Sara Ross Leadership & Workplace Expert | Founder & Chief Vitality Officer, BrainAMPED | Bestselling Author | Global Keynote Speaker

Lead FULL. Perform Better. Feel More Alive.

Sara Ross helps leaders and teams close the gap between excellence and energy—so they can achieve ambitious results without sacrificing the human capacity needed to sustain them.

Founder and Chief Vitality Officer of BrainAMPED and bestselling author of Dear Work: Something Has to Change, Sara combines behavioral science, real-world leadership experience, humor and practical strategies audiences can immediately put to work.

Why Book Sara Ross?

Sara tackles a challenge almost every organization is facing: How do we keep raising performance when people already feel stretched?

Rather than telling people to simply work less or find better balance, Sara shows them how to build the capacity, emotional intelligence and vitality needed to perform at their best.

Her high-energy style combines science, storytelling and practical tools—leaving audiences inspired and knowing what to do differently tomorrow.

What Makes Sara Different?

• Nearly two decades studying leadership and high performance
• Founder & Chief Vitality Officer of BrainAMPED
• Bestselling author of Dear Work: Something Has to Change
• Research informed by data from more than 10,000 high performers
• Combines behavioral science with practical business experience
• High-energy, humorous and highly relatable presentation style
• Customizes her presentations around the audience and organization

Why Is Sara Right for Your Audience?

Sara is an excellent choice when people need to perform, adapt and lead without running themselves into the ground.

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

Book Sara when your audience needs to:

• Maintain high performance under pressure
• Build resilience during constant change
• Increase energy without lowering ambition
• Strengthen trust and collaboration
• Lead themselves and others more effectively
• Turn stress and uncertainty into productive action

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to recognize what drains and generates their energy
• Equipped to move from reactivity toward greater leadership vitality
• More capable of sustaining excellence during demanding periods
• Ready to build greater trust, ownership and collaboration
• With practical strategies they can use immediately
• Energized to bring their best to both work and life

Keynote Programs

The LeadFULL Way: Where Excellence Meets Energy to Expand What Is Possible

Sara shows leaders how to close the Excellence-Energy Gap and build the capacity to meet increasing complexity without continually demanding more of themselves.

Audiences learn how to shift from reactive functioning toward greater vitality, ownership and sustainable excellence.

Ideal for leadership conferences, executive meetings and organizations asking people to accomplish more in demanding environments.

FULL Change: Transforming Stress, Uncertainty and Fear into Future-Ready Resilience

Change doesn't have to drain people.

Sara shows audiences how to shift from a reactive, stressed and change-fatigued state toward one that is more strategic, energized and resilient.

Ideal for organizations navigating transformation, uncertainty or significant organizational change.

FULL Energy: The Burnout Stops Here — Redefine Success, Unlock Energy and Boost Joy

Sara challenges the assumption that exhaustion is simply the price of ambition.

Drawing on her workplace vitality research, she provides science-backed strategies for directing energy more effectively, strengthening renewal and pursuing ambitious goals without sacrificing well-being.

Ideal for high performers, sales teams, leaders and organizations concerned about burnout and sustainable performance.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

The right keynote isn't simply about finding a great speaker. It's about finding the right message for what your audience needs right now.

Contact us to:

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

Is Sara Ross Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the pressures they are facing and what you want them to think, feel or do differently after the event.

We'll provide an honest assessment of Sara's fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you determine the presentation that will have the greatest impact.

Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Sara Ross.

Marci Rossell: Economist | Former CNBC Chief Economist | Speaker on the Economic Outlook and Financial Markets

Why Book Marci Rossell?

Marci translates complex subjects into a discussion leaders can use. Her presentations encourage audiences to look beyond a single headline and consider how different economic forces may affect their planning assumptions.

Why Is Marci Rossell Right for Your Audience?

Marci is a strong fit for executive meetings, financial services conferences, industry associations, and business strategy events. Consider her when an audience needs economic context for its decisions.

Book Marci when your audience needs to:

• Understand developments in the wider economy
• Connect policy discussions with business questions
• Consider how consumer behavior affects demand
• Review assumptions about economic conditions
• Evaluate market commentary with greater context
• Ask more informed questions in strategic discussions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on economic factors relevant to their work
• Ready to revisit a planning assumption
• More aware of connections between markets and policy
• Equipped with questions about the business environment
• Focused on developments worth monitoring

Keynote Programs

The Economic Outlook

Marci examines economic developments and their implications for business. Ideal for executive and industry audiences.

The Stock Market, the Investor and the Media

Marci explores the relationship between markets, investor behavior, and financial commentary. Ideal for financial services and business programs.

Is Marci Rossell Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the economic questions your audience faces and the business decisions it needs to inform. We can help select Marci’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Tim Sanders: Former Yahoo Executive | Author of Love Is the Killer App | Speaker on AI Adoption and Collaboration

Why Book Tim Sanders?

Tim makes the conversation accessible through stories and business examples. His presentations encourage leaders to consider where AI fits their priorities and how cross-functional cooperation can support the work required to adopt it.

Why Is Tim Sanders Right for Your Audience?

Tim is a strong fit for executive conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider him when an organization wants a practical conversation about AI and the collaboration behind adoption.

Book Tim when your audience needs to:

• Connect AI initiatives with business priorities
• Discuss new capabilities across functions
• Recognize barriers created by organizational silos
• Include different perspectives in problem-solving
• Turn technology interest into clearer questions
• Build shared responsibility for implementation

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on an AI opportunity worth examining
• Ready to discuss a priority across teams
• More aware of the human coordination adoption requires
• Equipped with questions about business relevance
• Focused on a practical next step toward alignment

Keynote Programs

Go Faster Into the Age of AI

Tim explores the decisions and cooperation involved in an organization’s AI journey. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.

AI Mega Trends from the Front Lines of the Business World

Tim connects AI developments with examples from business. Ideal for industry audiences seeking context for adoption and growth discussions.

Is Tim Sanders Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the AI questions your audience needs to explore and the collaboration you want to strengthen. We can help select Tim’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

John Sanei: Futurist and Author | Speaker on AI, Adaptability and Organizational Transformation

Why Book John Sanei?

John connects future thinking with questions about leadership and organizational design. His presentations invite audiences to examine what they need to learn, how they approach uncertainty, and where a different structure or mindset could support progress.

Why Is John Sanei Right for Your Audience?

John is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, innovation events, and transformation programs. Consider him when an organization needs a shared conversation about AI and its future direction.

Book John when your audience needs to:

• Clarify questions about AI and business opportunity
• Build greater adaptability into leadership
• Examine assumptions about future competitiveness
• Connect organizational structure with changing demands
• Consider human capabilities alongside technology
• Move from uncertainty toward purposeful next steps

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a future-facing question their organization needs to answer
• Ready to examine an established assumption
• More aware of the connection between adaptability and strategy
• Equipped to discuss organizational choices
• Focused on a capability worth developing

Keynote Programs

AI Frontiers

John explores strategic choices and opportunities in the age of AI. Ideal for executives reviewing their direction.

The Intelligence Shift

John considers the human capabilities and mindset changes associated with AI. Ideal for leadership development audiences.

The Architecture of Change

John examines organizational design in a changing economic and technological environment. Ideal for transformation programs.

Is John Sanei Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the future your leaders are preparing for and the changes your organization needs to consider. We can help select John’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

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

Why Book Sébastien Sasseville?

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

Why Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Sébastien when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

Mission-Centered Leadership

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

Change, Agility, and Transformation

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

Teamwork and Performance

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

Is Sébastien Sasseville Right for Your Event?

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

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

Ken Schmidt: Former Harley-Davidson Communications Leader | Speaker on Reputation, Differentiation and Customer Loyalty

Why Book Ken Schmidt?

Ken encourages organizations to look beyond descriptions of what they sell. His presentations challenge leaders to consider the experience they create, the stories customers share, and the behaviors that make a brand feel different.

Why Is Ken Schmidt Right for Your Audience?

Ken is a strong fit for sales meetings, leadership conferences, marketing events, and customer experience programs. Consider him when a business wants to strengthen differentiation in a crowded market.

Book Ken when your audience needs to:

• Clarify what makes their organization memorable
• Build more personal customer connections
• Look beyond product features in brand messaging
• Align behavior with the reputation they want
• Develop stories that communicate a distinct identity
• Recognize opportunities to improve customer interactions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the impression their business creates
• Ready to question a familiar brand message
• More aware of experiences that influence reputation
• Equipped with questions for developing a stronger story
• Focused on a customer interaction they can improve

Keynote Programs

Full Throttle

Ken explores differentiation and customer connection through lessons from Harley-Davidson. Ideal for sales, leadership, and service audiences.

Revving Up Reputation

Ken examines storytelling and the choices that shape how an organization is perceived. Ideal for marketing and executive programs.

Is Ken Schmidt Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the reputation you want to build and the customer relationships you want to strengthen. We can help select Ken’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Debra Searle: Motivational Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Mindset & Change | Solo Atlantic Rower | Entrepreneur | Author

Choose Your Attitude. Change Your Outcome.

What happens when the plan falls apart, circumstances change and giving up feels like the easiest option?

Debra Searle is an entrepreneur, adventurer and inspiring keynote speaker on resilience, mindset, change and overcoming adversity.

Why Book Debra Searle?

Debra's story immediately captures an audience—but the real power of her keynote is how easily people can apply its lessons to their own challenges.

Alone on the Atlantic, Debra couldn't control the weather, the waves or many of the obstacles she encountered. She could control how she responded.

That distinction became central to her approach to resilience and performance.

Debra helps audiences understand how their mindset, language and daily choices can influence the way they navigate uncertainty, change and setbacks. Her keynote is inspiring without being simply motivational—it gives people practical ideas they can use long after the event.

What Makes Debra Searle Different?

• Extraordinary Atlantic rowing story — a powerful real-world example of resilience
• Authentic experience with adversity — lessons developed when quitting would have been understandable
• Practical mindset strategies — turns an incredible adventure into useful workplace lessons
• Change focused — highly relevant for organizations navigating uncertainty and disruption
• Personal accountability — emphasizes taking ownership of what you can control
• Engaging storyteller — combines vulnerability, humor and inspiration
• Business relevant — connects resilience directly to leadership and performance
• Broad audience appeal — resonates with leaders, sales teams and employees at every level

Why Is Debra Right for Your Audience?

Debra is an outstanding choice when you need your audience to build resilience, take greater ownership and maintain momentum when circumstances become difficult.

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

Book Debra when your audience needs to:

• Build greater resilience during uncertainty
• Adapt positively when plans change
• Focus on what they can control
• Maintain motivation during difficult periods
• Take greater responsibility for their attitude
• Recover more quickly from setbacks
• Keep moving toward long-term goals
• Approach change with greater confidence

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding how attitude influences their response to challenges
• Better able to separate what they can control from what they can't
• Equipped with practical strategies for maintaining resilience
• More aware of how internal dialogue influences performance
• Ready to take greater ownership of their response to change
• Better prepared to maintain momentum when progress feels difficult
• Inspired to make small choices that create meaningful results

Debra Searle Keynote Programs

Choose Your Attitude. You can't always choose what happens to you. You can choose how you respond.

Drawing from her extraordinary Atlantic journey, Debra demonstrates how consciously choosing your attitude can influence resilience, decision-making and performance.

She gives audiences practical strategies for managing their mindset when circumstances are difficult, uncertain or outside their control.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating uncertainty.

Resilience: Keep Moving Forward. How do you keep going when the destination feels impossibly far away?

Debra shares the strategies that helped her continue rowing day after day despite isolation, setbacks and constantly changing conditions.

She connects those lessons to the workplace, helping audiences understand how small actions, clear goals and the right mindset can create momentum during challenging periods.

Ideal for: Sales teams, high-performance organizations, leadership events and employee conferences.

Navigating Change. When the conditions change, the original plan may no longer be the right plan.

Debra uses lessons from the Atlantic to show audiences how to adapt when circumstances shift unexpectedly.

Rather than wasting energy fighting realities they can't change, people learn how to refocus on what they can influence and continue making progress.

Ideal for: Organizational transformation, leadership development and companies experiencing significant change.

Why Book Debra Searle Through The Sweeney Agency?

Debra Searle has an extraordinary story of resilience, courage and determination—but the real value comes from connecting those experiences directly to the challenges your audience is facing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Debra Searle Right for Your Event?

Tell us the challenge, change or uncertainty your people are navigating.

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

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

Dr. Jason Selk: Mental Performance Coach | Co-Author of Relentless Solution Focus | Speaker on Focus and Performance Under Pressure

Why Book Dr. Jason Selk?

Jason encourages audiences to examine where they direct their thinking when a problem appears. His presentations connect performance goals with repeatable practices, helping people focus on useful next steps and the factors they can influence.

Why Is Dr. Jason Selk Right for Your Audience?

Jason is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership meetings, employee events, and performance programs. Consider him when people need to maintain a clearer focus under demanding conditions.

Book Jason when your audience needs to:

• Direct attention toward actionable solutions
• Prepare more deliberately for important situations
• Recognize thinking habits that distract from progress
• Connect goals with consistent routines
• Focus on factors within their influence
• Approach performance conversations more constructively

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a mental habit they want to develop
• Ready to identify a useful next step
• More aware of where their attention goes under pressure
• Equipped with questions about preparation and process
• Focused on a routine that supports their goals

Keynote Programs

Relentless Solution Focus

Jason explores a structured approach to directing attention toward solutions and productive action. Ideal for sales, leadership, and performance-focused audiences working through pressure or obstacles.

Is Dr. Jason Selk Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the performance demands your audience faces and the focus you want it to develop. We can help select Jason’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Ross Shafer: Emmy Award-Winning Host | Business Author | Speaker on Relevance, Leadership and Customer Experience

Why Book Ross Shafer?

Ross encourages teams to look closely at the interactions that shape their reputation. His presentations connect adaptability with practical choices about service, communication, and developing the confidence to lead.

Why Is Ross Shafer Right for Your Audience?

Ross is a strong fit for company conferences, leadership meetings, customer service events, and association gatherings. Consider him when an organization wants an engaging conversation about relevance and relationships.

Book Ross when your audience needs to:

• Review how customer expectations are changing
• Recognize friction in everyday interactions
• Bring fresh thinking into established routines
• Build confidence through manageable leadership actions
• Connect team culture with customer experience
• Strengthen rapport in professional conversations

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a customer interaction worth improving
• Ready to question a familiar workplace practice
• More aware of the relationship between relevance and adaptation
• Equipped with questions about leadership confidence
• Focused on a practical step toward stronger connection

Keynote Programs

How to Sustain a Relevant Culture

Ross examines adaptability, customer expectations, and the interactions that shape an organization. Ideal for leadership and service audiences.

How to Groom Confident Leaders

Ross explores developing leadership confidence through experience and action. Ideal for management and emerging leader programs.

Is Ross Shafer Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customer expectations you need to meet and the leadership capabilities you want to strengthen. We can help select Ross’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Stephen Shapiro: Innovation Adviser | Hall of Fame Speaker and Author of Invisible Solutions | Speaker on Problem-Solving, Collaboration and Innovation

Why Book Stephen Shapiro?

Stephen’s presentations turn the audience into participants. Through exercises, examples, and programs such as Personality Poker®, he makes differences in thinking tangible and gives teams a shared way to discuss how they solve problems together.

Why Is Stephen Shapiro Right for Your Audience?

Stephen is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation summits, strategy meetings, and team development events. Consider him when an organization has plenty of ideas but needs better problem definition or more effective collaboration.

Book Stephen when your audience needs to:

• Clarify which problems are worth solving
• Ask questions that reveal overlooked possibilities
• Bring different perspectives into decisions
• Recognize blind spots in a team’s approach
• Improve collaboration among people who think differently
• Focus innovation effort on meaningful opportunities

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Ready to reframe a current business challenge
• Introduced to practical approaches for asking better questions
• More aware of the perspectives their team may be missing
• Equipped with a shared language for collaboration
• Focused on a specific problem or opportunity to examine next

Keynote Programs

Solve Your Toughest Problems

Stephen explores how reframing a challenge can reveal options that familiar questions overlook. Ideal for leadership, strategy, and innovation audiences working through complex problems.

Personality Poker®

An interactive card-based experience helps participants explore their strengths, differences, and approaches to innovation. Ideal for teams that want to understand one another and collaborate more effectively.

Stability in an Uncertain World

Stephen examines how identifying what should remain stable can help leaders direct change and concentrate on the priorities that matter. Ideal for executive meetings and transformation events.

Is Stephen Shapiro Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the problems your teams need to solve, and the collaboration you want to strengthen. We can help select Stephen’s most relevant program, discuss customization and participation requirements, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Jacob Shapiro: Geopolitical Analyst | Speaker on Global Risk, International Relations and Business Strategy

Why Book Jacob Shapiro?

Jacob connects that perspective with the questions organizations face across markets and supply chains. His presentations encourage leaders to look beyond daily headlines and consider how longer-term geopolitical forces could affect their plans.

Why Is Jacob Shapiro Right for Your Audience?

Jacob is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, board discussions, and organizations with international exposure. Consider him when an audience needs geopolitical context for its business decisions.

Book Jacob when your audience needs to:

• Understand structural forces behind international events
• Consider geopolitical factors in strategic planning
• Review exposure across regions and markets
• Examine how major-power competition affects business
• Question assumptions about global stability
• Develop more useful scenarios for uncertainty

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on geopolitical questions relevant to their organization
• Ready to review an international planning assumption
• More aware of connections between politics and markets
• Equipped with questions about regional exposure
• Focused on developments worth monitoring

Keynote Programs

Jacob’s presentation can be tailored around the regions and business questions most relevant to your audience:

Geopolitical Forces Shaping the World

Jacob explores international dynamics and their relevance to business. Ideal for executive and industry audiences.

Technology, Media, and the State

Jacob examines the relationship between geopolitical competition and technology. Ideal for organizations considering international technology and market exposure.

Is Jacob Shapiro Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the regions your organization depends on and the geopolitical questions your leaders need to explore. We can help select Jacob’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Peter Sheahan: Business Growth Advisor and Author | Speaker on Transformation, Differentiation and Creating Value

Why Book Peter Sheahan?

Peter encourages audiences to reconsider what made them successful and what their next stage may require. His presentations bring examples and practical questions to the work of changing priorities, reducing friction, and developing a more distinctive position.

Why Is Peter Sheahan Right for Your Audience?

Peter is a strong fit for executive conferences, sales meetings, leadership retreats, and transformation events. Consider him when an organization wants to connect its growth ambitions with specific changes in how it operates.

Book Peter when your audience needs to:

• Connect transformation with business priorities
• Build alignment around a new direction
• Question assumptions about competitive advantage
• Create value that customers can recognize
• Reduce friction that slows organizational change
• Make progress while working through ambiguity

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a change their growth strategy requires
• Ready to examine an alignment problem
• More aware of opportunities for differentiation
• Equipped with questions about customer value
• Focused on a practical step toward transformation

Keynote Programs

Accelerating Growth Through Transformation

Peter explores the alignment and leadership choices behind organizational change. Ideal for executive and management audiences.

Winning on Value Not Price

Peter examines differentiation and creating value in a changing market. Ideal for sales, business development, and leadership programs.

Is Peter Sheahan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the growth your organization is pursuing and the value you want customers to recognize. We can help select Peter’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Jay Shetty: Author of Think Like a Monk | Host of On Purpose | Speaker on Purpose, Mindfulness and Personal Growth

Why Book Jay Shetty?

Jay connects these themes with the pressures people experience at work. His presentations encourage audiences to pause, examine what matters to them, and consider how their actions affect both their own direction and the people around them.

Why Is Jay Shetty Right for Your Audience?

Jay is a strong fit for employee gatherings, leadership events, wellbeing conferences, and professional development programs. Consider him when an audience needs time to reconnect with purpose and personal priorities.

Book Jay when your audience needs to:

• Clarify the values behind their choices
• Bring more intention to daily routines
• Reflect on their response to pressure
• Strengthen connection with other people
• Make space for learning and personal growth
• Connect work with a broader sense of purpose

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a personal priority they want to honor
• Ready to reconsider a familiar habit
• More aware of the role of reflection in their day
• Encouraged to approach relationships more intentionally
• Focused on an action that reflects their values

Keynote Programs

Options include Think Like a Monk and a tailored presentation on purpose, connection, and growth:

Think Like a Monk

Jay draws on themes from his book to explore purpose, reflection, and everyday habits. Ideal for broad employee and personal development audiences.

Purpose, Connection and Growth

Jay’s presentation can be shaped around the priorities your audience wants to explore. Ideal for leadership and organizational gatherings seeking a reflective conversation.

Is Jay Shetty Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the priorities your audience needs to reflect on and the sense of purpose you want to strengthen. We can help select Jay’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Sam Silverstein: Accountability Speaker and Author | Speaker on Leadership, Commitments and Workplace Culture

Why Book Sam Silverstein?

Sam encourages audiences to look beyond assigning responsibility for a task. His presentations ask leaders to consider whether their values, decisions, and relationships make it easier for people to take ownership and follow through.

Why Is Sam Silverstein Right for Your Audience?

Sam is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, sales events, and culture programs. Consider him when an organization wants accountability to be more visible in everyday behavior.

Book Sam when your audience needs to:

• Clarify commitments to colleagues and customers
• Connect organizational values with action
• Strengthen leadership responsibility for culture
• Build more consistent follow-through
• Examine barriers to personal ownership
• Discuss accountability through working relationships

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a commitment they need to honor
• Ready to review how leaders model accountability
• More aware of the relationship between values and behavior
• Equipped with questions about their team’s working culture
• Focused on a practical action that demonstrates ownership

Keynote Programs

The Accountability Advantage™

Sam explores the leadership choices and commitments behind an accountable culture. Ideal for executives, managers, and teams seeking a shared approach to ownership and consistent follow-through.

Is Sam Silverstein Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the commitments your people need to strengthen and the accountable culture you want to build. We can help select Sam’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Scott Snook: Harvard Business School Executive Fellow | Retired U.S. Army Colonel | Speaker on Authentic Leadership and Leader Development

Why Book Scott Snook?

Scott uses cases, stories, and discussion to invite reflection. His presentations encourage audiences to question assumptions about motivation and leadership style, then connect those insights with the choices they make in their own teams.

Why Is Scott Snook Right for Your Audience?

Scott is a strong fit for executive retreats, management conferences, leadership development programs, and senior team meetings. Consider him when an audience needs a thoughtful, interactive examination of its leadership approach.

Book Scott when your audience needs to:

• Examine the values behind their leadership choices
• Question assumptions about motivating people
• Build greater self-awareness
• Consider different leadership approaches
• Connect personal development with team needs
• Reflect on the example they set for others

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on an aspect of their leadership identity
• Ready to reconsider a management assumption
• More aware of the influence of leadership style
• Equipped with questions for continued development
• Focused on a behavior they want to practice

Keynote Programs

Authentic Leadership Development

Scott explores the personal development behind effective leadership. Ideal for executives and managers seeking a deeper examination of their approach.

A Tale of Two Coaches

Scott uses contrasting coaching cases to prompt discussion about motivation and leadership. Ideal for interactive leadership meetings and development programs.

Is Scott Snook Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the leadership assumptions you want to examine and the capabilities your audience needs to develop. We can help select Scott’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Anders Sörman-Nilsson: Global Futurist | Founder of Thinque | Speaker on AI, Digital Transformation and Customer Experience

Why Book Anders Sörman-Nilsson?

Anders brings a particular focus to the relationship between digital convenience and personal connection. His presentations invite teams to consider where automation creates value, where people remain essential, and how those decisions shape a brand.

Why Is Anders Sörman-Nilsson Right for Your Audience?

Anders is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, innovation meetings, and strategy retreats. Consider him when your organization needs a clearer connection between its technology plans and the people it serves.

Book Anders when your audience needs to:

• Connect digital investment with customer needs
• Recognize emerging technology opportunities
• Preserve personal connection as services change
• Question assumptions about future customers
• Explore responsible uses of AI
• Build a shared direction for innovation

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the human implications of a technology decision
• Ready to examine friction in a customer journey
• More aware of changing consumer expectations
• Equipped with questions about responsible innovation
• Focused on a practical opportunity to improve an experience

Keynote Programs

The Future Is AI with a Human Soul

Anders explores how organizations can approach AI with human needs and ethical considerations in view. Ideal for leadership and technology audiences.

Digilogue Dynamics

Anders examines the combination of digital capability and personal connection in customer experience. Ideal for marketing, brand, and service teams.

Is Anders Sörman-Nilsson Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customer expectations you need to understand and the technology choices ahead. We can help select Anders’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Jason Sosa: Founder of Sosa Research | Technology Entrepreneur | Speaker on AI and the Future of Finance

Why Book Jason Sosa?

Jason connects technical developments with commercial decisions. His presentations encourage leaders to examine where AI could improve work, what implementation requires, and how to evaluate a promising idea against an actual business need.

Why Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Audience?

Jason is a strong fit for executive meetings, financial services conferences, technology events, and innovation programs. Consider him when an audience needs a practical discussion of AI adoption and digital transformation.

Book Jason when your audience needs to:

• Understand AI beyond headline claims
• Identify useful applications for their organization
• Review assumptions about the future of work
• Connect technology choices with business priorities
• Evaluate modernization opportunities
• Ask better questions about implementation

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on an AI opportunity worth exploring
• Ready to examine a workflow that could change
• More aware of implementation tradeoffs
• Equipped with questions for technology partners
• Focused on a business outcome before choosing a tool

Keynote Programs

AI & The Future of Work

Jason examines how AI is changing tasks, leadership, and competition. Ideal for executives and teams planning adoption.

Digital Transformation in Finance

Jason discusses modernization in financial services, including the balance between new capabilities and organizational stability. Ideal for banking, insurance, and wealth management audiences.

Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the technology decisions your leaders face and the business outcomes you want to pursue. We can help select Jason’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Why Book Nina Sossamon-Pogue?

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

Why Is Nina Sossamon-Pogue Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Nina when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

You Got THIS

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

Resilience for High Achievers

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

Is Nina Sossamon-Pogue Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes your people are navigating and the confidence you want to strengthen. We can help select Nina’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Willis Sparks: Geopolitical Analyst at Eurasia Group | Speaker on Global Politics, Political Risk and Business

Why Book Willis Sparks?

Willis explains how national interests, domestic politics, and international relationships influence the business environment. His presentations can focus on the regions and questions most relevant to an audience, giving leaders a more useful context for interpreting the news.

Why Is Willis Sparks Right for Your Audience?

Willis is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, investor events, and international business programs. Consider him when leaders need to explore political risks affecting their markets or operations.

Book Willis when your audience needs to:

• Connect political developments with business exposure
• Understand the interests behind international decisions
• Review risks in relevant emerging markets
• Discuss U.S. politics in a global context
• Distinguish a headline from a strategic concern
• Improve questions used in scenario planning

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on political forces affecting their organization
• More aware of regional sources of uncertainty
• Ready to examine assumptions behind a plan
• Equipped with questions for continued risk discussions
• Better prepared to connect geopolitical context with business decisions

Keynote Programs

Geopolitical Risk

Willis examines the international and domestic political developments most relevant to your audience. Ideal for executives, industry leaders, and organizations with cross-border exposure.

Is Willis Sparks Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the markets that matter to your organization and the political questions your leaders need to explore. We can help select Willis’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Erin Stafford: Author of The Type A Trap | Former Healthcare Marketing Executive | Speaker on Burnout and Sustainable Performance

Why Book Erin Stafford?

Erin brings candor and humor to the pressure behind ambitious goals. Her presentations invite people to review how they work, recognize when effort is becoming unsustainable, and make room for purpose and energy alongside results.

Why Is Erin Stafford Right for Your Audience?

Erin is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, healthcare events, and employee gatherings. Consider her when committed people need a more sustainable approach to demanding work.

Book Erin when your audience needs to:

• Recognize patterns of overwork
• Reconsider their definition of success
• Discuss the pressure behind constant achievement
• Protect energy for important responsibilities
• Reconnect daily work with purpose
• Build healthier expectations within a team

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a habit that is draining their energy
• Ready to examine a personal performance expectation
• More comfortable discussing the human side of achievement
• Equipped with ideas for a more sustainable work routine
• Focused on a change that supports both contribution and well-being

Keynote Programs

Become Unbreakable

Erin examines the habits and mindset behind sustained performance in demanding environments. Ideal for leaders and results-focused teams.

Burn Bright Not Out

Erin explores how to reconnect with energy, purpose, and the person behind a professional role. Ideal for broad employee audiences.

Is Erin Stafford Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the demands your people face and the sustainable performance habits you want to encourage. We can help select Erin’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Dr. Natalie Stavas: Pediatrician | Boston Marathon First Responder | Speaker on Courage, Service and Acting Under Pressure

Why Book Dr. Natalie Stavas?

A pediatrician whose work includes vulnerable children, Natalie connects that experience with a broader commitment to service. Her presentation invites audiences to consider what it means to move toward a difficult situation and use the skills they have to make a difference.

Why Is Dr. Natalie Stavas Right for Your Audience?

Natalie is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, leadership events, community programs, and company gatherings. Consider her when an audience needs a memorable conversation about courage, purpose, and responsibility.

Book Natalie when your audience needs to:

• Recognize opportunities to help in difficult moments
• Connect professional skills with personal purpose
• Consider how preparation supports action
• Reflect on their response to uncertainty
• Strengthen commitment to the people they serve
• Take a useful step when circumstances feel overwhelming

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of their capacity to contribute
• Ready to reflect on a decision that requires courage
• Clearer on the connection between service and purpose
• Encouraged to use their strengths for others
• Focused on a practical way to respond to a challenge

Keynote Programs

Running Towards Chaos

Natalie shares her Boston Marathon experience and the philosophy of moving toward challenges with purpose. Ideal for healthcare, leadership, and inspirational events.

Is Dr. Natalie Stavas Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges your audience faces and the commitment to service you want to reinforce. We can help select Natalie’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Alan Stein Jr.: Basketball Performance Coach | Author of Raise Your Game | Speaker on Performance, Leadership and Teamwork

Why Book Alan Stein Jr.?

The author of Raise Your Game emphasizes preparation, self-awareness, and disciplined practice. His presentations give audiences a way to examine their daily routines and the individual contributions that support a stronger team.

Why Is Alan Stein Jr. Right for Your Audience?

Alan is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, company meetings, and team development events. Consider him when capable people need to improve the consistency of their execution.

Book Alan when your audience needs to:

• Translate good intentions into daily practice
• Build routines that support performance
• Become more open to useful feedback
• Clarify their contribution to the team
• Strengthen preparation for important moments
• Take greater ownership of improvement

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a gap between their knowledge and behavior
• Ready to practice a more useful routine
• More aware of the value of coachability
• Equipped with questions about team contribution
• Focused on a performance habit they can control

Keynote Programs

Raise Your Game

Alan explores the fundamentals behind stronger individual performance and contribution. Ideal for employee and leadership audiences.

Raise Your Sales

Alan connects preparation, focus, and relationship habits with sales execution. Ideal for sales representatives, managers, and support teams.

Is Alan Stein Jr. Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the performance habits you want to strengthen and the contribution you need from each team member. We can help select Alan’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Scott Steinberg: Business Strategist | Technology Futurist and Author | Speaker on Innovation, Change and Emerging Trends

Why Book Scott Steinberg?

Scott connects trend awareness with decisions about products, services, leadership, and skills. His presentations encourage people to look beyond familiar approaches and consider small experiments that could reveal useful opportunities.

Why Is Scott Steinberg Right for Your Audience?

Scott is a strong fit for executive meetings, innovation conferences, industry events, and employee development programs. Consider him when your organization wants people to respond to change with curiosity and initiative.

Book Scott when your audience needs to:

• Recognize trends relevant to their business
• Question assumptions about existing practices
• Explore new product and service opportunities
• Build confidence approaching unfamiliar technology
• Encourage experimentation within teams
• Connect future thinking with current decisions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a trend they should investigate
• Ready to challenge a familiar business assumption
• More aware of practical innovation opportunities
• Equipped with questions about future capabilities
• Focused on an experiment that could inform the next decision

Keynote Programs

Leading with Innovation

Scott explores ways to respond to disruption and encourage new thinking across an organization. Ideal for leadership and change audiences.

Think Like a Futurist

Scott introduces approaches to spotting emerging opportunities and considering their implications. Ideal for strategy, industry, and innovation events.

Is Scott Steinberg Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the market changes you need to examine and the innovative behavior you want to encourage. We can help select Scott’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Curt Steinhorst: Bestselling Author of Can I Have Your Attention? | Former Head of People at Venus Aerospace | Speaker on Leadership, Culture and Focus

Why Book Curt Steinhorst?

Curt connects engaging stories with specific choices leaders and employees can make. He helps audiences examine what is slowing their work, clarify what matters most, and communicate in ways people can hear and act on. His keynotes are tailored to the challenges facing the people in the room.

Why Is Curt Steinhorst Right for Your Audience?

Curt is a strong fit for leadership meetings, company conferences, sales events, and gatherings focused on culture or the changing workplace. He is especially valuable when competing priorities, constant communication, or new technology are making it harder for people to do their best work.

Book Curt when your audience needs to:

• Protect time and attention for its most important work
• Lead teams through change without adding unnecessary friction
• Communicate priorities more clearly
• Build a culture that can handle demanding goals
• Reach customers or colleagues amid information overload
• Think carefully about where AI helps and where human judgment matters

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to spot habits that divide a team’s attention
• Clearer on which priorities deserve time and energy
• Ready to improve the meetings and messages they control
• More aware of what people need from leaders during change
• Equipped to make important communication easier to hear and act on

Keynote Programs

Rethinking Leadership
Curt examines what teams need from leaders as AI changes how work gets done. Drawing on his experience leading people strategy at an aerospace company, he helps audiences consider which tasks can be handed off and where leaders must stay engaged. Ideal for executive and management audiences navigating new technology.

Rethinking Culture
Curt looks at how the work people are asked to do, and the way they are asked to do it, creates culture. He helps leaders identify practices that create friction or exhaustion and make clearer choices about how teams work together. Ideal for organizations pursuing ambitious goals through change.

Finding Focus in a Distracting World
When everything is a priority, attention gets scattered. Curt helps audiences decide what deserves focus and examine the interruptions, meetings, and messages that pull people away from it. Ideal for company meetings and teams seeking better work habits.

Breaking Through the Noise
Curt shows leaders, sales teams, and communicators how to earn attention in a crowded information environment. He explores what audiences already believe, why they might listen, and how to shape a message they can understand and act on. Ideal for anyone whose results depend on influencing others.

Is Curt Steinhorst Right for Your Event?

Tell us where your audience is losing focus, facing friction, or struggling to get its message heard. We can help select Curt’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Dr. Paul G. Stoltz: Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Leadership & Adversity | Creator of the Adversity Quotient® | Bestselling Author

Turn Adversity Into Advantage. What separates the people and organizations that struggle with adversity from those that use it to become stronger?

Best known as the creator of the Adversity Quotient® (AQ®), Paul helps leaders and teams understand how they respond when circumstances become difficult—and how to strengthen their capacity to navigate uncertainty, overcome setbacks and continue performing when the pressure rises.

Why Book Dr. Paul G. Stoltz?

Paul doesn't simply tell audiences to be more resilient. He gives them a framework for understanding and improving how they respond to adversity.

His pioneering work on Adversity Quotient® explores why some people remain resourceful and determined when faced with challenges while others become overwhelmed or disengaged.

Paul translates decades of research into practical strategies leaders and employees can use to respond more effectively to disruption, strengthen resilience and turn difficult circumstances into opportunities for growth and performance.

What Makes Paul Stoltz Different?

• Creator of Adversity Quotient® — a distinctive framework for understanding responses to adversity
• Decades of research — extensive work focused on resilience, performance and human potential
• Bestselling author — recognized internationally for his work on adversity and resilience
• Practical and measurable — moves beyond motivational theory toward tools audiences can apply
• Leadership relevant — helps leaders strengthen both their own resilience and that of their teams
• Built for today's uncertainty — highly relevant during disruption, transformation and rapid change
• Business focused — connects resilience directly to performance, adaptability and results

Why Is Paul Right for Your Audience?

Paul is an excellent choice when you need your people to respond more effectively to adversity, remain productive through uncertainty and find a way forward when circumstances become difficult.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, corporate events, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating transformation, competitive pressure or significant disruption.

Book Paul when your audience needs to:

• Build greater resilience and adaptability
• Respond more effectively to adversity
• Maintain performance during uncertainty
• Recover more quickly from setbacks
• Take greater ownership of challenges
• Lead teams confidently through difficult circumstances
• Turn obstacles into opportunities for improvement
• Strengthen organizational capacity for change

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding how their response to adversity influences performance
• Better equipped to recognize unproductive responses to difficult situations
• Able to apply practical strategies for strengthening resilience
• More prepared to maintain momentum when setbacks occur
• Ready to take greater ownership of what they can influence
• Better equipped to help teams navigate uncertainty
• Focused on turning adversity into productive action

Dr. Paul G. Stoltz Keynote Programs

Adversity Quotient®: Turning Adversity Into Advantage

You can't always control the adversity you face. You can strengthen how you respond to it.

Paul introduces audiences to the principles behind his groundbreaking Adversity Quotient® research and explores how responses to adversity can influence performance, resilience and results.

Audiences gain practical strategies for responding more effectively to setbacks, uncertainty and difficult circumstances—helping them turn adversity from an obstacle into a catalyst for growth.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating disruption.

GRIT: The New Science of What It Takes to Persevere, Flourish, Succeed

When talent and experience aren't enough, what keeps people moving toward difficult goals?

Paul explores the behaviors and mindset required to pursue challenging objectives when progress becomes difficult.

He gives audiences practical strategies for strengthening perseverance, adaptability and resilience while ensuring that effort remains focused on the goals that matter most.

Ideal for: Sales teams, leadership conferences, high-performance organizations and groups pursuing ambitious goals.

Leading Through Adversity and Change

People don't need leaders only when things are going well. Leadership matters most when circumstances become difficult.

Paul helps leaders understand how their response to adversity influences the people around them.

Audiences learn strategies for maintaining perspective, strengthening resilience and helping teams stay focused, resourceful and productive during uncertainty and organizational change.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, transformation initiatives and organizations experiencing significant change.

Why Book Dr. Paul G. Stoltz Through The Sweeney Agency?

Paul Stoltz's Adversity Quotient® methodology and decades of research give organizations a distinctive approach to resilience—but the real value comes from connecting those insights directly to the adversity, change or performance challenge your people are facing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Paul Stoltz Right for Your Event?

Tell us the adversity, change or performance challenge your audience is facing.

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

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

Robert Swan: Polar Explorer | Founder of the 2041 Foundation | Speaker on Resilience, Teamwork and Sustainability

Why Book Robert Swan?

Robert also brings a long-standing commitment to protecting Antarctica. His stories invite audiences to consider how a meaningful goal can sustain effort, how teams respond when plans change, and what stewardship means beyond an immediate result.

Why Is Robert Swan Right for Your Audience?

Robert is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sustainability events, team meetings, and inspirational gatherings. Consider him when an audience needs a vivid connection between shared purpose and persistent action.

Book Robert when your audience needs to:

• Stay committed when plans meet setbacks
• Build trust around a shared goal
• Improve preparation for demanding work
• Connect immediate decisions with long-term consequences
• Consider their responsibility for the environment
• Find renewed purpose in a difficult undertaking

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the purpose behind a demanding goal
• Ready to review how their team responds to setbacks
• More aware of the value of preparation
• Encouraged to consider the legacy of their choices
• Focused on a concrete contribution to a shared mission

Keynote Programs

Presentations can be tailored around the following areas:

Resilience

Robert uses expedition experiences to explore perseverance and adaptation under pressure. Ideal for leadership and company audiences.

Sustainability and Shared Purpose

Robert connects polar exploration with environmental stewardship and collective responsibility. Ideal for sustainability and values-focused events.

Is Robert Swan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the shared mission you want to reinforce and the challenges your people need to overcome. We can help select Robert’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Rohit Talwar: CEO of Fast Future | Global Futurist and Author | Speaker on AI, Disruption and Future Strategy

Why Book Rohit Talwar?

Rohit considers both the technology and the people required to make change useful. His customized presentations invite leaders to examine alternative futures, question inherited assumptions, and identify decisions they can begin making today.

Why Is Rohit Talwar Right for Your Audience?

Rohit is a strong fit for executive retreats, industry conferences, strategy meetings, and innovation events. Consider him when leaders need to broaden their view of change before choosing a direction.

Book Rohit when your audience needs to:

• Explore alternative futures for their industry
• Connect AI developments with strategic questions
• Review the resilience of a business model
• Identify capabilities worth developing
• Consider the human consequences of transformation
• Turn future uncertainty into useful discussion

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on forces that could affect their organization
• Ready to test a strategic assumption
• More aware of emerging business model options
• Equipped with questions about future skills and leadership
• Focused on an action that improves preparedness

Keynote Programs

Aftershocks and Opportunities

Rohit explores the shifts reshaping organizations and their choices for responding. Ideal for executive and industry audiences.

Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies

Rohit examines the potential implications of emerging tools for business and people. Ideal for innovation and technology strategy events.

Is Rohit Talwar Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the future scenarios you need to explore and the strategic choices ahead. We can help select Rohit’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Nick Tasler: Organizational Psychologist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Change and Decision-Making

Why Book Nick Tasler?

Nick makes change feel manageable. He gives audiences practical ways to challenge old assumptions, get curious about new possibilities, and turn a broad goal into the next useful decision.

Why Is Nick Tasler Right for Your Audience?

Nick is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, strategy sessions, and company events during periods of growth or change. He is especially valuable when teams need to move beyond uncertainty, align around priorities, and make progress together.

Book Nick when your audience needs to:

• Respond to change with curiosity and confidence
• Make decisions without getting stuck in analysis
• Recognize when past success is limiting future growth
• Turn a strategy into consistent daily action
• Get clearer about priorities and direction
• Build momentum during uncertainty

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to identify the assumptions shaping their choices
• Equipped to approach change as an opportunity to learn
• Clearer on how individual decisions support a larger strategy
• Ready to question practices that no longer serve their goals
• Focused on a practical next step they can take with their team

Keynote Programs

Your Year of Wonders
Nick’s signature keynote invites audiences to replace the instinct to resist change with curiosity. Based on his book of the same name, it helps people see how a different response to uncertainty can open the door to growth. Ideal for organizations navigating change or setting a new direction.

One Decision at a Time
Nick addresses the gap between strategy and execution. He gives leaders and teams a repeatable way to make the choices that move a plan forward, even when the full path is not yet clear. Ideal for leadership meetings and teams focused on follow-through.

Ping Pong Paradox
The habits that brought success can become obstacles to the next stage of growth. Nick helps audiences spot when a familiar approach is holding them back and consider what needs to change. Ideal for established organizations adapting to new demands.

Winning with Agile Optimism
Nick explores how people can move through worry and find a productive response to uncertainty. His agile optimism framework helps audiences look for possibilities while doing the work needed to make progress. Ideal for teams facing disruption or ambitious goals.

Is Nick Tasler Right for Your Event?

Tell us what is changing for your organization, which decisions your audience faces, and what you want people to do differently afterward. We can help select Nick’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

James Taylor; Keynote Speaker on Creativity, Innovation & AI | Author of SuperCreativity | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts | Global Innovation Expert

James Taylor is an internationally recognized keynote speaker on creativity, innovation, artificial intelligence and human-AI collaboration.

For more than 20 years, James has helped leaders and organizations understand how technology is changing the way we work, create and compete. His message is optimistic and practical: AI doesn't diminish the importance of human creativity—it makes creativity an even greater competitive advantage.

Through highly visual, engaging and customized presentations, James shows audiences how to combine uniquely human capabilities with the extraordinary power of artificial intelligence.

Why Book James Taylor?

James helps answer one of the biggest questions facing organizations today:

How do we capture the benefits of AI without losing the human creativity, collaboration and judgment that drive breakthrough performance?

His perspective comes from an unusual background. James began his career managing high-profile rock stars and creative talent before becoming an internationally recognized authority on creativity, innovation and AI.

He has since interviewed more than 750 of the world's leading creative minds and delivered over 3,000 events around the world.

The result is a keynote that combines inspiration, emerging technology and practical strategies audiences can immediately apply.

What Makes James Taylor Different?

• Creativity + AI expertise — connects human ingenuity with artificial intelligence
• 3,000+ events delivered — extensive experience with corporate and association audiences
• Global perspective — has presented across more than 50 countries
• 750+ creative leaders interviewed — draws insights from innovators, entrepreneurs and AI pioneers
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts — recognized for his contribution to creativity and innovation
• Author of SuperCreativity — explores augmenting human creativity with artificial intelligence
• Former music-industry leader — brings an unusual perspective from working with highly creative performers
• Highly customized — builds presentations around the audience, industry and event objectives
• Practical frameworks — gives audiences tools for turning ideas into action

Why Is James Right for Your Audience?

James is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand AI without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the uniquely human capabilities that will matter even more in the future.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI events, innovation summits, association meetings and organizations navigating digital transformation.

Book James when your audience needs to:

• Understand how AI is changing work and business
• Develop greater creativity across the organization
• Build effective human-AI collaboration
• Generate and implement better ideas
• Become more comfortable with technological disruption
• Strengthen collaboration across teams
• Lead people confidently through change
• Turn innovation into competitive advantage

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding why creativity becomes more valuable as AI advances
• Better prepared to work alongside artificial intelligence
• Equipped with practical tools for generating stronger ideas
• Understanding how human-AI collaboration can improve performance
• More confident navigating technological change
• Better prepared to create cultures that encourage innovation
• Recognizing the importance of communication and persuasion
• Inspired to turn ideas into action

James Taylor Keynote Programs

SuperCreativity™: Accelerating Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.  When AI can generate ideas in seconds, where does human creativity create competitive advantage?

James explores how organizations can combine the imagination, empathy and original thinking of humans with the extraordinary processing capabilities of artificial intelligence.

Drawing from his research with hundreds of leading creative thinkers, he shows audiences how to develop their creative capacity and use AI as a partner in the innovation process.

The goal isn't simply to become more comfortable with AI. It's to use AI to amplify what humans do best.

Ideal for: Innovation summits, AI conferences, leadership meetings and organizations navigating technological disruption.

SuperCollaboration™: The Rise of Human-AI Collaboration. The future isn't humans versus machines. It's humans working more effectively with machines.

James explores how AI, digital twins, robotics and intelligent technologies are transforming the workplace.

He shows audiences how high-performing organizations are combining human judgment, creativity and collaboration with the capabilities of intelligent machines.

The result is a practical roadmap for building teams that are more innovative, adaptive and future-ready.

Ideal for: AI conferences, future-of-work events, executive meetings and organizations accelerating AI adoption.

SuperCommunication™: How the World's Best Leaders Inspire, Influence and Drive Action In a world where AI can generate unlimited information, the ability to inspire people to act becomes even more valuable.

James explores the communication principles used by highly effective leaders to turn ideas into action.

Audiences discover how to communicate ideas more clearly, build support for change and persuade others to move from understanding an idea to actually doing something about it.

Because innovation isn't just about having great ideas.

It's about getting people to believe in them.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings, sales events and organizations navigating transformation.

Why Book James Taylor Through The Sweeney Agency?

James Taylor combines creativity, innovation, AI and highly engaging storytelling to help audiences understand how human potential can be amplified rather than diminished by technology.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is James Taylor Right for Your Event?

Tell us how AI, innovation or technological change is affecting your organization—and what you need your people to do differently.

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

Planning an AI conference, innovation summit, leadership meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking James Taylor as your keynote speaker.

Eric Termuende: Bestselling Author of Rethink Work | Researcher on Workplace Culture | Speaker on Leading Through Uncertainty

Why Book Eric Termuende?

Eric combines research with engaging stories and a practical approach. His message gives people a way to respond to uncertainty together: build trust, make small deliberate shifts, and learn from action. He tailors his keynotes to the challenges facing the audience.

Why Is Eric Termuende Right for Your Audience?

Eric is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, association events, and teams navigating change. He is especially relevant when an organization needs people to stay aligned and act despite shifting priorities, technology, or customer expectations.

Book Eric when your audience needs to:

• Find direction when the path ahead is unclear
• Build trust and strengthen team resilience
• Reduce friction that slows collaboration
• Respond to change without waiting for a perfect plan
• Turn small experiments into useful information and momentum
• Prepare teams for an unpredictable future of work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the difference between choosing a direction and predicting an outcome
• Equipped to identify sources of friction within a team
• Better able to create trust and alignment during change
• Ready to use small, deliberate One-Degree Shifts to make progress
• More confident taking the next useful step amid uncertainty

Keynote Programs

The Certainty Crisis: How to Thrive in a World That Refuses to Stand Still
Eric challenges the habit of waiting for complete clarity before acting. He gives audiences a way to choose a direction, adapt as they learn, and use One-Degree Shifts to create momentum. Ideal for leaders and teams facing decisions with incomplete information.

Built for Uncertainty: Leading Teams in a World That Has Never Moved Faster
Eric focuses on the conditions that help teams stay aligned and effective as plans change. He explores trust, sources of friction, and small experiments that help people move forward together. Ideal for leadership and transformation events.

Blueprint to the Future: Leading in a New World of Work
Eric offers a framework for building teams prepared to adapt to an unpredictable future. He connects trust, resilience, and a culture of experimentation to everyday leadership choices. Ideal for audiences focused on workplace culture and the future of work.

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