Yossi Ghinsberg: Amazon Survival Storyteller | Author of Jungle | Speaker on Courage, Adaptability and Purpose

Why Book Yossi Ghinsberg?

Yossi uses that story to open a conversation about responding when familiar plans and assumptions no longer hold. His presentations encourage people to reconsider possibility, take initiative, and reflect on the purpose behind their efforts.

Why Is Yossi Ghinsberg Right for Your Audience?

Yossi is a strong fit for company conferences, leadership events, sales meetings, and gatherings during change. Consider him when your audience needs a powerful personal story connected to uncertainty, responsibility, and moving forward.

Book Yossi when your audience needs to:

• Approach uncertainty with greater courage
• Adapt when a familiar plan breaks down
• Look for useful action within difficult circumstances
• Reconnect individual effort with purpose
• Question assumptions about personal limitations
• Support one another through unexpected challenges

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• A memorable perspective on responding to adversity
• Ready to consider options when certainty is unavailable
• More aware of their own reaction to changing circumstances
• Encouraged to take initiative within their influence
• Focused on a meaningful next step

Keynote Programs

From Survival to Legacy

Yossi connects his survival story with courage, creativity, and leadership amid uncertainty. Ideal for organizations navigating disruption.

The Laws of the Jungle

Yossi explores personal responsibility, resilience, and purpose through lessons from his experience. Ideal for broad employee and sales audiences.

Is Yossi Ghinsberg Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the uncertainty your audience faces and the actions you want to encourage. We can help select Yossi’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.

Vinh Giang: Award-Winning Magician | Entrepreneur | Speaker on Communication and Influence

Why Book Vinh Giang?

The magic draws people in; the lesson gives them something to use. Vinh connects performance with practical ideas about voice, body language, perspective, and influence. His sessions give audiences a chance to examine how they communicate and leave with renewed confidence to make a stronger connection.

Why Is Vinh Giang Right for Your Audience?

Vinh is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, company meetings, and events that need an engaging opening or closing keynote. He is especially valuable when a team wants to strengthen communication while giving attendees an experience they will remember and discuss afterward.

Book Vinh when your audience needs to:

• Communicate with more confidence and presence
• Build stronger connections with colleagues and clients
• Recognize how voice and body language affect a message
• Challenge assumptions that limit new ideas
• Influence others with greater intention
• Learn practical skills through an interactive experience

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More aware of how their communication style affects others
• Ready to use voice and body language more deliberately
• Better able to adapt their approach to different people
• Encouraged to question the perspective they bring to a challenge
• Motivated to practise the communication skills that build relationships

Keynote Programs

The Leader’s Instrument – Amplify the Best Parts of You
Vinh invites audiences to treat their ability to communicate as an instrument they can learn to use more effectively. He explores verbal and nonverbal skills, communication styles, and the confidence needed to connect with others. Ideal for leaders and teams whose success depends on strong relationships.

The Psychology of Illusion
Through magic and storytelling, Vinh shows how perspective, influence, and beliefs shape what people see as possible. He encourages audiences to rethink assumptions, collaborate, and take deliberate action toward their goals. Ideal for broad conference audiences seeking an entertaining message about mindset and change.

Creating Communication Magic — Breakout Session
This interactive session gives participants more time to work on how they speak and connect. Vinh explores techniques for greater clarity, confidence, and presence in everyday conversations. Ideal as a companion to a keynote for teams that want to practise the ideas together.

Is Vinh Giang Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the communication skills you want to strengthen, and the experience you want the event to create. We can help select Vinh’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.

Michelle Gielan: Positive Psychology Researcher | Author of Broadcasting Happiness | Former CBS News Anchor

Why Book Michelle Gielan?

Michelle brings research and practical examples into the discussion of how people respond to challenging circumstances. Her presentations encourage audiences to use more constructive language and look for actions that make progress possible.

Why Is Michelle Gielan Right for Your Audience?

Michelle is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company events, sales meetings, and workplace well-being programs. Consider her when teams need a constructive way to discuss uncertainty and maintain connection.

Book Michelle when your audience needs to:

• Communicate challenges without losing a sense of possibility
• Recognize the impact of everyday messages
• Strengthen constructive team conversations
• Build habits that support optimism during difficulty
• Identify practical responses to setbacks
• Support colleagues through uncertainty

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of the messages they share with others
• Ready to use more constructive language
• Clearer on how optimism can inform action
• Equipped with ideas for responding to difficult news
• Focused on a communication habit they can improve

Keynote Programs

Resilient Optimism: The Science of Sustaining a Positive Mindset in Tough Times

Michelle explores maintaining a constructive outlook during difficulty. Ideal for teams facing pressure or change.

Broadcasting Happiness

Michelle examines the influence of everyday communication. Ideal for leadership, sales, and broad employee audiences.

Is Michelle Gielan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, communication goals and the pressures your audience is navigating. We can help select Michelle’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.

Libby Gill: Leadership Expert | Author of The Hope-Driven Leader | Speaker on Change and Employee Engagement

Why Book Libby Gill?

Her perspective draws on communications leadership at Sony, Turner Broadcasting, and Universal, followed by work with leaders and organizations. Libby brings a practical understanding of how a shared vision becomes meaningful through everyday conversations and decisions.

Why Is Libby Gill Right for Your Audience?

Libby is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, women’s leadership events, and change initiatives. Consider her when managers need to rebuild confidence and help employees see their role in what comes next.

Book Libby when your audience needs to:

• Communicate a shared direction during uncertainty
• Connect optimism with concrete action
• Engage employees in meaningful goals
• Help emerging leaders develop confidence
• Identify obstacles to progress
• Support colleagues through organizational change

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how hope can inform leadership decisions
• Ready to connect a goal with an actionable next step
• More aware of messages that build confidence
• Equipped to discuss change more constructively
• Focused on a leadership habit they can improve

Keynote Programs

Leading Through Change & Challenge

Libby explores how leaders can sustain engagement and create direction during disruption. Ideal for organizations navigating new priorities or difficult transitions.

Women Leading the Way Forward: Learn to Lift As You Climb

Libby focuses on developing leadership confidence and supporting the growth of others. Ideal for women’s leadership programs and emerging leader events.

Mastering the Clarify, Simplify, Execute Process™

Libby presents an approach to defining goals, identifying priorities, and moving into action. Ideal for teams seeking stronger focus and follow-through.

Is Libby Gill Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes your people face and the leadership behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Libby’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.

Mandy Gill: Author of Reset with Resilience | Ultra-Endurance Athlete | Speaker on Resilience, Habits and Change

Why Book Mandy Gill?

Mandy’s presentations encourage people to treat setbacks as moments requiring a useful response. She focuses on practical ways to restart, adapt, and keep moving toward priorities when motivation or certainty is limited.

Why Is Mandy Gill Right for Your Audience?

Mandy is a strong fit for leadership meetings, sales conferences, company events, and transformation programs. Consider her when your audience needs a practical conversation about restarting after setbacks and staying effective through change.

Book Mandy when your audience needs to:

• Regain momentum after an unexpected setback
• Build habits that support consistent effort
• Adapt when goals or priorities change
• Maintain focus when motivation drops
• Choose useful actions under pressure
• Strengthen personal responsibility for progress

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how they can approach a reset
• Ready to identify a next step after disruption
• More aware of habits that support consistency
• Equipped with ideas for adapting to changing conditions
• Motivated to reconnect daily action with a meaningful goal

Keynote Programs

Reset with Resilience

Mandy explores restarting after setbacks and rebuilding forward momentum. Ideal for teams navigating disappointment or disruption.

The Resilience Advantage

Mandy focuses on leading yourself and others through ongoing change. Ideal for managers and organizations adapting to shifting expectations.

Is Mandy Gill Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the setbacks or changes your people need to work through. We can help select Mandy’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.

James Gilmore: Co-Author of The Experience Economy | Co-Founder of Strategic Horizons | Speaker on Customer Experience and Business Differentiation

Why Book James Gilmore?

As co-founder of Strategic Horizons and co-author of Authenticity, James brings a framework for discussing what customers value and how businesses communicate it. His presentations encourage audiences to reconsider familiar assumptions about service, customer attention, and the design of an offering.

Why Is James Gilmore Right for Your Audience?

James is a strong fit for executive meetings, customer experience conferences, retail and hospitality events, and brand strategy programs. Consider him when customers have many similar choices and your organization needs a clearer reason to be chosen.

Book James when your audience needs to:

• Distinguish an experience from a service
• Evaluate how customers spend their time and attention
• Identify opportunities to make interactions more memorable
• Align customer experiences with the brand’s promise
• Challenge assumptions about business differentiation
• Connect experience design with strategic priorities

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the principles of the experience economy
• Ready to examine an important customer interaction
• More aware of how experiences influence perceived value
• Equipped to discuss differentiation beyond features and price
• Focused on an experience their organization could improve

Keynote Programs

Welcome to the Experience Economy

James introduces the shift from delivering services to staging experiences that customers value. Ideal for leaders, marketers, and customer experience teams revisiting their business offering.

Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money

James explores the competition for customers’ limited attention and the implications for experience design. Ideal for organizations seeking more meaningful engagement with customers.

Is James Gilmore Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customer experience you want to improve and the competitive challenges you face. We can help select James’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.

Nancy Giordano: Keynote Speaker on Future Trends, AI & Leadership | Strategic Futurist | Author of Leadering | Founder of Play Big Inc.

Don't Just Predict the Future. Help Build It. What future do you want your organization—and your leaders—to be responsible for creating?

As technology, AI and societal expectations reshape virtually every industry, Nancy helps leaders understand not only what is changing—but how they can actively shape what comes next.

Her optimistic, human-centered approach challenges audiences to stop thinking about the future as something that simply happens to them and start recognizing their responsibility and opportunity to help create it.

Why Book Nancy Giordano?

Nancy doesn't simply predict trends. She helps leaders understand the forces reshaping their world and decide what they want to do about them.

Her work sits at the intersection of exponential technology, AI, leadership, work and societal transformation.

Rather than overwhelming audiences with predictions, Nancy creates a compelling picture of what's becoming possible—and challenges leaders to think more boldly about the organizations, experiences and systems they can create.

Her central question is powerful:

What future do you want to be responsible for?

What Makes Nancy Giordano Different?

• Strategic futurist — connects emerging trends to practical leadership decisions
• Author of Leadering — introduces a new approach to leading through exponential change
• 200+ global keynotes — extensive experience engaging executive audiences
• Founder of Play Big Inc. — focused on helping leaders actively shape the future
• Deep technology perspective — explores AI and other exponential technologies
• Human-centered futurism — keeps people, purpose and responsibility at the center
• Highly customized — tailors presentations to the questions facing each audience
• Optimistic perspective — helps audiences become excited rather than overwhelmed by what's next

Why Is Nancy Right for Your Audience?

Nancy is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand what's changing, rethink outdated assumptions and become more confident shaping what's next.

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

Book Nancy when your audience needs to:

• Understand the forces reshaping business and society
• Prepare for the opportunities and responsibilities created by AI
• Think differently about leadership
• Anticipate the future of work
• Challenge outdated assumptions and systems
• Become more comfortable with exponential change
• Think more boldly about what's possible
• Move from reacting to the future to actively shaping it

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to understand exponential change
• More confident navigating AI and emerging technologies
• Thinking differently about what 21st-century leadership requires
• Better able to recognize opportunities hidden inside disruption
• More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
• Understanding why human capabilities matter even more as technology advances
• Inspired to take greater responsibility for shaping what's next
• Asking: What future do we want to create?

Nancy Giordano Keynote Programs

Creating a Future to Be Excited About. What if the future isn't something to fear—but something we're responsible for designing?

Nancy explores the powerful technological, economic and societal forces transforming our world and helps audiences understand what these changes could make possible.

Rather than simply forecasting what's next, she challenges leaders to think intentionally about the future they want to create and the actions they can take today to move toward it.

Ideal for: Executive conferences, association meetings, innovation events and organizations preparing for significant change.

21st Century Expectations for Leadership. The leadership practices that got organizations here may not be enough to take them where they're going next.

Drawing from her book Leadering, Nancy challenges traditional ideas about leadership and introduces a more dynamic approach designed for continuous change.

She helps leaders become more curious, adaptive and forward-looking while developing the confidence to navigate a future where many of yesterday's assumptions no longer apply.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings and organizations transforming how their leaders think and operate.

The Opportunities and Responsibilities of Being AI-Led. AI is extraordinarily powerful—but what do we actually want to do with that power?

Nancy moves the AI conversation beyond productivity and automation to explore the bigger leadership questions surrounding artificial intelligence.

She challenges audiences to consider how AI can expand human capability while recognizing the responsibility leaders have to make thoughtful decisions about how these technologies are designed, deployed and governed.

Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations developing their AI strategy.

The Work of the Future. As technology transforms what machines can do, how should we rethink what humans do best?

Nancy explores how exponential technologies, changing expectations and new organizational models are reshaping work.

She challenges audiences to move beyond simply making existing work more efficient and instead consider how work itself can be redesigned to become more meaningful, human and valuable.

Ideal for: Future-of-work conferences, HR events, leadership meetings and organizations undergoing workforce transformation.

Why Book Nancy Giordano Through The Sweeney Agency?

Nancy Giordano combines future trends, AI, leadership and human-centered thinking—but the real value comes from connecting those forces directly to the future your organization needs to prepare for and help create.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Nancy Giordano's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Nancy Giordano keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and strategic priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Nancy with other leading futurist, AI and leadership keynote speakers

Is Nancy Giordano Right for Your Event?

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

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

Planning a leadership conference, AI summit, association meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Nancy Giordano as your keynote speaker.

Jeffrey Gitomer: Author of The Little Red Book of Selling | Sales Educator | Speaker on Sales, Trust and Customer Loyalty

Why Book Jeffrey Gitomer?

Jeffrey’s direct style and humor create a lively setting for discussing sales habits and personal responsibility. His presentations challenge audiences to look at how they earn trust, communicate value, and continue serving customers after an initial sale.

Why Is Jeffrey Gitomer Right for Your Audience?

Jeffrey is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, dealer and distributor meetings, business conferences, and customer relationship programs. Consider him when a team needs to sharpen its approach to selling and take greater ownership of its development.

Book Jeffrey when your audience needs to:

• Explain customer value more clearly
• Prepare more effectively for sales conversations
• Build credibility through useful knowledge
• Strengthen relationships beyond the transaction
• Take responsibility for sales habits and preparation
• Earn referrals through consistent service

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role of trust in a buying decision
• Ready to improve how they communicate value
• More aware of habits that affect customer confidence
• Equipped with ideas for strengthening customer relationships
• Focused on a specific action to improve their sales approach

Keynote Programs

Jeffrey’s presentations can be tailored around the following areas:

Sales and Customer Value

Jeffrey explores the preparation, questions, and value that support a productive sales conversation. Ideal for sales teams and business owners.

Trust and Customer Loyalty

Jeffrey examines how credibility and service influence ongoing relationships. Ideal for account managers, sales leaders, and customer-facing teams.

Attitude and Personal Responsibility

Jeffrey challenges audiences to take ownership of their learning, preparation, and daily behavior. Ideal for sales kickoffs and performance-focused business events.

Is Jeffrey Gitomer Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the sales behaviors you want to improve and the customers your team serves. We can help select Jeffrey’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.

Sylvie di Giusto: Former Corporate Executive | Author of The Image of Leadership | Speaker on Emotional Intelligence and the Power of Choice

Why Book Sylvie di Giusto?

Sylvie’s presentations bring emotional intelligence into specific leadership, sales, and customer situations. Her immersive style helps audiences notice choices they may otherwise make on autopilot and consider how to act with greater intention.

Why Is Sylvie di Giusto Right for Your Audience?

Sylvie is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, customer experience events, and professional development programs. She is especially relevant when an organization wants its people to build trust quickly and represent its values consistently.

Book Sylvie when your audience needs to:

• Make more intentional choices in important interactions
• Build credibility with customers and colleagues
• Strengthen emotional intelligence in leadership and sales
• Understand how first impressions influence relationships
• Communicate individual value with confidence
• Keep human connection central as technology changes work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More aware of the signals they send in person and online
• Better able to pause and choose a constructive response
• Ready to align their behavior with the impression they want to make
• Clearer on the strengths that distinguish them professionally
• Equipped to build trust through more thoughtful interactions

Keynote Programs

The Power of Choice
Sylvie explores how small, intentional decisions in appearance, behavior, communication, and relationships affect larger outcomes. Ideal for leadership, sales, and company-wide audiences.

Forever Human
Sylvie examines how leaders and professionals can preserve trust and meaningful connection as AI and automation reshape interactions. Ideal for audiences navigating a technology-driven workplace.

Discover Your Fair Advantage
Sylvie helps participants identify the strengths and experiences that make their contribution distinct, then communicate that value more confidently. Ideal for professional development and sales events.

You Have 7 Seconds. Make Them Count!
Sylvie shows how first impressions form and how people can make more conscious choices in those early moments. Ideal for customer-facing teams, leaders, and relationship builders.

Is Sylvie di Giusto Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the interactions that matter most to it, and the impression you want people to leave. We can help choose Sylvie’s most relevant program, discuss format and customization, and confirm her availability and fee.

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

Brent Gleeson: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Teamwork & Organizational Change | Navy SEAL Combat Veteran | Bestselling Author | Business Leader

Lead Through Change. Build Teams That Win.

Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, bestselling author, business leader and highly engaging keynote speaker on leadership, teamwork, resilience and organizational change.

Drawing on lessons from the SEAL Teams and his experience building and leading businesses, Brent shows organizations how to create cultures of trust, accountability and disciplined execution—giving leaders and teams practical strategies for performing at their best during uncertainty and change.

Why Book Brent Gleeson?

Brent brings together two worlds that make his message particularly relevant to business audiences: elite military leadership and real-world business experience.

His experiences as a Navy SEAL provide powerful lessons about trust, teamwork, resilience and performing under pressure. But Brent doesn't simply tell military stories—he translates those experiences into practical principles leaders and teams can apply in their organizations.

His keynotes challenge audiences to embrace change, take greater ownership and build the trust and accountability required for high performance.

What Makes Brent Gleeson Different?

• Navy SEAL combat veteran — leadership lessons developed in demanding, high-pressure environments
• Business experience — translates elite-team principles directly into today's workplace
• Bestselling author — recognized for his work on leadership, resilience and organizational transformation
• Change expertise — helps organizations turn uncertainty and disruption into forward momentum
• Accountability focused — challenges people to take ownership rather than wait for circumstances to improve
• Practical and actionable — audiences leave with strategies they can immediately apply
• High-impact storytelling — compelling SEAL experiences connected directly to business challenges

Why Is Brent Right for Your Audience?

Brent is an excellent choice when you want your audience to embrace change, strengthen teamwork and take greater responsibility for achieving results.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings, association conferences and organizations navigating transformation, growth or significant disruption.

Book Brent when your audience needs to:

• Lead confidently through change and uncertainty
• Build stronger, more accountable teams
• Break down organizational silos
• Strengthen trust and communication
• Take greater ownership of results
• Develop resilience when facing setbacks
• Improve execution and follow-through
• Create a culture committed to continuous improvement

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to lead themselves and others through change
• Understanding how trust and accountability drive team performance
• Ready to take greater ownership of results
• Equipped to strengthen collaboration across teams
• More resilient when facing uncertainty and setbacks
• Focused on turning strategy into disciplined execution
• Motivated to raise their own performance and expectations

Brent Gleeson Keynote Programs

Embrace the Suck: Leading Through Adversity: High-performing teams aren't defined by the absence of adversity. They're defined by how they respond to it.

Drawing on lessons from his experience as a Navy SEAL and business leader, Brent shows audiences how to develop the resilience, mindset and discipline required to navigate difficult circumstances and continue moving forward.

He challenges people to stop resisting discomfort and instead use adversity as an opportunity to adapt, grow and perform at a higher level.

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

TakingPoint: Leading Through Organizational Change: Change doesn't fail because organizations lack a strategy. It often fails because people don't fully commit to executing it.

Brent explores the leadership behaviors, cultural disciplines and levels of accountability required to successfully navigate transformation.

Audiences learn how to build trust, improve communication, increase engagement and create greater ownership throughout periods of significant change.

Ideal for: Leadership meetings, transformation initiatives, mergers, growth organizations and companies undergoing cultural change.

Building High-Performance Teams: Elite teams aren't created by individual talent alone. They are built on trust, accountability and commitment to the mission.

Brent translates lessons from the SEAL Teams into practical strategies for today's workplace, showing audiences how to strengthen relationships, increase accountability and create teams where people put collective success ahead of individual agendas.

Ideal for: Leadership, teamwork, culture, sales and high-performance events.

Why Book Brent Gleeson Through The Sweeney Agency?

Brent Gleeson's Navy SEAL experience creates an immediate connection with audiences—but the real value comes from connecting those experiences directly to the leadership and performance challenges your organization is facing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Brent Gleeson Right for Your Event?

Tell us the change, leadership challenge or performance goal your organization is facing.

We'll help you determine whether Brent 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 at [email protected]  to discuss booking Brent Gleeson as your keynote speaker.

Jodi Glickman: Author of Great on the Job | Communication Expert | Speaker on Leadership, Influence and Professional Growth

Why Book Jodi Glickman?

Her presentations focus on the conversations people often find difficult: describing their value, connecting with a new colleague, or speaking in an important meeting. Jodi gives audiences a way to think about what they want to accomplish and how to make their message useful to others.

Why Is Jodi Glickman Right for Your Audience?

Jodi is a strong fit for leadership development, early-career programs, sales meetings, and company conferences. Consider her when capable people need greater confidence and clarity in how they communicate their contribution.

Book Jodi when your audience needs to:

• Explain their value with greater clarity
• Participate more confidently in meetings
• Build stronger professional relationships
• Prepare for important workplace conversations
• Communicate with consideration for others
• Support the growth of colleagues and team members

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how to introduce themselves and their work
• Ready to prepare a more focused professional pitch
• More aware of behaviors that build connection
• Equipped with ideas for communicating in unfamiliar settings
• Focused on a conversation they can handle more effectively

Keynote Programs

Love @ Work

Jodi explores the relationships and everyday behaviors that make work more meaningful. Ideal for leaders and broad employee audiences.

Pitch Yourself

Jodi helps audiences communicate their value and connect their experience with an opportunity. Ideal for emerging leaders, career development programs, and sales audiences.

Own the Room (Any Room)

Jodi focuses on showing up with clarity and confidence across professional settings. Ideal for teams developing presence and communication skills.

Is Jodi Glickman Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the conversations your people need to handle more confidently. We can help select Jodi’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.

Kian Gohar: Founder and CEO of Geolab | Bestselling Co-Author of Competing in the New World of Work | Speaker on Human–AI Collaboration and Innovation

Why Book Kian Gohar?

A former executive director at XPRIZE and Singularity University, Kian brings ambitious thinking into practical team conversations. His keynotes connect emerging possibilities with the behaviors needed to pursue them—helping audiences examine how they collaborate, adapt, and turn ideas into action.

Why Is Kian Gohar Right for Your Audience?

Kian is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation summits, HR events, and company gatherings focused on AI or team performance. He is especially relevant when an organization wants employees to explore new tools while strengthening the collaboration that makes those tools useful.

Book Kian when your audience needs to:

• Explore practical ways to collaborate with AI
• Strengthen teamwork across roles and departments
• Adapt how it works as expectations change
• Challenge assumptions that limit innovation
• Turn ambitious goals into a plan for action
• Build confidence experimenting with new approaches

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Better informed about the skills involved in human–AI collaboration
• Ready to identify opportunities to improve team workflows
• More aware of behaviors that support trust and shared ownership
• Equipped with a framework for approaching ambitious challenges
• Motivated to test new ideas and learn from the results

Keynote Programs

The Future of Human + AI Collaboration
Kian explores how teams can use generative AI to support creativity, productivity, and decision-making. Ideal for leaders and employees seeking practical insight into AI at work.

The Art of Teamwork
Kian examines the practices behind adaptable, effective teams, including communication, trust, and peer collaboration. Ideal for company events and teams seeking to improve how they work together.

Leadership in the New World of Work
Drawing on his bestselling book, Kian challenges established assumptions about work and explores how leaders can build more resilient, inclusive teams. Ideal for executives, managers, and HR audiences.

How to Build a Moonshot
Kian draws on his XPRIZE experience to guide audiences from an ambitious goal toward concrete steps and solutions. Ideal for innovation conferences, entrepreneurs, and teams pursuing a significant challenge.

Is Kian Gohar Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges it needs to solve, and what you want people to try after the event. We can help select Kian’s most relevant program, discuss customization and workshop options, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Ian Goldin: Oxford Professor of Globalisation and Development | Former World Bank Vice President | Speaker on Global Change and the Future of Work

Why Book Ian Goldin?

His experience includes serving as a vice president of the World Bank. Ian combines research and policy experience to help leaders consider both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of an interconnected world.

Why Is Ian Goldin Right for Your Audience?

Ian is a strong fit for executive conferences, board discussions, industry meetings, and long-term strategy events. Consider him when leaders need to place their decisions within a wider economic and technological context.

Book Ian when your audience needs to:

• Understand connections between global developments
• Examine technology’s implications for work
• Consider demographic and economic shifts
• Recognize vulnerabilities created by interdependence
• Challenge assumptions in long-term plans
• Discuss uncertainty with a broader perspective

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on forces shaping the global economy
• More aware of connections between different sources of change
• Ready to ask better questions about future work and skills
• Equipped to consider risks alongside opportunities
• Focused on assumptions their organization should revisit

Keynote Programs

Ian’s presentation can be shaped around the following subject areas:

The Future of Globalisation

Ian examines the changing relationships between economies and societies. Ideal for leaders considering international exposure and long-term growth.

Technology and the Future of Work

Ian explores technological and economic change and its implications for jobs and skills. Ideal for business leaders and workforce planning audiences.

Leadership in Uncertain Times

Ian considers how leaders can approach interconnected challenges and longer-term decisions. Ideal for executive meetings and strategic planning events.

Is Ian Goldin Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the global developments and strategic questions most relevant to your organization. We can help select Ian’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.

Felipe Gómez: Entrepreneur and Pianist | Keynote Performer | Speaker on Excellence, Leadership and Team Performance

Why Book Felipe Gómez?

His Virtuoso presentation combines a business message with piano performance. Felipe invites audiences to examine the methods, attitudes, and passion they bring to their work, turning an abstract conversation about excellence into something they can hear and experience.

Why Is Felipe Gómez Right for Your Audience?

Felipe is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, company gatherings, and customer experience events. Consider him when you want a shared experience that encourages people to raise their standards and think differently about their contribution.

Book Felipe when your audience needs to:

• Connect consistent preparation with better performance
• Examine the attitude they bring to work
• Recognize how individual contributions affect the whole
• Build commitment to a shared standard of excellence
• Approach learning with greater curiosity
• Bring more intention to everyday customer interactions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the habits behind accomplished performance
• More aware of how their approach influences colleagues
• Ready to identify a skill that deserves deliberate practice
• Equipped with a memorable musical framework for discussing excellence
• Motivated to make a more intentional contribution at work

Keynote Programs

Virtuoso

Felipe draws on piano performance to explore the methods, attitudes, and passion behind excellence. He connects these elements with leadership, teamwork, and the experience an organization creates for others. Ideal for audiences seeking an engaging business presentation that makes its message tangible through music.

Is Felipe Gómez Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the performance standards you want to strengthen and the experience you want attendees to share. We can help select Felipe’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.

Amanda Gore: Hall of Fame Speaker | Communication Expert | Speaker on Leadership, Connection and Workplace Culture

Why Book Amanda Gore?

Amanda encourages people to notice the effect of their everyday behavior. Her message gives leaders and employees a shared reason to pay more attention to listening, appreciation, and the ways they respond to colleagues and customers.

Why Is Amanda Gore Right for Your Audience?

Amanda is a strong fit for company conferences, leadership meetings, sales events, and customer service gatherings. Consider her when you want an energetic session that gets people involved in a conversation about culture and relationships.

Book Amanda when your audience needs to:

• Strengthen connection between colleagues
• Recognize the impact of everyday communication
• Make appreciation more visible
• Bring greater awareness to customer interactions
• Support a more constructive workplace atmosphere
• Take ownership of how they treat others

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of the feelings their behavior creates
• Ready to listen and respond more thoughtfully
• Equipped with ideas for expressing appreciation
• Clearer on how connection supports teamwork
• Motivated to improve one everyday interaction

Keynote Programs

JQ – Joy Intelligence

Amanda explores the role of joy and emotional awareness in how people lead and work together. Ideal for leadership and broad employee audiences.

The Science of Joy

Amanda invites audiences to consider habits and interactions that support a more positive working environment. Ideal for company meetings seeking an engaging discussion about workplace culture.

The Connected Team

Amanda focuses on communication and relationships within a team. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger trust, participation, and connection.

Is Amanda Gore Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the relationships and workplace behaviors you want to strengthen. We can help select Amanda’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.

Adrian Gostick: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Culture & Employee Engagement | Bestselling Author | Workplace Culture Expert

Build a Culture Where People Want to Perform

Adrian Gostick is a bestselling author and internationally recognized keynote speaker on leadership, workplace culture, employee engagement and high-performance teams.

Drawing on extensive research into the world's most successful teams and organizations, Adrian gives leaders practical strategies for building cultures where people feel valued, connected and motivated to perform. His engaging presentations combine compelling research, real-world examples and immediately useful leadership tools.

Why Book Adrian Gostick?

Adrian addresses one of the most important challenges facing organizations today: how to attract, engage and retain great people while building a culture that delivers results.

Rather than relying on management theory alone, Adrian translates research on leadership, recognition, teamwork and workplace culture into practical actions leaders can use immediately.

His keynotes are engaging, insightful and highly relevant—giving managers and leaders specific ideas for strengthening culture, increasing engagement and creating higher-performing teams.

What Makes Adrian Gostick Different?

• Bestselling leadership author — widely recognized for his work on culture, engagement and teamwork
• Research-driven — insights grounded in extensive research into successful leaders and teams
• Immediately actionable — practical strategies leaders can implement right away
• Culture expertise — helps organizations create workplaces where people want to contribute
• Leadership focused — gives managers specific tools for engaging and motivating their people
• Highly engaging — combines research, stories, humor and real-world business examples
• Relevant to today's workplace — addresses engagement, retention, wellbeing and changing employee expectations

Why Is Adrian Right for Your Audience?

Adrian is an excellent choice when you want your leaders to build stronger teams, improve engagement and create a workplace culture where people can perform at their best.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, management meetings, HR events, corporate conferences and organizations focused on culture, retention and employee performance.

Book Adrian when your audience needs to:

• Increase employee engagement
• Build a stronger workplace culture
• Attract and retain talented people
• Strengthen trust within teams
• Improve recognition and appreciation
• Lead increasingly diverse teams
• Increase accountability and performance
• Create stronger connections between employees and organizational goals

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better equipped to engage and motivate their teams
• Understanding how everyday leadership behaviors influence culture
• Ready to recognize people in more meaningful ways
• Equipped with practical strategies for building stronger teams
• Better prepared to address disengagement and retention challenges
• Able to create greater trust, connection and accountability
• Focused on building a culture that supports both people and performance

Adrian Gostick Keynote Programs

All In: Creating a Culture of Belief:  What happens when employees genuinely believe in where the organization is going—and understand how they contribute to getting there?

Adrian shows leaders how high-performing organizations create cultures where employees believe in the mission, understand their role and feel motivated to contribute.

Using research and real-world examples, he provides practical strategies for increasing engagement, strengthening accountability and aligning people around shared goals.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, culture initiatives and organizations undergoing change.

Leading with Gratitude: Recognition isn't simply about making people feel good. Done well, it can change how teams perform.

Adrian explores how effective leaders use gratitude and recognition to strengthen relationships, increase engagement and reinforce the behaviors that drive results.

Audiences leave with practical ideas for creating a culture where people feel valued while maintaining high expectations for performance.

Ideal for: Leadership meetings, management conferences, HR events and employee-engagement programs.

Anxiety at Work: How can leaders help people perform when uncertainty, pressure and anxiety are affecting the workplace?

Adrian provides leaders with practical strategies for creating greater psychological safety, strengthening communication and helping employees navigate uncertainty without lowering performance expectations.

The result is a more resilient, connected and productive team.

Ideal for: Leadership, workplace wellbeing, HR and organizational-culture events.

Why Book Adrian Gostick Through The Sweeney Agency?

Adrian Gostick brings extensive research and proven leadership strategies to the stage—but the real value comes from connecting those insights directly to the culture and people challenges your organization is facing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Adrian Gostick's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Adrian Gostick keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Adrian with other leading leadership, culture and employee-engagement speakers

Is Adrian Gostick Right for Your Event?

Tell us what you want to improve—engagement, leadership, retention, teamwork or workplace culture.

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

Planning a leadership conference, management meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Adrian Gostick as your keynote speaker.

Reva Goujon: Geopolitical Strategist | Director at Rhodium Group | Speaker on U.S.–China Relations and Global Business Risk

Why Book Reva Goujon?

Her experience includes leading global analysis at Stratfor and strategic intelligence at Martin+Crumpton Group. Reva brings a structured approach to uncertainty, helping audiences examine the forces behind events, consider alternative scenarios, and ask better questions about their strategic exposure.

Why Is Reva Goujon Right for Your Audience?

Reva is a strong fit for executive meetings, board retreats, industry conferences, and organizations with international operations or investments. She is especially relevant when leaders need to understand how political competition and policy changes could affect their markets, partnerships, and supply chains.

Book Reva when your audience needs to:

• Put geopolitical developments into a business context
• Understand the implications of U.S.–China competition
• Examine exposure to changes in trade and industrial policy
• Consider how technology competition affects strategic choices
• Explore alternative scenarios before committing resources
• Build geopolitical awareness into planning discussions

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the structural forces behind international developments
• Better prepared to discuss geopolitical risks with colleagues
• More aware of assumptions worth testing in their plans
• Equipped to ask sharper questions about regional and industry exposure
• Ready to consider multiple outcomes when making strategic decisions

Keynote Programs

A Manic Moment in Time
Reva’s geopolitical overview examines the forces changing global power, conflict, and economic relationships. Ideal for executive and industry audiences seeking context for international developments.

Presentations can also be shaped around the following areas of expertise:

U.S.–China Competition and Corporate Strategy
A focused discussion of the relationship between the two countries and its implications for business. A relevant direction for organizations with operations, suppliers, or customers in China.

Geopolitics, Trade and Technology
An exploration of how policy and international competition influence commercial decisions. A relevant direction for audiences considering supply chains, investment, or technology strategy.

Geopolitical Forecasting and Scenario Planning
A discussion of how to assess uncertainty and examine possible outcomes. A relevant direction for boards and strategy teams seeking to strengthen their planning process.

Is Reva Goujon Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its international exposure, and the strategic questions you want explored. We can help shape a relevant presentation, discuss the format, and confirm Reva’s availability and fee.

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

Scott Greenberg: Author of The Wealthy Franchisee and Stop the Shift Show | Former Franchise Owner | Speaker on Frontline Leadership and Business Performance

Why Book Scott Greenberg?

His perspective includes experience as a franchise owner. Scott brings an operator’s understanding of staffing pressures, customer expectations, and the challenge of translating a business plan into consistent execution on the frontline.

Why Is Scott Greenberg Right for Your Audience?

Scott is a strong fit for franchise conferences, retail and hospitality events, manager meetings, and service business programs. Consider him when supervisors need practical ideas for engaging employees and improving the experience customers receive.

Book Scott when your audience needs to:

• Develop more effective frontline managers
• Improve the way hourly employees are supported
• Connect daily management habits with customer service
• Strengthen coaching and accountability
• Examine assumptions that limit business performance
• Create more consistency across teams or locations

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on behaviors that support frontline performance
• Ready to reconsider a management habit
• More aware of obstacles facing hourly employees
• Equipped with ideas for coaching and team development
• Focused on an improvement they can apply in their operation

Keynote Programs

Stop the Shift Show

Scott explores how managers can develop and support hourly teams. Ideal for retail, hospitality, franchise, and service organizations seeking stronger frontline leadership.

The Wealthy Franchisee

Scott examines the habits and decisions behind effective franchise operations. Ideal for franchise owners and operators looking to strengthen their approach to business performance.

Is Scott Greenberg Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the staffing, management, or operating challenges your audience needs to address. 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.

Nikki Greenberg: Futurist and Innovation Strategist | Founder of Women in PropTech | Speaker on AI and the Future of Real Estate

Why Book Nikki Greenberg?

Nikki is especially compelling where technology meets the physical world. She helps audiences consider how changing expectations will affect the places people live, work, and visit. Her presentations give event planners a way to open a useful conversation about investment, innovation, and long-term priorities.

Why Is Nikki Greenberg Right for Your Audience?

Nikki is a strong fit for real estate conferences, construction and infrastructure events, urban planning forums, and executive meetings. She is particularly relevant when an organization wants to explore future possibilities and agree on where to focus its attention next.

Book Nikki when your audience needs to:

• Explore how technology could change its industry
• Reconsider assumptions about future customers and communities
• Connect innovation with business and property decisions
• Think beyond the next project or planning cycle
• Identify questions to guide a technology investment
• Build a shared direction for future initiatives

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• With a broader perspective on the changes ahead
• Ready to question assumptions in existing plans
• Better prepared to discuss technology with colleagues
• Clearer on the people their future investments should serve
• Motivated to identify a practical next step

Keynote Programs

Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry
Nikki examines AI, generational change, and workplace evolution, with a framework for moving ideas into action. Ideal for leadership and industry conferences.

The World in 2050: Preparing Cities for Future Generations
Nikki explores how demographic shifts and technology could reshape cities. Ideal for public sector, infrastructure, and urban development audiences.

Today to 2050: Creating the Future of Real Estate
Nikki considers how AI, automation, and changing demand will influence property development and use. Ideal for real estate investors, developers, and property leaders.

Introduction to AI: Eliminate Your Busywork — Workshop
This hands-on session introduces practical uses of AI tools for everyday tasks. Available as a keynote add-on for teams seeking a more applied learning experience.

Is Nikki Greenberg Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes affecting your industry, and the decisions you want people to think about differently. We can help select Nikki’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.

Dr. Anil K. Gupta: Global Strategy Expert | Co-Author of Getting China and India Right | Speaker on Globalization, Emerging Markets and Business Growth

Why Book Dr. Anil K. Gupta?

Co-author of Getting China and India Right and The Quest for Global Dominance, Anil connects research with business implications. His presentations help audiences examine where opportunities are emerging, how competition is changing, and which assumptions deserve a closer look.

Why Is Dr. Anil K. Gupta Right for Your Audience?

Anil is a strong fit for executive conferences, board retreats, industry meetings, and strategic planning events. He is especially relevant when leaders need to assess international opportunities or understand how developments in China, India, and other markets could affect their business.

Book Anil when your audience needs to:

• Connect global developments with business strategy
• Evaluate opportunities across different emerging markets
• Understand China and India’s implications for competition
• Challenge assumptions about international growth
• Develop a broader perspective on innovation and resources
• Strengthen collaboration across markets and cultures

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on global forces relevant to their organization
• Better prepared to distinguish between different market opportunities
• More aware of assumptions that could limit their strategy
• Ready to ask better questions about international expansion
• Equipped with a framework for discussing global competitive advantage

Keynote Programs

Global Megatrends and Game Changers
Anil examines major economic, technological, demographic, and environmental forces and their implications for business. Ideal for executive audiences seeking a broader strategic perspective.

Getting China and India Right
Anil explores the opportunities, challenges, and competitive implications of these two major economies. Ideal for organizations with business interests in China and India.

Cultivating a Global Mindset
Anil shows why leaders need both an understanding of individual markets and the ability to connect opportunities across borders. Ideal for multinational leadership teams and organizations expanding internationally.

Is Dr. Anil K. Gupta Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the markets that matter to your organization, and the strategic questions you want to explore. We can help select Anil’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.

Suneel Gupta: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, High Performance & Wellbeing | Bestselling Author | Harvard Medical School Faculty | Entrepreneur

Perform at Your Best—Without Burning Out

How do you sustain high performance when the pace of work never seems to slow down?

Suneel Gupta is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and sought-after keynote speaker on leadership, performance and wellbeing who helps people bring greater energy, focus and resilience to their work—without sacrificing their wellbeing.

Why Book Suneel Gupta?

Suneel addresses one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: how to maintain high performance when people are stretched, distracted and increasingly exhausted.

Rather than asking people to simply work harder, Suneel shows them how to manage their energy, reconnect with purpose and build sustainable habits that improve both performance and wellbeing.

His warm, engaging style combines research, storytelling and highly practical ideas, creating a keynote experience that inspires audiences while giving them clear strategies they can put into action.

What Makes Suneel Gupta Different?

• Performance without burnout — a timely message for today's demanding workplace
• Research-backed strategies — practical ideas grounded in behavioral science and real-world experience
• Immediately actionable — tools audiences can begin using right away
• Engaging storyteller — combines business insights, personal stories and memorable examples
• Relevant across organizations — ideal for leaders, teams and high-performance cultures
• Customizable — Suneel can connect his message directly to your organization's priorities

Why Is Suneel Right for Your Audience?

Suneel is an excellent choice when you want your audience to leave energized, focused and equipped to perform at a higher level without running themselves into the ground.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, healthcare events, association conferences and organizations navigating demanding periods of growth or change.

Book Suneel when your audience needs to:

• Sustain energy in a high-pressure environment
• Improve focus and overcome distraction
• Build resilience without accepting burnout
• Reconnect daily work with a stronger sense of purpose
• Create healthier approaches to high performance
• Strengthen engagement and motivation
• Turn good intentions into consistent action

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to manage their energy throughout demanding days
• Equipped with practical strategies for sustainable high performance
• More focused on the work that matters most
• Better prepared to recognize and address burnout
• Ready to build habits that support performance and wellbeing
• Inspired to bring greater purpose and momentum to their work

Suneel Gupta Keynote Programs

Momentum: How to Sustain High Performance: What if the secret to getting more done isn't managing your time—but managing your energy?

Suneel challenges traditional ideas about productivity and shows audiences how to build the energy and momentum needed to perform consistently. Drawing from his bestselling work, he shares practical techniques for overcoming exhaustion, improving focus and sustaining performance.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, corporate meetings and high-performance teams.

Everyday Dharma: Finding Purpose in What You Do: Purpose doesn't have to mean changing careers. It can mean changing the way you approach the work you're already doing.

Suneel helps audiences reconnect who they are with what they do. He shares practical strategies for discovering greater meaning in everyday work and using that sense of purpose to strengthen motivation, resilience and performance.

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

Wellbeing Is the New Leadership Advantage

Today's leaders face a difficult challenge: delivering ambitious results while creating an environment where people can continue performing at their best.

Suneel explores how leaders can create the conditions for sustainable performance by paying closer attention to energy, purpose, resilience and human connection.

Ideal for: Executive audiences, leadership meetings, healthcare organizations and organizations focused on culture and employee performance.

Why Book Suneel Gupta Through The Sweeney Agency?

Choosing the right keynote speaker is about more than finding an impressive name. The speaker needs to connect with your audience, understand your objectives and deliver a message that supports what you want people to do differently after the event.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Suneel Gupta's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Suneel Gupta keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Suneel with other leading leadership, performance and wellbeing speakers

Is Suneel Gupta Right for Your Event?

Tell us what your people are facing—and what you want them to think, feel or do differently after the keynote.

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

Planning a leadership conference, corporate meeting or sales kickoff? Contact The Sweeney Agency today to discuss booking Suneel Gupta as your keynote speaker.

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DeDe Halfhill: Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel | Leadership Advisor | Speaker on Trust, Courage and Connection

Why Book DeDe Halfhill?

Her presentations invite leaders to look beneath visible performance problems and consider what people may be experiencing. DeDe connects empathy with leadership responsibility, encouraging audiences to ask better questions and have conversations that move a team forward.

Why Is DeDe Halfhill Right for Your Audience?

DeDe is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, manager development, and women’s leadership events. Consider her when teams face uncertainty and leaders need to strengthen trust while maintaining clear expectations.

Book DeDe when your audience needs to:

• Build trust during pressure and change
• Recognize emotional dynamics within a team
• Have difficult conversations with greater courage
• Balance empathy with clear expectations
• Examine their influence as a leader
• Strengthen connection across roles and responsibilities

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of what may sit beneath a team’s challenges
• Ready to ask more useful leadership questions
• Clearer on the relationship between trust and connection
• Equipped with ideas for approaching difficult conversations
• Focused on a leadership behavior they can practice

Keynote Programs

Forged: Leadership That Holds When Everything Else Is Shifting

DeDe explores leadership amid uncertainty and pressure. Ideal for executives and managers responsible for guiding people through change.

Connection Is the Competitive Edge: The Advantage No One Talks About, But Everyone Feels

DeDe examines the often-overlooked role of connection in team performance. Ideal for organizations seeking stronger trust and more effective working relationships.

Is DeDe Halfhill Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the pressures your leaders face and the trust you want them to build. We can help select DeDe’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.

Kindra Hall: Bestselling Author of Stories That Stick | Strategic Storytelling Expert | Speaker on Communication and Sales

Why Book Kindra Hall?

Kindra makes storytelling a skill audiences can practice. Her keynotes combine research, memorable examples, and a clear process that sales, marketing, and leadership teams can use to strengthen connection and communicate value.

Why Is Kindra Hall Right for Your Audience?

Kindra is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, marketing conferences, leadership events, and association meetings. She is especially valuable when an organization has a strong offering but struggles to explain its value in a way customers or employees care about.

Book Kindra when your audience needs to:

• Capture attention in a crowded market
• Explain value through memorable stories
• Build stronger relationships with customers
• Make sales presentations more relevant and persuasive
• Help leaders communicate ideas and change
• Give teams a shared approach to storytelling

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on what makes a story useful in business
• Better able to recognize stories already present in their work
• Equipped with a process for shaping a story around a goal
• Ready to use stories in sales, leadership, or marketing conversations
• More confident communicating value to an audience

Keynote Programs

Stories That Stick: The Irresistible Power of Strategic Storytelling
Kindra introduces the principles and process behind stories that capture attention and create connection. Ideal for broad business audiences seeking more effective communication.

StorySelling
Kindra helps sales teams use relevant stories to make the value of their products and services easier for buyers to understand. Ideal for sales conferences, kickoffs, and training events.

Story Your Way to Success in Direct Selling
Kindra shows direct selling teams how personal and product stories can help them connect with prospects and explain an opportunity. Ideal for direct selling and network marketing events.

The Storytelling Secret Weapon in Action
In this interactive workshop, Kindra helps participants identify and begin developing stories for their own goals. Ideal for teams that want time to practice the skill after hearing the keynote.

Is Kindra Hall Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the message it needs to communicate, and the action you hope its stories will inspire. We can help choose Kindra’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.

Stacey Hanke: Hall of Fame Speaker | Bestselling Author | Expert on Executive Presence and Influence

Why Book Stacey Hanke?

Stacey brings an honest, interactive approach to the stage. She challenges audiences to look at their presence in meetings, presentations, and everyday conversations, then gives them practical ways to improve it. Her central message is that influence is built through consistent behavior, Monday to Monday®.

Why Is Stacey Hanke Right for Your Audience?

Stacey is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and professional development events. She is especially valuable when people have strong ideas and expertise but need their communication to earn attention, build trust, and motivate action.

Book Stacey when your audience needs to:

• Communicate with greater clarity and credibility
• Strengthen executive presence across in-person and virtual settings
• Recognize gaps between intention and perception
• Make important messages easier to remember and act on
• Build client trust through consistent communication
• Bring greater influence to everyday interactions

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More aware of how others may experience their communication
• Ready to examine habits that weaken their message
• Equipped with practical ways to increase presence and connection
• Better prepared to speak with confidence in important moments
• Focused on building influence consistently, Monday to Monday®

Keynote Programs

Influence Elevated – Elevating Executive Presence – 3 Secrets to Maximize Influence
Stacey helps leaders examine the difference between how they believe they come across and how audiences perceive them. Through feedback and practical techniques, she shows how to strengthen presence and make communication more effective in every interaction. Ideal for leadership and executive audiences.

The Language of Leadership: Elevating Impact, Influence and Connection
Stacey explores how leaders can cut through distractions and communicate in ways that earn trust and encourage action. She connects executive presence to the everyday moments that shape a leader’s reputation. Ideal for managers and leaders working across in-person, hybrid, and virtual settings.

Influence Elevated: Maximize Your Sales Impact
Stacey helps sales professionals communicate their value with greater clarity, strengthen client relationships, and create momentum in conversations. Ideal for sales teams seeking more consistent influence across meetings, presentations, and follow-up.

Is Stacey Hanke Right for Your Event?

Tell us where your audience’s communication needs to have more impact and what you want people to do differently afterward. We can help choose Stacey’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.

Dr. Heidi Hanna: Author of Stressaholic and Recharge | Stress and Performance Educator | Speaker on Energy Management and Resilience

Why Book Dr. Heidi Hanna?

Heidi’s presentations combine explanations with practical reflection on habits, attention, and responses to demanding situations. She encourages people to create a realistic recharge practice and consider how an organization’s working environment supports or drains its people.

Why Is Dr. Heidi Hanna Right for Your Audience?

Heidi is a strong fit for employee wellbeing programs, leadership conferences, healthcare meetings, and company events. Consider her when your audience needs a useful discussion about managing energy and responding more deliberately to ongoing demands.

Book Heidi when your audience needs to:

• Recognize habits that affect their daily energy
• Respond more thoughtfully to stressful moments
• Build recovery into demanding workdays
• Examine the impact of workplace expectations
• Use humor and connection constructively
• Develop a realistic personal recharge routine

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of their patterns of stress and recovery
• Ready to identify an achievable recharge practice
• Clearer on the importance of managing energy
• Equipped with ideas for pausing before reacting
• Focused on a small change to their daily routine

Keynote Programs

Recharge Your Brain and Your Business

Heidi explores practical shifts for managing energy and creating a recharge routine. Ideal for busy professionals and leadership audiences.

The Cure for Stress

Heidi presents her framework for understanding and responding to stress. Ideal for organizations seeking an engaging educational session about pressure and recovery.

Beyond Funny

Heidi explores humor as part of everyday connection and a personal stress toolkit. Ideal for broad employee and wellbeing audiences.

Is Dr. Heidi Hanna Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the daily demands your audience faces and the habits you want the event to encourage. We can help select Heidi’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.

Mark Victor Hansen: Co-Creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul | Author and Entrepreneur | Speaker on Possibility, Persistence and Personal Achievement

Why Book Mark Victor Hansen?

Mark connects the experience of building a publishing success with the personal choices behind ambitious goals. His energetic presentations encourage people to clarify what matters, seek support, and follow through when the first answer is not the answer they hoped for.

Why Is Mark Victor Hansen Right for Your Audience?

Mark is a strong fit for sales conferences, entrepreneur gatherings, company celebrations, and professional development events. Consider him when your audience needs renewed ambition and a memorable reason to act on an important goal.

Book Mark when your audience needs to:

• Clarify a meaningful personal or professional goal
• Respond to rejection with greater persistence
• Ask more directly for help and opportunities
• Think beyond familiar limits
• Connect motivation with consistent action
• Recognize the value of supportive relationships

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Ready to reconsider a goal they have postponed
• Clearer on the role of persistence in achievement
• More willing to ask for useful support
• Motivated to identify a concrete next action
• Focused on following through after the event

Keynote Programs

Mark’s presentations can be tailored around the following areas:

Possibility and Personal Achievement

Mark explores ambitious goals and the actions needed to pursue them. Ideal for company and professional audiences seeking renewed motivation.

Persistence and Entrepreneurial Thinking

Mark draws on his publishing journey to discuss responding to rejection and recognizing opportunities. Ideal for entrepreneurs and sales audiences.

The Power of Asking

Mark encourages audiences to examine the questions they ask and the support they seek. Ideal for teams working toward challenging goals.

Is Mark Victor Hansen Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the goals your audience is pursuing and the action you want the event to inspire. We can help select Mark’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.