Sebastian Terry: Keynote Speaker on Purpose, Leadership & Human Connection | Founder of 100 Things | Author | Inspirational Adventurer

Turn Purpose Into Action. What happens when people stop simply going through the motions and start pursuing what truly matters?

Best known for his journey to complete a list of 100 Things he wanted to achieve in his lifetime, Sebastian transformed a personal challenge into a global movement. His experiences reveal powerful lessons about setting meaningful goals, overcoming fear, helping others and creating cultures where people feel inspired to take action.

Why Book Sebastian Terry?

Sebastian doesn't just talk about living with purpose. He built his life around it.

What began as a list of 100 personal goals became an extraordinary journey filled with adventure, setbacks, human connection and unexpected opportunities to help others achieve their own dreams.

Sebastian brings those lessons into the workplace, challenging audiences to think differently about purpose, goals, connection and what motivates people to perform at their best.

His keynote is inspiring, entertaining and highly interactive—leaving audiences not only motivated but asking an important question: What's on my list?

What Makes Sebastian Terry Different?

• Creator of 100 Things — transformed a personal bucket list into a global movement
• Extraordinary storytelling — memorable stories of adventure, risk and human connection
• Purpose-driven message — helps people reconnect with what genuinely matters
• Highly interactive — creates an experience rather than simply delivering a speech
• Universal appeal — resonates across roles, generations and industries
• Workplace relevance — connects personal purpose with engagement, culture and performance
• Action oriented — inspires audiences to turn intentions into meaningful goals
• Feel-good impact — creates energy and connection that can continue long after the event

Why Is Sebastian Right for Your Audience?

Sebastian is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to reconnect with purpose, think bigger and take meaningful action.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences, employee events and organizations focused on culture and engagement.

Book Sebastian when your audience needs to:

• Reconnect with what motivates them
• Turn meaningful goals into action
• Think beyond perceived limitations
• Build stronger human connections
• Increase engagement and personal ownership
• Create a greater sense of purpose at work
• Support and inspire the people around them
• Bring renewed energy to their personal and professional goals

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Thinking more intentionally about what matters most
• Inspired to identify meaningful personal and professional goals
• More willing to take action despite fear or uncertainty
• Understanding the importance of helping others succeed
• Better connected with colleagues and teammates
• Energized about what's possible
• Ready to turn ideas and intentions into action

Sebastian Terry Keynote Programs

100 Things: What's on Your List?

If you knew your time was limited, what would you do differently?

Sebastian shares the remarkable story behind his journey to complete 100 goals and the lessons he discovered along the way.

Through entertaining stories and powerful insights, he challenges audiences to identify what genuinely matters, overcome the fears that keep them stuck and begin taking meaningful action.

Ideal for: Corporate conferences, association meetings, employee events and organizations looking for an inspirational closing or opening keynote.

Purpose at Work: People perform differently when they feel connected to something that matters.

Sebastian explores how personal purpose, meaningful goals and human connection can influence engagement and performance.

He challenges organizations to create environments where people feel seen, supported and encouraged to pursue goals that matter—both professionally and personally.

Ideal for: Leadership, culture, employee engagement and workplace wellbeing events.

Building Cultures of Connection: What happens when people stop focusing only on their own goals and start helping others achieve theirs?

Sebastian shares lessons from the 100 Things journey to demonstrate the extraordinary impact people can have when they support one another.

Audiences discover how greater empathy, connection and generosity can strengthen relationships, teamwork and organizational culture.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, team events, culture initiatives and organizations focused on collaboration.

Why Book Sebastian Terry Through The Sweeney Agency?

Sebastian Terry delivers much more than an inspirational story. The real opportunity is connecting his message about purpose, goals and human connection to what you want your audience to think, feel and do differently.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Sebastian Terry's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Sebastian Terry keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Sebastian with other leading motivational, purpose and workplace-culture speakers

Is Sebastian Terry Right for Your Event?

Tell us what you want your audience to think differently about—or what you want to inspire them to do next.

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

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

Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2017 for his work on behavioral economics. Richard studies the psychology of decision-making which lies in the gap between economics and psychology. He investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometimes human. Thaler is the director of the Center for Decision Research, and is the co-director (with Robert Shiller) of the Behavioral Economics Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Thaler is the co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein) of the global best seller Nudge in which the concepts of behavioral economics are used to tackle many of society’s major problems. In 2015 he published Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. He has authored or edited four other books: Quasi-Rational Economics, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life, and Advances in Behavioral Finance (editor) Volumes I and II. He has published numerous articles in prominent journals such as the American Economics Review, the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Political Economy.

Thaler is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Finance Association and the Econometrics Society, and in 2015 will serve as the President of the American Economic Association.

Before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1995 Thaler taught at the University of Rochester and Cornell as well as visiting stints at The University of British Columbia, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Originally from New Jersey, Thaler attended Case Western Reserve University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1967. Soon after, he attended the University of Rochester where he received a master's degree in 1970 and a PhD in 1974. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1995.

Jason Tharp is an inspiration expert, best-selling author, and illustrator who inspires audiences to embrace their authentic selves and collaborate towards success. With a focus on leadership and self-leadership, Jason's dynamic speeches share his personal journey of overcoming impossibles, such as brain cancer, obesity, negative self-talk, and self-doubt. His books, including "The Best You!" and "It's Okay To Be A Unicorn!", promote self-leadership, inclusivity, creativity, and self-acceptance.

Renowned for his interactive speaking style and impactful leadership advice, Jason has delivered numerous keynotes since 2015, providing audiences with a blueprint to break their own impossibles. His speeches emphasize teamwork and self-leadership, creating a bridge of empathy through vulnerability. Jason has worked with successful organizations like Better Business Bureau, Novocure, Sonova, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, NRG, Best Buddies, and MacMillan, and has been featured on major media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, Washington Post, The Hill, HuffPost, CBC, and The Independent. Jason has also written many op-ed pieces for numerous media outlets.

Speech was born Todd Thomas in Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. The youngest of parents Robert & Patricia  Thomas. He grew up on two sides of life: the ghetto of  Milwaukee (one of the nation’s roughest cities for African  Americans) and (Wauwatosa) Milwaukee’s suburbia.  Speech learned how to draw from the pains and beauty of both. He would absorb the plights of his people and the retreat of a middle-class black boy in a primarily white neighborhood. He lost his grandmother to a heart attack and his older brother, Terrence Thomas to an Asthma attack within the same week, and through spirituality, learned to recalibrate his inner anger through dynamic music. To celebrate the lives of those he lost, he coined his sound “life music”. Speech wrote the hit song Tennessee as a  dedication to his grandmother and brother. In the early nineties, Speech and his mother started the Terrence  Thomas Scholarship and to date, the scholarship has raised over a million dollars helping young black students further their educations.

 Speech started and produced the hip-hop group,  Arrested Development. Based in Georgia, from humble and rural beginnings; they became a pioneering force in the music world. Arrested Development received two  Grammy Awards (Best new artists & Best rap single  1993) for the album, 3 years, 5 months, and 2 days in the  life of…” Their second album “Zingalamaduni” was met with critical acclaim and was also nominated for a GRAMMY award.

 In 1995, the group disbanded and Speech signed a solo record deal with EMI. His first single “Like Marvin Gaye  Said” shot to #1 on the Japanese Tokio 100 charts for 7  consecutive weeks. Speech has released 5 solo albums since, all of which have spawned Top 10 hit singles in Japan. His album “1998 Hoopla” and Spiritual  People” (2000) were certified gold. “Spiritual People” was awarded the Best black music album of the year 2000  by the acclaimed ADLIB magazine. Speech supported each album with sold-out tours.

Speech has also toured as a solo performer with the United  States Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hillary Clinton,  Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Youssou N’dour, James  Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Jason Mraz, Hootie &  the Blowfish, and The Roots.

In 2020 Speech partnered with Resonant Pictures and Pipeline Entertainment to release the full-length documentary “16 Bars” where Speech goes into a maximum security jail to write music with inmates. This stirring documentary has won numerous film festival awards and is now available through Lightyear Entertainment on streaming platforms worldwide

Mark is an expert on executive leadership, business strategy, and innovation who has spent over 25 years leading teams and building companies from the ground up. He delivers actionable, valuable and practical advice for leaders at all levels of an organization.

Currently a highly sought after executive coach and venture investor, Forbes called Mark one of America’s Top Venture Investors with the "Midas Touch." Mark was recently featured as one of the "World’s Top Executive Coaches" by the American Management Association and #1 Thought Leader on Innovation and Engagement. He was named one of the "Top 30 Communications Professionals for 2015" by Global Gurus. Mark advises top leaders in Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 1000 companies as well as the executive teams who are leading high growth startup companies in Silicon Valley today.

A New York Times bestselling author whose books include: ADMIRED: 21 Ways to Double Your Value; Now Build a Great Business; and Success Built to Last - Creating a Life that Matters, Mark is also an Innovation Leadership columnist for Forbes.com, Inc.com and FastCompany.com. His most recent bestseller ADMIRED is a primer on how the world’s "Most Admired Companies" achieve long-term success and growth as well as the qualities that are common to "Most Admired Leaders."

Mark has worked side by side with three of the world’s most legendary disruptive innovators: Steve Jobs, Charles Schwab and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson. He brings insight from decades of experience with these great leaders and research on the culture of companies and brands that achieve the highest levels of employee engagement, customer loyalty and continuous sales growth.

Mark was Charles Schwab’s former Chief of Staff and Chief Customer Experience Officer, and the Executive Producer of Schwab.com which today has assets over $2.4 Trillion. He is a co-founder of Sir Richard Branson’s Entrepreneurship Centers and an advisor to Virgin Unite Entrepreneurs.

Mark is a founding advisor of the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab, and is a visiting scholar at his alma mater, Stanford University. He has served as faculty at the World Economic Forum and World Business Forum, is a member of the Clinton Initiative, and an executive coach for TED Fellows.

A successful venture capitalist over the last two decades, Mark was as an early investor in companies like Facebook, Netflix and eSurance. He has been a Board Member for many well known technology, biotech and retail companies, including: Best Buy, Korn Ferry, and Interwoven (now owned by HP). He was the Chairman of the Board for Rioport, which popularized the MP3 player prior to the iPod. He is an investor in Cancer Genetics, a leader in DNA-based diagnostics for clinical management of cancer treatment.

Among Mark’s passions are music and Broadway. Mark serves as a founding Board of Directors member for Smule, the top music app company on iTunes which has over 125 million users worldwide. As a Broadway producer, Mark’s plays have earned five Tony Awards and a total of ten Tony nominations, including Peter and the Star-Catcher with Disney, and StickFly with Alicia Keys.

Mark lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Manhattan with two extraordinary women – his wife Bonita and their daughter Vanessa.

• Dan talks about how organizations can meet the challenge of helping their employees bring more energy to work and not only embrace change but see it as an opportunity to lead.

• Audiences leave his dynamic presentations understanding how they can manage energy and time more effectively and adopt an off balance on purpose approach as a realistic and empowering way to excel at work and life.

• Dan is a world-renowned Hall of Fame keynote speaker, author, entrepreneur, workplace performance expert, fitness advocate, and acrobat.

• Past clients include: AT&T, Bank of America, Marriott, Microsoft, WalMart, Honeywell, Chase, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

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Dan Thurmon isn’t just a world-renowned Hall of Fame keynote speaker. He’s also an author, entrepreneur, workplace performance expert, fitness advocate, and acrobat who practices what he preaches!

Known for delivering powerful, customized, opening and closing keynotes in jaw-dropping style, Dan uses every bit of his passion and ability to educate and inspire his audiences. The results and experiences are unlike anything any other speaker can offer.

Dan is known for delivering powerful, customized opening and closing keynotes in jaw-dropping style. He does handstands on podiums while discussing balance. He juggles sharp objects to teach principles of performance under pressure. He weaves through the audience on a six-foot unicycle to visually amplify principles for navigating change. Dan has been transforming fortune 500 teams to see change as as ‘an opportunity to lean into’ for 25 years.

What started as a means to fund a business school grew into a seven-figure business across 32 countries and six continents. Dan began his journey as an acrobatic performer for corporate events over 25 years ago. He soon moved beyond performance to incorporate motivational messages tailored to solve real-world business problems. Word-of-mouth helped spread the powerful impact of Dan’s keynotes and workshops, and he’s established a long list of fortune 500 clients.

Today, Dan continues to work closely with his clients to truly understand their challenges in business, leadership and teamwork. For Dan, his role goes far beyond just an energetic start or end to a meeting. He serves as a catalyst to inspire significant change within a business, especially during times of transition.

In his programs, Dan drives to the root of what’s holding clients back, and he tailors every engagement to address the specific needs of every organization. Whether it’s a live event or virtual learning experience, Dan’s dynamic approach and unique point of difference sets his programs apart and keeps him in high demand all year long.

Dan is a dedicated family man currently living in the Atlanta area with his wife Shay and their children, Eddie and Maggie. He is passionate about health and fitness, and enjoys playing golf, reading, writing and music.

No one can predict the future, but Jack Uldrich can help you prepare for it. Jack is a global futurist, speaker, and author of 13 books, including award-winning best sellers, who helps organizations gain the crucial foresight they need to create a successful future. His talks land at the intersection of advancements in technology, change management and leadership and are styled to educate, inspire and entertain.

Jack speaks over 50 times a year especially on the transformation of finance, health care, agriculture, education, energy, retail and manufacturing. He argues that creativity and action are more powerful and versatile than knowledge. He professes the transformational principles of unlearning, or freeing yourself from obsolete knowledge and assumptions, as a strategy to survive and thrive in an era of unparalleled change.

Jack is a former naval intelligence officer, Defense Department strategic planning official and served as the director of the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning under Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.

Jack is inspired by the role he is meant to play to help businesses pivot toward a new future. The publishing arm of Fast Company (Greenleaf Book Group) secured him to write two books in 2020: Business as Unusual and The Rise of Generation RE. Jack’s remarks are always customized for your industry and speak to your audience’s particular issues and concerns.

Rory Vaden is the New York Times best-selling author of Take the Stairs. His insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Inc, on Fox News national television and in several other major media outlets. As a world-renowned speaker, his Tedx talk has been viewed nearly 2 million times, he is a 2x World Champion of Public Speaking Finalist and he was recently named as one of the top 100 leadership speakers in the world by Inc Magazine.

He is the Co-Founder of Brand Builders Group and the host of the Rock Solid Reputation podcast, a forum in which he teaches people to build and monetize a rock solid reputation™.

Vivek Wadhwa's background is impressive - an entrepreneur, academic, business strategist, author, keynote speaker wrapped into a wonderfully vibrant and charismatic package. His research is focused on the critical advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials, and how these advances are creating disruptive changes for companies, industries, governments and the culture at large.

Vivek just rejoined Harvard as a Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor, and Worklife Program, where he will help lead a critical three-year research project on the effects of technology on future employment and work. This will be the first study on how technology will affect the core foundations of our economy.

He is also currently a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, he teaches on CMU's Silicon Valley campus about the latest exponential technologies; technology convergence and industry disruption; risks and regulation; and the new rules of innovation. Vivek was also a Director of Research at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, and Fellow at Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, and Emory University. Remarkably, he has held as many as six simultaneous appointments at top universities.

Vivek's syndicated column for The Washington Post is one of the world's most popular columns on all things technology and innovation.  His newest best-selling book is Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back.  Previous books include the award-winning, The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future, he also wrote The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012, and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, for which the Financial Times named him #2 on its global list of the top ten men worth emulating.

This talent for communicating the complexities of global technological advancements in simple, almost poetic ways, have made Vivek one of the most in-demand keynote speakers in the world. He gives more than 100 talks every year to the most prestigious and powerful audiences, including world leaders, CEOs, industry organizations, universities, entrepreneurship groups, and a multitude of national science and engineering academies.

He started his career as a software developer and gained a deep understanding of the challenges in building computer systems. His experience as Vice President of Information Services at investment banking powerhouse CS First Boston (CSFB), spearheading the development of technology for creating computer-aided software-writing systems, was so successful that CSFB decided to spin off that business unit into its own company, Seer Technologies. As its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Wadhwa helped grow the nascent startup into a $118 million publicly traded company.

The explosive growth of the internet afforded Vivek with an even greater opportunity to help businesses adapt to new and fast-changing technologies, and founded Relativity Technologies. As a result of his vision, Forbes.com named Wadhwa a Leader of Tomorrow, and Fortune declared Relativity one of the 25 coolest companies in the world.

In 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition as an "Outstanding American by Choice", for his "commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans". He was also named one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine in that year; in June 2013, he was on TIME's list of "Tech 40", one of forty of the most influential minds in tech; and in September 2015, he was second on a list of "ten men worth emulating" in the Financial Times.

Erik Wahl is an internationally recognized artist, TED speaker, and No. 1 bestselling author. His breakthrough experience as an artist and entrepreneur has translated into making him into one of the most sought-after corporate speakers on the circuit today.

On stage, Erik’s keynote experience creates a dynamic multidimensional metaphor for how to systematically embrace innovation and risk. His message: disruption is the new normal and businesses must embrace creativity in a wholesale fashion, or risk being left behind. Erik’s presentation inspires organizations to be increasingly agile and outlines how to use disruption as a competitive advantage. Some companies will be disrupted others will choose to be the disruptor. Choose wisely.

His new book, The Spark and the Grind, activates the essential components of translating ideas into action. His breakthrough thinking has earned praise from the likes of top influencers in both art and business. Erik’s previous book, a bestseller called Unthink was hailed by Forbes Magazine as The blueprint to actionable
creativity, and by Fast Company Magazine as “provocative with a purpose.”

The Warhol of Wall Street, the Renoir of ROI, The Picasso of Productivity, the Jobs of … Well, Jobs.
Erik discovered an alarming truth early in his career as a partner in a corporate firm: organizations that encouraged the mental discipline of creativity did better than those that did not put innovation as a priority mission. So he set out to challenge companies to change their way of thinking.

In the meantime, inspired by street art, he became an acclaimed graffiti artist—though he has since stopped selling his works for personal gain, and instead uses his art to raise money for charities. His keynote is where his passion for business growth and art converge into a fascinating performance.

Erik’s list of clients includes AT&T, Disney, London School of Business, Microsoft, FedEx, Exxon Mobil, Ernst &
Young, and XPrize.

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• Talks about how leaders can build high performing teams through innovation, communication & a relentless commitment to excellence.

• Audiences learn how to build collaborative cultures of trust, courage, motivational strategies and commitment in order to adapt to change, break performance barriers, and overcome adversity.

• Known as “The Wingman,” Lt Col (ret) Waldo Waldman is a combat decorated fighter pilot, executive coach, Hall of Fame Speaker, and the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Never Fly Solo.

• Past clients include:  Hewlett Packard, Verizon, American Express, GE, The Denver Broncos, ExxonMobil, Merck, Johnson & Johnson

Lt. Col. Waldo Waldman - The Wingman.

• You want a leadership expert who can call on life experiences to show the value of committing to excellence, adapting to change, and building collaborative, trusting relationships
• Your audience needs an interactive, high-energy speaker who can bridge the gap between the highly competitive world of the fighter pilot and the challenges of business
• Real world sales experience, MBA, New York Times & Wall Street Journal best-selling author, member of the Speaker Hall of Fame

Known as “The Wingman,” Lt Col (ret) Waldo Waldman is a combat decorated fighter pilot, executive coach, Hall of Fame Speaker, and the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Never Fly Solo. He helps organizations build collaborative cultures of trust, courage, motivational strategies and commitment in order to adapt to change, break performance barriers, and overcome adversity.

In addition to his time in the military, Waldo has real world corporate sales experience and is an expert on change management and resilience – having broken through a lifelong fear of heights and overcoming claustrophobia as a fighter pilot. His compelling stories and techniques on overcoming adversity, performing under pressure, earning trust, and servant-based leadership are extremely relevant to organizations who seek to create a “One Team, One Mission” performance-focused culture of trust and collaboration.

“We Survive Solo but Win Together.” – Waldo Waldman

Waldo is a graduate of the U.S Air Force Academy and also holds an MBA with a focus on Organizational Behavior. He is an inductee into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame, a prestigious award that honors speakers who have reached the top echelon of platform excellence and has been bestowed on less than 180 speakers worldwide. Waldo is also founder The Wingman Foundation, a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to build funds and awareness for veterans in need. He’s been featured on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Inc. Magazine, and The Harvard Business Review, and his clients include Hewlett Packard, Verizon, American Express, GE, The Denver Broncos, ExxonMobil, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and dozens of national associations.

Mike Walsh: Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership & Transformation | Bestselling Author | HBR Columnist | Fortune 50 Advisor

Reinvent Your Organization for the AI-Powered Future. AI isn't simply changing how we work. It's changing what organizations can become.

Known for combining provocative ideas with practical business insight, Mike helps leaders understand how AI, algorithms, automation and digital labor will reshape organizations—and what they need to do now to stay relevant and competitive.

His message goes beyond adopting the latest technology. The real opportunity is to reinvent how your organization works, makes decisions and creates value.

Why Book Mike Walsh?

Mike doesn't simply predict the future. He helps leaders prepare to compete in it.

As a strategic advisor to Fortune 50 companies, Harvard Business Review columnist, bestselling author and global researcher, Mike studies how the world's most innovative organizations are using technology to transform the way they operate.

His global perspective allows him to connect emerging technologies with changing customer behavior, workforce expectations and new business models.

Audiences leave with something more valuable than a list of trends: a clearer understanding of what AI means for their organization and how leaders need to respond.

What Makes Mike Walsh Different?

• Futurist for leaders — focuses on the strategic implications of technology rather than technology alone
• AI and digital labor authority — explores how AI agents will reshape organizations and work
• Fortune 50 advisor — works directly with senior leaders navigating transformation
• Harvard Business Review columnist — translates emerging trends into practical leadership insights
• Three-time bestselling author — including The Algorithmic Leader
• Global perspective — researches innovation, technology and consumer behavior around the world
• Leadership focused — explores how decision-making must evolve in the Algorithmic Age
• Highly customized — connects his research directly to the client's industry and challenges

Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?

Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where AI is heading, what it means for their business and how they need to lead differently as a result.

He is particularly effective for CEO conferences, executive leadership meetings, AI summits, technology conferences, association events and organizations navigating significant transformation.

Book Mike when your audience needs to:

• Understand what's coming next in AI
• Prepare for AI agents and digital labor
• Reimagine how their organization operates
• Identify new opportunities created by automation
• Lead people confidently through technological disruption
• Make smarter data-driven decisions
• Rethink customer and employee experiences
• Move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine reinvention

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding how AI agents could reshape organizations
• Better prepared for the next decade of AI-powered transformation
• Thinking differently about the future of work
• Recognizing where human capabilities create the greatest value
• Better equipped to lead hybrid teams of humans and machines
• Understanding why AI requires organizational—not simply technological—change
• More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
• Ready to rethink how their organization creates value

Mike Walsh Keynote Programs

Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business.  What happens when AI stops being simply a tool and becomes part of your workforce?

AI agents capable of independently analyzing information, making decisions and taking action represent a fundamental shift in how organizations may operate.

Mike explores the emergence of digital labor and what it could mean for organizational structure, governance, workforce strategy and competitive advantage.

He challenges leaders to look beyond today's copilots and chatbots and consider how organizations will operate when humans work alongside potentially vast networks of intelligent digital agents.

Ideal for: CEO conferences, AI summits, executive leadership meetings and organizations developing their AI strategy.

The AI-Powered Decade Ahead. Are you using AI to improve what you already do—or rethink what your organization could do?

Mike takes audiences on a journey toward 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation could drive a new industrial revolution.

He argues that the greatest opportunity isn't simply making existing processes faster. It's reimagining customer experiences, redesigning organizations and finding entirely new ways to solve problems.

Technology is only part of the transformation.

Leadership ambition will determine what organizations actually do with it.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, technology events, strategy meetings and organizations preparing for long-term transformation.

The Future Favors the Bold. Incremental improvement may help you keep up. Bold thinking is what creates what's next.

Technology breakthroughs, changing customer behavior, geopolitical uncertainty and machine intelligence are challenging many of the assumptions on which organizations were built.

Mike shows why successful transformation requires leaders willing to experiment, challenge conventional thinking and make courageous decisions.

Because the future isn't simply an upgraded version of the present.

It requires leaders willing to reinvent it.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation events, executive meetings and organizations facing disruption.

The Algorithmic Leader. What capabilities will leaders need when machines can increasingly analyze, predict and decide?

Based on his bestselling book The Algorithmic Leader, Mike explores how AI, automation and algorithms are changing leadership itself.

He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, use data, design teams and combine machine intelligence with uniquely human capabilities.

Audiences leave with practical ideas for redesigning their organizations, reimagining their roles and reinventing how they make decisions.

Ideal for: Leadership development programs, executive conferences, technology events and organizations developing future-ready leaders.

Why Book Mike Walsh Through The Sweeney Agency?

Mike Walsh combines AI expertise, strategic foresight, global research and practical leadership insight—making him particularly valuable when you need executives to understand not simply what technology is doing, but what they should do differently because of it.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Mike Walsh's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Mike Walsh keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Mike with other leading AI, futurist and future-of-business keynote speakers

Is Mike Walsh Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about AI and the future ahead.

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

Planning an AI summit, executive conference, leadership meeting or association event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mike Walsh as your keynote speaker.

Haiyan Wang is Managing Partner of the China India Institute, a research consultancy with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD.

Ms. Wang serves as a regular columnist for BusinessWeek, a Contributing Editor for the Chief Executive magazine, and a regular blogger for Harvard Business Review. She is the co-author of two highly acclaimed books: Getting China and India Right (which received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards' Silver Prize as one of the world's two best books on globalization/international business) and The Quest for Global Dominance.

Her opinion pieces have appeared in top international media such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Chief Executive, The Economic Times, China Daily, The Times of India, as well as other outlets. She has also been frequently interviewed by CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, India Today, Shanghai Daily, INSEAD Knowledge, and other prominent business media. A highly sought-after speaker at major industry and corporate conferences, Ms. Wang has also spoken at TEDx, Economist, and other high profile conferences.

A native of China, Ms. Wang has spent the last twenty years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the United States in several different industry sectors. Haiyan serves regularly as a keynote speaker at major conferences and corporate forums in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

• Talks about creative techniques and behaviors to develop big, innovative ideas

• Uses Disney’s iconic brand and characters to leave audiences with actionable takeaways about creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking

• Disney’s Former Head of Innovation and Creativity

• Past clients include: Apple, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Corp., IBM, Johnson & Johnson, McKinsey, NBC Universal, Twitter

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Duncan Wardle maintains that "we are all born creative - we are born with amazing imaginations, are full of curiosity, and carry this remarkable built-in tool known as intuition." Duncan spent 25+ years in leadership roles at Disney - where, when he was Head of Innovation and Creativity, he led the team that helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new storylines and experiences for consumers around the globe. As founder of iD8 & innov8 he now brings his extensive Disney experience delivering keynotes, workshops and ideation forums, around the globe helping companies strategize and embed a culture of innovation into everyone’s DNA.

Duncan’s talks are anything but ordinary. Sharing real world stories and lessons learned from the innovation battlefield, Duncan leaves audiences inspired, motivated, and ready to innovate for their own organizations.

On a mission to eradicate the status quo - Duncan challenges everyone to claim their own creativity, thus creating a culture of innovation never possible before. Duncan is now one of the world’s most highly regarded innovation speakers and consultants, teaching companies, brands and individuals across the globe to overcome their own expertise and get out of their own way. To think differently and creatively.

In an age where meetings and projects and presentations have your employees feeling like they are “too busy to think,” Duncan teaches how to create an innovation “light switch.” A way to turn on their creative brain and access the ideas that turn ordinary companies into industry leaders.

It takes time and money to find, hire, and build your teams. So why not leverage the full potential of their creativity and harness the full spectrum of their innovation? Through his pioneering consulting services, Duncan teaches organizations how to do just that, maximizing the ROI they receive on their most valuable resource: their people.

Are you ready to see the ideas that are unleashed by fostering a culture of innovation and creativity within your organization? Duncan’s unique design thinking process will empower your entire organization to redefine how they think about problems and solutions. Teams leave with the tools they need to start innovating today and to immediately drive positive growth for your organization.

Duncan is a multiple TEDx speaker and contributor to Fast Company Magazine. He teaches Innovation and Creativity Masterclasses at Yale University, UNC and U.F. He also holds the American Citizen Award presented at the White House, an Hons. MBA and Hons. Doctorate from Edinburgh University and the Duke of Edinburgh Award, presented by her majesty, Queen Elizabeth.

Dr. Margie Warrell brings sharp insights from her diverse global experience to inspire bolder thinking and braver action.

The bestselling author of five books, Margie’s ability to distill grounded research into actionable advice sets her apart on the global stage. A leading authority on courageous leadership, she has learned a lot about overcoming fear and embracing change since her childhood growing up on a small farm in rural Australia. She has spent the last 25 years working around the world - in Australia, Asia, Papua New Guinea and the USA - while raising her four children.

An honoree of the Women’s Economic Forum and CEO of Global Courage, Margie sits on the advisory board of Forbes School of Business & Technology and is trusted by global brands - NASA, Google, Deloitte, Dell, Abbot, UN Foundation and Salesforce - to deliver life-changing programs that accelerate growth, inspire braver action and better outcomes. Her latest book, You’ve Got This! The Life-Changing Power of Trusting Yourself  has been hailed as a transformative book for these times.

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Futurist, author, and Hall of Fame Speaker, Crystal Washington equips organizations with the knowledge they need to become “future-proof.” As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal makes complex artificial intelligence, social media, and app technology easy to understand and accessible for everyday people.

Crystal’s clients include Fortune 100 companies, including Google, American Express, and Pfizer. As a sought-after keynote speaker, she has entertained and educated audiences around the globe. As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, she appears weekly on season two of the Emmy nominated show Life 2.0. She’s also appeared in numerous publications, including Entrepreneur and Bloomberg Businessweek, and major television networks regularly call on her as a tech expert.

Crystal is the author of One Tech Action and The Social Media Why.

Marc Wayshak is a sought-after sales keynote speaker who has trained thousands of salespeople across the globe. His company, the Sales Insights Lab, leads the industry in data-driven sales coaching, training, and mentorship. Marc’s Sales Insights MethodTM utilizes today’s most innovative, science-based tools for selling. His clients have grown their annual sales by more than $100 million to date.

LinkedIn designated Marc one of “15 Influential Sales Professionals to Watch” in 2019. His sales strategy channel on YouTube hit 140,000 subscribers in 2022, with viewership growing daily.

Marc has also published two sales bestsellers, The High-Velocity Sales Organization and Game Plan Selling. In 2023, he will publish his third, Sales Conversations, Mastered. Audiences around the world learn from Marc via his regular columns in renowned publications, including HubSpot, Entrepreneur, Inc., Huffington Post Business, and Fast Company.

As a speaker, Marc combines humor, storytelling, and hard-earned expertise to motivate and connect with audiences. His keynotes are steeped in the latest, most powerful data on what’s actually working for top performers today in sales.

Marc routinely analyzes cutting-edge research on selling—and then applies the takeaways directly to help his training participants gain real-world results.

Past events include keynotes for world-leading companies such as Siemens, Goldman, Lenovo, and Marriott.

Outside of sales, Marc kiteboards around the globe, plays rugby, and travels extensively. His true passion is making a positive impact on the lives of salespeople, every day. Marc received a BA in social sciences from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Nick Webb is a number one best-selling author and is one of the most popular Innovation, Healthcare, Future-trends, and Customer Experience Speakers in the world. Nick is the CEO of LeaderLogic, LLC a Management Consulting Firm that provides consulting services and training to the top brands in the world. Nick works shoulder-to-shoulder with boards of directors of multibillion-dollar companies to assist them in building future-ready organizations.

As a technologist, Nick has been awarded over 40 Patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including one of the world’s smallest medical implants and one of the first wearable technologies.

Nick’s best-selling books include, What Customers Crave, The Innovation Mandate, What Customers Hate, Happy Work, Lucid Leadership and his number one bestselling book, The Healthcare Mandate. Nick has been awarded one of the Top 30 Business Experts for eight years in a row.

Nick has served as a Chief Innovation Officer and an Adjunct Professor at a top medical school. Nick was awarded his Doctorate of Humane Letters (hon.) for his contributions in healthcare.

Additionally, Nick is also the Producer and Host of the Award-winning Documentary Film, “The Healthcare Cure”. The film won the Sedona International Film Festival’s “Audience Choice Award”, Most Impactful Film.

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With his contagious energy and actionable System, ALEX WEBER immediately impacts audiences and ignites record-breaking achievements! Alex is an Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, Champion Coach, Acclaimed Author, TV Host for NBC, and competitor on American Ninja Warrior. Alex is also the only person ever to Host and Compete on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior!
Alex helps you lead beyond changes, overcome challenges, and unlock new levels of achievement!

Alex connects so well with audiences because of his genuine openness about the challenges, self-doubt, and uncertainty that we all face — and how you can overcome it! As a professional entertainer, US Lacrosse Coach of the Year, and acclaimed Author, Alex is highly sought after for his unique ability to engage, empower, and transform audiences. Alex has positively inspired over 5.5 million people worldwide, and worked with major companies like Xerox, Apple, Fidelity, Amazon, Under Armor, LinkedIn, RE/MAX, The Los Angeles Lakers, Stanford Business and many more!

With his inspiring stories, captivating energy, and actionable takeaways, Alex empowers you to lead beyond changes and conquer challenges, so you can accomplish your biggest goals in your career, your relationships, and your life! Now is the time to unlock The Unstoppable You™!

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Tamsen Webster - Selected for 2022 Thinkers50 Radar, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker on Communication:

Great ideas don't create change unless people believe in them.

Tamsen Webster helps leaders turn complex ideas into clear, compelling messages that build buy-in and inspire action. Drawing on more than 25 years in message strategy and change communications, she gives audiences practical frameworks for communicating ideas in ways people understand, believe—and remember.

Why Book Tamsen Webster?

Tamsen doesn't simply teach people to communicate better. She shows leaders how to build a case for change that audiences can believe in.

Her experience spans major organizations including Harvard Medical School and Fidelity Investments, as well as advising entrepreneurs through Harvard Innovation Labs and the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. She also spent more than a decade as an Idea Strategist for TEDxCambridge and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar in 2022.

What Makes Tamsen Different?

• A practical approach to building buy-in for change
• More than 25 years of message strategy experience
• Creator of the Red Thread® framework
• Two-time bestselling author
• Deep expertise in storytelling, persuasion and change communication
• Actionable frameworks audiences can use immediately

Why Is Tamsen Right for Your Audience?

Tamsen is particularly effective for organizations where leaders need people to understand, support and act on new ideas.

Book Tamsen when your audience needs to:

• Communicate change more effectively
• Build stronger buy-in for new ideas and initiatives
• Turn complicated messages into clear, compelling stories
• Influence without relying on pressure or manipulation
• Help people understand why change matters
• Move audiences from agreement to action

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to build a persuasive case for change
• Equipped to make complex ideas easier to understand
• Clearer about why some messages inspire action while others fail
• Ready to connect new ideas to beliefs audiences already hold
• Able to create messages people remember and repeat
• More confident turning ideas into lasting action

Keynote Programs

Say What They Can't Unhear: How to Inspire Change That Lasts

Tamsen reveals why traditional approaches to change often struggle and shows leaders how to build messages around beliefs, identity and stories that people already understand. Audiences learn practical principles for creating change that lasts rather than generating temporary agreement.

The Logic of Belief: How to Make Inaction Impossible

Every decision involves an internal argument. Tamsen shows audiences how to structure the reasoning behind an idea so clearly that people can see why taking action makes sense. Her Core Case and If–Then–Because–And frameworks give leaders practical tools for building agreement, understanding and action.

The Red Thread®: How to Find and Tell the Story of Your Ideas

Tamsen teaches audiences how to uncover the essential story behind an idea and communicate it in a way others immediately understand. Participants learn the five building blocks of a powerful message and how to adapt that story for different audiences, formats and situations.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

The right speaker must do more than deliver a great presentation. Their message needs to connect directly to what your organization wants people to think, believe or do differently.

Contact us to:

• Confirm Tamsen's availability and current fee
• Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
• Discuss customization, workshops and event format
• Determine how her message can connect directly to your organization's change or communication challenges
• Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit

Is Tamsen Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the change you're trying to create and what you want people to think, feel or do differently. We'll provide an honest assessment of Tamsen's fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you determine the best program for your event.

Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Tamsen Webster.

Jared Weiner is Co-Founder + Creator at Wake the Future. Wake the Future is a content and thought leadership platform built to wake people up to the realities of a chaotic future, and to ultimately empower humans in an age of AI. Jared considers himself a “reformed futurist,” inspired to apply his experience and learnings toward a renewed purpose – one that is more authentic to who he is, and what matters most to him personally: his family.

Jared has been a futurist and global keynote speaker for nearly two decades. Over that period, he’s served as Partner at The Future Hunters, a futurist consultancy and industry pioneer. Jared has long helped senior leaders prepare for what’s ahead. His speaking has taken him to Colombia, Turkey, Australia, Hong Kong, Morocco, Panama and Poland.

Jared is past Chairman of the Board of the World Future Society. And he served on American Express OPEN’s Digital Advisory Board. He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester (UofR), and an M.B.A. from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the UofR.

Jared is a New York City native and will always have big city DNA. But he and his wife (+ business partner) Erica, along with their son, now live near her hometown of Rochester NY, where they first met in college. Jared’s biggest passions are travel and 80s music. He also enjoys hiking, basketball, history, wine and suffering through being a NY sports fan.

Bill Weingartner brings a unique perspective and wealth of experience to the challenge of building healthy organizations and high performing teams. Interacting closely with The Table Group since 2013, he has had the great privilege of working regularly and directly with Pat Lencioni to positively impact organizational culture and health within hundreds of non-profits across North America. As a Principal Consultant, Bill delivers high-impact sessions that generate relevant and immediate outcomes for leaders of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Bill works regularly with leadership teams in quickly and effectively applying the concepts captured in all of Pat Lencioni's books, always ensuring that consulting sessions, speeches, and workshops are practical, engaging, and actionable. His clients span a broad spectrum of various industries, including financial services, health, medical, and service outreach organizations.

Bill’s 32 years of experience split between corporate America, small business ownership, philanthropy, and organizational health training underlies and drives his success as a consultant with The Table Group.

Scott Welle is a #1 international best-selling author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and Founder of Outperform The Norm - a leading program for business leaders and athletes looking raise their game and perform at the highest level.

While the rest of the competition is playing not to lose, Scott teaches people to play to win. His proprietary “Commit/Attack/Conquer” formula ensures people fall asleep at night knowing they are making the most of their precious days on this planet. For this, Fox 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul has called him a “Motivational Expert.”

Scott has successfully engaged audiences from Northwestern Mutual, State Farm, Edward Jones, Caribou Coffee, Sherwin Williams, Toyota and Chevrolet. He has spoken in 27+ states to 100,000+ people; students from 49+ countries have taken his online courses; 1,000,000+ video views across social platforms; author of 9 best-selling books in peak performance/self-help; Adjunct professor in Sport Psychology - and 20+ years studying and working with Outperformers in business and athletics.

Scott’s nine best-selling books, articles, videos, podcasts and online programs inspire hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He has a Master’s degree in Sport Psychology - and serves on advisory committees of three national level organizations. He regularly speaks and consults with top performing executives, sales professionals and entrepreneurs, as well as elite athletes, all with one common goal - to outperform the norm.

Scott enjoys pushing his own physical and mental limits, completing five Ironman triathlons, 27 marathons - and a 100-mile ultra marathon run. He is very close with his brother, Jason. Together they “plod” at least one marathon together each year, laughing the whole way.

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Sam Wilkin author and geopolitical analyst is director of political risk analytics at Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that operates in more than 140 countries and markets. He is responsible for developing and implementing political risk analysis and management tools and solutions for Willis Towers Watson clients globally.

Sam’s most recent book, History Repeating: Why Populists Rise and Governments Fall, published in April 2018, explains today’s tumultuous politics by showing that it has all happened before. It tells the stories of Argentina’s century of populism and decline, of the great American populist Huey Long, and of the divisive, populist billionaire who governed Thailand, among others - and in the process offers insight into what is happening now and what might happen next.

Sam is also the author, co-author or editor of three additional books and of numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. He previously served as head of business research at Oxford Economics, associate director of the consultancy practice at Oxford Analytica, head of political risk consulting for Aon Trade Credit and as director of country analysis for Marvin Zonis & Associates.

He received his M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago and B.A. in economics from Eckerd College, and was the 2004 alumni fellow for Eckerd College. In 2017 and 2018 he was a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Dr. Julie Williamson has undergraduate degrees in Information Systems and English, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication.

Her keynote content is informed by her work around the world with some of the largest companies, where she's helped set and execute strategy and transformation. She's also worked with small to mid sized companies and organizations (for profit, non-profit, and government) to drive success as they seek to grow their revenue and impact their communities.

She has a deep reservoir of experience and expertise that she shares through engaging, honest, and vulnerable stories. Julie will work with you to shape her experiences to your audience's situation and needs so her stories are relevant, relatable, and memorable.

As an educator, Julie has taught and guest lectured in college courses on organizational strategy, behavior, and change. She focuses on helping students connect theoretical concepts to real-world applications.

In addition to her best-selling book Make HOW Matter, Julie is also the co-author of Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice. Together with Peter Sheahan, she helps unpack the keys to elevating relationships and building businesses that last.

John Winsor is an entrepreneur, thought-leader and global authority on the future of work, open talent and remote work. John’s ideas, expressed through his writing, speaking, and the companies he’s built, have placed him at the intersection of innovation, disruption and storytelling.

John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which studies AI and Workforce Transformation strategies, and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work.

Recently, he has been leading a global industry coalition made up 4000 global leaders in the open talent and innovation industry to start a non-profit trade association, The Center for the Transformation of Work with the goal of Transforming work for a billion people by 2025.

In his past life, John was the chief innovation officer of Havas, when Havas purchased his open advertising agency, Victors & Spoils, in 2015. Winsor founded V&S after introducing the advertising world to the practice of co-creation in his role as vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor had merged his company Radar Communications, the world’s leading open strategy and research company, with CP+B back in 2007. Other companies Winsor founded include Sports & Fitness publishing, sold to Conde Nast, and the Gravity Games, sold to NBC.

Winsor’s new book, “Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Crowd to Solve Your Biggest Challenges,” published by Harvard Business Press, comes out in the fall of 2023.

Winsor’s is also the author of “Beyond the Brand,” “Spark,” “Flipped,” and the best-selling “Baked In,” winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing. Winsor is also an advisor to the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes and Digiday.

Winsor was an early digital nomad. Twenty years ago, he found a satellite dish, mounting it on his house in a village in Mexico and connecting in illegally to a network in Canada to communicate with the world. He has also worked on his skiing, surfing and climbing exploits from Fiji to Alaska.

• Liz talks about how the best leaders bring out the best in their teams and get more done with fewer resources, develop and attract talent, and cultivate new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation

• Audiences leave with an understanding of the five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers and provide practice tips for leading like a Multiplier

• Best-selling author, leadership researcher and CEO of The Wiseman Group, Liz is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and

• Past clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter.

Liz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to top organizations worldwide. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers Multipliers, The Multiplier Effect, and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Rookie Smarts and Impact Players.

Liz is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include Apple, AT&T, Disney, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and X. Liz has received the top achievement award for leadership from Thinkers50. She has also been consistently named one of the world’s leading 50 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.

Liz has conducted significant research in leadership and talent development. She writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and various other business and leadership journals and is a frequent guest lecturer at Brigham Young University and Stanford University. She is a former executive at Oracle, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and the global leader for Human Resource Development. Liz holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s in organizational behavior from Brigham Young University.

About Marc Woods - Paralympian, Author and Cancer Ambassador:

Marc Woods competed internationally as a swimmer for 17 years; winning 12 Paralympic medals from 5 Games and a further 21 from either World or European Championships. In the past he has held world records for 200m, 400m, 1500m Freestyle and as well as being part of the team that held the world record for 4 x 100m Freestyle. At the London 2012 Paralympic Games worked for the BBC as a commentator and presenter, as well as performing in the opening ceremony.

Marc now spends his time presenting at business conference around the world. His speech takes you on an inspirational journey - giving insights into personal responsibility, leadership, teamwork and motivation. It is a journey that took him from cancer patient to multiple Gold medallist. Along with some of the personnel now working with British Cycling he was a pioneer of the

notion of marginal gains.

Marc has written three books. Most notably Personal Best, a combination of his inspirational life story and personal development advice, and more recently Beyond the Call, which supported by research from New York University, looks at how to create conditions within an organisation that make discretionary effort more likely.

Amongst other things he is an ambassador of Teenage Cancer Trust, a director of the Youth Sport Trust and ambassador for CANSA (South Africa's Cancer Charity) and patron for Bone Cancer Research Trust. His clients come from all business sectors and include IBM, Pfizer, Sainsbury, O2 and Santander.

Bob Woodward gained international attention when he and Carl Bernstein uncovered the Watergate scandal in 1973. Since then, he’s worked to shine a light on the inner-workings of secret government. Woodward’s factual, non-partisan revelations to readers and speech audiences provide a view of Washington they’ll never get elsewhere.

Woodward has written about the last ten U.S. presidents and chronicled how the power of the presidency has evolved. He is author of 23 bestselling books – 17 went to #1 – more than any contemporary nonfiction writer. In his speeches, Woodward looks at the expanding powers of the presidency and the important lessons that can be learned from the presidents he’s covered.

He can also assess the role of the media and how well it is (or isn’t) doing its job. Audiences will be awe-struck by insights from this living journalistic legend. Currently associate editor for The Washington Post where he’s worked since 1971, Bob Woodward has won nearly every American journalism award including two Pulitzers.

Cassandra Worthy: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Transformation | Founder of Change Enthusiasm® | Bestselling Author

Turn Change Into Your Competitive Advantage

What if your people didn't just cope with change—but learned how to use it as fuel for growth?

Cassandra Worthy is a bestselling author, leadership expert and highly engaging keynote speaker on change, transformation, resilience and workplace culture.

Why Book Cassandra Worthy?

Cassandra tackles one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: change fatigue.

Most people understand that change is necessary. The challenge is getting them to embrace it rather than resist it.

Cassandra gives audiences a practical framework for recognizing the emotions that surface during disruption and turning those emotions into productive action. Rather than simply telling people to “embrace change,” she shows them how to do it.

Her keynotes are energetic, interactive and highly actionable—making Cassandra an excellent choice when you want people to leave the room thinking differently, feeling energized and ready to move forward.

What Makes Cassandra Worthy Different?

• Creator of Change Enthusiasm® — a distinctive methodology for navigating change
• Real-world corporate experience — understands transformation from inside major organizations
• High-energy delivery — dynamic, engaging and memorable on stage
• Emotion meets action — helps people understand their response to change and do something productive with it
• Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can apply right away
• Relevant at every level — connects with executives, managers and employees
• Customizable — Cassandra can align her message with your organization's specific transformation or change initiative

Why Is Cassandra Right for Your Audience?

Cassandra is an outstanding choice when your organization needs people to move beyond change resistance and actively participate in what's next.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, association conferences and organizations undergoing transformation, restructuring, rapid growth or cultural change.

Book Cassandra when your audience needs to:

• Embrace rather than resist organizational change
• Navigate uncertainty with greater confidence
• Turn change fatigue into forward momentum
• Build greater resilience and adaptability
• Take ownership of their response to disruption
• Lead teams more effectively through transformation
• Strengthen engagement during periods of uncertainty
• See opportunity where they previously saw disruption

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding why change triggers powerful emotional responses
• Able to recognize the signals that influence their reactions to disruption
• Equipped with practical tools for navigating uncertainty
• Better prepared to turn difficult emotions into productive action
• More resilient and adaptable when circumstances change
• Ready to take greater ownership of their response to transformation
• Energized about their ability to influence what happens next

Cassandra Worthy Keynote Programs

Change Enthusiasm®: Harness the Power of Emotion to Fuel Transformation:  What if the emotions people experience during change could become fuel for moving forward?

Cassandra introduces audiences to her signature Change Enthusiasm® methodology, showing them how to recognize the emotions associated with disruption and consciously use those signals to make better choices.

Instead of treating difficult emotions as something to suppress, audiences learn how to use them as information—and transform uncertainty into growth, resilience and action.

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

Leading Through Change: Successful transformation requires more than a new strategy. It requires leaders who understand how people actually experience change.

Cassandra helps leaders recognize the emotional side of transformation and gives them practical strategies for guiding teams through uncertainty.

Leaders learn how to create greater trust, maintain engagement and help their people move from resistance toward ownership and action.

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

Building a Change-Ready Culture: Change isn't an occasional event anymore. It's an everyday reality.

Cassandra challenges organizations to move beyond simply managing individual change initiatives and instead build cultures where adaptability becomes a competitive advantage.

Audiences learn how to develop the mindset, behaviors and emotional awareness required to respond more effectively when disruption arrives.

Ideal for: Culture, innovation, transformation and future-of-work events.

Why Book Cassandra Worthy Through The Sweeney Agency?

Cassandra Worthy's energy and Change Enthusiasm® methodology make her a compelling choice for organizations experiencing transformation—but the real value comes from matching her message to the specific change your audience is being asked to navigate.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Cassandra Worthy Right for Your Event?

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

We'll help you determine whether Cassandra 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 Cassandra Worthy as your keynote speaker.