Women Speakers
From the boardroom to the firehall, and from the stage to the sky, these women keynote speakers rank among the very best in the world. Speaking on topics ranging from leadership to resilience, their powerful experiences, compelling stories, and practical insights will captivate your audience from start to finish. Explore our carefully curated list of Women Keynote Speakers for 2026.
Mariana Atencio
Peabody Award-winning Journalist, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, Inspiring Storyteller, and Host/Moderator
About
Mariana Atencio: Peabody Award-Winning Journalist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Trust, Authenticity and Communication
Build Trust by Showing Up as Yourself
Mariana Atencio brings a journalist’s instinct for finding the human story to that question. The author of Perfectly You helps leaders and teams communicate with greater authenticity, build trust, and recognize the strength in what makes each person different. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Mariana Atencio?
Mariana combines the energy of a compelling storyteller with experience reporting, interviewing, and speaking to diverse audiences. She connects her own journey with challenges people face at work: finding their voice, communicating through uncertainty, and building relationships across differences.
Her keynotes give audiences practical ways to communicate with clarity and empathy. For leaders, that can help create the trust people need to collaborate and contribute their best work.
What Makes Mariana Different?
- A journalist’s experience telling stories that connect people
- A personal message about authenticity grounded in her own journey
- Practical communication lessons for leaders and teams
- An interactive, energetic style that invites audience reflection
- Versatility as a keynote speaker, host, and moderator
Why Is Mariana Right for Your Audience?
Mariana is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, women’s programs, and organizations working to strengthen communication or culture. She is especially valuable when an audience needs both an inspiring story and a reason to examine how it builds trust day to day.
Book Mariana when your audience needs to:
- Communicate more credibly during uncertainty
- Build trust across teams and with customers
- Lead with authenticity and empathy
- Value individual differences as a source of strength
- Speak up with greater confidence
- Strengthen connection and belonging at work
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- More aware of how authenticity affects trust
- Ready to communicate with greater clarity and empathy
- Better able to recognize and use their own strengths
- More confident sharing ideas and stories that matter
- Motivated to create stronger connections with colleagues
Keynote Programs
Real Matters: Building Trust in an Unreal World
Mariana explores why genuine communication matters when employees and customers are surrounded by polished narratives and AI-generated messages. She gives leaders ways to build credibility, strengthen connection, and guide teams through uncertainty.
Perfectly You: Leveraging the Power Within
Drawing on her book and personal story, Mariana shows audiences how embracing what makes them different can strengthen confidence, resilience, and purpose. Ideal for employee events and women’s leadership programs.
Communicating Confidently: Cut Through the Noise and Get Heard
In this interactive keynote or breakout, Mariana shares techniques for distilling a message, speaking with confidence, and connecting across in-person and digital settings. Ideal for leaders and client-facing teams. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us whether your audience most needs to build trust, find its voice, or communicate more effectively. We’ll help you choose the right program, discuss customization, and confirm Mariana’s availability and current fee.
Is Mariana Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, where trust or communication needs to improve, and what you want people to do differently. We’ll help you assess Mariana’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Barb Betts
Sought-after keynote speaker, CEO and relentless advocate for building businesses rooted in relationships
About
Barb Betts: Human Connection Expert | Author of The Relationship Advantage | Speaker on Trust-Based Sales and Leadership
Make Relationships Your Business Advantage
Barb Betts helps leaders and sales professionals turn genuine connection into stronger trust, loyalty, referrals, and collaboration. Drawing on more than two decades in sales and leadership, she gives audiences practical ways to build relationships before they need them—and keep those relationships strong over time.
Why Book Barb Betts?
Barb makes an essential business idea actionable: people are more likely to work with, recommend, and follow those they trust. She shows audiences how consistent communication, curiosity, and follow-through can strengthen relationships with customers and colleagues.
Her message draws on the business she built through relationships and on the methods she now teaches. It is particularly useful for organizations that want more than a motivational reminder to “connect with people.”
What Makes Barb Different?
- More than 20 years of experience in sales, business building, and leadership
- A repeatable approach to building relationships, including her 5x5 Method
- Practical relevance for sales results, client loyalty, and team culture
- Personal stories that make authenticity and confidence easier to discuss
- An energetic presentation style focused on actions audiences can use
Why Is Barb Right for Your Audience?
Barb is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, association events, and programs focused on customer experience or workplace culture. She is especially valuable when an organization wants to improve how its people earn trust in everyday interactions.
Book Barb when your audience needs to:
- Build relationships that lead to referrals and repeat business
- Earn trust through more intentional communication
- Strengthen client loyalty and retention
- Lead teams through connection and credibility
- Show up with greater confidence and authenticity
- Preserve human connection as technology changes how people work
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Ready to take practical steps to strengthen important relationships
- Better able to make clients and colleagues feel seen and understood
- Clearer on how trust grows through consistency and follow-through
- Equipped to approach sales conversations with more curiosity
- Motivated to turn connection into a daily business practice
Keynote Programs
The Relationship Advantage
Barb explains how intentional, trust-based relationships can create stronger leadership, client loyalty, referrals, and long-term growth. Ideal for audiences whose success depends on working well with people.
Unstoppable Sales Success
Barb shows sales teams how authentic connection helps them earn trust, deepen client relationships, and generate repeat business and referrals. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing professionals.
The Relationship That Changes Everything
Barb addresses the self-doubt that can make authentic connection difficult. She helps audiences build confidence in who they are and bring that confidence to sales, leadership, and everyday interactions. Ideal for women’s leadership and personal development events.
The Connected Leader
Barb shows leaders how everyday communication and consistent actions build credibility and help people feel valued. Ideal for management conferences and organizations seeking stronger team engagement.
Human Connection in the Age of AI
Barb explores how leaders and teams can use technology while protecting the empathy, trust, and personal relationships that sustain loyalty and growth. Ideal for organizations adapting their customer or employee experience.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us where stronger relationships would make the greatest difference for your audience: sales, leadership, client loyalty, or culture. We can help select the right keynote, discuss customization, and confirm Barb’s availability and current fee.
Is Barb Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the relationships it needs to strengthen, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Barb’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].
Quinn Conyers
Renowned Women in Leadership Keynote Speaker, Professional Event Emcee, and Corporate Communications Trainer
About
Quinn Conyers: Verbal Branding Strategist | Conference Emcee and TEDx Speaker | Speaker on Communication, Visibility and Business Growth
Why Book Quinn Conyers?
Her energetic presentations focus on making business conversations more effective. Quinn is particularly relevant when an audience has expertise but struggles to explain it compellingly, whether speaking to a potential client, partner or larger audience.
Why Is Quinn Conyers Right for Your Audience?
Quinn is a strong fit for entrepreneurship conferences, women’s leadership events, sales meetings and association programs. Consider her when your audience needs to sharpen its message and become more confident in conversations that influence business opportunities.
Book Quinn when your audience needs to:
- Explain their value in clear language
- Communicate their capabilities with confidence
- Make business conversations more purposeful
- Strengthen their verbal brand
- Stand out in a crowded market
- Connect expertise with the needs of potential clients
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how to describe the value they offer
- Ready to examine language that weakens their message
- More confident introducing their work and capabilities
- Equipped with ideas for improving client conversations
- Prepared to communicate more intentionally
Keynote Programs
Turn Conversations into Clients
Quinn explores how professionals can verbalize their value and make business conversations more compelling. Ideal for entrepreneurs, founders and revenue-generating teams.
Conference Emcee and Strategic Event Host
Quinn can also serve as the host who connects sessions, engages attendees and maintains the event’s momentum. This is an event-hosting format rather than a keynote program.
Is Quinn Conyers Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations it needs to improve and whether you need a keynote, event host or both. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Quinn’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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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.
Carly Fiorina
First Women CEO of a Fortune 50 company, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Effective Leadership
About
Carly Fiorina: Former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard | Author | Speaker on Leadership and Problem-Solving
Why Book Carly Fiorina?
Carly draws on her career to examine how people influence outcomes regardless of title. Her presentations encourage leaders to listen to those closest to a problem, clarify what needs to change, and develop the people who can help change it.
Why Is Carly Fiorina Right for Your Audience?
Carly is a strong fit for executive forums, leadership conferences, women’s events, and strategy meetings. Consider her when your organization wants a substantive discussion of leadership responsibility and developing others.
Book Carly when your audience needs to:
- Approach complex problems with greater clarity
- Recognize leadership potential throughout the organization
- Listen to people closest to the work
- Strengthen accountability for meaningful progress
- Develop others through challenging assignments
- Lead through change with a clear purpose
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on leadership as a responsibility beyond title
- Ready to ask better questions about persistent problems
- More aware of untapped potential in colleagues
- Better prepared to connect decisions with execution
- Focused on a problem they can help solve
Keynote Programs
From Secretary to CEO: A Transformative Story of Leadership
Carly shares lessons from her career about solving problems and developing people. Ideal for broad leadership and professional development audiences.
Building a High-Performance Culture: Lessons Learned from a High-Profile Assignment
Carly examines the leadership challenges of major organizational change. Ideal for executives and managers responsible for culture and execution.
Is Carly Fiorina Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, leadership goals and the problems your organization needs to solve. We can help select Carly’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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Laura Gassner Otting: Author of Limitless and Wonderhell | Former Executive Recruiter | Speaker on Ambition, Leadership and Purpose
Why Book Laura Gassner Otting?
Laura’s presentations explore the tension between achievement, uncertainty, and the desire for more meaningful work. She encourages audiences to examine limits they have accepted and make more deliberate choices about their impact.
Why Is Laura Gassner Otting Right for Your Audience?
Laura is a strong fit for leadership conferences, professional development programs, company events, and talent meetings. Consider her when your people need to reconnect ambition with purpose or prepare for a new stage of growth.
Book Laura when your audience needs to:
- Question assumptions about what success should look like
- Connect strengths with meaningful work
- Build confidence to pursue a larger contribution
- Develop leadership that supports other people’s potential
- Respond constructively to uncertainty after achievement
- Make more deliberate career and performance choices
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on their own definition of success
- Ready to examine self-imposed limits
- More aware of what connects them to their work
- Equipped with questions for a next career or leadership step
- Focused on a practical choice that advances meaningful progress
Keynote Programs
Limitless
Laura explores aligning work, strengths, and personal priorities. Ideal for broad employee and professional development audiences.
Limitless Leadership
Laura focuses on leadership that helps people recognize and use their potential. Ideal for managers and executives.
Is Laura Gassner Otting Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the growth or engagement challenges your people are experiencing. We can help select Laura’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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Mandy Gill: Author of Reset with Resilience | Ultra-Endurance Athlete | Speaker on Resilience, Habits and Change
Why Book Mandy Gill?
Mandy’s presentations encourage people to treat setbacks as moments requiring a useful response. She focuses on practical ways to restart, adapt, and keep moving toward priorities when motivation or certainty is limited.
Why Is Mandy Gill Right for Your Audience?
Mandy is a strong fit for leadership meetings, sales conferences, company events, and transformation programs. Consider her when your audience needs a practical conversation about restarting after setbacks and staying effective through change.
Book Mandy when your audience needs to:
- Regain momentum after an unexpected setback
- Build habits that support consistent effort
- Adapt when goals or priorities change
- Maintain focus when motivation drops
- Choose useful actions under pressure
- Strengthen personal responsibility for progress
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how they can approach a reset
- Ready to identify a next step after disruption
- More aware of habits that support consistency
- Equipped with ideas for adapting to changing conditions
- Motivated to reconnect daily action with a meaningful goal
Keynote Programs
Reset with Resilience
Mandy explores restarting after setbacks and rebuilding forward momentum. Ideal for teams navigating disappointment or disruption.
The Resilience Advantage
Mandy focuses on leading yourself and others through ongoing change. Ideal for managers and organizations adapting to shifting expectations.
Is Mandy Gill Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the setbacks or changes your people need to work through. We can help select Mandy’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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Nikki Greenberg: Futurist and Innovation Strategist | Founder of Women in PropTech | Speaker on AI and the Future of Real Estate
Why Book Nikki Greenberg?
Nikki is especially compelling where technology meets the physical world. She helps audiences consider how changing expectations will affect the places people live, work, and visit. Her presentations give event planners a way to open a useful conversation about investment, innovation, and long-term priorities.
Why Is Nikki Greenberg Right for Your Audience?
Nikki is a strong fit for real estate conferences, construction and infrastructure events, urban planning forums, and executive meetings. She is particularly relevant when an organization wants to explore future possibilities and agree on where to focus its attention next.
Book Nikki when your audience needs to:
- Explore how technology could change its industry
- Reconsider assumptions about future customers and communities
- Connect innovation with business and property decisions
- Think beyond the next project or planning cycle
- Identify questions to guide a technology investment
- Build a shared direction for future initiatives
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- With a broader perspective on the changes ahead
- Ready to question assumptions in existing plans
- Better prepared to discuss technology with colleagues
- Clearer on the people their future investments should serve
- Motivated to identify a practical next step
Keynote Programs
Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry
Nikki examines AI, generational change, and workplace evolution, with a framework for moving ideas into action. Ideal for leadership and industry conferences.
The World in 2050: Preparing Cities for Future Generations
Nikki explores how demographic shifts and technology could reshape cities. Ideal for public sector, infrastructure, and urban development audiences.
Today to 2050: Creating the Future of Real Estate
Nikki considers how AI, automation, and changing demand will influence property development and use. Ideal for real estate investors, developers, and property leaders.
Introduction to AI: Eliminate Your Busywork — Workshop
This hands-on session introduces practical uses of AI tools for everyday tasks. Available as a keynote add-on for teams seeking a more applied learning experience.
Is Nikki Greenberg Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes affecting your industry, and the decisions you want people to think about differently. We can help select Nikki’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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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.
Heather Hansen
Keynote Speaker on Leadership & Sales, Best-selling Author & Award-winning Trial Lawyer
About
Heather Hansen: Trial Lawyer | Author of The Elegant Warrior | Speaker on Communication, Advocacy and Influence
Why Book Heather Hansen?
Heather brings the tools of an advocate into workplace conversations. Her presentations help audiences consider the evidence behind their message, understand another person’s perspective, and speak with greater confidence when the outcome matters.
Why Is Heather Hansen Right for Your Audience?
Heather is a strong fit for sales meetings, leadership conferences, healthcare events, and women’s leadership programs. Consider her when your audience needs to explain its value, influence decisions, or handle challenging conversations more effectively.
Book Heather when your audience needs to:
- Advocate for ideas with greater clarity
- Build credibility through evidence and preparation
- Listen for the perspective behind an objection
- Communicate with compassion under pressure
- Speak more confidently about their contribution
- Support colleagues in making their voices heard
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the relationship between credibility and influence
- Ready to prepare a stronger case for an idea
- More aware of opportunities to listen and connect
- Equipped with an advocacy framework for workplace conversations
- Focused on a message they can communicate more effectively
Keynote Programs
The Compassionate Charisma™ Formula
Heather connects compassion, credibility, and charisma with persuasive communication. Ideal for leaders, sales teams, healthcare professionals, and customer-facing audiences.
The Elegant Warrior
Heather focuses on helping women advocate for their ideas, teams, and opportunities. Ideal for women’s leadership programs and professional development events.
Is Heather Hansen Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to handle and the ideas they need to communicate. We can help select Heather’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.
Katty Kay
Senior Editor and Executive Producer, OZY Media; Award-winning Journalist & Former BBC America Lead Anchor; and Bestselling Author
About
Katty Kay: BBC Studios U.S. Special Correspondent | Bestselling Co-Author of The Confidence Code | Speaker on Global Affairs and Confidence
Why Book Katty Kay?
Katty also helps women build confidence and act on their ambitions. As co-author of The Confidence Code and The Power Code, she draws on research, interviews, and her own experience to explore what holds people back—and how they can move forward. Her range makes her a compelling keynote speaker and an experienced moderator for important conversations.
Why Is Katty Kay Right for Your Audience?
Katty is a strong fit for executive meetings, association conferences, client events, and women’s leadership programs. Choose her political analysis when your audience needs perspective on a changing world, or her confidence program when the goal is to encourage professional growth and action.
Book Katty when your audience needs to:
- Understand developments in Washington and their wider implications
- Put global events into a clearer context
- Examine the forces changing international relationships
- Build confidence to speak up and pursue opportunities
- Move beyond perfectionism and fear of failure
- Engage in a thoughtful discussion with leaders or expert panelists
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Better informed about the political developments relevant to their work
- Ready to ask more useful questions about global change
- Clearer on how confidence develops through action
- More willing to take thoughtful risks and learn from setbacks
- Equipped with fresh perspectives for leadership and career decisions
Keynote Programs
Decoding DC
Katty examines developments in Washington, helping audiences understand policy shifts and their potential significance. Ideal for executive, business, and association audiences.
A World in Flux
Katty explores geopolitical tensions, shifting international influence, and pressures on democracies. Ideal for leaders seeking a broader perspective on global affairs.
The Confidence Code
Drawing on her bestselling work with Claire Shipman, Katty explores self-doubt, risk-taking, and the relationship between confidence and action. Ideal for women’s leadership and professional development events.
Moderator, Discussion Leader & Interviewer
Katty brings her journalistic preparation and interviewing experience to panels, executive conversations, and fireside chats. Ideal for events that need a skilled host to draw out relevant insights and keep the discussion engaging.
Is Katty Kay Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the questions you want explored, and the outcome you want from the session. We can help select a relevant keynote or discussion format, discuss customization, and confirm Katty’s availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Siri Lindley
Best-selling Author, Two-time World Champion Triathlete, Inspiring Keynote Speaker
About
Siri Lindley: World Champion Triathlete | Coach and Author | Speaker on Confidence, Resilience and Purpose
Why Book Siri Lindley?
Siri brings an energetic, personal approach to the conversation. Her message encourages people to consider what matters to them, how fear shapes their decisions, and who can support them as they work toward a meaningful goal.
Why Is Siri Lindley Right for Your Audience?
Siri is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee gatherings, sales events, and women’s leadership programs. Consider her when an audience needs encouragement to act with greater purpose and self-belief.
Book Siri when your audience needs to:
- Clarify the purpose behind personal goals
- Recognize how fear influences decisions
- Build more supportive working relationships
- Approach setbacks with greater perspective
- Strengthen commitment to meaningful actions
- Make choices that reflect their values
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on what they want to move toward
- Ready to take a step they have postponed
- More aware of the support around them
- Encouraged to reconsider a limiting belief
- Focused on actions that express their priorities
Keynote Programs
Ready to Run?
Siri explores confidence, commitment, and pursuing a meaningful direction. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed motivation and purpose.
Unshakeable
Siri shares perspectives on navigating adversity and building resilience. Ideal for teams facing uncertainty or demanding change.
Is Siri Lindley Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the challenges your audience faces and the confidence or sense of purpose you want to strengthen. We can help select Siri’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.
Chaunte’ Lowe
Motivational Olympic Medalist, American Record Holder, and TEDx Speaker on Helping Your Group Navigate This Challenging Climate
About
Chaunté Lowe: Four-Time Olympian | American High Jump Record Holder | Speaker on Resilience and Overcoming Adversity
Why Book Chaunté Lowe?
Chaunté gives audiences a personal story they will remember and practical ways to think about resilience. She connects individual determination with the support people give one another when a team or community faces a challenge.
Why Is Chaunté Lowe Right for Your Audience?
Chaunté is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, team events, women’s programs, and health-related gatherings. She is especially valuable when an audience needs encouragement to face a difficult period and take purposeful steps forward.
Book Chaunté when your audience needs to:
- Rebuild confidence after setbacks
- Develop a more resilient response to change
- Strengthen collaboration and mutual support
- See obstacles as opportunities to learn and adapt
- Draw motivation from a story of athletic and personal perseverance
- Leave ready to act on an important goal
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Inspired by Chaunté’s journey through elite sport and serious illness
- Better able to identify a constructive next step after a setback
- More aware of the role support and community play in resilience
- Ready to approach challenges with greater confidence
- Motivated to keep pursuing meaningful goals when plans change
Keynote Programs
A Champion’s Mindset: From Adversity to Triumph
Chaunté draws on her journey as an Olympian and cancer survivor to explore how people can respond to obstacles and pursue growth. Ideal for broad conference and company audiences seeking inspiration with practical application.
Building Boundless Resilience™ for Teams
Chaunté focuses on the relationships, communication, and shared strength that help teams through difficult periods. Ideal for leadership conferences and team events where collaboration matters.
Resilient Leadership
Chaunté challenges leaders to respond to setbacks with perspective and help others move forward. Ideal for executive and management audiences navigating uncertainty or organizational change.
The Journey Forward: From Surviving to Thriving
Chaunté shares her experience with breast cancer and the role hope played in her journey. Ideal for health conferences, fundraising events, and communities supporting patients and survivors.
Is Chaunté Lowe Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the challenge it is facing, and what you want people to feel or do after the event. We can help select Chaunté’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Martha McSally
First Woman to Command a U.S. Fighter Squadron, Former U.S. Senator, Resilience & Leadership Speaker, & Author
About
Martha E. McSally: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Resilience & High Performance | First American Woman to Fly a U.S. Air Force Fighter Jet in Combat | Retired Colonel | Former U.S. Senator
Be Unbreakable. Lead Yourself First. How do you lead with courage, clarity and confidence when the pressure keeps rising?
During her 26-year Air Force career, Martha became the first American woman to fly a U.S. Air Force fighter jet in combat and the first woman to command a fighter squadron in combat. She flew 325 combat hours and earned the Bronze Star and six Air Medals.
Today, Martha translates those extraordinary experiences into practical strategies that help leaders become more resilient, make better decisions under pressure and move forward when circumstances are uncertain.
Why Book Martha McSally?
Martha doesn't teach leadership from theory. She learned it when hesitation, poor communication and bad decisions had real consequences.
Her experiences span the cockpit, military command, Congress, the U.S. Senate and corporate boardrooms—giving her a distinctive perspective on what happens to leaders and teams when the pressure rises.
At the heart of her message is a simple idea: lead yourself first.
Through her WEDGE Framework, Martha gives audiences a practical process for understanding how they respond under pressure, removing what holds them back, gaining clarity about where they're going and taking decisive action.
What Makes Martha McSally Different?
- Historic fighter pilot — first American woman to fly a U.S. Air Force fighter jet in combat
- Combat-tested leadership — 325 combat hours during a 26-year Air Force career
- Command experience — first woman to command a U.S. fighter squadron in combat
- Leadership under pressure — lessons developed where decisions had immediate consequences
- WEDGE Framework — a practical approach to self-leadership and execution
- Extraordinary resilience — a powerful personal story of overcoming barriers and adversity
- Senior leadership perspective — experience spanning military command, government and corporate boards
- Practical delivery — gives audiences tools they can apply immediately
Why Is Martha Right for Your Audience?
Martha is an outstanding choice when you need leaders to stay grounded under pressure, navigate uncertainty and take decisive action instead of becoming reactive.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, women's leadership events, corporate conferences and organizations navigating significant change or growth.
Book Martha when your audience needs to:
- Lead more confidently under pressure
- Make faster, clearer decisions
- Navigate uncertainty and constant change
- Build greater resilience
- Strengthen trust across teams
- Communicate more directly
- Remove barriers that slow execution
- Turn adversity into forward momentum
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Better equipped to lead themselves before leading others
- More aware of how they respond under pressure
- Able to identify behaviors that may be holding them back
- Better prepared to make decisions during uncertainty
- Understanding how trust influences team performance
- More confident navigating adversity and change
- Ready to take focused, courageous action
Martha McSally Keynote Programs
Be Unbreakable: The Leadership Edge in Uncertain Times. When the stakes rise, even strong leaders can hesitate, overanalyze and become reactive.
Martha shows leaders how to remain clear, courageous and decisive when uncertainty and pressure increase.
Using her WEDGE Framework, she helps audiences examine how they lead themselves, identify patterns that emerge under pressure, remove unnecessary drag and execute with greater focus.
Ideal for: Executive leadership teams, C-suite audiences, leadership conferences and organizations navigating change or growth.
Be Unbreakable: The High-Trust Team Advantage. Talent alone doesn't create high-performing teams. Trust does.
Drawing on her experiences flying combat missions and commanding a fighter squadron, Martha demonstrates why communication, alignment, accountability and trust become even more important when the pressure is high.
She shows leaders how to identify friction, break through silos and create teams capable of moving quickly and confidently toward a shared mission.
Ideal for: Leadership offsites, cross-functional teams, culture initiatives and organizations navigating growth or transition.
Be Unbreakable: The Courage to Rise and Get Stronger From Life's Hits. Resilience isn't about avoiding adversity. It's about what you do next.
Martha shares lessons from a life marked by significant obstacles, setbacks and barrier-breaking achievements.
Using her WEDGE Framework, she gives audiences a practical approach for facing fear, navigating adversity and continuing to move forward even when the path ahead isn't clear.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, women's leadership events, corporate meetings and organizations navigating significant change.
Why Book Martha McSally Through The Sweeney Agency?
Martha McSally combines extraordinary leadership credibility, combat-tested experience and a practical framework for performing under pressure—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons directly to the challenges your leaders are facing.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Martha McSally's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Martha McSally keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your leadership and business objectives
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Martha with other leading leadership, resilience and high-performance speakers
Is Martha McSally Right for Your Event?
Tell us where your leaders are feeling the most pressure—and what you need them to do differently as a result.
We'll help you determine whether Martha is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, executive meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Martha E. McSally as your keynote speaker.
April Rinne
Global Authority on the New Economy, Future of Work, and Navigating Constant Change, Humanistic Futurist
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April Rinne: Author of Flux | Change Navigator and Futurist | Speaker on Adaptability and Navigating Uncertainty
Why Book April Rinne?
April encourages audiences to examine the assumptions they carry into unfamiliar circumstances. Her presentations offer a way to discuss adaptability as an ongoing practice, helping people identify what they can reconsider when the future does not follow a predictable path.
Why Is April Rinne Right for Your Audience?
April is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, strategy retreats, and organizations navigating transition. Consider her when people need a more open, intentional approach to uncertainty.
Book April when your audience needs to:
- Reconsider expectations about constant change
- Build greater comfort with not having every answer
- Question assumptions about a predictable future
- Approach unfamiliar circumstances with curiosity
- Discuss adaptability more openly
- Identify a practical response to uncertainty
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on their own relationship with change
- Ready to examine an assumption that limits adaptability
- More aware of choices available in uncertain conditions
- Equipped with questions for navigating a transition
- Focused on a practice they can develop over time
Keynote Programs
Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
April explores practices for approaching an uncertain world with greater adaptability. Ideal for leaders and teams working through ongoing change in their organizations and careers.
Is April Rinne Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the transitions your audience faces and the adaptability you want it to develop. We can help select April’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
About
Crystal Washington: Futurist and Technology Strategist | Author | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work
Why Book Crystal Washington?
Crystal connects future thinking with practical opportunities. Her presentations encourage audiences to look at how they work, identify useful applications, and approach change with more curiosity and less uncertainty.
Why Is Crystal Washington Right for Your Audience?
Crystal is a strong fit for leadership conferences, association meetings, sales events, and employee programs. Consider her when an audience needs an accessible way to explore AI and changing workplace technology.
Book Crystal when your audience needs to:
- Understand emerging tools without technical overload
- Identify AI applications relevant to their work
- Review assumptions about future skills
- Explore practical opportunities for innovation
- Build confidence approaching digital change
- Connect technology use with a clear business need
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a technology development that affects their role
- Ready to explore a useful AI application
- More aware of the importance of continued learning
- Equipped with questions about adoption
- Focused on a manageable step toward greater preparedness
Keynote Programs
Future-Proof Yourself
Crystal explores ways to recognize opportunities and adapt during continuing change. Ideal for broad employee and professional audiences.
Generative AI for Leaders
Crystal examines the implications and practical possibilities of generative AI for leadership. Ideal for executives and managers planning adoption.
Is Crystal Washington Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the technology changes your audience needs to understand and the practical applications you want to explore. We can help select Crystal’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.
Heather R. Younger
Founder & CEO Employee Fanatix, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Workplace Culture
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Heather taps into her own personal and professional experiences as well as stories of strength and perseverance to share empowering proven tools for resetting the resilience of every attendee.
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Audiences learn the three steps to strengthening resilience & reframe adversity to unlock new mindsets for empowerment and positive self-worth.
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Heather is the founder and CEO of Employee Fanatix, an International TEDx speaker on Adversity, Leadership Podcast Host, Business Coach, Facilitator and Attorney, who has earned a reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”. She holds a law degree, is a regular contributor to "Forbes" and "LinkedIn" and is the best-selling author of The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty
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Past clients include: Harvard Business Review Brasil, FirstBank, Salas O'Brien, Stark Aerospace, and Colorado Bankers Association.
Heather R. Younger, J.D., CSP, is a leadership and workplace culture keynote speaker, four-time bestselling author, and creator of the C.A.R.E. framework for Unshakable LeadershipTM. Named an Inc. Top 50 Leadership and Management Expert and a Thinkers50 Radar Thought Leader, she helps organizations build leaders and cultures strong enough to handle what's next.
With more than 20 years leading teams through reorgs, mergers, acquisitions, and technology shifts, Heather knows what it takes to stay grounded when the pressure won't let up. Her research includes analysis of 40,000+ employee survey comments and 350+ leader interviews, grounding her work in what people actually experience, not just what looks good on paper.
She is the author of The Art of Active Listening, The Art of Caring Leadership, The Art of Self-Leadership, and the forthcoming book The Unshakable Team, and she hosts the podcast Becoming Unshakable. Her clients include United Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, the CDC, Prudential, DuPont, and Xerox.