Robyn Benincasa: World Champion Adventure Racer | New York Times Bestselling Author | Firefighter | Extreme Teamwork Expert

Make Winning Inevitable

Robyn Benincasa shows audiences how to become that kind of team. A World Champion adventure racer, veteran San Diego firefighter, bestselling author and founder of the Project Athena Foundation, she combines gripping stories, dramatic footage and practical strategies that help people collaborate, embrace change and perform under pressure.

Why Book Robyn Benincasa?

Robyn gives audiences more than temporary inspiration. She provides a memorable operating system for achieving difficult goals together.

Her lessons come from 17 years of expedition adventure racing, where every teammate had to reach the finish line together, and more than 23 years as a firefighter. Her energetic multimedia presentations make teamwork, resilience and leadership real, relevant and immediately useful.

What Makes Robyn Different?

• Extraordinary real-world credibility and a powerful stage presence
• Unforgettable stories that make business lessons easy to remember
• Practical habits audiences can apply immediately
• A message that connects departments, generations and leadership levels
• Customization around the organization’s challenges and objectives

Why Is Robyn Right for Your Audience?

Robyn is an excellent choice when an organization needs people to move beyond individual achievement and perform as one team. She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, association events and organizations navigating change.

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Ready to shift from “me thinking” to “we thinking”
• Equipped with practical habits for strengthening teamwork and trust
• Better prepared to turn pressure and setbacks into momentum
• Focused on the team’s most important finish line
• Inspired to lead with greater courage, empathy and determination

Keynote Programs

Adapt, Overcome and Win as One

Robyn shows teams how to move decisively through disruption, create stability in uncertain conditions and turn change into opportunity. Ideal for transformation, restructuring, rapid growth, AI adoption and competitive pressure.

Extreme T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K.

Audiences discover how trust, shared ownership and commitment to one another turn talented individuals into an exceptional team. Ideal for strengthening culture, collaboration and collective performance.

Why Winners Win

Created for sales and high-performance audiences, this keynote demonstrates how top performers can share knowledge, combine strengths and compete as one. Ideal for sales kickoffs, revenue teams and ambitious growth initiatives.

Inspiring Greatness Through G.R.I.T.

Robyn reveals how sustainable resilience grows from connection—to the mission, to teammates and to the leader we choose to become. Ideal for audiences facing setbacks, prolonged uncertainty or depleted morale.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

The right speaker must do more than impress. They must fit your audience, address the challenge behind the event and support the outcome you want to achieve.

Contact us to:

• Confirm Robyn’s availability and current fee
• Identify the best keynote for your objectives
• Discuss customization, format and event logistics
• Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit

Is Robyn Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, their challenges and what you want them to think, feel or do differently. We will provide an honest assessment of Robyn’s fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you move forward with confidence.

Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Robyn Benincasa.

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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].

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

Give People a Reason to Remember You

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

Why Book Dr. Jasmin Bergeron?

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

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

What Makes Jasmin Different?

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

Why Is Jasmin Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Jasmin when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

The WOW Effect!

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

The WOW Effect in Sales and Business Development

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

The WOW Effect in Customer Service

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

The WOW Effect in Leadership

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

The WOW Effect in Teamwork

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

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

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

Is Jasmin Right for Your Event?

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

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

• Ross talks about why certain teams are SUCCESSFUL whereas others aren’t, based on his research of over 1,000 professional athletes and coaches in this highly personalized presentation.

• Audiences leave motivated by the 100 unique characteristics and traits that are common among champions, told through poignant life lessons and inspirational stories.

• Ross Bernstein is a best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, and an award-winning business speaker.

• Past clients include: Tempurpedic, Anytime Fitness, Chatham Steel, Milk Specialties Industries, Allianz Life Financial Services and Levi Strauss & Co.

Ever wonder why certain teams win consistently, whereas others come up short? Ross Bernstein explains why - in an engaging and visually entertaining style that's designed to improve your organization's productivity, morale and bottom-line profitability...

The best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, Ross Bernstein is an award-winning business speaker who helps companies and organizations perform more like champions. Ross and his books have been featured on thousands of television and radio programs over the past 20 years, including CNN, MSNBC, CBS This Morning, FOX News, Bloomberg, ESPN, Sports Illustrated and the CBC, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, USA Today, and Maxim Magazine.

Ross' signature program, The Champion's Code: Life Lessons of Ethics & Accountability from the Sports World to the Business World, is based on more than six years of research that resulted in two critically acclaimed series of sports-business books. The first examines how and why certain teams win world championships; while the other chronicles the unwritten and unspoken rules in the world of sports, or codes as they are known, which explores the fine line between cheating and gamesmanship - and the consequences involved when that line is crossed.

Ross interviewed more than 1,000 professional athletes and coaches for the six books and along the way he saw some fascinating patterns, metrics and trends develop among certain individuals who possessed a very unique DNA. For these unique individuals, or champions, it wasn't always about winning, it was about following their moral compass in order to play the game the right way - with respect and integrity - in order to achieve success. In his presentation, Ross identifies upwards of 100 unique characteristics and traits that are common among champions, which he then ties into poignant life lessons and inspirational stories that relate back to his client's event theme and desired learner outcomes.

Based largely on the Good to Great ideology of how the best companies are able to separate them- selves from the rest of the pack through dynamic leadership and extraordinary customer service, Ross' program reinforces the concept that individuals win games, but TEAMS win championships. Momentum, roles, buy-in, motivation, consistency, sacrifice, trust, chemistry, work-ethic, innovation, karma, and being humble - they're all a part of what it takes to become the best of the best - a champion both on and off the field.

So... who are the champions in your organization? Ross speaks about 100 dates a year and he'd love to customize a keynote (from one to six hours) for your next annual conference, corporate event, or sales meeting - his passion and energy is contagious and he'd be honored to be a member of YOUR team for the day!

Carl Bernstein: Watergate Journalist | Bestselling Author | Political Analyst

Hear the Story Behind the Headlines

Carl Bernstein brings audiences inside the reporting that exposed Watergate and changed the course of a presidency. From his work with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post to decades of books and political reporting, he offers a firsthand perspective on journalism, public accountability, and American democracy.

Why Book Carl Bernstein?

Carl can tell a story few speakers have lived. He explains how patient reporting revealed the Watergate scandal, then connects those lessons to the challenge of finding trustworthy information and holding powerful institutions accountable today.

His presentations give audiences a chance to hear history from a journalist who helped uncover it—and to consider what rigorous reporting requires when public trust is under strain.

What Makes Carl Different?

• Firsthand experience reporting the Watergate story with Bob Woodward
• Decades of investigative reporting on politics and public affairs
• Bestselling books including All the President’s Men, The Final Days, and Chasing History
• A perspective spanning major changes in journalism and American politics
• Stories that bring the work behind consequential headlines to life

Why Is Carl Right for Your Audience?

Carl is a strong fit for university events, leadership forums, journalism conferences, public affairs programs, and audiences interested in history and democracy. He is especially compelling when an event calls for a respected voice who can examine both a defining political moment and its continuing relevance.

Book Carl when your audience needs to:

• Hear the firsthand story of the Watergate investigation
• Understand how investigative reporters establish and verify facts
• Consider the role of journalism in holding power accountable
• Discuss the relationship between trustworthy information and public debate
• Explore how political history informs present-day questions
• Engage with a speaker whose reporting shaped a national conversation

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• With a deeper understanding of the reporting behind Watergate
• Better able to appreciate the persistence and verification investigative journalism demands
• Thinking more critically about evidence, sources, and competing claims
• Clearer on why an informed public matters to democratic institutions
• With questions to carry into conversations about journalism and civic life

Keynote Programs

An Evening with Carl Bernstein: The System Can Work

From his early days as a teenage copyboy to his reporting on national politics, Carl reflects on journalism, the public interest, and the search for the best obtainable version of the truth. Ideal for broad audiences and moderated conversations.

The Lessons of Watergate

Carl takes audiences behind the scenes of the reporting and political drama that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. He considers what Watergate reveals about institutions, accountability, and the work required to uncover facts. Ideal for history, journalism, and public affairs events.

The Problem of Washington

Carl examines the responsibilities of elected officials, the press, and citizens in shaping political life. Ideal for leadership forums and audiences looking for a candid discussion about public debate and the state of American democracy.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what your audience wants to explore: Watergate, investigative journalism, political history, or the role of the press. We can help identify the right topic and format for your event and confirm Carl’s availability and current fee.

Is Carl Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the questions it wants to examine, and whether you envision a keynote or a moderated discussion. We’ll help you assess Carl’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].

• Jason talks about how our brains get creative and explains how we can rocketfuel our own ability to get out of the world of the plain and ordinary to create bold new ideas that have the real potential to change and transform.

• Audiences leave with ten simple practical tips to help identify your own creative triggers and maximise creativity and ideation: both personally and within your organization.

• Jason Bevan was responsible for the innovation and creativity process at Warner Bros. Studios, marketing some of the world’s best loved films in EMEA and creating new ideas that were often used globally. Jason is also a TED circuit speaker and as an expert speaker for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

• Past clients include: KFC, BT, Netflix.

Jason Bevan was responsible for the innovation and creativity process at Warner Bros. Studios, marketing some of the world’s best loved films in EMEA and creating new ideas that were often used globally. Jason worked with legendary film-makers and actors on massive movies for 16 years and reveals how a number of iconic film ideas came to be and how we can all powerfully employ the same techniques used to create them.

Jason’s Innervation keynote talks and masterclasses show why creativity has become one of our most valuable skills and demystifies how we generate ideas with simple logic. Clear, easy to follow steps and tasks show how we can take inspiration from iconic movies and their makers to tap into the creativity we already have, but often don’t use…including people that don’t think they are innovative! It’s fun, uplifting and inspiring.

Jason offers a peek behind the curtain of the world of film, explaining how Warner Bros. pushed the limits of creativity with brave, ambitious ideas with principles we can use in our own work. How the Dark Knight batmobile led to supercars all over the world becoming matt black. How they made creative magic on the Harry Potter film sets by making them the friendliest places in film. How Jason got teams from 37 markets to energise from these films that pervaded global culture to create incredible ideas and seismic events that were seen all over the world. Jason’s talk was developed with a clinical psychologist for scientific accuracy.

Jason was known for pushing creative boundaries on campaigns for the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, DC movies like Joker, The Dark Knight and Aquaman films, the Lego movies, the Conjuring and IT horrorverse and the Christopher Nolan movies. Previously Jason worked for Disney in London and Paris and continues to work with top film and entertainment companies, as co-founder of Content Creator Studios.

In addition to speaking on the TED circuit and as an expert speaker for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Jason has been on the judging panel for various highly regarded awards in the creative industry and speaks for major brands and at a number of renown trade & industry events worldwide.

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].

Richard Bliss is the founder and president of BlissPoint, a social media consulting company that helps improve executives' online communications and sales teams' social selling behaviors.

Richard is recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voices Influencer and an experienced executive communications manager. His expertise has helped thousands of people master social media tools and become fluent in social conversations, building their platforms and confidence to reach their audience and define their brand effectively.

Richard is also the author of the book "Digital First Leadership," where he simplifies the world of social media and how leaders can use it to their advantage. His podcast, "Digital First Leadership," has been a transformational time for many, leading to success in their respective fields.

Jeanne Bliss helps companies and people become the best version of themselves. She guides them to define, build and live the behaviors and actions that will fuse customers to them, and ultimately create deep and memorable relationships.  Creating these deeper relationships has been Jeanne’s singular mission for over 35 years.

Often referred to as the “Godmother of Customer Experience,” she is one of the foremost experts on customer-centric leadership. She pioneered the role of the Chief Customer Officer, holding the first ever CCO role at Lands’ End, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker and Allstate Corporations. Reporting to each company’s CEO, she moved the customer to the strategic agenda, redirecting priorities to create transformational changes to each brands’ customer experience. She has driven achievement of 95 percent loyalty rates, improving customer experiences across 50,000-person organizations.

Her ability to effectively guide leaders and companies to earn customer-driven growth is based on these experiences as a practitioner for over 35 years working across organizations to unite the C-Suite and organizational silos; as well as guiding over 20,000 leaders around the world to understand that improving lives should be their most important strategic vision.

Jeanne is the Founder and President of CustomerBliss, and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association, and she has delivered over 2,000 speeches and workshops for nearly every business vertical in B2B and C2B companies on how to build the roadmap toward these deep and genuine customer experiences that earn passionate advocates both inside and outside of your business.

Jeanne is also a Bestselling Author of Chief Customer Officer, Would You Do that To Your Mother?, and Chief Customer Officer 2.0.

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].

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

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

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

Why Book Lisa Bodell?

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

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

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

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

What Makes Lisa Bodell Different?

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

Why Is Lisa Right for Your Audience?

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

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

Book Lisa when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

Lisa Bodell Keynote Programs

Unleash the Power of Simple. What if the fastest way to improve performance isn't adding something new—but eliminating what no longer matters?

Drawing from her bestselling book Why Simple Wins, Lisa shows audiences how unnecessary complexity steals time, energy and attention from the work that creates the most value.

Through practical tools, interactive exercises and real-world examples, she helps people identify what they can eliminate, simplify or change so they can spend more time on meaningful work.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, transformation initiatives and organizations struggling with complexity.

Let Leaders Lead. How much time do your leaders actually spend leading?

Too often, managers become trapped in meetings, approvals, processes and administrative work that leave too little time for coaching, decision-making and developing their people.

Lisa challenges organizations to remove the bureaucracy preventing leaders from doing what they were hired to do: lead.

She gives managers practical ways to simplify work, remove barriers and create more capacity for the leadership activities that drive performance.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, management conferences and organizations focused on improving leadership effectiveness.

Unleashing Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led. As AI becomes more capable, what becomes more important for humans to do exceptionally well?

Lisa reframes the AI conversation around a critical opportunity: using technology to amplify human capability rather than simply replace human activity.

She explores how organizations can use AI to remove lower-value work while strengthening the distinctly human capabilities that drive innovation—including judgment, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving.

The goal isn't humans versus AI. It's creating organizations where AI handles more of the work while people do more of the thinking that matters.

Ideal for: AI conferences, leadership events, innovation summits and organizations navigating the future of work.

Why Book Lisa Bodell Through The Sweeney Agency?

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

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Lisa Bodell Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

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 is the Founder and CEO of socially conscious fashion brand Sseko Designs, which she founded in 2008 as a way to provide educational and economic opportunities for women in East Africa. Liz shares the lessons learned from her 10-year journey growing Sseko from three women under a mango tree, into a successful international fashion brand that provides employment, educational and entrepreneurial opportunities to thousands of women across the globe.

Her story is filled with lessons for success that are grounded in the principle of having a beginner’s mind, which Liz sums up in her new book, Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now. In it, as in her presentations, she shares uncommon ideas toward success like, Own Your Average, Stop Trying to Find Your Passion…Create It, and Dream Small so you can do big things. Liz continues to channel her inner beginner as she manages 100s of employees across multiple continents, and her mindset sets her apart as a courageous, creative and effective leader.

The Sseko story has been featured in dozens of publications including, Vogue Magazine, Redbook Magazine, O Magazine, Inc., Fortune and others. Sseko has appeared on national broadcasts including ABC's Shark Tank and Good Morning America.

Among other notable honors, Liz was named a Top Three Transformation Leader by John Maxwell, Forbes listed her as a top 20 public speaker in the U.S. and Bloomberg Businessweek named Sseko as a top social enterprise to watch.
Liz now splits her time between Uganda and Portland, Oregon, where she and her husband Ben run Sseko Designs and raise their two young sons.

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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Walter Bond: Former NBA Player | Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker | Expert on Leadership, Accountability and Performance

Give Your Team a Way to Make Progress

Walter Bond helps leaders and teams answer that question. An undrafted player who earned a place in the NBA, he combines the energy of a sports story with practical ideas about focus, coaching, teamwork, and execution. His goal is to help audiences understand where they are going and the role each person plays in getting there.

Why Book Walter Bond?

Walter understands the gap between wanting a result and doing the work it takes to achieve it. His journey from an undrafted athlete to the NBA gives him a memorable way to talk about discipline and ownership; his work with organizations connects those lessons to business goals.

He can tailor his message to the challenge your audience faces, whether that is stronger sales execution, a more accountable culture, or managers who need to coach their teams more effectively.

What Makes Walter Different?

• Firsthand experience reaching the NBA as an undrafted player
• Induction into the National Speakers Association’s CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame
• Experience addressing leadership, sales, teamwork, and accountability
• Memorable frameworks that give audiences a shared language for action
• High-energy delivery paired with practical steps for the workplace

Why Is Walter Right for Your Audience?

Walter is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, franchise meetings, and company-wide events. He is especially relevant when a team has clear ambitions but needs stronger alignment and follow-through.

Book Walter when your audience needs to:

• Take greater ownership of its results
• Align individual effort with a shared goal
• Build trust and accountability across teams
• Turn managers into more effective coaches
• Stay focused through setbacks and competition
• Move from motivation to consistent execution

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the goal they are working toward and their role in it
• Better equipped to connect daily actions with long-term results
• Ready to approach obstacles with more discipline and confidence
• More aware of how communication and trust shape team performance
• Motivated to make measurable progress together

Keynote Programs

Make Progress

Walter helps audiences align around a target, develop a practical playbook, and recognize how each role contributes to the result. The emphasis can be shaped around leadership, culture, sales, accountability, or execution. Ideal for organizations seeking a common direction and a clear next step.

No One Can Stop You But You

Walter challenges audiences to examine the mindsets and habits that limit performance. He focuses on accountability, discipline, opportunity, and commitment. Ideal for sales and employee events that call for renewed personal ownership.

The Shark Mindset

Using his memorable shark metaphor, Walter encourages teams to move forward with focus and confidence when they face uncertainty or competition. Ideal for sales kickoffs and performance-focused meetings.

TeamMastery

Walter explores the traits that support a winning team, including trust, communication, shared goals, and commitment. Ideal for organizations that need stronger chemistry and cooperation across roles.

From Boss to Coach

Walter shows managers how to create clarity, build connection, and develop people through consistent coaching. Ideal for leadership audiences seeking stronger engagement and accountability.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us what progress would mean for your organization and where your team is getting stuck. We can help select the most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Walter’s availability and current fee.

Is Walter Right for Your Event?

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

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

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Roger Bootle is one of Britain's best-known economists and Chairman of Capital Economics, one of the world’s largest independent macroeconomics consultancies, which he founded in 1999. Roger is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and a Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School. Under Chancellor Kenneth Clarke he was appointed to the Government’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called “Wise Men”. From 1997 to 2017, he was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee. In 2012, Roger was named Economics Commentator of the Year and, together with a team from Capital Economics, he won the Wolfson Prize, the second biggest prize in Economics after the Nobel.

Roger Bootle studied at Oxford University and then became a Lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Most of his subsequent career has been spent in the City of London.

Roger has written many articles and several books on economics. His latest book, Making a Success of Brexit and Reforming the EU, is the 4th edition of The Trouble with Europe. This book follows The Trouble with Markets and Money for Nothing, which were widely acclaimed. His earlier book, The Death of Inflation, published in 1996, became a best-seller and was subsequently translated into nine languages. Initially dismissed as extreme, The Death of Inflation is now widely recognized as prophetic. Roger is also joint author of the book Theory of Money, and author of Index-Linked Gilts. Mark your calendars for Sep 5, 2019, the anticipated release date of Roger's upcoming book The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age - in which he examines the economic implications of Artificial Intelligence and addresses the concerns of both businesses and ordinary people about how the future will look as robots and AI proliferate. In contrast to much of the literature on robots and AI, this book is profoundly optimistic about what they imply for the human condition.

Roger appears frequently on television and radio and is also a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph.

After spending much of his early life growing up in Saudi Arabia, Sean Bott developed a scorching sense of humor. He began his journey into the delicious art of magic at the tender age of 12 by learning and then performing hypnosis, psychology, and stagecraft at his local library. One quirky magic shop, a degree or two, and more than three pounds later, he can now say he’s been blowing minds, making people gasp and laugh, all while eating curly fries, for over 15 years. Sprinkle on some pit stops at Second City in Chicago to keep his funny skills on point and you’re left with a one-of-a-kind mind reading experience. As you can imagine, all of that heat combined with some childhood trauma, a birth Mom still at large (maybe the rain forest?), and two really weird stepmoms, has given him some anxiety. He has studied cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and self-compassion, feeding his interest in the world of clinical mental health counseling. As that journey continues, Sean combines that knowledge, personal experience and mind-reading, to show us how to create warm connection with other humans quickly and authentically.

Whether building deeper relationships as a leader, working with clients, onboarding new employees, or retaining great talent, the tools he provides, creates spaces of belonging faster and easier than ever before. When Sean engages with your people, from start to finish, his focus is on understanding their pain points and working together towards your desired outcome.

Working with over 1,500 associations, corporations, and universities worldwide including companies like Dell, Google, and Disney, Sean has brought curated content, mind-blowing moments, and bucketfuls of laughs (not chicken) to thousands.

“Through my study of empathy, psychology, mentalism, and comedy, I provide positive skills and awareness for others to create connection and belonging. I draw on best practices in cognitive behavioral therapy, self-compassion research and social psychology to create an applicable, cohesive tool-set that is actionable, and implementable."

At home, Sean is owned by two cats, two kids, and a spouse. He’ll walk on a treadmill - sometimes - and he eats hot soup in the summer.

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

Make Emotional Intelligence a Daily Skill

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

Why Book Dr. Travis Bradberry?

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

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

What Makes Travis Different?

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

Why Is Travis Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Travis when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

Emotional Intelligence 2.0: Taking Your Game to the Next Level

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

Potential Focus: The New Emotional Intelligence

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

Potential Focus: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Change

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

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

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

Is Travis Right for Your Event?

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

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

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.

• Peter teaches leaders how to lead with emotional courage by increasing their confidence, ability to connect with others and embrace change

• Audiences leave with the tools to engage on with their teams on an emotional level to guide change and support performance

• Peter is an author and contributor to more than 16 books, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Business Week, Forbes, Fast Company and The Financial Times

• Past clients include: Allianz, American Express, Brunswick Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FEI, GE Capital, Merck, Clear Channel, Nike, and UNICEF

Peter Bregman is recognized as the #1 executive coach in the world by Leading Global Coaches. Peter coaches CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations. Having started his career teaching leadership on wilderness and mountaineering expeditions, Peter is CEO of Bregman Partners - an executive coaching company that helps successful people become exceptional leaders and stellar human beings.

Peter is ranked as a top 30 thought leader by Thinkers 50 Radar - and selected as one of the top 8 thought leaders in leadership. He is the award-winning, best-selling author and contributor of 16 books - including, most recently, Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work. His book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, was a Wall Street Journal best-seller, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year by NPR - and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Post as a top ten business book. He is also the author of Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work, a New York Post "Top Pick for Your Career" in 2015, and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change.

Peter is the host of the Bregman Leadership Podcast, which offers insightful conversations with industry thought leaders - on how to become more powerful, courageous leaders. He is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and his articles and commentary appear frequently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times , PBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, and FOX Business News.

Peter created and leads the Bregman Leadership Intensive, a four-day program that transforms the way people lead - by increasing their confidence in themselves, their ability to connect with others, their commitment to what’s most important, and their emotional courage.

Peter designed the Bregman Partners proven, proprietary Big Arrow process - to align people to work together to accomplish an organization’s most important work. The Bregman Arrow Measurement tool (BAM)©tm - quantifies the leadership and organizational gaps that block successful execution.

He has implemented his proprietary solutions with CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations, including Allianz, American Express, Brunswick Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FEI, GE Capital, Merck, Clear Channel, Nike, UNICEF, among others.

Peter earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Blake Brewer is a visionary leader and founder of Legacy Letter Challenge, an organization with a mission to help 1 million people write at least one Legacy Letter.

Blake's powerful story and mission have touched the hearts of many, and he continues to share it with organizations, businesses, and communities across the country. Most recently, he was featured on the "Dads Got This" segment on NBC's Today Show.

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]

Matt Britton is a world renowned expert on the impact of tomorrow’s consumer on the leading brands of today. Over the past two decades, he has provided invaluable consultation to more than half of the Fortune 500 on the influence and impact of Millennials and Gen Z. Currently at the helm of Suzy, a pioneering consumer intelligence platform, Matt has facilitated a radical transformation in how brands garner real-time feedback.

Since 2016, under Matt's leadership, Suzy has garnered over $100 million in venture capital from prominent investors such as The Foundry Group, Bertelsmann Digital Media, H.I.G Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, fashion mogul Kenneth Cole, and NBA superstar Kevin Durant. Global leaders such as Netflix, Coca-Cola, P&G, J&J, Citibank, Verizon, Nintendo, and Nestle count on Suzy to validate critical assumptions, conceive compelling new products, and construct effective marketing strategies.

Before making his mark with Suzy, Matt established MRY, a digital and social media marketing agency, in 2002. With his guidance, the one-person startup transformed into a global powerhouse with over 500 employees in a span of 14 years. MRY, known for its innovative marketing strategies and successful product launches for behemoths like Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Ford Motors, Visa, and Google, was acquired by Publicis Groupe in 2011.

In addition to his impressive corporate achievements, Matt is also the author of the NY Times best-selling book, YouthNation. This publication serves as the definitive guide for organizations of all sizes looking to understand and leverage the power and influence of an unprecedented demographic, making its debut at #1 on Amazon's business book list.

• Dr. Broadman talks about the elements that shape the operations of successful firms pursue that allow them to grow rapidly, excel at remaining more competitive than rivals, reduce exposure to risks and constantly innovate.

• Audiences leave with insights about how market and policy dynamics impact Boards, C-Suites, and workers enterprise-wide, and how they’ll alter the fortunes of today's businesses in ways few ever could have predicted.

• Dr. Harry Broadman is  a genuine thought leader on the transformation of world markets long before the term "globalization" was ever uttered, an author & keynote speaker.

• Past clients include: Cotton Council International, AMG Bank, Institute for Private Investors, U.S. International Trade Commission, Sentinel Risk Advisors and Share-Vu Capital.

At the vanguard of his generation, 36 years ago Harry Broadman began building a career that epitomizes present-day 'serial entrepreneurs’ as a practitioner in high growth emerging markets of international finance, global business growth and risk-mitigation strategy, corporate governance and anti-corruption compliance practices, and the nature and pace of innovation.

Re-inventing himself multiple times in a truly interdisciplinary fashion across greatly differentiated senior roles in the private sector, interspersed with stints as a high-level policy maker and regulator, Harry emerged as a genuine thought leader on the transformation of world markets long before the term "globalization" was ever uttered.

His professional journey—the imprints of which color his thought-provoking speeches—has been driven by his intense personal inquisitiveness about the elements shaping the operations successful firms pursue to grow rapidly, excel at remaining more competitive than rivals, reduce exposure to risks and constantly innovate.

Harry brings to audiences a unique combination of fundamentally insightful yet pragmatic views about how market and policy dynamics impact Boards, C-Suites, and workers enterprise-wide, and how they’ll alter the fortunes of today's businesses in ways few ever could have predicted.

He has the rare ability to frame speeches about the impacts of the most salient business issues from a prospective vantage point rather than conventional rear-view mirror extrapolation, and do so through a prism that recognizes the intrinsic non-linearities of market changes.  And, all done in a highly entertaining mode and infused with Harry’s infectious sense of humor.

Harry has authored several books and numerous professional articles published in a wide array of peer-reviewed economics, law, and foreign policy journals. His most recent books are: Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier; From Disintegration to Reintegration: Russia and the Former Soviet Union in the Global Economy; and The State As Shareholder: China's Management of Enterprise Assets.