Teamwork
Doug Lipp
Former Head Trainer Walt Disney University and author of The Changing Face of Today’s Customer. Customer service speaker.
About
Doug Lipp: Former Head of Training at Disney University | Author of Disney U | Speaker on Culture and Customer Service
Why Book Doug Lipp?
Doug brings those lessons into the challenges other organizations face. Through stories and practical examples, he helps audiences examine how leaders reinforce culture, how teams deliver on a brand promise, and why continuous improvement matters long after a training session ends.
Why Is Doug Lipp Right for Your Audience?
Doug is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, franchise meetings, and company gatherings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants its stated values to show up more reliably in everyday decisions and customer interactions.
Book Doug when your audience needs to:
- Build a culture that employees can understand and put into practice
- Improve consistency across customer touchpoints
- Connect employee development with service quality
- Reinforce values through leaders’ daily actions
- Encourage teamwork across roles and departments
- Learn from setbacks and keep improving
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the role leaders play in shaping culture
- Better able to connect training with on-the-job behavior
- Ready to identify gaps between a brand promise and the customer experience
- Equipped to recognize small opportunities to improve service
- Motivated to take ownership of the experience they create
Keynote Programs
Lessons from Disney U: The Wonderful World of an Enduring Brand
Doug draws on his Disney University experience to show how shared values, employee development, and leadership behavior can support a lasting brand. Ideal for broad leadership and company audiences.
Organizational Culture: It’s More Than a Coat of Paint
Doug examines what it takes to make culture visible in decisions and actions across an organization. Ideal for executives, managers, and teams working to strengthen engagement and performance.
The Magic of Exceptional Customer Service
Doug explores the practices behind a service culture that customers remember, with lessons organizations can adapt to their own people and operations. Ideal for customer experience, hospitality, retail, and franchise audiences.
Even Monkeys Fall from Trees: Learn from Mistakes and Embrace Change
Doug shows how teams can respond to setbacks, challenge established habits, and make room for new ideas. Ideal for organizations navigating change or seeking continuous improvement.
Is Doug Lipp Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the culture or customer experience you want to strengthen, and the actions you want people to take after the event. We can help choose Doug’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.
Carey Lohrenz
First Female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot, Author and Motivational Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork
About
Carey Lohrenz: First Female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Fearless Leadership and Performance Under Pressure
Why Book Carey Lohrenz?
Carey turns those experiences into practical leadership ideas. She helps audiences focus on what they can control, make clear decisions, and build teams that can adapt when conditions change.
Why Is Carey Lohrenz Right for Your Audience?
Carey is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and company events. She is especially relevant when teams face high expectations, rapid change, or so many demands that their most important work is getting lost.
Book Carey when your audience needs to:
- Perform more consistently under pressure
- Strengthen trust and communication across teams
- Focus on priorities within its control
- Make clearer decisions amid uncertainty
- Prepare, execute, and learn from results
- Lead with courage when plans change
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how to turn pressure into focused action
- Ready to identify what deserves their time and attention
- Better equipped to communicate when the stakes are high
- More aware of the leadership behaviors that build trust
- Motivated to apply a repeatable approach to preparation and performance
Keynote Programs
High Performance Under Pressure™
Carey uses her Prepare–Perform–Prevail framework to help leaders create clarity, strengthen communication, and sustain execution when stakes are high. Ideal for sales kickoffs, annual meetings, and leadership conferences.
Fearless Leadership™
Carey explores how courage, tenacity, and integrity help leaders build trust and confidence through uncertainty. Ideal for leadership audiences seeking stronger commitment and clearer communication.
Span of Control™
Drawing on her bestselling book, Carey helps audiences sort competing demands and concentrate on what they can influence. Ideal for leaders and teams seeking better focus, prioritization, and execution.
Is Carey Lohrenz Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressure it faces, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Carey’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Campbell Macpherson
Global Change Expert and Motivational Speaker on Leadership and Change
About
Campbell Macpherson: Change Expert and Author | Speaker on Leadership, Influence and Making Change Work
Why Book Campbell Macpherson?
Campbell connects change plans with the conversations and leadership behaviors that bring them into everyday work. His message encourages organizations to consider where people need clarity, involvement, or support rather than treating agreement as evidence that a change is complete.
Why Is Campbell Macpherson Right for Your Audience?
Campbell is a strong fit for leadership conferences, transformation programs, executive meetings, and management events. Consider him when an organization needs people to engage with a new direction.
Book Campbell when your audience needs to:
- Explain the purpose behind organizational change
- Recognize concerns that affect participation
- Strengthen influence across working relationships
- Involve people in the transition
- Connect change plans with everyday behavior
- Clarify what leaders need to model
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the human demands of change
- Ready to review a conversation their team needs
- More aware of barriers to participation
- Equipped with questions for building commitment
- Focused on a practical step toward a new way of working
Keynote Programs
Change Is Inevitable. Successful Change Isn’t.
Campbell explores what makes change difficult and how leaders can support it. Ideal for organizations undertaking transformation.
Leading with Influence
Campbell examines how people create commitment beyond formal authority. Ideal for leaders working across teams, functions, and stakeholders.
Is Campbell Macpherson Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change your organization is making and the leadership behaviors it needs to support. We can help select Campbell’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Mike Massimino
Former NASA Astronaut, NY Times Bestselling Author, Media & TV Personality; Columbia University Professor
About
Mike Massimino: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Teamwork & Achieving the Impossible | Former NASA Astronaut | Bestselling Author | Columbia University Professor
Achieve the Impossible
What does it take to accomplish something everyone—including you—thinks might be impossible?
A veteran of two space missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, Mike logged more than 570 hours in space and completed four spacewalks. Today, he brings the extraordinary lessons of space exploration back to Earth, showing organizations how great teams overcome setbacks, solve seemingly impossible problems and perform when the stakes couldn't be higher.
Why Book Mike Massimino?
Mike has something few motivational speakers can offer: an extraordinary story combined with practical lessons audiences can apply to their own challenges.
His journey to becoming an astronaut included repeated rejection from NASA before finally being selected. Once there, he faced enormous technical challenges, high-pressure decisions and missions where teamwork and trust were essential.
Mike turns those experiences into a funny, inspiring and highly relatable keynote about perseverance, leadership, teamwork and accomplishing what initially seems impossible.
What Makes Mike Massimino Different?
- A genuine NASA astronaut — two missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope
- Four spacewalks — more than 30 hours working outside the Space Shuttle
- An extraordinary story of perseverance — rejected repeatedly before achieving his dream of becoming an astronaut
- Funny and highly entertaining — serious leadership lessons delivered with warmth and humor
- Bestselling author — author of Spaceman and Moonshot
- Columbia University professor — combines extraordinary experience with an ability to teach
- Pop-culture appeal — appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory
- First person to tweet from space — making him an instantly memorable addition to an event
Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?
Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to think bigger, persevere through setbacks and understand what exceptional teamwork looks like when failure isn't an option.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences, awards events and organizations navigating ambitious goals or significant change.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Think bigger about what is possible
- Persevere when the first plan doesn't work
- Turn setbacks into opportunities to find another solution
- Strengthen teamwork and trust
- Perform effectively under pressure
- Take greater ownership of the mission
- Stay focused when facing difficult challenges
- Pursue ambitious goals without giving up
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Inspired to pursue goals that may initially seem impossible
- Better prepared to respond when things don't go according to plan
- Understanding why exceptional teamwork requires trust and preparation
- More willing to ask for help and rely on the strengths of others
- Equipped with a stronger mindset for overcoming setbacks
- Ready to approach difficult challenges with persistence and optimism
Mike Massimino Keynote Programs
Moonshot: Achieving the Impossible. How do you accomplish something you've been told you can't do?
Drawing from his journey to becoming a NASA astronaut and his missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Mike shares powerful lessons about perseverance, preparation, teamwork and pursuing ambitious goals.
He shows audiences why setbacks don't have to mean failure—and how the biggest accomplishments often require persistence, adaptability and the willingness to keep finding another way forward.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings and organizations pursuing ambitious goals.
Teamwork: Lessons From Space. When you're hundreds of miles above Earth, teamwork isn't a corporate slogan. It's essential to accomplishing the mission.
Mike takes audiences behind the scenes of NASA to reveal how astronauts prepare, communicate, build trust and work together under extraordinary pressure.
His stories demonstrate why successful teams need shared goals, preparation, accountability and people willing to support one another when challenges arise.
Ideal for: Leadership, teamwork, culture and high-performance events.
Leading Through Challenges and Change
Even the best-prepared teams encounter situations they didn't anticipate.
Mike shares what space exploration taught him about staying calm, adapting when plans change and solving problems when the stakes are high.
Audiences discover how preparation, trust, persistence and teamwork can help organizations navigate uncertainty and continue moving toward their mission.
Ideal for: Leadership meetings, transformation events and organizations navigating uncertainty or change.
Why Book Mike Massimino Through The Sweeney Agency?
Mike Massimino has an extraordinary story—but the real value is connecting that story to what your audience needs to accomplish.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Mike Massimino's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Mike Massimino keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your event objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Mike with other leading motivational, leadership and teamwork speakers
Planning a leadership conference, sales kickoff or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mike Massimino as your keynote speaker.
Martha McSally
First Woman to Command a U.S. Fighter Squadron, Former U.S. Senator, Resilience & Leadership Speaker, & Author
About
Martha E. McSally: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Resilience & High Performance | First American Woman to Fly a U.S. Air Force Fighter Jet in Combat | Retired Colonel | Former U.S. Senator
Be Unbreakable. Lead Yourself First. How do you lead with courage, clarity and confidence when the pressure keeps rising?
During her 26-year Air Force career, Martha became the first American woman to fly a U.S. Air Force fighter jet in combat and the first woman to command a fighter squadron in combat. She flew 325 combat hours and earned the Bronze Star and six Air Medals.
Today, Martha translates those extraordinary experiences into practical strategies that help leaders become more resilient, make better decisions under pressure and move forward when circumstances are uncertain.
Why Book Martha McSally?
Martha doesn't teach leadership from theory. She learned it when hesitation, poor communication and bad decisions had real consequences.
Her experiences span the cockpit, military command, Congress, the U.S. Senate and corporate boardrooms—giving her a distinctive perspective on what happens to leaders and teams when the pressure rises.
At the heart of her message is a simple idea: lead yourself first.
Through her WEDGE Framework, Martha gives audiences a practical process for understanding how they respond under pressure, removing what holds them back, gaining clarity about where they're going and taking decisive action.
What Makes Martha McSally Different?
- Historic fighter pilot — first American woman to fly a U.S. Air Force fighter jet in combat
- Combat-tested leadership — 325 combat hours during a 26-year Air Force career
- Command experience — first woman to command a U.S. fighter squadron in combat
- Leadership under pressure — lessons developed where decisions had immediate consequences
- WEDGE Framework — a practical approach to self-leadership and execution
- Extraordinary resilience — a powerful personal story of overcoming barriers and adversity
- Senior leadership perspective — experience spanning military command, government and corporate boards
- Practical delivery — gives audiences tools they can apply immediately
Why Is Martha Right for Your Audience?
Martha is an outstanding choice when you need leaders to stay grounded under pressure, navigate uncertainty and take decisive action instead of becoming reactive.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, women's leadership events, corporate conferences and organizations navigating significant change or growth.
Book Martha when your audience needs to:
- Lead more confidently under pressure
- Make faster, clearer decisions
- Navigate uncertainty and constant change
- Build greater resilience
- Strengthen trust across teams
- Communicate more directly
- Remove barriers that slow execution
- Turn adversity into forward momentum
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better equipped to lead themselves before leading others
- More aware of how they respond under pressure
- Able to identify behaviors that may be holding them back
- Better prepared to make decisions during uncertainty
- Understanding how trust influences team performance
- More confident navigating adversity and change
- Ready to take focused, courageous action
Martha McSally Keynote Programs
Be Unbreakable: The Leadership Edge in Uncertain Times. When the stakes rise, even strong leaders can hesitate, overanalyze and become reactive.
Martha shows leaders how to remain clear, courageous and decisive when uncertainty and pressure increase.
Using her WEDGE Framework, she helps audiences examine how they lead themselves, identify patterns that emerge under pressure, remove unnecessary drag and execute with greater focus.
Ideal for: Executive leadership teams, C-suite audiences, leadership conferences and organizations navigating change or growth.
Be Unbreakable: The High-Trust Team Advantage. Talent alone doesn't create high-performing teams. Trust does.
Drawing on her experiences flying combat missions and commanding a fighter squadron, Martha demonstrates why communication, alignment, accountability and trust become even more important when the pressure is high.
She shows leaders how to identify friction, break through silos and create teams capable of moving quickly and confidently toward a shared mission.
Ideal for: Leadership offsites, cross-functional teams, culture initiatives and organizations navigating growth or transition.
Be Unbreakable: The Courage to Rise and Get Stronger From Life's Hits. Resilience isn't about avoiding adversity. It's about what you do next.
Martha shares lessons from a life marked by significant obstacles, setbacks and barrier-breaking achievements.
Using her WEDGE Framework, she gives audiences a practical approach for facing fear, navigating adversity and continuing to move forward even when the path ahead isn't clear.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, women's leadership events, corporate meetings and organizations navigating significant change.
Why Book Martha McSally Through The Sweeney Agency?
Martha McSally combines extraordinary leadership credibility, combat-tested experience and a practical framework for performing under pressure—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons directly to the challenges your leaders are facing.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Martha McSally's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Martha McSally keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your leadership and business objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Martha with other leading leadership, resilience and high-performance speakers
Is Martha McSally Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your leaders are feeling the most pressure—and what you need them to do differently as a result.
We'll help you determine whether Martha is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, executive meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Martha E. McSally as your keynote speaker.
About
Mike Mullane: Former NASA Astronaut | Author of Riding Rockets | Speaker on Safety, Accountability and Teamwork
Why Book Mike Mullane?
Mike’s stories make the pressure to accept shortcuts tangible. His presentations encourage people to question departures from established practice, speak up about concerns, and recognize their own contribution to the team’s operating culture.
Why Is Mike Mullane Right for Your Audience?
Mike is a strong fit for safety conferences, operational leadership meetings, engineering events, and high-reliability organizations. Consider him when speaking up and following through on standards are central priorities.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Recognize gradual acceptance of unsafe shortcuts
- Speak up when something needs attention
- Strengthen personal responsibility for safety
- Understand how pressure affects decisions
- Support more questioning team conversations
- Keep operational standards visible in daily work
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how small deviations can become routine
- Ready to raise a concern more deliberately
- More aware of their contribution to safety culture
- Equipped with questions about team decision-making
- Focused on a standard they need to reinforce
Keynote Programs
Countdown to Teamwork/Leadership/Safety
Mike uses spaceflight experiences to examine teamwork, leadership, and departures from safe practice. Ideal for operational and safety audiences.
Responsibility & Accountability
Mike explores the importance of speaking up and owning one’s contribution. Ideal for leaders and teams working in demanding environments.
Is Mike Mullane Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the operational responsibilities your audience carries and the safety behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Mike’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.
Jim Murphy
F-15 fighter pilot & Founder of Afterburner, Speaker on Leadership and Teamwork
About
Jim “Murph” Murphy: Former F-15 Instructor Pilot | Founder of Afterburner | Speaker on Leadership and Execution
Why Book Jim Murphy?
Murph connects cockpit lessons to business decisions without losing sight of the people who must carry them out. His stories and frameworks help audiences define a mission, align their teams, act under pressure, and learn from the results. He brings experience advising senior leaders on strategy and performance to every presentation.
Why Is Jim Murphy Right for Your Audience?
Murph is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, and organizations facing complex change or ambitious growth targets. He is especially valuable when teams have a strategy but need stronger alignment and follow-through.
Book Murph when your audience needs to:
- Turn strategy into clear, coordinated action
- Align teams around a shared mission
- Make decisions amid pressure and competing priorities
- Strengthen accountability without losing trust
- Use debriefs to learn and improve
- Move from discussion to execution
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how to define an actionable mission
- Better able to connect daily decisions to strategic goals
- Equipped to use planning and debriefing more effectively
- Ready to identify where team alignment is breaking down
- Focused on the next actions needed to move a plan forward
Keynote Programs
Leading from the Future
Murph challenges leaders to define the future they want to create before becoming consumed by urgent daily work. Through stories from aviation and business, he shows how a clear mission can guide decisions, focus effort, and build commitment. Ideal for strategic planning and leadership events.
Courage to Execute
Murph shares the approach behind his Flawless Execution® methodology to help leaders connect strategy with action. He explores how teams can cut through complexity, respond to change, and learn from each mission. Ideal for organizations pursuing major initiatives or stronger execution.
Aligned to Scale
Murph focuses on the clarity and buy-in teams need as an organization grows. He shows why people must understand the mission, their role in it, and how their input contributes to results. Ideal for executive teams and companies scaling across functions or locations.
Is Jim Murphy Right for Your Event?
Tell us about the goal your organization needs to execute and where alignment or follow-through is most difficult. We can help select Murph’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.
The Passing Zone
Award-winning Entertaining and Inspirational Duo with a Focus on Performance, Teamwork & the Power of Partnership
About
The Passing Zone: Comedy and Juggling Duo | Interactive Keynote Performers on Innovation, Collaboration and Execution
Why Book The Passing Zone?
Their presentations connect the entertainment with organizational themes. Audiences see two people respond to one another in real time, giving teams a shared experience they can refer to when discussing collaboration and follow-through.
Why Is The Passing Zone Right for Your Audience?
The Passing Zone is a strong fit for company conferences, sales meetings, leadership gatherings, and events seeking interactive entertainment with a business message. Consider the duo when you want teamwork lessons delivered through an engaging performance.
Book The Passing Zone when your audience needs to:
- See collaboration demonstrated in real time
- Recognize the value of complementary strengths
- Connect preparation with consistent execution
- Bring fresh energy to a team conversation
- Consider how trust supports partnership
- Share an interactive event experience
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- With memorable examples of coordinated teamwork
- More aware of the preparation behind performance
- Ready to discuss how colleagues support one another
- Encouraged to contribute their strengths
- With a shared reference point for collaboration
Keynote Programs
I.C.E. – Innovation, Collaboration, Execution
Jon and Owen connect performance with creativity, partnership, and follow-through. Ideal for business audiences seeking an energetic keynote experience.
Teamwork: The Power of Partnership
The duo demonstrates communication, trust, and coordination through live performance. Ideal for team events and company gatherings.
Is The Passing Zone Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the teamwork themes you want to reinforce and the performance experience you want to create. We can help select The Passing Zone’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.
Clint Pulver
The Ultimate Experience to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your People
About
Clint Pulver: Hall of Fame Speaker | Author of I Love It Here | Speaker on Employee Retention and Leadership
Why Book Clint Pulver?
Clint delivers that message with stories, humor, and a high-energy stage presence. His sessions show managers how mentorship, advocacy, and everyday interactions can shape an employee’s experience. For teams that need an interactive event, he can also bring music and drumming into the presentation.
Why Is Clint Pulver Right for Your Audience?
Clint is a strong fit for leadership conferences, manager meetings, sales kickoffs, and company events. He is especially valuable when an organization wants its leaders to improve engagement and its employees to feel more connected to their work and one another.
Book Clint when your audience needs to:
- Understand what encourages employees to stay
- Lead through mentorship and advocacy
- Strengthen trust across teams and generations
- Improve relationships with customers
- Rebuild energy and shared purpose
- Experience an interactive message they will remember
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More aware of the daily leadership moments that shape retention
- Ready to ask better questions about what team members need
- Equipped to make mentorship part of their management approach
- Clearer on how trust supports collaboration and loyalty
- Motivated to act on one way they can support someone else
Keynote Programs
I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave
Clint shares what he has learned from employees about the leadership that earns their commitment. Through stories and practical ideas, he helps managers move toward mentorship and create a workplace where people can grow and contribute. Ideal for leadership and employee engagement events.
Make Your Sales Soar
Clint helps sales professionals build stronger customer relationships by listening closely and guiding buyers through decisions. He explores how meaningful connection can support trust, referrals, and lasting loyalty. Ideal for sales meetings and client-facing teams.
United We Stand: How Trust and Unity Create Transformational Change
Clint combines a message about teamwork, accountability, and purpose with an interactive drumming experience. He gives audiences a shared way to explore what it takes to work together through challenges. Ideal for broad company gatherings and team events.
Is Clint Pulver Right for Your Event?
Tell us whether your priority is employee retention, sales relationships, or stronger team unity. We can help select Clint’s most relevant program, discuss the event format, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Mike Robbins
Motivational Leadership Speaker, Author, Executive Coach, Former Professional Baseball Player
About
Mike Robbins: Bestselling Author of We’re All in This Together | Former Professional Baseball Player | Speaker on Leadership and Teamwork
Why Book Mike Robbins?
Mike brings warmth, humor, and practical ideas to the stage. His stories make the human side of work easy to recognize, while his tools help audiences strengthen relationships, speak more openly, and support one another through change.
Why Is Mike Robbins Right for Your Audience?
Mike is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, team retreats, and events focused on culture or change. He is especially valuable when talented people need more trust and connection to collaborate effectively.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Build trust across teams and functions
- Create space for people to speak up and contribute
- Show appreciation in ways that feel meaningful
- Strengthen collaboration through uncertainty
- Lead with greater authenticity and courage
- Connect individual contributions to team success
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how trust shapes team performance
- Better able to distinguish appreciation from recognition
- Ready to strengthen relationships through everyday behavior
- More willing to speak honestly and listen to others
- Focused on practical ways to support collaboration during change
Keynote Programs
We’re All in This Together: Create a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Collaboration
Mike explores what helps people work together when pressure and uncertainty could pull them apart. He shares practices for building trust, showing appreciation, and creating a team environment where people can contribute fully. Ideal for company-wide and team events.
Authentic Leadership: Inspire Trust, Foster Connection, and Lead with Courage
Mike helps leaders consider how openness, emotional intelligence, and genuine appreciation affect the people they lead. He gives them ways to build stronger relationships while setting a clear example for their teams. Ideal for leadership meetings and manager development events.
From Uncertainty to Opportunity
Mike focuses on what individuals and leaders can take ownership of during change. He connects courage and emotional intelligence to practical responses that help teams move forward together. Ideal for organizations navigating transition.
Prioritizing Human Connection in a Time of Massive Disruption
Mike examines why relationships matter as technology and workplace expectations change. He offers ways to protect trust and collaboration while teams adapt to new demands. Ideal for future-of-work and culture events.
Is Mike Robbins Right for Your Event?
Tell us what your team is facing, where collaboration could improve, and how you want people to work together after the event. We can help choose Mike’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.
Sebastien Sasseville
Best-selling Author, Leadership and teamwork expert, Motivational keynote speaker, Endurance athlete
About
Sébastien Sasseville: Endurance Athlete and Everest Climber | Speaker on Mission-Centered Leadership, Teamwork and Change
Why Book Sébastien Sasseville?
Sébastien brings the story back to organizational life. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how they communicate purpose, develop other people, and respond when conditions require a different plan.
Why Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Audience?
Sébastien is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, employee gatherings, and transformation events. Consider him when teams need a stronger connection between their daily contribution and a common goal.
Book Sébastien when your audience needs to:
- Connect individual work with a shared mission
- Develop greater trust within a team
- Adapt plans when conditions change
- Recognize when to seek support
- Give others room to lead and contribute
- Build accountability around collective goals
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the mission their team is working toward
- Ready to examine a leadership habit
- More aware of the support behind achievement
- Encouraged to adapt their approach when needed
- Focused on a contribution to the team’s next step
Keynote Programs
Mission-Centered Leadership
Sébastien explores leadership that gives people a clear purpose and room to contribute. Ideal for management and executive audiences.
Change, Agility, and Transformation
Sébastien connects endurance experiences with responding to changing conditions. Ideal for organizations navigating transition.
Teamwork and Performance
Sébastien examines interdependence and the team behind demanding achievements. Ideal for sales and employee events.
Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the mission your audience needs to advance and the teamwork or leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Sébastien’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 speake
About
Stephen Shapiro: Innovation Adviser | Hall of Fame Speaker and Author of Invisible Solutions | Speaker on Problem-Solving, Collaboration and Innovation
Why Book Stephen Shapiro?
Stephen’s presentations turn the audience into participants. Through exercises, examples, and programs such as Personality Poker®, he makes differences in thinking tangible and gives teams a shared way to discuss how they solve problems together.
Why Is Stephen Shapiro Right for Your Audience?
Stephen is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation summits, strategy meetings, and team development events. Consider him when an organization has plenty of ideas but needs better problem definition or more effective collaboration.
Book Stephen when your audience needs to:
- Clarify which problems are worth solving
- Ask questions that reveal overlooked possibilities
- Bring different perspectives into decisions
- Recognize blind spots in a team’s approach
- Improve collaboration among people who think differently
- Focus innovation effort on meaningful opportunities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Ready to reframe a current business challenge
- Introduced to practical approaches for asking better questions
- More aware of the perspectives their team may be missing
- Equipped with a shared language for collaboration
- Focused on a specific problem or opportunity to examine next
Keynote Programs
Solve Your Toughest Problems
Stephen explores how reframing a challenge can reveal options that familiar questions overlook. Ideal for leadership, strategy, and innovation audiences working through complex problems.
Personality Poker®
An interactive card-based experience helps participants explore their strengths, differences, and approaches to innovation. Ideal for teams that want to understand one another and collaborate more effectively.
Stability in an Uncertain World
Stephen examines how identifying what should remain stable can help leaders direct change and concentrate on the priorities that matter. Ideal for executive meetings and transformation events.
Is Stephen Shapiro Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the problems your teams need to solve, and the collaboration you want to strengthen. We can help select Stephen’s most relevant program, discuss customization and participation requirements, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Alan Stein, Jr.
Speaker, Author, and former basketball Performance coach on helping business leaders create high-performance cultures
About
Alan Stein Jr.: Basketball Performance Coach | Author of Raise Your Game | Speaker on Performance, Leadership and Teamwork
Why Book Alan Stein Jr.?
The author of Raise Your Game emphasizes preparation, self-awareness, and disciplined practice. His presentations give audiences a way to examine their daily routines and the individual contributions that support a stronger team.
Why Is Alan Stein Jr. Right for Your Audience?
Alan is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company meetings, and team development events. Consider him when capable people need to improve the consistency of their execution.
Book Alan when your audience needs to:
- Translate good intentions into daily practice
- Build routines that support performance
- Become more open to useful feedback
- Clarify their contribution to the team
- Strengthen preparation for important moments
- Take greater ownership of improvement
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a gap between their knowledge and behavior
- Ready to practice a more useful routine
- More aware of the value of coachability
- Equipped with questions about team contribution
- Focused on a performance habit they can control
Keynote Programs
Raise Your Game
Alan explores the fundamentals behind stronger individual performance and contribution. Ideal for employee and leadership audiences.
Raise Your Sales
Alan connects preparation, focus, and relationship habits with sales execution. Ideal for sales representatives, managers, and support teams.
Is Alan Stein Jr. Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the performance habits you want to strengthen and the contribution you need from each team member. We can help select Alan’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Waldo Waldman
Former Fighter Pilot, Hall of Fame Speaker on Leadership, Sales, Teamwork and Change.
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Alex Weber
American Ninja Warrior, Inspirational Speaker on Leadership & Peak Performance
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Alex Weber: American Ninja Warrior Host and Competitor | Award-Winning Speaker | Speaker on Leadership and Peak Performance
Why Book Alex Weber?
Alex brings energy, humor, and openness to the stage. He uses his own failures and achievements to give audiences practical ways to build confidence, support one another, and keep making progress when the next step feels difficult.
Why Is Alex Weber Right for Your Audience?
Alex is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, team events, and opening or closing keynotes. He is especially relevant when an organization wants people to approach ambitious goals with renewed confidence and work together through change.
Book Alex when your audience needs to:
- Overcome hesitation after setbacks
- Build confidence in high-pressure moments
- Strengthen trust and connection across teams
- Align personal goals with a shared mission
- Lead with a positive and resilient example
- Take action toward its next level of performance
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More willing to act despite self-doubt
- Equipped to reframe setbacks as opportunities to learn
- Clearer on the strengths they can bring to a goal
- Ready to build stronger relationships within their teams
- Energized to follow through on a meaningful next step
Keynote Programs
Unstoppable
Alex shares a system for leaders and top performers facing critical moments. He explores how to respond to stress and doubt with confidence, resourcefulness, and action. Ideal for leadership and performance audiences.
The Unstoppable You
Alex helps individuals challenge internal limits, recognize their strengths, and pursue goals that may feel out of reach. Ideal for company-wide and professional development events.
Unstoppable Leadership
Drawing on his coaching experience, Alex focuses on shared vision, trust, and the example leaders set for others. Ideal for managers and leaders at any career stage.
Unstoppable Teams
Alex examines how teams can build genuine connection and align individual goals with collective success. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger collaboration and a more united culture.
Is Alex Weber Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the obstacles it faces, and the goals you want it to pursue after the event. We can help select Alex’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Cassandra Worthy: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Transformation | Founder of Change Enthusiasm® | Bestselling Author
Turn Change Into Your Competitive Advantage
What if your people didn't just cope with change—but learned how to use it as fuel for growth?
Cassandra Worthy is a bestselling author, leadership expert and highly engaging keynote speaker on change, transformation, resilience and workplace culture.
Why Book Cassandra Worthy?
Cassandra tackles one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: change fatigue.
Most people understand that change is necessary. The challenge is getting them to embrace it rather than resist it.
Cassandra gives audiences a practical framework for recognizing the emotions that surface during disruption and turning those emotions into productive action. Rather than simply telling people to “embrace change,” she shows them how to do it.
Her keynotes are energetic, interactive and highly actionable—making Cassandra an excellent choice when you want people to leave the room thinking differently, feeling energized and ready to move forward.
What Makes Cassandra Worthy Different?
- Creator of Change Enthusiasm® — a distinctive methodology for navigating change
- Real-world corporate experience — understands transformation from inside major organizations
- High-energy delivery — dynamic, engaging and memorable on stage
- Emotion meets action — helps people understand their response to change and do something productive with it
- Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can apply right away
- Relevant at every level — connects with executives, managers and employees
- Customizable — Cassandra can align her message with your organization's specific transformation or change initiative
Why Is Cassandra Right for Your Audience?
Cassandra is an outstanding choice when your organization needs people to move beyond change resistance and actively participate in what's next.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences and organizations undergoing transformation, restructuring, rapid growth or cultural change.
Book Cassandra when your audience needs to:
- Embrace rather than resist organizational change
- Navigate uncertainty with greater confidence
- Turn change fatigue into forward momentum
- Build greater resilience and adaptability
- Take ownership of their response to disruption
- Lead teams more effectively through transformation
- Strengthen engagement during periods of uncertainty
- See opportunity where they previously saw disruption
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding why change triggers powerful emotional responses
- Able to recognize the signals that influence their reactions to disruption
- Equipped with practical tools for navigating uncertainty
- Better prepared to turn difficult emotions into productive action
- More resilient and adaptable when circumstances change
- Ready to take greater ownership of their response to transformation
- Energized about their ability to influence what happens next
Cassandra Worthy Keynote Programs
Change Enthusiasm®: Harness the Power of Emotion to Fuel Transformation: What if the emotions people experience during change could become fuel for moving forward?
Cassandra introduces audiences to her signature Change Enthusiasm® methodology, showing them how to recognize the emotions associated with disruption and consciously use those signals to make better choices.
Instead of treating difficult emotions as something to suppress, audiences learn how to use them as information—and transform uncertainty into growth, resilience and action.
Ideal for: Organizational transformation, leadership conferences, corporate meetings and organizations experiencing significant change.
Leading Through Change: Successful transformation requires more than a new strategy. It requires leaders who understand how people actually experience change.
Cassandra helps leaders recognize the emotional side of transformation and gives them practical strategies for guiding teams through uncertainty.
Leaders learn how to create greater trust, maintain engagement and help their people move from resistance toward ownership and action.
Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, management conferences and transformation initiatives.
Building a Change-Ready Culture: Change isn't an occasional event anymore. It's an everyday reality.
Cassandra challenges organizations to move beyond simply managing individual change initiatives and instead build cultures where adaptability becomes a competitive advantage.
Audiences learn how to develop the mindset, behaviors and emotional awareness required to respond more effectively when disruption arrives.
Ideal for: Culture, innovation, transformation and future-of-work events.
Why Book Cassandra Worthy Through The Sweeney Agency?
Cassandra Worthy's energy and Change Enthusiasm® methodology make her a compelling choice for organizations experiencing transformation—but the real value comes from matching her message to the specific change your audience is being asked to navigate.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Cassandra Worthy's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Cassandra Worthy keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's change initiative
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Cassandra with other leading change, leadership and motivational speakers
Is Cassandra Worthy Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your organization—and how you want your people to respond.
We'll help you determine whether Cassandra is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Benjamin Zander: Boston Philharmonic Conductor | Coauthor of The Art of Possibility | Speaker on Leadership and Human Potential
Why Book Benjamin Zander?
Benjamin uses music and participation to bring his message to life. The orchestra becomes a way to examine how talented individuals work together and how a leader’s expectations can either restrict or encourage what people attempt.
Why Is Benjamin Zander Right for Your Audience?
Benjamin is a strong fit for leadership conferences, executive retreats, company gatherings, and educational events. Consider him when you want an interactive experience that invites people to see their capabilities and relationships differently.
Book Benjamin when your audience needs to:
- Reconsider assumptions about leadership
- Recognize potential in other people
- Connect individual talent with shared purpose
- Invite fuller participation within a team
- Approach a limiting situation from another perspective
- Encourage contribution through daily interactions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A new perspective on their influence as a leader
- Ready to examine an expectation they place on others
- More aware of the importance of contribution
- Encouraged to consider possibilities beyond familiar limits
- Focused on a behavior that helps someone else participate
Keynote Programs
Benjamin’s interactive presentation explores the following theme:
Leadership and the Art of Possibility
Benjamin combines music, stories, and audience participation to explore how leaders can awaken possibility in others. Ideal for executive, company, and education audiences.
Is Benjamin Zander Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership perspective you want to broaden and the possibilities you want your audience to explore. We can help select Benjamin’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.
Joel Zeff
Humorist, Author, and Dynamic Speaker on Teamwork, Change, and Leadership
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Joel Zeff: Improvisational Performer | Author of Make the Right Choice | Speaker on Teamwork, Communication and Change
Why Book Joel Zeff?
Joel’s approach makes participation part of the message. Audiences see how listening, flexibility, and encouragement influence a shared task, then connect those experiences with the way they collaborate at work.
Why Is Joel Zeff Right for Your Audience?
Joel is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales events, and team gatherings. Consider him when you want an energetic, participatory presentation that gives people a shared experience of collaboration.
Book Joel when your audience needs to:
- Listen and respond more attentively
- Offer positive support to teammates
- Stay flexible when circumstances change
- Recognize the choices behind communication
- Encourage participation within a group
- Bring more constructive energy to work
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A memorable experience of working together
- More aware of how support affects participation
- Ready to improve a communication choice
- Encouraged to respond more flexibly to change
- Focused on an action that helps a colleague succeed
Keynote Programs
Joel’s interactive presentations can be shaped around the following areas:
Teamwork and Positive Support
Joel uses improvisation to explore communication, encouragement, and shared success. Ideal for broad employee and team audiences.
Leading Through Change
Joel connects flexibility and positive support with the choices leaders make during uncertainty. Ideal for management and change events.
Is Joel Zeff Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the collaboration you want to strengthen and the level of audience participation you have in mind. We can help select Joel’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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