New Speakers
Dr. Amy Cuddy
Social Psychologist, Award-Winning Harvard Lecturer, and Bestselling Author
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Dr. Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Her writing, research, teaching, and speaking focus on presence and performance under stress, the causes and outcomes of feeling powerful vs. powerless, prejudice and stereotyping, nonverbal behavior, the delicate balance of projecting trustworthiness and strength, and most recently, the psychology of bullying, bystanding, and social bravery.
After earning her Ph.D. at Princeton University, she was a professor at Harvard Business School (2008-2017) and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (2006-2008). Throughout her academic career, she’s been honored with some of the highest commendations for both her teaching and her research, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from Harvard University (2018) and the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (2022) for her extensive research on intergroup conflict. She continues to teach as a guest lecturer in Executive Education at Harvard Business School and at UCLAAnderson School of Management.
Her 2012 TED Talk, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are,” is the second-most popular of all time, with more than 70 million views. Her NYT bestseller, Presence, described in the NYT Sunday Book Review as “…concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious - above all, truly powerful,” has sold more than half a million copies and been published in 35 languages. In 2025, she will publish her next book, Bullies, Bystanders, & Bravehearts (HarperCollins), on the psychology of bullying among adults — and how we find the courage and tools to stop it. She’s also an avid roller skater and skier, live-music lover (actually, a devoted Deadhead!), adventuring partner to her husband Paul, and hype mom to her son, Jonah, a guitarist, producer, songwriter, and student at Berklee College of Music. She lives in Venice, California.
Andrew M. Davis
Best-selling Author, Inspirational Speaker and Global Marketing Influencer
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Andrew Davis is recognized as one of the industry's "Jaw-Dropping Marketing Speakers" - and is a mainstay on global marketing influencer lists. Wherever he goes, Andrew Davis puts his infectious enthusiasm and magnetic speaking style to good use teaching business leaders how to grow their sales and businesses, harness innovation, inspiration and performance, transform their cities - and leave their legacy.
Andrew is also best-selling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker. Before building and selling a thriving digital marketing agency, Andrew produced for NBC’s Today Show, worked for The Muppets in New York - and wrote for Charles Kuralt. He's appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal - and on NBC and the BBC. He has crafted documentary films and award-winning content for tiny start-ups and Fortune 500 brands.
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Daryl Davis
About Daryl Davis – Musician, Author, Compelling Unifier, Klan Whisperer, and Award-winning Conflict Navigator
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Daryl Davis is committed to helping people ignite positive change –using conversation to build bridges. His jaw-dropping experiences speak for themselves. For nearly 40 years, he’s engaged leaders of the KKK and White supremacist groups face to face to find the answer to a question: “How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?” That question stemmed from his first encounter with racism at age ten when he was pelted with rocks, bottles, and soda cans by a handful of White spectators while marching in aparade.
Seeking to understand, not to change minds, Daryl met their hatred with civility, patience, and listening. Those conversations spawned genuine and lasting friendships with many who changed their ownminds and disavowed hateful beliefs. Some even gave Daryl their robes and hoods when they did. As a speaker, Daryl is an extraordinary storyteller who inspires and empowers audiences with tools they can use to make better workplaces, communities, and relations with family and friends. Daryl’s work is chronicled in his book Klan-Destine Relationshipsand the documentary Accidental Courtesy. Daryl’s TEDx talk has over 12 million views.
Daryl graduated from Howard University with his Bachelor of Music Degree. He also holdsanHonorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Post University for the unique work he has done in the field of race relations. He has performed extensively with Chuck Berry, The Legendary Blues Band (formerly The Muddy Waters Blues Band), and many others. While music is his profession, improving race relations is his obsession. He is known to many as “The Rock'n'Roll Race Reconciliator.”
It started during a break between performances with a band at a bar one night. A man approached Daryl and remarked that this was the first time he had ever seen a Black man play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. Daryl explained that both he and Lewis were influenced by Black Blues & Boogie-Woogie pianists, from which Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly evolved. The man did not believe in the Black origin of Daryl’s piano style even after he said that Lewis was a friend who had shared this news with him. The man then shared news with Daryl –he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
This meeting, and those that followed, would lead Daryl on a journey all over America, meeting and interviewing leaders and members from KKK, neo-Nazi and Alt-Right groups at both his and their homes as well as their rallies. With his highly acclaimed, nonfiction book, Klan-Destine Relationships, Daryl become the first Black author to write a book on the Klan from in-person interviews. The award-winning documentary, Accidental Courtesy, details his journey and has been shown frequently on PBS. Daryl, who has been to 57 countries on 6 continents, is often selected by the U.S. State Department as a highly respected expert on race relations and conflict, to present programs in various countries around the world dealing with similar situations. His next book, The Klan Whisperer,is anticipated to be released in 2022.
Daryl has been doing this work since 1983 and has become the recipient of numerous Klan robes & hoods and other racist symbols, given to himby people who once hated him when they didn't even know him. Now many of them have become his friends and supporters of his work. On the other side of spectrum, for his work in bridging race relations he is the recipient of numerous awards such as the American Ethical Union's prestigious Elliott-Black Award, Carnegie-Mellon's Carl Sagan Award & Prize, Tribeca Disruption Innovation Award, MLK Award, Search for Common Ground Award, Washington Ethical Society Bridge-Builder Award, among many others. He is often sought for commentary by CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, People magazine, and many other media sources.
In Daryl’s words,“Ever since I graduated from college in 1980 with my degree in music, I’ve been a full-time musician, traveling and performing all over America and around the world. What I’ve come to find to be the greatest, most effective, and successful weapon we can use to combat ignorance, racism, hatred, and violence, is also the least expensive weapon –and the one that is least used by Americans. That weapon is called communication. We can communicate with people in space but many of us have difficulty talking to the person who lives next door because of the color of their skin, their ethnicity, their religion, their orientation, their politics, etc. We are living with 21stcentury technology in Space Age times, but there are still too many of us with Stone Age minds.”
Daryl has come in closer contact with more members of the Ku Klux Klan than most White people, and certainly most Blacks, short of being on the wrong end of a rope. What's more surprising? He intentionally continues to do so because as he says, “Ignorance breeds fear. If you do not keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. Becausewe hate those things that frighten us. If you do not keep that hatred in check, that hatred in turn will breed destruction because we want to destroy those things that we hate. Why? Because they frighten us.”
When he speaks, Daryl Davis’s impact on an audience is sobering yet inspirational. More than a few members in every audience remember and ask him about the fictional character in Dave Chappelle’s comedic skit in which he plays a blind Klansman who didn't know he was Black and attends Klan rallies. Daryl shares stories that would be comical, if he weren’t putting his life on the line for a purpose. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction might ever be in Daryl’s case. People will also point out how courageous Daryl was to actually turn up at Klan rallies himself. Inevitably they bring up Spike Lee’s film BlacKkKlansman. That film depicts a Black police officer who infiltrated the KKK over the telephone and would send a White subordinate officer to Klan rallies in his place to gather damning intelligence against the Klan. The difference is not lost on the audience. Daryl had his feet on the ground in the lion's den and tells the story first-hand.
Through his work, Daryl has discovered a successful method of transforming enemies into friends. His stories of his encounters with –and transformations of –White supremacists have inspired people all over the U.S. and abroad.
His audiences leave his presentations empowered to:
- Overcome Their Fears
- Confront Their Prejudices
- Recognize Similarities
- Appreciate Differences
- Navigate Diversity
- Improve Relationships with Others
- Better Their Lives While Creating a Positive Impact on Others
In addition to his career as a performing musician, Daryl is the owner of Lyrad Music, a music publishing and licensing business. He is also an actor of stage and screen and has appeared in HBO's highly acclaimed series The Wire.
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Paul de Gelder
Army Airborne, Navy Bomb Disposal Diver, Shark Attack Survivor, Author
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IMPROVISE...ADAPT...OVERCOME... These three words – a mantra Paul de Gelder learned in the Australian Army as a young Paratrooper – resonated with him the first time he heard them. Paul de Gelder chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a teen and his whirlwind lifestyle working in clubs and the music industry to hauling his way up to the elite echelons of the Australian Defense Forces as an Army paratrooper and then Navy bomb disposal diver.
In February 2009, Paul's adventurous life took a dramatic turn when a 10-foot bull shark attacked him during a routine Navy dive, severing his hand and leg. Rather than succumbing to despair, Paul channeled his indomitable spirit, fought through excruciating pain, and reclaimed his life. Drawing on everything his eventful life had taught him, Paul left nothing to chance, conducting his own rehabilitation. He fought through excruciating pain, smashing challenge after challenge whilst excellent the medical staff and the public with his will to succeed, and returned to full-time Navy service after only six months.
His journey from trauma to triumph is extraordinary, marked by resilience and determination. His inspiring story, vividly chronicled in his autobiography "Uncaged," takes "Never Say Die" to a new level.
In the years since the shark attack, Paul's life has changed in every aspect. Having left full-time Navy service in August 2012, after continuing to instruct Navy Divers for a further three years, Paul has traveled the world as a top motivational speaker, passionate environmentalist, adventurer, and mentor to school kids. He has spoken at venues across the globe, from the United Nations in New York to conferences across the U.S., China, London, Vietnam, and New Zealand.
Paul has also been a guest on major TV talk shows and starred as a guest trainer twice on the Biggest Loser Australia. He has hosted over 25 documentaries for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, where he learned to hand-feed bull sharks, hammerheads, and blue sharks and dive with tiger sharks and even Great Whites without the protection of a cage. Megastar Will Smith featured Paul in his Facebook series “Bucket List” as his shark diving mentor, UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey was taught how to hand-feed bull sharks by Paul, and most recently, Iron Mike Tyson became Paul’s shark diving student. Paul also became part of an anti-poaching team in Africa to film the excellent work the Rangers did for FEARLESS, which aired on NatGeo.
Paul has been touted as one of the top 15 inspirational Australians and top 10 speakers, and now, based in Los Angeles, he is preparing to film yet more documentaries. Looking to expand his repertoire, Paul completed a lead acting role for a six-part miniseries for a major cable network and has since appeared in several commercials and short films.
An incredible life and an incredible story.
Alisha De Lorenzo
Human Connection Expert, High Performance Coach, and Positive Disruptor
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Over 15 years ago, working in public education, Alisha De Lorenzo was charged with helping her failing school district improve culture and performance. A challenge that would pave the way for her to guide industries, organizations and individuals to solve seemingly intractable problems through a deceptively simple approach - Positive Deviance, which stands on one belief, in every organization there are people whose outlier practices are generating remarkable outcomes despite facing the same barriers and obstacles as everyone else. With their innovative ways living outside of the conditioned, cultural norms of the community, their solutions remain hidden in plain sight.
After years of experiencing burnout and the isolation that comes from challenging conventional thinking, Alisha recalls the feelings of hope and aliveness that came from being given the agency to discover and scale the solutions that mattered most. This changed EVERYTHING about how she viewed problems, their solutions and how to engage people in a way that brings them alive.
While Alisha’s efforts went on to transform the system of education across NJ, her influence began to spread across industries. In 2019 she was invited to speak to corporate audiences to help address the toxic work cultures, escalating mental health issues, disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change and ineffective leadership strategies that were plaguing companies.
Leaning on more than 20 years of combined experience as a speaker, high-performance coach, educator and therapist, Alisha shares a proven framework to help leaders uncover and scale positive disruption.
Her riveting keynote speeches and workshops provide the tools and frameworks to help teams infuse aliveness back into their work, revolutionize corporate culture and amplify the solutions.
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Erica Dhawan: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Collaboration & Connection | Bestselling Author | Workplace Communication Expert
Turn Better Communication Into Better Performance
In a world of hybrid teams, nonstop messages and constant change, how do you make sure people truly connect, collaborate and get things done?
Erica Dhawan is a bestselling author and internationally recognized keynote speaker on leadership, collaboration and workplace communication who helps organizations transform the way their people work together.
Why Book Erica Dhawan?
Erica addresses one of today's biggest workplace challenges: we have more ways to communicate than ever before, yet connection and collaboration are often harder than ever.
She gives audiences practical strategies to reduce communication friction, strengthen relationships and create the kind of collaboration that drives performance.
Her keynotes are energetic, highly relevant and actionable—giving audiences ideas they can immediately apply to meetings, emails, virtual communication and everyday teamwork.
What Makes Erica Dhawan Different?
- Leading authority on modern collaboration — practical insights for today's connected workplace
- Immediately actionable — strategies audiences can use the moment they return to work
- Highly relevant — addresses hybrid work, digital communication, trust and teamwork
- Research-driven — combines behavioral science with real-world business examples
- Broad audience appeal — valuable for executives, managers and employees
- Customizable — Erica can connect her message directly to your organization's priorities
Why Is Erica Right for Your Audience?
Erica is an excellent choice when you want your people to communicate more clearly, collaborate across silos and build stronger working relationships.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association events and organizations navigating hybrid work, transformation or rapid growth.
Book Erica when your audience needs to:
- Communicate more effectively across teams and functions
- Strengthen trust in hybrid and digital workplaces
- Break down organizational silos
- Improve collaboration and teamwork
- Reduce misunderstandings and communication overload
- Build stronger relationships across generations
- Turn better communication into better business results
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better equipped to communicate with clarity and intention
- Able to recognize digital behaviors that create unnecessary friction
- Ready to build greater trust across teams
- Equipped with practical strategies for stronger collaboration
- More confident communicating across different working styles
- Prepared to create more productive and connected workplaces
Erica Dhawan Keynote Programs
Digital Body Language: How do you build trust when much of today's communication happens through a screen?
Based on Erica's bestselling book Digital Body Language, this keynote reveals how emails, texts, video meetings and digital interactions send powerful signals about trust, respect and inclusion.
Erica gives audiences practical strategies for communicating clearly, reducing misunderstandings and building stronger relationships in a digital-first workplace.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, hybrid workplaces, corporate meetings and organizations focused on communication and culture.
Get Big Things Done: The biggest opportunities rarely happen because of one person—they happen when the right people connect and collaborate.
Erica shows audiences how to unlock the power of relationships and networks to solve problems, generate ideas and achieve results that individuals and isolated teams cannot accomplish alone.
Ideal for: Leadership, innovation, teamwork, transformation and collaboration events.
Leading Through Connection
Today's leaders must do more than communicate information. They need to create clarity, trust and connection across increasingly complex organizations.
Erica gives leaders practical tools for strengthening communication, breaking down silos and creating teams that collaborate more effectively—even when people work across different locations, functions and generations.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development programs and organizations navigating change.
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Pam Didner
About Pam Didner – B2B keynote speaker and AI strategist: Pam Didner is a globally recognized B2B marketing and AI strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five business books, including The Modern AI Marketer in the GPT Era. As the found …
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Pam Didner is a globally recognized B2B marketing and AI strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five business books, including The Modern AI Marketer in the GPT Era. As the founder of Relentless Pursuit, she has worked with organizations like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and Southwest Airlines to align sales and marketing teams and turn complex strategies into predictable revenue. With over 20 years of enterprise marketing experience spanning demand generation, sales enablement, content strategy, and operations, Pam brings a rare ability to connect high-level strategy with real-world execution.
With an MBA in Accounting and Finance, Pam began her career in finance before transitioning into marketing, allowing her to bridge the gap between data-driven executives and growth-focused teams. She specializes in AI implementation, including Copilot training, helping organizations operationalize AI to drive efficiency, alignment, and measurable ROI.
Pam is known for her dynamic, engaging speaking style and her ability to simplify complex topics like AI, B2B growth, and marketing technology into clear, actionable frameworks. Her high-energy keynotes, delivered across five continents, go beyond inspiration—equipping audiences with practical strategies they can implement immediately to drive pipeline, improve performance, and create lasting business impact.
Cliff Eala
Behavioural Strategist, Author, Thought leader on bridging the strategy-execution gap with behaviour change design.
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Cliff Eala uses behavioural and data sciences to drive positive behaviour change among customers and employees as CEO of BS Works. His work directly impacts revenues and workplace productivity.
Cliff built and sold a software company in 2007, built and grew an intelligent lighting and IOT company across 10 countries in Asia, and was board director at Magenic Manila from inception until its 2021 acquisition by NASDAQ-listed Cognizant. He is board director at UnionDigital Bank and several other finance and technology firms.
He authored the book Sh*tty Places & Selfish People, 7 Rules of Engagement.
Cliff has a Master's in Behavioural Science (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics, an MBA, and a Master's in Philosophy from the University of Navarre (Spain). He has two undergraduate degrees in Socio-Legal Sciences and Philosophy (with Distinction).
He has conducted a large scale randomised controlled experiment across 74,000 electric utility customers for his dissertation on Behavioural Nudging for Prompt Payments.
Colin Fenton
About Colin Fenton – Former Managing Director, the Global Head of Commodities Research, and Chief Commodities Strategist for J.P. Morgan: Colin Fenton is co-founder and managing partner of Blacklight Research, LLC and the senior managing director for c …
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About Colin Fenton - Former Managing Director, the Global Head of Commodities Research, and Chief Commodities Strategist for J.P. Morgan:
Colin Fenton is co-founder and managing partner of Blacklight Research, LLC and the senior managing director for commodities at 22V Research, LLC. Previously, he was the global head of commodities research and chief commodities strategist for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. There, he was a member of the ten-person global management committee that supervises the work of about 1,000 research analysts worldwide across all asset classes and sectors.
On the buy side, Colin founded Curium Capital Advisors, LLC, a registered investment adviser that he sold to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 2010. Curium had served as a subadvisor to hedge funds run by Soros Fund Management, Makena Capital, Raptor Capital, and other firms. Before striking out on his own, Colin was the managing director responsible for commodities and cyclical industries at Stanley Druckenmiller’s hedge fund, Duquesne Capital Management, LLC. Colin also worked for two years as the Chief Intelligence Officer for Ospraie Management, LLC, at that time manager of the world’s largest commodity hedge fund by AUM.
Colin began his Wall Street career in 1996 as an original member of the commodities research group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Before joining Goldman, Colin was the research assistant to Ambassador Chester A. Crocker, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and then-Chairman of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Colin holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is presently serving a three-year term on the Board of Advisors for the MSFS program. Previously, he was a Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in the Center on Global Energy Policy. Colin earned his A.B. in early modern history at Princeton University.
Carly Fiorina
First Women CEO of a Fortune 50 company, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Effective Leadership
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Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina is a true leader and seasoned problem-solver. She passionately advocates for problem-solving, innovation, and effective leadership. Her mission is to inspire, equip, and connect individuals and teams to seize opportunities, face challenges, and accelerate impact in their communities and workplaces. She believes everyone has more potential than they realize and that those closest to the problem understand it best. Leading to unlock potential in others can result in progress and joy.
Carly’s experience spans from secretary to CEO, public to private, and for-profit to non-profit. She started as a secretary for a nine-person real-estate business and became the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 company. When Carly led Hewlett Packard (HP) in 1999, the industry faced the worst technology recession in 25 years. Under her leadership, revenue grew, innovation tripled, growth quadrupled, and HP became the 11th largest U.S. company.
During her tenure at HP, the company received numerous civic recognitions, including being named one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Business Ethics Magazine, one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers by Working Mother Magazine, receiving a 100% rating by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index, and being named one of the World’s Most Respected Companies by The Financial Times and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
After leaving HP, Carly focused on giving back. Before Unlocking Potential, she served as Chairman of Good360, the world’s largest product philanthropy organization, and Chairman of Opportunity International, a Christian-based organization lifting millions out of poverty through micro-finance. She also founded the One Woman Initiative with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to empower women in Pakistan, Egypt, India, and the Philippines through increased economic opportunity.
Carly was appointed by President Bush and CIA Director Michael Hayden to serve as Chairman of the External Advisory Board of the CIA after 9/11. She held the highest clearances available to a civilian and focused on CIA recruitment policies, information technology capabilities, and organizational integration.
Carly is also a best-selling author. Her titles include Tough Choices and Rising to the Challenge. Her third book, Find Your Way, is out now.
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Laura Gassner Otting inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo by helping audiences think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their current, limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, corporate, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares audiences to find their voice and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges by helping them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.
Laura’s rebellious and entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started when she dropped out of law school to join an unknown southern governor’s presidential campaign and ended up as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped shape AmeriCorps.
She left a leadership role as the youngest Vice President at a nationally respected search firm when she realized that her boss’s definition of success didn’t align with hers and, instead, founded and ran one of the fastest-growing search firms in the country, partnering with the full gamut of mission-driven executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold that firm to the team who helped her build it, both because she was hungry for the next chapter and because she held an audacious dream of electing our nation’s first female president. (Whomp whomp.)
Since that time, Laura has appeared regularly on Good Morning America and the TODAY Show, and her writing has been seen in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, HR Magazine. She is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of three books, including Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should… and What to Do About It, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life, and Mission-Drive: Moving from Profit to Purpose. Her books have been translated into five languages.
Through her own commitment to give back, Laura has helped build a local Montessori school, co-founded a women’s philanthropic initiative, advised a start-up national women’s PAC, grew a citizen-leadership development program, and completed five charity-inspired marathons, projects emblematic of her passions and values. She’s turned on by the audacity of The Big Idea and that larger-than-life goal you just can’t seem to shake. She’s an instigator, a motivator, and a provocateur, and she’s never met a revolution she didn’t like, just ask her enduringly patient husband, two almost-grown sons, and troublesome puppy with whom she lives outside of Boston, MA.
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David Gerard is Silicon Valley's premier mystery entertainer. Hix mix of mentalism and magic has taken him around the world, garnering standing ovations from the world’s most sophisticated audiences.
David’s background is what truly makes him unique. After a decade working in tech marketing (Google, Discord, and more) David understands the nuances of corporate life and the modern corporate audience. David also recognizes each unique and diverse corporate culture, which allows him to tailor his performance for each group. There is simply no other performer who has the corporate background and stage credentials of David Gerard.
David has performed for hundreds of companies across a variety of industries, and has entertained CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky (Airbnb) and Marc Benioff (Salesforce). He also toured with the Broadway show The Illusionists and has consulted on three seasons of America's Got Talent.
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Mandy Gill runs farther than most people drive in a week - and she brings that same endurance, mental stamina, and real-world toughness to the corporate leaders and teams she trains. A bestselling author, ultra-endurance athlete, and Harvard Leadership Program graduate, Mandy has built her career around a single mission: helping people stay steady, adaptable, and high-performing when conditions get hard.
After building and scaling one of the world’s most effective behavior-change apps, Hooked on Healthy Habits, Mandy has amassed one of the largest datasets on human performance, resilience, and goal-setting - tracking the habits and patterns of over 10,000 clients across the past decade. Combined with her lived experience pushing the limits of human capacity, this evidence base makes Mandy one of the most sought-after resilience experts for organizations facing rapid change and increasing pressure.
Her credibility is unmatched. Mandy has completed 100+ kilometer ultra-marathons with more than 20,000 feet of elevation gain, climbed some of the highest peaks in Nepal, and navigated extreme environments where conditions shift in seconds. She masterfully translates life-or-death decision-making from the mountains into practical frameworks leaders can use in boardrooms, manufacturing plants, virtual teams, and anyone navigating constant uncertainty.
Before becoming a recognized resilience expert, Mandy built a respected broadcast career, interviewing icons like Lady Gaga and Rihanna. Her background in media, combined with her entrepreneurial work as a tech founder and CEO, gives her a rare ability to connect with diverse audiences - from frontline teams to C-suite executives. She is also a two-time Women of Distinction nominee and a passionate advocate for leveling the playing field for women in leadership.
Mandy is the bestselling author of Reset with Resilience: A Guide to Greatness When Your Goals Go Sideways, a book that distills insights from her massive behavioral dataset and extreme-endurance experiences into a practical roadmap for turning setbacks into breakthroughs. It is the same data-backed philosophy she delivers to global organizations including the US Navy, adidas, DocuSign, TD Bank, Manulife, and many more.
Across every keynote and leadership session, Mandy blends:
- Real-world stories from extreme environments
- High-performance psychology and behavior science
- Evidence-backed tools for staying steady under pressure
- A grounded, humble, tough approach that audiences instantly trust
Her message is simple - and unforgettable: You are more capable than you think.
Organizations bring Mandy in when they need their people to stay confident, adaptable, and effective in environments that refuse to slow down. She shows teams what resilience looks like - and exactly how to build it.
Jodi Glickman
Leadership & Communication Keynote Speaker, CEO of Great on the Job, Bestselling Author
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Jodi Glickman is passionate about developing leaders— both seasoned executives and next generation talent.
As the CEO and founder of Great on the Job, Jodi and her team have reached hundreds of thousands of the brightest minds across corporate America and academia—working with many of the most influential organizations and iconic brands—counting LinkedIn, JP Morgan, Abbott, and Harvard Business School among their longest standing clients.
Jodi has appeared on the TEDx stage (Why You Should Stop Looking for Work You Love), she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Great on the Job, What to Say, How to Say It, The Secrets of Getting Ahead (St. Martin’s Press), and she is a writer for the Harvard Business Review.
Jodi regularly contributes to media outlets and her career advice hasbeen featured in the New York Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, WSJ finance, CNN Money, Glamour, Shape, Real Simple, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and many more.
Jodi is a former Peace Corps volunteer (Southern Chile) turned investment banker (Goldman Sachs) turned communication expert. She received her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell where she was a Park Leadership Fellow and received a full-ride scholarship to business school.
Before turning to the world of finance, Jodi was a policy analyst at the U.S. EPA and did stints at the White House and Governor’s Office of Illinois. She has a B.S. in Social Policy, Magna Cum Laude, from Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy. She is a former member of the Northwestern University Council of 100, and a former board member of Readworks.org and Trustee of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
Jodi lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and three children. She enjoys hiking, biking and eating hot fudge sundaes, not necessarily in that order.
Risha Grant
Diversity & Inclusion Expert, Corporate BS Finder, International Speaker, Author and Consultant
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An award-winning diversity consulting and communications speaker
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Talks about: Diversity & Inclusion, Building an Inclusive Culture
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Featured in Forbes, The Financial Times, Off Script, Bloomberg Media, Black Enterprise, Engage Magazine, Radioactive Radio, Take the Lead Radio
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Past clients include: Discove, Samsung, Cox Communications, Wells Fargo, USAA Diversified Financial Group, Boy Scouts of America, U.S. Airforce, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, University of Oklahoma
Motivated by her passion to correct societal “isms” like racism, sexism, classism and plain old stupidism, it is Risha Grant’s personal mission to expose the subtleties and values of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion while shining a light on the impacts they create. From her race, gender and lifestyle choices, to growing a small business and tackling economic, moral, and business issues, every area of her life intersects diversity.
Founder & CEO of Risha Grant LLC, an award-winning diversity consulting, communications and speaking firm, as well as an edgy, educational and motivational speaker, author Risha Grant uses honest, humorous, and vulnerable storytelling to motivate audiences to embrace the inner tough work of Radical Acceptance while honoring diversity, equity, and inclusion without evoking feelings of judgement or assigning blame.
These audiences have included Google, Levi Strauss, Nestle Purina, Xerox, YouTube, Procter & Gamble, Discover Card Financial Services, Samsung Electronics America, U.S. Airforce, U.S. Navy, Intuit, and Harvard University, to name a few. She’s also been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, HR News, The Financial Times, Glamour magazine UK, Bloomberg Media, and Black Enterprise among others.
Risha has received numerous honors such as being named one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in HR by PeopleHum in 2021, 40 Top Women Keynote Speakers by Real Leaders, the NBA OKC Thunder Changemaker Award in 2020 among others.
In her no-holds-barred style, renowned diversity and inclusion thought leader Risha Grant teaches and empowers attendees about unconscious bias, micro-aggressions and other actions that perpetuate discrimination and inequality. Audiences leave with easily applied principles for finding respect, understanding and inclusion both personally & professionally.
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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.
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CEO and founder of Student Maid, a cleaning company that has employed thousands of millennials and is known for building the next generation of leaders
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Kristen talks about how to build a culture of belonging with multiple generations in the workplace, and how to deliver and receive criticism as a leader.
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First TED Talk has received more than two million hits on YouTube
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Past clients include: Apple, Burger King, jetBlue, Ohio State University, PGA Tour, Re/MAX
Kristen Hadeed believes that authentic, human leadership can change the world.
At 19, with hardly any leadership experience, Kristen started a cleaning business called Student Maid. She never expected it to be her career; it was simply a way to earn money while she was in college. But before she graduated, her company received a contract to clean hundreds of apartments—and it changed her path forever. Kristen hired a team of 60 people help her, and within days, 75% of that team quit. That’s when Kristen’s obsession with learning how to be a leader began.
Over the next 14 years, Kristen learned a lot by screwing up. But most importantly, she learned how to lead from her heart. Doing so helped her take Student Maid from a small cleaning company to a business known on a global scale for its culture of belonging, its focus on people, and its purpose of building leaders.
Today, Kristen spends her time helping leaders, teams, and organizations around the world embrace their humanity. She’s worked with just about every industry with one purpose behind it all: To build a better world through courageous, compassionate leadership.
Kristen’s work has been featured in news outlets including PBS, FOX, Inc., NBC, TIME, and Forbes. Kristen’s book, Permission To Screw Up, has sold more than 40,000 copies worldwide. Her first TED Talk has more than three million views on YouTube
DeDe Halfill
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Keynote Speaker, and Advisor helping leaders Master the Unseen™
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About DeDe Halfhill - Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Keynote Speaker, and Advisor helping leaders Master the Unseen™:
Hesitation, unspoken tensions, quiet disengagement—these aren’t just workplace challenges. They’re the invisible factors shaping trust, culture, and performance. In the military, where hesitation and miscommunication had real consequences, DeDe learned how to recognize and address these forces before they derailed mission success. As a principal advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and the Commanding General of the Multinational Forces in Iraq, she made sure the nation’s top leaders didn’t make decisions without a clear view of the human dynamics that shape success. Every organization has an emotional undercurrent—it’s either working for you or against you.
DeDe’s leadership approach was featured in Dr. Brené Brown’s bestselling book, Dare to Lead, and on CBS’s 60 Minutes, highlighting her ability to challenge leadership norms and bring courage to the conversations leaders often avoid. Today, she partners with top organizations such as Lockheed Martin, Salesforce, Bank of America, Hearst, and FEMA. Through her keynotes, advisory work, and training seminars, she challenges leaders and teams to stop managing symptoms and start addressing the forces that truly drive engagement, trust, and performance.
The unseen isn’t just a risk—it’s the greatest opportunity most leaders never tap into.
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Corinne Hancock is a globally recognized expert in building world-class leaders, effective teams, and cultural proficiency in chaotic environments. With over a decade of international aid and development experience working around the world developing bold leaders, building highly effective teams, delivering medical trainings and delivering medical care.
Corinne translates her expertise from working in chaotic environments into REAL RESULTS through EFFECTIVE and INTERACTIVE keynote presentations, corporate trainings and executive coaching, helping organizations and individuals THRIVE IN CHAOS.
Corinne Hancock is the former Director of Clinics and Training Programs for Project C.U.R.E., a global leader in bringing medical aid to low-income countries. She brought together multi-generational, multi-cultural teams to train leaders, open clinics and deliver medical care in some of the most remote locations on the planet. Corinne is a certified leadership coach and has worked on numerous contracts with the Department of State and Department of Defense, helping develop the next generation of African Leaders and improve health care systems in some of the most underserved, war torn parts of our world. She is now considered a leader in disrupting the model of aid in Africa. She regularly travels to countries across the African continent working with everyone from heads of state to tribal elders; from US Ambassadors to remote village community members. She challenges them all to create a better way to bring sustainable success to the areas that need it the most. She has worked in conjunction with several for-profit and non-governmental organizations to help them Thrive in Chaos.
Corinne is the Founder of The Curiosity Project, a nonprofit organization that provides health and entrepreneurial opportunities in countries where people have limited access to resources.
Stacey Hanke
Best Selling Author, Communication & Influence Strategist, Forbes & New York Times Contributor
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Stacey Hanke: Hall of Fame Speaker | Bestselling Author | Expert on Executive Presence and Influence
Why Book Stacey Hanke?
Stacey brings an honest, interactive approach to the stage. She challenges audiences to look at their presence in meetings, presentations, and everyday conversations, then gives them practical ways to improve it. Her central message is that influence is built through consistent behavior, Monday to Monday®.
Why Is Stacey Hanke Right for Your Audience?
Stacey is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and professional development events. She is especially valuable when people have strong ideas and expertise but need their communication to earn attention, build trust, and motivate action.
Book Stacey when your audience needs to:
- Communicate with greater clarity and credibility
- Strengthen executive presence across in-person and virtual settings
- Recognize gaps between intention and perception
- Make important messages easier to remember and act on
- Build client trust through consistent communication
- Bring greater influence to everyday interactions
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More aware of how others may experience their communication
- Ready to examine habits that weaken their message
- Equipped with practical ways to increase presence and connection
- Better prepared to speak with confidence in important moments
- Focused on building influence consistently, Monday to Monday®
Keynote Programs
Influence Elevated – Elevating Executive Presence – 3 Secrets to Maximize Influence
Stacey helps leaders examine the difference between how they believe they come across and how audiences perceive them. Through feedback and practical techniques, she shows how to strengthen presence and make communication more effective in every interaction. Ideal for leadership and executive audiences.
The Language of Leadership: Elevating Impact, Influence and Connection
Stacey explores how leaders can cut through distractions and communicate in ways that earn trust and encourage action. She connects executive presence to the everyday moments that shape a leader’s reputation. Ideal for managers and leaders working across in-person, hybrid, and virtual settings.
Influence Elevated: Maximize Your Sales Impact
Stacey helps sales professionals communicate their value with greater clarity, strengthen client relationships, and create momentum in conversations. Ideal for sales teams seeking more consistent influence across meetings, presentations, and follow-up.
Is Stacey Hanke Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your audience’s communication needs to have more impact and what you want people to do differently afterward. We can help choose Stacey’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.
Heather Hansen
Keynote Speaker on Leadership & Sales, Best-selling Author & Award-winning Trial Lawyer
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Heather Hansen knows how to build belief. She was a trial attorney for over 20 years and was consistently named one of the Top 50 Female Attorneys in Pennsylvania. She combines that experience with her psychology degree, her mediation training. and her experience as a TV anchor to help her clients build belief and advocate for their ideas, products and services.
For over twenty years Heather was a trial attorney. Her job was to help diverse groups of people believe in her case so that her client could win. She honed the tools for her clients to build credibility quickly so they could persuade diverse juries to see things from their perspective. Now she is sharing the tools with you.
Heather has worked with organizations like Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, Google, SavATree, the American Medical Association, Call Miner and LVMH to help them make the case for their services, products, ideas and their teams. She’s also shared these tools at Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, The University of Pennsylvania and with audiences across the world.
Heather is the author of the best-seller “The Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life’s Trials Without Losing Yourself” and the host of The Elegant Warrior podcast. Heather’s latest book is Advocate to Win-10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It.
Erin Hatzikostas
Often called “The Mel Robbins for business,” Erin Hatzikostas is a former corporate CEO turned globally recognized expert on the impact of authenticity in the workplace.
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Erin Hatzikostas is a former corporate CEO turned authenticity aficionado. Working at a Fortune 50 company, she became, at age 42, the CEO of its $2 billion AUM subsidiary, PayFlex, and in just three years tripled earnings and sent employee engagement skyrocketing, using a strategy she had unknowingly relied on her entire career: authenticity.
Today she is the CEO and founder of b Authentic Inc., a sought-after keynote speaker, the award-winning author of You Do You(ish) and The 50% Rule, and co-host of the hit podcast b Cause Work Doesn't Have to Suck. Her TEDx talk was among the top 20 most-viewed TEDx talks worldwide in 2021, and her thought leadership has reached hundreds of thousands. She has been featured by ABC, CBS, Business Insider, and Fast Company, and her company is behind a groundbreaking national study on authenticity's impact in the workplace. Erin helps audiences see that authenticity is a much more nuanced and powerful concept than simply “being yourself,” built around her proprietary H.U.M.A.N.S. framework: the Six Principles of Strategic Authenticity.
Dan Heath
Co-author (with his brother Chip) of four New York Times bestsellers: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments A senior fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports social entrepreneurs who are fighting for social good Named …
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Co-author (with his brother Chip) of four New York Times bestsellers: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments
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A senior fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports social entrepreneurs who are fighting for social good
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Named in 2013 to the Thinkers50, a ranking of the world’s most influential management thinkers
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MBA from Harvard Business School
Dan Heath is the co-author, along with his brother Chip, of four long-running bestsellers: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments. The Heath Brothers’ books have sold over three million copies worldwide and been translated into 33 languages. Dan’s new book Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen was an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller, and it was included on “best books” lists from Apple, Amazon, the Financial Times, and others.
Dan is a Senior Fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs who fight for social good. He is an entrepreneur himself, having founded Thinkwell, an innovative education company that next year will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Dan was named in 2013 to the Thinkers 50, a ranking of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers, and also to Fast Company magazine’s list of the Most Creative People in Business. He has spoken to teachers, police chiefs, U.S. senators, interior designers, Navy admirals, health care leaders, marketers, ministers, and countless executive teams, across 26 countries on 6 continents. (He’s still waiting for that invitation from Antarctica.)
Dan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. One proud geeky moment for Dan was his victory in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, beating out 13,000 other entrants. He lives in Durham, NC.
Shama Hyder
A Visionary Strategist for the Digital Age, Best-Selling Author & CEO of Zen Media
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Shama Hyder is a visionary strategist for the digital age, a web and TV personality, a bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of Zen Media – a global marketing and digital PR firm. She has been named the “Zen Master of Marketing” by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “Millennial Master of the Universe” by FastCompany.com. Shama has also been honored at both the White House and The United Nations as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country.
Shama is the bestselling author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing, now in its 4th edition and Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Shama has delivered keynotes in over 20 countries and spoken for recognized brands including Movado, Prudential, Chase, Tupperware, and Inc 5000.
As a result of her success, Shama has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Technology Titan Emerging Company CEO award. She was named one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25” by Business Week in 2009; one of the “Top 30 Under 30” Entrepreneurs in America in 2014 by Inc. Magazine; and to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of moversand shakers for 2015. LinkedIn has named Hyder one of their “Top Voices” in Marketing & Social Media for three years in a row. Her online videos were awarded the Hermes Gold Award for
Educational Programming in Electronic Media and most recently she was given the Global Empowerment award for Marketing and Technology by Anokhi Media.
As the CEO of Zen Media, she and her team help both B2B and B2C brands to make meaningful connections with the modern-day customer via influencer marketing, and experiential and digital storytelling — and then turn those connections into bottom line results. Notable clients include Chase Business, The US Navy, DFW Airport, Mary Kay, and Tupperware.
Andrea Iorio
Leading Global Keynote Speaker on Digital Transformation & AI, Best-selling Author, and MBA Professor
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Andrea Iorio is one of Brazil’s most requested keynote speakers about Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership and Soft Skills, and he shares his thoughts and ideas at the intersection of business, technology, philosophy and neuroscience in his more than 200 keynotes per year. He holds more than 10 years of experience in multinational and tech companies: he has been the Head of Tinder across Latin America for 5 years, and Chief Digital Officer at L’Oréal Brazil.
He is an economist with a Degree from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS (Washington, DC), and is now an MBA professor at Fundação Dom Cabral.
He is the author of the books “6 Competências para Surfar na Transformação Digital” and “O futuro não é mais como antigamente”: both reached the n. 1 position on Amazon in the People Management and Leadership sections in Brazil He has more than 65k followers on Linkedin, and his podcast Metanoia Lab is among the top 100 podcasts in Business in Brazil.
Ryan Jenkins
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Leadership Author, and #1 Team Connection & Generations Expert
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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.
Omar Johnson
Culture, Diversity, Marketing and Branding Speaker, Former CMO at Beats by Dre, and Former VP of Marketing at Apple
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Omar talks about how brands can use curiosity and creativity to create stand out brands that authentically connect with consumers.
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Audiences leave inspired to think about branding from a new perspective that involves the consumer to drive exponential growth and sustainability.
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Omar is the former Chief Marketing Officer at Beats by Dre and former VP of Marketing at Apple, and the creator of the Nike+ sports music platform, establishing Nike’s first revenue-generating relationship with record labels.
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Past clients include: Nike, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and Campbell's Soup.
As the former Chief Marketing Officer at Beats by Dre and former VP of Marketing at Apple, Omar Johnson has created strong consumer connections with the brands he’s represented. He drove explosive growth at Beats, leading groundbreaking campaigns with celebrities such as LeBron James, Chris Rock, and Eminem – helping to take a $20 million company to a $1.1 billion dollar global icon and category leader.
Johnson drove explosive growth in the headphone category through groundbreaking campaigns including #ShowYourColor Solo Campaign, Powerbeats starring LeBron James and The Pills featuring Chris Rock and Eminem. He used “ambush marketing” and influencers to expand the brand—giving athletes and musicians free headphones at private company parties—which helped turn Beats into the headphone of choice for the best musicians and athletes in the world.
Previously, Johnson led innovative marketing programs for international brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, and Campbell Soup. As an advertising lead at Nike, Johnson produced some of Nike’s most memorable TV commercials including “Rise,” starring LeBron James, “All Together Now,” featuring Kobe Bryant, and “The Most Valuable Puppets”.
Johnson also built the Nike+ sports music platform, establishing Nike’s first revenue-generating relationship with record labels. Johnson and his team created an industry-first sports music program with Universal, Interscope, Sony, Capitol, Def Jam and more than 25 independent labels. This collaboration sold +5 Million tracks and deepened the connection between music and sports.
Johnson is from Brooklyn, NY. He received a BS in Biology and Chemistry from Georgia State University and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Ian Khan
About Ian Khan – National Bestselling Author, Thinkers50 Award Shortlist, Highly Rated Futurist: Ian Khan, the Futurist, is a USA Today & Publisher Weekly National Bestselling Author of Undisrupted, Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Fu …
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His work is frequently featured on CNN, the BBC, Fast Company, Bloomberg and other global media outlets.
Kath Koschel
Founder, The Kindness Factory, Former Australian Cricketer, Triathlete and Motivational Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Teamwork & Change
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Kath Koschel is a survivor who has overcome incredible odds and unimaginable tragedy to inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Koschel is a former cricketer and Ironman competitor whose world came crashing down when she broke her back twice in the span of five years and was told that she would never walk again. Instead, she faced the challenges head-on and defied all medical prognosis by teaching herself to walk again on three separate occasions. In the midst of these harrowing experiences, she believes she experienced two things in large amounts: adversity and kindness.
After re-learning to walk for the second time in her life, this realisation kickstarted a 2-month journey around Australia which relied solely on the kindness of strangers. No cash, credit card food or water – and no help from family or friends! Now a best selling book, Kath shares some of the insights learnt on this trip as part of her best-selling memoir and has transferred these learnings from book form to keynote on stages around the world.