Jay Acunzo: Business Storyteller | Author of Break the Wheel | Speaker on Differentiation, Messaging and Public Speaking

Make Your Ideas Matter More

Jay Acunzo helps organizations answer that question with a clearer message and a stronger story. Drawing on marketing experience at Google, ESPN, and HubSpot, he shows audiences how to build ideas that resonate and move people to act. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Jay Acunzo?

Jay helps marketing, sales, and leadership audiences define the idea they want to be known for—and communicate it so the right people care. His sessions connect differentiation to the words, stories, and presentations teams use every day.

That makes his keynote especially valuable when an organization has strong expertise but struggles to explain why its work matters.

What Makes Jay Different?

• Experience developing stories and original content for brands and business leaders
• A focus on finding one clear, ownable idea
• Practical tools audiences can use to sharpen their message
• An engaging presentation style rooted in the craft he teaches
• A keynote he customizes to the audience and its goals

Why Is Jay Right for Your Audience?

Jay is a strong fit for marketing conferences, sales meetings, leadership events, and client programs. He is particularly relevant when a team feels pressure to publish more or speak louder while its central message remains unclear.

Book Jay when your audience needs to:

• Differentiate its ideas in a crowded market
• Explain value in language buyers remember
• Build a consistent story across marketing, sales, and leadership
• Turn expertise into a clear point of view
• Create stronger presentations and thought leadership
• Move people from attention to trust and action

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to identify a signature idea their audience cares about
• Equipped to make their message clearer and more distinctive
• Ready to develop stories that make their expertise relevant
• More confident speaking to customers, colleagues, or larger audiences
• Focused on the influence of their ideas

Keynote Programs

Resonance Over Reach

Jay’s most-booked keynote helps audiences clarify their message and organize their work around an idea they can own. Ideal for marketing, sales, brand, and executive audiences.

The Last Great Advantage

Jay explores public speaking as a valuable human skill in the AI era. By breaking down effective talks, he gives audiences structures and techniques they can use to make their own presentations more compelling.

The Power of a Premise

Jay shows teams how a clear premise can distinguish their work, strengthen their storytelling, and make their expertise easier to remember. Ideal for organizations building thought leadership or refining how they communicate their value.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what you want people to say or do differently after the event. We can help you choose Jay’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Jay Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the message you want to sharpen, and the action you want to inspire. We’ll help you assess Jay’s fit and plan the next step.

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

David Allison: Human Values Expert | Founder of the Valuegraphics Project | Bestselling Author

Understand What People Value. Change What Happens Next.

David Allison helps organizations look past demographic labels to the human values people share. As the founder of the Valuegraphics Project, he turns research on values into practical ideas for reaching customers, engaging employees, and building stronger connections.

Why Book David Allison?

David gives audiences a fresh way to understand why people act. He shows leaders how to use insight into human values when they communicate, sell, lead, or create a sense of belonging.

His keynotes are especially useful for organizations with plenty of customer or employee data but too little clarity about what will truly engage people.

What Makes David Different?

• Original global research into the values that influence decisions
• An approach that looks beyond broad demographic assumptions
• Relevant applications for sales, marketing, leadership, and workplace culture
• A way to connect data with more human communication
• The ability to tailor the conversation to the audience an organization wants to engage

Why Is David Right for Your Audience?

David is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales and marketing events, association meetings, and organizations working to strengthen culture. He is particularly valuable when a team needs to understand its customers, employees, or community more deeply before trying to influence them.

Book David when your audience needs to:

• Understand what matters most to the people it serves
• Build stronger connections with customers and colleagues
• Make messages more relevant and persuasive
• Lead teams with a better grasp of shared motivations
• Strengthen belonging without relying on stereotypes
• Turn audience insight into practical decisions

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the difference between who people are and what they value
• Ready to ask better questions about the audiences they want to reach
• Equipped to connect messages and decisions to shared values
• More confident using values to improve engagement and trust
• Motivated to put human insight alongside the data they already use

Keynote Programs

Boosting Sales by Being Human

David shows sales and marketing teams how understanding customer values can help them communicate more effectively and build stronger relationships. Ideal for sales kickoffs, customer experience events, and marketing conferences.

The Science of Values-Based Leadership

David explores how leaders can identify the values their people share and use that understanding to improve communication, collaboration, and engagement. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations navigating change.

The Blueprint for Belonging

David challenges audiences to move beyond assumptions based on demographic labels and examine the values that help people feel understood and included. Ideal for workplace culture and people leadership events.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about your audience and the outcome you want. We’ll help you assess which of David’s programs is most relevant, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is David Right for Your Event?

Tell us whose decisions you hope to influence, which relationships you want to strengthen, and what you want your audience to do differently. We’ll help you assess David’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Lior Arussy: Customer Experience Strategist | Founder of Strativity Group | Speaker on Change and Employee Engagement

Make Change Matter to Customers and Employees

Lior Arussy helps leaders close that gap. As the founder of Strativity Group, he connects customer strategy to the actions employees take and the value customers experience. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Lior Arussy?

Lior brings a practitioner’s view of change. He has worked with organizations on customer experience and employee engagement, and he shows audiences why a new strategy succeeds only when people can make it real in their work.

His keynotes challenge leaders to look beyond slogans and technology investments. Lior focuses on what customers value and how employees can deliver it consistently.

What Makes Lior Different?

• Experience helping organizations change customer and employee experiences
• A direct connection between culture, execution, and business results
• A human perspective on how AI is changing customer expectations
• Ideas that speak to leaders and customer-facing teams
• An emphasis on making change visible in everyday behaviour

Why Is Lior Right for Your Audience?

Lior is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, sales and service meetings, and organizations working through transformation. He is particularly relevant when a team has an ambitious customer strategy but needs greater commitment and consistency across the organization.

Book Lior when your audience needs to:

• Build more valuable, lasting customer relationships
• Connect employee engagement to customer experience
• Respond to changing expectations in the AI era
• Turn a customer strategy into daily decisions and actions
• Strengthen adaptability during ongoing change
• Create a culture that supports exceptional performance

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer about what makes a customer experience valuable
• Ready to identify gaps between their promise and their delivery
• Better able to involve employees in making change work
• Equipped to examine where digital tools help or hinder human connection
• Motivated to take ownership of the experience they create

Keynote Programs

The One and Only: The Gen AI-Empowered Customer

Lior explores how generative AI is changing customer expectations and the ways people engage with brands. He asks organizations to reconsider how they create relevant value for customers who expect more individual attention and choice.

Customer Experience as an Engine for Growth

Lior examines how organizations can make customer relationships a source of lasting business value. Drawing on successes and setbacks from real organizations, he connects customer strategy to execution and growth.

Change Resilience: The New Core Competence

Lior focuses on the human side of transformation and how organizations can become more capable of adapting as change continues. Ideal for teams facing a major strategic shift or repeated disruption. The Sweeney Agency

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about the gap between your organization’s customer promise and what people experience. We’ll help you assess which of Lior’s programs fits your event, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Lior Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the change you are trying to make, and the customer or employee outcome you want. We’ll help you assess Lior’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Mariana Atencio: Peabody Award-Winning Journalist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Trust, Authenticity and Communication

Build Trust by Showing Up as Yourself

Mariana Atencio brings a journalist’s instinct for finding the human story to that question. The author of Perfectly You helps leaders and teams communicate with greater authenticity, build trust, and recognize the strength in what makes each person different. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Mariana Atencio?

Mariana combines the energy of a compelling storyteller with experience reporting, interviewing, and speaking to diverse audiences. She connects her own journey with challenges people face at work: finding their voice, communicating through uncertainty, and building relationships across differences.

Her keynotes give audiences practical ways to communicate with clarity and empathy. For leaders, that can help create the trust people need to collaborate and contribute their best work.

What Makes Mariana Different?

• A journalist’s experience telling stories that connect people
• A personal message about authenticity grounded in her own journey
• Practical communication lessons for leaders and teams
• An interactive, energetic style that invites audience reflection
• Versatility as a keynote speaker, host, and moderator

Why Is Mariana Right for Your Audience?

Mariana is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, women’s programs, and organizations working to strengthen communication or culture. She is especially valuable when an audience needs both an inspiring story and a reason to examine how it builds trust day to day.

Book Mariana when your audience needs to:

• Communicate more credibly during uncertainty
• Build trust across teams and with customers
• Lead with authenticity and empathy
• Value individual differences as a source of strength
• Speak up with greater confidence
• Strengthen connection and belonging at work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More aware of how authenticity affects trust
• Ready to communicate with greater clarity and empathy
• Better able to recognize and use their own strengths
• More confident sharing ideas and stories that matter
• Motivated to create stronger connections with colleagues

Keynote Programs

Real Matters: Building Trust in an Unreal World

Mariana explores why genuine communication matters when employees and customers are surrounded by polished narratives and AI-generated messages. She gives leaders ways to build credibility, strengthen connection, and guide teams through uncertainty.

Perfectly You: Leveraging the Power Within

Drawing on her book and personal story, Mariana shows audiences how embracing what makes them different can strengthen confidence, resilience, and purpose. Ideal for employee events and women’s leadership programs.

Communicating Confidently: Cut Through the Noise and Get Heard

In this interactive keynote or breakout, Mariana shares techniques for distilling a message, speaking with confidence, and connecting across in-person and digital settings. Ideal for leaders and client-facing teams. The Sweeney Agency

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us whether your audience most needs to build trust, find its voice, or communicate more effectively. We’ll help you choose the right program, discuss customization, and confirm Mariana’s availability and current fee.

Is Mariana Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, where trust or communication needs to improve, and what you want people to do differently. We’ll help you assess Mariana’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Nikolas Badminton: Futurist | Chief Futurist and Hope Engineer™ | Author of Facing Our Futures

Help Your Audience Imagine—and Prepare for—What Comes Next

Nikolas Badminton helps organizations do that work. A futurist and executive advisor, he connects emerging technology and global change to the questions leaders need to ask about their own industry. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Nikolas Badminton?

Nikolas makes the future a useful strategic conversation. Drawing on his work with organizations and his book Facing Our Futures, he challenges audiences to examine emerging signals, prepare for risks, and see opportunities they may otherwise miss.

His presentations can open a broad conversation about an industry’s future or focus on AI, energy, or geopolitical technology.

What Makes Nikolas Different?

• Experience advising leaders on futures thinking and strategic foresight
• An energetic approach that makes large-scale change relevant to the audience
• The ability to connect technology, industry shifts, and wider global forces
• A focus on imagining desirable futures as well as anticipating risks
• Topics that can be tailored to a sector’s most pressing questions

Why Is Nikolas Right for Your Audience?

Nikolas is a strong fit for executive conferences, industry associations, strategy meetings, and organizations confronting significant technological or market change. He is particularly valuable when leaders need to step back from immediate demands and consider the choices that will shape their future.

Book Nikolas when your audience needs to:

• See beyond short-term trends and current assumptions
• Explore possible futures for its industry
• Understand the implications of AI and emerging technology
• Anticipate risks and opportunities earlier
• Build a bolder shared vision
• Turn curiosity about the future into strategic discussion

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to recognize signals of meaningful change
• Ready to ask stronger questions about possible futures
• Clearer on how technology and global shifts may affect their sector
• More confident discussing opportunities alongside risks
• Motivated to bring foresight into today’s decisions

Keynote Programs

Facing Our Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

Nikolas helps audiences explore the megatrends and emerging technologies that could reshape their industry. He encourages a shift from accepting today’s assumptions to asking what could be possible.

The A.I. Leader: Create Incredible Productivity, Profit & Growth

Nikolas explores how AI could change work, capabilities, and business models—and what leaders should consider as they prepare their organizations.

Energy Transitions: Explore Renewable Energy Futures

Nikolas examines how changes in energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption could create new opportunities and challenges.

Geopolitical Technology Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

Nikolas considers how AI, critical resources, supply chains, and other technologies could reshape global competition and strategic planning. The Sweeney Agency

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about your industry, the forces you are watching, and the choices your leaders face. We’ll help you identify the most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Nikolas’s availability and current fee.

Is Nikolas Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes it needs to understand, and the conversation you want the event to start. We’ll help you assess Nikolas’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Chris Bashinelli: National Geographic Explorer | Host of Bridge the Gap | Speaker on Human Connection, Trust and Leadership

Why Book Chris Bashinelli?

As host of Bridge the Gap, a travel series featured on PBS and National Geographic Channel, Chris brings global stories and footage to the stage. His energetic presentations combine humor, audience interaction and practical exercises, giving people opportunities to reflect on how they connect with customers, colleagues and the teams they lead.

Why Is Chris Bashinelli Right for Your Audience?

Chris is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings and culture-focused events. He is especially relevant when an organization wants people to feel more connected, strengthen customer relationships or lead with greater empathy during change.

Book Chris when your audience needs to:

• Build trust with clients and colleagues
• Listen with greater curiosity and attention
• Strengthen belonging across teams
• Lead through uncertainty with authenticity
• Connect individual strengths with shared goals
• Bring renewed purpose to everyday interactions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of how presence and listening influence trust
• Equipped with practical ways to strengthen human connection
• Ready to recognize the person behind a role or transaction
• Better prepared to support colleagues through change
• Motivated to create a culture where people feel valued and heard

Keynote Programs

The Power of Human Connection
Chris explores how understanding people and serving their interests can strengthen relationships with clients and teams. Ideal for sales, customer service and leadership audiences seeking deeper trust.

Leading Through Change
Chris shares stories of resilience and personal growth to explore how leaders can remain grounded and connected during uncertainty. Ideal for organizations navigating change and seeking renewed employee inspiration.

Building Unbreakable Teams
Through global stories and interactive moments, Chris introduces his PACT of Connection: Presence, Authenticity, Care and Trust. Ideal for teams seeking stronger collaboration, belonging and open communication.

The Happiness Effect
Drawing on his travels and mindfulness practice, Chris explores the role of gratitude, perspective and happiness in work and relationships. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed purpose and practical ways to support well-being.

Is Chris Bashinelli Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the relationships you want to strengthen and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Chris’s most relevant program, discuss customization and audience interaction, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Kristel Bauer: Leadership and High Performance Speaker | Author of Work-Life Tango | Founder of Live Greatly

Perform Well Without Running on Empty

Kristel Bauer helps leaders and teams answer that question. Drawing on her background in healthcare, behavioral science, and leadership, she offers practical habits for strengthening performance, resilience, and well-being in demanding workplaces.

Why Book Kristel Bauer?

Kristel connects high performance with the daily choices that make it sustainable. Her presentations help audiences rethink how they manage energy, attention, and competing priorities so they can do their best work over time.

Her experience as a Physician Assistant in integrative psychiatry and her work as the author of Work-Life Tango give her a distinctive perspective on stress, behaviour change, and leadership.

What Makes Kristel Different?

• A healthcare background that informs her approach to stress and resilience
• Practical habits that connect personal well-being with team performance
• A message relevant to leaders and individual contributors
• Research-informed ideas delivered with warmth and energy
• Actionable guidance for navigating pressure and change

Why Is Kristel Right for Your Audience?

Kristel is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, healthcare meetings, and organizations focused on performance and culture. She is particularly valuable when people are stretched thin and need ways to stay engaged, focused, and adaptable.

Book Kristel when your audience needs to:

• Sustain strong performance during demanding periods
• Improve focus and manage competing priorities
• Lead teams more effectively under pressure
• Respond to change with greater confidence
• Reduce habits that contribute to burnout
• Build a culture that supports both results and well-being

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to identify habits that drain or restore their energy
• Equipped to improve focus and decision-making under pressure
• Ready to make practical changes to how they work each day
• More confident leading or adapting through uncertainty
• Motivated to pursue success they can sustain

Keynote Programs

High-Performance Habits: Unlocking Energy, Focus, and Sustainable Success

Kristel shares practical ways to strengthen attention, productivity, and resilience through better daily habits. Ideal for companywide events and teams seeking strong results without chronic exhaustion.

Embracing Change: Unlocking Motivation and Momentum in Times of Uncertainty

Kristel helps audiences approach change with greater adaptability and a growth-oriented mindset. Ideal for organizations facing transition, new demands, or persistent uncertainty.

Leadership Under Pressure: The Mindset & Habits of Sustainable High Performance

Kristel focuses on the communication, self-leadership, and decision-making habits that help leaders support their people while delivering results. Ideal for management and leadership conferences.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us whether your audience’s priority is energy, adaptability, or leadership effectiveness. We’ll help you select Kristel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and current fee.

Is Kristel Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the pressures it faces, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We’ll help you assess Kristel’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Bernard Baumohl: Chief Global Economist, The Economic Outlook Group | Author of The Secrets of Economic Indicators | Speaker on the Economy and Geopolitics

Make Sense of the Economic Signals That Matter

Bernard Baumohl helps audiences answer those questions. He brings together economic data, global developments, and a clear explanation of what they could mean for business.

Why Book Bernard Baumohl?

Bernard makes complex economic developments understandable and relevant. He looks at forward-looking indicators alongside consumer and business activity, inflation, interest rates, and geopolitical risk to help leaders consider what may be changing.

His presentations connect the broader outlook to the decisions facing an audience. Business leaders leave with a more informed way to discuss potential turning points, prepare for risks, and recognize opportunities.

What Makes Bernard Different?

• A career spanning economic forecasting, financial journalism, and international affairs
• A clear explanation of the indicators behind an economic outlook
• A perspective that connects global events to business conditions
• The ability to focus on issues affecting a specific industry
• Facts and humour that make a complex subject engaging

Why Is Bernard Right for Your Audience?

Bernard is a strong fit for executive meetings, financial services events, industry associations, and conferences where the economic outlook affects planning. He is particularly valuable when leaders need to understand the factors that could change the picture.

Book Bernard when your audience needs to:

• Understand the direction of the U.S. and international economy
• Identify economic signals relevant to its industry
• Consider the effects of inflation, interest rates, and spending trends
• Assess how geopolitical developments could affect business
• Prepare for a range of possible economic conditions
• Ask better questions when making strategic decisions

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on which indicators deserve attention
• Better able to connect economic trends to their own market
• More aware of potential risks and opportunities
• Equipped to discuss uncertainty without relying on a single forecast
• Ready to bring economic context into planning conversations

Keynote Programs

What Is the Outlook for the U.S. and International Economy?

Bernard examines the forces shaping growth, consumer and business spending, jobs, inflation, interest rates, and trade. He connects the outlook to the questions facing the audience’s industry. Ideal for annual meetings and strategic planning events.

Geopolitical Risks: Where Is the World Headed?

Bernard considers how international tensions and policy decisions may affect economic conditions and business activity. Ideal for executives and globally engaged organizations evaluating external risks.

Stay Ahead of the Curve: Using Economic Indicators

In a seminar format, Bernard helps leaders understand how forward-looking indicators can signal potential turning points. Ideal for groups that want a deeper discussion of the data behind the outlook.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about your industry, the markets you follow, and the questions your leaders are asking. We’ll help you determine the right focus, discuss customization, and confirm Bernard’s availability and current fee.

Is Bernard Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its exposure to economic change, and what you want attendees to understand more clearly. We’ll help you assess Bernard’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Kim Becking: Keynote Speaker | Bestselling Author | Expert on Change, Resilience and Unstoppable Momentum

Build Momentum Through Change

Kim Becking helps audiences turn that question into action. Drawing on her research into change, resilience, and human behavior, she gives people practical ways to shift their mindset, strengthen connections, and build momentum amid uncertainty.

Why Book Kim Becking?

Kim brings energy and useful tools to conversations about change. She helps audiences recognize what they can influence, respond more effectively to setbacks, and take the next step even when circumstances remain uncertain.

Her message can be tailored to leaders, teams, sales professionals, and association audiences facing rapid change or sustained pressure.

What Makes Kim Different?

• A research-informed approach to change, resilience, and human behavior
• Practical strategies audiences can use during periods of uncertainty
• A focus on moving forward together
• Experience speaking to corporate and association audiences
• An energetic style that makes serious challenges easier to discuss and act on

Why Is Kim Right for Your Audience?

Kim is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, association meetings, and sales gatherings. She is especially relevant when people are managing constant change, competing demands, or a loss of momentum.

Book Kim when your audience needs to:

• Adapt to change with greater confidence
• Build resilience during demanding periods
• Replace overwhelm with a practical next step
• Strengthen connection and collaboration across teams
• Lead others through uncertainty
• Sustain motivation toward shared goals

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to recognize and reframe unhelpful reactions to change
• Equipped with practical ways to regain focus and move forward
• More aware of how connection supports resilient teams
• Ready to take ownership of actions within their control
• Motivated to build momentum for themselves and others

Keynote Programs

Ignite Unstoppable Momentum

Kim shows audiences how to use adaptability, resilience, and mindset to navigate a fast-changing world. Ideal for conference and employee audiences seeking renewed energy and a practical path forward.

Resign as General Manager of the Universe

This keynote invites people to release the pressure to manage everything, refuel, and refocus on what matters. Ideal for audiences experiencing overwhelm or sustained demands.

Unleash Unstoppable Momentum in Others

Kim explores how leaders can strengthen connection, engagement, and resilience through a more human approach to leadership. Ideal for managers and executive teams guiding people through change.

Build Unstoppable Momentum Together

Kim focuses on the connection and collaboration teams need to move forward together. Ideal for organizations working across functions or rebuilding shared energy around a goal.

Accelerate Unstoppable Momentum

Kim addresses the mindset and persistence sales teams need when conditions shift. Ideal for sales meetings and teams looking to maintain focus through uncertainty.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what is changing for your audience and the kind of momentum you want to create. We can help you choose the most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm Kim’s availability and current fee.

Is Kim 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’ll help you assess Kim’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Ty Bennett: Leadership Speaker | Bestselling Author | Expert on Storytelling and High Performance

Turn Better Communication Into Better Results

Ty Bennett helps audiences answer both questions. A bestselling author and entrepreneur, he combines storytelling, leadership experience, and research on performance to give people practical ways to connect, influence, and achieve more.

Why Book Ty Bennett?

Ty makes communication a skill audiences can use immediately. He shows leaders how to build trust and commitment, and helps sales teams tell stories that make their value clear and memorable.

His entrepreneurial background gives those ideas weight: he built a direct sales business with his brother to more than $20 million in annual revenue by age 21. He brings that experience to keynotes that are energetic, engaging, and focused on action.

What Makes Ty Different?

• An accomplished storyteller who demonstrates the communication skills he teaches
• Experience building and leading a successful sales organization
• Bestselling books on storytelling, influence, and partnership leadership
• Research-informed insights into high performance
• Practical ideas for leaders and sales professionals to apply after the event

Why Is Ty Right for Your Audience?

Ty is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, association events, and company meetings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants stronger relationships, clearer communication, or greater commitment to a shared goal.

Book Ty when your audience needs to:

• Earn buy-in and strengthen trust across teams
• Communicate ideas in ways people remember
• Make sales conversations more relevant and engaging
• Build collaboration instead of relying on authority
• Improve performance while sustaining long-term results
• Turn inspiration into specific changes in behavior

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better equipped to use stories to explain ideas and move people to action
• Ready to ask better questions and create more meaningful conversations
• Clearer on how partnership builds commitment and collaboration
• Able to apply practical leadership and communication techniques
• Motivated to improve how they lead, sell, or work

Keynote Programs

Partnership Is the New Leadership

Ty shows leaders how to build commitment through communication, trust, and genuine partnership. Audiences learn ways to encourage collaboration and build stronger relationships across their organizations. Ideal for leadership and management events.

The Power of Storytelling

Ty teaches audiences how to use stories to make messages easier to understand, remember, and act on. He connects storytelling to leadership, sales, and customer relationships, giving participants tools to make everyday communication more effective. Ideal for sales, marketing, and leadership audiences.

Redefining High Performance

Drawing on his performance research and entrepreneurial experience, Ty challenges audiences to rethink how they pursue results. He explores ways to lead, sell, and perform more effectively while sustaining progress over time. Ideal for sales kickoffs and organizations aiming to raise performance.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us where your audience needs to improve: leadership commitment, sales conversations, storytelling, or performance. We can help identify Ty’s most relevant keynote, discuss how it can fit your event, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Ty Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges it faces, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Ty’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Barb Betts: Human Connection Expert | Author of The Relationship Advantage | Speaker on Trust-Based Sales and Leadership

Make Relationships Your Business Advantage

Barb Betts helps leaders and sales professionals turn genuine connection into stronger trust, loyalty, referrals, and collaboration. Drawing on more than two decades in sales and leadership, she gives audiences practical ways to build relationships before they need them—and keep those relationships strong over time.

Why Book Barb Betts?

Barb makes an essential business idea actionable: people are more likely to work with, recommend, and follow those they trust. She shows audiences how consistent communication, curiosity, and follow-through can strengthen relationships with customers and colleagues.

Her message draws on the business she built through relationships and on the methods she now teaches. It is particularly useful for organizations that want more than a motivational reminder to “connect with people.”

What Makes Barb Different?

• More than 20 years of experience in sales, business building, and leadership
• A repeatable approach to building relationships, including her 5x5 Method
• Practical relevance for sales results, client loyalty, and team culture
• Personal stories that make authenticity and confidence easier to discuss
• An energetic presentation style focused on actions audiences can use

Why Is Barb Right for Your Audience?

Barb is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, association events, and programs focused on customer experience or workplace culture. She is especially valuable when an organization wants to improve how its people earn trust in everyday interactions.

Book Barb when your audience needs to:

• Build relationships that lead to referrals and repeat business
• Earn trust through more intentional communication
• Strengthen client loyalty and retention
• Lead teams through connection and credibility
• Show up with greater confidence and authenticity
• Preserve human connection as technology changes how people work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Ready to take practical steps to strengthen important relationships
• Better able to make clients and colleagues feel seen and understood
• Clearer on how trust grows through consistency and follow-through
• Equipped to approach sales conversations with more curiosity
• Motivated to turn connection into a daily business practice

Keynote Programs

The Relationship Advantage

Barb explains how intentional, trust-based relationships can create stronger leadership, client loyalty, referrals, and long-term growth. Ideal for audiences whose success depends on working well with people.

Unstoppable Sales Success

Barb shows sales teams how authentic connection helps them earn trust, deepen client relationships, and generate repeat business and referrals. Ideal for sales kickoffs and client-facing professionals.

The Relationship That Changes Everything

Barb addresses the self-doubt that can make authentic connection difficult. She helps audiences build confidence in who they are and bring that confidence to sales, leadership, and everyday interactions. Ideal for women’s leadership and personal development events.

The Connected Leader

Barb shows leaders how everyday communication and consistent actions build credibility and help people feel valued. Ideal for management conferences and organizations seeking stronger team engagement.

Human Connection in the Age of AI

Barb explores how leaders and teams can use technology while protecting the empathy, trust, and personal relationships that sustain loyalty and growth. Ideal for organizations adapting their customer or employee experience.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us where stronger relationships would make the greatest difference for your audience: sales, leadership, client loyalty, or culture. We can help select the right keynote, discuss customization, and confirm Barb’s availability and current fee.

Is Barb Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the relationships it needs to strengthen, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Barb’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Amy Blankson: Author of The Future of Happiness | Digital Wellness Leader | Speaker on Flourishing and Positive Psychology

Help People Thrive in a Changing World

Amy Blankson helps audiences turn the science of happiness into practical choices at work and in life. As co-founder and Chief Evangelist of the Digital Wellness Institute, she explores how people can use technology well, build positive habits, and create conditions in which they and their teams can flourish.

Why Book Amy Blankson?

Amy brings a constructive perspective to challenges many organizations share: stress, change, engagement, and the impact of technology on well-being. She translates positive psychology into small actions that people can try immediately, while giving leaders a broader way to think about the environments they create.

Her talks can help audiences move from concern about the future toward a clearer sense of what they can influence today.

What Makes Amy Different?

• Author of The Future of Happiness, which examines well-being in a digital world
• Co-founder and Chief Evangelist of the Digital Wellness Institute
• Experience connecting positive psychology with workplace challenges
• Current programs on flourishing, AI, and resilience amid uncertainty
• An engaging style that makes ideas about well-being practical and accessible

Why Is Amy Right for Your Audience?

Amy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, education and nonprofit gatherings, and programs focused on workplace culture or digital change. She is especially relevant when an audience needs a thoughtful, encouraging way to address uncertainty without dismissing its real pressures.

Book Amy when your audience needs to:

• Navigate change with greater optimism and agency
• Support employee well-being alongside performance
• Build small habits that make positive change more sustainable
• Consider how AI can support human creativity and judgment
• Create healthier relationships with technology
• Make flourishing a meaningful part of workplace culture

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to identify actions within their control during uncertainty
• Equipped with practical ideas for building positive daily habits
• Clearer on how leaders can support people who are adapting to change
• Ready to use technology more intentionally
• Inspired to connect well-being, purpose, and performance

Keynote Programs

The Future is Flourishing: Why Thriving People and Cultures Will Define What’s Next

Amy invites audiences to look beyond simply coping with change and consider what allows people and organizations to thrive. She offers a practical framework for bringing purpose and well-being into decisions about culture, engagement, and performance. Ideal for leadership and workplace culture events.

SuperThinkers: How to Innovate, Lead, and Thrive in an AI-Driven World

Amy explores how leaders can use AI to deepen thinking, ask better questions, and support human creativity. Ideal for audiences looking for a people-centered approach to technological change.

Fearless Positivity: Mastering Mindset in the Midst of Uncertainty

Amy shares ways to reframe challenges, build resilience, and take purposeful action when the path ahead is unclear. Ideal for organizations navigating change, disruption, or sustained pressure.

Additional Workshop: The Joy Game

In this interactive workshop, Amy helps teams make joy a practical part of daily work through small changes in mindset and behavior. Ideal for groups seeking more engagement and connection.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us whether your audience is focused on flourishing, AI, uncertainty, or digital well-being. We can help select the right keynote or workshop, discuss customization, and confirm Amy’s availability and current fee.

Is Amy Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the pressures it faces, and what you want people to think or do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Amy’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Jeanne Bliss: Founder of CustomerBliss | Former Chief Customer Officer at Lands’ End, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker and Allstate | Speaker on Customer Experience and Leadership

Why Book Jeanne Bliss?

Founder of CustomerBliss and author of Chief Customer Officer 2.0 and Would You Do That to Your Mother?, Jeanne combines practical frameworks with stories about the human consequences of business choices. Her message helps teams connect customer care with the way they operate.

Why Is Jeanne Bliss Right for Your Audience?

Jeanne is a strong fit for executive meetings, customer experience conferences, service events and company gatherings. She is especially relevant when an organization wants to unite departments around customers or turn its stated values into a more consistent experience.

Book Jeanne when your audience needs to:

• Make customer experience a leadership priority
• Connect departments around customer needs
• Build trust through everyday business decisions
• Identify moments that create lasting customer memories
• Strengthen accountability for customer outcomes
• Translate caring intentions into operational behavior

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on leadership’s role in customer experience
• Better able to consider the people affected by decisions
• Equipped with a framework for customer-driven change
• More aware of how memorable experiences build relationships
• Ready to identify practical improvements across departments

Keynote Programs

Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine
Jeanne introduces her five leadership competencies for guiding customer experience transformation. Ideal for executives and cross-functional teams seeking a coordinated approach.

Humanity in Business
Drawing on Would You Do That to Your Mother?, Jeanne explores how respect, care and trust can inform business practices. Ideal for audiences seeking practical ways to make service more personal.

What’s Your Three-Blocks Long?
Jeanne examines how businesses earn a meaningful place in customers’ lives through the memories they create. Ideal for teams focused on loyalty, brand experience and lasting relationships.

Is Jeanne Bliss Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customer experience you want to create and the barriers your teams face. We can help select Jeanne’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.

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

Kris Boesch: Founder of Choose People | Author of Culture Works | Speaker on Workplace Culture and Team Connection

Make Work a Place People Want to Be

Kris Boesch helps leaders and teams answer that question with practical changes to the way they work together. As founder of Choose People and a former company CEO, she combines research on workplace culture with firsthand experience improving morale, collaboration, and retention.

Why Book Kris Boesch?

Kris makes culture specific. She helps audiences see how everyday behaviors—recognition, candid communication, kindness, and shared responsibility—shape the experience of coming to work.

Her ideas grew out of the challenges she faced while leading a moving company with high turnover and a struggling culture. She brings that experience to presentations designed to give participants tools they can use with their own teams.

What Makes Kris Different?

• Experience improving workplace culture as a company CEO
• Founder of Choose People and author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace
• Research-informed tools for strengthening employee experience
• Interactive presentations that invite people to apply the ideas
• Practical approaches to difficult conversations, trust, and teamwork

Why Is Kris Right for Your Audience?

Kris is a strong fit for leadership conferences, HR events, employee gatherings, and team meetings. She is especially valuable when people want to improve culture but need a clearer picture of what to do differently on Monday morning.

Book Kris when your audience needs to:

• Strengthen trust and camaraderie at work
• Address conflict directly and constructively
• Reduce divisions between teams or departments
• Support employees facing change or burnout
• Make accountability feel shared and constructive
• Build a workplace where people feel their work matters

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to identify behaviors that strengthen workplace culture
• Equipped to approach difficult conversations with care and candor
• Ready to create more connection across team boundaries
• Clearer on how leaders can support shared ownership
• Motivated to take practical steps toward a healthier work experience

Keynote Programs

Social Super Glue

Kris explores how kindness, connection, and shared identity encourage people to collaborate and support one another. Ideal for organizations seeking a more cohesive culture and stronger employee commitment.

Freedom from Funkytown

Kris gives audiences a framework for raising concerns and resolving conflict with communication that is kind, candid, and constructive. Ideal for teams that want less workplace drama and more trust.

Beat Burnout & Renew Vitality

Kris helps audiences examine patterns of overwhelm and find ways to regain energy and enjoyment in their work. Ideal for teams under sustained pressure.

Real Deal Change Management

Kris addresses the human side of change, helping audiences understand resistance, expand their comfort zones, and take part in what comes next. Ideal for organizations navigating a transition.

Break Down Silos & Build Up Trust

Kris helps colleagues recognize how their work depends on one another and build a stronger sense of shared responsibility. Ideal for cross-functional teams and organization-wide meetings.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what is getting in the way of a stronger culture: conflict, silos, burnout, or change. We can help choose the most relevant program, discuss the format, and confirm Kris’s availability and current fee.

Is Kris Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the culture you want to create, and the behaviors you want to see afterward. We’ll help you assess Kris’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Liz Bohannon: Entrepreneur and Bestselling Author of Beginner’s Pluck | Speaker on Connection, Resilience and Innovation

Why Book Liz Bohannon?

Liz also explores the relationships that help people thrive. Through humor, candid stories and practical frameworks, she encourages leaders to build communities where people can ask for support, contribute their strengths and work through challenges together.

Why Is Liz Bohannon Right for Your Audience?

Liz is a strong fit for leadership conferences, entrepreneurial events, company gatherings and programs focused on culture. She is particularly relevant when teams need renewed confidence, stronger connections or permission to try a different approach.

Book Liz when your audience needs to:

• Take action before it feels fully ready
• Approach setbacks as opportunities to learn
• Strengthen relationships across teams
• Build a culture of curiosity and experimentation
• Connect individual purpose with meaningful work
• Develop resilience through shared support

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More willing to learn through experimentation
• Ready to take a manageable first step toward a goal
• Clearer on how relationships support resilience
• Equipped with ideas for building workplace connection
• Motivated to contribute to a more collaborative culture

Keynote Programs

Collective Resilience™
Liz explores how strong relationships help people and organizations navigate challenges. Ideal for leaders and teams seeking greater connection, collaboration and mutual support.

Beginner’s Pluck™
Liz shares her entrepreneurial journey and a framework for approaching work with a beginner’s curiosity. Ideal for audiences seeking confidence to experiment, learn from failure and pursue meaningful goals.

Her programs combine storytelling with practical frameworks, with the emphasis selected around your audience’s needs.

Is Liz Bohannon Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the connections you want to strengthen and the goals people need confidence to pursue. We can help select Liz’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.

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

Eric Boles: Leadership & Performance Expert | President, The Game Changers, Inc. | Former NFL Player | Author of Moving to Great

Turn Potential Into Performance

Eric Boles helps leaders and teams close that gap.

President of The Game Changers, Inc. and a former NFL player, Eric combines powerful storytelling, high energy and practical strategies to help people strengthen accountability, embrace change and perform at a higher level.

Why Book Eric Boles?

Eric doesn't simply motivate people to do better. He challenges them to take greater ownership of how they think, lead and perform.

For more than two decades, Eric has worked with organizations including Starbucks, FedEx, Meta, Mayo Clinic, IBM, PwC, Alaska Airlines and the U.S. Air Force.

His message is straightforward: sustainable performance comes from clarity, accountability and consistent execution—not good intentions.

What Makes Eric Different?

• Former NFL player who understands high-performance environments
• More than two decades working with leaders and organizations
• Powerful combination of energy, humor and practical business insight
• Expertise in leadership, accountability, change and peak performance
• Challenges audiences without talking down to them
• Creates urgency around turning ideas into action
• Customizes his message around the organization's goals and challenges

Why Is Eric Right for Your Audience?

Eric is an excellent choice when an organization needs people to raise their game, embrace accountability and execute at a higher level.

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

Book Eric when your audience needs to:

• Take greater ownership of results
• Move from intention to execution
• Raise expectations for themselves and others
• Navigate change with greater confidence
• Break through complacency and self-imposed limitations
• Strengthen teamwork and accountability
• Perform effectively under pressure

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Motivated to take greater ownership of their performance
• Better equipped to turn good intentions into action
• Ready to challenge habits that may be limiting results
• More confident navigating change and uncertainty
• Clearer about the role accountability plays in high performance
• Energized to raise their personal and professional expectations

Keynote Programs

Performance Catalyst™ Align, Elevate and Accelerate Performance

Eric challenges audiences to examine the behaviors that separate potential from sustainable performance.

He helps leaders strengthen alignment, accountability and execution while creating greater urgency around the actions required to achieve organizational goals.

Ideal for leadership conferences, executive meetings, sales kickoffs and organizations focused on accelerating performance.

Moving to Great: Unleash Your Best More of the Time

What keeps talented people from consistently performing at their best?

Eric helps audiences recognize the fears, habits and self-imposed limitations that can hold them back—and provides practical strategies for moving beyond them.

The result is a highly motivational presentation with a strong business message about personal responsibility, growth and performance.

Ideal for sales meetings, corporate conferences, recognition events and organizations looking to re-energize their people.

Leading Through Change

Change creates uncertainty—but it also creates an opportunity for stronger leadership.

Eric helps leaders understand how their mindset, communication and behavior influence the way people respond to change. He challenges audiences to move beyond fear, have difficult conversations, make decisions and create positive momentum.

Ideal for organizations experiencing transformation, growth or significant disruption.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

A high-energy keynote can create excitement. The right keynote can turn that excitement into action.

Contact us to:

• Confirm Eric's availability and current fee
• Determine which presentation best supports your objectives
• Discuss customization around your business challenges
• Explore keynote, breakout and leadership-development options
• Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit

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Sean Bott: Mentalist and Entertainer | Speaker on Human Connection, Belonging and Team Culture

Why Book Sean Bott?

His keynotes connect that entertainment with practical ideas about empathy, belonging and resilience. Sean gives organizations a memorable way to bring people together while encouraging attendees to consider how their everyday interactions affect colleagues and team culture.

Why Is Sean Bott Right for Your Audience?

Sean is a strong fit for company gatherings, leadership events, association conferences and team meetings. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants an interactive experience that combines entertainment with a message about connection and working together.

Book Sean when your audience needs to:

• Reconnect with colleagues
• Build a stronger sense of belonging
• Recognize the importance of empathy
• Bring renewed energy to teamwork
• Respond to uncertainty with curiosity
• Share a memorable, participatory event experience

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of how everyday interactions shape connection
• Equipped with ideas for helping others feel valued
• Ready to listen and engage with greater openness
• Motivated to support colleagues through challenges
• Energized by a shared experience of humor and participation

Keynote Programs

Connect for Keeps
Sean combines mentalism and comedy with a framework for building belonging at work. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger relationships, engagement and team culture.

Survive to Thrive
Sean explores practical ways to renew energy, connection and resilience during uncertainty. Ideal for audiences dealing with change fatigue or demanding work environments.

The Virtual Mind-Reading Experience
Sean brings interactive mentalism and comedy to online events. Ideal for virtual gatherings seeking a lively shared experience that encourages participation.

Sean also offers entertainment and hosting formats. We can help match the experience to your agenda and goals.

Is Sean Bott Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the atmosphere you want to create and the message you want people to remember. We can help select Sean’s most relevant program, discuss audience interaction 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.

Anthony “AB” Bourke: Former F-16 Fighter Pilot | Business Leader | Speaker on Execution, Leadership and Peak Performance

Turn a Strong Plan Into Strong Execution

What helps a team stay aligned, communicate honestly, and improve when the stakes are high and conditions keep changing?

Anthony “AB” Bourke draws on his experience as an F-16 fighter pilot and business leader to answer that question. He shows audiences how the habits of high-performing flight teams—clear preparation, precise execution, and regular debriefing—can help organizations work better together.

Why Book Anthony Bourke?

Anthony makes the difference between strategy and execution easy to see. Using stories from the cockpit, he explains how teams establish a shared plan, communicate during demanding work, and learn from what happened afterward.

He also brings business experience to the stage, connecting those lessons to leadership, sales, and organizational performance. Audiences leave with ideas they can use to improve the way their own teams prepare and follow through.

What Makes Anthony Different?

• Experience flying F-16 tactical missions
• Business leadership and sales experience beyond the cockpit
• A practical model of briefing, execution, and debriefing
• Strong examples of alignment and communication under pressure
• Interactive presentations that connect aviation lessons to workplace challenges

Why Is Anthony Right for Your Audience?

Anthony is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, management retreats, and company events focused on performance. He is especially valuable when an organization has a capable team and a sound strategy but needs more consistent execution.

Book Anthony when your audience needs to:

• Align around a plan before acting
• Communicate more openly about what is working
• Close gaps between strategy and execution
• Learn from results without turning feedback into blame
• Lead teams through fast-changing conditions
• Build habits that support continuous improvement

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how preparation improves team execution
• Better equipped to give and receive useful feedback
• Ready to use debriefs to learn from both successes and setbacks
• More aware of how each person contributes to a shared mission
• Motivated to make small, repeatable improvements in performance

Keynote Programs

Executing at Mach 2

Anthony shows how fighter squadrons align their people and plans so they can perform under pressure. Ideal for teams that need to turn good strategy into dependable results.

Communicating at Mach 2

Anthony explores how honest feedback helps high-performing teams identify problems early and improve. Ideal for organizations seeking more candid communication and stronger collaboration.

Leading at Mach 2

Anthony draws on fighter-pilot leadership practices to discuss preparation, developing people, and improving as a team. Ideal for managers and executives responsible for performance in demanding environments.

Selling at Mach 2

Anthony connects the discipline of fighter-pilot training with the preparation and execution required in sales. Ideal for sales kickoffs and teams working to build more consistent performance.

The Feedback Loop: Fighter Pilot Lessons for Continuous Improvement

Anthony explains the value of regular briefing and debriefing: set expectations, carry out the plan, examine the result, and make the next effort stronger. Ideal for teams that want a practical way to learn and adapt together.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us where execution breaks down for your audience: alignment, communication, feedback, leadership, or sales. We can help choose the most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Anthony’s availability and current fee.

Is Anthony Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its performance goals, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Anthony’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Dr. Gary Bradt: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Resilience | Clinical Psychologist | Bestselling Author | Business Transformation Expert

Turn Change Into Opportunity.  Change is inevitable. How your people respond to it isn't.

Gary helps leaders and employees navigate uncertainty, let go of what they can't control and focus their energy on the actions that move them forward. Combining psychology, compelling stories, humor and practical strategies, he turns the often-overwhelming subject of change into something audiences can understand—and act on.

Why Book Dr. Gary Bradt?

Gary doesn't simply tell people they need to embrace change. He helps them understand why change can be so difficult and gives them practical strategies for responding more effectively.

His background as a clinical psychologist gives Gary a distinctive perspective on the human side of organizational change—how people react when familiar routines disappear, expectations shift and uncertainty increases.

His presentations are engaging, relatable and highly practical, helping audiences move beyond resistance and focus on what they can control, what they can influence and what they can do next.

What Makes Gary Bradt Different?

• Clinical psychologist — brings a deep understanding of how people respond to change
• Bestselling author — recognized for his practical insights on change and resilience
• Change expertise — helps organizations address the human side of transformation
• Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can apply at work and in life
• Leadership focused — gives leaders tools for helping others navigate uncertainty
• Engaging and relatable — combines psychology, humor and real-world stories
• Business relevant — connects individual behavior directly to organizational performance

Why Is Gary Right for Your Audience?

Gary is an excellent choice when your organization needs people to stop fighting what they can't control and start taking ownership of what they can.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, association events and organizations navigating restructuring, transformation, growth or significant workplace change.

Book Gary when your audience needs to:

• Adapt more effectively to organizational change
• Build greater resilience during uncertainty
• Focus on what they can control and influence
• Move beyond resistance and take productive action
• Maintain performance during periods of disruption
• Lead others confidently through change
• Strengthen personal accountability
• Approach uncertainty with greater optimism and perspective

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to navigate uncertainty and change
• Understanding why people naturally resist disruption
• Equipped with practical strategies for responding more productively
• More focused on the actions within their control
• Better able to maintain perspective when circumstances become difficult
• Ready to take greater ownership of their response to change
• More confident helping others move forward

Dr. Gary Bradt Keynote Programs

Navigating Change: When circumstances change, you may not control what happens—but you can control how you respond.

Gary helps audiences understand the psychological realities of change and why uncertainty can trigger resistance, frustration and fear.

He then provides practical strategies for moving beyond those reactions, adapting more quickly and focusing energy on the choices and behaviors that create forward momentum.

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

Leading Through Change: A leader's job isn't simply to announce change. It's to help people successfully move through it.

Gary gives leaders practical insights into how people experience change and what they need from leadership during periods of uncertainty.

Audiences learn how to communicate more effectively, maintain trust, encourage accountability and help teams stay focused on what comes next.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, management conferences and transformation initiatives.

Resilience: Moving Forward When Things Don't Go as Planned: Resilience isn't about pretending everything is fine. It's about choosing a productive response when it isn't.

Drawing on psychology and decades of experience helping individuals and organizations navigate difficult transitions, Gary shows audiences how to regain perspective, manage uncertainty and continue moving forward.

Ideal for: Leadership, resilience, workplace wellbeing and high-performance events.

Why Book Dr. Gary Bradt Through The Sweeney Agency?

Gary Bradt's background in psychology and organizational change gives him a powerful perspective on transformation—but the real value comes from connecting his message directly to the change your people are experiencing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Gary Bradt Right for Your Event?

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

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

Planning a leadership conference, transformation event or corporate meeting? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Dr. Gary Bradt as your keynote speaker.

Jonathan Brill: Business Futurist | AI Strategist | Speaker on Innovation and What Comes Next

Make the Next Five Years Work for You

Jonathan Brill helps audiences connect emerging trends to practical choices. Drawing on his experience as a futurist, inventor, and business advisor, he shows organizations how to spot change earlier, adapt how they work, and create opportunities in uncertain conditions.

Why Book Jonathan Brill?

Jonathan moves a conversation about the future toward decisions leaders can make today. He examines where technology, geopolitics, economics, and social change intersect, then helps audiences think about how those forces may affect their own business.

His work in innovation and organizational transformation gives him a useful perspective on both emerging possibilities and the difficulty of putting new ideas into practice.

What Makes Jonathan Different?

• Experience as a business futurist and former Global Futurist at HP
• Work advising organizations on innovation and transformation
• A focus on the combined effects of AI and wider social and economic change
• Practical frameworks for spotting opportunities and adapting to disruption
• An engaging way of making complex future scenarios relevant to business decisions

Why Is Jonathan Right for Your Audience?

Jonathan is a strong fit for executive conferences, innovation summits, leadership meetings, and industry events. He is particularly relevant when teams feel pressure to act on AI but need a clearer view of how it connects with their strategy and organization.

Book Jonathan when your audience needs to:

• Identify trends that could reshape its industry
• Turn uncertainty into useful strategic questions
• Explore how AI changes decisions, teams, and customer expectations
• Build adaptability into how the organization works
• Find opportunities created by disruption
• Connect long-term thinking with near-term action

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to spot signals of change that matter to their work
• Clearer on how multiple trends can combine to create new risks and opportunities
• Ready to question assumptions about how their organization operates
• Equipped with practical ways to begin planning for the next five years
• Motivated to test ideas and adapt as conditions evolve

Keynote Programs

AI & the Octopus Organization

Jonathan asks leaders to rethink organizational design for an AI-driven world. Using the octopus as a model, he explores how distributed intelligence and empowered teams can help a business sense change and respond more effectively. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.

Strategic Luck: The Science of Thriving in Uncertainty

Jonathan challenges the idea that useful opportunities appear by chance alone. He offers approaches for noticing openings, preparing for surprises, and making better choices when outcomes are uncertain. Ideal for leadership and sales audiences.

Architect Your Future

Jonathan explores how organizations can respond to disruption by building the capacity to adapt and innovate. Ideal for industry conferences and teams reconsidering their strategy as markets change.

Win the Next Five Years: Spot, Lead, Win

Jonathan connects AI, economic, geopolitical, and social trends to decisions organizations can begin making now. Ideal for executive teams and audiences looking for a more actionable view of the near future.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us which changes matter most to your audience and what decisions it is facing. We can help choose Jonathan’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Jonathan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its industry, and the opportunities or disruptions it needs to prepare for. We’ll help you assess Jonathan’s fit and plan the next step.

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

David Brownlee: Customer Experience Expert | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Rockstar Customer Service

Why Book David Brownlee?

David pairs those tools with an energetic, approachable style and years of experience coaching business owners and executives. His presentations make customer experience everyone’s responsibility, with ideas that teams can put to work in their next interaction.

Why Is David Brownlee Right for Your Audience?

David is a strong fit for customer service conferences, sales meetings, franchise events, and company gatherings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants a more consistent customer experience across locations, teams, or channels.

Book David when your audience needs to:

• Build rapport quickly with new customers
• Handle complaints with greater confidence and empathy
• Turn difficult interactions into opportunities to earn trust
• Strengthen customer loyalty and repeat business
• Generate more referrals through better service
• Give front-line teams practical habits they can use immediately

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Ready to make a stronger first impression with customers
• Equipped to listen and respond more effectively when someone is upset
• Clearer on how everyday service choices influence loyalty
• Able to identify ways to improve their organization’s customer experience
• Motivated to create interactions customers remember and recommend

Keynote Programs

Rockstar Customer Service
David asks audiences to consider how they would treat a favorite celebrity as a customer—and how to bring that same attention and care to every interaction. He shares practical ways to build rapport, use empathy, and create a more memorable service experience. Ideal for front-line, sales, and customer-facing teams.

Customer Service Success: The 6 Keys to Deliver a World-Class Experience
David presents a straightforward approach to improving service, resolving customer issues, and encouraging customers to return and recommend the business. Ideal for leaders and teams seeking a shared approach to customer experience.

Is David Brownlee Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customer interactions you want to improve, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help choose David’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.

Scott Burrows: Author of Vision, Mindset, Grit | Inspirational Speaker on Resilience, Change and Performance

Why Book Scott Burrows?

His keynote connects a powerful personal story with choices people face at work: maintaining perspective, taking ownership and continuing through discomfort. The presentation combines storytelling, video and a memorable live demonstration, giving teams a shared language for facing challenges.

Why Is Scott Burrows Right for Your Audience?

Scott is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company meetings and incentive events. Consider him when your audience needs renewed confidence and determination during change or after setbacks.

Book Scott when your audience needs to:

• Maintain a clear vision through difficulty
• Focus on actions within their control
• Respond constructively to unexpected change
• Build persistence when results take time
• Step beyond familiar routines
• Execute with greater composure under pressure

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the connection between vision, mindset and grit
• Ready to take a useful next step through adversity
• More willing to challenge self-imposed limits
• Equipped with questions that redirect attention toward action
• Encouraged to persist while adapting their approach

Keynote Programs

Stand Up to Any Challenge: Vision • Mindset • Grit
Scott’s signature keynote connects his personal journey with practical ideas for resilience and performance. Ideal for broad employee, leadership and sales audiences.

Is Scott Burrows Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges it faces and the response you want to inspire. 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.

Andrew Busch: Economic Futurist | Former Chief Market Intelligence Officer at the CFTC | Speaker on the Economy, AI and Growth Opportunities

Why Book Andrew Busch?

Andy combines that experience with a background in financial markets and public policy, including his role as Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist at BMO. His presentations explore how technology, policy and demographic change influence business opportunities. He researches each audience’s industry to make the discussion relevant to its challenges and plans.

Why Is Andrew Busch Right for Your Audience?

Andy is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, financial services events and association gatherings. He is especially useful when leaders need to understand how economic and policy shifts could affect demand, investment, supply chains or workforce decisions.

Book Andy when your audience needs to:

• Understand the forces shaping the economic outlook
• Connect policy changes with business implications
• Explore how AI could reshape its industry
• Identify potential growth opportunities amid uncertainty
• Consider the effects of geopolitical and supply chain changes
• Bring a broader perspective to strategic planning

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on economic trends relevant to their industry
• Better able to connect government policy with business conditions
• More aware of how AI is changing markets and work
• Equipped with a framework for discussing risks and opportunities
• Ready to ask better questions about future growth

Keynote Programs

Future Economy: Growth Opportunities
Andy connects the economic outlook with public policy, technology and demographic trends. Using research and an industry-specific case study, he helps audiences consider where growth opportunities may emerge. Ideal for executive, financial services and industry audiences.

AI Unleashed: Disrupting the Economy and Shaping the Future
Andy explores AI’s implications for economic growth, jobs, business models and policy. Ideal for leaders who want to understand how technological change could affect their markets and plans.

Geopolitics=Economy: Opportunities to Grow!
Andy examines how conflicts, tariffs and shifting alliances affect trade, supply chains and economic decisions. Ideal for organizations assessing international exposure and opportunities in a changing business environment.

Is Andrew Busch Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the economic questions it faces and the decisions you want the session to inform. We can help select Andy’s most relevant program, discuss industry-specific research 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.

Jeff Bush: Principal of The Washington Update | Speaker on U.S. Politics, Policy and Financial Planning

Why Book Jeff Bush?

His presentation connects legislation, regulation and election dynamics with the questions advisors, investors and business leaders are asking. Jeff gives your event a timely discussion of what has changed, what remains uncertain and which developments deserve closer attention.

Why Is Jeff Bush Right for Your Audience?

Jeff is a strong fit for financial advisor conferences, wealth management events, executive meetings and client programs. Consider him when your audience needs to make sense of U.S. policy without turning the event into a partisan debate.

Book Jeff when your audience needs to:

• Understand the implications of developments in Washington
• Separate enacted policy from proposals
• Examine tax and regulatory issues affecting planning
• Discuss election dynamics with greater context
• Communicate policy uncertainty more clearly
• Ask better questions about business and financial exposure

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the policy developments covered in the session
• Better able to distinguish current rules from possible changes
• More aware of issues to monitor in financial planning
• Ready to discuss Washington with clients in a balanced way
• Equipped to frame more informed questions for their advisors

Keynote Programs

The Washington Update
Jeff provides a nonpartisan overview of the political environment, prospective legislation and implications for investment and retirement planning. The content evolves with developments in Washington. Ideal for financial professionals, investors and business leaders.

Is Jeff Bush Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the policy questions it faces and the purpose of your event. We can help select Jeff’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.

Colette Carlson: Human Behavior Expert | CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame | Leadership & Communication Expert | Creator of The Human Edge™

The Human Edge™

Colette Carlson helps leaders and teams strengthen the human skills technology can't replicate—trust, empathy, presence, resilience and influence.

A Human Behavior Expert and CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame inductee, Colette combines research, humor, storytelling and highly interactive experiences to help people communicate more effectively, collaborate more deeply and perform at their best.

Why Book Colette Carlson?

Colette addresses one of today's biggest workplace challenges: people are more connected technologically, yet often more disconnected personally.

She shows leaders, teams and sales professionals how stronger human connection translates into greater trust, engagement, collaboration and performance.

Her presentations are energetic, funny and highly practical. Audiences don't simply listen—they participate, connect and leave with strategies they can immediately put into action.

What Makes Colette Different?

• CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame inductee
• Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
• Master's Degree in Human Behavior
• More than 20 years working with organizations worldwide
• Trusted by organizations including Microsoft, FedEx, Costco, Procter & Gamble and Fidelity
• Combines humor, storytelling, research and audience interaction
• Conducts extensive pre-event research and audience interviews
• Deeply customizes her presentation to the organization, audience and event objectives

Why Is Colette Right for Your Audience?

Colette is an excellent choice when organizations need people to communicate better, build trust and strengthen the relationships that drive results.

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

Book Colette when your audience needs to:

• Build stronger relationships and trust
• Communicate with greater influence
• Collaborate more effectively across teams and silos
• Strengthen resilience during change
• Create greater engagement and belonging
• Connect across different generations and working styles
• Protect the human advantage in an increasingly AI-driven workplace

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better equipped to build trust quickly
• More intentional about how they communicate and connect
• Ready to strengthen collaboration across teams
• Better able to navigate difficult conversations
• More resilient when facing change and uncertainty
• Equipped with practical strategies they can immediately apply
• Energized to bring greater humanity to the way they lead and work

Keynote Programs

The Human Edge™ Because Influence Begins With Connection, Not Code

In a world increasingly shaped by technology and AI, Colette shows audiences why human connection has become a critical competitive advantage.

She explores how trust, empathy, presence and emotional intelligence strengthen leadership, teamwork and performance—and gives audiences practical ways to put those skills into action.

Ideal for leadership conferences, corporate meetings and organizations navigating the future of work.

Impactful Leadership

Great leadership isn't simply about communicating information. It's about creating the trust and connection that inspire people to act.

Colette helps leaders communicate with greater clarity, listen more effectively, strengthen relationships and create cultures where people feel seen, valued and motivated to contribute.

Ideal for leadership meetings, management conferences and organizations focused on culture and engagement.

Sales Success

Customers have more information, more choices and more technology than ever before. What still differentiates great salespeople is their ability to create genuine human connection.

Colette shows sales professionals how to build trust, listen more effectively, strengthen relationships and communicate in ways that create greater influence.

Ideal for sales kickoffs, national sales meetings and customer-facing teams.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

The right keynote needs to do more than entertain your audience. It needs to connect directly to the challenges they are facing.

Colette is particularly committed to customization, conducting discovery conversations and audience interviews so her presentation feels relevant to the people in the room.

Contact us to:

• Confirm Colette's availability and current fee
• Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
• Discuss customization around your audience and organization
• Explore keynote, workshop and interactive formats
• Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit

Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Colette Carlson.

Leroy Chiao: Former NASA Astronaut | International Space Station Commander | Speaker on Leadership, Teamwork and Innovation

Why Book Leroy Chiao?

His stories and photographs make those experiences tangible. Leroy connects the excitement of exploration with questions that matter to business: how to prevent complacency, maintain operational discipline and encourage people to find better solutions.

Why Is Leroy Chiao Right for Your Audience?

Leroy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, engineering events and innovation programs. Consider him when you want an inspiring story that also opens a practical conversation about team performance and responsibility.

Book Leroy when your audience needs to:

• Recognize complacency before it becomes a problem
• Improve preparation for high-pressure decisions
• Strengthen collaboration across different backgrounds
• Balance innovation with operational discipline
• Maintain perspective during uncertainty
• Connect ambitious goals with everyday execution

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of how complacency affects performance
• Ready to examine their approach to preparation
• Clearer on the importance of shared responsibility
• Equipped with leadership lessons from spaceflight
• Inspired to approach ambitious goals with curiosity and discipline

Keynote Programs

To the Stars! – Leaving Complacency Behind
Leroy uses spaceflight stories and organizational examples to examine the causes and consequences of complacency. Ideal for teams that want to maintain high standards.

Leadership and Operational Decision Making – Fundamentals from Spaceflight
Leroy explores preparation, perspective and responsibility when the stakes are high. Ideal for executive, operations and leadership audiences.

View from the On-High: Adventures of a Professional Astronaut
Leroy shares the experience of spaceflight through personal stories and photographs of Earth. Ideal for events seeking an entertaining and inspiring perspective.

Is Leroy Chiao Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the standards you want to reinforce and the leadership challenges it faces. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Leroy’s availability and fee.

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

Dan Chuparkoff: CEO of Reinvention Labs | Former Technology Leader at Google, McKinsey and Atlassian | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work

Why Book Dan Chuparkoff?

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience at Google, McKinsey and Atlassian, Dan brings the perspective of someone who has built products and led teams through technological change. Now CEO of Reinvention Labs, he helps organizations connect emerging capabilities to the tasks, decisions and challenges their people face every day.

Why Is Dan Chuparkoff Right for Your Audience?

Dan is a strong fit for leadership meetings, industry conferences, association events and company gatherings focused on AI adoption and innovation. His presentations can meet audiences at different levels of technical understanding, making him particularly relevant when teams need a shared foundation for moving forward.

Book Dan when your audience needs to:

• Understand AI in clear, practical terms
• Identify useful applications in its industry
• Combine AI capabilities with human knowledge and judgment
• Build confidence in learning new technologies
• Rethink how teams collaborate and solve problems
• Turn interest in AI into practical next steps

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on AI’s strengths and limitations
• Better able to recognize opportunities in their everyday work
• More aware of the role of human expertise in using AI effectively
• Equipped with ideas for improving productivity and collaboration
• Ready to approach technological change with curiosity and purpose

Keynote Programs

AI & the Future of Everything
Dan’s signature keynote explains how AI is changing work and how teams can respond. He explores its capabilities and limitations, helping audiences connect new technology with their own experience and expertise. Ideal for organizations seeking a practical introduction to AI and its business implications.

Dan customizes this program to the audience’s industry, technical readiness and priorities. For nontechnical audiences, he provides an accessible starting point; for technology teams, he explores new possibilities for applying AI. Industry examples help participants connect the presentation to their own work.

Is Dan Chuparkoff Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its experience with AI and the changes you want people to make after the event. We can help shape a relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Dan’s availability and fee.

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

Quinn Conyers: Verbal Branding Strategist | Conference Emcee and TEDx Speaker | Speaker on Communication, Visibility and Business Growth

Why Book Quinn Conyers?

Her energetic presentations focus on making business conversations more effective. Quinn is particularly relevant when an audience has expertise but struggles to explain it compellingly, whether speaking to a potential client, partner or larger audience.

Why Is Quinn Conyers Right for Your Audience?

Quinn is a strong fit for entrepreneurship conferences, women’s leadership events, sales meetings and association programs. Consider her when your audience needs to sharpen its message and become more confident in conversations that influence business opportunities.

Book Quinn when your audience needs to:

• Explain their value in clear language
• Communicate their capabilities with confidence
• Make business conversations more purposeful
• Strengthen their verbal brand
• Stand out in a crowded market
• Connect expertise with the needs of potential clients

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how to describe the value they offer
• Ready to examine language that weakens their message
• More confident introducing their work and capabilities
• Equipped with ideas for improving client conversations
• Prepared to communicate more intentionally

Keynote Programs

Turn Conversations into Clients
Quinn explores how professionals can verbalize their value and make business conversations more compelling. Ideal for entrepreneurs, founders and revenue-generating teams.

Conference Emcee and Strategic Event Host
Quinn can also serve as the host who connects sessions, engages attendees and maintains the event’s momentum. This is an event-hosting format rather than a keynote program.

Is Quinn Conyers Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the conversations it needs to improve and whether you need a keynote, event host or both. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Quinn’s availability and fee.

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