Tom Koulopoulos: Keynote Speaker on AI, Future Trends & Innovation | Futurist | Founder of Delphi Group | Author of Gigatrends

Understand What's Next—Before It Changes Everything. How do you prepare your organization for a future being reshaped by AI, digital workers and technologies moving faster than ever before?

As Chairman and founder of Delphi Group, Tom has spent decades studying how disruptive technologies change organizations, industries and human behavior. His latest book, Gigatrends, explores the powerful forces shaping how we will live, work and compete throughout the 21st century.

Tom helps audiences look beyond today's headlines to understand what's coming next, why it matters and what leaders should be doing about it now.

Why Book Tom Koulopoulos?

Tom doesn't simply showcase futuristic technologies. He connects emerging technology directly to the decisions leaders need to make today.

His presentations explore AI, digital workers, changing demographics, frictionless commerce, autonomous technologies and other forces transforming business and society.

But Tom's message isn't that technology will determine the future. People will.

With a combination of research, provocative ideas, humor and compelling examples, Tom helps audiences understand disruption without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the opportunities hidden inside enormous change.

What Makes Tom Koulopoulos Different?

• Founder of Delphi Group — a Boston-based technology and futures think tank
• Author of 14 books — including Gigatrends, The Gen Z Effect and Cloud Surfing
• Deep AI expertise — explores AI's impact on work, business and human behavior
• Decades studying disruption — brings long-term perspective to today's technology changes
• Innovation authority — former Director of the Dell Innovation Lab
• Academic perspective — professor at Boston University
• Business experience — combines futurist thinking with real organizational insight
• Engaging delivery — makes complex technology understandable, relevant and entertaining

Why Is Tom Right for Your Audience?

Tom is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where technology is taking their industry and become more confident navigating what's next.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, association meetings, technology events, executive meetings and organizations navigating AI-driven transformation.

Book Tom when your audience needs to:

• Understand how AI will reshape business
• Prepare for humans and digital workers working together
• Anticipate major technological shifts
• Identify opportunities created by disruption
• Understand how emerging technologies change customer behavior
• Navigate generational changes in the workforce
• Challenge assumptions about the future
• Turn uncertainty into strategic opportunity

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared for the business impact of AI
• Understanding how digital workers may reshape the workplace
• More aware of the major trends influencing their industry
• Better able to separate meaningful technological change from hype
• Thinking differently about the relationship between humans and technology
• More confident navigating disruption and uncertainty
• Ready to identify opportunities created by emerging technologies

Tom Koulopoulos Keynote Programs.

Gigatrends: The Technologies Shaping Our Future. What forces will have the greatest impact on how we live, work and compete over the coming decades?

Drawing from Gigatrends, Tom takes audiences on a fast-paced exploration of the technological forces reshaping society and business.

From AI and digital workers to frictionless commerce, autonomous vehicles and changing generations, he helps leaders understand how seemingly separate trends are converging to create profound change.

More importantly, Tom explores what these shifts mean for your organization and the decisions leaders need to start making today.

Ideal for: Executive conferences, association meetings, strategy events and organizations preparing for long-term disruption.

The Future of Work: Humans + Digital Workers. What happens when your next colleague isn't human?

AI is rapidly changing what technology can accomplish, creating a workplace where people and increasingly capable digital workers will operate side by side.

Tom explores how this transformation will change jobs, organizations and leadership—and why the opportunity isn't simply to replace human work, but to raise the bar on what people can accomplish.

Audiences leave with a positive but realistic roadmap for navigating a workplace being transformed by AI.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, HR events, corporate meetings and organizations navigating AI transformation.

AI: Navigating the Next Great Business Transformation.  AI isn't simply another technology trend. It's changing how organizations think, decide and compete.

Tom cuts through the hype to help leaders understand where artificial intelligence is heading and what its rapid evolution could mean for their businesses.

He explores how organizations can use AI to reduce friction, improve decisions and unlock new opportunities while keeping human judgment, creativity and trust at the center.

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

Innovation in an Age of Constant Disruption. How do you innovate when the future refuses to slow down?

Tom challenges audiences to rethink traditional assumptions about innovation and recognize how rapidly changing technologies create entirely new possibilities.

He shows leaders how to become more comfortable with uncertainty, identify emerging opportunities and build organizations capable of adapting as technology and customer expectations evolve.

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

Why Book Tom Koulopoulos Through The Sweeney Agency?

Tom Koulopoulos combines deep technology expertise, futurist thinking and practical business insight—but the real value comes from connecting those trends directly to your industry and the decisions your audience needs to make.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Tom Koulopoulos's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Tom Koulopoulos keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and business challenges
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Tom with other leading AI, futurist and innovation keynote speakers

Is Tom Koulopoulos Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about what's coming next.

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

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

Dr. Daniel Kraft: Physician and Scientist | Healthcare Futurist | Speaker on Technology, Innovation and the Future of Medicine

Why Book Dr. Daniel Kraft?

Daniel brings developments from across the innovation landscape into one conversation. His presentations help leaders consider where technologies may intersect, what questions adoption raises, and how their organizations can prepare to evaluate new possibilities.

Why Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Audience?

Daniel is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, life sciences meetings, health technology events, and executive strategy programs. Consider him when an audience needs a broader view of innovation beyond its own specialty.

Book Daniel when your audience needs to:

• Understand developments across health technology
• Connect emerging tools with organizational questions
• Consider opportunities in connected care
• Evaluate assumptions about technology adoption
• Discuss the role of data and artificial intelligence
• Prepare for changes in healthcare delivery

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on technologies influencing healthcare
• Ready to ask more useful adoption questions
• More aware of connections across innovation areas
• Equipped to discuss opportunities within their organization
• Focused on a development worth investigating further

Keynote Programs

The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?

Daniel explores converging technologies and their potential implications for healthcare. Ideal for clinicians, industry leaders, and organizations planning for changes in care and health innovation.

Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the healthcare questions your audience faces and the innovations it needs to understand. We can help select Daniel’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.

Dr. Jessica Kriegel: Workplace Culture Researcher | Author of Surrender to Lead | Speaker on Leadership, Change and Accountability

Why Book Dr. Jessica Kriegel?

Jessica combines data, humor, and direct advice. Her keynotes help audiences examine what gets in the way of ownership, how to build alignment, and what leaders can do to create a culture that supports their goals.

Why Is Dr. Jessica Kriegel Right for Your Audience?

Jessica is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, executive retreats, and events focused on culture or transformation. She is especially relevant when an organization has a clear strategy but needs people across the business to understand it, own it, and act on it.

Book Jessica when your audience needs to:

• Connect culture with business results
• Build accountability without relying on pressure or micromanagement
• Lead people through change with greater clarity
• Align teams around shared goals and expectations
• Encourage ownership and follow-through at every level
• Reconsider assumptions about a multigenerational workforce

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the beliefs and behaviors that shape results
• Better equipped to create ownership rather than simply demand it
• Ready to identify cultural friction that slows change
• More aware of how to connect strategy to daily decisions
• Equipped with practical questions to bring back to their teams

Keynote Programs

Surrender to Lead: The New Leadership Paradigm for an Unpredictable World
Drawing on her book Surrender to Lead, Jessica challenges leaders to loosen their grip on control, face changing conditions, and take clearer action. Ideal for organizations navigating uncertainty and disruption.

Results-Based Leadership: The Framework for Turning Strategy Into Real Results
Jessica shows how beliefs influence actions and how those actions shape outcomes. She gives leaders a framework for strengthening clarity, alignment, and accountability. Ideal for leadership and strategy events.

Leading Change: The Change Activation Equation
Jessica explores the conditions that help change take hold across an organization. She offers a practical approach to building alignment and reducing the cultural friction that can slow transformation. Ideal for teams facing restructuring, technology adoption, or a strategic shift.

Ignite a Culture of Accountability
Jessica examines how leaders can inspire people to care about their work and take ownership of outcomes. She connects empathy, clear expectations, and shared purpose to stronger follow-through. Ideal for company and leadership audiences.

Is Dr. Jessica Kriegel Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the results you want to improve, and the behaviors that need to change. We can help select Jessica’s most relevant keynote, 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.

Kaihan Krippendorff: Keynote Speaker on Strategy, Innovation & AI | Founder of Outthinker | 6-Time Bestselling Author | Former McKinsey Consultant

What if your biggest competitive advantage is seeing opportunities your competitors haven't recognized yet?

Kaihan Krippendorff is a globally recognized strategist, bestselling author and highly sought-after keynote speaker on strategy, innovation, AI, disruption and the future of business.

As the founder of Outthinker, Kaihan works with senior leaders and strategists to understand the forces reshaping business and identify unconventional opportunities for growth. His message is both provocative and practical: don't simply react to disruption—learn how to create the future your competitors will have to respond to.

Why Book Kaihan Krippendorff?

Kaihan doesn't just tell audiences that disruption is coming. He gives them frameworks for deciding what to do about it.

Drawing from decades of research into strategy and innovation, conversations with hundreds of executives each year and his work with organizations around the world, Kaihan reveals how successful companies challenge assumptions, identify strategic options others overlook and move before competitors recognize the opportunity.

His presentations combine big-picture thinking with practical tools, giving audiences a way to turn emerging trends, AI and disruption into competitive advantage.

What Makes Kaihan Krippendorff Different?

• Founder of Outthinker — a global network of strategy, innovation, growth and transformation executives
• Former McKinsey consultant — combines rigorous strategic thinking with practical business application
• 6-time bestselling author — including Outthink the Competition, Driving Innovation from Within and Proximity
• Globally recognized management thinker — recognized by Thinkers50 and Global Gurus
• Deep AI and technology perspective — connects emerging technology directly to business strategy
• Proven strategic frameworks — gives audiences tools they can immediately put into practice
• Innovation from within — shows organizations how to unlock ideas from employees at every level
• Highly customized — connects trends and strategies directly to the client's industry and objectives

Why Is Kaihan Right for Your Audience?

Kaihan is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to think more strategically, recognize opportunities earlier and take action before competitors do.

He is particularly effective for executive conferences, leadership meetings, association events, strategy sessions, innovation summits and organizations navigating AI-driven disruption.

Book Kaihan when your audience needs to:

• Anticipate disruption rather than react to it
• Identify new opportunities for growth
• Challenge traditional industry assumptions
• Understand the strategic impact of AI
• Turn employees into everyday innovators
• Build greater organizational agility
• Create competitive advantages that are difficult to copy
• Translate strategy into action

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better equipped to identify opportunities competitors may overlook
• Understanding how emerging technologies could reshape their industry
• Able to challenge assumptions that limit strategic options
• Equipped with practical frameworks for strategic thinking
• More confident navigating disruption and uncertainty
• Better prepared to unlock innovation across their organization
• Ready to translate new ideas into action
• Energized to shape the future rather than wait for it

Kaihan Krippendorff Keynote Programs

Outthink the Competition. What if the best strategic option is the one your competitors haven't considered?

Kaihan gives audiences a proven framework for challenging assumptions, identifying overlooked strategic options and creating defensible competitive advantages.

Using his Outthinker IDEAS Process, he shows leaders how to think differently about markets, competitors and opportunities—and translate that thinking into action.

Ideal for: Executive conferences, leadership meetings, strategy events and organizations focused on growth and competitive advantage.

Driving Innovation from Within. What if your organization's next breakthrough idea is already inside the company?

Kaihan challenges the assumption that disruptive innovation primarily comes from startups and outsiders.

Using his IN-OVATE Framework, he shows organizations how to remove internal barriers, empower employees to think like intrapreneurs and turn promising ideas into measurable business results.

The goal is to make innovation part of the culture—not simply the responsibility of an innovation department.

Ideal for: Innovation summits, leadership conferences, transformation initiatives and organizations looking to accelerate innovation.

Winning with AI, Technology, and People. How do you capture the power of AI without overlooking the human capabilities that create real competitive advantage?

Kaihan explores how AI, automation and emerging technologies are reshaping how organizations work, make decisions and compete.

Rather than framing the future as humans versus technology, he shows leaders how to combine AI's capabilities with human creativity, judgment, contextual understanding and strategic thinking.

Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations navigating digital transformation.

Proximity Revolution. How will AI and emerging technologies change where, when and how value is created?

Drawing from his book Proximity, Kaihan helps leaders make sense of AI, machine learning, 3D printing, data, renewable energy, personalization and other forces transforming business.

He gives audiences a practical Proximity Roadmap for understanding these shifts, identifying opportunities and preparing their organizations for what's next.

Ideal for: Future-of-business conferences, association meetings, executive events and organizations facing significant technological disruption.

Why Book Kaihan Krippendorff Through The Sweeney Agency?

Kaihan Krippendorff combines strategic depth, emerging-technology insight and practical innovation tools—but the real value comes from connecting those ideas directly to your industry, competitive environment and business priorities.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Kaihan Krippendorff Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's changing in your industry—and where your organization needs to find its next competitive advantage.

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

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

Polly LaBarre: Management Thinker | Author | Speaker on Innovation, Reinvention and the Future of Work

Why Book Polly LaBarre?

Polly brings examples and questions that move the conversation beyond a general call for change. Her presentations encourage audiences to examine how work is organized and where a different approach could make experimentation and learning more possible.

Why Is Polly LaBarre Right for Your Audience?

Polly is a strong fit for executive retreats, innovation conferences, leadership meetings, and transformation programs. Consider her when an organization wants to rethink the practices behind its culture and performance.

Book Polly when your audience needs to:

• Question management habits that slow adaptation
• Give more people a voice in improvement
• Make experimentation part of everyday work
• Recognize barriers to employee initiative
• Approach reinvention with greater curiosity
• Translate change ambitions into organizational choices

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a practice worth reconsidering
• Ready to ask better questions about how work happens
• More aware of ideas beyond traditional hierarchies
• Equipped to identify a manageable experiment
• Focused on making adaptation a shared responsibility

Keynote Programs

Roll With Change

Polly explores approaches to reinvention and resilience. Ideal for leaders and teams responding to changing demands.

Leading in the New Work Order

Polly examines the organizational choices that shape how people contribute. Ideal for leadership audiences reconsidering management and workplace practices.

Is Polly LaBarre Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the organizational practices you want to rethink and the changes your leaders need to enable. We can help select Polly’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.

David Laibson: Harvard Economist | Behavioral Economics Researcher | Speaker on Decision-Making and Behavioral Finance

Why Book David Laibson?

David brings an academic perspective to questions that matter in financial services and organizational planning. His presentations help audiences consider how the timing, framing, and structure of a decision can influence what people actually do.

Why Is David Laibson Right for Your Audience?

David is a strong fit for financial services conferences, policy forums, investment industry events, and executive programs. Consider him when an audience needs a deeper understanding of the human behavior behind economic decisions.

Book David when your audience needs to:

• Recognize behavioral influences on financial choices
• Understand tensions between present and future priorities
• Question assumptions about rational decision-making
• Consider how choices are framed
• Improve discussions about household financial behavior
• Connect economic research with organizational questions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on key behavioral economics concepts
• Ready to examine a decision-making assumption
• More aware of the role of self-control and timing
• Equipped with questions about how choices are structured
• Focused on the human behavior behind financial outcomes

Keynote Programs

Presentations can be shaped around the following areas of his research:

Behavioral Finance

David examines how behavior influences financial choices. Ideal for financial professionals seeking a research-informed perspective on decision-making.

The Psychology and Economics of Household Investment Decisions

David explores the factors shaping household choices over time. Ideal for financial services, academic, and policy audiences.

Is David Laibson Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the financial behavior your audience wants to understand and the decisions it needs to examine. We can help select David’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.

Julia Landauer: Champion Racing Driver | Speaker on Competitive Advantage, Teamwork and Performance

Why Book Julia Landauer?

Julia connects experiences from racing with the challenges people face in business. Her message gives audiences a way to think about feedback, calculated risk, and the work required to keep improving in a competitive environment.

Why Is Julia Landauer Right for Your Audience?

Julia is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership meetings, technology conferences, and women’s leadership events. Consider her when an audience needs a fresh perspective on preparation and competitive performance.

Book Julia when your audience needs to:

• Prepare more deliberately for demanding situations
• Use feedback to improve performance
• Strengthen communication across a team
• Make thoughtful decisions under pressure
• Connect technical knowledge with human judgment
• Challenge assumptions about who can succeed

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the habits behind consistent performance
• Ready to act on a useful piece of feedback
• More aware of the team behind individual results
• Equipped to discuss risk and preparation
• Focused on a specific opportunity to improve

Keynote Programs

Drive: How to Gain and Maintain a Competitive Advantage

Julia connects racing experience with the discipline of staying competitive. Ideal for sales, leadership, and performance-focused audiences.

Marrying Passion and STEM

Julia explores the relationship between technical learning and personal ambition. Ideal for technology, education, and professional development events.

Is Julia Landauer Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the performance challenges your audience faces and the skills you want it to strengthen. We can help select Julia’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.

Dr. Janet Lapp: Keynote Speaker on Change, Leadership & Resilience | Psychologist | Author | Workplace Transformation Expert

Change Your Thinking. Change What's Possible: When change is constant, how do you keep people positive, adaptable and focused on moving forward?

Combining behavioral science, powerful storytelling, humor and practical strategies, Janet helps people rethink how they respond to uncertainty. Her high-energy presentations show audiences how to move beyond resistance, take ownership of their response and approach change with greater confidence and optimism.

Why Book Dr. Janet Lapp?

Janet understands that successful change isn't just about strategy. It's about people.

Even the best transformation plan can struggle when employees feel overwhelmed, uncertain or resistant to what's happening around them. Janet helps audiences understand the attitudes and behaviors that can hold them back—and what they can do differently.

Her presentations are positive, energetic and practical, giving audiences tools to shift their thinking, increase adaptability and become active participants in creating what's next.

What Makes Janet Lapp Different?

• Psychology-based approach — helps audiences understand the human response to change
• Change expertise — extensive experience helping organizations navigate transformation
• High-energy delivery — engaging, optimistic and entertaining on stage
• Immediately actionable — practical strategies audiences can use right away
• Personal accountability — encourages people to focus on what they can influence
• Broad audience appeal — relevant to leaders, managers and employees
• Global perspective — a message designed to connect across industries and cultures

Why Is Janet Right for Your Audience?

Janet is an excellent choice when your organization needs people to move beyond resistance, become more adaptable and take greater ownership of change.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, association events and organizations experiencing transformation, restructuring, growth or cultural change.

Book Janet when your audience needs to:

• Adapt more positively to organizational change
• Build resilience during uncertainty
• Move beyond negativity and resistance
• Take greater ownership of their response to change
• Maintain energy and performance during disruption
• Develop a more adaptable mindset
• Improve attitudes toward new initiatives
• See opportunities within changing circumstances

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to respond positively to change
• More aware of how mindset influences behavior and performance
• Equipped with practical strategies for navigating uncertainty
• Ready to focus energy on what they can control and influence
• More resilient when circumstances don't go according to plan
• Motivated to take greater personal responsibility
• Prepared to become active participants in organizational change

Dr. Janet Lapp Keynote Programs

Dancing With Tigers: How to Embrace Change and Thrive. Change can feel threatening—but it can also create extraordinary opportunities for growth.

Janet helps audiences understand why people resist change and how they can consciously choose a more productive response.

Using psychology, humor and practical strategies, she shows people how to move beyond fear and uncertainty, become more adaptable and approach changing circumstances with greater confidence.

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

The Psychology of Change: Organizations don't change until people do.

Janet explores the attitudes, behaviors and thought patterns that influence how individuals respond to disruption.

Audiences learn how to recognize unproductive reactions, shift their mindset and take greater ownership of their role in creating successful change.

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

Leading Positively Through Change: During uncertainty, people look to their leaders for more than information—they look for confidence, clarity and direction.

Janet gives leaders practical strategies for helping teams remain focused, optimistic and productive when circumstances are changing.

Leaders learn how their own attitudes and behaviors can influence engagement, resilience and the willingness of others to move forward.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development and organizations undergoing transformation.

Why Book Dr. Janet Lapp Through The Sweeney Agency?

Janet Lapp's combination of psychology, energy and practical change strategies makes her particularly effective for organizations navigating transformation—but the right fit depends on what your people are experiencing and what you need them to do differently.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Janet Lapp Right for Your Event?

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

We'll help you determine whether Janet 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. Janet Lapp as your keynote speaker.

Alvin Law: Author and Musician | Inspirational Speaker on Attitude, Accountability and Human Potential

Why Book Alvin Law?

Alvin combines storytelling and music with a challenge to examine attitude and ownership. His presentations recognize the influence of encouragement and support while asking people to consider the choices they can make within their own circumstances.

Why Is Alvin Law Right for Your Audience?

Alvin is a strong fit for employee gatherings, leadership conferences, education events, and association meetings. Consider him when an audience needs an engaging reminder of its capacity to contribute and grow.

Book Alvin when your audience needs to:

• Question limiting assumptions about themselves and others
• Take more ownership of daily choices
• Recognize the value of encouragement
• Respond to challenges with greater resourcefulness
• Appreciate different ways of contributing
• Connect positive intentions with visible action

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a belief they want to reconsider
• Ready to take responsibility for a next step
• More aware of the impact of labels
• Encouraged to recognize strengths in other people
• Focused on using the opportunities available to them

Keynote Programs

Step Into Your Greatness™

Alvin shares experiences that challenge assumptions about ability and potential. Ideal for broad audiences seeking inspiration grounded in attitude, support, and personal responsibility.

Is Alvin Law Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges your people face and the sense of possibility you want them to take away. We can help select Alvin’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.

ames Lawrence: The Iron Cowboy | Endurance Athlete | Speaker on Resilience, Commitment and Redefining Impossible

Why Book James Lawrence?

James makes the distance between a big aspiration and the next action tangible. His stories encourage people to consider their reasons for pursuing a goal, the systems supporting it, and how they will respond when progress feels slow.

Why Is James Lawrence Right for Your Audience?

James is a strong fit for sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, employee events, and performance programs. Consider him when an audience needs to connect ambitious goals with sustained effort and teamwork.

Book James when your audience needs to:

• Break large goals into manageable actions
• Clarify the purpose behind a commitment
• Prepare for setbacks more deliberately
• Recognize the role of support and teamwork
• Build consistency into daily routines
• Stay focused when progress takes time

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a goal worth committing to
• Ready to identify the next manageable action
• More aware of the support their goal requires
• Equipped to reconsider their preparation
• Motivated to approach setbacks with greater intention

Keynote Programs

Redefine Impossible

James draws on his endurance journey to explore commitment and resilience. Ideal for audiences pursuing demanding goals who need a memorable perspective on preparation, persistence, and the team behind achievement.

Is James Lawrence Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the goals your audience is pursuing and the commitments you want it to strengthen. 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.

Ryan Leak: Author of Chasing Failure | Leadership Advisor | Speaker on Growth, Accountability and Working with Others

Why Book Ryan Leak?

Ryan combines relatable stories with questions that invite action. His message gives leaders and teams a way to discuss improvement without waiting for perfect conditions or assuming that progress depends entirely on someone else changing.

Why Is Ryan Leak Right for Your Audience?

Ryan is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, employee events, and professional development programs. Consider him when people need encouragement to learn, take ownership, and work more constructively together.

Book Ryan when your audience needs to:

• Treat setbacks as opportunities to learn
• Take more responsibility for personal growth
• Ask better questions about performance
• Work more constructively with different personalities
• Act despite uncertainty about the outcome
• Connect improvement goals with daily behavior

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on an area they want to develop
• Ready to take a useful next step
• More aware of their contribution to working relationships
• Equipped with questions for self-reflection
• Focused on learning rather than avoiding every mistake

Keynote Programs

Chasing Failure

Ryan explores what people can discover when fear of failure stops directing every choice. Ideal for sales, innovation, and personal growth audiences.

Leveling Up

Ryan examines the questions and responsibilities behind development. Ideal for leadership and employee audiences seeking greater ownership of their progress.

How to Work with Complicated People

Ryan considers the challenges of working across different personalities. Ideal for teams seeking more constructive collaboration.

Is Ryan Leak Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the growth goals your audience faces and the working relationships you want to improve. We can help select Ryan’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.

Kim Lear: Founder of Inlay Insights | Generational Researcher | Speaker on the Future of Work and the Marketplace

Why Book Kim Lear?

Kim gives leaders a way to discuss differences across age groups without reducing people to labels. Her presentations help teams recognize the value of varied experience, improve relationships, and respond to changes in the workforce and marketplace.

Why Is Kim Lear Right for Your Audience?

Kim is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee events, sales meetings, and association gatherings. She is especially relevant when an organization needs to connect people across generations or understand how changing customers make decisions and build trust.

Book Kim when your audience needs to:

• Improve collaboration across career stages and generations
• Address assumptions that create friction at work
• Strengthen leadership of diverse teams
• Understand changing employee expectations
• Build experiences that resonate with different customers
• Prepare for demographic shifts in the workplace and marketplace

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to separate useful generational trends from stereotypes
• More aware of the different experiences people bring to a team
• Equipped with questions that improve communication across age groups
• Clearer on how customer expectations change across life stages
• Ready to adapt leadership and service to the people they serve

Keynote Programs

The Age of the Multigenerational Workforce
Kim explores how people at different career stages can contribute to stronger teams, and where misunderstandings can get in the way. Ideal for leaders seeking better collaboration and talent retention.

Building Standout Experiences for Every Generation
Kim examines how changing customer life stages and expectations affect trust, loyalty, and service. Ideal for sales, marketing, and customer experience audiences.

The Future of Work and the Marketplace
Kim connects demographic change to evolving workplace structures and consumer behavior. She helps audiences consider how to build more personal and relevant relationships as expectations shift. Ideal for executive and industry events.

Is Kim Lear Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the generational questions it faces, and what you want people to understand or do differently. We can help choose Kim’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.

Mike Lee: Leadership Speaker | Basketball Performance Coach | Speaker on Presence, Mindfulness and Leading Through Change

Why Book Mike Lee?

Mike’s message encourages audiences to examine their response to distraction and pressure. He brings mindfulness into a practical leadership conversation about listening, deliberate action, and the quality of connection people create with their teams.

Why Is Mike Lee Right for Your Audience?

Mike is a strong fit for leadership conferences, management meetings, employee events, and organizations navigating change. Consider him when leaders need to strengthen their attention and approach demanding moments more intentionally.

Book Mike when your audience needs to:

• Listen with greater attention
• Recognize habitual reactions under pressure
• Make more deliberate leadership choices
• Strengthen connection with colleagues
• Bring focus to important conversations
• Respond more thoughtfully to changing circumstances

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role of presence in leadership
• Ready to review a habit that divides their attention
• More aware of how they respond under pressure
• Equipped to approach a conversation more intentionally
• Focused on the people and decisions they can influence

Keynote Programs

The Power of Presence

Mike explores how presence can shape leadership, relationships, and performance. Ideal for managers and teams seeking a more focused, intentional approach to their work and the people around them.

Is Mike Lee Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the leadership situations your audience faces and the connection or focus you want it to strengthen. We can help select Mike’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Patrick Lencioni: Bestselling Author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Founder of The Table Group | Speaker on Teamwork and Organizational Health

Why Book Patrick Lencioni?

Patrick brings his ideas to the stage through stories, humor, and clear models. His keynotes give audiences a shared language for building trust, reducing confusion, and working together with greater purpose.

Why Is Patrick Lencioni Right for Your Audience?

Patrick is a strong fit for leadership conferences, executive retreats, company meetings, and events focused on culture or team performance. He is especially relevant when an organization has talented people but needs stronger alignment and healthier ways of working together.

Book Patrick when your audience needs to:

• Build more cohesive leadership and project teams
• Recognize behaviors that undermine trust and accountability
• Reduce politics, confusion, and silos
• Clarify what makes an organization healthy
• Identify and develop effective team players
• Make better use of people’s natural strengths at work

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to recognize the patterns that weaken teamwork
• Equipped with a common language for more honest team conversations
• Clearer on how leadership clarity shapes organizational health
• Ready to consider humility, hunger, and people smarts in team development
• More aware of how different kinds of work energize or frustrate people

Keynote Programs

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Drawing on his bestselling book, Patrick examines the behaviors that keep teams from building trust, handling conflict, committing to decisions, holding one another accountable, and focusing on results. Ideal for leaders and teams seeking stronger collaboration.

The Advantage
Patrick shows leaders how organizational health can reduce politics and confusion while improving clarity and cohesion. Ideal for executive and management audiences.

The Ideal Team Player
Patrick explores the three qualities he identifies in effective team players: humility, hunger, and people smarts. He connects the model to hiring, developing people, and building a more collaborative culture.

The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick introduces a framework for understanding the kinds of work that give people energy and those that cause frustration. He helps audiences consider how to combine different strengths across a team.

Is Patrick Lencioni Right for Your Event?

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

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Daniel Levine: Director of the Avant-Guide Institute | Trends Expert | Speaker on Consumer Expectations, Innovation and the Future of Business

Why Book Daniel Levine?

Daniel uses examples to make trends concrete. His presentations encourage teams to consider how a shift appearing elsewhere could affect their customers—and where responding to that shift might create a more distinctive experience.

Why Is Daniel Levine Right for Your Audience?

Daniel is a strong fit for industry conferences, customer experience meetings, sales events, and executive strategy programs. Consider him when an organization needs fresh perspectives on changing demand.

Book Daniel when your audience needs to:

• Spot relevant changes in consumer expectations
• Look beyond their industry for ideas
• Connect trends with business opportunities
• Question familiar assumptions about customers
• Consider how artificial intelligence may affect experiences
• Turn a broad trend into a useful business question

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on trends relevant to their audience
• Ready to investigate a development outside their industry
• More aware of shifting customer expectations
• Equipped with questions for evaluating an opportunity
• Focused on an idea worth exploring with their team

Keynote Programs

Tomorrow’s Trends and the Future of Almost Everything

Daniel connects developments across industries with opportunities for business. Ideal for executive and association audiences.

Trends With Benefits

Daniel examines how changing expectations can inform customer experiences. Ideal for sales, marketing, and service teams.

A.I., Myself, and I

Daniel considers artificial intelligence through a trends and business lens. Ideal for organizations exploring its implications for customers and work.

Is Daniel Levine Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customers you serve and the changes your organization wants to understand. We can help select Daniel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Charlene Li: Author of The Disruption Mindset | Founder of Altimeter | Speaker on AI Strategy, Leadership and Organizational Change

Why Book Charlene Li?

Charlene moves the AI conversation toward the choices executives need to make together. Her message encourages organizations to clarify priorities, align leadership, and consider how culture and execution affect the value of a technology strategy.

Why Is Charlene Li Right for Your Audience?

Charlene is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider her when an organization needs a shared direction for AI and the changes surrounding it.

Book Charlene when your audience needs to:

• Connect AI initiatives with business priorities
• Build alignment across executive teams
• Examine readiness for organizational change
• Clarify the leadership role in technology adoption
• Consider cultural barriers to execution
• Move from scattered initiatives toward a shared strategy

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the decisions an AI strategy requires
• Ready to question an adoption assumption
• More aware of the connection between culture and execution
• Equipped to discuss priorities across functions
• Focused on a next step toward organizational alignment

Keynote Programs

Winning With AI

Charlene explores how leaders can approach AI strategically. Ideal for executive teams connecting emerging capabilities with business direction.

Creating a Unified AI Strategy

Charlene examines alignment and the choices behind a coherent approach to AI. Ideal for organizations coordinating initiatives across functions.

Is Charlene Li Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the strategic questions your leaders face and the AI or organizational changes you want to address. We can help select Charlene’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Rob Lilwall: Adventurer and Author | Speaker on Resilience, Collaboration and Navigating Uncertainty

Why Book Rob Lilwall?

Rob brings those experiences into a business conversation about change. His presentations encourage people to distinguish between what they can prepare for and what they must learn along the way, while recognizing that progress often depends on help from others.

Why Is Rob Lilwall Right for Your Audience?

Rob is a strong fit for leadership meetings, employee events, sales conferences, and organizations navigating transition. Consider him when an audience needs an engaging perspective on unfamiliar challenges.

Book Rob when your audience needs to:

• Respond more flexibly when plans change
• Break a difficult journey into smaller steps
• Ask for support when it is needed
• Work more constructively with uncertainty
• Maintain perspective during setbacks
• Recognize opportunities in unfamiliar situations

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on a challenge they can approach differently
• Ready to take a manageable next step
• More aware of the value of collaboration
• Equipped to reconsider expectations about uncertainty
• Encouraged to remain curious when circumstances change

Keynote Programs

Presentations can be tailored around the following areas:

Thriving Through Change and Uncertainty

Rob draws on expedition experiences to explore adaptation. Ideal for teams working through changing conditions.

Perseverance and Achieving Great Goals

Rob connects long-distance adventure with sustained effort and support. Ideal for audiences pursuing demanding objectives.

Is Rob Lilwall Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes your audience is navigating and the goals it needs to keep moving toward. We can help select Rob’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Siri Lindley: World Champion Triathlete | Coach and Author | Speaker on Confidence, Resilience and Purpose

Why Book Siri Lindley?

Siri brings an energetic, personal approach to the conversation. Her message encourages people to consider what matters to them, how fear shapes their decisions, and who can support them as they work toward a meaningful goal.

Why Is Siri Lindley Right for Your Audience?

Siri is a strong fit for leadership conferences, employee gatherings, sales events, and women’s leadership programs. Consider her when an audience needs encouragement to act with greater purpose and self-belief.

Book Siri when your audience needs to:

• Clarify the purpose behind personal goals
• Recognize how fear influences decisions
• Build more supportive working relationships
• Approach setbacks with greater perspective
• Strengthen commitment to meaningful actions
• Make choices that reflect their values

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on what they want to move toward
• Ready to take a step they have postponed
• More aware of the support around them
• Encouraged to reconsider a limiting belief
• Focused on actions that express their priorities

Keynote Programs

Ready to Run?

Siri explores confidence, commitment, and pursuing a meaningful direction. Ideal for audiences seeking renewed motivation and purpose.

Unshakeable

Siri shares perspectives on navigating adversity and building resilience. Ideal for teams facing uncertainty or demanding change.

Is Siri Lindley Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenges your audience faces and the confidence or sense of purpose you want to strengthen. We can help select Siri’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.

Greg Lindsay: Futurist and Urbanist | Co-Author of Aerotropolis | Speaker on Cities, Mobility and the Future of Work

Why Book Greg Lindsay?

Greg connects developments that are often discussed separately. His presentations invite leaders to consider how changes in physical space, digital systems, and human behavior may interact—and what that could mean for their industry or community.

Why Is Greg Lindsay Right for Your Audience?

Greg is a strong fit for real estate conferences, mobility events, executive strategy meetings, and future-of-work programs. Consider him when an audience needs a wider view of connected changes.

Book Greg when your audience needs to:

• Connect technology trends with changes in place
• Reconsider assumptions about work and collaboration
• Understand developments in mobility and automation
• Explore how cities may evolve
• Think across industry boundaries
• Include multiple scenarios in long-term planning

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on connections among cities, technology, and work
• Ready to question a planning assumption
• More aware of developments beyond their sector
• Equipped with questions about future operating environments
• Focused on a scenario worth exploring further

Keynote Programs

The Way We’ll Live Next

Greg explores changes in how people inhabit and move through the world. Ideal for real estate, community, and business audiences.

Autonomous Everything

Greg considers automation and its implications for mobility and everyday systems. Ideal for technology and transportation events.

How to Work, Together

Greg examines collaboration and the changing organization of work. Ideal for leadership and workplace strategy programs.

Is Greg Lindsay Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the long-term changes your audience needs to understand and the assumptions it wants to test. We can help select Greg’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Josh Linkner: Entrepreneur and Investor | Author of Big Little Breakthroughs | Speaker on Creativity, Innovation and Resourcefulness

Why Book Josh Linkner?

Josh connects ambitious outcomes with smaller acts of experimentation. His message encourages teams to move beyond the assumption that innovation requires a rare genius or a dramatic invention, and to look for opportunities to improve what is already in front of them.

Why Is Josh Linkner Right for Your Audience?

Josh is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, innovation events, and company meetings. Consider him when an organization wants more people to contribute ideas and act resourcefully.

Book Josh when your audience needs to:

• Build greater confidence in creative thinking
• Look for small opportunities to improve
• Question familiar approaches to business problems
• Develop ideas through manageable experiments
• Use constraints as prompts for resourcefulness
• Make innovation part of everyday work

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on an opportunity for a small breakthrough
• Ready to question a familiar assumption
• More aware of their own capacity to contribute ideas
• Equipped to discuss a practical experiment
• Focused on turning creativity into useful action

Keynote Programs

Find A Way™

Josh explores resourcefulness and creative problem-solving. Ideal for teams facing obstacles that require a different approach.

Big Little Breakthroughs

Josh examines how smaller innovations can contribute to meaningful progress. Ideal for leadership and employee audiences seeking wider participation in improvement.

Is Josh Linkner Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the problems your audience needs to solve and the innovation habits you want to encourage. We can help select Josh’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.

Clint Pulver: Hall of Fame Speaker | Author of I Love It Here | Speaker on Employee Retention and Leadership

Why Book Clint Pulver?

Clint delivers that message with stories, humor, and a high-energy stage presence. His sessions show managers how mentorship, advocacy, and everyday interactions can shape an employee’s experience. For teams that need an interactive event, he can also bring music and drumming into the presentation.

Why Is Clint Pulver Right for Your Audience?

Clint is a strong fit for leadership conferences, manager meetings, sales kickoffs, and company events. He is especially valuable when an organization wants its leaders to improve engagement and its employees to feel more connected to their work and one another.

Book Clint when your audience needs to:

• Understand what encourages employees to stay
• Lead through mentorship and advocacy
• Strengthen trust across teams and generations
• Improve relationships with customers
• Rebuild energy and shared purpose
• Experience an interactive message they will remember

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More aware of the daily leadership moments that shape retention
• Ready to ask better questions about what team members need
• Equipped to make mentorship part of their management approach
• Clearer on how trust supports collaboration and loyalty
• Motivated to act on one way they can support someone else

Keynote Programs

I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave
Clint shares what he has learned from employees about the leadership that earns their commitment. Through stories and practical ideas, he helps managers move toward mentorship and create a workplace where people can grow and contribute. Ideal for leadership and employee engagement events.

Make Your Sales Soar
Clint helps sales professionals build stronger customer relationships by listening closely and guiding buyers through decisions. He explores how meaningful connection can support trust, referrals, and lasting loyalty. Ideal for sales meetings and client-facing teams.

United We Stand: How Trust and Unity Create Transformational Change
Clint combines a message about teamwork, accountability, and purpose with an interactive drumming experience. He gives audiences a shared way to explore what it takes to work together through challenges. Ideal for broad company gatherings and team events.

Is Clint Pulver Right for Your Event?

Tell us whether your priority is employee retention, sales relationships, or stronger team unity. We can help select Clint’s most relevant program, discuss the event format, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Doug Lipp: Former Head of Training at Disney University | Author of Disney U | Speaker on Culture and Customer Service

Why Book Doug Lipp?

Doug brings those lessons into the challenges other organizations face. Through stories and practical examples, he helps audiences examine how leaders reinforce culture, how teams deliver on a brand promise, and why continuous improvement matters long after a training session ends.

Why Is Doug Lipp Right for Your Audience?

Doug is a strong fit for leadership conferences, customer experience events, franchise meetings, and company gatherings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants its stated values to show up more reliably in everyday decisions and customer interactions.

Book Doug when your audience needs to:

• Build a culture that employees can understand and put into practice
• Improve consistency across customer touchpoints
• Connect employee development with service quality
• Reinforce values through leaders’ daily actions
• Encourage teamwork across roles and departments
• Learn from setbacks and keep improving

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the role leaders play in shaping culture
• Better able to connect training with on-the-job behavior
• Ready to identify gaps between a brand promise and the customer experience
• Equipped to recognize small opportunities to improve service
• Motivated to take ownership of the experience they create

Keynote Programs

Lessons from Disney U: The Wonderful World of an Enduring Brand
Doug draws on his Disney University experience to show how shared values, employee development, and leadership behavior can support a lasting brand. Ideal for broad leadership and company audiences.

Organizational Culture: It’s More Than a Coat of Paint
Doug examines what it takes to make culture visible in decisions and actions across an organization. Ideal for executives, managers, and teams working to strengthen engagement and performance.

The Magic of Exceptional Customer Service
Doug explores the practices behind a service culture that customers remember, with lessons organizations can adapt to their own people and operations. Ideal for customer experience, hospitality, retail, and franchise audiences.

Even Monkeys Fall from Trees: Learn from Mistakes and Embrace Change
Doug shows how teams can respond to setbacks, challenge established habits, and make room for new ideas. Ideal for organizations navigating change or seeking continuous improvement.

Is Doug Lipp Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the culture or customer experience you want to strengthen, and the actions you want people to take after the event. We can help choose Doug’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.

Carey Lohrenz: First Female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Fearless Leadership and Performance Under Pressure

Why Book Carey Lohrenz?

Carey turns those experiences into practical leadership ideas. She helps audiences focus on what they can control, make clear decisions, and build teams that can adapt when conditions change.

Why Is Carey Lohrenz Right for Your Audience?

Carey is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, executive meetings, and company events. She is especially relevant when teams face high expectations, rapid change, or so many demands that their most important work is getting lost.

Book Carey when your audience needs to:

• Perform more consistently under pressure
• Strengthen trust and communication across teams
• Focus on priorities within its control
• Make clearer decisions amid uncertainty
• Prepare, execute, and learn from results
• Lead with courage when plans change

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on how to turn pressure into focused action
• Ready to identify what deserves their time and attention
• Better equipped to communicate when the stakes are high
• More aware of the leadership behaviors that build trust
• Motivated to apply a repeatable approach to preparation and performance

Keynote Programs

High Performance Under Pressure™
Carey uses her Prepare–Perform–Prevail framework to help leaders create clarity, strengthen communication, and sustain execution when stakes are high. Ideal for sales kickoffs, annual meetings, and leadership conferences.

Fearless Leadership™
Carey explores how courage, tenacity, and integrity help leaders build trust and confidence through uncertainty. Ideal for leadership audiences seeking stronger commitment and clearer communication.

Span of Control™
Drawing on her bestselling book, Carey helps audiences sort competing demands and concentrate on what they can influence. Ideal for leaders and teams seeking better focus, prioritization, and execution.

Is Carey Lohrenz Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the pressure it faces, and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help select Carey’s most relevant keynote, 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.

Chaunté Lowe: Four-Time Olympian | American High Jump Record Holder | Speaker on Resilience and Overcoming Adversity

Why Book Chaunté Lowe?

Chaunté gives audiences a personal story they will remember and practical ways to think about resilience. She connects individual determination with the support people give one another when a team or community faces a challenge.

Why Is Chaunté Lowe Right for Your Audience?

Chaunté is a strong fit for company meetings, leadership conferences, team events, women’s programs, and health-related gatherings. She is especially valuable when an audience needs encouragement to face a difficult period and take purposeful steps forward.

Book Chaunté when your audience needs to:

• Rebuild confidence after setbacks
• Develop a more resilient response to change
• Strengthen collaboration and mutual support
• See obstacles as opportunities to learn and adapt
• Draw motivation from a story of athletic and personal perseverance
• Leave ready to act on an important goal

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Inspired by Chaunté’s journey through elite sport and serious illness
• Better able to identify a constructive next step after a setback
• More aware of the role support and community play in resilience
• Ready to approach challenges with greater confidence
• Motivated to keep pursuing meaningful goals when plans change

Keynote Programs

A Champion’s Mindset: From Adversity to Triumph
Chaunté draws on her journey as an Olympian and cancer survivor to explore how people can respond to obstacles and pursue growth. Ideal for broad conference and company audiences seeking inspiration with practical application.

Building Boundless Resilience™ for Teams
Chaunté focuses on the relationships, communication, and shared strength that help teams through difficult periods. Ideal for leadership conferences and team events where collaboration matters.

Resilient Leadership
Chaunté challenges leaders to respond to setbacks with perspective and help others move forward. Ideal for executive and management audiences navigating uncertainty or organizational change.

The Journey Forward: From Surviving to Thriving
Chaunté shares her experience with breast cancer and the role hope played in her journey. Ideal for health conferences, fundraising events, and communities supporting patients and survivors.

Is Chaunté Lowe Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the challenge it is facing, and what you want people to feel or do after the event. We can help select Chaunté’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.

Matthew Luhn: Former Pixar Story Artist | Storytelling Consultant | Speaker on Business Storytelling and Leadership

Why Book Matthew Luhn?

Matthew connects storytelling craft with business communication. His presentations help audiences consider whose experience a message centers on, what gives it emotional relevance, and how its structure can make the idea easier to follow.

Why Is Matthew Luhn Right for Your Audience?

Matthew is a strong fit for marketing conferences, sales meetings, leadership events, and customer experience programs. Consider him when strong expertise needs a clearer, more engaging way to reach people.

Book Matthew when your audience needs to:

• Make complex ideas easier to follow
• Connect messages with the audience’s experience
• Develop a clearer narrative structure
• Use stories more intentionally in presentations
• Communicate the significance of a business idea
• Examine leadership through character and action

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the elements of a useful story
• Ready to reconsider the structure of a message
• More aware of the audience’s perspective
• Equipped with questions for developing a narrative
• Focused on making their communication more memorable

Keynote Programs

Storytelling for Business

Matthew connects storytelling techniques with business messages. Ideal for marketing, sales, and leaders who need to communicate ideas more effectively.

Effective Leadership as Told by Movie Heroes

Matthew explores leadership through the choices and development of memorable characters. Ideal for management and leadership audiences.

Is Matthew Luhn Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the ideas your audience needs to communicate and the people those messages need to reach. We can help select Matthew’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.

Campbell Macpherson: Change Expert and Author | Speaker on Leadership, Influence and Making Change Work

Why Book Campbell Macpherson?

Campbell connects change plans with the conversations and leadership behaviors that bring them into everyday work. His message encourages organizations to consider where people need clarity, involvement, or support rather than treating agreement as evidence that a change is complete.

Why Is Campbell Macpherson Right for Your Audience?

Campbell is a strong fit for leadership conferences, transformation programs, executive meetings, and management events. Consider him when an organization needs people to engage with a new direction.

Book Campbell when your audience needs to:

• Explain the purpose behind organizational change
• Recognize concerns that affect participation
• Strengthen influence across working relationships
• Involve people in the transition
• Connect change plans with everyday behavior
• Clarify what leaders need to model

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the human demands of change
• Ready to review a conversation their team needs
• More aware of barriers to participation
• Equipped with questions for building commitment
• Focused on a practical step toward a new way of working

Keynote Programs

Change Is Inevitable. Successful Change Isn’t.

Campbell explores what makes change difficult and how leaders can support it. Ideal for organizations undertaking transformation.

Leading with Influence

Campbell examines how people create commitment beyond formal authority. Ideal for leaders working across teams, functions, and stakeholders.

Is Campbell Macpherson Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the change your organization is making and the leadership behaviors it needs to support. We can help select Campbell’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.

Rachel Mahoney (formerly Rachel DeAlto): Author of The Relatable Leader | Speaker on Communication and Human Connection

Why Book Rachel Mahoney?

Rachel makes connection tangible. Her presentations invite audiences to consider how they make others feel seen and heard, then give them ways to improve conversations with colleagues, customers, and the people they lead. Her keynotes can be shaped for leadership, sales, customer experience, or company-wide audiences.

Why Is Rachel Mahoney Right for Your Audience?

Rachel is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, customer experience events, association meetings, and gatherings focused on workplace culture. She is especially relevant when an organization wants to improve collaboration and engagement by changing how people communicate with one another.

Book Rachel when your audience needs to:

• Build trust across teams and departments
• Help people feel heard, valued, and included
• Communicate with greater clarity and empathy
• Strengthen relationships with customers and clients
• Reduce friction in everyday interactions
• Lead through connection while maintaining accountability

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• More aware of the behaviors that help people feel seen
• Equipped to build trust through everyday conversations
• Ready to listen and respond with greater intention
• Better able to connect across roles and perspectives
• Focused on one practical way to improve a working relationship

Keynote Programs

RELATABLE
Rachel shows how relatability can strengthen communication, trust, and influence. The keynote can be tailored for leaders building engaged teams, colleagues working across silos, or sales and customer experience professionals who need to understand the people they serve. Ideal for audiences seeking stronger relationships that support better results.

SEEN
Rachel explores what it means to acknowledge, include, and understand people at work. Through stories, reflection, and practical tools, she helps leaders and teams recognize when people feel overlooked and change the interactions that shape belonging and contribution. Ideal for culture, engagement, and leadership events.

Is Rachel Mahoney Right for Your Event?

Tell us which relationships your audience needs to strengthen and what you want people to do differently after the event. We can help choose Rachel’s most relevant keynote, 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.

Col. Nicole Malachowski: Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Resilience & High Performance | First Female Thunderbird Pilot | Combat Veteran | White House Fellow

Harness Headwinds. Lead Through Adversity.

What do exceptional leaders do when the unexpected changes everything?

Nicole brings audiences inside the cockpit and behind the scenes of an extraordinary career to reveal what it takes to lead under pressure, earn trust, adapt when circumstances change and keep moving forward when the original plan is no longer possible.

Why Book Nicole Malachowski?

Nicole has lived the leadership lessons she shares.

From becoming the first female Thunderbird pilot to serving as a White House Fellow and senior military leader, her career was built in environments where preparation, trust, teamwork and decision-making under pressure were essential.

Then an unexpected health challenge forced her to confront an entirely different kind of adversity.

Nicole turns these experiences into a compelling and highly relevant keynote that challenges audiences to rethink obstacles, embrace change and recognize that sometimes the headwinds standing in our way can ultimately help us rise.

What Makes Nicole Malachowski Different?

• Historic aviation career — the first woman selected to fly as a Thunderbird pilot
• Combat-tested leadership — real lessons from high-pressure environments where teamwork and trust matter
• Powerful resilience story — a deeply personal perspective on navigating unexpected adversity
• Senior leadership experience — brings lessons from the military, government and White House
• Authentic and relatable — combines extraordinary accomplishments with vulnerability and humanity
• Practical business relevance — connects her experiences directly to leadership, change and organizational performance
• Memorable storytelling — powerful aviation stories that stay with audiences long after the keynote

Why Is Nicole Right for Your Audience?

Nicole is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to lead confidently through uncertainty, respond constructively to adversity and understand what high-performance teamwork really requires.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, women's leadership events, association conferences and organizations navigating significant change.

Book Nicole when your audience needs to:

• Lead effectively through uncertainty and change
• Build resilience when circumstances don't go as planned
• Turn obstacles into opportunities for growth
• Strengthen trust and teamwork
• Perform confidently under pressure
• Challenge assumptions about what is possible
• Adapt quickly when the original plan changes
• Take greater ownership of their response to adversity

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to navigate unexpected challenges
• Understanding how trust strengthens high-performing teams
• More confident leading when circumstances are uncertain
• Ready to rethink their response to setbacks
• Equipped with practical lessons for adapting to change
• Inspired to challenge perceived limitations
• Motivated to turn their own “headwinds” into opportunities for growth

Nicole Malachowski Keynote Programs

Harnessing Headwinds: What if the forces working against you could actually help you rise?

Nicole uses the aviation concept of headwinds as a powerful metaphor for adversity, uncertainty and change.

Drawing from her extraordinary career and personal journey, she shows audiences how to recognize opportunities hidden inside difficult circumstances, adapt when the original flight plan no longer works and continue moving forward with purpose.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, corporate meetings, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating change.

The Mach 2 Mindset: High performance isn't simply about individual talent. It's about trust, preparation and commitment to the team.

Drawing on lessons from fighter aviation and the Thunderbirds, Nicole takes audiences inside one of the world's most demanding performance environments.

She explores how elite teams build trust, maintain high standards, communicate effectively and remain focused when the margin for error is small.

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

Leading Through Change and Adversity: Leadership matters most when the path forward isn't clear.

Nicole shares practical lessons from her experiences as a fighter pilot, senior military officer and leader navigating profound personal adversity.

Audiences discover how effective leaders maintain perspective, build trust and help their people move forward when circumstances change unexpectedly.

Ideal for: Executive meetings, leadership development, organizational transformation and resilience-focused events.

Why Book Nicole Malachowski Through The Sweeney Agency?

Nicole Malachowski has an extraordinary story—but the real value comes from connecting her experiences directly to the leadership, change and performance challenges your audience is facing.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Nicole Malachowski Right for Your Event?

Tell us the headwinds your organization or audience is facing.

We'll help you determine whether Nicole 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 Col. Nicole Malachowski as your keynote speaker.

Cam Marston: Generational Insights Expert | Author and Radio Host | Speaker on the Workplace and Marketplace

Why Book Cam Marston?

Cam combines data, stories, and humor in presentations tailored to the audience. He helps people recognize their own assumptions, ask better questions, and adjust their approach to the person in front of them.

Why Is Cam Marston Right for Your Audience?

Cam is a strong fit for leadership conferences, human resources events, sales meetings, and professional associations. He is especially relevant when an organization needs to improve communication across generations or respond to changing workforce and customer expectations.

Book Cam when your audience needs to:

• Lead teams that span several generations
• Improve recruiting, feedback, and retention
• Connect with customers of different ages and life stages
• Challenge assumptions that create workplace friction
• Adapt sales conversations to individual preferences
• Identify trends affecting its industry and workforce

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to discuss generational trends without relying on stereotypes
• Equipped with language they can use in management and customer conversations
• More aware of how their own preferences affect communication
• Ready to adjust feedback and support for different employees
• Clearer on which workplace or market shifts deserve their attention

Keynote Programs

Five Generations in the Workplace
Cam explores how generational experiences can shape expectations about work and leadership. He gives managers practical ways to build understanding and stronger working relationships. Ideal for leadership and human resources audiences.

Selling Across the Generations
Cam helps sales teams consider how customers differ in the ways they build trust, seek information, and communicate. Ideal for client-facing professionals and sales meetings.

What’s Working: Workplace and Marketplace Trends
Drawing on interviews and research, Cam examines trends relevant to a specific industry and what they may mean for employees and customers. Ideal for association and executive audiences seeking a tailored look ahead.

Gen Z at Work
Cam gives managers practical guidance for recruiting, coaching, giving feedback to, and retaining younger employees. Ideal for organizations developing their next generation of talent.

Is Cam Marston Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the people it needs to connect with, and the questions it has about changing expectations. We can help select Cam’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.

Michael Maslansky: Language Strategist | Co-Author of The Language of Trust | Speaker on Persuasion, Trust and Effective Communication

Why Book Michael Maslansky?

Michael brings the conversation toward the words businesses choose and the assumptions behind them. His message encourages leaders to listen before trying to persuade, consider the audience’s concerns, and communicate in ways that make their position easier to understand.

Why Is Michael Maslansky Right for Your Audience?

Michael is a strong fit for leadership meetings, sales conferences, financial services events, and communications programs. Consider him when an organization needs clearer language for sensitive or complex messages.

Book Michael when your audience needs to:

• Understand how audiences interpret their words
• Recognize language that can increase skepticism
• Explain complex ideas more clearly
• Listen for concerns behind objections
• Build a more credible communication approach
• Reconsider assumptions about persuasion

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the gap between intention and interpretation
• Ready to review a message from the audience’s perspective
• More aware of language that may weaken trust
• Equipped with questions for refining communication
• Focused on explaining a position more effectively

Keynote Programs

Presentations can focus on the following areas:

The Language of Trust

Michael explores communication with skeptical audiences. Ideal for organizations whose messages depend on clarity and credibility.

Persuasion

Michael examines how people respond to arguments and the language used to present them. Ideal for sales, leadership, and communications audiences.

Is Michael Maslansky Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the messages your audience needs to communicate and the trust or understanding it wants to build. We can help select Michael’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.