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Each speaker will be vetted with YOUR event in mind, along with our personal thoughts on how that speaker can inspire your attendees.

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We work with you to find the best format for your presentation, including live streams, Q&A sessions and even follow up programs to ensure maximum engagement for your key stakeholders.

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Dan Buettner: Blue Zones Founder | National Geographic Fellow | Speaker on Longevity, Happiness and Wellbeing

Why Book Dan Buettner?

His presentations bring movement, food, social connection and purpose into a broader conversation about healthy environments. Dan offers event planners an engaging way to introduce wellbeing and community design, with photography and stories that make the subject accessible.

Why Is Dan Buettner Right for Your Audience?

Dan is a strong fit for employee wellbeing events, healthcare conferences, community leadership meetings and association programs. Consider him when your audience wants to explore how surroundings and routines can support healthier, more connected lives.

Book Dan when your audience needs to:

• Examine how environments influence daily choices
• Explore wellbeing beyond individual willpower
• Understand the importance of social connection
• Consider purpose as part of everyday wellbeing
• Discuss healthier communities and workplaces
• Bring a broader perspective to happiness and longevity

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of the daily habits discussed in Blue Zones research
• Ready to examine their home and workplace environments
• Clearer on the role of relationships and purpose
• Equipped with questions for improving community wellbeing
• Inspired to make healthier routines easier to maintain

Keynote Programs

Blue Zones: Secrets of a Long Life
Dan shares observations from long-lived populations and introduces the common lifestyle patterns described in his Blue Zones work. Ideal for broad wellbeing and healthcare audiences.

The Blue Zones of Happiness
Dan explores how daily experience, life satisfaction and purpose shape happiness. Ideal for employee, association and community audiences.

The Making of a Healthy City
Dan discusses how community design can make healthier choices easier, drawing on Blue Zones projects. Ideal for civic, healthcare and organizational leaders.

Is Dan Buettner Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, your wellbeing priorities and the changes you want the event to encourage. We can help select Dan’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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Virtual Events can:

1. Reach a wider audience
2. Offer a great experience at a much lower cost
3. Create long term impact with recorded elements that allow for content to be watched over a period of time
4. Have an increased impact over time, as viewers re-watch, discuss and connect over social media and other channels

And, most importantly: offer the ability for inspiring and impactful presentations to connect in a one-on-one way, directly to the attendee.

WHO is your audience?

Who are your virtual event attendees? Are they across a specific group within your organization, or are you serving clients across a wide range of levels? Determining who you are speaking to will help you determine a format for your event that will captivate your audience.

WHAT is your key message?

Are you focusing on change? Innovation? Leadership?

Creating a single focus or mission will allow you to hone in on the type of speaker(s) you need to engage your audience and help event producers to format the event into a dynamic program that balances inspiration with information and audience interaction.

WHAT type of event suits your audience?

• Virtual Conference
• Webinar
• Hybrid Event

Virtual event technology has come a long way over the last few months, offering a huge range of different options from pre-recorded webinars, to multi-day virtual conferences, to hybrid events with some attendees in the audience while the event is live streamed.

OUR ADVICE

A COMBINATION of live and pre-recorded elements will allow your virtual event to run smoothly and stay on time.

Many of our clients are also opting for multi-day virtual conferences with shorter segments spaced over a few days.

This allows some flexibility for attendees in different time zones and accommodates different teleworking situations for attendees, allowing them to tune in when it is convenient.

WHERE? It’s all about Tech.

Virtual meeting technology has exploded over the last few months as teleworking became the norm.

Consider your needs:

• Interactive elements like breakout rooms, polls & Q&A
• Seamless blend of live & pre-recorded elements
• Ability to replay segments
• Live tech support

If you plan for rain, it’s likely the sun will shine…

Tech isn’t perfect so don’t forget to test, rehearse and have a back up plan ready to go for your virtual event.

Pro Tip: Think of a virtual presentation like a podcast. Viewers can view the content multiple times and refer back to it.

  WHEN? A Date… or Dates?

As we have all noticed, our attention spans for meeting in real life versus meeting online are a lot longer.

When deciding on a date, consider spreading your virtual event out over a few days, with a variety of speakers, interactive elements and information.

The benefits of a multi-day format:

• Viewers watch content fresh for a short period every day
• Allows attendees in different time zones to stay on top of the content
• Attendees can review & re-engage with content

Virtual Event Checklist:

Is your event?

• Interactive?
• Informative?
• Able to be rewatched?

WHY? Pandemic 2020

Just because you are online instead of in person, it doesn’t mean you are missing out on connection.

Using the technology that we have become so accustomed to over the last few months, our keynote speakers have the ability to connect to your viewers one-on-one, in a way that was impossible in live events.

FIND YOUR WHY…

What do you want the audience to leave thinking at the end of the presentation?

Apply this question to all the presentations and segments in your event to create a cohesive, impactful virtual event.

  HOW? Virtual Event Checklist

To wrap it all up

• TECH: Find the right tech platform & don’t forget to test drive before your event
• AGENDA: Use a mix of live and pre-recorded segments, mixed with interactive elements, to ensure a smooth flow of events & audience engagement
• ANTICIPATION: Build up your event with emails, teasers and sneak peeks into what content will be offered
• NETWORKING: Create and encourage online chat functions, an event specific hashtag or even a dedicated event page to allow attendees to network virtually. Maximize the networking opportunities offered by your tech platform.
• EXTEND YOUR IMPACT: A dedicated social media page is a great place for attendees to connect after an event to discuss ideas and implement some of the learnings from the event.

Offer a password protected, limited time recording of keynote presentations to continue the conversation long after the virtual event has ended.

Continue the conversation with post-event touch points like emails or questions based on the key presentations.

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Andy Core: Author of Change Your Day, Not Your Life | Speaker on Adaptability, Resilience and Performance Under Pressure

Why Book Andy Core?

His interactive presentations combine stories, humor and practical exercises. Andy gives teams a way to examine how they respond to pressure, communicate through change and build patterns that support both performance and wellbeing.

Why Is Andy Core Right for Your Audience?

Andy is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, leadership meetings, employee events and organizations facing busy seasons or change. Consider him when your audience needs practical ideas for maintaining energy and improving its response to pressure.

Book Andy when your audience needs to:

• Respond to change with greater flexibility
• Stay focused during demanding periods
• Improve communication when pressure rises
• Build routines that support sustainable performance
• Connect everyday actions with personal purpose
• Strengthen resilience and motivation

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of their response to pressure
• Ready to identify routines that support better performance
• Equipped with ideas for more constructive communication
• Clearer on how adaptability supports team effectiveness
• Prepared to make manageable changes to their day

Keynote Programs

Smooth Is Fast: The Psychology of High-Performance Under Pressure
Andy explores how people can stay composed, make decisions and work effectively through demanding periods. Ideal for leadership, healthcare and employee audiences.

The Transformational Communicator
Andy introduces communication frameworks for building clarity and buy-in during change. Ideal for managers and team leaders.

Change Your Day, Not Your Life
Andy shares ideas for making daily patterns support performance and wellbeing. Ideal for broad employee and professional development audiences.

Is Andy Core Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the pressures it faces and the daily behaviors you want to improve. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Andy’s availability and fee.

Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

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.

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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.

Dr. Heidi Hanna: Author of Stressaholic and Recharge | Stress and Performance Educator | Speaker on Energy Management and Resilience

Why Book Dr. Heidi Hanna?

Heidi’s presentations combine explanations with practical reflection on habits, attention, and responses to demanding situations. She encourages people to create a realistic recharge practice and consider how an organization’s working environment supports or drains its people.

Why Is Dr. Heidi Hanna Right for Your Audience?

Heidi is a strong fit for employee wellbeing programs, leadership conferences, healthcare meetings, and company events. Consider her when your audience needs a useful discussion about managing energy and responding more deliberately to ongoing demands.

Book Heidi when your audience needs to:

• Recognize habits that affect their daily energy
• Respond more thoughtfully to stressful moments
• Build recovery into demanding workdays
• Examine the impact of workplace expectations
• Use humor and connection constructively
• Develop a realistic personal recharge routine

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of their patterns of stress and recovery
• Ready to identify an achievable recharge practice
• Clearer on the importance of managing energy
• Equipped with ideas for pausing before reacting
• Focused on a small change to their daily routine

Keynote Programs

Recharge Your Brain and Your Business

Heidi explores practical shifts for managing energy and creating a recharge routine. Ideal for busy professionals and leadership audiences.

The Cure for Stress

Heidi presents her framework for understanding and responding to stress. Ideal for organizations seeking an engaging educational session about pressure and recovery.

Beyond Funny

Heidi explores humor as part of everyday connection and a personal stress toolkit. Ideal for broad employee and wellbeing audiences.

Is Dr. Heidi Hanna Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the daily demands your audience faces and the habits you want the event to encourage. We can help select Heidi’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.

Chris Johnson: Founder of On Target Living | Author of REST EAT MOVE | Speaker on Wellbeing, Energy and Everyday Performance

Why Book Chris Johnson?

Chris Johnson helps audiences look at the everyday habits that influence how they feel and work. Founder of On Target Living and author of REST EAT MOVE, he brings experience developing wellness programs for individuals and organizations.

Chris organizes his message around rest, food, and movement. His presentations make wellbeing a practical conversation about routines people can review and improve, especially when demanding schedules leave little time to consider their own needs.

Why Is Chris Johnson Right for Your Audience?

Chris is a strong fit for employee wellbeing events, leadership meetings, association conferences, and company gatherings. Consider him when people need accessible ideas for building more sustainable routines.

Book Chris when your audience needs to:

• Pay more attention to rest and recovery
• Review habits around food and movement
• Make wellbeing part of everyday planning
• Identify manageable changes to busy routines
• Discuss energy and capacity more openly
• Take a more intentional approach to personal wellbeing

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the rest, eat, and move framework
• Ready to review a habit in their own routine
• More aware of how daily choices affect their experience
• Equipped to set a realistic wellbeing goal
• Focused on consistent changes they can maintain

Keynote Programs

Presentations can be tailored around the following areas:

Rest, Eat, Move

Chris explores the three areas at the center of his approach. Ideal for employee audiences seeking practical ways to reconsider everyday wellbeing.

Energy and Everyday Wellbeing

Chris connects personal routines with the demands people face at work. Ideal for leaders and teams looking for a more sustainable approach to busy days.

Is Chris Johnson Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the wellbeing priorities you want to address and the everyday habits you want people to reconsider. We can help select Chris’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.

Dr. Daniel Kraft: Physician and Scientist | Healthcare Futurist | Speaker on Technology, Innovation and the Future of Medicine

Why Book Dr. Daniel Kraft?

Daniel brings developments from across the innovation landscape into one conversation. His presentations help leaders consider where technologies may intersect, what questions adoption raises, and how their organizations can prepare to evaluate new possibilities.

Why Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Audience?

Daniel is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, life sciences meetings, health technology events, and executive strategy programs. Consider him when an audience needs a broader view of innovation beyond its own specialty.

Book Daniel when your audience needs to:

• Understand developments across health technology
• Connect emerging tools with organizational questions
• Consider opportunities in connected care
• Evaluate assumptions about technology adoption
• Discuss the role of data and artificial intelligence
• Prepare for changes in healthcare delivery

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on technologies influencing healthcare
• Ready to ask more useful adoption questions
• More aware of connections across innovation areas
• Equipped to discuss opportunities within their organization
• Focused on a development worth investigating further

Keynote Programs

The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?

Daniel explores converging technologies and their potential implications for healthcare. Ideal for clinicians, industry leaders, and organizations planning for changes in care and health innovation.

Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the healthcare questions your audience faces and the innovations it needs to understand. We can help select Daniel’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.

Dr. Janet Lapp: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Resilience | Psychologist | Author | Workplace Transformation Expert

Change Your Thinking. Change What's Possible: When change is constant, how do you keep people positive, adaptable and focused on moving forward?

Combining behavioral science, powerful storytelling, humor and practical strategies, Janet helps people rethink how they respond to uncertainty. Her high-energy presentations show audiences how to move beyond resistance, take ownership of their response and approach change with greater confidence and optimism.

Why Book Dr. Janet Lapp?

Janet understands that successful change isn't just about strategy. It's about people.

Even the best transformation plan can struggle when employees feel overwhelmed, uncertain or resistant to what's happening around them. Janet helps audiences understand the attitudes and behaviors that can hold them back—and what they can do differently.

Her presentations are positive, energetic and practical, giving audiences tools to shift their thinking, increase adaptability and become active participants in creating what's next.

What Makes Janet Lapp Different?

• Psychology-based approach — helps audiences understand the human response to change
• Change expertise — extensive experience helping organizations navigate transformation
• High-energy delivery — engaging, optimistic and entertaining on stage
• Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can use right away
• Personal accountability — encourages people to focus on what they can influence
• Broad audience appeal — relevant to leaders, managers and employees
• Global perspective — a message designed to connect across industries and cultures

Why Is Janet Right for Your Audience?

Janet is an excellent choice when your organization needs people to move beyond resistance, become more adaptable and take greater ownership of change.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, association events and organizations experiencing transformation, restructuring, growth or cultural change.

Book Janet when your audience needs to:

• Adapt more positively to organizational change
• Build resilience during uncertainty
• Move beyond negativity and resistance
• Take greater ownership of their response to change
• Maintain energy and performance during disruption
• Develop a more adaptable mindset
• Improve attitudes toward new initiatives
• See opportunities within changing circumstances

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to respond positively to change
• More aware of how mindset influences behavior and performance
• Equipped with practical strategies for navigating uncertainty
• Ready to focus energy on what they can control and influence
• More resilient when circumstances don't go according to plan
• Motivated to take greater personal responsibility
• Prepared to become active participants in organizational change

Dr. Janet Lapp Keynote Programs

Dancing With Tigers: How to Embrace Change and Thrive. Change can feel threatening—but it can also create extraordinary opportunities for growth.

Janet helps audiences understand why people resist change and how they can consciously choose a more productive response.

Using psychology, humor and practical strategies, she shows people how to move beyond fear and uncertainty, become more adaptable and approach changing circumstances with greater confidence.

Ideal for: Organizational transformation, corporate meetings, leadership conferences and organizations navigating significant change.

The Psychology of Change: Organizations don't change until people do.

Janet explores the attitudes, behaviors and thought patterns that influence how individuals respond to disruption.

Audiences learn how to recognize unproductive reactions, shift their mindset and take greater ownership of their role in creating successful change.

Ideal for: Leadership, culture, transformation and employee-engagement events.

Leading Positively Through Change: During uncertainty, people look to their leaders for more than information—they look for confidence, clarity and direction.

Janet gives leaders practical strategies for helping teams remain focused, optimistic and productive when circumstances are changing.

Leaders learn how their own attitudes and behaviors can influence engagement, resilience and the willingness of others to move forward.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development and organizations undergoing transformation.

Why Book Dr. Janet Lapp Through The Sweeney Agency?

Janet Lapp's combination of psychology, energy and practical change strategies makes her particularly effective for organizations navigating transformation—but the right fit depends on what your people are experiencing and what you need them to do differently.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Dr. Janet Lapp's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Janet Lapp keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's change initiative
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Janet with other leading change, leadership and resilience speakers

Is Janet Lapp Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's changing in your organization—and how you want your people to respond.

We'll help you determine whether Janet 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. Janet Lapp as your keynote speaker.

Dr. Natalie Stavas: Pediatrician | Boston Marathon First Responder | Speaker on Courage, Service and Acting Under Pressure

Why Book Dr. Natalie Stavas?

A pediatrician whose work includes vulnerable children, Natalie connects that experience with a broader commitment to service. Her presentation invites audiences to consider what it means to move toward a difficult situation and use the skills they have to make a difference.

Why Is Dr. Natalie Stavas Right for Your Audience?

Natalie is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, leadership events, community programs, and company gatherings. Consider her when an audience needs a memorable conversation about courage, purpose, and responsibility.

Book Natalie when your audience needs to:

• Recognize opportunities to help in difficult moments
• Connect professional skills with personal purpose
• Consider how preparation supports action
• Reflect on their response to uncertainty
• Strengthen commitment to the people they serve
• Take a useful step when circumstances feel overwhelming

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of their capacity to contribute
• Ready to reflect on a decision that requires courage
• Clearer on the connection between service and purpose
• Encouraged to use their strengths for others
• Focused on a practical way to respond to a challenge

Keynote Programs

Running Towards Chaos

Natalie shares her Boston Marathon experience and the philosophy of moving toward challenges with purpose. Ideal for healthcare, leadership, and inspirational events.

Is Dr. Natalie Stavas Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges your audience faces and the commitment to service you want to reinforce. We can help select Natalie’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.