Jeff Adams: Paralympic Gold Medalist and Six-Time World Champion | Entrepreneur and Lawyer | Speaker on Resilience, Teamwork and Achieving Goals

Why Book Jeff Adams?

Jeff’s experience extends beyond sport. He founded medical device engineering businesses before pursuing a career in law, graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School and practicing in labour, employment and human rights. His presentations connect lessons from these different chapters with the challenges people face at work: adapting, learning, overcoming barriers and helping one another succeed.

Why Is Jeff Adams Right for Your Audience?

Jeff is a strong fit for company gatherings, leadership meetings, association conferences and recognition events. His experience across sport, business and law gives organizations several ways to connect his story with their goals, particularly when teams need renewed motivation and a shared sense of possibility.

Book Jeff when your audience needs to:

• Regain momentum after a setback
• Turn ambitious goals into steady progress
• Recognize the support behind individual achievement
• Prepare for important performance moments
• Approach barriers with determination and resourcefulness
• Celebrate progress and shared success

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More motivated to persist through challenges
• Clearer on the role of preparation in achievement
• Ready to break larger goals into manageable steps
• More aware of how teammates contribute to success
• Inspired to recognize progress and encourage others

Keynote Programs

Getting Back Up
Jeff shares lessons on recovering from disappointment and finding the support to move forward. Ideal for teams facing setbacks, change or demanding goals.

One Step at a Time
Drawing on experiences including climbing the CN Tower in a wheelchair and winning Paralympic gold, Jeff explores the process behind ambitious achievements. Ideal for audiences seeking motivation to pursue meaningful goals.

Incredible Moments
Jeff examines the preparation behind memorable performances and how people can get ready for their own moments of excellence. Ideal for teams approaching major milestones or important challenges.

Celebrating
Jeff explores how recognizing achievement can encourage continued effort and strengthen a team or community. Ideal for recognition programs and events celebrating collective progress.

Is Jeff Adams Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges it faces and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Jeff’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.

Simon Anderson: Futurist | Applied Foresight Expert | Founder of Venture Foresight

Be Ready for What Comes Next

Simon Anderson helps organizations answer that question. He makes emerging trends and technology understandable and gives leaders a practical way to prepare for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Why Book Simon Anderson?

Simon helps audiences turn uncertainty into better decisions. His Future Ready Framework™ organizes foresight into three actions: Attention, Anticipation, and Action. It gives leaders a way to recognize meaningful signals, consider what they could mean, and decide what to do next.

His presentations connect broad change to the choices facing a specific organization or industry.

What Makes Simon Different?

• A practical foresight framework leaders can use in their next meeting
• Clear explanations of AI, technology, and emerging change
• A focus on early signals and decisions leaders can make now
• Industry-specific examples that connect trends to the audience’s work
• Tools for questioning assumptions and acting before change becomes urgent

Why Is Simon Right for Your Audience?

Simon is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, strategy sessions, and leadership teams facing rapid change. He is especially valuable when people know their sector is shifting but need a shared way to separate significant developments from noise.

Book Simon when your audience needs to:

• Spot changes that could affect its industry
• Understand what AI and emerging technology could mean for its work
• Challenge assumptions built for a different environment
• Balance improving today’s business with preparing for tomorrow’s
• Turn trend discussions into decisions and experiments
• Build a more proactive approach to change

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Equipped to use Attention, Anticipation, and Action as a planning framework
• Better able to distinguish meaningful signals from passing noise
• Ready to examine assumptions that may be limiting their options
• Clearer about emerging opportunities and potential challenges
• Motivated to take practical steps toward a more future-ready organization

Keynote Programs

Beyond Resilient: How to Be Future Ready® in an Age of Constant Change

Simon introduces his Future Ready Framework™ and shows leaders how to notice important shifts, think through their implications, and act early. Ideal for leadership and strategy events where change is a central concern.

The Future Is Here. Now What?

AI attracts attention, but it is one of several technologies changing how organizations work. Simon helps audiences decide which developments deserve attention, what they could mean for their industry, and when to act.

Leading into the Future of Your Industry

In this customized keynote, Simon examines the trends reshaping the audience’s sector and applies his framework to potential opportunities. Ideal for industry associations, client events, and executive teams looking for relevant foresight.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about your industry, your priorities, and the decisions your leaders need to make. We’ll help you identify the most relevant Simon Anderson program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Simon Right for Your Event?

Tell us what is changing around your organization and what you want your audience to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Simon’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Sarah Aviram: Change and Motivation Speaker | Former Fortune 500 HR Leader | Author of Remotivation

Help People Find Momentum During Change

Sarah Aviram helps leaders and teams find that momentum. Drawing on her HR leadership experience and her time working across 12 countries in 12 months, she shows audiences how to reconnect with what drives them and take ownership of their next steps. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Sarah Aviram?

Sarah addresses a challenge leaders recognize: people may understand a change and still struggle to commit to it. Her Remotivation Method focuses on the internal drivers behind engagement, helping audiences identify what motivates them and what they can do when circumstances are uncertain.

Her sessions combine relatable stories with reflection and practical exercises. Audiences leave with a way to discuss motivation more openly and take useful action.

What Makes Sarah Different?

• Experience leading HR and talent development work in large organizations
• A practical framework focused on the drivers of motivation
• A personal story shaped by working across 12 countries in one year
• Interactive sessions that help attendees apply ideas during the event
• A message that speaks to leaders and individual contributors alike

Why Is Sarah Right for Your Audience?

Sarah is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee meetings, HR events, and organizations navigating restructuring, new technology, or shifting ways of working. She is especially relevant when people feel change happening around them and need to see where they still have agency.

Book Sarah when your audience needs to:

• Rebuild motivation during uncertainty
• Take greater ownership of choices and actions
• Help teams move from hesitation to commitment
• Understand what drives engagement and fulfillment
• Lead change with more empathy and clarity
• Create momentum without waiting for circumstances to settle

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the factors that motivate them at work
• Able to recognize where they have influence during change
• Equipped to use Sarah’s six-driver Remotivation Method
• Ready to take a practical step toward renewed momentum
• Better prepared to support colleagues through transitions

Keynote Programs

Get Remotivated: Navigate Change from the Inside Out

Sarah shows audiences how to activate personal agency and reconnect with the internal drivers that support commitment and performance. Ideal for teams facing transformation, disruption, or a demanding new chapter. Available as an interactive keynote or virtual presentation.

Get Remotivated: Team Activation Workshop

This hands-on follow-up gives teams time to apply the keynote’s ideas to their own challenges through exercises and discussion. Ideal for groups that want to turn insight into shared actions. Sarah Aviram

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what changes your people are experiencing and what you want them to do afterward. We’ll help you assess whether Sarah’s approach fits, choose the right format, and confirm her availability and current fee.

Is Sarah Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the change it is facing, and where motivation or engagement needs support. We’ll help you assess Sarah’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Cam Awesome: Motivational Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Mindset & High Performance | Champion Boxer | Team USA Captain

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

What could your people accomplish if setbacks stopped being reasons to quit and became reasons to grow?

Cam Awesome is a champion boxer, former Team USA captain and dynamic motivational keynote speaker on resilience, mindset, overcoming adversity and high performance.

Why Book Cam Awesome?

Cam delivers something every event planner wants: a motivational keynote that's inspiring, entertaining and genuinely useful.

His story isn't about winning every time. It's about learning how to respond when you don't.

Cam shows audiences that resilience isn't something you're born with—it's something you develop by changing the way you interpret setbacks, failure and discomfort.

His energetic and often hilarious delivery gets audiences laughing while challenging them to take greater ownership, become more resilient and stop allowing fear of failure to limit their potential.

What Makes Cam Awesome Different?

• Champion athlete — brings real lessons from elite-level competition
• Former Team USA captain — understands leadership, accountability and teamwork
• Powerful resilience story — demonstrates how setbacks can become catalysts for growth
• Exceptionally entertaining — uses humor to make serious lessons memorable
• Authentic and vulnerable — openly shares both victories and failures
• High-energy delivery — immediately engages and energizes a room
• Practical mindset strategies — gives audiences ideas they can apply immediately
• Broad audience appeal — particularly effective for sales, leadership and employee events

Why Is Cam Right for Your Audience?

Cam is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to increase their resilience, become more comfortable with discomfort and take action despite the possibility of failure.

He is particularly effective for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, corporate meetings, association events and teams working in competitive or rapidly changing environments.

Book Cam when your audience needs to:

• Bounce back faster from setbacks
• Become more comfortable taking risks
• Stop allowing fear of failure to limit performance
• Build greater confidence and resilience
• Maintain motivation when results don't come immediately
• Take greater ownership of their attitude
• Approach challenges with a stronger mindset
• Bring more energy and optimism to their work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Thinking differently about failure and setbacks
• Better prepared to respond when things don't go according to plan
• More willing to step outside their comfort zone
• Equipped with practical strategies for strengthening resilience
• Understanding how mindset influences performance
• More confident taking action despite uncertainty
• Energized and ready to approach their next challenge differently

Cam Awesome Keynote Programs

Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable. Growth rarely happens inside your comfort zone.

Cam shares the lessons he learned from years of elite competition and the setbacks that threatened to derail his ambitions.

He challenges audiences to rethink their relationship with discomfort and recognize that difficult experiences can become opportunities to learn, adapt and improve.

Ideal for: Sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, corporate meetings and organizations navigating change.

The Awesome Mindset. You can't control everything that happens. You can control what you do next.

Cam shows audiences how changing their perspective can change the way they respond to pressure, disappointment and adversity.

Using humor, personal stories and lessons from competitive boxing, he demonstrates how people can develop a mindset that helps them recover faster and continue moving toward their goals.

Ideal for: High-performance teams, sales organizations, leadership events and employee meetings.

Turning Failure Into Fuel. What if failure wasn't the opposite of success—but part of the process required to achieve it?

Cam challenges the fear of failure that often prevents people from taking risks, pursuing opportunities and reaching their potential.

His experiences demonstrate how setbacks can provide the lessons, perspective and motivation needed to come back stronger.

Ideal for: Sales teams, emerging leaders, high-performance cultures and organizations pursuing ambitious goals.

Why Book Cam Awesome Through The Sweeney Agency?

Cam Awesome combines championship-level experience, powerful resilience lessons and exceptional humor—but the real value comes from connecting his message directly to the challenges your audience is facing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Cam Awesome's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Cam Awesome keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your event objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Cam with other leading motivational, resilience and high-performance speakers

Is Cam Awesome Right for Your Event?

Tell us where your people need greater resilience, confidence or motivation.

We'll help you determine whether Cam 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].

Jack Becker: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Accountability & High Performance | Former U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot | Founder of Supersonic Success

Bring Fighter-Pilot Precision to Business Performance

What could your team accomplish if they prepared, communicated and executed with the discipline of elite fighter pilots?

Jack Becker is a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and dynamic keynote speaker on leadership, accountability, teamwork and high performance.

Why Book Jack Becker?

Jack doesn't simply tell exciting fighter-pilot stories. He translates the disciplines of military aviation into practical strategies business teams can use.

His message focuses on the behaviors that drive consistent performance: preparation, accountability, communication, execution and learning from every experience.

For organizations looking to improve performance rather than simply motivate people for an hour, Jack delivers a keynote designed to help audiences turn lessons into action and action into better results.

What Makes Jack Becker Different?

• Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot — brings lessons from an elite performance environment
• Business-focused message — translates aviation principles into workplace strategies
• Accountability driven — encourages people to take ownership of their performance
• Execution focused — helps close the gap between strategy and results
• Practical debriefing approach — emphasizes learning and continuous improvement
• Team performance — demonstrates why trust and communication matter under pressure
• High-energy delivery — engages audiences with compelling aviation experiences
• Actionable takeaways — gives teams concepts they can apply immediately

Why Is Jack Right for Your Audience?

Jack is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to improve execution, strengthen accountability and work together more effectively.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings, management events and organizations focused on operational excellence.

Book Jack when your audience needs to:

• Turn strategy into consistent execution
• Strengthen personal accountability
• Improve communication across teams
• Build greater trust and collaboration
• Prepare more effectively for important opportunities
• Learn quickly from wins and mistakes
• Perform more consistently under pressure
• Create a culture of continuous improvement

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding how preparation improves execution
• More willing to take ownership of results
• Better equipped to communicate when the stakes are high
• Recognizing the importance of effective debriefing
• More focused on learning rather than assigning blame
• Better prepared to collaborate across teams
• Ready to apply continuous improvement to everyday performance

Jack Becker Keynote Programs

Supersonic Success: What can business teams learn from the way fighter pilots prepare, execute and improve?

Jack takes audiences inside the world of military aviation to demonstrate how high-performing teams prepare for demanding missions and execute when the pressure is on.

He then translates those lessons into practical business strategies that can help organizations improve communication, accountability and performance.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, management teams and organizations focused on execution.

The Fighter Pilot Mindset: High performance doesn't happen by accident.

Jack explores the habits and disciplines that help elite performers stay focused, make decisions and deliver results in demanding environments.

Audiences learn how stronger preparation, clearer expectations and personal accountability can improve performance across an organization.

Ideal for: Sales kickoffs, leadership meetings and high-performance teams.

Debrief to Win: What happens after the mission may be just as important as what happens during it.

Jack demonstrates how effective debriefing can help teams identify what worked, understand what didn't and continuously improve without creating a culture of blame.

Applied to business, this approach can strengthen communication, accelerate learning and help teams perform better on the next mission.

Ideal for: Leadership teams, sales organizations, project teams and companies building a culture of continuous improvement.

Why Book Jack Becker Through The Sweeney Agency?

Jack Becker combines fighter-pilot experience with practical business strategies for improving execution, accountability and teamwork—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons to the performance challenges facing your organization.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Jack Becker's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Jack Becker keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your event objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Jack with other leading leadership, teamwork and high-performance speakers

Is Jack Becker Right for Your Event?

Tell us where your team needs to improve execution, accountability or collaboration.

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

Planning a leadership conference, sales kickoff or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Jack Becker as your keynote speaker.

Dr. Jasmin Bergeron: University Professor | Researcher | Speaker on the WOW Effect in Sales, Service and Leadership

Give People a Reason to Remember You

Dr. Jasmin Bergeron helps audiences create what he calls the WOW Effect: practical moments of value that strengthen relationships and leave a lasting impression. A university professor and researcher, he makes his findings useful through humor, interaction, and examples tailored to the people in the room.

Why Book Dr. Jasmin Bergeron?

Jasmin connects research with everyday decisions. He shows sales and service professionals how to manage expectations, increase perceived value, and build loyalty. For leaders and teams, he offers ways to improve recognition, participation, and collaboration.

He has delivered more than 2,000 presentations and workshops across industries. His programs can be customized for your organization and presented in English, French, or both.

What Makes Jasmin Different?

• A university professor who translates research into practical actions
• More than 2,000 keynote presentations and workshops
• Experience across financial services, healthcare, education, hospitality, and other sectors
• Interactive presentations that use humor and audience participation
• Bilingual delivery and the ability to tailor or combine topics for your event

Why Is Jasmin Right for Your Audience?

Jasmin is a strong fit for sales conferences, customer experience events, leadership meetings, and association programs. He is especially valuable when an organization wants its people to turn a broad goal such as “better service” into behaviors they can use immediately.

Book Jasmin when your audience needs to:

• Make customer interactions more memorable
• Strengthen trust and long-term loyalty
• Sell on value rather than relying on price
• Handle expectations and complaints more effectively
• Help managers recognize and engage their teams
• Build greater participation and cooperation among colleagues

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the behaviors that create a positive lasting impression
• Ready to improve how they manage expectations
• Equipped with practical ways to build stronger customer relationships
• Better able to connect service, sales, and teamwork to daily habits
• Motivated to create WOW moments in their own roles

Keynote Programs

The WOW Effect!

Jasmin explores what makes an experience memorable and gives audiences practical ways to create more positive moments for customers, colleagues, and other important relationships. Ideal for a broad conference audience.

The WOW Effect in Sales and Business Development

Jasmin shows sales professionals how to increase the value customers see, build credibility, strengthen loyalty, and approach closing without undue pressure. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing teams.

The WOW Effect in Customer Service

This keynote focuses on the interpersonal skills and service habits that help customers feel valued. Jasmin addresses expectations, complaints, and the impressions that shape satisfaction and loyalty. Ideal for service and customer experience events.

The WOW Effect in Leadership

Jasmin gives leaders practical ways to build trust, recognize contributions, and engage employees through change. Ideal for managers who want stronger teams and more consistent collaboration.

The WOW Effect in Teamwork

Jasmin explores how colleagues can increase participation, use their different strengths, and create a more supportive team environment. Ideal for organization-wide gatherings and team meetings.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us where your audience needs to create a stronger impression: sales, service, leadership, or teamwork. We can help select or combine the most relevant topics, discuss the presentation language and format, and confirm Jasmin’s availability and current fee.

Is Jasmin Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the interactions you want to improve, and what you want attendees to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Jasmin’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Richard Bliss: Founder and President of BlissPoint | Author of Digital First Leadership | Speaker on LinkedIn, Social Selling and AI

Why Book Richard Bliss?

Richard combines experience in executive communication and social selling with applications of AI. His sessions help audiences connect the tools available to them with the people they want to reach, while keeping business knowledge and personal relationships central to their approach.

Why Is Richard Bliss Right for Your Audience?

Richard is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership meetings, professional services events and industry conferences. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants its people to use LinkedIn more effectively or explore AI in prospecting and communication.

Book Richard when your audience needs to:

• Strengthen its professional presence on LinkedIn
• Communicate expertise with greater clarity
• Build relationships with prospects and clients
• Create more relevant digital content
• Explore practical AI applications in sales
• Develop confidence with new communication tools

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how to improve their LinkedIn presence
• Equipped with ideas for engaging their networks
• Better able to connect content with audience interests
• More aware of AI’s role in research and messaging
• Ready to build consistent digital communication habits

Keynote Programs

Mastering LinkedIn to Accelerate
Richard explores how LinkedIn can support sales performance, professional branding, leadership presence and influence. Ideal for sales teams and executives seeking a more deliberate approach to online relationships.

AI-Powered Sales
Richard shares practical ways to integrate AI into sales activity while drawing on personal expertise and customer understanding. Ideal for teams exploring new tools and workflows.

From Fear to Fluency
Richard addresses uncertainty about AI and explores applications in sales and leadership, including ethical considerations. Ideal for audiences seeking confidence and a practical starting point.

Is Richard Bliss Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its digital experience and the sales or leadership behaviors you want to improve. We can help select Richard’s most relevant program, discuss customization or a workshop, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Antonia Colibasanu: Chief GeoEconomist at Geopolitical Futures | Geopolitical Analyst and Author | Speaker on Global Risk, Europe and Geoeconomics

Why Book Antonia Colibasanu?

Her experience includes more than a decade at Stratfor and published work on geopolitics, geoeconomics and Eurasia. Antonia gives executive audiences a framework for considering how geography, trade and security can affect the assumptions behind business decisions.

Why Is Antonia Colibasanu Right for Your Audience?

Antonia is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, board discussions and organizations with international exposure. Consider her when leaders need to connect geopolitical developments with the regions and relationships that matter to their business.

Book Antonia when your audience needs to:

• Understand the interaction between economics and national interests
• Examine geopolitical factors affecting business plans
• Consider developments in Europe and Eurasia
• Ask better questions about trade and regional security
• Distinguish structural pressures from daily headlines
• Include geopolitical context in strategic discussions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the geopolitical forces examined in the session
• More aware of the relationship between economic and security interests
• Better prepared to question regional assumptions
• Equipped to frame geopolitical issues in business discussions
• Ready to monitor developments relevant to their organization

Keynote Programs

Suggested presentation focuses based on Antonia’s expertise include:

Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
Antonia can examine how economic tools and political interests shape international relationships. Ideal for executive and strategy audiences.

Europe, Eurasia and Regional Risk
Antonia can explore the regional dynamics most relevant to your organization. Ideal for businesses with European or Eurasian exposure.

Is Antonia Colibasanu Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your organization’s international exposure, the regions you want to understand and the questions your leaders are asking. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Antonia’s availability and fee.

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

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.

Mark C. Crowley: Author of Lead From the Heart | Former Financial Services Executive | Speaker on Leadership and Employee Well-Being

Why Book Mark C. Crowley?

Drawing on his financial services leadership experience and his study of workplace research, Mark connects care with accountability. His message gives managers a practical reason to make appreciation, support, and employee development part of how they lead.

Why Is Mark C. Crowley Right for Your Audience?

Mark is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management retreats, HR meetings, and employee experience events. Consider him when your organization wants managers to build commitment through the quality of their relationships with employees.

Book Mark when your audience needs to:

• Strengthen trust between managers and employees
• Make recognition more specific and meaningful
• Support employee well-being through daily leadership
• Connect people development with business priorities
• Reconsider management habits that weaken commitment
• Build a more supportive workplace culture

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of how leadership affects the employee experience
• Ready to make appreciation part of regular conversations
• Better able to discuss employee needs with curiosity
• Clearer on the connection between care and accountability
• Focused on concrete changes in their management habits

Keynote Programs

Heart-Led Leadership Ignites Human Potential

Mark’s leadership presentation draws on Lead From the Heart and The Power of Employee Well-Being. He explores how managers can support people, strengthen commitment, and create conditions for better work. Ideal for leaders responsible for team culture, development, and retention.

Is Mark C. Crowley Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen and the employee challenges your managers face. We can help select Mark’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Dr. Elliot Eisenberg: Chief Economist at GraphsandLaughs | Former Senior Economist at the National Association of Home Builders | Speaker on the Economy, Housing and Business Conditions

Why Book Dr. Elliot Eisenberg?

A former Senior Economist at the National Association of Home Builders, Elliot brings particular depth in housing and real estate. His lively delivery combines charts, humor and audience interaction with clear explanations of interest rates, inflation, employment and growth. He gives audiences a broader view of the economy and a practical reason to pay attention to the numbers.

Why Is Dr. Elliot Eisenberg Right for Your Audience?

Elliot is a strong fit for association conferences, banking events, real estate meetings, homebuilding gatherings and business leadership programs. He is especially relevant when attendees need an economic outlook that connects national developments with the markets they serve.

Book Elliot when your audience needs to:

• Understand the economic outlook in accessible language
• Connect interest rates and inflation with business conditions
• Assess trends in housing, construction and real estate
• Put regional economic developments into a national context
• Consider how employment and wages affect demand
• Bring better-informed questions to business planning

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the economic indicators most relevant to their work
• Better able to understand relationships among growth, rates and employment
• More aware of the forces influencing housing demand and affordability
• Equipped with context for discussing market risks and opportunities
• Ready to interpret economic news with a broader perspective

Keynote Programs

The Economic Forecast
Elliot examines the outlook for growth, interest rates, employment, business spending and other major indicators. Ideal for business and association audiences seeking an engaging overview of economic conditions and their implications.

The Economy and the Housing Market
Elliot connects the national economic outlook with housing prices, mortgage rates, construction, affordability and demographics. He also considers regional and local conditions. Ideal for real estate, mortgage, homebuilding and banking audiences.

The Economic and Energy Forecast
Elliot combines an economic overview with a discussion of oil, natural gas and energy demand. Ideal for energy-related businesses and industries seeking to understand how economic conditions and energy markets interact.

Is Dr. Elliot Eisenberg Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the markets it serves and the economic questions you want the presentation to address. We can help select Elliot’s most relevant program, discuss regional focus and customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Erin Hatzikostas: Former Corporate CEO | Author of You Do You(ish) and The 50% Rule | Speaker on Authenticity, Leadership and Business Growth

Why Book Erin Hatzikostas?

Erin combines business experience with humor and memorable examples. Her message connects authenticity with serving others: communicating in ways that are useful, unexpected, and credible rather than simply sharing more about yourself.

Why Is Erin Hatzikostas Right for Your Audience?

Erin is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, women’s events, and company meetings. Consider her when people need to strengthen trust, stand out more clearly, or rethink habits that make their communication feel impersonal.

Book Erin when your audience needs to:

• Build trust through more authentic communication
• Create stronger connections with colleagues and customers
• Question conventional leadership habits
• Explain their value in a more distinctive way
• Develop confidence without copying someone else’s style
• Connect authenticity with the needs of others

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on authenticity as a deliberate professional practice
• Ready to identify a more useful way to communicate
• More aware of habits that make interactions feel scripted
• Equipped with ideas for differentiating their approach
• Focused on an authentic action they can take at work

Keynote Programs

How to Use Authenticity as Your #1 Strategic Advantage

Erin explores authenticity as a means of connection and differentiation. Ideal for sales, business growth, and customer-facing audiences.

Strategic Authenticity

Erin connects authenticity with leadership and workplace relationships. Ideal for managers and professional development events.

The 50% Rule

Erin challenges audiences to rethink familiar approaches and make room for distinctive contributions. Ideal for teams seeking fresh thinking.

Is Erin Hatzikostas Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the trust, connection, or differentiation you want your audience to strengthen. We can help select Erin’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.

Michael Kerr: Author of The Humor Advantage | Workplace Culture Expert | Speaker on Leadership, Humor and Employee Engagement

Why Book Michael Kerr?

Michael brings an engaging style to a practical culture discussion. His message encourages leaders to look beyond stated values and consider the meetings, conversations, and habits through which employees experience those values each day.

Why Is Michael Kerr Right for Your Audience?

Michael is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, customer service meetings, and culture programs. Consider him when an organization wants stronger connection and a more positive working environment.

Book Michael when your audience needs to:

• Make workplace values more visible
• Build connection through appropriate humor
• Improve everyday team interactions
• Recognize behaviors that undermine respect
• Create more welcoming employee experiences
• Connect workplace culture with customer service

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how daily behavior shapes culture
• Ready to bring more intention to team interactions
• More aware of the difference between inclusive and harmful humor
• Equipped with ideas for strengthening connection
• Focused on a workplace habit they can improve

Keynote Programs

The Humor Advantage

Michael explores the role of humor in connection, communication, and workplace experience. Ideal for employee, leadership, and customer service audiences.

Inspiring Workplaces

Michael examines practices that help people feel engaged in their work. Ideal for organizations seeking a stronger, more respectful culture.

Is Michael Kerr Right for Your Event?

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

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

Mike Mullane: Former NASA Astronaut | Author of Riding Rockets | Speaker on Safety, Accountability and Teamwork

Why Book Mike Mullane?

Mike’s stories make the pressure to accept shortcuts tangible. His presentations encourage people to question departures from established practice, speak up about concerns, and recognize their own contribution to the team’s operating culture.

Why Is Mike Mullane Right for Your Audience?

Mike is a strong fit for safety conferences, operational leadership meetings, engineering events, and high-reliability organizations. Consider him when speaking up and following through on standards are central priorities.

Book Mike when your audience needs to:

• Recognize gradual acceptance of unsafe shortcuts
• Speak up when something needs attention
• Strengthen personal responsibility for safety
• Understand how pressure affects decisions
• Support more questioning team conversations
• Keep operational standards visible in daily work

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how small deviations can become routine
• Ready to raise a concern more deliberately
• More aware of their contribution to safety culture
• Equipped with questions about team decision-making
• Focused on a standard they need to reinforce

Keynote Programs

Countdown to Teamwork/Leadership/Safety

Mike uses spaceflight experiences to examine teamwork, leadership, and departures from safe practice. Ideal for operational and safety audiences.

Responsibility & Accountability

Mike explores the importance of speaking up and owning one’s contribution. Ideal for leaders and teams working in demanding environments.

Is Mike Mullane Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the operational responsibilities your audience carries and the safety behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Mike’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Matt Phillips: Founder of Phillips & Co. | Innovation Adviser and Entrepreneur | Speaker on Creativity, Leadership and Breakthrough Thinking

Why Book Matt Phillips?

Matt combines that business background with an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and improv training at The Second City. His presentations use humor, examples, and practical tools to help people reconsider a challenge and move promising ideas toward action.

Why Is Matt Phillips Right for Your Audience?

Matt is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation meetings, strategy retreats, and company events. Consider him when teams feel stuck, need new approaches to a business challenge, or want more people to contribute ideas.

Book Matt when your audience needs to:

• Approach a familiar problem from a different angle
• Turn promising ideas into practical next steps
• Build confidence contributing to innovation
• Recognize opportunities beyond existing routines
• Encourage creative thinking across roles and departments
• Strengthen leadership support for experimentation

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Introduced to Matt’s five principles of breakthrough thinking or leadership
• Equipped with tools for reconsidering a current challenge
• More confident participating in innovation
• Ready to encourage creative contributions from colleagues
• Focused on a practical step toward testing or developing an idea

Keynote Programs

The Breakthrough Thinking Toolbox

Matt introduces principles and tools for getting unstuck, reframing challenges, and developing new possibilities. He connects creative thinking with the work of putting an idea into practice. Ideal for innovation, strategy, and broad employee audiences.

Breakthrough Leadership

Matt explores how leaders can encourage new thinking and help their teams develop ideas. Audiences examine leadership mindsets and ways to create conditions that support innovation. Ideal for executives, managers, and leadership development events.

Is Matt Phillips Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges it needs to approach differently, and the ideas you want people to put into action. We can help select Matt’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.

Jeremy Poincenot: World Blind Golf Champion | Speaker on Interdependence, Perspective and Resilience

Why Book Jeremy Poincenot?

Jeremy makes teamwork personal through the partnership required to play his sport. His presentations encourage people to reconsider the assumption that asking for help diminishes achievement and to notice what different strengths can accomplish together.

Why Is Jeremy Poincenot Right for Your Audience?

Jeremy is a strong fit for employee gatherings, leadership conferences, sales events, and team programs. Consider him when an organization wants people to seek support and contribute more openly to one another’s success.

Book Jeremy when your audience needs to:

• Recognize the value of interdependence
• Ask for support more deliberately
• Contribute their strengths to shared goals
• Suspend assumptions about other people
• Approach setbacks with greater perspective
• Build stronger partnerships at work

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the difference between independence and interdependence
• Ready to identify a partnership they can strengthen
• More aware of the help available around them
• Encouraged to reconsider a limiting judgment
• Focused on supporting a colleague’s contribution

Keynote Programs

Together We Are Limitless

Jeremy explores the power of interdependence through his life and golf experiences. Ideal for teams seeking a memorable perspective on partnership, support, and the possibilities created by working together.

Is Jeremy Poincenot Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the partnerships your audience needs to strengthen and the teamwork behaviors you want to encourage. We can help select Jeremy’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.

Michelle Ray: Leadership Expert | Speaker on Change, Communication and Leading in Real Time

Why Book Michelle Ray?

Michelle brings the discussion into everyday leadership situations. Her presentations encourage people to examine how they listen, respond to uncertainty, and show up when a familiar approach no longer meets the needs of the moment.

Why Is Michelle Ray Right for Your Audience?

Michelle is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management meetings, employee events, and organizations navigating transition. Consider her when leaders need to be more responsive and intentional in their relationships.

Book Michelle when your audience needs to:

• Respond more thoughtfully to changing conditions
• Build trust through everyday communication
• Strengthen relationships with employees
• Examine their own leadership habits
• Give clearer direction during uncertainty
• Connect authenticity with visible behavior

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a leadership response they want to improve
• Ready to approach a team conversation differently
• More aware of how their behavior affects trust
• Equipped with questions about changing employee needs
• Focused on a practical next leadership action

Keynote Programs

Real-Time Leadership

Michelle explores being ready and responsive in a changing environment. Ideal for managers and leaders navigating uncertainty.

The Transformational Leader

Michelle examines authenticity and the relationships leaders build with their teams. Ideal for leadership development and management programs.

Is Michelle Ray Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes your leaders face and the working relationships you want them to strengthen. We can help select Michelle’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.

Sébastien Sasseville: Endurance Athlete and Everest Climber | Speaker on Mission-Centered Leadership, Teamwork and Change

Why Book Sébastien Sasseville?

Sébastien brings the story back to organizational life. His presentations encourage leaders to examine how they communicate purpose, develop other people, and respond when conditions require a different plan.

Why Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Audience?

Sébastien is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, employee gatherings, and transformation events. Consider him when teams need a stronger connection between their daily contribution and a common goal.

Book Sébastien when your audience needs to:

• Connect individual work with a shared mission
• Develop greater trust within a team
• Adapt plans when conditions change
• Recognize when to seek support
• Give others room to lead and contribute
• Build accountability around collective goals

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the mission their team is working toward
• Ready to examine a leadership habit
• More aware of the support behind achievement
• Encouraged to adapt their approach when needed
• Focused on a contribution to the team’s next step

Keynote Programs

Mission-Centered Leadership

Sébastien explores leadership that gives people a clear purpose and room to contribute. Ideal for management and executive audiences.

Change, Agility, and Transformation

Sébastien connects endurance experiences with responding to changing conditions. Ideal for organizations navigating transition.

Teamwork and Performance

Sébastien examines interdependence and the team behind demanding achievements. Ideal for sales and employee events.

Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the mission your audience needs to advance and the teamwork or leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Sébastien’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Nina Sossamon-Pogue: Former USA Gymnast | Emmy-Winning News Anchor and Former Technology Executive | Speaker on Resilience and Change

Why Book Nina Sossamon-Pogue?

Nina uses her THIS framework to help audiences think through challenges without allowing one setback to define the whole story. Her message is especially relevant to people who are accustomed to achieving and now need a more sustainable response to pressure.

Why Is Nina Sossamon-Pogue Right for Your Audience?

Nina is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales events, and change programs. Consider her when an audience needs encouragement and a practical way to approach an uncertain next chapter.

Book Nina when your audience needs to:

• Respond constructively to unexpected setbacks
• Put a difficult moment into perspective
• Build confidence during transitions
• Discuss pressure among high achievers
• Support colleagues through change
• Choose a useful next step

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how they frame a current challenge
• Introduced to the THIS framework
• Ready to recognize strengths developed through setbacks
• More aware of the strain of constant achievement
• Focused on a manageable action that moves them forward

Keynote Programs

You Got THIS

Nina explores confidence and perspective when facing difficult circumstances. Ideal for broad employee and change audiences.

Resilience for High Achievers

Nina examines the pressure to keep surpassing previous success and ways to approach achievement more sustainably. Ideal for leaders and performance-focused teams.

Is Nina Sossamon-Pogue Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes your people are navigating and the confidence you want to strengthen. We can help select Nina’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.

Alex Weber: American Ninja Warrior Host and Competitor | Award-Winning Speaker | Speaker on Leadership and Peak Performance

Why Book Alex Weber?

Alex brings energy, humor, and openness to the stage. He uses his own failures and achievements to give audiences practical ways to build confidence, support one another, and keep making progress when the next step feels difficult.

Why Is Alex Weber Right for Your Audience?

Alex is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, team events, and opening or closing keynotes. He is especially relevant when an organization wants people to approach ambitious goals with renewed confidence and work together through change.

Book Alex when your audience needs to:

• Overcome hesitation after setbacks
• Build confidence in high-pressure moments
• Strengthen trust and connection across teams
• Align personal goals with a shared mission
• Lead with a positive and resilient example
• Take action toward its next level of performance

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More willing to act despite self-doubt
• Equipped to reframe setbacks as opportunities to learn
• Clearer on the strengths they can bring to a goal
• Ready to build stronger relationships within their teams
• Energized to follow through on a meaningful next step

Keynote Programs

Unstoppable
Alex shares a system for leaders and top performers facing critical moments. He explores how to respond to stress and doubt with confidence, resourcefulness, and action. Ideal for leadership and performance audiences.

The Unstoppable You
Alex helps individuals challenge internal limits, recognize their strengths, and pursue goals that may feel out of reach. Ideal for company-wide and professional development events.

Unstoppable Leadership
Drawing on his coaching experience, Alex focuses on shared vision, trust, and the example leaders set for others. Ideal for managers and leaders at any career stage.

Unstoppable Teams
Alex examines how teams can build genuine connection and align individual goals with collective success. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger collaboration and a more united culture.

Is Alex Weber Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the obstacles it faces, and the goals you want it to pursue after the event. We can help select Alex’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Jared Weiner: Cofounder of Wake the Future | Futurist | Speaker on AI, Human Agency and Global Trends

Why Book Jared Weiner?

Jared’s current message places particular emphasis on agency: the ability to make intentional decisions rather than simply follow the direction of new tools. His presentations connect emerging trends with the identity, judgment, and priorities people bring to work.

Why Is Jared Weiner Right for Your Audience?

Jared is a strong fit for executive meetings, innovation conferences, company events, and strategy retreats. Consider him when an audience needs to reflect on its own role in a future increasingly shaped by AI.

Book Jared when your audience needs to:

• Distinguish useful signals from constant noise
• Review assumptions about AI adoption
• Protect space for independent judgment
• Connect technology decisions with human priorities
• Think more intentionally about future choices
• Discuss the skills that support personal agency

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on their role in shaping a response to change
• Ready to examine an assumption about AI
• More aware of the relationship between technology and identity
• Equipped with questions about human agency
• Focused on a decision they want to make more intentionally

Keynote Programs

The Reformed Futurist

Jared explores how people can rethink their relationship with trends and uncertainty. Ideal for leadership and innovation audiences.

The Human Edge: Agency + Identity

Jared examines the value of human judgment and identity in a technology-driven environment. Ideal for organizations reflecting on AI and the future of work.

Is Jared Weiner Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the future choices your audience needs to examine and the human capabilities you want to strengthen. We can help select Jared’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.

Scott Welle: Founder of Outperform the Norm | Author | Speaker on Performance, Leadership and Daily Execution

Why Book Scott Welle?

Scott brings an energetic message about standards, preparation, and persistence. His presentations invite people to consider what they can control and how their routines support the results they want to achieve.

Why Is Scott Welle Right for Your Audience?

Scott is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, company meetings, leadership conferences, and performance programs. Consider him when an audience needs renewed motivation paired with a practical focus on execution.

Book Scott when your audience needs to:

• Connect goals with daily routines
• Raise personal standards for preparation
• Respond constructively to setbacks
• Review habits that affect energy and focus
• Build consistency when motivation fluctuates
• Take greater ownership of progress

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a habit that supports their performance
• Ready to connect a goal with a repeatable action
• More aware of their response to adversity
• Equipped with questions about execution
• Focused on a standard they can practice consistently

Keynote Programs

Outperform the Norm

Scott explores the mindset and habits behind stronger performance. Ideal for sales and broad employee audiences.

Daily Execution. Extraordinary Results.

Scott examines goal-setting, systems, and the daily work of achieving meaningful progress. Ideal for leaders and teams seeking more consistent follow-through.

Is Scott Welle Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the performance standards you want to raise and the daily actions your people need to strengthen. We can help select Scott’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.

Sam Wilkin: Geopolitical Analyst | Author of History Repeating | Speaker on Political Risk and Global Business

Why Book Sam Wilkin?

Sam explains how political behavior can combine into larger movements such as polarization and populism. His presentations give leaders a way to explore the forces behind events and consider how those forces could affect their plans.

Why Is Sam Wilkin Right for Your Audience?

Sam is a strong fit for executive meetings, risk conferences, international business events, and industry programs. Consider him when an organization needs a clearer discussion of political risks to its markets or investments.

Book Sam when your audience needs to:

• Understand patterns behind political disruption
• Connect geopolitical change with business exposure
• Review assumptions about international operations
• Discuss populism in historical context
• Consider political risk in strategic planning
• Ask more useful questions about uncertainty

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a political development affecting their organization
• More aware of historical parallels and their limits
• Ready to examine a risk assumption
• Equipped with questions for international planning
• Prepared to connect political context with business decisions

Keynote Programs

Where Does Crazy Politics Come From?

Sam examines the patterns and behaviors behind political upheaval. Ideal for audiences seeking a broader view of polarization and populism.

Navigating the New Geopolitical Normal

Sam explores political developments and their implications for business risk. Ideal for executives and organizations with international exposure.

Is Sam Wilkin Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the political risks your organization faces and the planning questions your leaders need to address. We can help select Sam’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. Julie Williamson: Business Strategy Adviser | Organizational Communication Scholar | Speaker on Leadership Alignment and Growth

Why Book Dr. Julie Williamson?

Julie brings experience working with organizations on transformation and growth. Her presentations encourage leaders to look at the way they make decisions, maintain alignment, and bring energy to difficult work.

Why Is Dr. Julie Williamson Right for Your Audience?

Julie is a strong fit for leadership retreats, management conferences, transformation meetings, and strategy events. Consider her when a leadership team shares ambitious goals but needs a stronger approach to achieving them together.

Book Julie when your audience needs to:

• Translate strategic agreement into coordinated action
• Discuss how leaders work together
• Clarify expectations during transformation
• Strengthen alignment across functions
• Bring constructive energy to difficult situations
• Review leadership habits that affect execution

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a gap between agreement and action
• Ready to examine a leadership working habit
• More aware of their influence on team energy
• Equipped with questions about alignment
• Focused on a shared practice that supports execution

Keynote Programs

Make HOW Matter

Julie explores how leaders can work together to deliver on ambitious goals. Ideal for internal leadership meetings and strategy retreats.

The Power of Intentional Optimism

Julie examines the role of optimism in leadership and the energy people bring to difficult situations. Ideal for management and change audiences.

Is Dr. Julie Williamson Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the goals your leadership team shares and the working relationships needed to achieve them. We can help select Julie’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.

Garrison Wynn: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Change & Influence | Bestselling Author | Business Performance Expert

Influence People. Navigate Change. Get Better Results.

Garrison Wynn is a bestselling author, business expert and highly entertaining keynote speaker on leadership, change, influence and workplace performance.

Combining research, real-world business experience and humor, Garrison helps audiences understand what makes people listen, trust and cooperate. His practical approach gives leaders and employees strategies for communicating more effectively, navigating change and getting results—even when they don't have complete control over the people or circumstances around them.

Why Book Garrison Wynn?

Garrison tackles a reality every organization faces: being right isn't enough. You still have to get people to buy in.

Whether leaders are introducing change, salespeople are influencing customers or teams are trying to work more effectively together, success often depends on the ability to gain cooperation from other people.

Garrison shows audiences how to increase their influence, communicate in ways people respond to and become more effective at getting things done.

His presentations are funny, fast-paced and practical, making complex workplace challenges easy to understand and immediately relevant.

What Makes Garrison Wynn Different?

• Business-focused message — connects communication and influence directly to results
• Highly entertaining — uses humor to keep audiences engaged
• Practical strategies — gives people ideas they can immediately apply
• Influence expertise — explores why people listen, cooperate and buy into ideas
• Change relevant — helps leaders gain greater support during uncertainty and transformation
• Broad audience appeal — effective for executives, managers, salespeople and frontline employees
• Real-world perspective — focuses on what actually works when dealing with people
• Memorable delivery — combines useful content with an entertaining keynote experience

Why Is Garrison Right for Your Audience?

Garrison is an excellent choice when you need your people to communicate more effectively, gain greater cooperation and produce results in situations they can't completely control.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales meetings, corporate events, association conferences and organizations navigating change.

Book Garrison when your audience needs to:

• Gain greater buy-in for their ideas
• Communicate more effectively with different personalities
• Influence without relying on authority
• Build stronger workplace relationships
• Navigate resistance to change
• Improve collaboration across teams
• Strengthen customer and client relationships
• Get better results through other people

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to communicate ideas in ways people will hear
• Understanding why good ideas don't automatically gain support
• Equipped with practical strategies for increasing influence
• More effective at gaining cooperation from others
• Better prepared to communicate during change
• More aware of how trust affects business relationships
• Ready to adapt their communication to different people and situations

Garrison Wynn Keynote Programs

Being the Best vs. Being Consistently Chosen

Why aren't the best products, services or ideas always the ones people choose?

Garrison explores the factors that influence how people make decisions and why technical excellence alone doesn't guarantee success.

Audiences discover how trust, communication, relationships and perceived value can influence whether customers, colleagues and decision-makers choose to support them.

Ideal for: Sales conferences, customer-facing teams, association events and business-development meetings.

Change Management: Creating Buy-In

Change doesn't succeed simply because leadership says it needs to happen.

Garrison helps audiences understand why people resist change and what leaders can do to create greater cooperation.

He shares practical strategies for communicating change, building trust and helping people understand why moving forward is in their interest.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating significant change.

The Truth About Success

What really separates consistently successful people from everyone else?

Garrison challenges conventional assumptions about talent, intelligence and hard work and explores the behaviors that help people gain trust, build relationships and achieve results.

Through humor, research and real-world examples, he shows audiences how to become more influential and effective in their interactions with others.

Ideal for: Corporate meetings, leadership events, sales kickoffs and association conferences.

Why Book Garrison Wynn Through The Sweeney Agency?

Garrison Wynn combines business insight, practical strategies and humor to create a keynote that is both useful and entertaining—but the real value comes from matching his message to the results you want your audience to achieve.

Contact The Sweeney Agency [email protected] to check on book Garrison Wynn's availability and current speaking fee.

Joel Zeff: Improvisational Performer | Author of Make the Right Choice | Speaker on Teamwork, Communication and Change

Why Book Joel Zeff?

Joel’s approach makes participation part of the message. Audiences see how listening, flexibility, and encouragement influence a shared task, then connect those experiences with the way they collaborate at work.

Why Is Joel Zeff Right for Your Audience?

Joel is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, sales events, and team gatherings. Consider him when you want an energetic, participatory presentation that gives people a shared experience of collaboration.

Book Joel when your audience needs to:

• Listen and respond more attentively
• Offer positive support to teammates
• Stay flexible when circumstances change
• Recognize the choices behind communication
• Encourage participation within a group
• Bring more constructive energy to work

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• A memorable experience of working together
• More aware of how support affects participation
• Ready to improve a communication choice
• Encouraged to respond more flexibly to change
• Focused on an action that helps a colleague succeed

Keynote Programs

Joel’s interactive presentations can be shaped around the following areas:

Teamwork and Positive Support

Joel uses improvisation to explore communication, encouragement, and shared success. Ideal for broad employee and team audiences.

Leading Through Change

Joel connects flexibility and positive support with the choices leaders make during uncertainty. Ideal for management and change events.

Is Joel Zeff Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the collaboration you want to strengthen and the level of audience participation you have in mind. We can help select Joel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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