When the Room Is Already Full By the time most audiences sit down for the keynote, they have heard every update. They know the numbers. They sat through the strategy deck and the reforecast. Whether it is a leadership retreat, a sales kickoff, an annual meeting, or the closing session of a conference or corporate…
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Planners stopped asking for a motivational lift. Here is what they want from an employee engagement keynote speaker now, and how to tell who delivers it.
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Two of the highest-pressure industries in the country keep booking the same leadership vitality keynote speaker. Here is why Sara Ross is the go-to for healthcare and financial services conferences.
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The planners who end up with the best keynote speakers are not necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets. They are the ones who move early. Every year I watch two types of event planners work through the same process. The first group reaches out in July or August. They have time to talk through…
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There are a lot of resilience speakers in the world. Some have frameworks. Some have research. Some have compelling slides. A smaller number have a story that actually happened to them. And when you put one of those speakers in front of an audience that has faced real pressure, something different happens in the room.…
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Five Speakers Built for Association Audiences (And the Annual Conferences That Need Them) If you plan association conferences for a living, you already know what it feels like to walk into a venue and realize the keynote speaker has no idea who they are talking to. They are funny, or they are smart, or they…
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Here’s something I’ve noticed after years of matching speakers to events: the culture keynotes that actually change something share one thing in common. The audience doesn’t just hear the message. They feel it happen in real time. There’s a big difference between a keynote that explains how connection works and one that creates a moment…
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If you’ve ever booked a keynote speaker and walked away thinking “that was fine, but people will forget it by Thursday,” you know the gap. Information lands. Impact sticks. Finding someone who consistently delivers the latter is genuinely rare. Justin Jones-Fosu is one of those speakers. Justin is the CEO of Work. Meaningful., an international…
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Why the Burnout Conversation Has Changed (And What Burnout Keynote Speakers Are Doing About It) If you have been booking burnout keynote speakers for the last five years, you have probably noticed that the conversation does not sound the same as it used to. For a long time, the standard burnout keynote was a list…
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