KEYNOTES
Energize your team with powerful ideas that challenge and inspire.
Our keynotes are tailored to your event and audience, ensuring maximum impact at every level—whether for leaders, teammates, or the entire organization. Designed to inform and inspire, each speech delivers practical strategies your audience can apply immediately to improve performance and drive collaboration.
See Ron in Action:
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The Superteam Blueprint
The Secrets of Smarter, Faster, and Higher-Performing Teams
Program Description:
In this eye-opening keynote, Dr. Ron Friedman, award-winning social psychologist and author of Superteams, shares the surprising truths behind what the world’s best teams do differently.
Drawing from the most comprehensive study of elite work teams ever conducted, Dr. Friedman 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:
The quiet clue that reveals your team isn’t performing at its best: you feel like the smartest in the room.
The one rule that instantly slashes your meeting commitments in half.
A counterintuitive habit that keeps Superteams proactive all day long.
How a simple question can make your team’s decisions 30% smarter.
Why focusing on your productivity is killing your team’s potential.
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Motivating Excellence
What Leaders of High-Performing Teams Do Differently
Program Description:
What do the best leaders do differently?
To find out, award-winning social psychologist and Harvard Business Review writer Ron Friedman launched a landmark study surveying thousands of teams, pinpointing the precise habits that set leaders of high-performing teams apart from those of average ones.
The answer is clear: great leaders don’t just manage—they inspire trust, elevate performance, and create a culture that fosters constant growth. This talk will equip you with actionable strategies to unlock your team’s full potential, drive exceptional results, and foster a culture of continuous improvement—insights drawn from the most comprehensive study of high-performing teams ever conducted.
Attendees Will Learn:
The one question that the best leaders ask to eliminate procrastination and drive action.
The secret to delivering feedback that genuinely drives performance improvement
Why the best leaders look beyond the office to boost loyalty and boost performance.
How the best leaders earn their team’s trust without saying a word.
Why your most talented team members may be stuck in a “competence trap” — and how to set them free.
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Superteammate
Accelerate Your Career by Becoming the Teammate Everyone Wants
Program Description:
The best teammates don’t just do their job—they make everyone else better. In this powerful keynote, Dr. Ron Friedman, award-winning social psychologist and author of Superteams, reveals how top teammates get more done while elevating their team.
Drawing on groundbreaking research, Dr. Friedman reveals the surprising habits that either fuel or sabotage team dynamics. You’ll learn how the best teammates build trust fast, transform work relationships into authentic partnerships, and create an environment where everyone performs at their best—making them indispensable and accelerating their careers.
Attendees Will Learn:
What the best (and worst) teammates do differently.
How the best teammates avoid the power dynamics that sabotage collaborations.
Why genuine friendships drive team success—and how to foster them.
The 3 factors that determine trust in work relationships—and how to build them.
Why top performers care more about disappointing their peers than their boss.
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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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