Keynote Speaking
Ready to energize your team and spark lasting change? Check out my top two keynote options—Praise Paradox and Think Fast, Lead Smart—each designed to inspire, engage, and drive real-world impact. Check out my speaker reel to get a feel for my presentation style!
The Praise Paradox™
How Recognition Fuels Results
This keynote explores the science behind praise and its powerful impact on employee engagement, retention, and performance. It highlights how most people crave recognition but rarely give it, creating a cycle of unacknowledged effort. With insights from Picture Yourself a Leader, the session offers simple, actionable ways anyone—regardless of role—can use praise to positively influence behavior, support more fulfilling work relationships, and drive a sustainable culture.
Think Fast, Lead Smart
Unleashing Innovation and Collaboration with the Improv Mindset
This keynote reveals how improvisation principles can boost problem solving, leadership, and collaboration. With stories, science, and interactive moments, it introduces practical improv techniques—like active listening and “yes, and” thinking—that enhance adaptability and trust. Attendees walk away with actionable tools to improve communication, foster innovation, and navigate workplace challenges with confidence.
Her thought-provoking message on the Praise Paradox keynote resonated deeply, leaving staff feeling both inspired and more connected. Elisabeth was engaging, entertaining, and delivered practical takeaways that we could immediately put into practice. Thank you, Elisabeth—you made a lasting impression, and we've already had requests to bring you back!
Our audience’s wildly positive reaction reflects Swan’s knack for making a complex process easy and having fun while doing it. Elisabeth’s joy and thoughtful curation carries through every aspect of making the event happen, which is why we have worked with her again and again!
Elisabeth Swan’s keynote speech at KaiNexicon did not disappoint. Her keynote was the highlight of my KaiNexicon experience this year.
This year's training was truly unforgettable, and I've heard nothing but positive feedback about Elisabeth's keynote.
By far my favorite presentation! It was very interesting, delivery was great and loved the interaction with my table.
There was a phenomenal keynote speech by Elisabeth Swan, author of Picture Yourself a Leader. She talked about praise which is something we should all be giving on a daily basis.
She kept the audience engaged, and many praised her wonderful sense of humor! She’s incredibly easy to listen to and did a fantastic job connecting her talk to our work at OCS.
Elisabeth hit every high note. She’s a gifted storyteller who made us laugh—and think!
Such great storytelling. Such great engagement with the audience. Just an overall phenomenal speaker. I thoroughly enjoyed the keynote.
This morning Elisabeth gave a great talk with actionable items that I’m able to take away with me, and a book that I’m going to get, and some things that I’m going to start doing tomorrow morning when I get up.
Several attendees mentioned they were inspired to incorporate the Praise Loop into their daily routines, myself included! She made quite an impression. Elisabeth is amazing!
I learned so much from her and she’s such a dynamic speaker. I can say that everybody in the room just gained so much value from it. The real testament to that is the fact that there’s something that I’m going to add to my daily routine.
I’ve learned a lot, and I’m really excited to go back to my organization and try to implement it in any way that I can.
Giving praise is one of the easiest ways to help our employees feel valued and respected. This keynote about The Praise Paradox by Elisabeth Swan provides a fantastic framework for giving the GIFT of praise to the people in your life.
Elizabeth is a highly skilled, creative, flexible and trustworthy collaborator and is a pleasure to work with.
Elisabeth Swan’s presentation (keynote) was awesome. She kept you on the edge of your seat the whole time and there’s some takeaway items that I can take back to my company and start implementing right away.
Elisabeth Swan’s a fantastic presenter. Her content was engaging, enlightening, and humorous—all in one package.
Her engaging and entertaining style resonated with our attendees, and we have full confidence in putting Elisabeth in front of our customers. Her valuable lessons truly stick.
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If you’re looking for a keynote speaker to inspire and energize your event participants about what it takes to achieve a high performing organization and accelerate learning and impact, I’d love to be your success partner. To get excited about the possibilities for your event, you can learn more about my keynote speaking here.
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