John Sweeney and other top corporate speakers from Brave New Workshop Creative Outreach

Keynote Speaking

The core of every one of our keynotes is our ability to humorously bridge the principles of improvisation to key business challenges. We can motivate, energize or just entertain employees. But we can’t do that if we don’t know your company and what makes you tick. So before we set foot in front of your audience, we work with you to find out everything we can about your company. What’s appropriate? What's off-limits? What are your goals? What are your challenges? Then we use those discoveries to deliver a targeted, insightful, and entertaining professional keynote speech that drives results and changes behaviors.

Ever since John Sweeney stepped out onto a corporate stage and delivered his first keynote, we have been working continually with companies worldwide to get their people laughing, thinking and learning. It’s not rocket science, but we must be doing something right, because people keep coming back for more.

Today, the Brave New Workshop is proud to offer keynotes to companies worldwide featuring the professional speaking talents of Sweeney and the best and brightest members of the Brave New Workshop Creative Outreach:

John Sweeney Keynote Speaking

Sweeney is the person who first brought the benefits of improvisation to business back in 1997. Since that time, as a top corporate speaker he has shared the skills, techniques, and lessons of improvisation with companies and their people worldwide. In the process, Sweeney keynotes have helped show companies how to improve employee morale, productivity and innovation. It’s that success that keeps companies like Microsoft, General Mills, Medtronic, Target, Hampton and hundreds of others coming back again and again. And again.

Other Keynote Speakers

In addition to John Sweeney’s keynote speeches, the Brave New Workshop has a deep talent pool and includes top performers from the Brave New Workshop Creative Outreach who are some of the most sought after keynote speakers in the country. It’s a diverse group that reflects the genius and variety of the Brave New Workshop and includes theatre owner Jenni Lilledahl, artistic directors Caleb and Katy McEwen and female motivational speaker Margi Simmons. Like John Sweeney, every one of them comes from the Brave New Workshop mainstage and brings that same smart, irreverent brand of humor to you.

Female Keynote Speakers

Improvisation has helped theatre owner Jenni Lilledahl, artistic director Katy McEwen and BNW alum Margi Simmons become the confident, empowered and brilliant women they are today. Their keynotes are tailored to address specific issues facing women and are delivered to women’s networks, associations, conferences, and companies worldwide.

Keynotes Based on Your Needs

Every keynote our speakers deliver is customized in partnership with the people, companies and organizations who hire us. So, we don’t really have a “menu” of keynotes, each one is made from scratch. But we do get some topics that seem to be requested over and over again:

Succeeding in an environment of change and chaos
Improvisational selling
How to generate more—and better—ideas
Innovation and creativity
Team building
Leadership and management
Communication/Presentation skills
Workplace motivation and engagement
Building confidence
Improvisational customer service
Sales for the non-sales person

The requests to "bring John back" speaks well of his impact on others. I would highly recommend him if your interest is developing a culture of increased innovation ... and you are willing to have a bit of fun along the way!.

- Kevin Wilde, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, General Mills