6 Keynote Speakers To Guide You Through Change and Disruption

There isn’t a single organization that has not been touched by the disruptive hand of change in the last year, and most likely, your organization is still in the depths of big changes. Whether you’re growing, condensing, or simply adapting to the new state of the world, you don’t have to do it alone. These big organizational changes can feel impossible to navigate on your own. The uncertainty of tomorrow can be daunting and make you second guess your every decision.

Luckily, you’re not alone. We have a roster of experts in change and disruption who have spent their entire careers dealing with the challenges you are facing today. And not only can they guide you through today’s uncertainty, but they will also teach you to embrace and welcome change, helping you plan for the future in order to become an industry leader. Here are 6 keynote speakers who have championed change and dialed in disruption to guide their audiences to the top.

Cassandra Worthy, Founder & CEO of Change Enthusiasm Global
Cassandra Worthy is the world’s leading expert on Change Enthusiasm®. She is lighting the world on fire with her refreshingly unique take on not just ‘managing’ but growing through change. The Change Enthusiasm® strategy empowers audiences to self-assess their change emotions and redirect anxiety and fears into moments of opportunity. Through her consulting firm Change Enthusiasm Global, she has shared this revolutionary approach for not only embracing change but using it to propel you to heights you never imagined with thousands all over the world.

She uses her nearly 15 years of experience working as an executive within both Procter & Gamble and Berkshire Hathaway and thriving through some of the biggest acquisitions ever recorded in the consumer packaged goods industry. Cassandra cultivated the mindset and tools she practiced to grow through these disruptions in a way that inspires, invigorates, and motivates others to grow through their change challenges.

Erica Dhawan, Leading Authority on Digital Collaboration and Innovation
When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they bring Erica Dhawan to their events.

Erica is an internationally recognized leading authority, author, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language.

Her keynotes focus on preparing audiences for the future of hybrid work and using digital connections to recreate workspaces efficiently and aligned with today’s needs.

Tyler Cohen Wood, Former Defense Intelligence Agency Cyber Deputy Division Chief and Senior Intelligence Officer
Tyler Cohen Wood is an internationally recognized cybersecurity authority with over 21 years of highly technical experience, including 13 of which spent working for the Department of Defense (DoD). She sits on several global advisory boards such as the Global Cybersecurity Association, EC-Council Incident Handlers global board amongst others.

She is also the Founder and CEO of MyConnectedHealth Inc., a unique global health care platform that connects the best of technology (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning), healthcare, and secure patient crowd data to strategically diagnose and treat disease.

Tyler’s lifetime of working with high-security level cybersecurity has given her insights into the next era of technology and how we work. She harnesses Big Data and cyber awareness to help you shape your organization into an industry competitor that is untouchable.

Peter Sheahan, Expert in Business Trends and New Market Opportunities
After decades of standing in the fire with leaders of high-performing organizations, Peter Sheahan has come to believe that an organization will only go commercially where its leaders first go personally.

Having grown his own companies by accelerating its growth, and transforming for clients like Apple; Chick-fil-A; DeBeers; and AT&T, Peter will provoke you to get bigger, by getting better. When leaders are true to their purpose, they gravitate towards doing work that matters and solving higher-order problems. The journey to get there requires that they have the courage to tell themselves the truth, take intelligent risks, and assume ownership for driving the alignment necessary to build an organization that behaves in ways worthy of its leadership position.

Peter will help guide you through whatever challenges your team is facing by transforming the morale and energy of the people themselves.

Sara Frasca, Former Corporate Leader at General Mills and Entrepreneur of the Year
Sara Frasca’s years spent honing her skills in senior leadership roles in both corporate America and the world of startups offer her a unique perspective on disruption and leading industries.

Through her role as Chief Marketing Officer for FIREPROOF, a global business coaching firm, she helps leading organizations cultivate human imagination, build a culture of accountability, and solve complex problems to drive business growth. For clients seeking a competitive advantage and sustainable success, her process of expanding creativity for problem-solving and building a strong culture will put them at the top of their industry. Sara’s message of hacking and harnessing innovation can drive any organization to think like true disruptors.

Sterling Hawkins, Founder of the #NoMatterWhat Movement
Sterling Hawkins is out to break the status quo to create what’s actually possible for people and companies in our time. He has spent his life coming back from the brink to sell companies, finish ultra-marathons, and get results #NoMatterWhat it takes. His #NoMatterWhat approach will drive growth, innovation, and help you achieve big results, regardless of what’s happening in the world.

In 2004, Sterling Hawkins co-founded, launched, and sold his first technology company, Convena, where he developed innovative approaches to beat the competition, handle high-growth and achieve performance no matter the obstacles. He went on to be involved with the launch, growth, and/or investment in over 50 companies. Today, Sterling reviews over 1,000 new companies every year further refining the keys to realizing breakthrough results regardless of circumstances and giving back that experience as a mentor to high-growth entrepreneurs working through heavy competition and instability in the world.