Leadership Keynote Speakers
Scott Greenberg
Business Motivational Speaker Helps Leaders & Franchisees Engage Employees, Serve Customers and Grow their Business
About
Scott Greenberg: Author of The Wealthy Franchisee and Stop the Shift Show | Former Franchise Owner | Speaker on Frontline Leadership and Business Performance
Why Book Scott Greenberg?
His perspective includes experience as a franchise owner. Scott brings an operator’s understanding of staffing pressures, customer expectations, and the challenge of translating a business plan into consistent execution on the frontline.
Why Is Scott Greenberg Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for franchise conferences, retail and hospitality events, manager meetings, and service business programs. Consider him when supervisors need practical ideas for engaging employees and improving the experience customers receive.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Develop more effective frontline managers
- Improve the way hourly employees are supported
- Connect daily management habits with customer service
- Strengthen coaching and accountability
- Examine assumptions that limit business performance
- Create more consistency across teams or locations
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on behaviors that support frontline performance
- Ready to reconsider a management habit
- More aware of obstacles facing hourly employees
- Equipped with ideas for coaching and team development
- Focused on an improvement they can apply in their operation
Keynote Programs
Stop the Shift Show
Scott explores how managers can develop and support hourly teams. Ideal for retail, hospitality, franchise, and service organizations seeking stronger frontline leadership.
The Wealthy Franchisee
Scott examines the habits and decisions behind effective franchise operations. Ideal for franchise owners and operators looking to strengthen their approach to business performance.
Is Scott Greenberg Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the staffing, management, or operating challenges your audience needs to address. We can help select Scott’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Nikki Greenberg: Futurist and Innovation Strategist | Founder of Women in PropTech | Speaker on AI and the Future of Real Estate
Why Book Nikki Greenberg?
Nikki is especially compelling where technology meets the physical world. She helps audiences consider how changing expectations will affect the places people live, work, and visit. Her presentations give event planners a way to open a useful conversation about investment, innovation, and long-term priorities.
Why Is Nikki Greenberg Right for Your Audience?
Nikki is a strong fit for real estate conferences, construction and infrastructure events, urban planning forums, and executive meetings. She is particularly relevant when an organization wants to explore future possibilities and agree on where to focus its attention next.
Book Nikki when your audience needs to:
- Explore how technology could change its industry
- Reconsider assumptions about future customers and communities
- Connect innovation with business and property decisions
- Think beyond the next project or planning cycle
- Identify questions to guide a technology investment
- Build a shared direction for future initiatives
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- With a broader perspective on the changes ahead
- Ready to question assumptions in existing plans
- Better prepared to discuss technology with colleagues
- Clearer on the people their future investments should serve
- Motivated to identify a practical next step
Keynote Programs
Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry
Nikki examines AI, generational change, and workplace evolution, with a framework for moving ideas into action. Ideal for leadership and industry conferences.
The World in 2050: Preparing Cities for Future Generations
Nikki explores how demographic shifts and technology could reshape cities. Ideal for public sector, infrastructure, and urban development audiences.
Today to 2050: Creating the Future of Real Estate
Nikki considers how AI, automation, and changing demand will influence property development and use. Ideal for real estate investors, developers, and property leaders.
Introduction to AI: Eliminate Your Busywork — Workshop
This hands-on session introduces practical uses of AI tools for everyday tasks. Available as a keynote add-on for teams seeking a more applied learning experience.
Is Nikki Greenberg Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes affecting your industry, and the decisions you want people to think about differently. We can help select Nikki’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Suneel Gupta
Keynote Speaker & Expert on Connecting Well-Being & Performance, Bestselling Author, Healthcare Entrepreneur
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Suneel Gupta: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, High Performance & Wellbeing | Bestselling Author | Harvard Medical School Faculty | Entrepreneur
Perform at Your Best—Without Burning Out
How do you sustain high performance when the pace of work never seems to slow down?
Suneel Gupta is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and sought-after keynote speaker on leadership, performance and wellbeing who helps people bring greater energy, focus and resilience to their work—without sacrificing their wellbeing.
Why Book Suneel Gupta?
Suneel addresses one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: how to maintain high performance when people are stretched, distracted and increasingly exhausted.
Rather than asking people to simply work harder, Suneel shows them how to manage their energy, reconnect with purpose and build sustainable habits that improve both performance and wellbeing.
His warm, engaging style combines research, storytelling and highly practical ideas, creating a keynote experience that inspires audiences while giving them clear strategies they can put into action.
What Makes Suneel Gupta Different?
- Performance without burnout — a timely message for today's demanding workplace
- Research-backed strategies — practical ideas grounded in behavioral science and real-world experience
- Immediately actionable — tools audiences can begin using right away
- Engaging storyteller — combines business insights, personal stories and memorable examples
- Relevant across organizations — ideal for leaders, teams and high-performance cultures
- Customizable — Suneel can connect his message directly to your organization's priorities
Why Is Suneel Right for Your Audience?
Suneel is an excellent choice when you want your audience to leave energized, focused and equipped to perform at a higher level without running themselves into the ground.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, healthcare events, association conferences and organizations navigating demanding periods of growth or change.
Book Suneel when your audience needs to:
- Sustain energy in a high-pressure environment
- Improve focus and overcome distraction
- Build resilience without accepting burnout
- Reconnect daily work with a stronger sense of purpose
- Create healthier approaches to high performance
- Strengthen engagement and motivation
- Turn good intentions into consistent action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to manage their energy throughout demanding days
- Equipped with practical strategies for sustainable high performance
- More focused on the work that matters most
- Better prepared to recognize and address burnout
- Ready to build habits that support performance and wellbeing
- Inspired to bring greater purpose and momentum to their work
Suneel Gupta Keynote Programs
Momentum: How to Sustain High Performance: What if the secret to getting more done isn't managing your time—but managing your energy?
Suneel challenges traditional ideas about productivity and shows audiences how to build the energy and momentum needed to perform consistently. Drawing from his bestselling work, he shares practical techniques for overcoming exhaustion, improving focus and sustaining performance.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings and high-performance teams.
Everyday Dharma: Finding Purpose in What You Do: Purpose doesn't have to mean changing careers. It can mean changing the way you approach the work you're already doing.
Suneel helps audiences reconnect who they are with what they do. He shares practical strategies for discovering greater meaning in everyday work and using that sense of purpose to strengthen motivation, resilience and performance.
Ideal for: Leadership, culture, employee engagement, transformation and workplace wellbeing events.
Wellbeing Is the New Leadership Advantage
Today's leaders face a difficult challenge: delivering ambitious results while creating an environment where people can continue performing at their best.
Suneel explores how leaders can create the conditions for sustainable performance by paying closer attention to energy, purpose, resilience and human connection.
Ideal for: Executive audiences, leadership meetings, healthcare organizations and organizations focused on culture and employee performance.
Why Book Suneel Gupta Through The Sweeney Agency?
Choosing the right keynote speaker is about more than finding an impressive name. The speaker needs to connect with your audience, understand your objectives and deliver a message that supports what you want people to do differently after the event.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Suneel Gupta's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Suneel Gupta keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Suneel with other leading leadership, performance and wellbeing speakers
Is Suneel Gupta Right for Your Event?
Tell us what your people are facing—and what you want them to think, feel or do differently after the keynote.
We'll help you determine whether Suneel is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, corporate meeting or sales kickoff? Contact The Sweeney Agency today to discuss booking Suneel Gupta as your keynote speaker.
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Kristen Hadeed: Founder of Student Maid | Author of Permission to Screw Up | Speaker on Human Leadership, Trust and Workplace Culture
Why Book Kristen Hadeed?
Kristen brings openness to a subject that can feel intimidating. Her presentations encourage leaders to acknowledge what they do not know, take responsibility for their impact, and make room for the humanity of the people they lead.
Why Is Kristen Hadeed Right for Your Audience?
Kristen is a strong fit for leadership conferences, manager development, company meetings, and culture initiatives. Consider her when an organization wants more candid feedback and a stronger sense of trust between leaders and employees.
Book Kristen when your audience needs to:
- Build trust through greater openness
- Deliver feedback with clarity and care
- Respond constructively to mistakes
- Develop confidence in difficult conversations
- Strengthen connection between managers and employees
- Take responsibility for their leadership impact
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on what human leadership can look like in practice
- Ready to approach a difficult conversation more thoughtfully
- More aware of how their behavior affects trust
- Equipped with ideas for giving and receiving feedback
- Focused on a relationship they can strengthen
Keynote Programs
Ignite Human Leadership
Kristen explores how leaders can build a culture that values people and supports growth. Ideal for leadership events and organizations reconsidering their approach to management.
Courageous Conversations
Kristen focuses on delivering and accepting feedback in ways that build trust. Ideal for managers and teams seeking clearer communication and more productive working relationships.
Is Kristen Hadeed Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership relationships and conversations you want to improve. We can help select Kristen’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.
DeDe Halfill
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Keynote Speaker, and Advisor helping leaders Master the Unseen™
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DeDe Halfhill: Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel | Leadership Advisor | Speaker on Trust, Courage and Connection
Why Book DeDe Halfhill?
Her presentations invite leaders to look beneath visible performance problems and consider what people may be experiencing. DeDe connects empathy with leadership responsibility, encouraging audiences to ask better questions and have conversations that move a team forward.
Why Is DeDe Halfhill Right for Your Audience?
DeDe is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, manager development, and women’s leadership events. Consider her when teams face uncertainty and leaders need to strengthen trust while maintaining clear expectations.
Book DeDe when your audience needs to:
- Build trust during pressure and change
- Recognize emotional dynamics within a team
- Have difficult conversations with greater courage
- Balance empathy with clear expectations
- Examine their influence as a leader
- Strengthen connection across roles and responsibilities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of what may sit beneath a team’s challenges
- Ready to ask more useful leadership questions
- Clearer on the relationship between trust and connection
- Equipped with ideas for approaching difficult conversations
- Focused on a leadership behavior they can practice
Keynote Programs
Forged: Leadership That Holds When Everything Else Is Shifting
DeDe explores leadership amid uncertainty and pressure. Ideal for executives and managers responsible for guiding people through change.
Connection Is the Competitive Edge: The Advantage No One Talks About, But Everyone Feels
DeDe examines the often-overlooked role of connection in team performance. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger trust and more effective working relationships.
Is DeDe Halfhill Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressures your leaders face and the trust you want them to build. We can help select DeDe’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.
Gary Hamel
World-Renowned Speaker on Strategy and Innovation, Author of Leading the Revolution.
About
Gary Hamel: Management Thinker | Co-Author of Humanocracy | Speaker on Innovation, Organizational Change and Leadership
Why Book Gary Hamel?
Gary brings a strategic perspective to the way work is organized. His presentations challenge audiences to consider whether their systems help people respond to change—or make it harder for them to act when a better approach is needed.
Why Is Gary Hamel Right for Your Audience?
Gary is a strong fit for executive conferences, leadership retreats, innovation programs, and organizational transformation events. Consider him when leaders want to rethink how authority, resources, and opportunities are distributed across the business.
Book Gary when your audience needs to:
- Identify management habits that restrict initiative
- Make innovation a broader organizational responsibility
- Give employees more ownership of their work
- Challenge unnecessary bureaucracy
- Build greater adaptability into the organization
- Connect leadership development with real opportunities to act
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how management systems influence behavior
- Ready to examine a process that slows progress
- More aware of untapped ideas within their organization
- Equipped with questions for designing more adaptable teams
- Focused on an experiment that could give people greater ownership
Keynote Programs
Humanocracy
Gary explores organizational approaches that make more use of people’s creativity and judgment. Ideal for executive teams reconsidering how their business operates.
Vanquishing Bureaucracy
Gary examines the costs of excessive hierarchy and control. Ideal for organizations seeking greater speed, initiative, and flexibility.
Making Innovation Everyone’s Job
Gary considers how innovation can become an everyday capability. Ideal for leadership and company audiences seeking wider participation in improvement.
Is Gary Hamel Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the organizational barriers you want to address and the changes you want leaders to consider. We can help select Gary’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.
Heather Hansen
Keynote Speaker on Leadership & Sales, Best-selling Author & Award-winning Trial Lawyer
About
Heather Hansen: Trial Lawyer | Author of The Elegant Warrior | Speaker on Communication, Advocacy and Influence
Why Book Heather Hansen?
Heather brings the tools of an advocate into workplace conversations. Her presentations help audiences consider the evidence behind their message, understand another person’s perspective, and speak with greater confidence when the outcome matters.
Why Is Heather Hansen Right for Your Audience?
Heather is a strong fit for sales meetings, leadership conferences, healthcare events, and women’s leadership programs. Consider her when your audience needs to explain its value, influence decisions, or handle challenging conversations more effectively.
Book Heather when your audience needs to:
- Advocate for ideas with greater clarity
- Build credibility through evidence and preparation
- Listen for the perspective behind an objection
- Communicate with compassion under pressure
- Speak more confidently about their contribution
- Support colleagues in making their voices heard
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the relationship between credibility and influence
- Ready to prepare a stronger case for an idea
- More aware of opportunities to listen and connect
- Equipped with an advocacy framework for workplace conversations
- Focused on a message they can communicate more effectively
Keynote Programs
The Compassionate Charisma™ Formula
Heather connects compassion, credibility, and charisma with persuasive communication. Ideal for leaders, sales teams, healthcare professionals, and customer-facing audiences.
The Elegant Warrior
Heather focuses on helping women advocate for their ideas, teams, and opportunities. Ideal for women’s leadership programs and professional development events.
Is Heather Hansen Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to handle and the ideas they need to communicate. We can help select Heather’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 O. Harris
U.S. Air Force Officer Special Operations Pilot, U.S.A.F. Academy Instructor, Motivating Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork
About
Jason O. Harris: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Trust & High-Performance Teams | Former U.S. Air Force Officer | Fighter Pilot | Author
Build a Culture People Choose to Own
What separates teams that simply show up from teams that take ownership, trust one another and consistently perform at a high level?
Jason O. Harris is a leadership keynote speaker, former U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot who helps organizations build cultures of trust, accountability and commitment.
Drawing on lessons from aviation, military leadership and business, Jason shows leaders and teams how to create environments where people communicate openly, take ownership and work together when the pressure is on.
Why Book Jason O. Harris?
Jason brings a powerful perspective to one of the biggest challenges facing leaders today: how do you create a culture where people genuinely want to contribute, collaborate and perform?
His message goes beyond traditional motivation. Jason gives audiences practical principles for strengthening trust, increasing accountability and creating greater commitment across teams.
Using compelling aviation stories and real-world leadership lessons, Jason delivers a keynote that is engaging, memorable and directly relevant to today's workplace.
What Makes Jason O. Harris Different?
- Real leadership experience — lessons forged in demanding, high-stakes environments
- Powerful aviation stories — memorable experiences that reinforce practical business lessons
- Focus on trust and accountability — essential ingredients of high-performing teams
- Immediately actionable — strategies leaders and employees can put into practice
- Relevant across organizations — connects with leaders, sales teams and frontline employees
- Customizable — Jason can align his message with your organization's culture and objectives
Why Is Jason Right for Your Audience?
Jason is an excellent choice when you want your people to take greater ownership, strengthen relationships and work more effectively together.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales meetings, corporate events, association conferences and organizations focused on strengthening culture and performance.
Book Jason when your audience needs to:
- Build greater trust across teams
- Take more ownership and accountability
- Strengthen collaboration across departments
- Communicate more effectively under pressure
- Build stronger relationships with colleagues and clients
- Increase engagement and commitment
- Create a culture of consistent high performance
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding why trust is fundamental to performance
- Better equipped to take ownership of their responsibilities
- Ready to strengthen communication and collaboration
- More aware of the behaviors that build—or weaken—team culture
- Equipped with practical strategies for greater accountability
- Motivated to become stronger teammates and leaders
Jason O. Harris Keynote Programs
No Fail Trust™: High-performing teams don't leave trust to chance. They build it deliberately.
Drawing on his experience as a U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, Jason explores the principles that allow people to trust one another when performance matters most.
Audiences discover how individual behaviors influence trust, accountability, communication and ultimately organizational performance.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs and high-performance teams.
Building High-Performance Teams: Great teams aren't created by talent alone. They're built through trust, ownership and shared commitment.
Jason shows audiences how to create stronger connections, increase accountability and develop the behaviors that allow individuals to perform effectively as part of a team.
Ideal for: Teamwork, leadership, culture and organizational-performance events.
Leading Through Trust
Leaders don't simply manage performance—they create the environment in which performance happens.
Jason helps leaders understand how their everyday actions influence trust, engagement and accountability. Audiences leave with practical strategies for creating teams where people feel empowered to contribute and take ownership.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development programs and organizations navigating growth or change.
Why Book Jason O. Harris Through The Sweeney Agency?
Finding the right keynote speaker is about more than choosing someone with an impressive story. The speaker needs to connect that experience directly to your audience and the results you want from your event.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Jason O. Harris's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Jason O. Harris keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Jason with other leading leadership, teamwork and motivational speakers
Is Jason O. Harris Right for Your Event?
Tell us where you want to see greater trust, accountability or collaboration in your organization.
We'll help you determine whether Jason is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, corporate meeting or sales kickoff? Contact The Sweeney Agency today to discuss booking Jason O. Harris as your keynote speaker.
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Sterling Hawkins
Keynote Speaker on Growth, Performance, Overcoming Adversity and Transformational Leadership
About
Sterling Hawkins: Author of Hunting Discomfort | Entrepreneur | Speaker on Commitment, Change and Growth
Why Book Sterling Hawkins?
Sterling draws on entrepreneurial experience and his own setbacks to make the message tangible. His presentations challenge leaders and teams to identify what they are willing to own, how they will seek support, and what they will do when a familiar approach stops working.
Why Is Sterling Hawkins Right for Your Audience?
Sterling is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, company meetings, and transformation events. Consider him when people need to move from agreement about a goal to a clearer commitment to acting on it.
Book Sterling when your audience needs to:
- Take greater ownership of important goals
- Respond constructively when plans become difficult
- Address uncomfortable conversations
- Support one another through uncertainty
- Challenge habits that restrict growth
- Connect stated commitments with visible actions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a commitment they want to strengthen
- Ready to identify a difficult action they have avoided
- More aware of patterns that limit their response to change
- Equipped with language for discussing shared accountability
- Focused on following through under pressure
Keynote Programs
No Matter What: Become Who the Moment Requires
Sterling explores commitment and the choices required when familiar habits no longer serve a goal. Ideal for leadership, sales, and culture events.
The Threshold: Leading Through Uncertainty and Change
Sterling examines how leaders and teams approach disruption and the discomfort it creates. Ideal for organizations navigating transformation.
Is Sterling Hawkins Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the commitments your people need to make and the changes they need to work through. We can help select Sterling’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.
Dan Heath
Dan Heath: Author of Reset and Upstream | Co-Author of Switch and The Power of Moments | Speaker on Change and Problem-Solving Why Book Dan Heath? Dan Heath helps organizations find a better way to tackle problems that keep returning. Author of Reset a …
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Dan Heath: Author of Reset and Upstream | Co-Author of Switch and The Power of Moments | Speaker on Change and Problem-Solving
Why Book Dan Heath?
Dan’s presentations invite audiences to examine where their effort goes and what could make that effort more useful. Whether discussing prevention, change, or meaningful experiences, he gives teams a shared framework for questioning familiar practices and planning a better approach.
Why Is Dan Heath Right for Your Audience?
Dan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, healthcare and education events, and customer experience programs. Consider him when a team needs fresh thinking about persistent problems or the challenge of turning good intentions into progress.
Book Dan when your audience needs to:
- Look for the causes behind recurring problems
- Understand obstacles to behavior change
- Identify where effort could have greater impact
- Create more meaningful customer or employee experiences
- Translate an idea into a clearer course of action
- Challenge routines that keep producing the same results
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Ready to examine a recurring problem differently
- Clearer on how conditions influence behavior
- More aware of opportunities for prevention
- Equipped with a framework for discussing change
- Focused on an improvement they can begin exploring
Keynote Programs
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
Dan examines how teams can identify and address problems earlier. Ideal for leaders and organizations caught in repeated cycles of reaction.
Leading a Switch
Dan introduces a framework for helping people change their behavior. Ideal for transformation initiatives and leadership development.
The Power of Moments
Dan explores how defining experiences are created and why they matter. Ideal for customer experience, employee engagement, and service audiences.
Is Dan Heath Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the problems you want to solve and the changes you want attendees to consider. We can help select Dan’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.
Sheila Heen
CEO, Triad Consulting; Lecturer, Harvard Law School; Co-Author, Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback
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Sheila Heen: Harvard Law School Professor of Practice | Co-Author of Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback | Speaker on Communication and Conflict
Why Book Sheila Heen?
Sheila examines why people can hear the same message so differently and how a conversation can become more productive. Her presentations encourage curiosity alongside clarity, helping audiences consider another perspective while still addressing what matters.
Why Is Sheila Heen Right for Your Audience?
Sheila is a strong fit for leadership conferences, manager development, sales and service meetings, and executive teams. Consider her when difficult conversations are being postponed or feedback is creating defensiveness rather than useful learning.
Book Sheila when your audience needs to:
- Prepare for difficult conversations more thoughtfully
- Discuss disagreements without escalating tension
- Receive feedback with greater curiosity
- Separate an intended message from its impact
- Address relationship concerns alongside business issues
- Make expectations and next steps clearer
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of what makes conversations difficult
- Ready to explore another person’s perspective
- Clearer on their own reactions to feedback
- Equipped with a framework for preparing a challenging discussion
- Focused on a conversation they can approach more constructively
Keynote Programs
Difficult Conversations
Sheila explores how to discuss important issues when emotions are high and views differ. Ideal for leaders and teams handling conflict or sensitive decisions.
Thanks for the Feedback
Sheila examines the challenges of receiving feedback and finding useful learning within it. Ideal for organizations strengthening coaching, development, and feedback conversations.
Is Sheila Heen Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to handle and the relationships you want to strengthen. We can help select Sheila’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. Rebecca Heiss: Stress Physiologist | Author of Springboard | Speaker on Stress, Change and Performance
Why Book Dr. Rebecca Heiss?
Rebecca combines energy, humor, and accessible explanations to invite a different relationship with challenge. Her presentations encourage people to recognize their reactions, reconsider what a difficult moment means, and choose a useful action rather than remain stuck in avoidance.
Why Is Dr. Rebecca Heiss Right for Your Audience?
Rebecca is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company meetings, and change initiatives. Consider her when people are facing new expectations and need a practical, engaging conversation about responding to pressure.
Book Rebecca when your audience needs to:
- Recognize their reactions to uncertainty
- Approach uncomfortable challenges more deliberately
- Maintain engagement during organizational change
- Respond to setbacks with a useful next step
- Support colleagues through demanding periods
- Connect confidence with action and practice
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how stress can influence their behavior
- Ready to reconsider their response to a challenge
- More aware of avoidance patterns
- Equipped with ideas for approaching pressure more deliberately
- Focused on an action they can take despite uncertainty
Keynote Programs
Excelling Through Uncertainty
Rebecca explores responding to change, fear, and unfamiliar demands. Ideal for leaders and teams navigating disruption.
The Stress Advantage: Harnessing the Power of Stress to Boost Performance
Rebecca presents her approach to understanding stress and using challenging moments more constructively. Ideal for sales, leadership, and broad employee audiences.
Is Dr. Rebecca Heiss Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressures your people face and the actions you want them to take with greater confidence. We can help select Rebecca’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.
Robert Herjavec
Inspiratonal Speaker, Best-selling Author, Founder & CEO of Herjavec Group and Leading Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank
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Robert Herjavec: Entrepreneur and Investor | Shark Tank Personality | Speaker on Business Growth, Sales and Entrepreneurship
Why Book Robert Herjavec?
Robert shares lessons about taking opportunities seriously, communicating business value, and continuing to move forward through setbacks. His experience gives audiences a familiar entry point into a substantive discussion about the choices behind entrepreneurial success.
Why Is Robert Herjavec Right for Your Audience?
Robert is a strong fit for entrepreneur conferences, sales kickoffs, leadership events, and client gatherings. Consider him when your audience wants business insight alongside a recognizable speaker who can bring energy to the conversation.
Book Robert when your audience needs to:
- Communicate the value of a business or idea
- Take greater ownership of growth opportunities
- Recognize the importance of customer needs
- Approach setbacks with greater persistence
- Stay engaged as technology changes
- Connect ambition with daily execution
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Ready to examine how they explain their value
- More aware of the discipline behind business growth
- Clearer on the role of customers in entrepreneurial decisions
- Motivated to pursue a meaningful opportunity
- Focused on a practical action that supports progress
Keynote Programs
Fast, Forward, and Focused
Robert explores technological change and the opportunities and risks it creates for business. Ideal for leaders and organizations adapting to a fast-moving market.
The Will to Win
Robert shares lessons about ambition, persistence, and taking responsibility for the future. Ideal for sales, entrepreneur, and broad business audiences.
Is Robert Herjavec Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the business goals your audience is pursuing and the decisions you want the event to inspire. We can help select Robert’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.
David Horsager
Author, Global Trust Expert, and Speaker on Leadership, Customer Service, Innovation and Sales
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David Horsager: CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute | Author of The Trust Edge | Speaker on Trust, Leadership and Business Relationships
Why Book David Horsager?
David connects trust with everyday decisions: setting expectations, demonstrating competence, and keeping commitments. His presentations give teams shared language for discussing a subject that can otherwise remain vague until a relationship breaks down.
Why Is David Horsager Right for Your Audience?
David is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings, and customer relationship events. Consider him when collaboration depends on stronger confidence in the people making decisions and delivering on promises.
Book David when your audience needs to:
- Make expectations and commitments clearer
- Strengthen credibility with colleagues and customers
- Recognize behaviors that undermine trust
- Build consistency between words and actions
- Improve accountability within working relationships
- Discuss trust as a leadership responsibility
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on David’s framework for building trust
- Ready to examine a behavior that affects their credibility
- More aware of the importance of consistent follow-through
- Equipped with language for discussing trust within a team
- Focused on a commitment they can make more reliably
Keynote Programs
The Trust Edge®: How Top Leaders and Organizations Drive Business Results through Trust
David introduces his approach to trust and its relevance to workplace performance. Ideal for leaders, sales teams, and broad company audiences.
Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars that Drive Results
David explores eight pillars of trust and the behaviors leaders can examine in their own work. Ideal for management meetings and leadership development programs.
Is David Horsager Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the relationships you want to strengthen and the commitments your people need to deliver. We can help select David’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Chad Hymas
World-Class Wheelchair Athlete and Speaker on Overcoming Adversity
About
Chad Hymas: Hall of Fame Speaker | Author and Safety Advocate | Speaker on Resilience, Accountability and Leadership
Why Book Chad Hymas?
Chad combines candid stories with humor and practical reflection. His presentations invite people to look at the choices they still have, the impact of their actions on others, and the importance of asking for help while taking ownership of what comes next.
Why Is Chad Hymas Right for Your Audience?
Chad is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales events, and safety-focused gatherings. Consider him when your audience needs a memorable perspective on personal responsibility and responding to difficult circumstances.
Book Chad when your audience needs to:
- Take ownership of the choices they can influence
- Respond constructively when circumstances change
- Recognize how individual actions affect others
- Seek support while maintaining responsibility
- Reconnect with a meaningful goal
- Bring greater attention to safety and everyday decisions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A fresh perspective on adapting after adversity
- Ready to identify an action within their control
- More aware of the people affected by their choices
- Motivated to seek and offer useful support
- Focused on taking responsibility for a next step
Keynote Programs
Who Needs Legs When You Have Wings?
Chad shares lessons from rebuilding his life and finding new ways forward. Ideal for broad employee and motivational events.
Success and the Bird Next Door
Chad explores accountability, persistence, and responding to discouragement. Ideal for sales teams, entrepreneurs, and achievement-focused audiences.
Is Chad Hymas Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the responsibilities you want people to recognize and the challenges they need to work through. We can help select Chad’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Ryan Jenkins
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Leadership Author, and #1 Team Connection & Generations Expert
About
Ryan Jenkins: Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Connectable | Speaker on Team Connection and Generations
Why Book Ryan Jenkins?
Ryan shows audiences how remote and hybrid work, advancing technology, and assumptions about age can affect collaboration, then offers ways to build trust across teams. His presentations can also include interactive connection experiences that help attendees put the message into practice during the event.
Why Is Ryan Jenkins Right for Your Audience?
Ryan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, HR events, and gatherings focused on teamwork or the future of work. He is especially valuable when an organization wants to improve collaboration across locations, functions, and generations.
Book Ryan when your audience needs to:
- Strengthen connection among team members
- Build trust across remote and in-person work
- Address isolation and disengagement at work
- Communicate more effectively across generations
- Engage and retain emerging talent
- Turn a discussion about culture into practical team habits
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the everyday factors that weaken team connection
- Equipped with ways to build more trusting relationships
- Better able to work across generational differences
- Ready to identify colleagues who may feel disconnected
- Focused on actions that improve collaboration and engagement
Keynote Programs
Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In
Based on Ryan’s bestselling book, this keynote examines why employees can feel disconnected even when they are in constant contact. He gives leaders a practical approach to building stronger relationships and more engaged teams. Ideal for leadership and company-wide events.
Lead & Work Across Generations: Strategies to Connect and Engage a Multigenerational Workforce
Ryan helps audiences understand different expectations around work and communication without relying on stereotypes. He offers ways to turn age diversity into better teamwork and shared progress. Ideal for organizations with multiple generations working side by side.
Attract, Connect, & Retain Generation Z
Ryan explores how leaders can communicate with and engage emerging talent while strengthening the relationships between newer and more experienced employees. Ideal for people leaders and organizations planning for the next generation of their workforce.
Is Ryan Jenkins Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your teams need stronger connection and which generational challenges matter most to your audience. We can help choose Ryan’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.
Dane Jensen
Acclaimed speaker, Media Commentator, Educator and Author of The Power of Pressure
