Virtual Speakers
The Sweeney Agency will help you find the perfect Virtual Keynote Speaker for your event by providing you with all the information you need to make the right decision. We take into account your event objectives, audience dynamics and expected outcomes. We provide you with professional speaker bios, video clips, topic outlines, and independent perspectives on the best virtual speakers available. Working closely with the Business Speaker you choose, we will ensure he or she delivers a customized presentation that informs, inspires and entertains.
Mike Abrashoff
Inspiring Story of Leadership from Former Commander of USS Benfold
About
Mike Abrashoff - Former Commander of USS Benfold | Author of It’s Your Ship | Leadership and Accountability Speaker
It’s Your Ship
Mike Abrashoff faced that challenge as commander of USS Benfold. By listening to his sailors, earning their trust, and giving them ownership of the ship’s success, he helped turn an underperforming crew into one of the Navy’s best. His story gives business audiences a memorable way to think about leadership, culture, and results. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Mike Abrashoff?
Mike makes accountability feel achievable. His message starts with what leaders and team members can influence today: how they listen, make decisions, solve problems, and support one another.
Audiences hear the story behind It’s Your Ship and leave with practical ideas for building trust, empowering people closest to the work, and improving performance without waiting for perfect conditions.
What Makes Mike Different?
- A real turnaround story led by the same crew under intense operational demands
- A message that gives people at every level responsibility for results
- Leadership lessons grounded in listening, trust, and ownership
- Practical ideas for teamwork, change, and execution
- A keynote he can tailor to the audience’s priorities The Sweeney Agency
Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?
Mike is a strong choice for leadership meetings, company conferences, sales kickoffs, and organizations that want people to take greater ownership of outcomes. His story speaks to executives and frontline teams alike because everyone has a role in improving how the team works.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Build a culture of trust and accountability
- Give people more ownership over decisions and results
- Improve engagement
- Work together more effectively under pressure
- Focus on changes within their control
- Raise expectations of what the team can achieve
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Ready to ask better questions and listen to people closest to the work
- More willing to take responsibility for solving problems
- Equipped to recognize and use their team’s ideas
- Clearer on how trust and ownership support execution
- Motivated to improve results with the team they already have
Keynote Programs
It’s Your Ship: Achieving Breakthrough Performance
Mike shares how trust, engagement, and shared ownership helped transform USS Benfold. Audiences consider what they can change in their own teams to improve performance. Ideal for leadership, culture, accountability, and teamwork events.
No Limits: Don’t Let Goals Become Limitations
Mike challenges audiences to look beyond merely reaching an assigned target and question the limits they have placed on their own performance. Ideal for sales kickoffs and teams ready to raise their ambitions.
Go Deeper with the Leadership Roadmap
For groups that want to put the keynote into practice, half-day and full-day programs explore the habits of high-performing leaders, teams, and organizations. Ask about the format and facilitator for your event. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us what you want people to do differently after the event, and we’ll help you assess whether Mike’s message is the right fit. We can confirm his availability and current fee, discuss the best program and format, and help plan a presentation around your audience.
Is Mike Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the results you want to improve, and the leadership behaviour you want to encourage. We’ll help you assess the fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Dirk Ahlborn
About Dirk Ahlborn – Entrepreneur and Innovation Speaker, CEO of Hyperloop Technologies, Founder of JumpStarter
About
Dirk Ahlborn: Founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and JumpStarter | Entrepreneur | Speaker on Innovation, Collaboration and the Future of Work
Why Book Dirk Ahlborn?
His entrepreneurial background spans banking, alternative energy, product development and startup incubation. Dirk connects those experiences with practical questions leaders face: how to attract talent, build partnerships, organize expertise and keep moving when resources are limited. His presentations give audiences a concrete story to examine as they consider new ways to innovate.
Why Is Dirk Ahlborn Right for Your Audience?
Dirk is a strong fit for innovation conferences, leadership meetings, entrepreneurship events and industry gatherings exploring new business models. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants to challenge familiar assumptions about how companies develop ideas and bring people together.
Book Dirk when your audience needs to:
- Explore alternatives to traditional innovation models
- Bring outside expertise into business challenges
- Build commitment around an ambitious vision
- Rethink how teams and partnerships are organized
- Consider how AI could change everyday workflows
- Turn entrepreneurial thinking into practical action
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More open to unconventional approaches to innovation
- Clearer on the opportunities and limits of crowd collaboration
- Better able to connect a shared purpose with contributor commitment
- Equipped with questions for evaluating new ways of working
- Ready to identify a practical next step for their own organization
Keynote Programs
Building the Hyperloop
Dirk shares the partnerships, setbacks and decisions behind building HyperloopTT. Ideal for innovation, transportation, infrastructure and leadership audiences interested in what ambitious ventures teach about running a business.
Crowd-Powered Companies
Dirk explains the model that brought hundreds of contributors together to work for equity, including how to organize a distributed community and where the approach can encounter difficulties. Ideal for founders, talent leaders and audiences exploring new organizational models.
Working in the Age of AI
Dirk explores how AI changes the way companies are built and work gets done, with practical ideas for introducing AI agents into workflows. Ideal for executives, industry associations and company audiences considering their next steps with AI.
Is Dirk Ahlborn Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the innovation challenges it faces and the ideas you want people to explore. We can help select Dirk’s most relevant program, discuss customization and format, 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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Click here to receive your Customized List of the Best Speakers on Sales . No Cost. No obligation. Just great advice.
Our Sales Speakers have used their knowledge to adapt and create actionable and engaging presentations on how organizations can pivot to embrace the opportunities presented by the pandemic.
Ranging from Virtual Keynotes to Fireside chats, all with interactive elements, let our Sales Speakers help your 2021 Sales Conference.
We work with some of the best Sales Speakers in the speaking world and asked them all the same question:
What is your number 1 sales tip?
Here’s how they answered:
Saying “yes” implies a course of positive action. The predictable expletive, “No!” can fill up our time and energy because saying “no” is
frequently a commitment to an unproductive struggle that reinforces helplessness and inertia.
Responding positively to problems is the prerequisite to overcoming bad things that occur so we can break down our challenges and move forward.
People thrive on challenges, and are the winners who get things done.
Scott McKain is a Dynamic Speaker on Innovation, Sales & Customer Service.
2. The 80/20 Rule – Tim Sanders
Some great advice we received from Tim Sanders, VP of Customer Insights for Upwork just after starting The Sweeney Agency:
“Don’t think about sales or closing deals, just position yourself so that whenever you can help someone you help them, without any expectations. 20% of the people you help you’ll never hear from again, but that won’t matter because you will certainly hear back from the other 80%. They will remember you and your incredible help and that will create such great relationships
that you will build both a great business and a great life.”
Tim Sanders is a renowned Communication and Leadership Speaker.
3. A Vision of the Future – Ryan Estis
Communicating compassionately, consistently, confidently and courageously is precisely what is required during a crisis. Our research has found that two of the biggest drivers of engagement and commitment from employees are confidence in their senior leadership and confidence in the future of the
organization.
Now is the time to model scenarios to create a long-term plan and vision for your business, fully aware that you will be agile enough to adapt when new information is available or the landscape suddenly changes.
Ryan Estis speaks on Business Performance, Leadership and Sales.
4. Be Indiana Jones – Sterling Hawkins
At the climax of Indiana Jones & The Holy Grail, the Nazis are turned to dust after selected a gem studded chalice they believe to be the Holy Grail. Indy chooses a simple wooden cup that is in fact the true Holy Grail.
In the context of business, most of us scramble to have the “right” message on social media or want to make things look a certain way. The same optics that make the false grail so beautiful.
This is a powerful lesson: the substance of something, is ultimately infinitely more important than what it looks like. Optics may present a short term gain but will always lose in the long run and at a macro level.
5. Ask Open-Ended Questions – Diana Kander
Your customers’ natural inclination is to be nice, not honest. Open-ended questions give your potential customers the option to respond very honestly and to fully explain the problems they’re
facing (that your product may or may not solve).
Ask leading questions that broadcast the answer you want to hear, such as:
- “Are you…”
- “Will you…”
- “Won’t you…”
- “Didn’t you…”
- “Can’t you…”
Diana Kander is an Entrepreneur, Author, and Speaker on Innovation.
Get in touch to book your next great sales speaker.
About
Sarah Aviram: Change and Motivation Speaker | Former Fortune 500 HR Leader | Author of Remotivation
Help People Find Momentum During Change
Sarah Aviram helps leaders and teams find that momentum. Drawing on her HR leadership experience and her time working across 12 countries in 12 months, she shows audiences how to reconnect with what drives them and take ownership of their next steps. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Sarah Aviram?
Sarah addresses a challenge leaders recognize: people may understand a change and still struggle to commit to it. Her Remotivation Method focuses on the internal drivers behind engagement, helping audiences identify what motivates them and what they can do when circumstances are uncertain.
Her sessions combine relatable stories with reflection and practical exercises. Audiences leave with a way to discuss motivation more openly and take useful action.
What Makes Sarah Different?
- Experience leading HR and talent development work in large organizations
- A practical framework focused on the drivers of motivation
- A personal story shaped by working across 12 countries in one year
- Interactive sessions that help attendees apply ideas during the event
- A message that speaks to leaders and individual contributors alike
Why Is Sarah Right for Your Audience?
Sarah is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee meetings, HR events, and organizations navigating restructuring, new technology, or shifting ways of working. She is especially relevant when people feel change happening around them and need to see where they still have agency.
Book Sarah when your audience needs to:
- Rebuild motivation during uncertainty
- Take greater ownership of choices and actions
- Help teams move from hesitation to commitment
- Understand what drives engagement and fulfillment
- Lead change with more empathy and clarity
- Create momentum without waiting for circumstances to settle
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the factors that motivate them at work
- Able to recognize where they have influence during change
- Equipped to use Sarah’s six-driver Remotivation Method
- Ready to take a practical step toward renewed momentum
- Better prepared to support colleagues through transitions
Keynote Programs
Get Remotivated: Navigate Change from the Inside Out
Sarah shows audiences how to activate personal agency and reconnect with the internal drivers that support commitment and performance. Ideal for teams facing transformation, disruption, or a demanding new chapter. Available as an interactive keynote or virtual presentation.
Get Remotivated: Team Activation Workshop
This hands-on follow-up gives teams time to apply the keynote’s ideas to their own challenges through exercises and discussion. Ideal for groups that want to turn insight into shared actions. Sarah Aviram
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us what changes your people are experiencing and what you want them to do afterward. We’ll help you assess whether Sarah’s approach fits, choose the right format, and confirm her availability and current fee.
Is Sarah Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the change it is facing, and where motivation or engagement needs support. We’ll help you assess Sarah’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Chris Barton
Founder and Creator of Shazam, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Tech Investor
About
Chris Barton: Keynote Speaker on Innovation, AI & Disruptive Thinking | Founder & First CEO of Shazam | Inventor | Tech Entrepreneur
Bring Impossible Ideas to Life. What if the idea everyone says is impossible is actually your biggest opportunity?
When Chris conceived the idea for Shazam, experts told him it couldn't be done. He refused to accept the assumptions defining what was possible. The result became one of the world's most recognizable technology platforms, with more than 2 billion downloads before being acquired by Apple.
Today, Chris shows organizations how to challenge conventional thinking, break through barriers and turn seemingly impossible ideas into reality.
Why Book Chris Barton?
Chris doesn't simply talk about innovation. He built something the experts said couldn't be built.
Shazam was conceived before smartphones and app stores existed. Creating it required Chris and his team to solve enormous technological, commercial and operational challenges while repeatedly finding ways around obstacles that could have ended the company.
Those experiences shaped Chris's “Start from Zero” approach to innovation—a way of challenging assumptions and returning to basic truths instead of automatically accepting how things have always been done.
His keynote combines a remarkable entrepreneurial story with practical thinking audiences can use to challenge the status quo and create breakthrough ideas of their own.
What Makes Chris Barton Different?
- Founder & first CEO of Shazam — created one of the world's most recognizable technology platforms
- AI pioneer — Shazam was an early mass-consumer application of artificial intelligence
- 2+ billion downloads — transformed an impossible-sounding idea into a global product
- Apple acquisition — Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018
- 12 patents — inventor across Shazam, Google and Dropbox
- Google experience — was Google's first employee focused on mobile partnerships
- Dropbox experience — joined when it was still a rapidly growing startup
- Start from Zero thinking — gives audiences a practical framework for challenging assumptions
- Creative Persistence — demonstrates how imagination and tenacity combine to overcome barriers
Why Is Chris Right for Your Audience?
Chris is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to challenge conventional thinking, become more innovative and stop allowing assumptions to determine what's possible.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI and technology events, innovation summits, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating disruption.
Book Chris when your audience needs to:
- Challenge assumptions and conventional thinking
- Generate more innovative ideas
- Understand the possibilities created by AI and technology
- Turn ambitious ideas into action
- Overcome barriers without compromising the original vision
- Develop greater creative persistence
- Eliminate friction for customers and employees
- Become more comfortable pursuing ideas others don't immediately understand
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Thinking differently about what is possible
- Better equipped to challenge assumptions
- Understanding how first-principles thinking can unlock innovation
- More willing to pursue unconventional ideas
- Better prepared to creatively overcome obstacles
- Recognizing how unnecessary friction limits growth
- Inspired to combine persistence with imagination
- Ready to bring their own “impossible” ideas to life
Chris Barton Keynote Programs
Bring Impossible Ideas to Life. How do you create something that experts insist can't be done?
Technology and AI are rapidly changing the boundaries of what's possible. Chris takes audiences inside the remarkable creation of Shazam and the challenges involved in developing an idea years ahead of the technology ecosystem required to support it.
He shows audiences how questioning assumptions, thinking from basic truths and approaching obstacles differently can unlock entirely new possibilities.
Ideal for: AI conferences, innovation summits, leadership meetings and organizations pursuing breakthrough ideas.
Overcome Obstacles with Imagination. Persistence matters—but simply trying the same thing harder isn't enough.
Chris calls his approach Creative Persistence: combining determination with the imagination required to find another path when the obvious route is blocked.
Using extraordinary stories from Shazam's journey, he shows audiences how to challenge barriers, question conventional solutions and keep moving toward ambitious goals.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, entrepreneurial events and organizations navigating difficult challenges.
Eliminate Effort to Unlock Explosive Growth. Where is unnecessary friction making it harder for customers, employees or partners to say yes?
Shazam succeeded by making something incredibly complex feel effortless: hear a song, press a button and discover what it is.
Drawing on his experiences with Shazam, Google and Dropbox, Chris shows audiences how identifying and removing friction can create dramatically better customer and employee experiences.
Ideal for: Customer experience, sales, innovation, technology and growth-focused events.
Build the Vision You See, But Others Don't. What do you see that others can't see yet?
Breakthrough ideas often face resistance precisely because they're unfamiliar.
Chris shares the entrepreneurial lessons behind transforming Shazam from an idea many considered impossible into a product used by billions of people.
He challenges entrepreneurs and innovators to strengthen their conviction, prioritize what matters and find creative ways to turn vision into reality.
Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, founders, innovation teams and organizations building new products or businesses.
Why Book Chris Barton Through The Sweeney Agency?
Chris Barton combines an extraordinary entrepreneurial success story with practical frameworks for innovation, AI and breakthrough thinking—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons to the barriers and opportunities facing your organization.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Chris Barton's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Chris Barton keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and event objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Chris with other leading innovation, AI and technology keynote speakers
Is Chris Barton Right for Your Event?
Tell us the impossible idea, stubborn barrier or innovation challenge your organization is facing.
We'll help you determine whether Chris is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an innovation summit, AI conference, leadership meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Chris Barton as your keynote speaker.
Chris Bashinelli
National Geographic Explorer & TV Host, United Nations Moderator, Actor from The Sopranos (HBO), Expert on Human Connection & Happiness in Business
About
Chris Bashinelli: National Geographic Explorer | Host of Bridge the Gap | Speaker on Human Connection, Trust and Leadership
Why Book Chris Bashinelli?
As host of Bridge the Gap, a travel series featured on PBS and National Geographic Channel, Chris brings global stories and footage to the stage. His energetic presentations combine humor, audience interaction and practical exercises, giving people opportunities to reflect on how they connect with customers, colleagues and the teams they lead.
Why Is Chris Bashinelli Right for Your Audience?
Chris is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings and culture-focused events. He is especially relevant when an organization wants people to feel more connected, strengthen customer relationships or lead with greater empathy during change.
Book Chris when your audience needs to:
- Build trust with clients and colleagues
- Listen with greater curiosity and attention
- Strengthen belonging across teams
- Lead through uncertainty with authenticity
- Connect individual strengths with shared goals
- Bring renewed purpose to everyday interactions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of how presence and listening influence trust
- Equipped with practical ways to strengthen human connection
- Ready to recognize the person behind a role or transaction
- Better prepared to support colleagues through change
- Motivated to create a culture where people feel valued and heard
Keynote Programs
The Power of Human Connection
Chris explores how understanding people and serving their interests can strengthen relationships with clients and teams. Ideal for sales, customer service and leadership audiences seeking deeper trust.
Leading Through Change
Chris shares stories of resilience and personal growth to explore how leaders can remain grounded and connected during uncertainty. Ideal for organizations navigating change and seeking renewed employee inspiration.
Building Unbreakable Teams
Through global stories and interactive moments, Chris introduces his PACT of Connection: Presence, Authenticity, Care and Trust. Ideal for teams seeking stronger collaboration, belonging and open communication.
The Happiness Effect
Drawing on his travels and mindfulness practice, Chris explores the role of gratitude, perspective and happiness in work and relationships. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed purpose and practical ways to support well-being.
Is Chris Bashinelli Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the relationships you want to strengthen and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Chris’s most relevant program, discuss customization and audience interaction, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Jack Becker
Decorated U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot, Founder & CEO, Flight Level Solutions, Inc., Leadership, Teamwork, Safety, and Peak Human Performance Expert
About
Jack Becker: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Accountability & High Performance | Former U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot | Founder of Supersonic Success
Bring Fighter-Pilot Precision to Business Performance
What could your team accomplish if they prepared, communicated and executed with the discipline of elite fighter pilots?
Jack Becker is a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and dynamic keynote speaker on leadership, accountability, teamwork and high performance.
Why Book Jack Becker?
Jack doesn't simply tell exciting fighter-pilot stories. He translates the disciplines of military aviation into practical strategies business teams can use.
His message focuses on the behaviors that drive consistent performance: preparation, accountability, communication, execution and learning from every experience.
For organizations looking to improve performance rather than simply motivate people for an hour, Jack delivers a keynote designed to help audiences turn lessons into action and action into better results.
What Makes Jack Becker Different?
- Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot — brings lessons from an elite performance environment
- Business-focused message — translates aviation principles into workplace strategies
- Accountability driven — encourages people to take ownership of their performance
- Execution focused — helps close the gap between strategy and results
- Practical debriefing approach — emphasizes learning and continuous improvement
- Team performance — demonstrates why trust and communication matter under pressure
- High-energy delivery — engages audiences with compelling aviation experiences
- Actionable takeaways — gives teams concepts they can apply immediately
Why Is Jack Right for Your Audience?
Jack is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to improve execution, strengthen accountability and work together more effectively.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings, management events and organizations focused on operational excellence.
Book Jack when your audience needs to:
- Turn strategy into consistent execution
- Strengthen personal accountability
- Improve communication across teams
- Build greater trust and collaboration
- Prepare more effectively for important opportunities
- Learn quickly from wins and mistakes
- Perform more consistently under pressure
- Create a culture of continuous improvement
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how preparation improves execution
- More willing to take ownership of results
- Better equipped to communicate when the stakes are high
- Recognizing the importance of effective debriefing
- More focused on learning rather than assigning blame
- Better prepared to collaborate across teams
- Ready to apply continuous improvement to everyday performance
Jack Becker Keynote Programs
Supersonic Success: What can business teams learn from the way fighter pilots prepare, execute and improve?
Jack takes audiences inside the world of military aviation to demonstrate how high-performing teams prepare for demanding missions and execute when the pressure is on.
He then translates those lessons into practical business strategies that can help organizations improve communication, accountability and performance.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, management teams and organizations focused on execution.
The Fighter Pilot Mindset: High performance doesn't happen by accident.
Jack explores the habits and disciplines that help elite performers stay focused, make decisions and deliver results in demanding environments.
Audiences learn how stronger preparation, clearer expectations and personal accountability can improve performance across an organization.
Ideal for: Sales kickoffs, leadership meetings and high-performance teams.
Debrief to Win: What happens after the mission may be just as important as what happens during it.
Jack demonstrates how effective debriefing can help teams identify what worked, understand what didn't and continuously improve without creating a culture of blame.
Applied to business, this approach can strengthen communication, accelerate learning and help teams perform better on the next mission.
Ideal for: Leadership teams, sales organizations, project teams and companies building a culture of continuous improvement.
Why Book Jack Becker Through The Sweeney Agency?
Jack Becker combines fighter-pilot experience with practical business strategies for improving execution, accountability and teamwork—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons to the performance challenges facing your organization.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Jack Becker's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Jack Becker keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your event objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Jack with other leading leadership, teamwork and high-performance speakers
Is Jack Becker Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your team needs to improve execution, accountability or collaboration.
We'll help you determine whether Jack is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, sales kickoff or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Jack Becker as your keynote speaker.
About
Ty Bennett: Leadership Speaker | Bestselling Author | Expert on Storytelling and High Performance
Turn Better Communication Into Better Results
Ty Bennett helps audiences answer both questions. A bestselling author and entrepreneur, he combines storytelling, leadership experience, and research on performance to give people practical ways to connect, influence, and achieve more.
Why Book Ty Bennett?
Ty makes communication a skill audiences can use immediately. He shows leaders how to build trust and commitment, and helps sales teams tell stories that make their value clear and memorable.
His entrepreneurial background gives those ideas weight: he built a direct sales business with his brother to more than $20 million in annual revenue by age 21. He brings that experience to keynotes that are energetic, engaging, and focused on action.
What Makes Ty Different?
- An accomplished storyteller who demonstrates the communication skills he teaches
- Experience building and leading a successful sales organization
- Bestselling books on storytelling, influence, and partnership leadership
- Research-informed insights into high performance
- Practical ideas for leaders and sales professionals to apply after the event
Why Is Ty Right for Your Audience?
Ty is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, association events, and company meetings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants stronger relationships, clearer communication, or greater commitment to a shared goal.
Book Ty when your audience needs to:
- Earn buy-in and strengthen trust across teams
- Communicate ideas in ways people remember
- Make sales conversations more relevant and engaging
- Build collaboration instead of relying on authority
- Improve performance while sustaining long-term results
- Turn inspiration into specific changes in behavior
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better equipped to use stories to explain ideas and move people to action
- Ready to ask better questions and create more meaningful conversations
- Clearer on how partnership builds commitment and collaboration
- Able to apply practical leadership and communication techniques
- Motivated to improve how they lead, sell, or work
Keynote Programs
Partnership Is the New Leadership
Ty shows leaders how to build commitment through communication, trust, and genuine partnership. Audiences learn ways to encourage collaboration and build stronger relationships across their organizations. Ideal for leadership and management events.
The Power of Storytelling
Ty teaches audiences how to use stories to make messages easier to understand, remember, and act on. He connects storytelling to leadership, sales, and customer relationships, giving participants tools to make everyday communication more effective. Ideal for sales, marketing, and leadership audiences.
Redefining High Performance
Drawing on his performance research and entrepreneurial experience, Ty challenges audiences to rethink how they pursue results. He explores ways to lead, sell, and perform more effectively while sustaining progress over time. Ideal for sales kickoffs and organizations aiming to raise performance.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us where your audience needs to improve: leadership commitment, sales conversations, storytelling, or performance. We can help identify Ty’s most relevant keynote, discuss how it can fit your event, and confirm his availability and current fee.
Is Ty Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the challenges it faces, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Ty’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Dr. Jasmin Bergeron
International expert on the WOW Effect, Dr. Jasmin Bergeron delivered more than 2,000 keynote presentations on the WOW Effect in sales, leadership, teamwork and work-life balance.
About
Dr. Jasmin Bergeron: University Professor | Researcher | Speaker on the WOW Effect in Sales, Service and Leadership
Give People a Reason to Remember You
Dr. Jasmin Bergeron helps audiences create what he calls the WOW Effect: practical moments of value that strengthen relationships and leave a lasting impression. A university professor and researcher, he makes his findings useful through humor, interaction, and examples tailored to the people in the room.
Why Book Dr. Jasmin Bergeron?
Jasmin connects research with everyday decisions. He shows sales and service professionals how to manage expectations, increase perceived value, and build loyalty. For leaders and teams, he offers ways to improve recognition, participation, and collaboration.
He has delivered more than 2,000 presentations and workshops across industries. His programs can be customized for your organization and presented in English, French, or both.
What Makes Jasmin Different?
- A university professor who translates research into practical actions
- More than 2,000 keynote presentations and workshops
- Experience across financial services, healthcare, education, hospitality, and other sectors
- Interactive presentations that use humor and audience participation
- Bilingual delivery and the ability to tailor or combine topics for your event
Why Is Jasmin Right for Your Audience?
Jasmin is a strong fit for sales conferences, customer experience events, leadership meetings, and association programs. He is especially valuable when an organization wants its people to turn a broad goal such as “better service” into behaviors they can use immediately.
Book Jasmin when your audience needs to:
- Make customer interactions more memorable
- Strengthen trust and long-term loyalty
- Sell on value rather than relying on price
- Handle expectations and complaints more effectively
- Help managers recognize and engage their teams
- Build greater participation and cooperation among colleagues
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the behaviors that create a positive lasting impression
- Ready to improve how they manage expectations
- Equipped with practical ways to build stronger customer relationships
- Better able to connect service, sales, and teamwork to daily habits
- Motivated to create WOW moments in their own roles
Keynote Programs
The WOW Effect!
Jasmin explores what makes an experience memorable and gives audiences practical ways to create more positive moments for customers, colleagues, and other important relationships. Ideal for a broad conference audience.
The WOW Effect in Sales and Business Development
Jasmin shows sales professionals how to increase the value customers see, build credibility, strengthen loyalty, and approach closing without undue pressure. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing teams.
The WOW Effect in Customer Service
This keynote focuses on the interpersonal skills and service habits that help customers feel valued. Jasmin addresses expectations, complaints, and the impressions that shape satisfaction and loyalty. Ideal for service and customer experience events.
The WOW Effect in Leadership
Jasmin gives leaders practical ways to build trust, recognize contributions, and engage employees through change. Ideal for managers who want stronger teams and more consistent collaboration.
The WOW Effect in Teamwork
Jasmin explores how colleagues can increase participation, use their different strengths, and create a more supportive team environment. Ideal for organization-wide gatherings and team meetings.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us where your audience needs to create a stronger impression: sales, service, leadership, or teamwork. We can help select or combine the most relevant topics, discuss the presentation language and format, and confirm Jasmin’s availability and current fee.
Is Jasmin Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the interactions you want to improve, and what you want attendees to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Jasmin’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Molly Bloom
About Molly Bloom – Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Bestselling Author
About
Amy Blankson: Author of The Future of Happiness | Digital Wellness Leader | Speaker on Flourishing and Positive Psychology
Help People Thrive in a Changing World
Amy Blankson helps audiences turn the science of happiness into practical choices at work and in life. As co-founder and Chief Evangelist of the Digital Wellness Institute, she explores how people can use technology well, build positive habits, and create conditions in which they and their teams can flourish.
Why Book Amy Blankson?
Amy brings a constructive perspective to challenges many organizations share: stress, change, engagement, and the impact of technology on well-being. She translates positive psychology into small actions that people can try immediately, while giving leaders a broader way to think about the environments they create.
Her talks can help audiences move from concern about the future toward a clearer sense of what they can influence today.
What Makes Amy Different?
- Author of The Future of Happiness, which examines well-being in a digital world
- Co-founder and Chief Evangelist of the Digital Wellness Institute
- Experience connecting positive psychology with workplace challenges
- Current programs on flourishing, AI, and resilience amid uncertainty
- An engaging style that makes ideas about well-being practical and accessible
Why Is Amy Right for Your Audience?
Amy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, education and nonprofit gatherings, and programs focused on workplace culture or digital change. She is especially relevant when an audience needs a thoughtful, encouraging way to address uncertainty without dismissing its real pressures.
Book Amy when your audience needs to:
- Navigate change with greater optimism and agency
- Support employee well-being alongside performance
- Build small habits that make positive change more sustainable
- Consider how AI can support human creativity and judgment
- Create healthier relationships with technology
- Make flourishing a meaningful part of workplace culture
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to identify actions within their control during uncertainty
- Equipped with practical ideas for building positive daily habits
- Clearer on how leaders can support people who are adapting to change
- Ready to use technology more intentionally
- Inspired to connect well-being, purpose, and performance
Keynote Programs
The Future is Flourishing: Why Thriving People and Cultures Will Define What’s Next
Amy invites audiences to look beyond simply coping with change and consider what allows people and organizations to thrive. She offers a practical framework for bringing purpose and well-being into decisions about culture, engagement, and performance. Ideal for leadership and workplace culture events.
SuperThinkers: How to Innovate, Lead, and Thrive in an AI-Driven World
Amy explores how leaders can use AI to deepen thinking, ask better questions, and support human creativity. Ideal for audiences looking for a people-centered approach to technological change.
Fearless Positivity: Mastering Mindset in the Midst of Uncertainty
Amy shares ways to reframe challenges, build resilience, and take purposeful action when the path ahead is unclear. Ideal for organizations navigating change, disruption, or sustained pressure.
Additional Workshop: The Joy Game
In this interactive workshop, Amy helps teams make joy a practical part of daily work through small changes in mindset and behavior. Ideal for groups seeking more engagement and connection.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us whether your audience is focused on flourishing, AI, uncertainty, or digital well-being. We can help select the right keynote or workshop, discuss customization, and confirm Amy’s availability and current fee.
Is Amy Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the pressures it faces, and what you want people to think or do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Amy’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Lisa Bodell
Global Leader on Simplification & Banishing Complexity, Innovation, Leadership, Change, Collaboration, and Transforming Culture
About
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.
Eric Boles
Consultant and Speaker on Leadership, Peak Performance, and Change Management
About
Eric Boles: Leadership & Performance Expert | President, The Game Changers, Inc. | Former NFL Player | Author of Moving to Great
Turn Potential Into Performance
Eric Boles helps leaders and teams close that gap.
President of The Game Changers, Inc. and a former NFL player, Eric combines powerful storytelling, high energy and practical strategies to help people strengthen accountability, embrace change and perform at a higher level.
Why Book Eric Boles?
Eric doesn't simply motivate people to do better. He challenges them to take greater ownership of how they think, lead and perform.
For more than two decades, Eric has worked with organizations including Starbucks, FedEx, Meta, Mayo Clinic, IBM, PwC, Alaska Airlines and the U.S. Air Force.
His message is straightforward: sustainable performance comes from clarity, accountability and consistent execution—not good intentions.
What Makes Eric Different?
- Former NFL player who understands high-performance environments
- More than two decades working with leaders and organizations
- Powerful combination of energy, humor and practical business insight
- Expertise in leadership, accountability, change and peak performance
- Challenges audiences without talking down to them
- Creates urgency around turning ideas into action
- Customizes his message around the organization's goals and challenges
Why Is Eric Right for Your Audience?
Eric is an excellent choice when an organization needs people to raise their game, embrace accountability and execute at a higher level.
He is particularly effective for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, corporate meetings, team events and organizations navigating significant change.
Book Eric when your audience needs to:
- Take greater ownership of results
- Move from intention to execution
- Raise expectations for themselves and others
- Navigate change with greater confidence
- Break through complacency and self-imposed limitations
- Strengthen teamwork and accountability
- Perform effectively under pressure
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Motivated to take greater ownership of their performance
- Better equipped to turn good intentions into action
- Ready to challenge habits that may be limiting results
- More confident navigating change and uncertainty
- Clearer about the role accountability plays in high performance
- Energized to raise their personal and professional expectations
Keynote Programs
Performance Catalyst™ Align, Elevate and Accelerate Performance
Eric challenges audiences to examine the behaviors that separate potential from sustainable performance.
He helps leaders strengthen alignment, accountability and execution while creating greater urgency around the actions required to achieve organizational goals.
Ideal for leadership conferences, executive meetings, sales kickoffs and organizations focused on accelerating performance.
Moving to Great: Unleash Your Best More of the Time
What keeps talented people from consistently performing at their best?
Eric helps audiences recognize the fears, habits and self-imposed limitations that can hold them back—and provides practical strategies for moving beyond them.
The result is a highly motivational presentation with a strong business message about personal responsibility, growth and performance.
Ideal for sales meetings, corporate conferences, recognition events and organizations looking to re-energize their people.
Leading Through Change
Change creates uncertainty—but it also creates an opportunity for stronger leadership.
Eric helps leaders understand how their mindset, communication and behavior influence the way people respond to change. He challenges audiences to move beyond fear, have difficult conversations, make decisions and create positive momentum.
Ideal for organizations experiencing transformation, growth or significant disruption.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
A high-energy keynote can create excitement. The right keynote can turn that excitement into action.
Contact us to:
- Confirm Eric's availability and current fee
- Determine which presentation best supports your objectives
- Discuss customization around your business challenges
- Explore keynote, breakout and leadership-development options
- Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit
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Anthony Bourke
Former F-16 Fighter Pilot, Popular Speaker on Peak Performance, Leadership, Communication & Sales
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Anthony “AB” Bourke: Former F-16 Fighter Pilot | Business Leader | Speaker on Execution, Leadership and Peak Performance
Turn a Strong Plan Into Strong Execution
What helps a team stay aligned, communicate honestly, and improve when the stakes are high and conditions keep changing?
Anthony “AB” Bourke draws on his experience as an F-16 fighter pilot and business leader to answer that question. He shows audiences how the habits of high-performing flight teams—clear preparation, precise execution, and regular debriefing—can help organizations work better together.
Why Book Anthony Bourke?
Anthony makes the difference between strategy and execution easy to see. Using stories from the cockpit, he explains how teams establish a shared plan, communicate during demanding work, and learn from what happened afterward.
He also brings business experience to the stage, connecting those lessons to leadership, sales, and organizational performance. Audiences leave with ideas they can use to improve the way their own teams prepare and follow through.
What Makes Anthony Different?
- Experience flying F-16 tactical missions
- Business leadership and sales experience beyond the cockpit
- A practical model of briefing, execution, and debriefing
- Strong examples of alignment and communication under pressure
- Interactive presentations that connect aviation lessons to workplace challenges
Why Is Anthony Right for Your Audience?
Anthony is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, management retreats, and company events focused on performance. He is especially valuable when an organization has a capable team and a sound strategy but needs more consistent execution.
Book Anthony when your audience needs to:
- Align around a plan before acting
- Communicate more openly about what is working
- Close gaps between strategy and execution
- Learn from results without turning feedback into blame
- Lead teams through fast-changing conditions
- Build habits that support continuous improvement
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how preparation improves team execution
- Better equipped to give and receive useful feedback
- Ready to use debriefs to learn from both successes and setbacks
- More aware of how each person contributes to a shared mission
- Motivated to make small, repeatable improvements in performance
Keynote Programs
Executing at Mach 2
Anthony shows how fighter squadrons align their people and plans so they can perform under pressure. Ideal for teams that need to turn good strategy into dependable results.
Communicating at Mach 2
Anthony explores how honest feedback helps high-performing teams identify problems early and improve. Ideal for organizations seeking more candid communication and stronger collaboration.
Leading at Mach 2
Anthony draws on fighter-pilot leadership practices to discuss preparation, developing people, and improving as a team. Ideal for managers and executives responsible for performance in demanding environments.
Selling at Mach 2
Anthony connects the discipline of fighter-pilot training with the preparation and execution required in sales. Ideal for sales kickoffs and teams working to build more consistent performance.
The Feedback Loop: Fighter Pilot Lessons for Continuous Improvement
Anthony explains the value of regular briefing and debriefing: set expectations, carry out the plan, examine the result, and make the next effort stronger. Ideal for teams that want a practical way to learn and adapt together.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us where execution breaks down for your audience: alignment, communication, feedback, leadership, or sales. We can help choose the most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Anthony’s availability and current fee.
Is Anthony Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, its performance goals, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Anthony’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected]
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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.
Adam Cheyer
Co-Founder of Siri and Viv Labs, Tech Speaker and Expert on Artificial Intelligence
About
Adam Cheyer: Co-Founder of Siri and Viv Labs | AI Pioneer | Speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Why Book Adam Cheyer?
Adam connects that experience with the questions leaders face today: what conversational AI can do, how it could change customer interactions and where to look for meaningful opportunities. His storytelling makes complex developments accessible, and his background as an award-winning magician can add a memorable element to the presentation. bigspeak.com
Why Is Adam Cheyer Right for Your Audience?
Adam is a strong fit for executive conferences, technology events, innovation meetings and entrepreneurship programs. He is especially valuable when an audience wants a clearer understanding of AI alongside lessons from building and commercializing new products.
Book Adam when your audience needs to:
- Understand the capabilities and limitations of conversational AI
- Explore how AI could change customer and employee experiences
- Connect emerging technology with real business needs
- Learn how an idea becomes a product and a company
- Think more creatively about future opportunities
- Ask better questions about innovation and execution
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the evolution and business implications of AI
- Better prepared to discuss conversational AI opportunities
- More aware of the decisions involved in bringing ideas to market
- Equipped with lessons from Adam’s entrepreneurial experience
- Inspired to connect ambitious thinking with practical action
Keynote Programs
ChatGPT and the Rise of Conversational AI
Adam examines what conversational AI can and cannot do, and its implications for how businesses work. Ideal for leaders and employees seeking an accessible introduction to generative AI.
The Future of AI and Businesses
Adam explores developments in AI and how organizations can prepare for continuing change. Ideal for executive, technology and strategy audiences.
“Hey Siri”: A Founding Story
Adam takes audiences inside Siri’s journey from an idea to Apple’s acquisition and its introduction on the iPhone. Ideal for audiences interested in innovation, product development and entrepreneurship.
How to Build a Successful Startup: Lessons from the Founder of Siri, Inc.
Adam shares lessons on timing, goals and moving from an idea to execution. Ideal for entrepreneurs, innovation teams and leaders developing new ventures. WWSG
Is Adam Cheyer Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the AI questions it needs answered and the innovation goals you want to advance. We can help select Adam’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.
Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune and Best-selling Author Helping Leaders Confront Trends Driving Disruption
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Antonia Colibasanu: Chief GeoEconomist at Geopolitical Futures | Geopolitical Analyst and Author | Speaker on Global Risk, Europe and Geoeconomics
Why Book Antonia Colibasanu?
Her experience includes more than a decade at Stratfor and published work on geopolitics, geoeconomics and Eurasia. Antonia gives executive audiences a framework for considering how geography, trade and security can affect the assumptions behind business decisions.
Why Is Antonia Colibasanu Right for Your Audience?
Antonia is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, board discussions and organizations with international exposure. Consider her when leaders need to connect geopolitical developments with the regions and relationships that matter to their business.
Book Antonia when your audience needs to:
- Understand the interaction between economics and national interests
- Examine geopolitical factors affecting business plans
- Consider developments in Europe and Eurasia
- Ask better questions about trade and regional security
- Distinguish structural pressures from daily headlines
- Include geopolitical context in strategic discussions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the geopolitical forces examined in the session
- More aware of the relationship between economic and security interests
- Better prepared to question regional assumptions
- Equipped to frame geopolitical issues in business discussions
- Ready to monitor developments relevant to their organization
Keynote Programs
Suggested presentation focuses based on Antonia’s expertise include:
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
Antonia can examine how economic tools and political interests shape international relationships. Ideal for executive and strategy audiences.
Europe, Eurasia and Regional Risk
Antonia can explore the regional dynamics most relevant to your organization. Ideal for businesses with European or Eurasian exposure.
Is Antonia Colibasanu Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your organization’s international exposure, the regions you want to understand and the questions your leaders are asking. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Antonia’s availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Virtual Events can:
- Reach a wider audience
- Offer a great experience at a much lower cost
- Create long term impact with recorded elements that allow for content to be watched over a period of time
- 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.
Andrew M. Davis
Best-selling Author, Inspirational Speaker and Global Marketing Influencer
About
Andrew Davis: Author | Former Digital Agency Entrepreneur | Speaker on Marketing, Customer Experience and AI
Why Book Andrew Davis?
His presentations use memorable examples to challenge familiar marketing assumptions. Whether examining customer loyalty, creative constraints, or AI, Andrew encourages teams to look closely at how their choices earn attention and trust. His message gives audiences a starting point for testing better ways to serve customers.
Why Is Andrew Davis Right for Your Audience?
Andrew is a strong fit for marketing conferences, customer experience events, sales meetings, and business growth programs. Consider him when your audience needs fresh thinking that connects creativity with a specific customer or commercial challenge.
Book Andrew when your audience needs to:
- Create experiences customers want to repeat
- Make marketing more useful and memorable
- Find creative opportunities within limited resources
- Turn customer interactions into reasons to return
- Explore AI while protecting brand trust
- Translate new ideas into small, practical experiments
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of the moments that shape customer loyalty
- Ready to question familiar marketing habits
- Equipped with ideas for using constraints creatively
- Better prepared to evaluate AI through a customer lens
- Focused on testing a specific improvement after the event
Keynote Programs
The Loyalty Loop
Andrew examines how small changes in customer experience can encourage repeat business and advocacy. Ideal for marketing, sales, and service audiences.
The Cube of Creativity
Andrew explores how constraints can stimulate useful ideas and action. Ideal for teams seeking innovation with limited time or resources.
Artificial Influence
Andrew examines AI’s opportunities and risks for brands, including its impact on trust. Ideal for marketers and leaders considering how to use AI responsibly.
Is Andrew Davis Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the customers you serve and the growth or marketing challenge you want attendees to address. We can help select Andrew’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Dr. Mark DeVolder: Change Management Expert | Author | Speaker on Transitions, Leadership and Employee Engagement
Why Book Dr. Mark DeVolder?
Mark’s presentations combine audience interaction with practical discussion of how people move through change. He connects the broader transformation agenda with the questions employees face each day, helping teams think about uncertainty, communication, and their next steps with greater clarity.
Why Is Dr. Mark DeVolder Right for Your Audience?
Mark is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management meetings, and employee events during mergers, restructuring, growth, or digital transformation. Consider him when a change initiative requires people to understand what is happening and participate more confidently.
Book Mark when your audience needs to:
- Understand the stages of organizational transition
- Navigate uncertainty about changing responsibilities
- Build leadership habits that support adaptation
- Improve communication during transformation
- Reengage teams experiencing repeated changes
- Turn broad change goals into practical next steps
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A clearer framework for understanding transitions
- More aware of their own reactions to change
- Better prepared to discuss uncertainty with colleagues
- Ready to identify behaviors that support engagement
- Focused on a practical action within their influence
Keynote Programs
Future Proof: Navigating Change with Confidence and Excitement
Mark introduces his Empowered Change approach to navigating transitions. Ideal for leaders and teams experiencing significant organizational change.
Harnessing the Hurricane: Leadership Secrets for Successfully Navigating Change
Mark explores the leadership mindsets needed during disruption. Ideal for managers building alignment and guiding teams through uncertainty.
On Fire! Energized Together: Everyone, Every Day
Mark examines behaviors that strengthen or weaken motivation, including clarity and appreciation. Ideal for organizations addressing change fatigue and employee engagement.
Is Dr. Mark DeVolder Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the transition underway and what your leaders and teams need to navigate it. We can help select Mark’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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.
Contact The Sweeney Agency at 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Ryan Estis: Bestselling Author | Former Fortune 500 Chief Revenue Officer | Speaker on Leadership, Sales, and Growth
Why Book Ryan Estis?
Ryan brings energy, stories, and clear actions to the stage. He tailors his presentations to the audience, whether the goal is to strengthen leadership, improve sales performance, or help people move forward through uncertainty.
Why Is Ryan Estis Right for Your Audience?
Ryan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, manager meetings, and company events. He is especially valuable when an organization wants people to take ownership of growth while building stronger relationships with colleagues and customers.
Book Ryan when your audience needs to:
- Lead high-performing teams through change
- Build trust and engagement at work
- Coach people to take greater ownership
- Communicate value to today’s buyers
- Strengthen customer relationships
- Turn new ideas into action after the event
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how their daily actions affect team performance
- Ready to coach and support people more effectively
- Better equipped to build trust with colleagues or customers
- More confident navigating change and uncertainty
- Committed to a practical next step they can take immediately
Keynote Programs
Human-Centered Leadership: Leading High-Performance Teams in a Forever Changed World
Ryan shows leaders how to develop people, communicate with clarity, and create the trust teams need to perform. He helps managers connect individual growth with shared goals and lasting results. Ideal for leadership conferences and manager meetings.
Sell for Impact: Value-Based Selling & Winning Customers in the Era of Complexity
Ryan helps sales teams earn customer trust, communicate value beyond price, and guide buyers through complex decisions. Drawing on his experience as a chief revenue officer, he offers practical ways to strengthen conversations and move opportunities forward. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing teams.
Adapt & Thrive: Leverage Change and Transformation as a Catalyst for Growth
Ryan helps audiences approach change with greater confidence and a willingness to learn. He explores how people and organizations can respond to disruption, find opportunity, and keep growing. Ideal for company events and teams facing transformation.
Is Ryan Estis Right for Your Event?
Tell us whether your priority is leadership, sales growth, or navigating change. We can help select Ryan’s most relevant program, discuss the event format, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency at 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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Dr. Tasha Eurich: Organizational Psychologist | Author of Insight and Shatterproof | Speaker on Self-Awareness and Leadership
Why Book Dr. Tasha Eurich?
Tasha’s presentations encourage audiences to examine patterns that can limit their effectiveness and consider more constructive responses. Her combination of storytelling, research, and practical exercises makes self-awareness relevant to everyday leadership and to the moments when familiar approaches stop working.
Why Is Dr. Tasha Eurich Right for Your Audience?
Tasha is a strong fit for leadership summits, professional development events, women’s conferences, and organizational change programs. Consider her when your audience needs to build greater self-awareness or rethink how it responds to persistent pressure.
Book Tasha when your audience needs to:
- Develop a more accurate view of their leadership impact
- Seek and respond to candid feedback
- Recognize patterns that limit effectiveness
- Approach setbacks with greater curiosity
- Navigate changing expectations with more flexibility
- Strengthen understanding and communication within teams
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the role of self-awareness in leadership
- Ready to ask more useful feedback questions
- More aware of habitual responses to pressure
- Equipped with ideas for approaching setbacks constructively
- Focused on a practical change in how they lead or work
Keynote Programs
Becoming Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos
Tasha explores approaches to adversity and adaptability. Ideal for audiences navigating disruption or major transitions.
Shatterproof Women: A New Path to Peace, Purpose, and Power
Tasha addresses competing demands, boundaries, and confidence. Ideal for women’s leadership and professional development events.
Leading with Insight: How Self-Awareness Helps Teams Work and Win Together
Tasha connects leadership self-awareness with team effectiveness. Ideal for executives, managers, and emerging leaders.
Is Dr. Tasha Eurich Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership challenges your audience faces and the changes you want participants to make. We can help select Tasha’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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Jenny Evans: Resilience and Performance Expert | Author of The Resiliency rEvolution | Speaker on Stress, Energy and Change
Why Book Jenny Evans?
Jenny combines humor, audience involvement, and small practices she calls Micro Strategies. Her presentations encourage people to consider routines they can fit into a busy day and give leaders a starting point for discussing how sustained demands affect their teams.
Why Is Jenny Evans Right for Your Audience?
Jenny is a strong fit for leadership meetings, sales conferences, employee events, and workplace well-being programs. Consider her when your audience feels stretched by continuous change and wants practical ideas for energy, recovery, and sustainable work habits.
Book Jenny when your audience needs to:
- Recognize how pressure affects their workday
- Develop routines that support energy and recovery
- Respond more thoughtfully to ongoing change
- Discuss workload and support needs more openly
- Make small practices easier to repeat
- Connect personal well-being with workplace effectiveness
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of their own responses to pressure
- Ready to try manageable practices during busy days
- Clearer on the importance of recovery and energy habits
- Better prepared to discuss the strain of repeated changes
- Equipped to choose a practical routine to test after the event
Keynote Programs
Resiliency Rx
Jenny introduces Micro Strategies for responding to stress and supporting resilience. Ideal for broad employee and leadership audiences.
The Neuroscience of Change: It’s Not What You Think
Jenny explores how people experience repeated disruption and how leaders can support them. Ideal for organizations navigating transformation.
Energy for Resilience
Jenny focuses on daily habits involving movement, recovery, and energy. Ideal for sales teams, managers, and audiences working under sustained pressure.
Is Jenny Evans Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the demands your people face and the work habits you want to help them strengthen. We can help select Jenny’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.
John Foley
Former Solo Blue Angels Pilot, Entrepreneur and Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork
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John Foley: Former Blue Angels Lead Solo Pilot | Author | Speaker on Trust, Gratitude and High Performance
Why Book John Foley?
John brings those lessons into everyday leadership through his Glad to Be Here message. His presentations encourage audiences to examine their standards, strengthen communication, and make learning and appreciation part of team culture.
Why Is John Foley Right for Your Audience?
John is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, operational meetings, and company gatherings. Consider him when your audience needs an energetic message about accountability and working together under pressure.
Book John when your audience needs to:
- Build trust before high-pressure moments
- Clarify standards for coordinated execution
- Strengthen personal accountability
- Use candid reviews to improve performance
- Make appreciation part of team culture
- Maintain a commitment to continuous learning
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the relationship between trust and execution
- Ready to examine their contribution to team reliability
- More aware of the role of gratitude in leadership
- Equipped with ideas for more useful performance reviews
- Motivated to raise a specific daily standard
Keynote Programs
Elevating Mindset
John connects gratitude with accountability and improvement. Ideal for broad employee and sales audiences.
Creating a Culture of Excellence
John shares lessons from the Blue Angels about standards and learning. Ideal for leadership and operational teams.
High Trust, High Execution
John explores trust and clear communication in demanding environments. Ideal for teams whose success depends on precision and coordination.
Is John Foley Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the standards and teamwork your event should reinforce. We can help select John’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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Vinh Giang: Award-Winning Magician | Entrepreneur | Speaker on Communication and Influence
Why Book Vinh Giang?
The magic draws people in; the lesson gives them something to use. Vinh connects performance with practical ideas about voice, body language, perspective, and influence. His sessions give audiences a chance to examine how they communicate and leave with renewed confidence to make a stronger connection.
Why Is Vinh Giang Right for Your Audience?
Vinh is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, company meetings, and events that need an engaging opening or closing keynote. He is especially valuable when a team wants to strengthen communication while giving attendees an experience they will remember and discuss afterward.
Book Vinh when your audience needs to:
- Communicate with more confidence and presence
- Build stronger connections with colleagues and clients
- Recognize how voice and body language affect a message
- Challenge assumptions that limit new ideas
- Influence others with greater intention
- Learn practical skills through an interactive experience
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More aware of how their communication style affects others
- Ready to use voice and body language more deliberately
- Better able to adapt their approach to different people
- Encouraged to question the perspective they bring to a challenge
- Motivated to practise the communication skills that build relationships
Keynote Programs
The Leader’s Instrument – Amplify the Best Parts of You
Vinh invites audiences to treat their ability to communicate as an instrument they can learn to use more effectively. He explores verbal and nonverbal skills, communication styles, and the confidence needed to connect with others. Ideal for leaders and teams whose success depends on strong relationships.
The Psychology of Illusion
Through magic and storytelling, Vinh shows how perspective, influence, and beliefs shape what people see as possible. He encourages audiences to rethink assumptions, collaborate, and take deliberate action toward their goals. Ideal for broad conference audiences seeking an entertaining message about mindset and change.
Creating Communication Magic — Breakout Session
This interactive session gives participants more time to work on how they speak and connect. Vinh explores techniques for greater clarity, confidence, and presence in everyday conversations. Ideal as a companion to a keynote for teams that want to practise the ideas together.
Is Vinh Giang Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the communication skills you want to strengthen, and the experience you want the event to create. We can help select Vinh’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.
Amanda Gore
CEO of The Joy Project, Communication & Performance Expert, Author and Huffington Post Columnist
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Amanda Gore: Hall of Fame Speaker | Communication Expert | Speaker on Leadership, Connection and Workplace Culture
Why Book Amanda Gore?
Amanda encourages people to notice the effect of their everyday behavior. Her message gives leaders and employees a shared reason to pay more attention to listening, appreciation, and the ways they respond to colleagues and customers.
Why Is Amanda Gore Right for Your Audience?
Amanda is a strong fit for company conferences, leadership meetings, sales events, and customer service gatherings. Consider her when you want an energetic session that gets people involved in a conversation about culture and relationships.
Book Amanda when your audience needs to:
- Strengthen connection between colleagues
- Recognize the impact of everyday communication
- Make appreciation more visible
- Bring greater awareness to customer interactions
- Support a more constructive workplace atmosphere
- Take ownership of how they treat others
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- More aware of the feelings their behavior creates
- Ready to listen and respond more thoughtfully
- Equipped with ideas for expressing appreciation
- Clearer on how connection supports teamwork
- Motivated to improve one everyday interaction
Keynote Programs
JQ – Joy Intelligence
Amanda explores the role of joy and emotional awareness in how people lead and work together. Ideal for leadership and broad employee audiences.
The Science of Joy
Amanda invites audiences to consider habits and interactions that support a more positive working environment. Ideal for company meetings seeking an engaging discussion about workplace culture.
The Connected Team
Amanda focuses on communication and relationships within a team. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger trust, participation, and connection.
Is Amanda Gore Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the relationships and workplace behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Amanda’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.
Suneel Gupta
Keynote Speaker & Expert on Connecting Well-Being & Performance, Bestselling Author, Healthcare Entrepreneur
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Suneel Gupta: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, High Performance & Wellbeing | Bestselling Author | Harvard Medical School Faculty | Entrepreneur
Perform at Your Best—Without Burning Out
How do you sustain high performance when the pace of work never seems to slow down?
Suneel Gupta is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and sought-after keynote speaker on leadership, performance and wellbeing who helps people bring greater energy, focus and resilience to their work—without sacrificing their wellbeing.
Why Book Suneel Gupta?
Suneel addresses one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: how to maintain high performance when people are stretched, distracted and increasingly exhausted.
Rather than asking people to simply work harder, Suneel shows them how to manage their energy, reconnect with purpose and build sustainable habits that improve both performance and wellbeing.
His warm, engaging style combines research, storytelling and highly practical ideas, creating a keynote experience that inspires audiences while giving them clear strategies they can put into action.
What Makes Suneel Gupta Different?
- Performance without burnout — a timely message for today's demanding workplace
- Research-backed strategies — practical ideas grounded in behavioral science and real-world experience
- Immediately actionable — tools audiences can begin using right away
- Engaging storyteller — combines business insights, personal stories and memorable examples
- Relevant across organizations — ideal for leaders, teams and high-performance cultures
- Customizable — Suneel can connect his message directly to your organization's priorities
Why Is Suneel Right for Your Audience?
Suneel is an excellent choice when you want your audience to leave energized, focused and equipped to perform at a higher level without running themselves into the ground.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, healthcare events, association conferences and organizations navigating demanding periods of growth or change.
Book Suneel when your audience needs to:
- Sustain energy in a high-pressure environment
- Improve focus and overcome distraction
- Build resilience without accepting burnout
- Reconnect daily work with a stronger sense of purpose
- Create healthier approaches to high performance
- Strengthen engagement and motivation
- Turn good intentions into consistent action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better able to manage their energy throughout demanding days
- Equipped with practical strategies for sustainable high performance
- More focused on the work that matters most
- Better prepared to recognize and address burnout
- Ready to build habits that support performance and wellbeing
- Inspired to bring greater purpose and momentum to their work
Suneel Gupta Keynote Programs
Momentum: How to Sustain High Performance: What if the secret to getting more done isn't managing your time—but managing your energy?
Suneel challenges traditional ideas about productivity and shows audiences how to build the energy and momentum needed to perform consistently. Drawing from his bestselling work, he shares practical techniques for overcoming exhaustion, improving focus and sustaining performance.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings and high-performance teams.
Everyday Dharma: Finding Purpose in What You Do: Purpose doesn't have to mean changing careers. It can mean changing the way you approach the work you're already doing.
Suneel helps audiences reconnect who they are with what they do. He shares practical strategies for discovering greater meaning in everyday work and using that sense of purpose to strengthen motivation, resilience and performance.
Ideal for: Leadership, culture, employee engagement, transformation and workplace wellbeing events.
Wellbeing Is the New Leadership Advantage
Today's leaders face a difficult challenge: delivering ambitious results while creating an environment where people can continue performing at their best.
Suneel explores how leaders can create the conditions for sustainable performance by paying closer attention to energy, purpose, resilience and human connection.
Ideal for: Executive audiences, leadership meetings, healthcare organizations and organizations focused on culture and employee performance.
Why Book Suneel Gupta Through The Sweeney Agency?
Choosing the right keynote speaker is about more than finding an impressive name. The speaker needs to connect with your audience, understand your objectives and deliver a message that supports what you want people to do differently after the event.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Suneel Gupta's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Suneel Gupta keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Suneel with other leading leadership, performance and wellbeing speakers
Is Suneel Gupta Right for Your Event?
Tell us what your people are facing—and what you want them to think, feel or do differently after the keynote.
We'll help you determine whether Suneel is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, corporate meeting or sales kickoff? Contact The Sweeney Agency today to discuss booking Suneel Gupta as your keynote speaker.
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Kristen Hadeed: Founder of Student Maid | Author of Permission to Screw Up | Speaker on Human Leadership, Trust and Workplace Culture
Why Book Kristen Hadeed?
Kristen brings openness to a subject that can feel intimidating. Her presentations encourage leaders to acknowledge what they do not know, take responsibility for their impact, and make room for the humanity of the people they lead.
Why Is Kristen Hadeed Right for Your Audience?
Kristen is a strong fit for leadership conferences, manager development, company meetings, and culture initiatives. Consider her when an organization wants more candid feedback and a stronger sense of trust between leaders and employees.
Book Kristen when your audience needs to:
- Build trust through greater openness
- Deliver feedback with clarity and care
- Respond constructively to mistakes
- Develop confidence in difficult conversations
- Strengthen connection between managers and employees
- Take responsibility for their leadership impact
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on what human leadership can look like in practice
- Ready to approach a difficult conversation more thoughtfully
- More aware of how their behavior affects trust
- Equipped with ideas for giving and receiving feedback
- Focused on a relationship they can strengthen
Keynote Programs
Ignite Human Leadership
Kristen explores how leaders can build a culture that values people and supports growth. Ideal for leadership events and organizations reconsidering their approach to management.
Courageous Conversations
Kristen focuses on delivering and accepting feedback in ways that build trust. Ideal for managers and teams seeking clearer communication and more productive working relationships.
Is Kristen Hadeed Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the leadership relationships and conversations you want to improve. We can help select Kristen’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.