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.
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.
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.
Best for: Leadership conferences, L&D events, organizations launching communication or change initiatives, executive teams frustrated by "we already communicated that"