Simon Anderson: Futurist | Applied Foresight Expert | Founder of Venture Foresight

Be Ready for What Comes Next

Simon Anderson helps organizations answer that question. He makes emerging trends and technology understandable and gives leaders a practical way to prepare for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Why Book Simon Anderson?

Simon helps audiences turn uncertainty into better decisions. His Future Ready Framework™ organizes foresight into three actions: Attention, Anticipation, and Action. It gives leaders a way to recognize meaningful signals, consider what they could mean, and decide what to do next.

His presentations connect broad change to the choices facing a specific organization or industry.

What Makes Simon Different?

• A practical foresight framework leaders can use in their next meeting
• Clear explanations of AI, technology, and emerging change
• A focus on early signals and decisions leaders can make now
• Industry-specific examples that connect trends to the audience’s work
• Tools for questioning assumptions and acting before change becomes urgent

Why Is Simon Right for Your Audience?

Simon is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, strategy sessions, and leadership teams facing rapid change. He is especially valuable when people know their sector is shifting but need a shared way to separate significant developments from noise.

Book Simon when your audience needs to:

• Spot changes that could affect its industry
• Understand what AI and emerging technology could mean for its work
• Challenge assumptions built for a different environment
• Balance improving today’s business with preparing for tomorrow’s
• Turn trend discussions into decisions and experiments
• Build a more proactive approach to change

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Equipped to use Attention, Anticipation, and Action as a planning framework
• Better able to distinguish meaningful signals from passing noise
• Ready to examine assumptions that may be limiting their options
• Clearer about emerging opportunities and potential challenges
• Motivated to take practical steps toward a more future-ready organization

Keynote Programs

Beyond Resilient: How to Be Future Ready® in an Age of Constant Change

Simon introduces his Future Ready Framework™ and shows leaders how to notice important shifts, think through their implications, and act early. Ideal for leadership and strategy events where change is a central concern.

The Future Is Here. Now What?

AI attracts attention, but it is one of several technologies changing how organizations work. Simon helps audiences decide which developments deserve attention, what they could mean for their industry, and when to act.

Leading into the Future of Your Industry

In this customized keynote, Simon examines the trends reshaping the audience’s sector and applies his framework to potential opportunities. Ideal for industry associations, client events, and executive teams looking for relevant foresight.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about your industry, your priorities, and the decisions your leaders need to make. We’ll help you identify the most relevant Simon Anderson program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.

Is Simon Right for Your Event?

Tell us what is changing around your organization and what you want your audience to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Simon’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Nikolas Badminton: Futurist | Chief Futurist and Hope Engineer™ | Author of Facing Our Futures

Help Your Audience Imagine—and Prepare for—What Comes Next

Nikolas Badminton helps organizations do that work. A futurist and executive advisor, he connects emerging technology and global change to the questions leaders need to ask about their own industry. The Sweeney Agency

Why Book Nikolas Badminton?

Nikolas makes the future a useful strategic conversation. Drawing on his work with organizations and his book Facing Our Futures, he challenges audiences to examine emerging signals, prepare for risks, and see opportunities they may otherwise miss.

His presentations can open a broad conversation about an industry’s future or focus on AI, energy, or geopolitical technology.

What Makes Nikolas Different?

• Experience advising leaders on futures thinking and strategic foresight
• An energetic approach that makes large-scale change relevant to the audience
• The ability to connect technology, industry shifts, and wider global forces
• A focus on imagining desirable futures as well as anticipating risks
• Topics that can be tailored to a sector’s most pressing questions

Why Is Nikolas Right for Your Audience?

Nikolas is a strong fit for executive conferences, industry associations, strategy meetings, and organizations confronting significant technological or market change. He is particularly valuable when leaders need to step back from immediate demands and consider the choices that will shape their future.

Book Nikolas when your audience needs to:

• See beyond short-term trends and current assumptions
• Explore possible futures for its industry
• Understand the implications of AI and emerging technology
• Anticipate risks and opportunities earlier
• Build a bolder shared vision
• Turn curiosity about the future into strategic discussion

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better able to recognize signals of meaningful change
• Ready to ask stronger questions about possible futures
• Clearer on how technology and global shifts may affect their sector
• More confident discussing opportunities alongside risks
• Motivated to bring foresight into today’s decisions

Keynote Programs

Facing Our Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

Nikolas helps audiences explore the megatrends and emerging technologies that could reshape their industry. He encourages a shift from accepting today’s assumptions to asking what could be possible.

The A.I. Leader: Create Incredible Productivity, Profit & Growth

Nikolas explores how AI could change work, capabilities, and business models—and what leaders should consider as they prepare their organizations.

Energy Transitions: Explore Renewable Energy Futures

Nikolas examines how changes in energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption could create new opportunities and challenges.

Geopolitical Technology Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

Nikolas considers how AI, critical resources, supply chains, and other technologies could reshape global competition and strategic planning. The Sweeney Agency

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

Tell us about your industry, the forces you are watching, and the choices your leaders face. We’ll help you identify the most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Nikolas’s availability and current fee.

Is Nikolas Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the changes it needs to understand, and the conversation you want the event to start. We’ll help you assess Nikolas’s fit and plan the next step.

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

Chris Barton: Keynote Speaker on Innovation, AI & Disruptive Thinking | Founder & First CEO of Shazam | Inventor | Tech Entrepreneur

Bring Impossible Ideas to Life. What if the idea everyone says is impossible is actually your biggest opportunity?

When Chris conceived the idea for Shazam, experts told him it couldn't be done. He refused to accept the assumptions defining what was possible. The result became one of the world's most recognizable technology platforms, with more than 2 billion downloads before being acquired by Apple.

Today, Chris shows organizations how to challenge conventional thinking, break through barriers and turn seemingly impossible ideas into reality.

Why Book Chris Barton?

Chris doesn't simply talk about innovation. He built something the experts said couldn't be built.

Shazam was conceived before smartphones and app stores existed. Creating it required Chris and his team to solve enormous technological, commercial and operational challenges while repeatedly finding ways around obstacles that could have ended the company.

Those experiences shaped Chris's “Start from Zero” approach to innovation—a way of challenging assumptions and returning to basic truths instead of automatically accepting how things have always been done.

His keynote combines a remarkable entrepreneurial story with practical thinking audiences can use to challenge the status quo and create breakthrough ideas of their own.

What Makes Chris Barton Different?

• Founder & first CEO of Shazam — created one of the world's most recognizable technology platforms
• AI pioneer — Shazam was an early mass-consumer application of artificial intelligence
• 2+ billion downloads — transformed an impossible-sounding idea into a global product
• Apple acquisition — Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018
• 12 patents — inventor across Shazam, Google and Dropbox
• Google experience — was Google's first employee focused on mobile partnerships
• Dropbox experience — joined when it was still a rapidly growing startup
• Start from Zero thinking — gives audiences a practical framework for challenging assumptions
• Creative Persistence — demonstrates how imagination and tenacity combine to overcome barriers

Why Is Chris Right for Your Audience?

Chris is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to challenge conventional thinking, become more innovative and stop allowing assumptions to determine what's possible.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI and technology events, innovation summits, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating disruption.

Book Chris when your audience needs to:

• Challenge assumptions and conventional thinking
• Generate more innovative ideas
• Understand the possibilities created by AI and technology
• Turn ambitious ideas into action
• Overcome barriers without compromising the original vision
• Develop greater creative persistence
• Eliminate friction for customers and employees
• Become more comfortable pursuing ideas others don't immediately understand

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Thinking differently about what is possible
• Better equipped to challenge assumptions
• Understanding how first-principles thinking can unlock innovation
• More willing to pursue unconventional ideas
• Better prepared to creatively overcome obstacles
• Recognizing how unnecessary friction limits growth
• Inspired to combine persistence with imagination
• Ready to bring their own “impossible” ideas to life

Chris Barton Keynote Programs

Bring Impossible Ideas to Life. How do you create something that experts insist can't be done?

Technology and AI are rapidly changing the boundaries of what's possible. Chris takes audiences inside the remarkable creation of Shazam and the challenges involved in developing an idea years ahead of the technology ecosystem required to support it.

He shows audiences how questioning assumptions, thinking from basic truths and approaching obstacles differently can unlock entirely new possibilities.

Ideal for: AI conferences, innovation summits, leadership meetings and organizations pursuing breakthrough ideas.

Overcome Obstacles with Imagination. Persistence matters—but simply trying the same thing harder isn't enough.

Chris calls his approach Creative Persistence: combining determination with the imagination required to find another path when the obvious route is blocked.

Using extraordinary stories from Shazam's journey, he shows audiences how to challenge barriers, question conventional solutions and keep moving toward ambitious goals.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, entrepreneurial events and organizations navigating difficult challenges.

Eliminate Effort to Unlock Explosive Growth. Where is unnecessary friction making it harder for customers, employees or partners to say yes?

Shazam succeeded by making something incredibly complex feel effortless: hear a song, press a button and discover what it is.

Drawing on his experiences with Shazam, Google and Dropbox, Chris shows audiences how identifying and removing friction can create dramatically better customer and employee experiences.

Ideal for: Customer experience, sales, innovation, technology and growth-focused events.

Build the Vision You See, But Others Don't. What do you see that others can't see yet?

Breakthrough ideas often face resistance precisely because they're unfamiliar.

Chris shares the entrepreneurial lessons behind transforming Shazam from an idea many considered impossible into a product used by billions of people.

He challenges entrepreneurs and innovators to strengthen their conviction, prioritize what matters and find creative ways to turn vision into reality.

Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, founders, innovation teams and organizations building new products or businesses.

Why Book Chris Barton Through The Sweeney Agency?

Chris Barton combines an extraordinary entrepreneurial success story with practical frameworks for innovation, AI and breakthrough thinking—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons to the barriers and opportunities facing your organization.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Chris Barton's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Chris Barton keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and event objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Chris with other leading innovation, AI and technology keynote speakers

Is Chris Barton Right for Your Event?

Tell us the impossible idea, stubborn barrier or innovation challenge your organization is facing.

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

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

Daniel Burrus: Futurist | Author of The Anticipatory Organization | Speaker on AI, Innovation and Strategic Foresight

Why Book Daniel Burrus?

His approach distinguishes Hard Trends, based on developments he considers predictable, from Soft Trends that can still be influenced. Daniel applies this thinking to AI, innovation and business transformation, helping teams discuss what they can prepare for and where they can act.

Why Is Daniel Burrus Right for Your Audience?

Daniel is a strong fit for executive meetings, strategy conferences, technology events and leadership programs. Consider him when an organization needs a practical conversation about future opportunities and how to prioritize action.

Book Daniel when your audience needs to:

• Identify trends relevant to their business
• Distinguish predictable developments from changeable assumptions
• Explore the business implications of AI
• Anticipate problems before they become urgent
• Find opportunities within industry disruption
• Connect future thinking with present decisions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Familiar with the Hard Trend and Soft Trend framework
• Better prepared to question assumptions in strategic plans
• Clearer on opportunities created by technological change
• Ready to discuss AI alongside human capabilities
• Equipped with a more anticipatory approach to innovation

Keynote Programs

Know What’s Next: Leveraging the New Science of Certainty
Daniel introduces his approach to identifying predictable change and using it to inform action. Ideal for executive and strategy audiences.

The Anticipatory Mindset: Leading with Certainty in Uncertain Times
Daniel explores how leaders can prepare for emerging challenges and opportunities. Ideal for organizations seeking to improve foresight and innovation.

Mastering AI’s Future Today
Daniel examines the intersection of AI and human ingenuity and its implications for business. Ideal for technology, transformation and leadership events.

Is Daniel Burrus Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your industry, your strategic priorities and the changes your leaders need 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.

Andrew Busch: Economic Futurist | Former Chief Market Intelligence Officer at the CFTC | Speaker on the Economy, AI and Growth Opportunities

Why Book Andrew Busch?

Andy combines that experience with a background in financial markets and public policy, including his role as Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist at BMO. His presentations explore how technology, policy and demographic change influence business opportunities. He researches each audience’s industry to make the discussion relevant to its challenges and plans.

Why Is Andrew Busch Right for Your Audience?

Andy is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, financial services events and association gatherings. He is especially useful when leaders need to understand how economic and policy shifts could affect demand, investment, supply chains or workforce decisions.

Book Andy when your audience needs to:

• Understand the forces shaping the economic outlook
• Connect policy changes with business implications
• Explore how AI could reshape its industry
• Identify potential growth opportunities amid uncertainty
• Consider the effects of geopolitical and supply chain changes
• Bring a broader perspective to strategic planning

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on economic trends relevant to their industry
• Better able to connect government policy with business conditions
• More aware of how AI is changing markets and work
• Equipped with a framework for discussing risks and opportunities
• Ready to ask better questions about future growth

Keynote Programs

Future Economy: Growth Opportunities
Andy connects the economic outlook with public policy, technology and demographic trends. Using research and an industry-specific case study, he helps audiences consider where growth opportunities may emerge. Ideal for executive, financial services and industry audiences.

AI Unleashed: Disrupting the Economy and Shaping the Future
Andy explores AI’s implications for economic growth, jobs, business models and policy. Ideal for leaders who want to understand how technological change could affect their markets and plans.

Geopolitics=Economy: Opportunities to Grow!
Andy examines how conflicts, tariffs and shifting alliances affect trade, supply chains and economic decisions. Ideal for organizations assessing international exposure and opportunities in a changing business environment.

Is Andrew Busch Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the economic questions it faces and the decisions you want the session to inform. We can help select Andy’s most relevant program, discuss industry-specific research and customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Adam Cheyer: Co-Founder of Siri and Viv Labs | AI Pioneer | Speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Why Book Adam Cheyer?

Adam connects that experience with the questions leaders face today: what conversational AI can do, how it could change customer interactions and where to look for meaningful opportunities. His storytelling makes complex developments accessible, and his background as an award-winning magician can add a memorable element to the presentation. bigspeak.com

Why Is Adam Cheyer Right for Your Audience?

Adam is a strong fit for executive conferences, technology events, innovation meetings and entrepreneurship programs. He is especially valuable when an audience wants a clearer understanding of AI alongside lessons from building and commercializing new products.

Book Adam when your audience needs to:

• Understand the capabilities and limitations of conversational AI
• Explore how AI could change customer and employee experiences
• Connect emerging technology with real business needs
• Learn how an idea becomes a product and a company
• Think more creatively about future opportunities
• Ask better questions about innovation and execution

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the evolution and business implications of AI
• Better prepared to discuss conversational AI opportunities
• More aware of the decisions involved in bringing ideas to market
• Equipped with lessons from Adam’s entrepreneurial experience
• Inspired to connect ambitious thinking with practical action

Keynote Programs

ChatGPT and the Rise of Conversational AI
Adam examines what conversational AI can and cannot do, and its implications for how businesses work. Ideal for leaders and employees seeking an accessible introduction to generative AI.

The Future of AI and Businesses
Adam explores developments in AI and how organizations can prepare for continuing change. Ideal for executive, technology and strategy audiences.

“Hey Siri”: A Founding Story
Adam takes audiences inside Siri’s journey from an idea to Apple’s acquisition and its introduction on the iPhone. Ideal for audiences interested in innovation, product development and entrepreneurship.

How to Build a Successful Startup: Lessons from the Founder of Siri, Inc.
Adam shares lessons on timing, goals and moving from an idea to execution. Ideal for entrepreneurs, innovation teams and leaders developing new ventures. WWSG

Is Adam Cheyer Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the AI questions it needs answered and the innovation goals you want to advance. We can help select Adam’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.

Leroy Chiao: Former NASA Astronaut | International Space Station Commander | Speaker on Leadership, Teamwork and Innovation

Why Book Leroy Chiao?

His stories and photographs make those experiences tangible. Leroy connects the excitement of exploration with questions that matter to business: how to prevent complacency, maintain operational discipline and encourage people to find better solutions.

Why Is Leroy Chiao Right for Your Audience?

Leroy is a strong fit for leadership conferences, company meetings, engineering events and innovation programs. Consider him when you want an inspiring story that also opens a practical conversation about team performance and responsibility.

Book Leroy when your audience needs to:

• Recognize complacency before it becomes a problem
• Improve preparation for high-pressure decisions
• Strengthen collaboration across different backgrounds
• Balance innovation with operational discipline
• Maintain perspective during uncertainty
• Connect ambitious goals with everyday execution

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• More aware of how complacency affects performance
• Ready to examine their approach to preparation
• Clearer on the importance of shared responsibility
• Equipped with leadership lessons from spaceflight
• Inspired to approach ambitious goals with curiosity and discipline

Keynote Programs

To the Stars! – Leaving Complacency Behind
Leroy uses spaceflight stories and organizational examples to examine the causes and consequences of complacency. Ideal for teams that want to maintain high standards.

Leadership and Operational Decision Making – Fundamentals from Spaceflight
Leroy explores preparation, perspective and responsibility when the stakes are high. Ideal for executive, operations and leadership audiences.

View from the On-High: Adventures of a Professional Astronaut
Leroy shares the experience of spaceflight through personal stories and photographs of Earth. Ideal for events seeking an entertaining and inspiring perspective.

Is Leroy Chiao Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the standards you want to reinforce and the leadership challenges it faces. We can help discuss the most relevant program, customization and Leroy’s availability and fee.

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

Dan Chuparkoff: CEO of Reinvention Labs | Former Technology Leader at Google, McKinsey and Atlassian | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work

Why Book Dan Chuparkoff?

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience at Google, McKinsey and Atlassian, Dan brings the perspective of someone who has built products and led teams through technological change. Now CEO of Reinvention Labs, he helps organizations connect emerging capabilities to the tasks, decisions and challenges their people face every day.

Why Is Dan Chuparkoff Right for Your Audience?

Dan is a strong fit for leadership meetings, industry conferences, association events and company gatherings focused on AI adoption and innovation. His presentations can meet audiences at different levels of technical understanding, making him particularly relevant when teams need a shared foundation for moving forward.

Book Dan when your audience needs to:

• Understand AI in clear, practical terms
• Identify useful applications in its industry
• Combine AI capabilities with human knowledge and judgment
• Build confidence in learning new technologies
• Rethink how teams collaborate and solve problems
• Turn interest in AI into practical next steps

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on AI’s strengths and limitations
• Better able to recognize opportunities in their everyday work
• More aware of the role of human expertise in using AI effectively
• Equipped with ideas for improving productivity and collaboration
• Ready to approach technological change with curiosity and purpose

Keynote Programs

AI & the Future of Everything
Dan’s signature keynote explains how AI is changing work and how teams can respond. He explores its capabilities and limitations, helping audiences connect new technology with their own experience and expertise. Ideal for organizations seeking a practical introduction to AI and its business implications.

Dan customizes this program to the audience’s industry, technical readiness and priorities. For nontechnical audiences, he provides an accessible starting point; for technology teams, he explores new possibilities for applying AI. Industry examples help participants connect the presentation to their own work.

Is Dan Chuparkoff Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, its experience with AI and the changes you want people to make after the event. We can help shape a relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Dan’s availability and fee.

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

Pam Didner: B2B Marketing and AI Strategist | Author | Speaker on Sales Alignment and Practical AI Adoption

Why Book Pam Didner?

Pam makes complicated topics approachable by focusing on workflows, customer needs, and the handoffs between teams. Her presentations encourage audiences to evaluate where AI can help, what requires human judgment, and how to move from access to useful adoption.

Why Is Pam Didner Right for Your Audience?

Pam is a strong fit for B2B marketing conferences, sales kickoffs, leadership meetings, and AI adoption events. Consider her when your organization wants specific discussion of how technology fits into existing work and shared revenue priorities.

Book Pam when your audience needs to:

• Identify useful AI applications in everyday workflows
• Strengthen collaboration between sales and marketing
• Connect marketing plans with practical execution
• Clarify ownership at customer handoff points
• Keep human judgment involved in AI-supported work
• Choose a manageable starting point for adoption

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to assess recurring tasks for AI support
• Clearer on where team alignment needs attention
• Ready to discuss shared workflows and expectations
• More aware of the need to review AI outputs
• Equipped to choose a practical first adoption project

Keynote Programs

The AI Is Paid For. The Busywork Is Still Here.

Pam examines the gap between buying AI tools and using them effectively. Ideal for teams seeking a practical approach to adoption.

One Pipeline, Zero Finger-Pointing: Using AI to Get Sales and Marketing Working as One Team

Pam explores shared definitions, data, and handoffs. Ideal for sales, marketing, and revenue leadership audiences.

You Can’t Delegate Judgment: Leading a Team That Runs on AI

Pam addresses leadership responsibilities when teams use AI, including review standards and decision ownership. Ideal for executives and managers.

Is Pam Didner Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, your sales and marketing priorities and the work you want AI to help your teams improve. We can help select Pam’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.

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.

Robert Herjavec: Entrepreneur and Investor | Shark Tank Personality | Speaker on Business Growth, Sales and Entrepreneurship

Why Book Robert Herjavec?

Robert shares lessons about taking opportunities seriously, communicating business value, and continuing to move forward through setbacks. His experience gives audiences a familiar entry point into a substantive discussion about the choices behind entrepreneurial success.

Why Is Robert Herjavec Right for Your Audience?

Robert is a strong fit for entrepreneur conferences, sales kickoffs, leadership events, and client gatherings. Consider him when your audience wants business insight alongside a recognizable speaker who can bring energy to the conversation.

Book Robert when your audience needs to:

• Communicate the value of a business or idea
• Take greater ownership of growth opportunities
• Recognize the importance of customer needs
• Approach setbacks with greater persistence
• Stay engaged as technology changes
• Connect ambition with daily execution

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Ready to examine how they explain their value
• More aware of the discipline behind business growth
• Clearer on the role of customers in entrepreneurial decisions
• Motivated to pursue a meaningful opportunity
• Focused on a practical action that supports progress

Keynote Programs

Fast, Forward, and Focused

Robert explores technological change and the opportunities and risks it creates for business. Ideal for leaders and organizations adapting to a fast-moving market.

The Will to Win

Robert shares lessons about ambition, persistence, and taking responsibility for the future. Ideal for sales, entrepreneur, and broad business audiences.

Is Robert Herjavec Right for Your Event?

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

Andrea Iorio: Author of Between You and AI | Business Transformation Speaker | Speaker on AI, Leadership and Customer Experience

Why Book Andrea Iorio?

Andrea’s presentations move the discussion from general excitement about AI to questions about application. He encourages leaders to examine where technology can support their goals, what still requires human judgment, and how their teams can adapt together.

Why Is Andrea Iorio Right for Your Audience?

Andrea is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider him when your audience needs to connect AI adoption with clearer business priorities and the development of its people.

Book Andrea when your audience needs to:

• Connect AI opportunities with business goals
• Reconsider leadership habits as technology changes
• Identify human skills worth strengthening
• Explore AI across the customer journey
• Discuss collaboration between people and technology
• Prepare teams for changing responsibilities

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the human side of AI adoption
• Ready to identify a business question technology could help address
• More aware of skills that complement AI
• Equipped with a framework for discussing leadership adaptation
• Focused on a practical opportunity to explore with their team

Keynote Programs

The 3 Pillars of Exponential Leadership in the Age of AI

Andrea explores how leaders can adapt their decisions and behavior as AI changes work. Ideal for executive and management audiences.

Experienc.AI

Andrea examines AI opportunities across the customer journey. Ideal for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams.

Between You and AI

Andrea focuses on human skills that complement emerging technology. Ideal for company meetings and workforce development programs.

Is Andrea Iorio Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the AI opportunities you are exploring and the leadership or workforce questions you want to address. We can help select Andrea’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.

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.

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.

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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TERENCE MAURI - Global Authority on the Future of Leadership | AI & Disruption Expert | MIT Entrepreneur Mentor | Thinkers50 Author: 

Lead What’s Next

Terence Mauri helps leaders think boldly, act decisively and turn uncertainty into opportunity. The founder of Hack Future Lab, an MIT Entrepreneur Mentor and a five-time bestselling author, he combines provocative insights, compelling stories and practical frameworks that prepare organizations to lead from the future.

Why Book Terence Mauri?

Terence does more than explain emerging trends. He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, build trust and create value when the rules are changing.

Drawing on his experience advising Fortune 500 leaders and billion-dollar startups, Terence translates complex issues—including AI, disruption and the future of work—into clear choices audiences can act on immediately. His energetic presentations create urgency without fear and leave leaders ready to move forward with greater courage and confidence.

What Makes Terence Different?

• A powerful combination of global research and practical business experience
• Fresh thinking on AI, leadership, trust and organizational change
• Provocative ideas that challenge conventional assumptions
• Actionable frameworks leaders can use immediately
• A message that can be customized around the organization’s priorities

Why Is Terence Right for Your Audience?

Terence is an excellent choice when leaders need to anticipate what is next while delivering results today. He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation events, client programs and organizations navigating AI or major transformation.

Book Terence when your audience needs to:

• Lead confidently through uncertainty and disruption
• Turn AI from a technology conversation into a leadership opportunity
• Challenge outdated thinking and accelerate better decisions
• Build trust, resilience and agility across the organization
• Translate emerging trends into strategic priorities
• Find the courage to act before every answer is known

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Better prepared to lead from the future rather than react to it
• Equipped to identify opportunity within disruption
• Ready to replace outdated assumptions with future-ready thinking
• Clearer about where human judgment creates an advantage in an AI-first world
• Motivated to think boldly, act decisively and play to win

Keynote Programs

Lead What’s Next

Terence shows leaders how to build future readiness, learn at the speed of change and make courageous decisions before certainty arrives. Ideal for organizations navigating transformation, competitive pressure or a major new strategic direction.

The Human Edge

In an AI-first world, technology alone is not the advantage—how people lead, decide and build trust is. Terence explores how courage, unlearning and radical trust help organizations unlock the upside of disruption. Ideal for AI, culture, leadership and future-of-work events.

Future IQ

Terence helps audiences turn megatrends into meaningful milestones. Leaders learn how to strengthen strategic courage, team resilience and agility while solving tomorrow’s challenges with new thinking. Ideal for executive audiences, innovation conferences and strategy meetings.

Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?

The right speaker must do more than talk about the future. They must understand your audience, connect their message to your business priorities and create momentum beyond the event.

Contact us to:

• Confirm Terence’s availability and current fee
• Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
• Discuss customization, format and event logistics
• Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit

Is Terence Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the disruption they are facing and what you want them to think, feel or do differently. We will provide an honest assessment of Terence’s fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you move forward with confidence.

Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Terence Mauri.

Blake Morgan: Customer Experience Futurist | Author of The Customer of the Future | Speaker on Customer-Focused Leadership

Why Book Blake Morgan?

Blake moves customer experience beyond a general commitment to good service. Her presentations encourage teams to consider how they make decisions across the business and what it would take to keep the customer’s perspective visible.

Why Is Blake Morgan Right for Your Audience?

Blake is a strong fit for leadership meetings, customer experience conferences, sales events, and service programs. Consider her when customer focus needs to become a shared organizational responsibility.

Book Blake when your audience needs to:

• Include the customer’s perspective in decisions
• Align teams around service priorities
• Consider how expectations are changing
• Connect employee experience with customer experience
• Make customer focus a leadership habit
• Identify a practical improvement in the customer journey

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the leadership choices behind customer experience
• Ready to examine a decision from the customer’s perspective
• More aware of barriers between teams
• Equipped with questions for refining service priorities
• Focused on a customer experience action they can influence

Keynote Programs

The 8 Laws of Customer-Focused Leadership

Blake examines leadership practices that put customers at the center of business decisions. Ideal for executives and managers.

The Four Ways to Make Customer Experience a Decision

Blake introduces her WAYS framework for a more deliberate customer experience approach. Ideal for cross-functional service and business audiences.

Is Blake Morgan Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the customers you serve and the experience you want your people to create. We can help select Blake’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. Dambisa Moyo: Global Economist | Author and Corporate Board Member | Speaker on Growth, Geopolitics and Business Strategy

Why Book Dr. Dambisa Moyo?

Dambisa encourages audiences to examine the assumptions behind their plans. Her presentations provide context for discussing long-term opportunities and risks, including how changes in international relationships and governance can affect business priorities.

Why Is Dr. Dambisa Moyo Right for Your Audience?

Dambisa is a strong fit for executive conferences, board retreats, financial services meetings, and global industry events. Consider her when leaders need a broader framework for strategic discussions.

Book Dambisa when your audience needs to:

• Understand forces affecting global growth
• Consider geopolitical factors in business planning
• Review assumptions about capital and markets
• Discuss technology through an economic lens
• Examine questions of corporate governance
• Think more deliberately about long-term business conditions

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on major economic questions facing leaders
• Ready to revisit a strategic assumption
• More aware of connections between policy and business
• Equipped with questions for board or executive discussion
• Focused on developments relevant to their organization

Keynote Programs

Global Growth Outlook

Dambisa examines forces influencing economic growth and business conditions. Ideal for executive and financial services audiences.

Upgrading Corporate Governance in the 21st Century

Dambisa explores the responsibilities and decisions facing boards. Ideal for directors and senior leadership programs.

Is Dr. Dambisa Moyo Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the economic questions your leaders face and the strategic decisions they need to consider. We can help select Dambisa’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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Eric O’Neill: Former FBI Counterintelligence Operative | Author of Gray Day | Speaker on Cybersecurity, Risk and Resilience

Why Book Eric O’Neill?

Eric uses storytelling to connect complex threats with the decisions people make at work. His presentations encourage audiences to question assumptions, pay attention to warning signs, and recognize their part in protecting information.

Why Is Eric O’Neill Right for Your Audience?

Eric is a strong fit for cybersecurity conferences, executive meetings, employee awareness events, and risk programs. Consider him when an organization needs an engaging way to make security responsibility more tangible.

Book Eric when your audience needs to:

• Recognize the human side of security threats
• Question assumptions when something seems unusual
• Bring greater care to information handling
• Understand the value of vigilance
• Strengthen conversations about organizational risk
• Take ownership of their role in protecting the business

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the relationship between behavior and security
• Ready to examine a security assumption
• More aware of the importance of warning signs
• Equipped with questions for their organization’s security team
• Focused on a protective habit they can strengthen

Keynote Programs

Program options include Gray Day and a cybersecurity presentation tailored to your audience:

Gray Day

Eric shares the story of the Hanssen investigation and the judgment it required. Ideal for audiences seeking an engaging discussion of vigilance, pressure, and personal responsibility.

Cybersecurity and Protecting Your Organization

Eric connects his counterintelligence perspective with business security challenges. Ideal for executives and employee awareness programs.

Is Eric O’Neill Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the security questions your audience faces and the behaviors you want it to strengthen. We can help select Eric’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.

Erik Qualman: Author of The Focus Project | Digital Leadership Speaker | Speaker on Focus, Technology and Organizational Change

Why Book Erik Qualman?

Erik makes the conversation relevant to everyday priorities. His presentations encourage audiences to consider where they direct their time, how their digital behavior affects other people, and what they need to learn as new capabilities emerge.

Why Is Erik Qualman Right for Your Audience?

Erik is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and employee programs. Consider him when an audience needs a more intentional approach to focus and digital change.

Book Erik when your audience needs to:

• Direct attention toward important priorities
• Review habits that encourage distraction
• Connect digital behavior with leadership impact
• Consider the human side of technology adoption
• Approach emerging tools with greater curiosity
• Build stronger relationships across digital and in-person settings

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on the difference between activity and priority
• Ready to review a distracting work habit
• More aware of the impression their digital behavior creates
• Equipped with questions about technology and human connection
• Focused on a manageable change in how they work

Keynote Programs

Digital Leadership

Erik explores leadership habits in a changing digital environment. Ideal for management and employee audiences.

Focus: How to Focus in an Unfocused World

Erik examines choosing meaningful priorities amid distraction. Ideal for teams seeking a more deliberate use of attention.

Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Your Future… Today

Erik considers AI through a leadership and business lens. Ideal for organizations exploring technology change.

Is Erik Qualman Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the priorities your audience needs to focus on and the digital changes it needs to understand. We can help select Erik’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.

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

Sam Richter: Hall of Fame Speaker | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Generative AI and Sales Intelligence

Why Book Sam Richter?

Sam makes the technology approachable through live demonstrations, humor, and examples tailored to the audience. Attendees see how the tools work and leave with resources they can use after the event.

Why Is Sam Richter Right for Your Audience?

Sam is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, association events, and company meetings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants people to move beyond general talk about AI and learn how to use it in their work.

Book Sam when your audience needs to:

• Find practical uses for generative AI
• Research prospects and customers more effectively
• Make outreach more relevant and personal
• Turn information into better business decisions
• Build stronger professional relationships
• Feel more confident using unfamiliar technology

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Clearer on where AI can help in their daily work
• Ready to use research to prepare for better conversations
• Equipped with tools and resources they can explore immediately
• More aware of how to use information responsibly
• Confident taking a practical next step after the event

Keynote Programs

Mindset Shift™: Generative AI and Your Future
Sam shows leaders and teams how to use generative AI to improve communication, productivity, decision-making, and innovation. Through demonstrations and examples relevant to the audience, he makes a fast-changing subject easier to understand and apply. Ideal for leadership and organization-wide events.

Get the Meeting No One Else Can
Sam helps sales teams combine AI and online research to identify opportunities, learn what matters to prospects, and create outreach that earns attention. He shows how better preparation can lead to more relevant conversations and stronger customer relationships. Ideal for sales kickoffs and business development teams.

Every YES Begins with a KNOW
Sam explores how digital insight can help people understand others and communicate with greater relevance. This program connects research with authentic relationship-building. Available by request as a customized keynote or breakout session for client-facing and business audiences.

Is Sam Richter Right for Your Event?

Tell us whether your priority is practical AI adoption, sales prospecting, or stronger business relationships. We can help select Sam’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.

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

Michael Rogers: Practical Futurist | Author and Technology Pioneer | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work

Why Book Michael Rogers?

Michael encourages leaders to consider both the possibilities and the practical demands of adoption. His presentations make room for discussion about workforce needs, management responsibilities, and the human skills organizations will continue to depend on.

Why Is Michael Rogers Right for Your Audience?

Michael is a strong fit for executive conferences, industry associations, technology events, and strategy retreats. Consider him when an audience needs to explore future scenarios relevant to its own work.

Book Michael when your audience needs to:

• Consider how AI may affect their industry
• Review assumptions about future workforce needs
• Connect technological change with business decisions
• Discuss the management responsibilities of adoption
• Explore multiple plausible operating scenarios
• Identify questions worth investigating before acting

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

• Clearer on AI questions relevant to their organization
• Ready to review a planning assumption
• More aware of workforce and leadership implications
• Equipped to discuss opportunities and tradeoffs
• Focused on a future scenario worth exploring

Keynote Programs

Artificial Intelligence: The Next Chapter

Michael explores emerging AI capabilities and their business and social implications. Ideal for executive and industry audiences.

AI and Work: Rough Waters Ahead

Michael examines workforce questions raised by AI adoption. Ideal for leaders and professional groups considering how their work may evolve.

Is Michael Rogers Right for Your Event?

Tell us about your audience, the technologies your audience needs to understand and the future scenarios it wants to explore. 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.

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

Why Book John Sanei?

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

Why Is John Sanei Right for Your Audience?

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

Book John when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

AI Frontiers

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

The Intelligence Shift

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

The Architecture of Change

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

Is John Sanei Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

Why Book Jason Sosa?

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

Why Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Jason when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

AI & The Future of Work

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

Digital Transformation in Finance

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

Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

Why Book Rohit Talwar?

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

Why Is Rohit Talwar Right for Your Audience?

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

Book Rohit when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:

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

Keynote Programs

Aftershocks and Opportunities

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

Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies

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

Is Rohit Talwar Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Book James Taylor?

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

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

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

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

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

What Makes James Taylor Different?

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

Why Is James Right for Your Audience?

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

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

Book James when your audience needs to:

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

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

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

James Taylor Keynote Programs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because innovation isn't just about having great ideas.

It's about getting people to believe in them.

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

Why Book James Taylor Through The Sweeney Agency?

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

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is James Taylor Right for Your Event?

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

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

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

Mike Walsh: Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership & Transformation | Bestselling Author | HBR Columnist | Fortune 50 Advisor

Reinvent Your Organization for the AI-Powered Future. AI isn't simply changing how we work. It's changing what organizations can become.

Known for combining provocative ideas with practical business insight, Mike helps leaders understand how AI, algorithms, automation and digital labor will reshape organizations—and what they need to do now to stay relevant and competitive.

His message goes beyond adopting the latest technology. The real opportunity is to reinvent how your organization works, makes decisions and creates value.

Why Book Mike Walsh?

Mike doesn't simply predict the future. He helps leaders prepare to compete in it.

As a strategic advisor to Fortune 50 companies, Harvard Business Review columnist, bestselling author and global researcher, Mike studies how the world's most innovative organizations are using technology to transform the way they operate.

His global perspective allows him to connect emerging technologies with changing customer behavior, workforce expectations and new business models.

Audiences leave with something more valuable than a list of trends: a clearer understanding of what AI means for their organization and how leaders need to respond.

What Makes Mike Walsh Different?

• Futurist for leaders — focuses on the strategic implications of technology rather than technology alone
• AI and digital labor authority — explores how AI agents will reshape organizations and work
• Fortune 50 advisor — works directly with senior leaders navigating transformation
• Harvard Business Review columnist — translates emerging trends into practical leadership insights
• Three-time bestselling author — including The Algorithmic Leader
• Global perspective — researches innovation, technology and consumer behavior around the world
• Leadership focused — explores how decision-making must evolve in the Algorithmic Age
• Highly customized — connects his research directly to the client's industry and challenges

Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?

Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where AI is heading, what it means for their business and how they need to lead differently as a result.

He is particularly effective for CEO conferences, executive leadership meetings, AI summits, technology conferences, association events and organizations navigating significant transformation.

Book Mike when your audience needs to:

• Understand what's coming next in AI
• Prepare for AI agents and digital labor
• Reimagine how their organization operates
• Identify new opportunities created by automation
• Lead people confidently through technological disruption
• Make smarter data-driven decisions
• Rethink customer and employee experiences
• Move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine reinvention

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding how AI agents could reshape organizations
• Better prepared for the next decade of AI-powered transformation
• Thinking differently about the future of work
• Recognizing where human capabilities create the greatest value
• Better equipped to lead hybrid teams of humans and machines
• Understanding why AI requires organizational—not simply technological—change
• More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
• Ready to rethink how their organization creates value

Mike Walsh Keynote Programs

Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business.  What happens when AI stops being simply a tool and becomes part of your workforce?

AI agents capable of independently analyzing information, making decisions and taking action represent a fundamental shift in how organizations may operate.

Mike explores the emergence of digital labor and what it could mean for organizational structure, governance, workforce strategy and competitive advantage.

He challenges leaders to look beyond today's copilots and chatbots and consider how organizations will operate when humans work alongside potentially vast networks of intelligent digital agents.

Ideal for: CEO conferences, AI summits, executive leadership meetings and organizations developing their AI strategy.

The AI-Powered Decade Ahead. Are you using AI to improve what you already do—or rethink what your organization could do?

Mike takes audiences on a journey toward 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation could drive a new industrial revolution.

He argues that the greatest opportunity isn't simply making existing processes faster. It's reimagining customer experiences, redesigning organizations and finding entirely new ways to solve problems.

Technology is only part of the transformation.

Leadership ambition will determine what organizations actually do with it.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, technology events, strategy meetings and organizations preparing for long-term transformation.

The Future Favors the Bold. Incremental improvement may help you keep up. Bold thinking is what creates what's next.

Technology breakthroughs, changing customer behavior, geopolitical uncertainty and machine intelligence are challenging many of the assumptions on which organizations were built.

Mike shows why successful transformation requires leaders willing to experiment, challenge conventional thinking and make courageous decisions.

Because the future isn't simply an upgraded version of the present.

It requires leaders willing to reinvent it.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation events, executive meetings and organizations facing disruption.

The Algorithmic Leader. What capabilities will leaders need when machines can increasingly analyze, predict and decide?

Based on his bestselling book The Algorithmic Leader, Mike explores how AI, automation and algorithms are changing leadership itself.

He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, use data, design teams and combine machine intelligence with uniquely human capabilities.

Audiences leave with practical ideas for redesigning their organizations, reimagining their roles and reinventing how they make decisions.

Ideal for: Leadership development programs, executive conferences, technology events and organizations developing future-ready leaders.

Why Book Mike Walsh Through The Sweeney Agency?

Mike Walsh combines AI expertise, strategic foresight, global research and practical leadership insight—making him particularly valuable when you need executives to understand not simply what technology is doing, but what they should do differently because of it.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

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

Is Mike Walsh Right for Your Event?

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

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

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