examine and the innovative behavior you want to encourage. 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.
About
Curt Steinhorst: Bestselling Author of Can I Have Your Attention? | Former Head of People at Venus Aerospace | Speaker on Leadership, Culture and Focus
Why Book Curt Steinhorst?
Curt connects engaging stories with specific choices leaders and employees can make. He helps audiences examine what is slowing their work, clarify what matters most, and communicate in ways people can hear and act on. His keynotes are tailored to the challenges facing the people in the room.
Why Is Curt Steinhorst Right for Your Audience?
Curt is a strong fit for leadership meetings, company conferences, sales events, and gatherings focused on culture or the changing workplace. He is especially valuable when competing priorities, constant communication, or new technology are making it harder for people to do their best work.
Book Curt when your audience needs to:
- Protect time and attention for its most important work
- Lead teams through change without adding unnecessary friction
- Communicate priorities more clearly
- Build a culture that can handle demanding goals
- Reach customers or colleagues amid information overload
- Think carefully about where AI helps and where human judgment matters
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to spot habits that divide a team’s attention
- Clearer on which priorities deserve time and energy
- Ready to improve the meetings and messages they control
- More aware of what people need from leaders during change
- Equipped to make important communication easier to hear and act on
Keynote Programs
Rethinking Leadership
Curt examines what teams need from leaders as AI changes how work gets done. Drawing on his experience leading people strategy at an aerospace company, he helps audiences consider which tasks can be handed off and where leaders must stay engaged. Ideal for executive and management audiences navigating new technology.
Rethinking Culture
Curt looks at how the work people are asked to do, and the way they are asked to do it, creates culture. He helps leaders identify practices that create friction or exhaustion and make clearer choices about how teams work together. Ideal for organizations pursuing ambitious goals through change.
Finding Focus in a Distracting World
When everything is a priority, attention gets scattered. Curt helps audiences decide what deserves focus and examine the interruptions, meetings, and messages that pull people away from it. Ideal for company meetings and teams seeking better work habits.
Breaking Through the Noise
Curt shows leaders, sales teams, and communicators how to earn attention in a crowded information environment. He explores what audiences already believe, why they might listen, and how to shape a message they can understand and act on. Ideal for anyone whose results depend on influencing others.
Is Curt Steinhorst Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your audience is losing focus, facing friction, or struggling to get its message heard. We can help select Curt’s most relevant keynote, 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
About
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.
About
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.
Mike Walsh
Author of The Algorithmic Leader and Speaker on Change, Technology and Innovation.
About
Mike Walsh: Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership & Transformation | Bestselling Author | HBR Columnist | Fortune 50 Advisor
Reinvent Your Organization for the AI-Powered Future. AI isn't simply changing how we work. It's changing what organizations can become.
Known for combining provocative ideas with practical business insight, Mike helps leaders understand how AI, algorithms, automation and digital labor will reshape organizations—and what they need to do now to stay relevant and competitive.
His message goes beyond adopting the latest technology. The real opportunity is to reinvent how your organization works, makes decisions and creates value.
Why Book Mike Walsh?
Mike doesn't simply predict the future. He helps leaders prepare to compete in it.
As a strategic advisor to Fortune 50 companies, Harvard Business Review columnist, bestselling author and global researcher, Mike studies how the world's most innovative organizations are using technology to transform the way they operate.
His global perspective allows him to connect emerging technologies with changing customer behavior, workforce expectations and new business models.
Audiences leave with something more valuable than a list of trends: a clearer understanding of what AI means for their organization and how leaders need to respond.
What Makes Mike Walsh Different?
- Futurist for leaders — focuses on the strategic implications of technology rather than technology alone
- AI and digital labor authority — explores how AI agents will reshape organizations and work
- Fortune 50 advisor — works directly with senior leaders navigating transformation
- Harvard Business Review columnist — translates emerging trends into practical leadership insights
- Three-time bestselling author — including The Algorithmic Leader
- Global perspective — researches innovation, technology and consumer behavior around the world
- Leadership focused — explores how decision-making must evolve in the Algorithmic Age
- Highly customized — connects his research directly to the client's industry and challenges
Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?
Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where AI is heading, what it means for their business and how they need to lead differently as a result.
He is particularly effective for CEO conferences, executive leadership meetings, AI summits, technology conferences, association events and organizations navigating significant transformation.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Understand what's coming next in AI
- Prepare for AI agents and digital labor
- Reimagine how their organization operates
- Identify new opportunities created by automation
- Lead people confidently through technological disruption
- Make smarter data-driven decisions
- Rethink customer and employee experiences
- Move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine reinvention
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how AI agents could reshape organizations
- Better prepared for the next decade of AI-powered transformation
- Thinking differently about the future of work
- Recognizing where human capabilities create the greatest value
- Better equipped to lead hybrid teams of humans and machines
- Understanding why AI requires organizational—not simply technological—change
- More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
- Ready to rethink how their organization creates value
Mike Walsh Keynote Programs
Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business. What happens when AI stops being simply a tool and becomes part of your workforce?
AI agents capable of independently analyzing information, making decisions and taking action represent a fundamental shift in how organizations may operate.
Mike explores the emergence of digital labor and what it could mean for organizational structure, governance, workforce strategy and competitive advantage.
He challenges leaders to look beyond today's copilots and chatbots and consider how organizations will operate when humans work alongside potentially vast networks of intelligent digital agents.
Ideal for: CEO conferences, AI summits, executive leadership meetings and organizations developing their AI strategy.
The AI-Powered Decade Ahead. Are you using AI to improve what you already do—or rethink what your organization could do?
Mike takes audiences on a journey toward 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation could drive a new industrial revolution.
He argues that the greatest opportunity isn't simply making existing processes faster. It's reimagining customer experiences, redesigning organizations and finding entirely new ways to solve problems.
Technology is only part of the transformation.
Leadership ambition will determine what organizations actually do with it.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, technology events, strategy meetings and organizations preparing for long-term transformation.
The Future Favors the Bold. Incremental improvement may help you keep up. Bold thinking is what creates what's next.
Technology breakthroughs, changing customer behavior, geopolitical uncertainty and machine intelligence are challenging many of the assumptions on which organizations were built.
Mike shows why successful transformation requires leaders willing to experiment, challenge conventional thinking and make courageous decisions.
Because the future isn't simply an upgraded version of the present.
It requires leaders willing to reinvent it.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation events, executive meetings and organizations facing disruption.
The Algorithmic Leader. What capabilities will leaders need when machines can increasingly analyze, predict and decide?
Based on his bestselling book The Algorithmic Leader, Mike explores how AI, automation and algorithms are changing leadership itself.
He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, use data, design teams and combine machine intelligence with uniquely human capabilities.
Audiences leave with practical ideas for redesigning their organizations, reimagining their roles and reinventing how they make decisions.
Ideal for: Leadership development programs, executive conferences, technology events and organizations developing future-ready leaders.
Why Book Mike Walsh Through The Sweeney Agency?
Mike Walsh combines AI expertise, strategic foresight, global research and practical leadership insight—making him particularly valuable when you need executives to understand not simply what technology is doing, but what they should do differently because of it.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Mike Walsh's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Mike Walsh keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Mike with other leading AI, futurist and future-of-business keynote speakers
Is Mike Walsh Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about AI and the future ahead.
We'll help you determine whether Mike is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an AI summit, executive conference, leadership meeting or association event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mike Walsh as your keynote speaker.
Duncan Wardle
Former Walt Disney Executive & Speaker on Innovation and Creativity
About
Duncan Wardle: Former Disney Head of Innovation and Creativity | Speaker on Creative Thinking and Practical Innovation
Why Book Duncan Wardle?
Duncan connects curiosity with practical approaches to problem-solving. His presentations invite teams to question their usual answers, make room for different perspectives, and create conditions in which people feel able to contribute.
Why Is Duncan Wardle Right for Your Audience?
Duncan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation meetings, marketing events, and company gatherings. Consider him when an organization wants more people to participate in creative problem-solving.
Book Duncan when your audience needs to:
- Question habitual answers to familiar problems
- Build confidence contributing ideas
- Invite perspectives beyond their immediate team
- Make room for curiosity in daily work
- Support constructive creative risk-taking
- Develop a more inclusive approach to innovation
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More confident exploring their own creativity
- Ready to reconsider an assumption behind a problem
- Introduced to practical idea-generation approaches
- More aware of how team culture affects participation
- Focused on a new way to approach a current challenge
Keynote Programs
The Theory of Creativity™
Duncan explores the human capacity for imagination and practical ways to develop it. Ideal for broad employee and innovation audiences.
Embedding Innovation into Everyone’s DNA
Duncan examines how leaders can build an environment where more people contribute creative ideas. Ideal for managers and culture-focused events.
Is Duncan Wardle Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the problems your teams need to approach differently and the creative participation you want to encourage. We can help select Duncan’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.