Keynotes That Change How Leaders Think
High-impact sessions for conferences, leadership events, and all-company kick-offs.
Formats + Booking
All keynotes are available in three formats:
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45 minutes Conference keynote (focused, high-impact)
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60 minutes Featured session (full arc with data and stories)
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90 minutes Extended session with audience interaction and reflection
MaryBeth customizes content, stories, and examples to your industry and audience. Every keynote can be paired with a half-day workshop for deeper application.
KEYNOTE 1: WHAT YOUR BEST PEOPLE WISH YOU KNEW
45–60 minutes | Leadership audiences, HR conferences, talent-focused events
Your best people aren’t asking for more perks. They’re asking to be seen for what they actually do best — and to stop being developed against a checklist that has nothing to do with how they naturally contribute.
This keynote makes the business case for strengths-based leadership with hard data — Gallup research showing 6x engagement, 14–29% profit increases, and 26–72% lower turnover — and real stories from nearly 30 years inside organizations that got it right, including Walt Disney World and Allegis Group.
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Audiences leave with three questions they can use in their next one-on-one to shift the conversation from gap-closing to strengths-building. Not inspiration. Application.
Best for: Executive audiences, HR and talent conferences, leadership off-sites, organizations rethinking their development strategy
KEYNOTE 2: LANDS™: WHY YOUR STRATEGY ISN’T MOVING
45–60 minutes | Leadership conferences, communication-focused events
Your leaders have the strategy. They can recite the priorities. But the message isn't landing — and they can't figure out why. The problem isn't clarity. It's architecture.
This keynote introduces LANDS™ — a five-phase strategic communication framework built from leading communications at Walt Disney World and change management across a $13B global workforce company. MaryBeth walks audiences through the five failure points where leadership communication breaks down — and the system that prevents it.
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Audiences leave with a diagnostic they can run on any communication they send this week: Did it land, or did it just launch? Five questions. Takes two minutes. Changes everything about how they prepare their next message.
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Best for: Leadership conferences, L&D events, organizations launching communication or change initiatives, executive teams frustrated by "we already communicated that"
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