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 Bernstein: Bestselling Sports Author | Creator of The Champion’s Code | Speaker on Teamwork, Leadership and Accountability

Why Book Ross Bernstein?

Ross brings those lessons to life through sports stories, photographs and business examples. His message connects achievement with integrity, accountability and service, giving audiences memorable ways to think about their own conduct. He customizes each program around the event’s theme and the outcomes the planning team wants to achieve.

Why Is Ross Bernstein Right for Your Audience?

Ross is a strong fit for sales meetings, leadership conferences, franchise events and association gatherings. He is especially relevant when an organization wants to strengthen teamwork, raise expectations or help people see how their daily behavior influences customer relationships and collective results.

Book Ross when your audience needs to:

• Take greater responsibility for its performance
• Build trust with teammates and customers
• Connect competitive ambition with integrity
• Strengthen commitment to shared goals
• Differentiate through relationships and service
• Lead by example and support others’ development

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of the habits behind consistent team performance
• Ready to connect personal accountability with shared success
• Equipped with ideas for building stronger customer relationships
• Clearer on how respect and integrity shape leadership
• Motivated to contribute to a culture of high standards

Keynote Programs

The Champion’s Code
Ross’s signature keynote connects lessons from sports champions with business relationships, integrity and accountability. He explores how leadership, teamwork and customer service help organizations stand out. Ideal for sales teams, franchise audiences and company gatherings seeking an energetic message about performance and culture.

Wearing the C
This leadership program draws on Ross’s interviews with more than 500 sports captains and coaches. He explores different approaches to building commitment, communicating effectively and leading with integrity. Ideal for managers, business leaders and sales professionals; it can also serve as a breakout session alongside his signature keynote.

Ross can deliver The Champion’s Code as a keynote or an interactive workshop, with the content shaped around your audience and event goals.

Is Ross Bernstein Right for Your Event?

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

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

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 Bevan: Former Head of Creative Development and VP Marketing EMEA at Warner Bros. | Speaker on Creativity, Innovation and Storytelling

Why Book Jason Bevan?

Jason makes creativity accessible to people in every role. His presentations use film clips, behind-the-scenes examples and straightforward exercises to help teams recognize their creative triggers, challenge assumptions and communicate ideas with greater impact.

Why Is Jason Bevan Right for Your Audience?

Jason is a strong fit for innovation conferences, marketing meetings, leadership events and company gatherings. He is especially relevant when teams need to move beyond familiar answers or explain ideas in ways that engage people emotionally.

Book Jason when your audience needs to:

• Generate fresh approaches to business challenges
• Build confidence in its creative abilities
• Challenge assumptions that limit new ideas
• Strengthen storytelling and communication
• Explore the relationship between human creativity and AI
• Encourage a culture that welcomes experimentation

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More confident contributing creative ideas
• Better able to recognize sources of inspiration
• Equipped with practical techniques from filmmaking
• Ready to communicate through more engaging stories
• More aware of how human insight can complement new tools

Keynote Programs

Rocketfuel Your Innovation & Creativity
Jason shares lessons from major movies and their makers to help people unlock their own creative thinking. Ideal for teams seeking fresh ideas and a more inventive approach to work.

Drive Feelings and Spur Action with Atomic Movie Storytelling
Jason examines how memorable stories engage emotions and motivate action, with techniques audiences can use in their own communication. Ideal for marketing, sales and leadership audiences.

Jason also offers presentations exploring creativity in the age of uncertainty and generative AI. We can discuss the most relevant focus for your audience.

Is Jason Bevan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the ideas you want to unlock and the communication challenges you want to address. We can help select Jason’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

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

Why Book Richard Bliss?

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

Why Is Richard Bliss Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Richard when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

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

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

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

Is Richard Bliss Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

Why Book Jeanne Bliss?

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

Why Is Jeanne Bliss Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Jeanne when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

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

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

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

Is Jeanne Bliss Right for Your Event?

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

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

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: Eliminate Complexity, Reclaim Control, and Win in the Age of AI

Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to eliminate unnecessary complexity before using AI to accelerate the way work gets done. Drawing on more than 25 years of global experience and examples from organizations including Netflix, AT&T, and Pfizer, she shares practical tools for reducing noise, improving focus, and creating simpler ways of working. Attendees learn why AI can amplify broken processes rather than fix them—and how simplification can create the conditions for greater speed, innovation, and performance. Ideal for organizations navigating AI adoption, transformation, and increasing workplace complexity.

Let Leaders Lead: It’s Time to Fix What’s Broken

Lisa examines why leadership has become unnecessarily difficult and what organizations can do to change it. She challenges systems that ask leaders to move quickly while burdening them with excessive process, competing expectations, and unclear authority. Through practical tools and real-world examples, Lisa shows how leaders can replace complexity with clarity, establish stronger boundaries, make better decisions, and balance empathy with accountability. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations that want to improve execution, engagement, and performance.

Igniting Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led

Lisa explores how organizations can use AI to strengthen rather than replace the human thinking that drives innovation. She shows audiences how curiosity, judgment, and creative problem-solving can be combined with AI to challenge assumptions, explore possibilities, and make better decisions. Through interactive exercises and ideas from Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, participants learn practical ways to question the status quo and approach change more boldly. Ideal for innovation conferences, transformation initiatives, and teams exploring how AI can support more creative and effective 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: Entrepreneur and Bestselling Author of Beginner’s Pluck | Speaker on Connection, Resilience and Innovation

Why Book Liz Bohannon?

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

Why Is Liz Bohannon Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Liz when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

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

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

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

Is Liz Bohannon Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

Turn Potential Into Performance

Eric Boles helps leaders and teams close that gap.

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

Why Book Eric Boles?

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

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

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

What Makes Eric Different?

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

Why Is Eric Right for Your Audience?

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

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

Book Eric when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

Performance Catalyst™ Align, Elevate and Accelerate Performance

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

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

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

Moving to Great: Unleash Your Best More of the Time

What keeps talented people from consistently performing at their best?

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

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

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

Leading Through Change

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

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

Ideal for organizations experiencing transformation, growth or significant disruption.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

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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: Founder of Capital Economics | Economist and Author of The AI Economy | Speaker on the Global Economy and Financial Markets

Why Book Roger Bootle?

A former Group Chief Economist at HSBC and adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Roger connects economic developments with the questions facing leaders. His books include The Death of Inflation, The Trouble with Markets and The AI Economy, reflecting his interest in both immediate pressures and longer-term change.

Why Is Roger Bootle Right for Your Audience?

Roger is a strong fit for executive meetings, financial services conferences, investment events and industry gatherings. He is especially relevant when an audience needs to understand the economic context behind planning, financing and market expectations.

Book Roger when your audience needs to:

• Assess the global economic outlook
• Understand the relationship between inflation and interest rates
• Consider how economic shifts affect financial markets
• Explore developments in the UK and Europe
• Bring longer-term thinking to strategic discussions
• Question assumptions behind business plans

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the presentation focus, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on economic forces relevant to their organization
• Better able to connect economic policy with business conditions
• More aware of factors influencing financial markets
• Equipped with context for discussing uncertainty
• Ready to ask more informed questions about the outlook

Keynote Programs

Roger’s presentations can focus on the economic questions most relevant to your audience. Established speaking topics include:

The World Economy
Roger examines global economic conditions and their implications for businesses. Ideal for leaders seeking a broad economic perspective.

The Outlook for Financial Markets
Roger explores how economic developments influence market expectations. Ideal for financial services and investment audiences.

The Outlook for Europe and the EU
Roger considers European economic developments and the policy questions affecting the region. Ideal for organizations with European interests or operations.

Is Roger Bootle Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its geographic exposure and the economic questions you want answered. We can help shape a relevant presentation, discuss customization, and confirm Roger’s availability and fee.

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

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

Why Book Sean Bott?

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

Why Is Sean Bott Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Sean when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

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

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

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

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

Is Sean Bott Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

Turn a Strong Plan Into Strong Execution

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

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

Why Book Anthony Bourke?

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

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

What Makes Anthony Different?

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

Why Is Anthony Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Anthony when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

Executing at Mach 2

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

Communicating at Mach 2

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

Leading at Mach 2

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

Selling at Mach 2

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

The Feedback Loop: Fighter Pilot Lessons for Continuous Improvement

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

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

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

Is Anthony Right for Your Event?

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

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

Dr. 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 Bregman: Founder and CEO of Bregman Partners | Bestselling Author and Executive Coach | Speaker on Leadership, Emotional Courage and Accountability

Why Book Peter Bregman?

The author of 18 Minutes and Leading with Emotional Courage, Peter gives audiences practical ways to address difficult conversations, competing priorities and follow-through. His presentations combine stories and exercises with guidance people can apply to their own leadership challenges.

Why Is Peter Bregman Right for Your Audience?

Peter is a strong fit for executive retreats, leadership conferences, manager meetings and company events focused on accountability. He is especially relevant when leaders need to communicate more directly, help others develop or concentrate effort on their most important work.

Book Peter when your audience needs to:

• Address difficult conversations more confidently
• Strengthen accountability and follow-through
• Focus on priorities that matter
• Help colleagues make sustainable changes
• Build commitment across leadership teams
• Act with greater courage during uncertainty

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role of emotional courage in leadership
• Equipped with ideas for more productive conversations
• Better able to recognize distractions from important work
• Ready to support others’ development more deliberately
• Motivated to turn priorities into consistent action

Keynote Programs

Leading with Emotional Courage
Peter explores how leaders can speak up, address difficult issues and create accountability while staying connected to others. Ideal for executives and managers seeking more effective leadership behavior.

You CAN Change Other People
Peter introduces a four-step approach to helping others make meaningful changes. Ideal for leaders and coaches seeking more constructive ways to support performance and development.

18 Minutes
Peter shares practices for focusing attention, managing distraction and following through on priorities. Ideal for audiences seeking greater discipline in how they use their time and energy.

Is Peter Bregman Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen and the work you need people to prioritize. We can help select Peter’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.

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: Founder of Suzy | Author of Generation AI | Speaker on AI, Consumer Behavior and Generational Change

Why Book Matt Britton?

Matt brings experience building companies, researching consumers and speaking with brand leaders through The Speed of Culture podcast. His presentations use examples and demonstrations to help audiences consider how AI and changing consumer habits could affect their customers, offerings and work.

Why Is Matt Britton Right for Your Audience?

Matt is a strong fit for marketing conferences, leadership meetings, retail events and industry gatherings. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants to understand younger consumers, explore AI’s business implications or question assumptions about what customers will want next.

Book Matt when your audience needs to:

• Understand how AI is changing consumer behavior
• Explore Gen Z’s expectations and choices
• Consider the emerging influence of Gen Alpha
• Connect customer insight with business decisions
• Identify relevant applications of new technology
• Challenge assumptions about future demand

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the presentation focus, attendees will leave:

• More aware of changes in how customers discover and buy
• Better able to connect technology with human behavior
• Clearer on the questions to ask about generational change
• Equipped with examples to inform strategic discussion
• Ready to investigate opportunities relevant to their industry

Keynote Programs

Matt’s keynotes are shaped around the audience and industry. Current presentation focuses include:

AI and Consumer Behavior
Matt explores how AI enters everyday decisions and what that could mean for discovery, service and loyalty. Ideal for leaders and marketing teams considering the implications for their businesses.

Gen Z
Matt examines the influences and expectations behind Gen Z’s choices as consumers and colleagues. Ideal for organizations seeking a more informed understanding of this generation.

Gen Alpha
Matt considers how growing up with AI could shape learning, family decisions and expectations of brands. Ideal for audiences planning for emerging consumers and future markets.

Is Matt Britton Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customers you want to understand and the technology questions you want to explore. We can help shape Matt’s most relevant presentation, 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. Harry Broadman: Global Economist and Business Strategist | Former White House Trade Official and World Bank Official | Speaker on Global Markets, Trade and Business Risk

Why Book Dr. Harry Broadman?

Harry has worked in emerging markets around the world and held senior roles in government and international institutions. He examines both opportunities and the practical risks that can affect expansion, investment and competitiveness, helping audiences frame more useful questions about their international strategy.

Why Is Dr. Harry Broadman Right for Your Audience?

Harry is a strong fit for executive meetings, board retreats, investment conferences and industry events. He is especially relevant for organizations assessing cross-border growth, changing trade relationships or the implications of geopolitical and regulatory uncertainty.

Book Harry when your audience needs to:

• Understand shifts in international markets
• Assess opportunities in emerging economies
• Connect trade policy with business strategy
• Consider risks in cross-border investment
• Strengthen discussion of governance and compliance
• Build a broader view of global competitiveness

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the presentation focus, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the links between policy and international business
• More aware of factors affecting market entry and growth
• Better prepared to question assumptions about global opportunities
• Equipped with context for assessing operational and policy risks
• Ready to bring international considerations into strategic planning

Keynote Programs

Harry’s presentation can be shaped around your audience’s geographic exposure and priorities. Suggested focuses based on his expertise include:

Global Growth and Emerging Markets
Harry examines how organizations can evaluate international opportunities alongside market and competitive risks. A relevant focus for leaders considering expansion or investment.

Trade Policy and Cross-Border Business
Harry connects international trade relationships and policy developments with decisions facing companies. A relevant focus for organizations operating across borders.

Managing Risk in International Markets
Harry explores the relationship between growth strategy, governance, compliance and changing policy conditions. A relevant focus for boards, executives and investment audiences.

Is Dr. Harry Broadman Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its international interests and the decisions you want the session to inform. We can help shape a relevant presentation, discuss customization, and confirm Harry’s availability and fee.

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

Les Brown: Motivational Speaker | Author of Live Your Dreams | Speaker on Achievement, Resilience and Personal Potential

Why Book Les Brown?

His storytelling, humor and energetic delivery make personal achievement a compelling event experience. For an organization asking people to raise their standards or regain momentum, Les brings a message about persistence, possibility and the choices that move goals forward.

Why Is Les Brown Right for Your Audience?

Les is a strong fit for sales rallies, company conferences, association meetings and personal development events. Consider him when your audience needs an emotional lift alongside a clear challenge to take action.

Book Les when your audience needs to:

• Reconnect with meaningful personal and professional goals
• Build confidence after setbacks
• Challenge assumptions about what is possible
• Take responsibility for the next step
• Strengthen persistence when progress is difficult
• Bring renewed energy to ambitious goals

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More willing to pursue goals they have postponed
• Encouraged to question limiting beliefs
• Ready to approach setbacks with greater persistence
• Clearer on the role of effort and personal commitment
• Motivated to turn inspiration into action

Keynote Programs

You’ve Got to Be Hungry
Les explores the drive required to pursue ambitious goals, using his own experiences to make persistence and initiative memorable. Ideal for sales and achievement-focused events.

Achieving at the Next Level
Les challenges audiences to expand their sense of possibility and develop the mindset needed to pursue higher performance. Ideal for teams ready to raise their expectations.

Live Your Dreams Now
Les encourages people to act on what matters rather than continually defer it. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed purpose and motivation.

Is Les Brown Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the goals you want to reinforce and the energy you want people to carry back to work. We can help select Les’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.

Kevin Brown: Creator of The Hero Effect® | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership and Customer Experience

Why Book Kevin Brown?

Kevin brings the message to life through stories and business experience. As part of the leadership team that helped grow SERVPRO into a major franchise brand, he saw how culture, customer loyalty, and individual commitment work together. His keynotes give audiences a memorable reason to show up at their best when it matters most.

Why Is Kevin Brown Right for Your Audience?

Kevin is a strong fit for leadership conferences, franchise meetings, sales kickoffs, customer service events, and company gatherings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants employees at every level to feel responsible for the experience they create for customers and colleagues.

Book Kevin when your audience needs to:

• Take greater ownership of daily actions and results
• Strengthen customer relationships through personal service
• Build a culture where people look for ways to help
• Connect individual purpose with organizational goals
• Turn stated values into visible behavior
• Leave energized and ready to make a positive difference

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how small actions shape a customer’s experience
• Ready to take responsibility for the moments they can influence
• More aware of the difference between meeting expectations and exceeding them
• Equipped to build stronger relationships with customers and teammates
• Motivated to follow through on what they say matters

Keynote Programs

The Hero Effect®: Being Your Best When It Matters the Most
Kevin’s signature keynote shows how people in any role can create meaningful moments for those they serve and work beside. Ideal for broad employee, sales, and customer experience audiences.

The Hero Effect® for Leaders: Creating a Culture of Extraordinary
Kevin focuses his message on leaders who want to help people perform at their best. Drawing on his executive experience, he explores how to build commitment, connect personal and organizational goals, and develop others. Ideal for management and leadership events.

If It Matters, Prove It!™
Kevin challenges teams to close the gap between good intentions and consistent action. Ideal for audiences that need stronger accountability, follow-through, and visible progress toward their goals.

Is Kevin Brown Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the experience you want people to create, and what you want them to do differently after the event. We can help select Kevin’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.

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

Why Book David Brownlee?

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

Why Is David Brownlee Right for Your Audience?

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

Book David when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

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

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

Is David Brownlee Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customer interactions you want to improve, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help choose David’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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