Shawn Achor: Bestselling Author of The Happiness Advantage | Positive Psychology Researcher | Speaker on Happiness, Resilience and Performance

Why Book Shawn Achor?

Shawn combines humor and storytelling with ideas audiences can explore in their daily routines. His message encourages people to build habits that support a more constructive outlook, recognize the importance of social connection, and consider how their behavior influences others.

Why Is Shawn Achor Right for Your Audience?

Shawn is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, company meetings, and employee engagement events. Consider him when an organization wants renewed energy and a practical discussion of mindset during demanding times.

Book Shawn when your audience needs to:

• Reconsider the belief that happiness must wait until a goal is achieved
• Bring a more constructive outlook to everyday challenges
• Strengthen relationships with colleagues
• Recognize small actions that support positive change
• Build confidence in their ability to contribute
• Connect individual habits with the wider team experience

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the relationship between mindset and performance
• Introduced to practical positive psychology habits
• More aware of the role of social support
• Ready to examine how their behavior affects colleagues
• Focused on a small action they can practice consistently

Keynote Programs

The Happiness Advantage

Shawn explores how cultivating a positive mindset can support performance and resilience. He introduces research and practical applications for approaching work differently. Ideal for leadership, sales, and broad employee audiences.

The Ripple Effect

Shawn examines how small changes in individual behavior can influence a team and help people move from awareness to action. Ideal for change, culture, and employee engagement events.

Resilient Optimism

Shawn explores ways to strengthen confidence in the value of individual action during uncertainty. Ideal for leaders and teams facing sustained challenges or transitions.

Is Shawn Achor Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges your people face, and the energy you want them to bring to their work. We can help select Shawn’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.

Jon Acuff: New York Times Bestselling Author | Leadership Speaker | Expert on Goals, Overthinking and Change

Turn Good Intentions into Finished Work

Jon Acuff makes those habits easier to recognize and change. The author of Soundtracks, Finish, and All It Takes Is a Goal brings humour, relatable stories, and practical tools to audiences that want to adapt to change and follow through. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Jon Acuff?

Jon takes challenges that can feel personal—self-doubt, perfectionism, and procrastination—and shows how they affect team performance. He gives people useful language for the thoughts that slow them down and simple ways to take action.

For organizations asking people to embrace change or meet ambitious goals, Jon delivers an upbeat keynote with a practical next step.

What Makes Jon Different?

• Humour and storytelling that make difficult habits easy to recognize
• A clear framework for changing patterns of overthinking
• Practical ideas audiences can apply to their work
• A message that connects individual habits to team results
• Programs focused on mindset, change, and finishing goals

Why Is Jon Right for Your Audience?

Jon is a strong fit for leadership meetings, company conferences, sales kickoffs, and teams navigating change. He is especially valuable when people know what they need to accomplish but need help getting past hesitation, distraction, or the pressure to do everything perfectly.

Book Jon when your audience needs to:

• Stop overthinking and start taking useful action
• Navigate change with greater curiosity and confidence
• Turn ambitious goals into consistent progress
• Reduce the drag of perfectionism and procrastination
• Build a shared language for more productive thinking
• Finish important work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Able to spot recurring thoughts that hold them back
• Equipped to replace those thoughts with ones that support action
• More confident about taking the next step amid uncertainty
• Ready to make visible progress toward their goals
• Motivated to follow through on work that matters to their team

Keynote Programs

Soundtracks

Jon shows teams how to recognize repetitive thoughts that fuel overthinking, replace them with more useful ones, and reinforce new habits. Ideal for change, productivity, and performance events.

The AI Mindset

When AI changes faster than a team can plan for it, fear and overthinking can stall progress. Jon applies his Soundtracks framework to help audiences approach AI with curiosity and a mindset ready for change.

From Start to Finish

Jon explores why capable people leave goals incomplete and how to build the habits that help them finish. Ideal for sales teams, leadership conferences, and organizations focused on execution. The Sweeney Agency

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what is slowing your team down and what you want them to accomplish after the event. We can help you choose Jon’s most relevant program, discuss the format, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Jon Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the goals in front of them, and the obstacles to making progress. We’ll help you assess Jon’s 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: 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.

David Allen: Creator of Getting Things Done® | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Productivity, Focus and Managing Commitments

Why Book David Allen?

His approach gives people a practical way to reduce mental clutter and make clearer decisions about what to do next. Drawing on decades of developing and teaching GTD®, David connects everyday habits with the space people need for focused work, creative thinking and a greater sense of control.

Why Is David Allen Right for Your Audience?

David is a strong fit for leadership meetings, professional development events, association conferences and company gatherings. He is particularly relevant when people are juggling multiple projects, responding to constant incoming requests or struggling to keep track of everything they have agreed to do.

Book David when your audience needs to:

• Manage competing commitments with greater clarity
• Turn vague tasks into specific next actions
• Build a reliable system for tracking work
• Reduce the distraction of unfinished obligations
• Review projects and priorities more consistently
• Create more room for focused and creative thinking

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Familiar with the five GTD® steps: capture, clarify, organize, reflect and engage
• Better able to define the next action on a project
• Ready to move reminders out of their heads and into a trusted system
• Clearer on why regular review supports effective decisions
• Equipped with practical habits they can begin applying at work and at home

Keynote Programs

Getting Things Done®
David introduces the principles behind his approach to productivity, explaining how people can organize commitments and choose their next actions with greater confidence. Ideal for audiences seeking practical ways to handle demanding workloads and maintain focus.

The presentation can provide a starting point for audiences new to GTD® or a deeper discussion of its principles for those familiar with the method. Tell us whether your priority is managing incoming work, clarifying projects or strengthening review habits so we can discuss the most relevant focus for your event.

Is David Allen Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the demands on its attention and the working habits you want people to improve. We can help discuss the presentation’s focus and format, and confirm David’s availability and fee.

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

Scott Anthony: Innovation and Disruption Expert | Dartmouth Tuck Professor | Author of Epic Disruptions

Turn Disruption into a Path Forward

Scott Anthony helps organizations work through both. A clinical professor of strategy at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and a longtime advisor at Innosight, he brings research, business examples, and practical tools to the challenges of innovation, transformation, and growth. Tuck School of Business

Why Book Scott Anthony?

Scott gives leaders a way to act when the future is uncertain. He shows how to test assumptions, explore new opportunities, and make progress before every answer is known.

His keynotes are particularly useful for teams facing shifts in customer needs, technology, or competition. Scott connects innovation to strategic choices, leadership behaviour, and the systems needed to move ideas forward.

What Makes Scott Different?

• Experience spanning academic research and practical strategy work
• A clear view of how disruption unfolds
• Frameworks for strengthening today’s business while creating future growth
• Practical approaches to experimentation and innovation culture
• Insight relevant to executives making decisions under uncertainty

Why Is Scott Right for Your Audience?

Scott is a strong fit for executive conferences, board and leadership meetings, innovation events, and organizations planning a major transformation. He is especially valuable when leaders agree change is necessary but need a shared language and a more concrete path forward.

Book Scott when your audience needs to:

• Understand the forces reshaping its industry
• Make strategic decisions with incomplete information
• Strengthen the core business while exploring new growth
• Move promising ideas from discussion to testing
• Address the leadership and cultural side of transformation
• Build a more consistent approach to innovation

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to recognize patterns of disruptive change
• Clearer on the assumptions behind their current strategy
• Equipped to discuss future opportunities without waiting for certainty
• Ready to use experimentation to learn what works
• More confident leading teams through ambiguity and change

Keynote Programs

Decoding the Epic Disruptions That Shaped Our Modern World

Drawing on Epic Disruptions, Scott uses stories from past innovations to show how major change unfolds and what those patterns can teach leaders facing disruption today. Ideal for strategy, innovation, and future-focused events.

Lead Through the Fog of Uncertainty with Optimism

Scott gives leaders practical ways to work through ambiguity, question old assumptions, and identify opportunity amid competing demands. Ideal for executive teams and organizations navigating transformation.

The Myths and Realities of Building a Culture of Innovation

Scott examines the systems and leadership habits that help innovation happen consistently. Audiences consider how to remove obstacles, support experimentation, and connect new ideas to results. Ideal for leadership and companywide innovation events. The Sweeney Agency

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us where growth is slowing, what is changing in your market, and what you want your audience to do differently. We’ll help you assess which of Scott’s topics fits your event, discuss customization, and check his availability and current fee.

Is Scott Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its biggest strategic challenge, and the decisions the event should help move forward. We’ll help you assess Scott’s fit and plan the next step.

To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].

Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour:  Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Courage & High Performance | America’s First Black Female Combat Pilot | Former U.S. Marine | Author

Break Through Barriers. Take the Gutsy Move. What could your people accomplish if they stopped letting fear, uncertainty and obstacles determine what was possible?

As America’s first Black female combat pilot, Vernice knows what it takes to break through barriers, perform under pressure and take decisive action when the stakes are high. Her dynamic keynotes challenge audiences to move beyond excuses, embrace bold action and develop the mindset needed to accomplish ambitious goals.

Why Book Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour?

Vernice doesn't simply talk about courage and performance. She has lived them in one of the world's most demanding environments.

From breaking barriers in military aviation to flying combat missions, Vernice learned that success requires more than talent. It requires preparation, confidence, teamwork and the willingness to act when circumstances are uncertain.

She translates those lessons into a powerful business message that helps audiences move from thinking about what they should do to actually doing it.

Her combination of extraordinary stories, practical strategies and contagious energy makes Vernice especially effective when you want to energize a room and inspire immediate action.

What Makes Vernice Different?

• Barrier-breaking combat pilot — America's first Black female combat pilot
• Battle-tested leadership — lessons developed in demanding, high-pressure environments
• High-energy delivery — brings exceptional enthusiasm and presence to the stage
• Action-oriented message — challenges audiences to move from ideas to execution
• Powerful business relevance — connects aviation lessons to leadership, sales and performance
• Courage under pressure — helps people act confidently despite fear and uncertainty
• Broad audience appeal — connects with executives, leaders, sales teams and employees
• Memorable storytelling — combines inspiration, humor and practical lessons

Why Is Vernice Right for Your Audience?

Vernice is an outstanding choice when you need your audience to raise their energy, take greater ownership and act more decisively.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings, women's leadership events and organizations pursuing ambitious growth or transformation.

Book Vernice when your audience needs to:

• Take bold action instead of waiting for perfect conditions
• Break through barriers and limiting beliefs
• Perform confidently under pressure
• Strengthen accountability and personal ownership
• Turn strategy into execution
• Navigate uncertainty with courage
• Build stronger teamwork and trust
• Raise expectations for what's possible

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More confident taking action despite uncertainty
• Better prepared to push through obstacles and setbacks
• Understanding why courage is essential to leadership
• More willing to take ownership of results
• Equipped with a stronger mindset for high-pressure situations
• Ready to turn intentions into action
• Energized to make their own “gutsy moves”

Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour Keynote Programs

Get Gutsy: Make the Gutsy Move. What happens when you stop waiting for circumstances to be perfect and start taking action?

Vernice challenges audiences to identify the barriers standing between where they are and where they want to go—and then make the courageous moves necessary to break through them.

Drawing from her experiences as a combat pilot, she shows how preparation, mindset and decisive action can help people move forward even when uncertainty is high.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, transformation events and organizations pursuing ambitious goals.

Zero to Breakthrough. Breakthrough performance starts when people take ownership of creating a different result.

Vernice helps audiences move beyond excuses, obstacles and limiting assumptions and focus on the actions that can move them forward.

Her message encourages people to clarify their goals, identify what's holding them back and take practical steps toward achieving meaningful results.

Ideal for: Sales kickoffs, high-performance teams, leadership meetings and organizations focused on execution.

Leading From the Cockpit. When the pressure rises, leadership becomes visible.

Drawing on lessons from military aviation, Vernice explores how effective leaders build trust, communicate clearly, make decisions and keep teams focused on the mission.

She translates the discipline and teamwork of the cockpit into practical leadership lessons audiences can apply in their own organizations.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, teamwork and high-performance audiences.

Is Vernice Armour Right for Your Event?

Tell us the breakthrough you need your people to make—and what's standing in their way.

We'll help you determine whether Vernice is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.

To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].

Dr. Robert Ballard: Ocean Explorer Best Known for Discovering the Titanic | Founder of Ocean Exploration Trust | Speaker on Discovery, Innovation and Human Achievement

Why Book Dr. Robert Ballard?

As founder of Ocean Exploration Trust and a pioneer in deep-sea exploration technology, Robert connects remarkable discoveries with the work that makes them possible. His presentations use striking imagery and personal accounts to explore the importance of asking questions, learning from setbacks and bringing people together around a challenging mission.

Why Is Dr. Robert Ballard Right for Your Audience?

Robert is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation events, association meetings and educational programs. His story offers an engaging starting point for organizations that want to encourage curiosity, broaden perspectives and inspire people to pursue ambitious goals.

Book Robert when your audience needs to:

• Approach unfamiliar challenges with curiosity
• See new possibilities through exploration and technology
• Persist when progress is difficult
• Recognize the teamwork behind major achievements
• Connect preparation with ambitious goals
• Rediscover the excitement of learning and discovery

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Inspired by the possibilities of exploration
• More willing to question familiar assumptions
• Ready to view setbacks as opportunities to learn
• More aware of how expertise and technology work together
• Motivated to pursue meaningful goals with persistence

Keynote Programs

Adventures in Deep Sea Exploration: Living the Dream
Robert shares personal accounts and imagery from his exploration career, connecting discovery with curiosity and perseverance. Ideal for audiences seeking inspiration to explore new possibilities and pursue ambitious goals.

Science, Exploration and the Miracles of Human Achievement
Robert examines the discoveries and collaborative effort behind extraordinary achievements beneath the sea. Ideal for leadership, innovation and teamwork audiences.

Human History Underwater
Robert explores how shipwrecks and underwater archaeology reveal stories about our past. Ideal for audiences interested in history, science and the technologies that make discovery possible.

Is Dr. Robert Ballard Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the ideas you want to spark and the challenges you want people to approach with renewed energy. We can help select Robert’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.

Lisa Bodell:  Keynote Speaker on Simplification, Innovation & Leadership | Founder & CEO of FutureThink | Bestselling Author of Why Simple Wins

Simplify Work. Unlock Better Thinking. What could your people accomplish if they stopped wasting time on unnecessary work and focused their energy on what actually matters?

Lisa helps organizations eliminate the complexity, bureaucracy and low-value work that prevent people from thinking, leading and innovating at their best. Her message is provocative, practical and immediately actionable: stop adding more—and start removing what gets in the way.

Why Book Lisa Bodell?

Lisa doesn't just inspire people to work differently. She gives them practical tools to actually do it.

Her keynotes challenge one of the biggest problems facing organizations today: people are overwhelmed by meetings, processes, approvals and unnecessary complexity while leaders simultaneously ask them to innovate, move faster and accomplish more.

Lisa shows audiences how to create capacity by eliminating low-value work, simplifying decision-making and giving people more space to think.

The result is a keynote that can change not just how your audience thinks—but how they work the very next day.

What Makes Lisa Bodell Different?

• Founder & CEO of FutureThink — helping organizations simplify and innovate since 2003
• Bestselling author — author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company
• Simplification expert — helps organizations eliminate unnecessary complexity
• Innovation authority — teaches people how to challenge assumptions and think differently
• Highly interactive — incorporates audience participation and live exercises
• Immediately actionable — audiences leave with tools they can actually use
• Human-centered AI perspective — focuses on strengthening the capabilities technology can't replace
• Extensive corporate experience — has worked with leading organizations around the world

Why Is Lisa Right for Your Audience?

Lisa is an outstanding choice when your people are overwhelmed, moving too slowly or spending too much time on work that doesn't create enough value.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation summits, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating AI-driven change.

Book Lisa when your audience needs to:

• Eliminate unnecessary complexity
• Create more time for meaningful work
• Make decisions faster
• Reduce bureaucracy and low-value processes
• Give leaders more capacity to actually lead
• Challenge outdated assumptions
• Strengthen innovation and creative problem-solving
• Determine where humans add the greatest value in an AI-enabled workplace

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Identifying unnecessary work they can stop doing
• Better equipped to simplify meetings, processes and decision-making
• Understanding how complexity can undermine innovation
• More willing to challenge outdated rules and assumptions
• Equipped with practical tools they can apply immediately
• Better prepared to create space for higher-value work
• Thinking differently about leadership in an AI-enabled workplace
• Ready to simplify how work gets done

Lisa Bodell Keynote Programs

Unleash the Power of Simple: Eliminate Complexity, Reclaim Control, and Win in the Age of AI

Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to eliminate unnecessary complexity before using AI to accelerate the way work gets done. Drawing on more than 25 years of global experience and examples from organizations including Netflix, AT&T, and Pfizer, she shares practical tools for reducing noise, improving focus, and creating simpler ways of working. Attendees learn why AI can amplify broken processes rather than fix them—and how simplification can create the conditions for greater speed, innovation, and performance. Ideal for organizations navigating AI adoption, transformation, and increasing workplace complexity.

Let Leaders Lead: It’s Time to Fix What’s Broken

Lisa examines why leadership has become unnecessarily difficult and what organizations can do to change it. She challenges systems that ask leaders to move quickly while burdening them with excessive process, competing expectations, and unclear authority. Through practical tools and real-world examples, Lisa shows how leaders can replace complexity with clarity, establish stronger boundaries, make better decisions, and balance empathy with accountability. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations that want to improve execution, engagement, and performance.

Igniting Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led

Lisa explores how organizations can use AI to strengthen rather than replace the human thinking that drives innovation. She shows audiences how curiosity, judgment, and creative problem-solving can be combined with AI to challenge assumptions, explore possibilities, and make better decisions. Through interactive exercises and ideas from Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, participants learn practical ways to question the status quo and approach change more boldly. Ideal for innovation conferences, transformation initiatives, and teams exploring how AI can support more creative and effective work.

Why Book Lisa Bodell Through The Sweeney Agency?

Lisa Bodell combines provocative thinking with practical tools audiences can use immediately—but the real value comes from identifying where complexity is getting in the way of your organization's performance.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Lisa Bodell's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Lisa Bodell keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's challenges
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Lisa with other leading innovation, change and leadership speakers

Is Lisa Bodell Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's slowing your people down—and what you want them spending more time doing instead.

We'll help you determine whether Lisa is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.

Planning a leadership conference, innovation summit or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Lisa Bodell as your keynote speaker.

Dr. Travis Bradberry: Bestselling Author | Emotional Intelligence Expert | Speaker on Leadership and Performance

Make Emotional Intelligence a Daily Skill

Dr. Travis Bradberry helps audiences develop emotional intelligence they can use in real situations. Co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and author of The New Emotional Intelligence, he translates psychology into practical ways to improve self-awareness, manage reactions, read a room, and work more effectively with others.

Why Book Dr. Travis Bradberry?

Travis gives leaders and teams a clear path from understanding emotional intelligence to practicing it. Rather than treating EQ as a fixed trait, he shows how people can strengthen specific skills through attention and repeated action.

His message is especially useful for organizations where difficult conversations, rapid change, or the pressures of leadership make it important to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting automatically.

What Makes Travis Different?

• Co-author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• Author of The New Emotional Intelligence
• A background in clinical and industrial-organizational psychology
• Experience helping organizations apply EQ to workplace behavior
• Practical strategies organized around four core emotional intelligence skills

Why Is Travis Right for Your Audience?

Travis is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management development programs, HR events, and company meetings. He is particularly relevant when people need better communication and judgment in demanding situations.

Book Travis when your audience needs to:

• Recognize emotional triggers before they shape a response
• Stay more composed during pressure or uncertainty
• Understand how others experience their communication
• Handle difficult conversations with greater awareness
• Strengthen trust and working relationships
• Apply EQ skills to everyday leadership decisions

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the four core skills of emotional intelligence
• Better able to notice how emotions affect behavior at work
• Equipped with steps for improving self-management
• More attentive to the needs and reactions of others
• Ready to practice EQ in conversations and team interactions

Keynote Programs

Emotional Intelligence 2.0: Taking Your Game to the Next Level

Travis explains what EQ is, why it matters at work, and how people can develop it through a step-by-step process. Ideal for leadership audiences and teams seeking a practical introduction to emotional intelligence.

Potential Focus: The New Emotional Intelligence

Drawing on his newer book, Travis can explore self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, with attention to the habits that strengthen each skill. Ask us about shaping this focus for your audience.

Potential Focus: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Change

For leadership events, the discussion can focus on how managers use EQ when giving feedback, responding to pressure, and guiding people through change. Ask us about tailoring the session to your organization’s challenges.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us where stronger emotional intelligence would help your audience most: leadership, communication, change, or team relationships. We can discuss the right focus and format, then confirm Travis’s availability and current fee.

Is Travis Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the situations its members find challenging, and what you want them to handle differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Travis’s fit and plan the next step.

To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected]

Peter Bregman: Founder and CEO of Bregman Partners | Bestselling Author and Executive Coach | Speaker on Leadership, Emotional Courage and Accountability

Why Book Peter Bregman?

The author of 18 Minutes and Leading with Emotional Courage, Peter gives audiences practical ways to address difficult conversations, competing priorities and follow-through. His presentations combine stories and exercises with guidance people can apply to their own leadership challenges.

Why Is Peter Bregman Right for Your Audience?

Peter is a strong fit for executive retreats, leadership conferences, manager meetings and company events focused on accountability. He is especially relevant when leaders need to communicate more directly, help others develop or concentrate effort on their most important work.

Book Peter when your audience needs to:

• Address difficult conversations more confidently
• Strengthen accountability and follow-through
• Focus on priorities that matter
• Help colleagues make sustainable changes
• Build commitment across leadership teams
• Act with greater courage during uncertainty

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role of emotional courage in leadership
• Equipped with ideas for more productive conversations
• Better able to recognize distractions from important work
• Ready to support others’ development more deliberately
• Motivated to turn priorities into consistent action

Keynote Programs

Leading with Emotional Courage
Peter explores how leaders can speak up, address difficult issues and create accountability while staying connected to others. Ideal for executives and managers seeking more effective leadership behavior.

You CAN Change Other People
Peter introduces a four-step approach to helping others make meaningful changes. Ideal for leaders and coaches seeking more constructive ways to support performance and development.

18 Minutes
Peter shares practices for focusing attention, managing distraction and following through on priorities. Ideal for audiences seeking greater discipline in how they use their time and energy.

Is Peter Bregman Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen and the work you need people to prioritize. We can help select Peter’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.

Les Brown: Motivational Speaker | Author of Live Your Dreams | Speaker on Achievement, Resilience and Personal Potential

Why Book Les Brown?

His storytelling, humor and energetic delivery make personal achievement a compelling event experience. For an organization asking people to raise their standards or regain momentum, Les brings a message about persistence, possibility and the choices that move goals forward.

Why Is Les Brown Right for Your Audience?

Les is a strong fit for sales rallies, company conferences, association meetings and personal development events. Consider him when your audience needs an emotional lift alongside a clear challenge to take action.

Book Les when your audience needs to:

• Reconnect with meaningful personal and professional goals
• Build confidence after setbacks
• Challenge assumptions about what is possible
• Take responsibility for the next step
• Strengthen persistence when progress is difficult
• Bring renewed energy to ambitious goals

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More willing to pursue goals they have postponed
• Encouraged to question limiting beliefs
• Ready to approach setbacks with greater persistence
• Clearer on the role of effort and personal commitment
• Motivated to turn inspiration into action

Keynote Programs

You’ve Got to Be Hungry
Les explores the drive required to pursue ambitious goals, using his own experiences to make persistence and initiative memorable. Ideal for sales and achievement-focused events.

Achieving at the Next Level
Les challenges audiences to expand their sense of possibility and develop the mindset needed to pursue higher performance. Ideal for teams ready to raise their expectations.

Live Your Dreams Now
Les encourages people to act on what matters rather than continually defer it. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed purpose and motivation.

Is Les Brown Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the goals you want to reinforce and the energy you want people to carry back to work. We can help select Les’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.

Marcus Buckingham: Strengths Researcher | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership, Engagement and Performance

Why Book Marcus Buckingham?

His current work also explores how leaders can build love into work and the experiences they create for employees and customers. With research, stories and practical examples, Marcus gives audiences a fresh way to examine performance, creativity and commitment.

Why Is Marcus Buckingham Right for Your Audience?

Marcus is a strong fit for executive conferences, leadership development programs, HR events and manager meetings. Consider him when an organization wants to improve engagement by changing how managers understand and support their people.

Book Marcus when your audience needs to:

• Recognize the strengths of individual team members
• Create work that people find meaningful
• Improve everyday coaching and management
• Question assumptions about performance
• Connect employee experience with customer experience
• Build teams where different talents can contribute

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how individual strengths influence performance
• Better prepared to discuss what energizes people at work
• Ready to examine management practices that limit contribution
• More aware of the link between meaningful work and engagement
• Equipped with ideas for improving team and customer experiences

Keynote Programs

How to Unleash the Most Powerful Force in Business
Marcus examines how to design love into work, leadership and customer experiences. Ideal for leaders exploring performance, creativity, wellbeing and advocacy.

What the World’s Best Managers Do Differently
Marcus explores how managers turn talent into performance through role selection, expectations, attention and development. Ideal for manager and leadership audiences.

Strengths-Driven Performance
Marcus shows how people can make greater use of their strengths at work and how organizations can support that contribution. Ideal for talent development and employee events.

Is Marcus Buckingham Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your leaders, the employee experience you want to improve and the performance challenges you want to address. We can help select Marcus’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm availability and fee.

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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.

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Michael C. Bush: CEO of Great Place To Work® | Author of A Great Place to Work for All | Speaker on Trust, Culture and Leadership

Why Book Michael C. Bush?

His message focuses on building a great workplace for everyone across an organization. Michael makes trust, fairness and inclusion concrete leadership issues, helping audiences examine whether employees experience the culture their leaders intend to create.

Why Is Michael C. Bush Right for Your Audience?

Michael is a strong fit for executive conferences, HR events, leadership retreats and manager meetings. Consider him when an organization wants to strengthen trust and make its culture more consistent across roles, teams and locations.

Book Michael when your audience needs to:

• Understand how trust shapes the employee experience
• Examine gaps in workplace fairness
• Make inclusion part of everyday leadership
• Connect culture priorities with business goals
• Listen more effectively to employees
• Create conditions that help more people contribute

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role of trust in workplace culture
• More aware of differences in employees’ experiences
• Ready to examine their own leadership behavior
• Familiar with the principles of For All leadership
• Prepared to discuss culture as a business priority

Keynote Programs

Become Great
Michael draws on workforce research to explain how an inclusive, high-trust culture can support organizational performance. He introduces the For All Leadership Model and encourages leaders to examine the experience they create. Ideal for executive, HR and management audiences.

Is Michael C. Bush Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the culture you want to build and the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Michael’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm availability and fee.

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Susan Cain: Bestselling Author of Quiet and Bittersweet | Speaker on Introversion, Leadership and Human Connection

Why Book Susan Cain?

Her presentations combine research and stories with a thoughtful, accessible delivery. Susan gives leaders a reason to reconsider how meetings, collaboration and culture can make room for different voices and deeper connection.

Why Is Susan Cain Right for Your Audience?

Susan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, HR programs, employee events and education meetings. Consider her when an organization wants to hear more of its people’s ideas or create a more supportive environment.

Book Susan when your audience needs to:

• Recognize the strengths of quieter colleagues
• Create more inclusive meetings and collaboration
• Reconsider assumptions about effective leadership
• Make space for reflection and independent thinking
• Build empathy during difficult transitions
• Strengthen creativity and human connection

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of how introverts and extroverts contribute
• Ready to examine participation in meetings and teams
• Clearer on the value of reflection in creative work
• Better prepared to acknowledge difficult emotions
• Equipped with ideas for a more supportive workplace

Keynote Programs

Quiet: How to Harness the Strengths of Introverts to Change How We Work, Lead, and Innovate
Susan explores how organizations can better use introverted talent and make room for ideas from different personalities. Ideal for leadership, HR and innovation audiences.

Bittersweet: The Secret Keys to Creativity and Connection
Susan examines how acknowledging sorrow and longing can deepen empathy, authenticity and creativity. Ideal for organizations exploring connection and a more supportive work culture.

Is Susan Cain Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, whose voices you want to bring forward and the culture you want the event to support. We can help select Susan’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm availability and fee.

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Ram Charan: Global Business Advisor | Co-Author of Execution | Speaker on Strategy, Leadership and Profitable Growth

Why Book Ram Charan?

His presentations bring an experienced business perspective to growth, talent and competitive advantage. Ram is particularly valuable for audiences that want to question their assumptions, understand the fundamentals and move from broad ambition to practical execution.

Why Is Ram Charan Right for Your Audience?

Ram is a strong fit for executive conferences, board retreats, senior leadership meetings and management development programs. Consider him when decision-makers need a substantive discussion about how their business competes, grows and performs.

Book Ram when your audience needs to:

• Close the gap between strategy and execution
• Connect people, priorities and operations
• Develop stronger leadership talent
• Understand changing sources of competitive advantage
• Examine opportunities for profitable growth
• Improve the quality of business dialogue

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on leaders’ responsibility for execution
• Better prepared to align talent with strategic needs
• Ready to examine priorities against business realities
• More aware of how competitive advantage can change
• Equipped with questions for more focused management discussions

Keynote Programs

Execution
Ram explores how robust dialogue connects people, strategy and operations. Ideal for leaders who need to improve accountability and follow-through.

Rethinking Competitive Advantage
Ram examines how digital businesses compete and what established organizations can learn from their practices. Ideal for strategy and transformation audiences.

Talent
Ram discusses finding, developing and deploying leaders who can deliver business results. Ideal for executive and talent development programs.

Is Ram Charan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your leaders, the business decisions they face and the outcomes you want from the discussion. We can help select Ram’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm availability and fee.

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Dr. Robert Cialdini: Social Psychologist | Bestselling Author of Influence and Pre-Suasion | Speaker on Ethical Persuasion and Leadership

Why Book Dr. Robert Cialdini?

His presentations combine memorable stories with the principles behind effective persuasion. For leaders, sales professionals and marketers, Dr. Cialdini offers a framework for building trust, improving requests and encouraging commitment while respecting the people they want to influence.

Why Is Dr. Robert Cialdini Right for Your Audience?

Dr. Cialdini is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, marketing events and professional association programs. Consider him when your audience wants to improve its influence through a clear framework grounded in research.

Book Dr. Cialdini when your audience needs to:

• Understand the psychology behind persuasive communication
• Apply the seven principles of persuasion ethically
• Make requests clearer and more compelling
• Build trust with clients and colleagues
• Prepare an audience to receive an important message
• Encourage commitment during change

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Familiar with principles that shape responses to requests
• Better prepared to recognize persuasion in everyday situations
• Ready to examine how they frame important messages
• Clearer on ethical applications of influence
• Equipped with ideas for strengthening leadership and client communication

Keynote Programs

Influence: The Ultimate Power Tool
Dr. Cialdini explains the seven universal principles of persuasion and their ethical business applications. Ideal for sales, marketing and leadership audiences.

Pre-Suasion: Opening the Door to Persuasion
Dr. Cialdini examines the moments before a message is delivered and how they influence receptiveness. Ideal for communicators and leaders.

Leadership Through the Power of Persuasion
Dr. Cialdini explores how leaders can encourage commitment through non-manipulative influence. Ideal for management and change leadership programs.

Is Dr. Robert Cialdini Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the conversations it needs to improve and the actions you want to encourage. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Dr. Cialdini’s availability and fee.

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

James Clear: Bestselling Author of Atomic Habits | Speaker on Habits, Decision Making and Continuous Improvement

Why Book James Clear?

His presentations make habit formation accessible through research, stories and practical examples. James gives teams a useful way to discuss consistency: making productive behaviors easier, reducing friction and building routines that support the goals they already care about.

Why Is James Clear Right for Your Audience?

James is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company meetings and professional development events. Consider him when your organization wants people to move from setting goals to building the habits that support them.

Book James when your audience needs to:

• Make continuous improvement part of daily work
• Build routines that support important goals
• Reduce friction around productive behaviors
• Replace unhelpful habits with better alternatives
• Maintain consistency beyond an initial burst of motivation
• Understand how small improvements accumulate

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the relationship between habits and results
• Ready to identify a behavior they want to improve
• Equipped with practical ideas for designing better routines
• More aware of how their environment influences action
• Prepared to focus on consistent progress

Keynote Programs

Atomic Habits: How to Get 1% Better Every Day
James explores how small habits work and how their effects accumulate. Ideal for employee, leadership and performance-focused audiences.

The Surprising Power of Small Habits
James shares strategies for building good habits and breaking unhelpful ones. Ideal for audiences seeking a practical introduction to behavior change.

Moderated Fireside Chat with James Clear
A conversation allows your moderator to explore the ideas in Atomic Habits and their relevance to your audience. Ideal for events that want discussion and tailored questions.

Is James Clear Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the behaviors you want to strengthen and the goals you want those behaviors to support. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and James’s availability and fee.

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Anderson Cooper: CNN Anchor | Emmy Award-Winning Journalist | Speaker on World Events, Journalism and Human Stories

Why Book Anderson Cooper?

His reporting places individual experiences within larger events, giving audiences a way to consider the human consequences behind headlines. Anderson offers event planners a recognizable voice and an informed perspective for a substantive conversation about the world and how it is covered.

Why Is Anderson Cooper Right for Your Audience?

Anderson is a strong fit for association conferences, executive events, university programs and public forums. Consider him when your audience wants perspective on world events and the experience of reporting them.

Book Anderson when your audience needs to:

• Look beyond headlines to the people affected
• Understand the demands of frontline journalism
• Explore how major events are reported
• Consider the importance of asking informed questions
• Examine the relationship between media and public understanding
• Hear firsthand stories from a reporting career

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• A broader perspective on the events discussed
• More aware of the human stories behind major news
• Clearer on the challenges involved in gathering and reporting information
• Ready to question assumptions and seek further context
• Engaged in a thoughtful discussion of journalism and world affairs

Keynote Programs

A 360-Degree Look at World Events with Anderson Cooper
Anderson brings his reporting experience to a discussion of world events and the stories behind them. Ideal for audiences seeking an informed perspective on current affairs. The focus can be discussed around your audience and event goals.

Is Anderson Cooper Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the issues you want to explore and the kind of conversation you want to create. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Anderson’s availability and fee.

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Barbara Corcoran: Founder of The Corcoran Group | Shark Tank Investor | Speaker on Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Resilience

Why Book Barbara Corcoran?

Barbara delivers those lessons with candid stories, humor and practical business insights. Her journey from starting a small real estate office with a $1,000 loan gives her message a memorable foundation. For teams that need renewed confidence, she offers an energetic challenge to adapt, take initiative and keep moving. The Sweeney Agency

Why Is Barbara Corcoran Right for Your Audience?

Barbara is a strong fit for entrepreneurship conferences, sales meetings, leadership events, real estate gatherings and women’s business programs. She is especially valuable when an organization wants people to think more resourcefully, build stronger teams or regain momentum after disappointment.

Book Barbara when your audience needs to:

• Respond to setbacks with greater resilience
• Find opportunities in difficult business conditions
• Build confidence to pursue new ideas
• Recognize and recruit promising talent
• Lead with greater attention to people’s needs
• Bring renewed energy to business growth

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More willing to take a constructive next step after failure
• Ready to question assumptions that limit growth
• Clearer on the importance of people in building a business
• Equipped with lessons from Barbara’s entrepreneurial experience
• Inspired to approach challenges with creativity and persistence

Keynote Programs

How She Built It!
Barbara shares her entrepreneurial journey and lessons from building The Corcoran Group. Ideal for audiences seeking an entertaining story of persistence and business growth.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Barbara explores how leaders can respond to employees’ needs and bring out the best in their teams. Ideal for managers and leadership audiences.

How to Bounce Back from Failure
Barbara shares her approach to recovering from setbacks and moving forward. Ideal for sales teams, entrepreneurs and organizations navigating change.

Shark Tank Unfiltered
Barbara offers a candid look behind the scenes of Shark Tank and the entrepreneurs she encounters. Ideal for audiences interested in business-building stories and an entertaining event experience.

Fireside Chat: Ask Barbara Anything
A moderated conversation gives your audience the opportunity to hear Barbara’s perspective on its questions. Ideal for events seeking a more conversational format. Barbara Corcoran

Is Barbara Corcoran Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges it faces and the action you want people to take after the event. We can help select Barbara’s most relevant program, discuss the format and customization, and confirm her availability and fee.

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Joseph Coughlin: Founder and Director of MIT AgeLab | Author of The Longevity Economy | Speaker on Demographics, Innovation and the Future of Aging

Why Book Joseph Coughlin?

His work encourages leaders to look beyond age-based stereotypes and consider what people need as they live, work and plan for longer futures. Joseph brings a research-informed perspective to product development, customer experience, retirement and services for an aging population.

Why Is Joseph Coughlin Right for Your Audience?

Joseph is a strong fit for financial services conferences, healthcare events, real estate forums and executive strategy meetings. Consider him when your audience needs to understand demographic change and design better experiences for customers across life stages.

Book Joseph when your audience needs to:

• Understand how longevity changes consumer needs
• Challenge assumptions about older customers
• Explore opportunities in services and product design
• Broaden conversations about retirement preparedness
• Consider the future of housing and communities
• Connect demographic trends with business strategy

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how demographic change affects their sector
• More aware of the needs behind longevity-related markets
• Ready to question age-based customer assumptions
• Equipped with ideas for improving services and advice
• Prepared to discuss aging as an innovation opportunity

Keynote Programs

If Demography Is Destiny, What Is the Future of Real Estate?
Joseph explores how changing households, lifestyles and technology can reshape communities and housing. Ideal for real estate and civic audiences.

Retirement Education & Planning in Transition
Joseph addresses the changing context of retirement and the role of education and advice. Ideal for financial services and employee benefits audiences.

Innovation & the Future of Aging Services
Joseph examines how demographic change can create opportunities for service innovation. Ideal for healthcare, aging services and executive audiences.

Is Joseph Coughlin Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the demographic changes affecting your business and the opportunities you want to explore. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Joseph’s availability and fee.

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Amy Cuddy: Social Psychologist | Author of Presence | Speaker on Confidence, Trust and Leadership

Why Book Amy Cuddy?

Her presentations connect psychological research with familiar challenges: a difficult conversation, a high-stakes presentation, or a leadership decision. Amy gives audiences language for discussing confidence and trust, along with approaches they can consider in their own work.

Why Is Amy Cuddy Right for Your Audience?

Amy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, professional development programs, sales meetings, and events focused on confidence or workplace culture. Consider her when capable people need help bringing their expertise into demanding situations.

Book Amy when your audience needs to:

• Communicate with more grounded confidence
• Prepare for presentations and difficult conversations
• Understand how others perceive their behavior
• Build trust during uncertainty
• Support colleagues facing performance pressure
• Create conditions where people feel able to contribute

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of their responses to social pressure
• Better prepared to approach challenging interactions
• Clearer on the role of presence in communication
• Ready to consider how warmth and credibility build trust
• Equipped with ideas for supporting others under pressure

Keynote Programs

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Amy explores presence, body language, and mindset in demanding situations. Ideal for leaders, client-facing professionals, and audiences developing confidence.

Perform: The New Science of Human Performance Under Social Pressure

Amy examines how the social environment affects performance. Ideal for teams whose work involves evaluation, visibility, and high expectations.

Trust Under Pressure

Amy focuses on building and maintaining trust amid disruption. Ideal for leaders navigating uncertainty and changing team dynamics.

Is Amy Cuddy Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the moments where your people need greater confidence, connection, or trust. We can help select Amy’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. Susan David: Psychologist | Author of Emotional Agility | Speaker on Leadership, Culture and Change

Why Book Dr. Susan David?

Susan brings that framework into leadership, culture, and the future of work. Her presentations encourage audiences to acknowledge what they are experiencing, examine their assumptions, and choose actions that reflect what matters. That makes her message relevant when organizations need adaptability without losing direction.

Why Is Dr. Susan David Right for Your Audience?

Susan is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, HR events, and organization-wide development programs. Consider her when your people need a more constructive way to work through uncertainty, difficult conversations, or competing demands.

Book Susan when your audience needs to:

• Build adaptability during organizational change
• Lead difficult conversations with greater openness
• Connect daily decisions with shared values
• Respond thoughtfully to challenging emotions
• Strengthen the human skills needed alongside AI
• Make culture visible through leadership behavior

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on what emotional agility means in practice
• More aware of the difference between feelings and chosen actions
• Ready to examine familiar patterns of response
• Better prepared to make decisions connected to their values
• Equipped with a framework for approaching uncertainty

Keynote Programs

The Real Revolution Isn’t Artificial. It’s Human

Susan explores the human capabilities organizations need in the AI era, including adaptability and connection. Ideal for future-of-work and transformation audiences.

The Leaders We Need Now

Susan focuses on leadership grounded in clarity, courage, and emotional agility. Ideal for executives and managers navigating competing demands.

Culture Is What You Do, Especially When It’s Hard

Susan examines how actions reveal organizational values when circumstances are difficult. Ideal for leadership and culture-focused events.

Is Dr. Susan David Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes your organization faces and the leadership or cultural habits you want to strengthen. We can help select Susan’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.

Erica Dhawan: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Collaboration & Connection | Bestselling Author | Workplace Communication Expert

Turn Better Communication Into Better Performance

In a world of hybrid teams, nonstop messages and constant change, how do you make sure people truly connect, collaborate and get things done?

Erica Dhawan is a bestselling author and internationally recognized keynote speaker on leadership, collaboration and workplace communication who helps organizations transform the way their people work together.

Why Book Erica Dhawan?

Erica addresses one of today's biggest workplace challenges: we have more ways to communicate than ever before, yet connection and collaboration are often harder than ever.

She gives audiences practical strategies to reduce communication friction, strengthen relationships and create the kind of collaboration that drives performance.

Her keynotes are energetic, highly relevant and actionable—giving audiences ideas they can immediately apply to meetings, emails, virtual communication and everyday teamwork.

What Makes Erica Dhawan Different?

• Leading authority on modern collaboration — practical insights for today's connected workplace
• Immediately actionable — strategies audiences can use the moment they return to work
• Highly relevant — addresses hybrid work, digital communication, trust and teamwork
• Research-driven — combines behavioral science with real-world business examples
• Broad audience appeal — valuable for executives, managers and employees
• Customizable — Erica can connect her message directly to your organization's priorities

Why Is Erica Right for Your Audience?

Erica is an excellent choice when you want your people to communicate more clearly, collaborate across silos and build stronger working relationships.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association events and organizations navigating hybrid work, transformation or rapid growth.

Book Erica when your audience needs to:

• Communicate more effectively across teams and functions
• Strengthen trust in hybrid and digital workplaces
• Break down organizational silos
• Improve collaboration and teamwork
• Reduce misunderstandings and communication overload
• Build stronger relationships across generations
• Turn better communication into better business results

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better equipped to communicate with clarity and intention
• Able to recognize digital behaviors that create unnecessary friction
• Ready to build greater trust across teams
• Equipped with practical strategies for stronger collaboration
• More confident communicating across different working styles
• Prepared to create more productive and connected workplaces

Erica Dhawan Keynote Programs

Digital Body Language:  How do you build trust when much of today's communication happens through a screen?

Based on Erica's bestselling book Digital Body Language, this keynote reveals how emails, texts, video meetings and digital interactions send powerful signals about trust, respect and inclusion.

Erica gives audiences practical strategies for communicating clearly, reducing misunderstandings and building stronger relationships in a digital-first workplace.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, hybrid workplaces, corporate meetings and organizations focused on communication and culture.

Get Big Things Done:  The biggest opportunities rarely happen because of one person—they happen when the right people connect and collaborate.

Erica shows audiences how to unlock the power of relationships and networks to solve problems, generate ideas and achieve results that individuals and isolated teams cannot accomplish alone.

Ideal for: Leadership, innovation, teamwork, transformation and collaboration events.

Leading Through Connection

Today's leaders must do more than communicate information. They need to create clarity, trust and connection across increasingly complex organizations.

Erica gives leaders practical tools for strengthening communication, breaking down silos and creating teams that collaborate more effectively—even when people work across different locations, functions and generations.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development programs and organizations navigating change.

Why Book Erica Dhawan Through The Sweeney Agency?

Finding the right keynote speaker isn't simply about choosing an impressive name. It's about finding the speaker whose message fits your audience, your business challenges and what you want people to do differently after the event.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Erica Dhawan's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Erica Dhawan keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Erica with other leading leadership, communication and collaboration speakers

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Dr. Ken Dychtwald: Founder of Age Wave | Psychologist and Gerontologist | Speaker on Longevity, Aging and Retirement

Why Book Dr. Ken Dychtwald?

Ken makes the implications of aging concrete for decision-makers. His presentations encourage organizations to examine assumptions about older adults and consider how products, services, and policies can respond to changing lives. He brings a long-term perspective to challenges that extend across generations.

Why Is Dr. Ken Dychtwald Right for Your Audience?

Ken is a strong fit for financial services conferences, healthcare meetings, executive strategy events, and organizations serving older consumers. Consider him when your audience needs to understand demographic change as a factor in future planning.

Book Ken when your audience needs to:

• Recognize opportunities in the longevity economy
• Reconsider assumptions about retirement and later life
• Understand changing expectations among older consumers
• Explore the implications of an aging workforce
• Address connections between family, care, and financial security
• Include demographic change in strategic discussions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• A broader perspective on the consequences of longevity
• More aware of changing needs across generations
• Ready to question outdated assumptions about older adults
• Better prepared to discuss retirement as a life transition
• Equipped with ideas for serving a longer-lived population

Keynote Programs

The Longevity Revolution: Triumph or Tragedy?

Ken examines the opportunities and societal challenges of longer lives. Ideal for executive and policy audiences.

Reinventing Retirement: Your Grandparents’ Retirement Is Over

Ken explores changing retirement expectations and the questions they create for advisors. Ideal for financial services audiences.

How the Age Wave Will Transform the Marketplace, the Workplace and Our Lives

Ken connects demographic shifts with consumer needs, work, and business opportunities. Ideal for leaders planning for long-term change.

Is Dr. Ken Dychtwald Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the demographic changes affecting your organization and the opportunities you want to explore. We can help select Ken’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Mick Ebeling: Keynote Speaker on Innovation, Leadership & Possibility | Founder of Not Impossible Labs | Author | Entrepreneur

Make the Impossible, Not Impossible

What could your organization accomplish if your people stopped asking “Can we?” and started asking “How can we?”

Mick Ebeling is an entrepreneur, author, innovator and inspiring keynote speaker on innovation, leadership, problem-solving and purpose-driven business.

His message challenges audiences to stop accepting limitations, take action before they have every answer and use technology, creativity and collaboration to solve problems that truly matter.

Why Book Mick Ebeling?

Mick doesn't just talk about innovation. He shows audiences what innovation looks like when people actually do something.

His projects begin with seemingly impossible human problems. Instead of waiting for someone else to solve them, Mick brings together diverse teams, technology and an intense determination to find a way forward.

The result is a powerful business lesson: innovation doesn't always begin with having the answer. It begins with refusing to accept that a problem can't be solved.

Mick's combination of extraordinary stories, optimism and practical thinking makes his keynote inspiring while giving audiences a fresh perspective on innovation and action.

What Makes Mick Ebeling Different?

• Founder of Not Impossible Labs — an organization built around solving real-world problems
• Innovation with purpose — demonstrates how technology can create meaningful human impact
• Action-oriented mindset — encourages people to stop overthinking and start experimenting
• Extraordinary storytelling — brings innovation to life through compelling real-world projects
• Human-centered approach — starts with people and problems rather than technology
• Collaboration focused — shows how diverse expertise can accelerate breakthroughs
• Relevant to AI and technology conversations — keeps the focus on what technology can enable for people
• Highly inspirational — challenges audiences to rethink what they believe is possible

Why Is Mick Right for Your Audience?

Mick is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to challenge assumptions, solve problems differently and turn ambitious ideas into action.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, innovation summits, technology events, corporate meetings and organizations undergoing transformation.

Book Mick when your audience needs to:

• Challenge assumptions about what is possible
• Turn ideas into action
• Approach difficult problems with greater creativity
• Innovate with the customer or end user at the center
• Use technology to create meaningful solutions
• Break through organizational silos
• Collaborate across different disciplines
• Become more comfortable experimenting and learning

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More willing to challenge “that's impossible” thinking
• Inspired to take action before every answer is known
• Better prepared to approach problems from the user's perspective
• Understanding how collaboration can accelerate innovation
• More focused on solving meaningful problems rather than chasing technology
• Ready to experiment, learn and adapt
• Asking a powerful question: What impossible problem should we solve next?

Mick Ebeling Keynote Programs

Making the Impossible, Not Impossible. What if “impossible” simply means nobody has solved the problem yet?

Mick takes audiences behind the scenes of Not Impossible Labs and the remarkable projects created by teams willing to tackle challenges others had accepted as unsolvable.

Through compelling stories of innovation and human impact, he demonstrates how commitment, collaboration and experimentation can turn seemingly impossible ideas into real solutions.

Ideal for: Innovation conferences, leadership events, corporate meetings and organizations looking to inspire bold thinking.

Innovation for the Sake of Humanity. The most powerful innovation doesn't begin with technology. It begins with a human problem worth solving.

Mick challenges audiences to put people at the center of innovation and focus technology on creating meaningful outcomes.

His stories demonstrate how empathy, creativity and diverse perspectives can uncover solutions that traditional approaches may overlook.

Ideal for: Technology, AI, innovation, healthcare and purpose-driven business events.

The Fallacy of “Impossible”. How many opportunities disappear because someone decides an idea can't be done before anyone actually tries?

Mick challenges audiences to question the assumptions, processes and conventional thinking that can prevent innovation.

He shows how experimentation, collaboration and a willingness to begin without knowing every step can create breakthroughs.

Ideal for: Leadership teams, transformation initiatives, innovation summits and organizations navigating disruption.

Why Book Mick Ebeling Through The Sweeney Agency?

Mick Ebeling brings together innovation, technology, purpose and extraordinary human stories—but the real value comes from connecting his message to the problems and opportunities your organization needs people to approach differently.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Mick Ebeling's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Mick Ebeling keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's innovation objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
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Is Mick Ebeling Right for Your Event?

Tell us the challenge your organization is trying to solve—or the “impossible” idea you want your people to start believing is possible.

We'll help you determine whether Mick is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.

Planning an innovation conference, leadership meeting or technology event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mick Ebeling as your keynote speaker.

Keith Ferrazzi: Author of Never Eat Alone and Never Lead Alone | Executive Team Coach | Speaker on Collaboration and Teamship

Why Book Keith Ferrazzi?

Keith connects his work on professional relationships with the demands of organizational change. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how their teams collaborate, support one another, and make room for better ideas.

Why Is Keith Ferrazzi Right for Your Audience?

Keith is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, and transformation events. Consider him when important work depends on cooperation across departments or organizational boundaries.

Book Keith when your audience needs to:

• Break down silos around shared priorities
• Build more candid team conversations
• Strengthen mutual accountability
• Develop relationships before they are urgently needed
• Include more perspectives in important decisions
• Improve collaboration during change

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the difference between leadership and teamship
• Ready to examine team habits that restrict collaboration
• Better prepared to give and request support
• More aware of how relationships enable execution
• Equipped to choose a practical change in how their team works

Keynote Programs

The Future of Leadership Is Shifting to Teamship

Keith explores collective leadership, candor, and shared accountability. Ideal for executives and teams adapting to a more interdependent workplace.

A Journey from Never Eat Alone to Never Lead Alone

Keith connects relationship-building with the practices of effective teams. Ideal for leadership, sales, and professional development audiences.

Is Keith Ferrazzi Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the collaboration challenges your organization faces. We can help select Keith’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

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.

Molly Fletcher: Former Sports Agent | Author of Dynamic Drive | Speaker on Mindset, Leadership and Performance

Why Book Molly Fletcher?

Molly combines stories from competitive environments with practical discussion of discipline, resilience, and purpose. Her presentations encourage audiences to reconsider complacency and connect ambition with repeatable action.

Why Is Molly Fletcher Right for Your Audience?

Molly is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company gatherings, and women’s professional events. Consider her when your audience needs renewed drive and a clearer approach to personal excellence.

Book Molly when your audience needs to:

• Build discipline around important goals
• Maintain drive after initial success
• Respond constructively to change
• Strengthen confidence and professional influence
• Connect effort with a clear purpose
• Develop habits that support continued improvement

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role of daily habits in performance
• Ready to examine where complacency has developed
• More aware of what sustains their motivation
• Equipped with ideas for purposeful improvement
• Focused on a commitment they can put into practice

Keynote Programs

Unleash Your Potential

Molly explores mindset, discipline, and sustainable success. Ideal for broad employee and sales audiences.

Secrets of a Champion Mindset

Molly shares lessons on maintaining drive and raising standards. Ideal for teams pursuing demanding goals.

Women Winning in Business

Molly draws on her experience in sports representation to discuss confidence and influence. Ideal for women’s leadership events.

Is Molly Fletcher Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, performance goals and the habits you want people to strengthen. We can help select Molly’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.