KEYNOTES
Energize your team with ideas that stick.
Our keynotes blend science and story to inspire your audience and deliver practical strategies they can use the next day. Each talk is customized to your event, ensuring leaders, teammates, or the whole company walk away with tools to improve performance and drive collaboration.
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The Superteam Blueprint
The Secrets of Smarter, Faster, and Higher-Performing Teams
Program Description:
In this eye-opening keynote, you’ll discover the surprising truths behind what the world’s best teams do differently.
Drawing from the most comprehensive study of elite work teams ever conducted, this talk reveals counterintuitive insights that will change how you think about teamwork and leadership.
From the recording studio of Fleetwood Mac to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, this talk offers a data-backed roadmap for building teams that thrive under pressure, collaborate seamlessly, and achieve exceptional results.
Whether you’re a leader or part of a team, you’ll walk away with actionable insights you can immediately implement to boost collaboration, performance, and results.
Attendees Will Learn:
How a simple question can make your team’s decisions 30% smarter.
The one rule that instantly slashes your meeting time in half.
The hidden warning sign that your team isn’t performing at its best: you feel like the smartest in the room.
What the best teammates do differently to make everyone better.
The quickest way to recharge your energy after work.
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Motivating Excellence
What Leaders of High-Performing Teams Do Differently
Program Description:
What do the best leaders do differently?
Drawing on research from thousands of teams, this keynote uncovers the counterintuitive habits that set top-performing leaders apart. You’ll discover the leadership practices that drive focus, fuel collaboration, and build a culture of continuous improvement.
Leaders will walk away with practical, research-backed strategies they can apply immediately to unlock potential, elevate performance, and create teams people are proud to be part of—and never want to leave.
Attendees Will Learn:
The one question the best leaders ask to eliminate procrastination and drive action.
How top leaders earn their team’s trust without saying a word.
The secret to delivering feedback that actually drives improvement.
How to shrink the number of meetings without stifling communication.
How to build a team that keeps getting better.
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Superteammate
How to Be the Teammate People Fight to Work With
Program Description:
The best teammates don’t just do their job—they make everyone else better. In this powerful keynote, you’ll discover how they get more done while elevating their team.
Drawing on groundbreaking research, this session reveals simple habits that spark collaboration, build trust, and drive team performance. You’ll learn how great teammates turn work relationships into genuine partnerships and create an environment where everyone performs at their best.
Audiences will leave energized and equipped with practical, research-backed strategies they can use immediately to build stronger relationships, accelerate their careers, and become the kind of teammate everyone wants on their team.
Attendees Will Learn:
What the best (and worst) teammates do differently.
Why top performers care more about disappointing their peers than their boss.
How the best teammates avoid the power dynamics that sabotage collaboration.
The 3 factors that determine trust in work relationships—and how to build them.
Why sharing credit amplifies your influence instead of diminishing it.
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WHAT LEADERS ARE SAYING
“Ron Friedman’s speech was the highlight of our Leadership Summit. His presentation was salient and actionable, leaving the entire group engaged. I highly recommend Dr. Ron Friedman as your next keynote speaker.”
Mary M. Ryerson
President, Alpine Bank
“Dr. Friedman is the single best speaker we’ve ever had at an annual event. For context: we have a tough audience—smart, analytical, and busy. Ron kept nearly 1,000 executives engaged and entertained every minute of the way. More than that, his insights have already sparked a wave of transformations throughout companies in our area. Months later, I’m still receiving compliments about our event. I could not recommend him more highly.”
Zach Brandon
Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce
“You were the perfect keynote. The audience was ecstatic and evaluations are top-notch. Our problem will be how to meet the exalted expectations next time.”
Luann Heinin
National Business Group on Health
“Dr. Friedman’s insightful, little-known, practical strategies captivated our audience. A joy to work with, he went above and beyond to customize his presentation to our group. I think I speak for everyone when I say we’d have him back in a heartbeat.”
Pete Seljevold
Blue Cross Blue Shield
“I was blown away by the quality. Dr. Friedman was very prepared, natural, and engaging. I’ve already heard discussion throughout our building about bringing him back for a workshop or another speaking engagement.”
Trey Whitaker
Mass Mutual
“[The] content was gripping—some of it wonderfully confirming to people. But many of the study findings were stunning, and compelling to many. Ideas and examples you shared were quite illustrative and motivating. Additionally, your presentation style was authentic and by that I mean not the overly polished tendencies of those “on the circuit.” You were different. We could feel it. You had great research findings and a sincere cause in revealing them to us.”
Marsha Lindsay
CEO, Lindsay Foresight and Stratagem
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