Leadership Keynote Speakers
Connie Podesta
Powerful Motivator and Humourist, Author, Educator, Licensed Counselor and Consultant.
About
Connie Podesta: Human Behavior Expert | Author and Humorist | Speaker on Communication, Change and Workplace Relationships
Why Book Connie Podesta?
Connie encourages audiences to consider their own part in an interaction. Her presentations connect self-awareness with practical questions about how people express needs, respond to different styles, and navigate uncertainty together.
Why Is Connie Podesta Right for Your Audience?
Connie is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, employee events, and organizations navigating change. Consider her when people need a candid, engaging conversation about how they work with others.
Book Connie when your audience needs to:
- Recognize patterns in their own communication
- Respond more thoughtfully to different working styles
- Discuss needs and expectations more clearly
- Navigate disagreements with greater self-awareness
- Adapt their response to changing conditions
- Take more responsibility for workplace relationships
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a communication habit they want to examine
- Ready to approach a conversation differently
- More aware of their own reaction to conflict
- Equipped with questions for understanding colleagues
- Focused on a practical relationship improvement
Keynote Programs
StandOut Communication
Connie explores connection, collaboration, and the way people communicate needs. Ideal for sales, leadership, and employee audiences.
StandOut Change
Connie examines responses to uncertainty and shifting workplace conditions. Ideal for organizations moving through change.
StandOut Success
Connie invites people to examine the alignment between their choices and their definition of success. Ideal for professional development programs.
Is Connie Podesta Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to have and the relationships you want to strengthen. We can help select Connie’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Dr. Sian Proctor
Space Artist, Afrofuturist, Commercial Astronaut, and Motivational speaker
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Dr. Sian Proctor: Inspiration4 Mission Pilot | Geoscientist and Artist | Speaker on Exploration, Creativity and Opportunity
Why Book Dr. Sian Proctor?
Sian connects exploration with the choices people make on Earth. Her presentations encourage audiences to consider different ways of contributing, work across disciplines, and recognize the perspective that new experiences can bring.
Why Is Dr. Sian Proctor Right for Your Audience?
Sian is a strong fit for STEM conferences, leadership events, education programs, and employee gatherings. Consider her when an audience needs a fresh connection between exploration, inclusion, and human possibility.
Book Sian when your audience needs to:
- Approach new opportunities with curiosity
- Connect creative and technical perspectives
- Recognize the value of diverse contributions
- Learn from unfamiliar environments
- Build relationships beyond their immediate field
- Consider how their work connects with a larger purpose
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a possibility they want to explore
- Ready to connect with a different perspective
- More aware of the relationship between creativity and discovery
- Encouraged to recognize their own contribution
- With a broader view of exploration and teamwork
Keynote Programs
Presentations can be tailored around the following areas:
Leadership Lessons from Analog Missions
Sian draws on simulated exploration experiences to discuss leadership and collaboration. Ideal for team and management audiences.
Creativity, Connection and Opportunity
Sian connects her journey in science, art, and spaceflight with possibilities for growth. Ideal for STEM, education, and broad employee audiences.
Is Dr. Sian Proctor Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the opportunities you want people to explore and the perspectives you want to bring together. We can help select Sian’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Erik Qualman: Author of The Focus Project | Digital Leadership Speaker | Speaker on Focus, Technology and Organizational Change
Why Book Erik Qualman?
Erik makes the conversation relevant to everyday priorities. His presentations encourage audiences to consider where they direct their time, how their digital behavior affects other people, and what they need to learn as new capabilities emerge.
Why Is Erik Qualman Right for Your Audience?
Erik is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and employee programs. Consider him when an audience needs a more intentional approach to focus and digital change.
Book Erik when your audience needs to:
- Direct attention toward important priorities
- Review habits that encourage distraction
- Connect digital behavior with leadership impact
- Consider the human side of technology adoption
- Approach emerging tools with greater curiosity
- Build stronger relationships across digital and in-person settings
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the difference between activity and priority
- Ready to review a distracting work habit
- More aware of the impression their digital behavior creates
- Equipped with questions about technology and human connection
- Focused on a manageable change in how they work
Keynote Programs
Digital Leadership
Erik explores leadership habits in a changing digital environment. Ideal for management and employee audiences.
Focus: How to Focus in an Unfocused World
Erik examines choosing meaningful priorities amid distraction. Ideal for teams seeking a more deliberate use of attention.
Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Your Future… Today
Erik considers AI through a leadership and business lens. Ideal for organizations exploring technology change.
Is Erik Qualman Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the priorities your audience needs to focus on and the digital changes it needs to understand. We can help select Erik’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Johnny Quinn
Former Pro Football Wide Receiver, U.S. Bobsled Olympian, and Inspirational Speaker on Change
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Johnny Quinn: U.S. Olympic Bobsledder | Former Professional Football Player | Speaker on Readiness, Resilience and Team Performance
Why Book Johnny Quinn?
Johnny connects the story with the routines that support performance. His presentations encourage people to stay prepared for opportunity, work with the resources around them, and choose a constructive next step after disappointment.
Why Is Johnny Quinn Right for Your Audience?
Johnny is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, employee events, and performance programs. Consider him when teams need renewed commitment to preparation and consistent effort.
Book Johnny when your audience needs to:
- Build routines that support readiness
- Respond constructively to rejection
- Strengthen collaboration under pressure
- Prepare for opportunities before they arrive
- Connect ambitious goals with disciplined effort
- Take a useful next step after a setback
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a preparation habit they want to strengthen
- Ready to reconsider their response to disappointment
- More aware of the team behind performance
- Encouraged to remain open to a different path
- Focused on consistent actions within their control
Keynote Programs
Push What’s Possible
Johnny explores preparation and teamwork through his athletic journey. Ideal for sales and performance-focused audiences.
When “No” Means Next
Johnny examines responding to rejection and finding another direction. Ideal for teams navigating setbacks or change.
Winning Leadership
Johnny connects leadership with the preparation and collaboration behind team performance. Ideal for management meetings.
Is Johnny Quinn Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the goals your audience is pursuing and the preparation or resilience it needs to strengthen. We can help select Johnny’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Marc Randolph
About Marc Randolph – Netflix Cofounder, Bestselling Author, Executive Mentor
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Marc Randolph: Netflix Co-Founder and First CEO | Author of That Will Never Work | Speaker on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Why Book Marc Randolph?
Marc connects the startup story with practical questions about experimentation and focus. His presentations encourage people to test assumptions, learn from evidence, and consider what they should change as an idea develops.
Why Is Marc Randolph Right for Your Audience?
Marc is a strong fit for entrepreneurship conferences, executive meetings, innovation events, and company gatherings. Consider him when an organization wants an engaging story that opens a more practical discussion about trying new ideas.
Book Marc when your audience needs to:
- Test ideas before making large commitments
- Use evidence to challenge assumptions
- Learn more deliberately from early experiments
- Maintain focus as opportunities multiply
- Respond resourcefully when plans change
- Create more room for entrepreneurial thinking
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an assumption they should test
- Ready to identify a manageable experiment
- More aware of the choices behind a startup’s development
- Equipped with questions about evidence and focus
- Encouraged to turn an idea into a practical test
Keynote Programs
NETFLIXED
Marc shares the early Netflix story and the decisions surrounding its development. Ideal for business audiences seeking a personal perspective on innovation, persistence, testing, and entrepreneurial focus.
Is Marc Randolph Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the ideas your audience wants to develop and the innovation habits you want to encourage. We can help select Marc’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Michelle Ray
Sought-After Keynote Speaker on Change, Communication and Leadership.
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Michelle Ray: Leadership Expert | Speaker on Change, Communication and Leading in Real Time
Why Book Michelle Ray?
Michelle brings the discussion into everyday leadership situations. Her presentations encourage people to examine how they listen, respond to uncertainty, and show up when a familiar approach no longer meets the needs of the moment.
Why Is Michelle Ray Right for Your Audience?
Michelle is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management meetings, employee events, and organizations navigating transition. Consider her when leaders need to be more responsive and intentional in their relationships.
Book Michelle when your audience needs to:
- Respond more thoughtfully to changing conditions
- Build trust through everyday communication
- Strengthen relationships with employees
- Examine their own leadership habits
- Give clearer direction during uncertainty
- Connect authenticity with visible behavior
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a leadership response they want to improve
- Ready to approach a team conversation differently
- More aware of how their behavior affects trust
- Equipped with questions about changing employee needs
- Focused on a practical next leadership action
Keynote Programs
Real-Time Leadership
Michelle explores being ready and responsive in a changing environment. Ideal for managers and leaders navigating uncertainty.
The Transformational Leader
Michelle examines authenticity and the relationships leaders build with their teams. Ideal for leadership development and management programs.
Is Michelle Ray Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes your leaders face and the working relationships you want them to strengthen. We can help select Michelle’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Tara Renze
Tara Renze: Author and Leadership Speaker | Speaker on Emotional Intelligence, Self-Awareness and Team Culture Why Book Tara Renze? Tara Renze helps leaders examine the emotional habits they bring into demanding situations. Drawing on corporate leaders …
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Tara Renze: Author and Leadership Speaker | Speaker on Emotional Intelligence, Self-Awareness and Team Culture
Why Book Tara Renze?
Tara brings emotional intelligence into practical leadership conversations. Her presentations encourage audiences to notice their reactions, consider the effect they have on others, and choose behaviors that support clearer communication and trust.
Why Is Tara Renze Right for Your Audience?
Tara is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, women’s leadership events, and employee development programs. Consider her when people need to lead themselves more deliberately while supporting others.
Book Tara when your audience needs to:
- Recognize their emotional responses under pressure
- Communicate with greater self-awareness
- Build more constructive working relationships
- Approach conflict more thoughtfully
- Connect leadership intentions with daily behavior
- Support a more trusting team environment
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a response they want to practice
- Ready to review a habit that affects colleagues
- More aware of the role of self-awareness in leadership
- Equipped with questions for navigating a difficult interaction
- Focused on a behavior that supports trust
Keynote Programs
The Human Edge
Tara explores emotional intelligence practices for leadership under pressure. Ideal for managers and teams facing demanding conditions.
The Secrets to Level Up Your Leadership
Tara connects self-awareness and adaptability with team culture. Ideal for leadership development and management events.
Is Tara Renze Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership situations your people face and the emotional intelligence skills you want to strengthen. We can help select Tara’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
April Rinne
Global Authority on the New Economy, Future of Work, and Navigating Constant Change, Humanistic Futurist
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April Rinne: Author of Flux | Change Navigator and Futurist | Speaker on Adaptability and Navigating Uncertainty
Why Book April Rinne?
April encourages audiences to examine the assumptions they carry into unfamiliar circumstances. Her presentations offer a way to discuss adaptability as an ongoing practice, helping people identify what they can reconsider when the future does not follow a predictable path.
Why Is April Rinne Right for Your Audience?
April is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, strategy retreats, and organizations navigating transition. Consider her when people need a more open, intentional approach to uncertainty.
Book April when your audience needs to:
- Reconsider expectations about constant change
- Build greater comfort with not having every answer
- Question assumptions about a predictable future
- Approach unfamiliar circumstances with curiosity
- Discuss adaptability more openly
- Identify a practical response to uncertainty
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on their own relationship with change
- Ready to examine an assumption that limits adaptability
- More aware of choices available in uncertain conditions
- Equipped with questions for navigating a transition
- Focused on a practice they can develop over time
Keynote Programs
Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
April explores practices for approaching an uncertain world with greater adaptability. Ideal for leaders and teams working through ongoing change in their organizations and careers.
Is April Rinne Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the transitions your audience faces and the adaptability you want it to develop. We can help select April’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Mel Robbins
Best-Selling Author, and Life-Changing Change and Motivational Speaker
About
Mel Robbins: Bestselling Author of The Let Them Theory | Host of The Mel Robbins Podcast | Speaker on Change and Motivation
Why Book Mel Robbins?
Her candid stories, humor, and energetic delivery make a large room feel personal. Mel gives people a way to take the next step, build confidence through action, and approach change with greater ownership.
Why Is Mel Robbins Right for Your Audience?
Mel is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings, and events focused on change or personal growth. She is especially relevant when people understand the goal but need help overcoming hesitation and following through.
Book Mel when your audience needs to:
- Take action on goals that have stalled
- Build confidence by starting before they feel ready
- Replace unhelpful habits with more useful ones
- Stay motivated through change and uncertainty
- Inspire colleagues and teams through everyday behavior
- Leave with a practical tool they can use immediately
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on why hesitation can keep them from making progress
- Equipped with a simple way to interrupt overthinking and act
- More aware of how small choices shape habits and results
- Ready to encourage themselves and the people around them
- Motivated to put one specific change into practice
Keynote Programs
The 5 Second Rule: The Simple Science-Backed Secret to Changing Anything
Mel introduces her signature tool for moving through hesitation and taking action. Through stories and practical examples, she shows audiences how five-second decisions can help them begin new habits, pursue goals, and respond to change. Ideal for an opening or closing keynote that calls people to act.
The High 5 Habit: How to Inspire Yourself and Those Around You to Be Their Best
Mel explores how people can support their own motivation and bring that encouragement to others. She connects the habit to leadership, team culture, and the way people show up for one another. Ideal for leadership and employee audiences seeking a more supportive mindset and a readiness to act.
Is Mel Robbins Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change you want to inspire, and what you want people to do after the event. We can help identify Mel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Dr. David Rock: Co-Founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute | Author of Your Brain at Work | Speaker on Leadership, Coaching and Behavior Change
Why Book Dr. David Rock?
David connects that perspective with the conversations managers have every day. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how they ask questions, give feedback, and create conditions that support learning and different ways of working.
Why Is Dr. David Rock Right for Your Audience?
David is a strong fit for leadership conferences, HR events, executive meetings, and management development programs. Consider him when an organization wants to strengthen the people skills behind its leadership practices.
Book David when your audience needs to:
- Develop more intentional coaching conversations
- Review the way feedback is exchanged
- Consider how work demands affect attention
- Support learning and behavior change
- Ask questions that help others think
- Connect leadership development with daily habits
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an aspect of their coaching approach
- Ready to reconsider a feedback conversation
- More aware of the role of attention in work
- Equipped with questions for supporting another person’s thinking
- Focused on a leadership habit they can practice
Keynote Programs
Options include Turning Managers Into Coaches and a tailored presentation on organizational change:
Turning Managers Into Coaches
David explores coaching as an everyday management capability. Ideal for leaders responsible for developing others.
The Human Side of Organizational Change
David connects leadership practices with learning and behavior change. Ideal for HR and executive audiences reviewing how they support transformation.
Is Dr. David Rock Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the people skills your leaders need to develop and the behavior changes your organization wants to support. We can help select David’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
About
Sara Ross Leadership & Workplace Expert | Founder & Chief Vitality Officer, BrainAMPED | Bestselling Author | Global Keynote Speaker
Lead FULL. Perform Better. Feel More Alive.
Sara Ross helps leaders and teams close the gap between excellence and energy—so they can achieve ambitious results without sacrificing the human capacity needed to sustain them.
Founder and Chief Vitality Officer of BrainAMPED and bestselling author of Dear Work: Something Has to Change, Sara combines behavioral science, real-world leadership experience, humor and practical strategies audiences can immediately put to work.
Why Book Sara Ross?
Sara tackles a challenge almost every organization is facing: How do we keep raising performance when people already feel stretched?
Rather than telling people to simply work less or find better balance, Sara shows them how to build the capacity, emotional intelligence and vitality needed to perform at their best.
Her high-energy style combines science, storytelling and practical tools—leaving audiences inspired and knowing what to do differently tomorrow.
What Makes Sara Different?
- Nearly two decades studying leadership and high performance
- Founder & Chief Vitality Officer of BrainAMPED
- Bestselling author of Dear Work: Something Has to Change
- Research informed by data from more than 10,000 high performers
- Combines behavioral science with practical business experience
- High-energy, humorous and highly relatable presentation style
- Customizes her presentations around the audience and organization
Why Is Sara Right for Your Audience?
Sara is an excellent choice when people need to perform, adapt and lead without running themselves into the ground.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales meetings, corporate events and organizations navigating significant change.
Book Sara when your audience needs to:
- Maintain high performance under pressure
- Build resilience during constant change
- Increase energy without lowering ambition
- Strengthen trust and collaboration
- Lead themselves and others more effectively
- Turn stress and uncertainty into productive action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to recognize what drains and generates their energy
- Equipped to move from reactivity toward greater leadership vitality
- More capable of sustaining excellence during demanding periods
- Ready to build greater trust, ownership and collaboration
- With practical strategies they can use immediately
- Energized to bring their best to both work and life
Keynote Programs
The LeadFULL Way: Where Excellence Meets Energy to Expand What Is Possible
Sara shows leaders how to close the Excellence-Energy Gap and build the capacity to meet increasing complexity without continually demanding more of themselves.
Audiences learn how to shift from reactive functioning toward greater vitality, ownership and sustainable excellence.
Ideal for leadership conferences, executive meetings and organizations asking people to accomplish more in demanding environments.
FULL Change: Transforming Stress, Uncertainty and Fear into Future-Ready Resilience
Change doesn't have to drain people.
Sara shows audiences how to shift from a reactive, stressed and change-fatigued state toward one that is more strategic, energized and resilient.
Ideal for organizations navigating transformation, uncertainty or significant organizational change.
FULL Energy: The Burnout Stops Here — Redefine Success, Unlock Energy and Boost Joy
Sara challenges the assumption that exhaustion is simply the price of ambition.
Drawing on her workplace vitality research, she provides science-backed strategies for directing energy more effectively, strengthening renewal and pursuing ambitious goals without sacrificing well-being.
Ideal for high performers, sales teams, leaders and organizations concerned about burnout and sustainable performance.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
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Contact us to:
- Confirm Sara's availability and current fee
- Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
- Discuss customization for your audience and event theme
- Explore keynote, workshop and interactive formats
- Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit
Is Sara Ross Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressures they are facing and what you want them to think, feel or do differently after the event.
We'll provide an honest assessment of Sara's fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you determine the presentation that will have the greatest impact.
Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Sara Ross.
Tim Sanders
Renowned Communication and Leadership Speaker, Author of The Likeability Factor
About
Tim Sanders: Former Yahoo Executive | Author of Love Is the Killer App | Speaker on AI Adoption and Collaboration
Why Book Tim Sanders?
Tim makes the conversation accessible through stories and business examples. His presentations encourage leaders to consider where AI fits their priorities and how cross-functional cooperation can support the work required to adopt it.
Why Is Tim Sanders Right for Your Audience?
Tim is a strong fit for executive conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider him when an organization wants a practical conversation about AI and the collaboration behind adoption.
Book Tim when your audience needs to:
- Connect AI initiatives with business priorities
- Discuss new capabilities across functions
- Recognize barriers created by organizational silos
- Include different perspectives in problem-solving
- Turn technology interest into clearer questions
- Build shared responsibility for implementation
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an AI opportunity worth examining
- Ready to discuss a priority across teams
- More aware of the human coordination adoption requires
- Equipped with questions about business relevance
- Focused on a practical next step toward alignment
Keynote Programs
Go Faster Into the Age of AI
Tim explores the decisions and cooperation involved in an organization’s AI journey. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.
AI Mega Trends from the Front Lines of the Business World
Tim connects AI developments with examples from business. Ideal for industry audiences seeking context for adoption and growth discussions.
Is Tim Sanders Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the AI questions your audience needs to explore and the collaboration you want to strengthen. We can help select Tim’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Ken Schmidt
Authentic Leadership and Customer Loyalty Expert; Senior Role in Harley-Davidson Turnaround; and Author, Make Some Noise: The Unconventional Road to Dominance
About
Ken Schmidt: Former Harley-Davidson Communications Leader | Speaker on Reputation, Differentiation and Customer Loyalty
Why Book Ken Schmidt?
Ken encourages organizations to look beyond descriptions of what they sell. His presentations challenge leaders to consider the experience they create, the stories customers share, and the behaviors that make a brand feel different.
Why Is Ken Schmidt Right for Your Audience?
Ken is a strong fit for sales meetings, leadership conferences, marketing events, and customer experience programs. Consider him when a business wants to strengthen differentiation in a crowded market.
Book Ken when your audience needs to:
- Clarify what makes their organization memorable
- Build more personal customer connections
- Look beyond product features in brand messaging
- Align behavior with the reputation they want
- Develop stories that communicate a distinct identity
- Recognize opportunities to improve customer interactions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the impression their business creates
- Ready to question a familiar brand message
- More aware of experiences that influence reputation
- Equipped with questions for developing a stronger story
- Focused on a customer interaction they can improve
Keynote Programs
Full Throttle
Ken explores differentiation and customer connection through lessons from Harley-Davidson. Ideal for sales, leadership, and service audiences.
Revving Up Reputation
Ken examines storytelling and the choices that shape how an organization is perceived. Ideal for marketing and executive programs.
Is Ken Schmidt Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the reputation you want to build and the customer relationships you want to strengthen. We can help select Ken’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Sam Silverstein
Leadership Keynote Speaker on Accountability, Best Selling Author
About
Sam Silverstein: Accountability Speaker and Author | Speaker on Leadership, Commitments and Workplace Culture
Why Book Sam Silverstein?
Sam encourages audiences to look beyond assigning responsibility for a task. His presentations ask leaders to consider whether their values, decisions, and relationships make it easier for people to take ownership and follow through.
Why Is Sam Silverstein Right for Your Audience?
Sam is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, sales events, and culture programs. Consider him when an organization wants accountability to be more visible in everyday behavior.
Book Sam when your audience needs to:
- Clarify commitments to colleagues and customers
- Connect organizational values with action
- Strengthen leadership responsibility for culture
- Build more consistent follow-through
- Examine barriers to personal ownership
- Discuss accountability through working relationships
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a commitment they need to honor
- Ready to review how leaders model accountability
- More aware of the relationship between values and behavior
- Equipped with questions about their team’s working culture
- Focused on a practical action that demonstrates ownership
Keynote Programs
The Accountability Advantage™
Sam explores the leadership choices and commitments behind an accountable culture. Ideal for executives, managers, and teams seeking a shared approach to ownership and consistent follow-through.
Is Sam Silverstein Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the commitments your people need to strengthen and the accountable culture you want to build. We can help select Sam’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Scott A. Snook
Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School and Speaker on Leadership Development
About
Scott Snook: Harvard Business School Executive Fellow | Retired U.S. Army Colonel | Speaker on Authentic Leadership and Leader Development
Why Book Scott Snook?
Scott uses cases, stories, and discussion to invite reflection. His presentations encourage audiences to question assumptions about motivation and leadership style, then connect those insights with the choices they make in their own teams.
Why Is Scott Snook Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for executive retreats, management conferences, leadership development programs, and senior team meetings. Consider him when an audience needs a thoughtful, interactive examination of its leadership approach.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Examine the values behind their leadership choices
- Question assumptions about motivating people
- Build greater self-awareness
- Consider different leadership approaches
- Connect personal development with team needs
- Reflect on the example they set for others
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on an aspect of their leadership identity
- Ready to reconsider a management assumption
- More aware of the influence of leadership style
- Equipped with questions for continued development
- Focused on a behavior they want to practice
Keynote Programs
Authentic Leadership Development
Scott explores the personal development behind effective leadership. Ideal for executives and managers seeking a deeper examination of their approach.
A Tale of Two Coaches
Scott uses contrasting coaching cases to prompt discussion about motivation and leadership. Ideal for interactive leadership meetings and development programs.
Is Scott Snook Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership assumptions you want to examine and the capabilities your audience needs to develop. We can help select Scott’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Alan Stein, Jr.
Speaker, Author, and former basketball Performance coach on helping business leaders create high-performance cultures
About
Alan Stein Jr.: Basketball Performance Coach | Author of Raise Your Game | Speaker on Performance, Leadership and Teamwork
Why Book Alan Stein Jr.?
The author of Raise Your Game emphasizes preparation, self-awareness, and disciplined practice. His presentations give audiences a way to examine their daily routines and the individual contributions that support a stronger team.
Why Is Alan Stein Jr. Right for Your Audience?
Alan is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company meetings, and team development events. Consider him when capable people need to improve the consistency of their execution.
Book Alan when your audience needs to:
- Translate good intentions into daily practice
- Build routines that support performance
- Become more open to useful feedback
- Clarify their contribution to the team
- Strengthen preparation for important moments
- Take greater ownership of improvement
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a gap between their knowledge and behavior
- Ready to practice a more useful routine
- More aware of the value of coachability
- Equipped with questions about team contribution
- Focused on a performance habit they can control
Keynote Programs
Raise Your Game
Alan explores the fundamentals behind stronger individual performance and contribution. Ideal for employee and leadership audiences.
Raise Your Sales
Alan connects preparation, focus, and relationship habits with sales execution. Ideal for sales representatives, managers, and support teams.
Is Alan Stein Jr. Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the performance habits you want to strengthen and the contribution you need from each team member. We can help select Alan’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.
Robert Swan
Renowned Polar Explorer & Transformational Leader in Sustainability
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Robert Swan: Polar Explorer | Founder of the 2041 Foundation | Speaker on Resilience, Teamwork and Sustainability
Why Book Robert Swan?
Robert also brings a long-standing commitment to protecting Antarctica. His stories invite audiences to consider how a meaningful goal can sustain effort, how teams respond when plans change, and what stewardship means beyond an immediate result.
Why Is Robert Swan Right for Your Audience?
Robert is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sustainability events, team meetings, and inspirational gatherings. Consider him when an audience needs a vivid connection between shared purpose and persistent action.
Book Robert when your audience needs to:
- Stay committed when plans meet setbacks
- Build trust around a shared goal
- Improve preparation for demanding work
- Connect immediate decisions with long-term consequences
- Consider their responsibility for the environment
- Find renewed purpose in a difficult undertaking
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the purpose behind a demanding goal
- Ready to review how their team responds to setbacks
- More aware of the value of preparation
- Encouraged to consider the legacy of their choices
- Focused on a concrete contribution to a shared mission
Keynote Programs
Presentations can be tailored around the following areas:
Resilience
Robert uses expedition experiences to explore perseverance and adaptation under pressure. Ideal for leadership and company audiences.
Sustainability and Shared Purpose
Robert connects polar exploration with environmental stewardship and collective responsibility. Ideal for sustainability and values-focused events.
Is Robert Swan Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the shared mission you want to reinforce and the challenges your people need to overcome. 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.
About
Nick Tasler: Organizational Psychologist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Change and Decision-Making
Why Book Nick Tasler?
Nick makes change feel manageable. He gives audiences practical ways to challenge old assumptions, get curious about new possibilities, and turn a broad goal into the next useful decision.
Why Is Nick Tasler Right for Your Audience?
Nick is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, strategy sessions, and company events during periods of growth or change. He is especially valuable when teams need to move beyond uncertainty, align around priorities, and make progress together.
Book Nick when your audience needs to:
- Respond to change with curiosity and confidence
- Make decisions without getting stuck in analysis
- Recognize when past success is limiting future growth
- Turn a strategy into consistent daily action
- Get clearer about priorities and direction
- Build momentum during uncertainty
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to identify the assumptions shaping their choices
- Equipped to approach change as an opportunity to learn
- Clearer on how individual decisions support a larger strategy
- Ready to question practices that no longer serve their goals
- Focused on a practical next step they can take with their team
Keynote Programs
Your Year of Wonders
Nick’s signature keynote invites audiences to replace the instinct to resist change with curiosity. Based on his book of the same name, it helps people see how a different response to uncertainty can open the door to growth. Ideal for organizations navigating change or setting a new direction.
One Decision at a Time
Nick addresses the gap between strategy and execution. He gives leaders and teams a repeatable way to make the choices that move a plan forward, even when the full path is not yet clear. Ideal for leadership meetings and teams focused on follow-through.
Ping Pong Paradox
The habits that brought success can become obstacles to the next stage of growth. Nick helps audiences spot when a familiar approach is holding them back and consider what needs to change. Ideal for established organizations adapting to new demands.
Winning with Agile Optimism
Nick explores how people can move through worry and find a productive response to uncertainty. His agile optimism framework helps audiences look for possibilities while doing the work needed to make progress. Ideal for teams facing disruption or ambitious goals.
Is Nick Tasler Right for Your Event?
Tell us what is changing for your organization, which decisions your audience faces, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We can help select Nick’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Eric Termuende
A Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, Author, and Speaker on Optimizing Workplace Culture, Future of Work, and Engagement in the Workplace
About
Eric Termuende: Bestselling Author of Rethink Work | Researcher on Workplace Culture | Speaker on Leading Through Uncertainty
Why Book Eric Termuende?
Eric combines research with engaging stories and a practical approach. His message gives people a way to respond to uncertainty together: build trust, make small deliberate shifts, and learn from action. He tailors his keynotes to the challenges facing the audience.
Why Is Eric Termuende Right for Your Audience?
Eric is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, association events, and teams navigating change. He is especially relevant when an organization needs people to stay aligned and act despite shifting priorities, technology, or customer expectations.
Book Eric when your audience needs to:
- Find direction when the path ahead is unclear
- Build trust and strengthen team resilience
- Reduce friction that slows collaboration
- Respond to change without waiting for a perfect plan
- Turn small experiments into useful information and momentum
- Prepare teams for an unpredictable future of work
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the difference between choosing a direction and predicting an outcome
- Equipped to identify sources of friction within a team
- Better able to create trust and alignment during change
- Ready to use small, deliberate One-Degree Shifts to make progress
- More confident taking the next useful step amid uncertainty
Keynote Programs
The Certainty Crisis: How to Thrive in a World That Refuses to Stand Still
Eric challenges the habit of waiting for complete clarity before acting. He gives audiences a way to choose a direction, adapt as they learn, and use One-Degree Shifts to create momentum. Ideal for leaders and teams facing decisions with incomplete information.
Built for Uncertainty: Leading Teams in a World That Has Never Moved Faster
Eric focuses on the conditions that help teams stay aligned and effective as plans change. He explores trust, sources of friction, and small experiments that help people move forward together. Ideal for leadership and transformation events.
Blueprint to the Future: Leading in a New World of Work
Eric offers a framework for building teams prepared to adapt to an unpredictable future. He connects trust, resilience, and a culture of experimentation to everyday leadership choices. Ideal for audiences focused on workplace culture and the future of work.
Is Eric Termuende Right for Your Event?
Tell us about the changes your audience is facing and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help choose Eric’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.
Sebastian Terry
Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Best Selling Author, TV Host, & Founder of the 100things Movement
About
Sebastian Terry: Keynote Speaker on Purpose, Leadership & Human Connection | Founder of 100 Things | Author | Inspirational Adventurer
Turn Purpose Into Action. What happens when people stop simply going through the motions and start pursuing what truly matters?
Best known for his journey to complete a list of 100 Things he wanted to achieve in his lifetime, Sebastian transformed a personal challenge into a global movement. His experiences reveal powerful lessons about setting meaningful goals, overcoming fear, helping others and creating cultures where people feel inspired to take action.
Why Book Sebastian Terry?
Sebastian doesn't just talk about living with purpose. He built his life around it.
What began as a list of 100 personal goals became an extraordinary journey filled with adventure, setbacks, human connection and unexpected opportunities to help others achieve their own dreams.
Sebastian brings those lessons into the workplace, challenging audiences to think differently about purpose, goals, connection and what motivates people to perform at their best.
His keynote is inspiring, entertaining and highly interactive—leaving audiences not only motivated but asking an important question: What's on my list?
What Makes Sebastian Terry Different?
- Creator of 100 Things — transformed a personal bucket list into a global movement
- Extraordinary storytelling — memorable stories of adventure, risk and human connection
- Purpose-driven message — helps people reconnect with what genuinely matters
- Highly interactive — creates an experience rather than simply delivering a speech
- Universal appeal — resonates across roles, generations and industries
- Workplace relevance — connects personal purpose with engagement, culture and performance
- Action oriented — inspires audiences to turn intentions into meaningful goals
- Feel-good impact — creates energy and connection that can continue long after the event
Why Is Sebastian Right for Your Audience?
Sebastian is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to reconnect with purpose, think bigger and take meaningful action.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences, employee events and organizations focused on culture and engagement.
Book Sebastian when your audience needs to:
- Reconnect with what motivates them
- Turn meaningful goals into action
- Think beyond perceived limitations
- Build stronger human connections
- Increase engagement and personal ownership
- Create a greater sense of purpose at work
- Support and inspire the people around them
- Bring renewed energy to their personal and professional goals
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Thinking more intentionally about what matters most
- Inspired to identify meaningful personal and professional goals
- More willing to take action despite fear or uncertainty
- Understanding the importance of helping others succeed
- Better connected with colleagues and teammates
- Energized about what's possible
- Ready to turn ideas and intentions into action
Sebastian Terry Keynote Programs
100 Things: What's on Your List?
If you knew your time was limited, what would you do differently?
Sebastian shares the remarkable story behind his journey to complete 100 goals and the lessons he discovered along the way.
Through entertaining stories and powerful insights, he challenges audiences to identify what genuinely matters, overcome the fears that keep them stuck and begin taking meaningful action.
Ideal for: Corporate conferences, association meetings, employee events and organizations looking for an inspirational closing or opening keynote.
Purpose at Work: People perform differently when they feel connected to something that matters.
Sebastian explores how personal purpose, meaningful goals and human connection can influence engagement and performance.
He challenges organizations to create environments where people feel seen, supported and encouraged to pursue goals that matter—both professionally and personally.
Ideal for: Leadership, culture, employee engagement and workplace wellbeing events.
Building Cultures of Connection: What happens when people stop focusing only on their own goals and start helping others achieve theirs?
Sebastian shares lessons from the 100 Things journey to demonstrate the extraordinary impact people can have when they support one another.
Audiences discover how greater empathy, connection and generosity can strengthen relationships, teamwork and organizational culture.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, team events, culture initiatives and organizations focused on collaboration.
Why Book Sebastian Terry Through The Sweeney Agency?
Sebastian Terry delivers much more than an inspirational story. The real opportunity is connecting his message about purpose, goals and human connection to what you want your audience to think, feel and do differently.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Sebastian Terry's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Sebastian Terry keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Sebastian with other leading motivational, purpose and workplace-culture speakers
Is Sebastian Terry Right for Your Event?
Tell us what you want your audience to think differently about—or what you want to inspire them to do next.
We'll help you determine whether Sebastian is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a corporate conference, leadership meeting or sales kickoff? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Sebastian Terry as your keynote speaker.
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Mark Thompson: Executive Coach | Former Charles Schwab Executive and Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership, Innovation and Engagement
Why Book Mark Thompson?
Mark examines the leadership choices behind innovation, customer relationships, and team commitment. His presentations encourage audiences to consider how daily management practices can support the changes they want to achieve.
Why Is Mark Thompson Right for Your Audience?
Mark is a strong fit for executive retreats, leadership conferences, sales meetings, and transformation events. Consider him when leaders need to align growth ambitions with culture and execution.
Book Mark when your audience needs to:
- Connect leadership behavior with strategic goals
- Encourage initiative during transformation
- Strengthen customer and employee relationships
- Review incentives that shape innovation
- Build commitment across the leadership team
- Turn growth priorities into clearer action
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a leadership practice they need to change
- Ready to examine barriers to employee initiative
- More aware of the connection between engagement and experience
- Equipped with questions about innovation culture
- Focused on a step toward more consistent execution
Keynote Programs
Business Transformation
Mark explores how leaders can support change and build a culture that encourages innovation. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.
Most Admired Leadership
Mark examines the teamwork and leadership practices behind sustained organizational success. Ideal for management conferences and leadership retreats.
Is Mark Thompson Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the growth priorities your leaders share and the behaviors needed to support them. We can help select Mark’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Dan Thurmon
Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and a Recognized Expert in Delivering Peak Performances.
About
Dan Thurmon: Author and Acrobat | Workplace Performance Speaker | Speaker on Change, Energy and Positive Chaos
Why Book Dan Thurmon?
His Off Balance On Purpose approach encourages people to stop waiting for perfect equilibrium before moving forward. Dan connects that message with the choices people make about work, relationships, energy, and personal responsibility.
Why Is Dan Thurmon Right for Your Audience?
Dan is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, and change events. Consider him when an audience needs an energetic experience that supports a practical conversation about adaptation.
Book Dan when your audience needs to:
- Take action without waiting for perfect conditions
- Respond to change with greater intention
- Review how they manage energy
- Connect professional and personal priorities
- Recognize patterns within recurring challenges
- Build confidence through purposeful movement
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Ready to reconsider what balance means in their life
- Clearer on a next step during uncertainty
- More aware of patterns in a current challenge
- Encouraged to direct energy toward important priorities
- Focused on a specific action they can take now
Keynote Programs
Positive CHAOS
Dan explores ways to understand disruption and respond more intentionally. Ideal for leadership and change audiences.
Off Balance On Purpose
Dan uses movement, storytelling, and performance to examine progress without perfect balance. Ideal for broad employee and motivational events.
Is Dan Thurmon Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes your audience is experiencing and the energy you want people to bring to their next step. 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.
Rory Vaden
Self-Discipline Strategist, Best-Selling Author of Take the Stairs, and Speaker on Leadership, and Sales Techniques
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Waldo Waldman
Former Fighter Pilot, Hall of Fame Speaker on Leadership, Sales, Teamwork and Change.
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Margie Warrell
Global Thought Leader in Human Potential and Brave Leadership
About
Margie Warrell: Author and Leadership Adviser | Speaker on Courage, Confidence and Leading Change
Why Book Margie Warrell?
Margie invites audiences to examine the conversations they avoid, the opportunities they hesitate to pursue, and the values they want to act on. Her message gives leaders a way to discuss courage as a daily practice rather than a rare dramatic moment.
Why Is Margie Warrell Right for Your Audience?
Margie is a strong fit for leadership conferences, women’s events, company meetings, and change programs. Consider her when capable people need to speak more candidly or take a necessary step beyond familiar territory.
Book Margie when your audience needs to:
- Speak up about important concerns
- Act on values despite discomfort
- Build confidence during transitions
- Recognize the cost of avoiding difficult conversations
- Encourage thoughtful risk-taking
- Support greater candor within a team
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a situation that calls for courage
- Ready to examine a fear behind hesitation
- More aware of how leaders influence candor
- Equipped with questions about personal values
- Focused on a brave and practical next step
Keynote Programs
Options include Lead Bravely and a tailored presentation on confidence through change:
Lead Bravely
Margie explores the courage required to lead through complexity and act with conviction. Ideal for executives, managers, and emerging leaders.
Confidence and Courage Through Change
Margie can shape a presentation around the decisions and transitions facing your audience. Ideal for company meetings and professional development events.
Is Margie Warrell Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to have and the courageous action you want to encourage. We can help select Margie’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Marc Wayshak
Author of multiple best-selling books on sales and leadership & Sales Strategist
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Marc Wayshak: Sales Strategist | Author of The High-Velocity Sales Organization | Speaker on Sales Performance and Leadership
Why Book Marc Wayshak?
Marc combines practical instruction with humor, stories, and audience participation. His sessions give sellers ways to start better conversations, build trust with informed buyers, and move opportunities forward. For sales leaders, he addresses the processes and accountability that support consistent performance.
Why Is Marc Wayshak Right for Your Audience?
Marc is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, sales leadership meetings, and conferences for client-facing professionals. He is especially valuable when a team needs practical skills it can use immediately, alongside the motivation to put them to work.
Book Marc when your audience needs to:
- Win the attention of well-informed buyers
- Build trust without relying on high-pressure tactics
- Ask better questions in sales conversations
- Create a more consistent sales process
- Find new opportunities and stand out from competitors
- Strengthen coaching and accountability across the sales team
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on what top-performing sellers do differently
- Ready to use more effective questions in prospect conversations
- Equipped with a repeatable approach to advancing opportunities
- More confident explaining their value to buyers
- Focused on specific sales actions they can take right away
Keynote Programs
High-Velocity Solution Selling in Today’s Market
Marc shows salespeople how to earn business from prospects who have more information and more choices than ever. He introduces a solution-focused process for building trust, creating value, and moving sales conversations forward, with practical ideas participants can apply to their own opportunities. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing teams.
Building a High-Velocity Sales Organization
Marc helps sales leaders establish the process, coaching habits, and accountability measures that support stronger results. He addresses how to attract and develop sales talent, increase prospecting activity, and give teams a clearer path to their goals. Ideal for sales management and executive leadership events.
Is Marc Wayshak Right for Your Event?
Tell us whether your priority is improving individual selling skills or building a stronger sales organization. We can help select Marc’s most relevant program, discuss the event format, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency at 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Tamsen Webster
Tamsen Webster – Selected for 2022 Thinkers50 Radar, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Communication: Turn Ideas Into Action Great ideas don’t create change unless people believe in them. Tamsen Webster helps leaders turn complex ideas into clear …
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Tamsen Webster - Selected for 2022 Thinkers50 Radar, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Communication:
Great ideas don't create change unless people believe in them.
Tamsen Webster helps leaders turn complex ideas into clear, compelling messages that build buy-in and inspire action. Drawing on more than 25 years in message strategy and change communications, she gives audiences practical frameworks for communicating ideas in ways people understand, believe—and remember.
Why Book Tamsen Webster?
Tamsen doesn't simply teach people to communicate better. She shows leaders how to build a case for change that audiences can believe in.
Her experience spans major organizations including Harvard Medical School and Fidelity Investments, as well as advising entrepreneurs through Harvard Innovation Labs and the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. She also spent more than a decade as an Idea Strategist for TEDxCambridge and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar in 2022.
What Makes Tamsen Different?
- A practical approach to building buy-in for change
- More than 25 years of message strategy experience
- Creator of the Red Thread® framework
- Two-time bestselling author
- Deep expertise in storytelling, persuasion and change communication
- Actionable frameworks audiences can use immediately
Why Is Tamsen Right for Your Audience?
Tamsen is particularly effective for organizations where leaders need people to understand, support and act on new ideas.
Book Tamsen when your audience needs to:
- Communicate change more effectively
- Build stronger buy-in for new ideas and initiatives
- Turn complicated messages into clear, compelling stories
- Influence without relying on pressure or manipulation
- Help people understand why change matters
- Move audiences from agreement to action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to build a persuasive case for change
- Equipped to make complex ideas easier to understand
- Clearer about why some messages inspire action while others fail
- Ready to connect new ideas to beliefs audiences already hold
- Able to create messages people remember and repeat
- More confident turning ideas into lasting action
Keynote Programs
Say What They Can't Unhear: How to Inspire Change That Lasts
Tamsen reveals why traditional approaches to change often struggle and shows leaders how to build messages around beliefs, identity and stories that people already understand. Audiences learn practical principles for creating change that lasts rather than generating temporary agreement.
The Logic of Belief: How to Make Inaction Impossible
Every decision involves an internal argument. Tamsen shows audiences how to structure the reasoning behind an idea so clearly that people can see why taking action makes sense. Her Core Case and If–Then–Because–And frameworks give leaders practical tools for building agreement, understanding and action.
The Red Thread®: How to Find and Tell the Story of Your Ideas
Tamsen teaches audiences how to uncover the essential story behind an idea and communicate it in a way others immediately understand. Participants learn the five building blocks of a powerful message and how to adapt that story for different audiences, formats and situations.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
The right speaker must do more than deliver a great presentation. Their message needs to connect directly to what your organization wants people to think, believe or do differently.
Contact us to:
- Confirm Tamsen's availability and current fee
- Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
- Discuss customization, workshops and event format
- Determine how her message can connect directly to your organization's change or communication challenges
- Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit
Is Tamsen Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change you're trying to create and what you want people to think, feel or do differently. We'll provide an honest assessment of Tamsen's fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you determine the best program for your event.
Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Tamsen Webster.
Bill Weingartner
Principal Consultant of The Table Group, Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork
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Bill Weingartner: Principal Consultant at The Table Group | Speaker on Organizational Health, Leadership and Teamwork
Why Book Bill Weingartner?
Bill translates organizational health concepts into conversations about trust, contribution, and working relationships. His presentations offer teams a shared vocabulary for recognizing strengths and addressing behaviors that make collaboration harder.
Why Is Bill Weingartner Right for Your Audience?
Bill is a strong fit for leadership retreats, nonprofit conferences, management meetings, and team development events. Consider him when an organization wants a practical introduction to The Table Group’s teamwork frameworks.
Book Bill when your audience needs to:
- Understand different contributions within a team
- Discuss work that creates energy or frustration
- Build a shared language for collaboration
- Recognize behaviors that support teamwork
- Reduce unnecessary judgment among colleagues
- Connect leadership priorities with organizational health
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Introduced to the framework selected for their event
- Clearer on differences in how teammates contribute
- Ready to discuss a source of team frustration
- More aware of behaviors that support working relationships
- Focused on an action that improves collaboration
Keynote Programs
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Bill introduces the framework for understanding the kinds of work that energize people and how those contributions fit together. Ideal for leadership and team audiences.
The Ideal Team Player
Bill explores the importance of humility, hunger, and people skills in teamwork. Ideal for managers and organizations developing a shared approach to contribution.
Is Bill Weingartner Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the teamwork challenges you want to address and the framework most relevant to your organization. We can help select Bill’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