Business Strategy

David Allison
Human Values Expert, Bestselling Author, and Founder of The Valuegraphics Project
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David Allison: Human Values Expert | Founder of the Valuegraphics Project | Bestselling Author
Understand What People Value. Change What Happens Next.
David Allison helps organizations look past demographic labels to the human values people share. As the founder of the Valuegraphics Project, he turns research on values into practical ideas for reaching customers, engaging employees, and building stronger connections.
Why Book David Allison?
David gives audiences a fresh way to understand why people act. He shows leaders how to use insight into human values when they communicate, sell, lead, or create a sense of belonging.
His keynotes are especially useful for organizations with plenty of customer or employee data but too little clarity about what will truly engage people.
What Makes David Different?
• Original global research into the values that influence decisions
• An approach that looks beyond broad demographic assumptions
• Relevant applications for sales, marketing, leadership, and workplace culture
• A way to connect data with more human communication
• The ability to tailor the conversation to the audience an organization wants to engage
Why Is David Right for Your Audience?
David is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales and marketing events, association meetings, and organizations working to strengthen culture. He is particularly valuable when a team needs to understand its customers, employees, or community more deeply before trying to influence them.
Book David when your audience needs to:
• Understand what matters most to the people it serves
• Build stronger connections with customers and colleagues
• Make messages more relevant and persuasive
• Lead teams with a better grasp of shared motivations
• Strengthen belonging without relying on stereotypes
• Turn audience insight into practical decisions
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the difference between who people are and what they value
• Ready to ask better questions about the audiences they want to reach
• Equipped to connect messages and decisions to shared values
• More confident using values to improve engagement and trust
• Motivated to put human insight alongside the data they already use
Keynote Programs
Boosting Sales by Being Human
David shows sales and marketing teams how understanding customer values can help them communicate more effectively and build stronger relationships. Ideal for sales kickoffs, customer experience events, and marketing conferences.
The Science of Values-Based Leadership
David explores how leaders can identify the values their people share and use that understanding to improve communication, collaboration, and engagement. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations navigating change.
The Blueprint for Belonging
David challenges audiences to move beyond assumptions based on demographic labels and examine the values that help people feel understood and included. Ideal for workplace culture and people leadership events.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us about your audience and the outcome you want. We’ll help you assess which of David’s programs is most relevant, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.
Is David Right for Your Event?
Tell us whose decisions you hope to influence, which relationships you want to strengthen, and what you want your audience to do differently. We’ll help you assess David’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].

Scott Anthony
Author and speaker on growth and innovation, creativity and entrepreneurialism.
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Scott Anthony: Innovation and Disruption Expert | Dartmouth Tuck Professor | Author of Epic Disruptions
Turn Disruption into a Path Forward
Scott Anthony helps organizations work through both. A clinical professor of strategy at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and a longtime advisor at Innosight, he brings research, business examples, and practical tools to the challenges of innovation, transformation, and growth. Tuck School of Business
Why Book Scott Anthony?
Scott gives leaders a way to act when the future is uncertain. He shows how to test assumptions, explore new opportunities, and make progress before every answer is known.
His keynotes are particularly useful for teams facing shifts in customer needs, technology, or competition. Scott connects innovation to strategic choices, leadership behaviour, and the systems needed to move ideas forward.
What Makes Scott Different?
• Experience spanning academic research and practical strategy work
• A clear view of how disruption unfolds
• Frameworks for strengthening today’s business while creating future growth
• Practical approaches to experimentation and innovation culture
• Insight relevant to executives making decisions under uncertainty
Why Is Scott Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for executive conferences, board and leadership meetings, innovation events, and organizations planning a major transformation. He is especially valuable when leaders agree change is necessary but need a shared language and a more concrete path forward.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
• Understand the forces reshaping its industry
• Make strategic decisions with incomplete information
• Strengthen the core business while exploring new growth
• Move promising ideas from discussion to testing
• Address the leadership and cultural side of transformation
• Build a more consistent approach to innovation
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better able to recognize patterns of disruptive change
• Clearer on the assumptions behind their current strategy
• Equipped to discuss future opportunities without waiting for certainty
• Ready to use experimentation to learn what works
• More confident leading teams through ambiguity and change
Keynote Programs
Decoding the Epic Disruptions That Shaped Our Modern World
Drawing on Epic Disruptions, Scott uses stories from past innovations to show how major change unfolds and what those patterns can teach leaders facing disruption today. Ideal for strategy, innovation, and future-focused events.
Lead Through the Fog of Uncertainty with Optimism
Scott gives leaders practical ways to work through ambiguity, question old assumptions, and identify opportunity amid competing demands. Ideal for executive teams and organizations navigating transformation.
The Myths and Realities of Building a Culture of Innovation
Scott examines the systems and leadership habits that help innovation happen consistently. Audiences consider how to remove obstacles, support experimentation, and connect new ideas to results. Ideal for leadership and companywide innovation events. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us where growth is slowing, what is changing in your market, and what you want your audience to do differently. We’ll help you assess which of Scott’s topics fits your event, discuss customization, and check his availability and current fee.
Is Scott Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, its biggest strategic challenge, and the decisions the event should help move forward. We’ll help you assess Scott’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
 

Lior Arussy
Leading Global Expert on Customer Experience & Customer-Centric Transformation
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Lior Arussy: Customer Experience Strategist | Founder of Strativity Group | Speaker on Change and Employee Engagement
Make Change Matter to Customers and Employees
Lior Arussy helps leaders close that gap. As the founder of Strativity Group, he connects customer strategy to the actions employees take and the value customers experience. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Lior Arussy?
Lior brings a practitioner’s view of change. He has worked with organizations on customer experience and employee engagement, and he shows audiences why a new strategy succeeds only when people can make it real in their work.
His keynotes challenge leaders to look beyond slogans and technology investments. Lior focuses on what customers value and how employees can deliver it consistently.
What Makes Lior Different?
• Experience helping organizations change customer and employee experiences
• A direct connection between culture, execution, and business results
• A human perspective on how AI is changing customer expectations
• Ideas that speak to leaders and customer-facing teams
• An emphasis on making change visible in everyday behaviour
Why Is Lior Right for Your Audience?
Lior is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, sales and service meetings, and organizations working through transformation. He is particularly relevant when a team has an ambitious customer strategy but needs greater commitment and consistency across the organization.
Book Lior when your audience needs to:
• Build more valuable, lasting customer relationships
• Connect employee engagement to customer experience
• Respond to changing expectations in the AI era
• Turn a customer strategy into daily decisions and actions
• Strengthen adaptability during ongoing change
• Create a culture that supports exceptional performance
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Clearer about what makes a customer experience valuable
• Ready to identify gaps between their promise and their delivery
• Better able to involve employees in making change work
• Equipped to examine where digital tools help or hinder human connection
• Motivated to take ownership of the experience they create
Keynote Programs
The One and Only: The Gen AI-Empowered Customer
Lior explores how generative AI is changing customer expectations and the ways people engage with brands. He asks organizations to reconsider how they create relevant value for customers who expect more individual attention and choice.
Customer Experience as an Engine for Growth
Lior examines how organizations can make customer relationships a source of lasting business value. Drawing on successes and setbacks from real organizations, he connects customer strategy to execution and growth.
Change Resilience: The New Core Competence
Lior focuses on the human side of transformation and how organizations can become more capable of adapting as change continues. Ideal for teams facing a major strategic shift or repeated disruption. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us about the gap between your organization’s customer promise and what people experience. We’ll help you assess which of Lior’s programs fits your event, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.
Is Lior Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change you are trying to make, and the customer or employee outcome you want. We’ll help you assess Lior’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].

Biggest Mistakes People Make When Booking a Speaker
Biggest Mistakes People When Booking a a Speaker
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Biggest Mistakes People Make When Booking a Speaker


Lisa Bodell
Global Leader on Simplification & Banishing Complexity, Innovation, Leadership, Change, Collaboration, and Transforming Culture
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Lisa Bodell:  Keynote Speaker on Simplification, Innovation & Leadership | Founder & CEO of FutureThink | Bestselling Author of Why Simple Wins
Simplify Work. Unlock Better Thinking. What could your people accomplish if they stopped wasting time on unnecessary work and focused their energy on what actually matters?
Lisa helps organizations eliminate the complexity, bureaucracy and low-value work that prevent people from thinking, leading and innovating at their best. Her message is provocative, practical and immediately actionable: stop adding more—and start removing what gets in the way.
Why Book Lisa Bodell?
Lisa doesn't just inspire people to work differently. She gives them practical tools to actually do it.
Her keynotes challenge one of the biggest problems facing organizations today: people are overwhelmed by meetings, processes, approvals and unnecessary complexity while leaders simultaneously ask them to innovate, move faster and accomplish more.
Lisa shows audiences how to create capacity by eliminating low-value work, simplifying decision-making and giving people more space to think.
The result is a keynote that can change not just how your audience thinks—but how they work the very next day.
What Makes Lisa Bodell Different?
• Founder & CEO of FutureThink — helping organizations simplify and innovate since 2003
• Bestselling author — author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company
• Simplification expert — helps organizations eliminate unnecessary complexity
• Innovation authority — teaches people how to challenge assumptions and think differently
• Highly interactive — incorporates audience participation and live exercises
• Immediately actionable — audiences leave with tools they can actually use
• Human-centered AI perspective — focuses on strengthening the capabilities technology can't replace
• Extensive corporate experience — has worked with leading organizations around the world
Why Is Lisa Right for Your Audience?
Lisa is an outstanding choice when your people are overwhelmed, moving too slowly or spending too much time on work that doesn't create enough value.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation summits, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating AI-driven change.
Book Lisa when your audience needs to:
• Eliminate unnecessary complexity
• Create more time for meaningful work
• Make decisions faster
• Reduce bureaucracy and low-value processes
• Give leaders more capacity to actually lead
• Challenge outdated assumptions
• Strengthen innovation and creative problem-solving
• Determine where humans add the greatest value in an AI-enabled workplace
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Identifying unnecessary work they can stop doing
• Better equipped to simplify meetings, processes and decision-making
• Understanding how complexity can undermine innovation
• More willing to challenge outdated rules and assumptions
• Equipped with practical tools they can apply immediately
• Better prepared to create space for higher-value work
• Thinking differently about leadership in an AI-enabled workplace
• Ready to simplify how work gets done
Lisa Bodell Keynote Programs
Unleash the Power of Simple: Eliminate Complexity, Reclaim Control, and Win in the Age of AI
Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to eliminate unnecessary complexity before using AI to accelerate the way work gets done. Drawing on more than 25 years of global experience and examples from organizations including Netflix, AT&T, and Pfizer, she shares practical tools for reducing noise, improving focus, and creating simpler ways of working. Attendees learn why AI can amplify broken processes rather than fix them—and how simplification can create the conditions for greater speed, innovation, and performance. Ideal for organizations navigating AI adoption, transformation, and increasing workplace complexity.
Let Leaders Lead: It’s Time to Fix What’s Broken
Lisa examines why leadership has become unnecessarily difficult and what organizations can do to change it. She challenges systems that ask leaders to move quickly while burdening them with excessive process, competing expectations, and unclear authority. Through practical tools and real-world examples, Lisa shows how leaders can replace complexity with clarity, establish stronger boundaries, make better decisions, and balance empathy with accountability. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations that want to improve execution, engagement, and performance.
Igniting Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led
Lisa explores how organizations can use AI to strengthen rather than replace the human thinking that drives innovation. She shows audiences how curiosity, judgment, and creative problem-solving can be combined with AI to challenge assumptions, explore possibilities, and make better decisions. Through interactive exercises and ideas from Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, participants learn practical ways to question the status quo and approach change more boldly. Ideal for innovation conferences, transformation initiatives, and teams exploring how AI can support more creative and effective work.
 
Why Book Lisa Bodell Through The Sweeney Agency?
Lisa Bodell combines provocative thinking with practical tools audiences can use immediately—but the real value comes from identifying where complexity is getting in the way of your organization's performance.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Lisa Bodell's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Lisa Bodell keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's challenges
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Lisa with other leading innovation, change and leadership speakers
Is Lisa Bodell Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's slowing your people down—and what you want them spending more time doing instead.
We'll help you determine whether Lisa is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, innovation summit or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Lisa Bodell as your keynote speaker.
 

Dr. Gary Bradt
World-Class Speaker, Author, Change and Leadership Expert
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Dr. Gary Bradt: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Resilience | Clinical Psychologist | Bestselling Author | Business Transformation Expert
Turn Change Into Opportunity.  Change is inevitable. How your people respond to it isn't.
Gary helps leaders and employees navigate uncertainty, let go of what they can't control and focus their energy on the actions that move them forward. Combining psychology, compelling stories, humor and practical strategies, he turns the often-overwhelming subject of change into something audiences can understand—and act on.
Why Book Dr. Gary Bradt?
Gary doesn't simply tell people they need to embrace change. He helps them understand why change can be so difficult and gives them practical strategies for responding more effectively.
His background as a clinical psychologist gives Gary a distinctive perspective on the human side of organizational change—how people react when familiar routines disappear, expectations shift and uncertainty increases.
His presentations are engaging, relatable and highly practical, helping audiences move beyond resistance and focus on what they can control, what they can influence and what they can do next.
What Makes Gary Bradt Different?
• Clinical psychologist — brings a deep understanding of how people respond to change
• Bestselling author — recognized for his practical insights on change and resilience
• Change expertise — helps organizations address the human side of transformation
• Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can apply at work and in life
• Leadership focused — gives leaders tools for helping others navigate uncertainty
• Engaging and relatable — combines psychology, humor and real-world stories
• Business relevant — connects individual behavior directly to organizational performance
Why Is Gary Right for Your Audience?
Gary is an excellent choice when your organization needs people to stop fighting what they can't control and start taking ownership of what they can.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, association events and organizations navigating restructuring, transformation, growth or significant workplace change.
Book Gary when your audience needs to:
• Adapt more effectively to organizational change
• Build greater resilience during uncertainty
• Focus on what they can control and influence
• Move beyond resistance and take productive action
• Maintain performance during periods of disruption
• Lead others confidently through change
• Strengthen personal accountability
• Approach uncertainty with greater optimism and perspective
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better prepared to navigate uncertainty and change
• Understanding why people naturally resist disruption
• Equipped with practical strategies for responding more productively
• More focused on the actions within their control
• Better able to maintain perspective when circumstances become difficult
• Ready to take greater ownership of their response to change
• More confident helping others move forward
Dr. Gary Bradt Keynote Programs
Navigating Change: When circumstances change, you may not control what happens—but you can control how you respond.
Gary helps audiences understand the psychological realities of change and why uncertainty can trigger resistance, frustration and fear.
He then provides practical strategies for moving beyond those reactions, adapting more quickly and focusing energy on the choices and behaviors that create forward momentum.
Ideal for: Organizational transformation, corporate meetings, leadership conferences and organizations navigating significant change.
Leading Through Change: A leader's job isn't simply to announce change. It's to help people successfully move through it.
Gary gives leaders practical insights into how people experience change and what they need from leadership during periods of uncertainty.
Audiences learn how to communicate more effectively, maintain trust, encourage accountability and help teams stay focused on what comes next.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, management conferences and transformation initiatives.
Resilience: Moving Forward When Things Don't Go as Planned: Resilience isn't about pretending everything is fine. It's about choosing a productive response when it isn't.
Drawing on psychology and decades of experience helping individuals and organizations navigate difficult transitions, Gary shows audiences how to regain perspective, manage uncertainty and continue moving forward.
Ideal for: Leadership, resilience, workplace wellbeing and high-performance events.
Why Book Dr. Gary Bradt Through The Sweeney Agency?
Gary Bradt's background in psychology and organizational change gives him a powerful perspective on transformation—but the real value comes from connecting his message directly to the change your people are experiencing.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Dr. Gary Bradt's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Gary Bradt keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's specific change or challenge
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Gary with other leading change, leadership and resilience speakers
Is Gary Bradt Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your organization—and how you need your people to respond.
We'll help you determine whether Gary is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, transformation event or corporate meeting? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Dr. Gary Bradt as your keynote speaker.

Ram Charan
Highly Acclaimed Business and Leadership Speaker and Advisor
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Ram Charan: Global Business Advisor | Co-Author of Execution | Speaker on Strategy, Leadership and Profitable Growth
Why Book Ram Charan?
His presentations bring an experienced business perspective to growth, talent and competitive advantage. Ram is particularly valuable for audiences that want to question their assumptions, understand the fundamentals and move from broad ambition to practical execution.
Why Is Ram Charan Right for Your Audience?
Ram is a strong fit for executive conferences, board retreats, senior leadership meetings and management development programs. Consider him when decision-makers need a substantive discussion about how their business competes, grows and performs.
Book Ram when your audience needs to:
• Close the gap between strategy and execution
• Connect people, priorities and operations
• Develop stronger leadership talent
• Understand changing sources of competitive advantage
• Examine opportunities for profitable growth
• Improve the quality of business dialogue
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on leaders’ responsibility for execution
• Better prepared to align talent with strategic needs
• Ready to examine priorities against business realities
• More aware of how competitive advantage can change
• Equipped with questions for more focused management discussions
Keynote Programs
Execution
Ram explores how robust dialogue connects people, strategy and operations. Ideal for leaders who need to improve accountability and follow-through.
Rethinking Competitive Advantage
Ram examines how digital businesses compete and what established organizations can learn from their practices. Ideal for strategy and transformation audiences.
Talent
Ram discusses finding, developing and deploying leaders who can deliver business results. Ideal for executive and talent development programs.
Is Ram Charan Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your leaders, the business decisions they face and the outcomes you want from the discussion. We can help select Ram’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.

Conference Plans Changed?
How to Plan a Great Virtual Event
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Virtual Events can:
1. Reach a wider audience
2. Offer a great experience at a much lower cost
3. Create long term impact with recorded elements that allow for content to be watched over a period of time
4. Have an increased impact over time, as viewers re-watch, discuss and connect over social media and other channels
And, most importantly: offer the ability for inspiring and impactful presentations to connect in a one-on-one way, directly to the attendee.
WHO is your audience?
Who are your virtual event attendees? Are they across a specific group within your organization, or are you serving clients across a wide range of levels? Determining who you are speaking to will help you determine a format for your event that will captivate your audience.
WHAT is your key message?
Are you focusing on change? Innovation? Leadership?
Creating a single focus or mission will allow you to hone in on the type of speaker(s) you need to engage your audience and help event producers to format the event into a dynamic program that balances inspiration with information and audience interaction.
WHAT type of event suits your audience?
• Virtual Conference
• Webinar
• Hybrid Event
Virtual event technology has come a long way over the last few months, offering a huge range of different options from pre-recorded webinars, to multi-day virtual conferences, to hybrid events with some attendees in the audience while the event is live streamed.
OUR ADVICE
A COMBINATION of live and pre-recorded elements will allow your virtual event to run smoothly and stay on time.
Many of our clients are also opting for multi-day virtual conferences with shorter segments spaced over a few days.
This allows some flexibility for attendees in different time zones and accommodates different teleworking situations for attendees, allowing them to tune in when it is convenient.
WHERE? It’s all about Tech.
Virtual meeting technology has exploded over the last few months as teleworking became the norm.
Consider your needs:
• Interactive elements like breakout rooms, polls & Q&A
• Seamless blend of live & pre-recorded elements
• Ability to replay segments
• Live tech support
If you plan for rain, it’s likely the sun will shine…
Tech isn’t perfect so don’t forget to test, rehearse and have a back up plan ready to go for your virtual event.
Pro Tip: Think of a virtual presentation like a podcast. Viewers can view the content multiple times and refer back to it.
  WHEN? A Date… or Dates?
As we have all noticed, our attention spans for meeting in real life versus meeting online are a lot longer.
When deciding on a date, consider spreading your virtual event out over a few days, with a variety of speakers, interactive elements and information.
The benefits of a multi-day format:
• Viewers watch content fresh for a short period every day
• Allows attendees in different time zones to stay on top of the content
• Attendees can review & re-engage with content
Virtual Event Checklist:
Is your event?
• Interactive?
• Informative?
• Able to be rewatched?
WHY? Pandemic 2020
Just because you are online instead of in person, it doesn’t mean you are missing out on connection.
Using the technology that we have become so accustomed to over the last few months, our keynote speakers have the ability to connect to your viewers one-on-one, in a way that was impossible in live events.
FIND YOUR WHY…
What do you want the audience to leave thinking at the end of the presentation?
Apply this question to all the presentations and segments in your event to create a cohesive, impactful virtual event.
  HOW? Virtual Event Checklist
To wrap it all up
• TECH: Find the right tech platform & don’t forget to test drive before your event
• AGENDA: Use a mix of live and pre-recorded segments, mixed with interactive elements, to ensure a smooth flow of events & audience engagement
• ANTICIPATION: Build up your event with emails, teasers and sneak peeks into what content will be offered
• NETWORKING: Create and encourage online chat functions, an event specific hashtag or even a dedicated event page to allow attendees to network virtually. Maximize the networking opportunities offered by your tech platform.
• EXTEND YOUR IMPACT: A dedicated social media page is a great place for attendees to connect after an event to discuss ideas and implement some of the learnings from the event.
Offer a password protected, limited time recording of keynote presentations to continue the conversation long after the virtual event has ended.
Continue the conversation with post-event touch points like emails or questions based on the key presentations.
To find a GREAT Speaker for your Virtual event, get in touch.

Daryl Conner
Author of Leading at the Edge of Chaos and Managing At the Speed of Change . Internationally Recognized Change Management Expert.
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Daryl Conner: Author of Managing at the Speed of Change | Change Advisor | Speaker on Leadership, Transformation and Strategy Execution
Why Book Daryl Conner?
His work focuses on delivering the intended benefits of transformation. Daryl helps audiences consider resilience, commitment, culture and leadership responsibilities together, making him a useful choice when an organization needs a substantive discussion about how to execute difficult change.
Why Is Daryl Conner Right for Your Audience?
Daryl is a strong fit for executive retreats, transformation conferences, change management events and leadership development programs. Consider him when your audience is responsible for implementing strategic initiatives with significant consequences.
Book Daryl when your audience needs to:
• Understand why major change is difficult to absorb
• Clarify leadership responsibilities during transformation
• Build commitment beyond initial agreement
• Recognize how culture affects execution
• Strengthen resilience through demanding transitions
• Connect change practices with strategic results
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the dynamics that influence change execution
• Better prepared to examine leadership and sponsorship roles
• More aware of the conditions needed for commitment
• Ready to discuss resilience and organizational capacity
• Equipped with questions for strengthening transformation efforts
Keynote Programs
Managing at the Speed of Change
Daryl explores the dynamics of change, including resilience, commitment and organizational roles. Ideal for leaders and change practitioners.
Leading at the Edge of Chaos
Daryl examines the leadership demands of execution in a turbulent environment. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.
Project Change Management
Daryl explores how change management and project management can support each other. Ideal for teams implementing complex programs.
Is Daryl Conner Right for Your Event?
Tell us about the transformation you are pursuing, who will attend and where execution is proving difficult. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Daryl’s availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Barbara Corcoran
Founder of The Corcoran Group & Shark and Executive Producer on ABC’s “Shark Tank”
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Barbara Corcoran: Founder of The Corcoran Group | Shark Tank Investor | Speaker on Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Resilience
Why Book Barbara Corcoran?
Barbara delivers those lessons with candid stories, humor and practical business insights. Her journey from starting a small real estate office with a $1,000 loan gives her message a memorable foundation. For teams that need renewed confidence, she offers an energetic challenge to adapt, take initiative and keep moving. The Sweeney Agency
Why Is Barbara Corcoran Right for Your Audience?
Barbara is a strong fit for entrepreneurship conferences, sales meetings, leadership events, real estate gatherings and women’s business programs. She is especially valuable when an organization wants people to think more resourcefully, build stronger teams or regain momentum after disappointment.
Book Barbara when your audience needs to:
• Respond to setbacks with greater resilience
• Find opportunities in difficult business conditions
• Build confidence to pursue new ideas
• Recognize and recruit promising talent
• Lead with greater attention to people’s needs
• Bring renewed energy to business growth
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• More willing to take a constructive next step after failure
• Ready to question assumptions that limit growth
• Clearer on the importance of people in building a business
• Equipped with lessons from Barbara’s entrepreneurial experience
• Inspired to approach challenges with creativity and persistence
Keynote Programs
How She Built It!
Barbara shares her entrepreneurial journey and lessons from building The Corcoran Group. Ideal for audiences seeking an entertaining story of persistence and business growth.
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Barbara explores how leaders can respond to employees’ needs and bring out the best in their teams. Ideal for managers and leadership audiences.
How to Bounce Back from Failure
Barbara shares her approach to recovering from setbacks and moving forward. Ideal for sales teams, entrepreneurs and organizations navigating change.
Shark Tank Unfiltered
Barbara offers a candid look behind the scenes of Shark Tank and the entrepreneurs she encounters. Ideal for audiences interested in business-building stories and an entertaining event experience.
Fireside Chat: Ask Barbara Anything
A moderated conversation gives your audience the opportunity to hear Barbara’s perspective on its questions. Ideal for events seeking a more conversational format. Barbara Corcoran
Is Barbara Corcoran Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the challenges it faces and the action you want people to take after the event. We can help select Barbara’s most relevant program, discuss the format and customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Tony Dwyer
Canaccord Genuity Macroeconomist and Chief Market Strategist
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Tony Dwyer: Market Strategist | Financial Commentator | Speaker on Economic Cycles and Capital Markets
Why Book Tony Dwyer?
Tony’s presentations translate complicated market language into an accessible discussion. His approach gives executives and financial audiences a framework for examining the evidence behind a market view, questioning familiar assumptions, and separating useful signals from the constant flow of commentary.
Why Is Tony Dwyer Right for Your Audience?
Tony is a strong fit for financial services conferences, investor events, executive meetings, and association programs. Consider him when your audience wants an engaging economic discussion that helps people assess competing interpretations of the market.
Book Tony when your audience needs to:
• Understand the forces shaping economic cycles
• Assess market commentary more critically
• Examine the usefulness of commonly cited indicators
• Recognize how sentiment influences decisions
• Connect economic developments with business discussions
• Ask better questions about market assumptions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on Tony’s framework for assessing market conditions
• More aware of the limits of individual economic indicators
• Better prepared to distinguish evidence from sentiment
• Ready to challenge assumptions behind market narratives
• Equipped with questions for more informed strategic discussions
Keynote Programs
The Macro-Economic Outlook – and Why Most of the Indicators Are Terrible
Tony examines the economic outlook and the limitations of widely followed indicators. Ideal for audiences seeking context for market developments.
What Really Moves an Economic Cycle and Business Trends
Tony explores the forces behind changing economic and business conditions. Ideal for executives and financial professionals.
How Human Nature and the Media Can Influence Decisions
Tony discusses the role of behavior and commentary in decision-making. Ideal for audiences that want to examine how market narratives shape their thinking.
Is Tony Dwyer Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the economic questions your audience needs to explore and the decisions those questions inform. We can help select Tony’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Dr. Ken Dychtwald
Futurist, Best-Selling Author, Entrepreneur, Psychologist, Gerontologist and Recognized Speaker on the Aging Population.
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Dr. Ken Dychtwald: Founder of Age Wave | Psychologist and Gerontologist | Speaker on Longevity, Aging and Retirement
Why Book Dr. Ken Dychtwald?
Ken makes the implications of aging concrete for decision-makers. His presentations encourage organizations to examine assumptions about older adults and consider how products, services, and policies can respond to changing lives. He brings a long-term perspective to challenges that extend across generations.
Why Is Dr. Ken Dychtwald Right for Your Audience?
Ken is a strong fit for financial services conferences, healthcare meetings, executive strategy events, and organizations serving older consumers. Consider him when your audience needs to understand demographic change as a factor in future planning.
Book Ken when your audience needs to:
• Recognize opportunities in the longevity economy
• Reconsider assumptions about retirement and later life
• Understand changing expectations among older consumers
• Explore the implications of an aging workforce
• Address connections between family, care, and financial security
• Include demographic change in strategic discussions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• A broader perspective on the consequences of longevity
• More aware of changing needs across generations
• Ready to question outdated assumptions about older adults
• Better prepared to discuss retirement as a life transition
• Equipped with ideas for serving a longer-lived population
Keynote Programs
The Longevity Revolution: Triumph or Tragedy?
Ken examines the opportunities and societal challenges of longer lives. Ideal for executive and policy audiences.
Reinventing Retirement: Your Grandparents’ Retirement Is Over
Ken explores changing retirement expectations and the questions they create for advisors. Ideal for financial services audiences.
How the Age Wave Will Transform the Marketplace, the Workplace and Our Lives
Ken connects demographic shifts with consumer needs, work, and business opportunities. Ideal for leaders planning for long-term change.
Is Dr. Ken Dychtwald Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the demographic changes affecting your organization and the opportunities you want to explore. We can help select Ken’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Maddy Dychtwald
Speaker on Generational Marketing Trends, Co-founder and Senior VP of Age Wave
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Maddy Dychtwald: Co-Founder of Age Wave | Author of Ageless Aging | Speaker on Longevity, Women and Retirement
Why Book Maddy Dychtwald?
Maddy combines demographic research with stories that make the subject relevant to individuals and organizations. Her presentations encourage audiences to think beyond age-based assumptions and consider how people can prepare for a longer, more varied life.
Why Is Maddy Dychtwald Right for Your Audience?
Maddy is a strong fit for financial services conferences, women’s leadership events, healthcare and senior living meetings, and consumer strategy programs. Consider her when your audience wants a clearer understanding of longevity or the needs and influence of women over 50.
Book Maddy when your audience needs to:
• Understand how longevity changes life planning
• Explore women’s experiences of aging and retirement
• Recognize the influence of consumers over 50
• Reconsider assumptions about later-life possibilities
• Connect retirement conversations with purpose and well-being
• Prepare products and services for changing expectations
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• A broader view of what longer lives can involve
• More aware of women’s distinct longevity considerations
• Ready to challenge familiar stereotypes about age
• Better prepared to discuss retirement beyond finances alone
• Equipped with questions about serving older consumers
Keynote Programs
The New Retirement in the Age of Longevity
Maddy explores the changing meaning of retirement and preparation for longer lives. Ideal for financial professionals and client audiences.
Ageless Aging: Are You Prepared?
Maddy discusses longevity and the possibilities of living well as people age. Ideal for audiences interested in later-life planning and well-being.
50+ Women: A Force to Be Reckoned With
Maddy examines the influence of women over 50 and what organizations should understand about them. Ideal for marketers and business leaders.
Is Maddy Dychtwald Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the longevity, retirement, or consumer questions most relevant to your event. We can help select Maddy’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Cliff Eala
Behavioural Strategist, Author, Thought leader on bridging the strategy-execution gap with behaviour change design.
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Cliff Eala: Behavioural Strategist | CEO of BS Works | Speaker on Decision-Making and Behaviour Change
Why Book Cliff Eala?
Cliff’s presentations focus on the gap between a stated intention and an observable behavior. Drawing on business experience and behavioural science training, he encourages leaders to examine friction, assumptions, and the environments that influence choices. His message is useful when a plan depends on people adopting new habits.
Why Is Cliff Eala Right for Your Audience?
Cliff is a strong fit for leadership meetings, transformation conferences, marketing events, and customer experience programs. Consider him when your organization wants to understand why a strategy is not translating into action and what could change that.
Book Cliff when your audience needs to:
• Turn strategic priorities into specific behaviors
• Recognize thinking traps in important decisions
• Understand customer choices and points of friction
• Examine the conditions that support employee retention
• Design interventions people can act on
• Evaluate progress through observable actions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the role of behavior in strategy execution
• More aware of assumptions affecting their decisions
• Ready to define the actions a business goal requires
• Better prepared to examine friction in customer or employee journeys
• Equipped with ideas for testing a focused behavior change
Keynote Programs
Make Strategy Stick with 5 Powerful Behavioural Design Steps
Cliff explores how behavioural design supports execution. Ideal for leaders translating plans into action.
5 Steps to Beating Thinking Traps in Decision Making
Cliff examines assumptions, biases, and approaches to better decisions. Ideal for executives and managers.
AI and the Changing Consumer
Cliff considers evolving consumer journeys and opportunities to remove friction with behavioural insight and AI. Ideal for marketing, retail, and customer experience audiences.
Is Cliff Eala Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the behaviors you want to change and the business goals those changes should support. We can help select Cliff’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Dr. Elliot Eisenberg
Economic Speaker & Commentator
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Dr. Elliot Eisenberg: Chief Economist at GraphsandLaughs | Former Senior Economist at the National Association of Home Builders | Speaker on the Economy, Housing and Business Conditions
Why Book Dr. Elliot Eisenberg?
A former Senior Economist at the National Association of Home Builders, Elliot brings particular depth in housing and real estate. His lively delivery combines charts, humor and audience interaction with clear explanations of interest rates, inflation, employment and growth. He gives audiences a broader view of the economy and a practical reason to pay attention to the numbers.
Why Is Dr. Elliot Eisenberg Right for Your Audience?
Elliot is a strong fit for association conferences, banking events, real estate meetings, homebuilding gatherings and business leadership programs. He is especially relevant when attendees need an economic outlook that connects national developments with the markets they serve.
Book Elliot when your audience needs to:
• Understand the economic outlook in accessible language
• Connect interest rates and inflation with business conditions
• Assess trends in housing, construction and real estate
• Put regional economic developments into a national context
• Consider how employment and wages affect demand
• Bring better-informed questions to business planning
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the economic indicators most relevant to their work
• Better able to understand relationships among growth, rates and employment
• More aware of the forces influencing housing demand and affordability
• Equipped with context for discussing market risks and opportunities
• Ready to interpret economic news with a broader perspective
Keynote Programs
The Economic Forecast
Elliot examines the outlook for growth, interest rates, employment, business spending and other major indicators. Ideal for business and association audiences seeking an engaging overview of economic conditions and their implications.
The Economy and the Housing Market
Elliot connects the national economic outlook with housing prices, mortgage rates, construction, affordability and demographics. He also considers regional and local conditions. Ideal for real estate, mortgage, homebuilding and banking audiences.
The Economic and Energy Forecast
Elliot combines an economic overview with a discussion of oil, natural gas and energy demand. Ideal for energy-related businesses and industries seeking to understand how economic conditions and energy markets interact.
Is Dr. Elliot Eisenberg Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the markets it serves and the economic questions you want the presentation to address. We can help select Elliot’s most relevant program, discuss regional focus and customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
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Meridith Elliott Powell
Award-winning Author, Keynote Speaker and Business Growth, Sales & Leadership Expert
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Meridith Elliott Powell: Hall of Fame Speaker | Business Growth Strategist | Speaker on Change, Sales, and Leadership
Why Book Meridith Elliott Powell?
Meridith brings energy, audience interaction, and a practical plan to her presentations. She shows leaders how to develop people who think for themselves, take ownership, and spot opportunities as conditions change. For sales teams, she connects that same approach to winning customers in a shifting marketplace.
Why Is Meridith Elliott Powell Right for Your Audience?
Meridith is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and company events. She is especially valuable when an organization needs to keep growing while its customers, workforce, or competitive landscape changes.
Book Meridith when your audience needs to:
• Respond to uncertainty with greater confidence
• Find opportunities during disruption
• Build accountability throughout the organization
• Develop the next generation of leaders
• Adapt sales strategies to changing buyer expectations
• Leave with a plan they can put into action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better able to identify where uncertainty creates opportunity
• Ready to give team members more ownership and room to contribute
• Clearer on how to stay focused while adapting their approach
• Equipped with ideas for building a stronger leadership pipeline
• Motivated to take a specific action that supports growth
Keynote Programs
THRIVE: Turn Uncertainty To Your Competitive Advantage
Meridith shares research, business stories, and a practical method for finding opportunity in changing conditions. She helps audiences stay flexible, focus on what matters, and create a personal plan for moving forward. Ideal for leadership conferences and organizations navigating disruption.
Sales Redefined: Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver
Meridith shows sales teams how to adjust when customer expectations and buying decisions change. She explores ways to reach decision-makers, build credibility, ask better questions, and give customers a clear reason to choose them. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing teams.
Succession Planning Redefined: Closing The Succession Gap
Meridith challenges leaders to develop talent throughout the organization, including managers, sales professionals, and people in critical specialist roles. She offers practical ways to build a stronger bench before a key departure creates a crisis. Ideal for executive and leadership meetings.
Is Meridith Elliott Powell Right for Your Event?
Tell us whether your priority is navigating uncertainty, growing sales, or developing future leaders. We can help select Meridith’s most relevant program, discuss the event format, and confirm her availability and fee.
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Keith Ferrazzi
Best-Selling Author of Never Eat Alone and Speaker on Business Relationship Development
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Keith Ferrazzi: Author of Never Eat Alone and Never Lead Alone | Executive Team Coach | Speaker on Collaboration and Teamship
Why Book Keith Ferrazzi?
Keith connects his work on professional relationships with the demands of organizational change. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how their teams collaborate, support one another, and make room for better ideas.
Why Is Keith Ferrazzi Right for Your Audience?
Keith is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, and transformation events. Consider him when important work depends on cooperation across departments or organizational boundaries.
Book Keith when your audience needs to:
• Break down silos around shared priorities
• Build more candid team conversations
• Strengthen mutual accountability
• Develop relationships before they are urgently needed
• Include more perspectives in important decisions
• Improve collaboration during change
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the difference between leadership and teamship
• Ready to examine team habits that restrict collaboration
• Better prepared to give and request support
• More aware of how relationships enable execution
• Equipped to choose a practical change in how their team works
Keynote Programs
The Future of Leadership Is Shifting to Teamship
Keith explores collective leadership, candor, and shared accountability. Ideal for executives and teams adapting to a more interdependent workplace.
A Journey from Never Eat Alone to Never Lead Alone
Keith connects relationship-building with the practices of effective teams. Ideal for leadership, sales, and professional development audiences.
Is Keith Ferrazzi Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the collaboration challenges your organization faces. We can help select Keith’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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James H. Gilmore
Co-Author of The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater and Every Business A Stage, Speaker on Strategy and Customer Service
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James Gilmore: Co-Author of The Experience Economy | Co-Founder of Strategic Horizons | Speaker on Customer Experience and Business Differentiation
Why Book James Gilmore?
As co-founder of Strategic Horizons and co-author of Authenticity, James brings a framework for discussing what customers value and how businesses communicate it. His presentations encourage audiences to reconsider familiar assumptions about service, customer attention, and the design of an offering.
Why Is James Gilmore Right for Your Audience?
James is a strong fit for executive meetings, customer experience conferences, retail and hospitality events, and brand strategy programs. Consider him when customers have many similar choices and your organization needs a clearer reason to be chosen.
Book James when your audience needs to:
• Distinguish an experience from a service
• Evaluate how customers spend their time and attention
• Identify opportunities to make interactions more memorable
• Align customer experiences with the brand’s promise
• Challenge assumptions about business differentiation
• Connect experience design with strategic priorities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the principles of the experience economy
• Ready to examine an important customer interaction
• More aware of how experiences influence perceived value
• Equipped to discuss differentiation beyond features and price
• Focused on an experience their organization could improve
Keynote Programs
Welcome to the Experience Economy
James introduces the shift from delivering services to staging experiences that customers value. Ideal for leaders, marketers, and customer experience teams revisiting their business offering.
Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money
James explores the competition for customers’ limited attention and the implications for experience design. Ideal for organizations seeking more meaningful engagement with customers.
Is James Gilmore Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the customer experience you want to improve and the competitive challenges you face. We can help select James’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Nancy Giordano
Futurist, Corporate Strategist & Speaker
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Nancy Giordano: Keynote Speaker on Future Trends, AI & Leadership | Strategic Futurist | Author of Leadering | Founder of Play Big Inc.
Don't Just Predict the Future. Help Build It. What future do you want your organization—and your leaders—to be responsible for creating?
As technology, AI and societal expectations reshape virtually every industry, Nancy helps leaders understand not only what is changing—but how they can actively shape what comes next.
Her optimistic, human-centered approach challenges audiences to stop thinking about the future as something that simply happens to them and start recognizing their responsibility and opportunity to help create it.
Why Book Nancy Giordano?
Nancy doesn't simply predict trends. She helps leaders understand the forces reshaping their world and decide what they want to do about them.
Her work sits at the intersection of exponential technology, AI, leadership, work and societal transformation.
Rather than overwhelming audiences with predictions, Nancy creates a compelling picture of what's becoming possible—and challenges leaders to think more boldly about the organizations, experiences and systems they can create.
Her central question is powerful:
What future do you want to be responsible for?
What Makes Nancy Giordano Different?
• Strategic futurist — connects emerging trends to practical leadership decisions
• Author of Leadering — introduces a new approach to leading through exponential change
• 200+ global keynotes — extensive experience engaging executive audiences
• Founder of Play Big Inc. — focused on helping leaders actively shape the future
• Deep technology perspective — explores AI and other exponential technologies
• Human-centered futurism — keeps people, purpose and responsibility at the center
• Highly customized — tailors presentations to the questions facing each audience
• Optimistic perspective — helps audiences become excited rather than overwhelmed by what's next
Why Is Nancy Right for Your Audience?
Nancy is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand what's changing, rethink outdated assumptions and become more confident shaping what's next.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, association events, innovation summits and organizations navigating AI-driven transformation.
Book Nancy when your audience needs to:
• Understand the forces reshaping business and society
• Prepare for the opportunities and responsibilities created by AI
• Think differently about leadership
• Anticipate the future of work
• Challenge outdated assumptions and systems
• Become more comfortable with exponential change
• Think more boldly about what's possible
• Move from reacting to the future to actively shaping it
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better prepared to understand exponential change
• More confident navigating AI and emerging technologies
• Thinking differently about what 21st-century leadership requires
• Better able to recognize opportunities hidden inside disruption
• More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
• Understanding why human capabilities matter even more as technology advances
• Inspired to take greater responsibility for shaping what's next
• Asking: What future do we want to create?
Nancy Giordano Keynote Programs
Creating a Future to Be Excited About. What if the future isn't something to fear—but something we're responsible for designing?
Nancy explores the powerful technological, economic and societal forces transforming our world and helps audiences understand what these changes could make possible.
Rather than simply forecasting what's next, she challenges leaders to think intentionally about the future they want to create and the actions they can take today to move toward it.
Ideal for: Executive conferences, association meetings, innovation events and organizations preparing for significant change.
21st Century Expectations for Leadership. The leadership practices that got organizations here may not be enough to take them where they're going next.
Drawing from her book Leadering, Nancy challenges traditional ideas about leadership and introduces a more dynamic approach designed for continuous change.
She helps leaders become more curious, adaptive and forward-looking while developing the confidence to navigate a future where many of yesterday's assumptions no longer apply.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings and organizations transforming how their leaders think and operate.
The Opportunities and Responsibilities of Being AI-Led. AI is extraordinarily powerful—but what do we actually want to do with that power?
Nancy moves the AI conversation beyond productivity and automation to explore the bigger leadership questions surrounding artificial intelligence.
She challenges audiences to consider how AI can expand human capability while recognizing the responsibility leaders have to make thoughtful decisions about how these technologies are designed, deployed and governed.
Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations developing their AI strategy.
The Work of the Future. As technology transforms what machines can do, how should we rethink what humans do best?
Nancy explores how exponential technologies, changing expectations and new organizational models are reshaping work.
She challenges audiences to move beyond simply making existing work more efficient and instead consider how work itself can be redesigned to become more meaningful, human and valuable.
Ideal for: Future-of-work conferences, HR events, leadership meetings and organizations undergoing workforce transformation.
Why Book Nancy Giordano Through The Sweeney Agency?
Nancy Giordano combines future trends, AI, leadership and human-centered thinking—but the real value comes from connecting those forces directly to the future your organization needs to prepare for and help create.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Nancy Giordano's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Nancy Giordano keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and strategic priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Nancy with other leading futurist, AI and leadership keynote speakers
Is Nancy Giordano Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what you need your leaders to understand about the future ahead.
We'll help you determine whether Nancy is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, AI summit, association meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Nancy Giordano as your keynote speaker.

Anil Gupta
World-renowned expert on strategy, globalization, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Dr. Anil K. Gupta: Global Strategy Expert | Co-Author of Getting China and India Right | Speaker on Globalization, Emerging Markets and Business Growth
Why Book Dr. Anil K. Gupta?
Co-author of Getting China and India Right and The Quest for Global Dominance, Anil connects research with business implications. His presentations help audiences examine where opportunities are emerging, how competition is changing, and which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Why Is Dr. Anil K. Gupta Right for Your Audience?
Anil is a strong fit for executive conferences, board retreats, industry meetings, and strategic planning events. He is especially relevant when leaders need to assess international opportunities or understand how developments in China, India, and other markets could affect their business.
Book Anil when your audience needs to:
• Connect global developments with business strategy
• Evaluate opportunities across different emerging markets
• Understand China and India’s implications for competition
• Challenge assumptions about international growth
• Develop a broader perspective on innovation and resources
• Strengthen collaboration across markets and cultures
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on global forces relevant to their organization
• Better prepared to distinguish between different market opportunities
• More aware of assumptions that could limit their strategy
• Ready to ask better questions about international expansion
• Equipped with a framework for discussing global competitive advantage
Keynote Programs
Global Megatrends and Game Changers
Anil examines major economic, technological, demographic, and environmental forces and their implications for business. Ideal for executive audiences seeking a broader strategic perspective.
Getting China and India Right
Anil explores the opportunities, challenges, and competitive implications of these two major economies. Ideal for organizations with business interests in China and India.
Cultivating a Global Mindset
Anil shows why leaders need both an understanding of individual markets and the ability to connect opportunities across borders. Ideal for multinational leadership teams and organizations expanding internationally.
Is Dr. Anil K. Gupta Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the markets that matter to your organization, and the strategic questions you want to explore. We can help select Anil’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.

Scott Halford
Expert in the Areas of Achievement Psychology, which includes Brain-based Behavioral Science, Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking.
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Scott Halford: Author of Activate Your Brain | Leadership Educator | Speaker on Brain-Based Performance and Emotional Intelligence
Why Book Scott Halford?
His presentations give audiences a framework for examining how they respond, communicate, and make decisions. Scott encourages people to improve their understanding of themselves and use that awareness in their relationships with colleagues and customers.
Why Is Scott Halford Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, professional development, and company events. Consider him when your audience needs a practical discussion about emotional intelligence, focus, and more intentional workplace behavior.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
• Recognize how emotions influence their responses
• Strengthen self-awareness in professional settings
• Bring more intention to attention and priorities
• Communicate more effectively with colleagues
• Pause before reacting in difficult situations
• Build habits that support learning and development
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the workplace relevance of emotional intelligence
• More aware of their patterns of attention and response
• Ready to approach a challenging interaction more thoughtfully
• Equipped with ideas for developing greater self-awareness
• Focused on a habit that could support their effectiveness
Keynote Programs
Activate Your Brain – The Neuroscience of Success
Scott connects concepts about the brain with everyday performance and leadership choices. Ideal for audiences exploring focus, learning, and personal effectiveness.
Success in Business and Beyond
Scott examines emotional intelligence and its application to workplace relationships. Ideal for leaders and professionals seeking greater awareness of their behavior and impact.
Is Scott Halford Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the focus, communication, or leadership habits you want your people to strengthen. 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.

Gary Hamel
World-Renowned Speaker on Strategy and Innovation, Author of Leading the Revolution.
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Gary Hamel: Management Thinker | Co-Author of Humanocracy | Speaker on Innovation, Organizational Change and Leadership
Why Book Gary Hamel?
Gary brings a strategic perspective to the way work is organized. His presentations challenge audiences to consider whether their systems help people respond to change—or make it harder for them to act when a better approach is needed.
Why Is Gary Hamel Right for Your Audience?
Gary is a strong fit for executive conferences, leadership retreats, innovation programs, and organizational transformation events. Consider him when leaders want to rethink how authority, resources, and opportunities are distributed across the business.
Book Gary when your audience needs to:
• Identify management habits that restrict initiative
• Make innovation a broader organizational responsibility
• Give employees more ownership of their work
• Challenge unnecessary bureaucracy
• Build greater adaptability into the organization
• Connect leadership development with real opportunities to act
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on how management systems influence behavior
• Ready to examine a process that slows progress
• More aware of untapped ideas within their organization
• Equipped with questions for designing more adaptable teams
• Focused on an experiment that could give people greater ownership
Keynote Programs
Humanocracy
Gary explores organizational approaches that make more use of people’s creativity and judgment. Ideal for executive teams reconsidering how their business operates.
Vanquishing Bureaucracy
Gary examines the costs of excessive hierarchy and control. Ideal for organizations seeking greater speed, initiative, and flexibility.
Making Innovation Everyone’s Job
Gary considers how innovation can become an everyday capability. Ideal for leadership and company audiences seeking wider participation in improvement.
Is Gary Hamel Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the organizational barriers you want to address and the changes you want leaders to consider. We can help select Gary’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Sterling Hawkins
Keynote Speaker on Growth, Performance, Overcoming Adversity and Transformational Leadership
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Sterling Hawkins: Author of Hunting Discomfort | Entrepreneur | Speaker on Commitment, Change and Growth
Why Book Sterling Hawkins?
Sterling draws on entrepreneurial experience and his own setbacks to make the message tangible. His presentations challenge leaders and teams to identify what they are willing to own, how they will seek support, and what they will do when a familiar approach stops working.
Why Is Sterling Hawkins Right for Your Audience?
Sterling is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, company meetings, and transformation events. Consider him when people need to move from agreement about a goal to a clearer commitment to acting on it.
Book Sterling when your audience needs to:
• Take greater ownership of important goals
• Respond constructively when plans become difficult
• Address uncomfortable conversations
• Support one another through uncertainty
• Challenge habits that restrict growth
• Connect stated commitments with visible actions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on a commitment they want to strengthen
• Ready to identify a difficult action they have avoided
• More aware of patterns that limit their response to change
• Equipped with language for discussing shared accountability
• Focused on following through under pressure
Keynote Programs
No Matter What: Become Who the Moment Requires
Sterling explores commitment and the choices required when familiar habits no longer serve a goal. Ideal for leadership, sales, and culture events.
The Threshold: Leading Through Uncertainty and Change
Sterling examines how leaders and teams approach disruption and the discomfort it creates. Ideal for organizations navigating transformation.
Is Sterling Hawkins Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the commitments your people need to make and the changes they need to work through. We can help select Sterling’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Troy Hazard
Entrepreneur, Business Strategist and Best-Selling Author
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Troy Hazard: Entrepreneur | Author of Future-Proofing Your Business | Speaker on Business Growth, Leadership and Change
Why Book Troy Hazard?
Troy uses lessons from both success and difficult business periods to connect strategy with daily leadership. His presentations encourage owners and managers to examine their priorities, relationships, and habits before changing conditions force their hand.
Why Is Troy Hazard Right for Your Audience?
Troy is a strong fit for franchise conferences, entrepreneur meetings, sales events, and leadership gatherings. Consider him when leaders need practical perspective on growth, change, and the decisions that support a more resilient business.
Book Troy when your audience needs to:
• Create a clearer direction beyond immediate demands
• Recognize patterns in business challenges
• Strengthen communication across teams or locations
• Prepare more deliberately for change
• Connect customer relationships with growth priorities
• Take ownership of leadership decisions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Ready to examine an assumption about their business
• Clearer on the value of planning beyond the current cycle
• More aware of leadership habits that affect execution
• Equipped with questions for discussing future priorities
• Focused on an action that supports longer-term growth
Keynote Programs
Future-Proofing Your Business
Troy explores preparing a business for changing conditions through clearer priorities and leadership. Ideal for entrepreneurs, owners, and business leaders.
Future-Proofing Your Franchise
Troy connects his business message with the relationships and operating challenges of a franchise system. Ideal for franchise conferences and owner meetings.
Is Troy Hazard Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the growth challenges your audience faces and the business decisions you want to inform. We can help select Troy’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
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Dane Jensen
Acclaimed speaker, Media Commentator, Educator and Author of The Power of Pressure
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Dane Jensen: CEO of Third Factor | Author of The Power of Pressure | Speaker on Leadership, Resilience and Performance Under Pressure
Why Book Dane Jensen?
Dane combines engaging stories with clear frameworks. He helps audiences understand the difference between preparing for a critical moment and sustaining energy through a demanding period, giving them useful ways to approach both.
Why Is Dane Jensen Right for Your Audience?
Dane is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and company events. He is especially valuable when people face ambitious targets, competing priorities, or prolonged uncertainty.
Book Dane when your audience needs to:
• Prepare for high-stakes conversations and decisions
• Maintain focus when priorities compete
• Respond constructively to uncertainty
• Sustain motivation through demanding periods
• Support colleagues facing pressure
• Build resilience into everyday working habits
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on what creates pressure in their work
• Better prepared for moments when performance matters most
• More aware of their responses to uncertainty
• Equipped with ideas for sustaining energy and motivation
• Ready to improve how they approach a demanding situation
Keynote Programs
The Power of Pressure
Dane introduces his pressure equation of importance, uncertainty, and volume. He explores preparing for peak-pressure moments and navigating sustained demands. Ideal for leaders, sales teams, and professionals pursuing challenging goals.
Building Resilience
Drawing on Third Factor’s work with athletes and executives, Dane explores practical approaches to responding to setbacks and staying effective under pressure. Ideal for organizations navigating change or demanding workloads.
The Meta-Skilled Organization
Dane examines capabilities such as empathy, resilience, creativity, and self-awareness that help people adapt as circumstances change. Ideal for leadership development and organizations preparing their people for new challenges.
Is Dane Jensen Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressures they face, and what you want them to handle more effectively after the event. We can help select Dane’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.

Whitney Johnson
Author and Co-Founder, with Clayton Christensen, Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund
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Whitney Johnson: CEO of Disruption Advisors | Author of Smart Growth | Speaker on Personal Disruption, Learning and Talent Development
Why Book Whitney Johnson?
Whitney connects individual learning with organizational development. Her message helps managers consider when someone needs encouragement, a new challenge, or a different opportunity—and how those choices can shape the growth of the whole team.
Why Is Whitney Johnson Right for Your Audience?
Whitney is a strong fit for leadership conferences, talent development programs, management meetings, and organizations navigating change. Consider her when developing people is central to the business strategy.
Book Whitney when your audience needs to:
• Recognize different stages of learning
• Support employees through unfamiliar challenges
• Create opportunities for continued growth
• Rethink assumptions about career progress
• Connect individual development with team needs
• Make learning a more deliberate leadership responsibility
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the S-Curve of Learning
• Ready to reconsider their own stage of growth
• More aware of the support a colleague may need
• Equipped with questions for development conversations
• Focused on a meaningful next learning challenge
Keynote Programs
Program options include Disrupt Yourself® and a tailored focus on smart growth and talent development:
Disrupt Yourself®
Whitney explores how personal disruption can open new paths for development. Ideal for professionals and leaders considering their next growth opportunity.
Smart Growth and Developing Your People
Whitney connects learning stages with the decisions leaders make about talent. Ideal for managers building development into everyday work.
Is Whitney Johnson Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the people you want to develop and the learning challenges your organization faces. We can help select Whitney’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.

Bobby Jones
Author, Speaker & Expert on Purpose as a Force for Good & Growth
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Bobby Jones: Coauthor of Good Is the New Cool | Purpose and Culture Strategist | Speaker on Leadership and Growth
Why Book Bobby Jones?
Bobby gives leaders practical ways to build trust, strengthen engagement, and respond to changing expectations. His keynotes connect the motivation of individual employees with the direction of the organization and the needs of the people it serves.
Why Is Bobby Jones Right for Your Audience?
Bobby is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, marketing events, and gatherings focused on culture or growth. He is especially relevant when an organization wants its purpose to guide daily behavior and create a stronger connection with employees and customers.
Book Bobby when your audience needs to:
• Lead with greater authenticity and purpose
• Connect employees’ strengths to meaningful work
• Build trust and engagement across teams
• Adapt to changing customer expectations
• Encourage innovation through learning and experimentation
• Align business growth with a positive impact
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Clearer on how purpose can inform leadership decisions
• Ready to connect personal strengths and passions with their work
• Better equipped to create trust and give teams room to contribute
• More aware of the expectations of younger and purpose-conscious consumers
• Equipped with ideas for turning organizational values into visible action
Keynote Programs
The Future of Leadership Is Authenticity and Purpose
Bobby explores how leaders can build trust, give people room to contribute, and create a shared sense of meaning. Ideal for executives and managers seeking a more connected and adaptable culture.
Find the Spark for High Employee Performance and Engagement
Bobby introduces his GPS to Purpose framework, which connects people’s gifts and passions with the service they can provide through their work. Ideal for employee and leadership audiences seeking stronger engagement.
Sparking Innovation and Growth in a Rapidly Changing World
Bobby examines how leaders can empower faster decisions, encourage experimentation, and help teams respond to changes in technology and customer behavior. Ideal for organizations navigating change.
Meeting the New Expectations of Gen Z and Conscious Consumers
Bobby discusses how brands can understand changing consumer values and build more meaningful connections through authenticity and social impact. Ideal for marketing, brand, and customer experience audiences.
Is Bobby Jones Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the culture or customer challenge it faces, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Bobby’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.

Kaihan Krippendorff
Futurist, Strategy and Innovation Expert & Founder of Outthinker
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Kaihan Krippendorff: Keynote Speaker on Strategy, Innovation & AI | Founder of Outthinker | 6-Time Bestselling Author | Former McKinsey Consultant
What if your biggest competitive advantage is seeing opportunities your competitors haven't recognized yet?
Kaihan Krippendorff is a globally recognized strategist, bestselling author and highly sought-after keynote speaker on strategy, innovation, AI, disruption and the future of business.
As the founder of Outthinker, Kaihan works with senior leaders and strategists to understand the forces reshaping business and identify unconventional opportunities for growth. His message is both provocative and practical: don't simply react to disruption—learn how to create the future your competitors will have to respond to.
Why Book Kaihan Krippendorff?
Kaihan doesn't just tell audiences that disruption is coming. He gives them frameworks for deciding what to do about it.
Drawing from decades of research into strategy and innovation, conversations with hundreds of executives each year and his work with organizations around the world, Kaihan reveals how successful companies challenge assumptions, identify strategic options others overlook and move before competitors recognize the opportunity.
His presentations combine big-picture thinking with practical tools, giving audiences a way to turn emerging trends, AI and disruption into competitive advantage.
What Makes Kaihan Krippendorff Different?
• Founder of Outthinker — a global network of strategy, innovation, growth and transformation executives
• Former McKinsey consultant — combines rigorous strategic thinking with practical business application
• 6-time bestselling author — including Outthink the Competition, Driving Innovation from Within and Proximity
• Globally recognized management thinker — recognized by Thinkers50 and Global Gurus
• Deep AI and technology perspective — connects emerging technology directly to business strategy
• Proven strategic frameworks — gives audiences tools they can immediately put into practice
• Innovation from within — shows organizations how to unlock ideas from employees at every level
• Highly customized — connects trends and strategies directly to the client's industry and objectives
Why Is Kaihan Right for Your Audience?
Kaihan is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to think more strategically, recognize opportunities earlier and take action before competitors do.
He is particularly effective for executive conferences, leadership meetings, association events, strategy sessions, innovation summits and organizations navigating AI-driven disruption.
Book Kaihan when your audience needs to:
• Anticipate disruption rather than react to it
• Identify new opportunities for growth
• Challenge traditional industry assumptions
• Understand the strategic impact of AI
• Turn employees into everyday innovators
• Build greater organizational agility
• Create competitive advantages that are difficult to copy
• Translate strategy into action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better equipped to identify opportunities competitors may overlook
• Understanding how emerging technologies could reshape their industry
• Able to challenge assumptions that limit strategic options
• Equipped with practical frameworks for strategic thinking
• More confident navigating disruption and uncertainty
• Better prepared to unlock innovation across their organization
• Ready to translate new ideas into action
• Energized to shape the future rather than wait for it
Kaihan Krippendorff Keynote Programs
Outthink the Competition. What if the best strategic option is the one your competitors haven't considered?
Kaihan gives audiences a proven framework for challenging assumptions, identifying overlooked strategic options and creating defensible competitive advantages.
Using his Outthinker IDEAS Process, he shows leaders how to think differently about markets, competitors and opportunities—and translate that thinking into action.
Ideal for: Executive conferences, leadership meetings, strategy events and organizations focused on growth and competitive advantage.
Driving Innovation from Within. What if your organization's next breakthrough idea is already inside the company?
Kaihan challenges the assumption that disruptive innovation primarily comes from startups and outsiders.
Using his IN-OVATE Framework, he shows organizations how to remove internal barriers, empower employees to think like intrapreneurs and turn promising ideas into measurable business results.
The goal is to make innovation part of the culture—not simply the responsibility of an innovation department.
Ideal for: Innovation summits, leadership conferences, transformation initiatives and organizations looking to accelerate innovation.
Winning with AI, Technology, and People. How do you capture the power of AI without overlooking the human capabilities that create real competitive advantage?
Kaihan explores how AI, automation and emerging technologies are reshaping how organizations work, make decisions and compete.
Rather than framing the future as humans versus technology, he shows leaders how to combine AI's capabilities with human creativity, judgment, contextual understanding and strategic thinking.
Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations navigating digital transformation.
Proximity Revolution. How will AI and emerging technologies change where, when and how value is created?
Drawing from his book Proximity, Kaihan helps leaders make sense of AI, machine learning, 3D printing, data, renewable energy, personalization and other forces transforming business.
He gives audiences a practical Proximity Roadmap for understanding these shifts, identifying opportunities and preparing their organizations for what's next.
Ideal for: Future-of-business conferences, association meetings, executive events and organizations facing significant technological disruption.
Why Book Kaihan Krippendorff Through The Sweeney Agency?
Kaihan Krippendorff combines strategic depth, emerging-technology insight and practical innovation tools—but the real value comes from connecting those ideas directly to your industry, competitive environment and business priorities.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Kaihan Krippendorff's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Kaihan Krippendorff keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and strategic priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Kaihan with other leading strategy, innovation and AI keynote speakers
Is Kaihan Krippendorff Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and where your organization needs to find its next competitive advantage.
We'll help you determine whether Kaihan is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an executive conference, innovation summit, association meeting or leadership event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Kaihan Krippendorff as your keynote speaker.

Charlene Li
Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, and Leadership Speaker
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Charlene Li: Author of The Disruption Mindset | Founder of Altimeter | Speaker on AI Strategy, Leadership and Organizational Change
Why Book Charlene Li?
Charlene moves the AI conversation toward the choices executives need to make together. Her message encourages organizations to clarify priorities, align leadership, and consider how culture and execution affect the value of a technology strategy.
Why Is Charlene Li Right for Your Audience?
Charlene is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider her when an organization needs a shared direction for AI and the changes surrounding it.
Book Charlene when your audience needs to:
• Connect AI initiatives with business priorities
• Build alignment across executive teams
• Examine readiness for organizational change
• Clarify the leadership role in technology adoption
• Consider cultural barriers to execution
• Move from scattered initiatives toward a shared strategy
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the decisions an AI strategy requires
• Ready to question an adoption assumption
• More aware of the connection between culture and execution
• Equipped to discuss priorities across functions
• Focused on a next step toward organizational alignment
Keynote Programs
Winning With AI
Charlene explores how leaders can approach AI strategically. Ideal for executive teams connecting emerging capabilities with business direction.
Creating a Unified AI Strategy
Charlene examines alignment and the choices behind a coherent approach to AI. Ideal for organizations coordinating initiatives across functions.
Is Charlene Li Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the strategic questions your leaders face and the AI or organizational changes you want to address. We can help select Charlene’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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