Speaker Reel - https://youtu.be/QQRV5p1gG2g?si=GnpNfA0vB9jPAe-d

Gravity Speakers Profile - https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/linda-nazareth

Speaker Website - https://lindanazareth.com/

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Why Linda

WorkBeyond attendees are tasked with preparing organizations for workforce challenges that extend beyond internal culture conversations. Linda brings a broader economic lens that helps audiences understand the larger forces shaping work itself—from labor markets and demographics to technology and global trends.

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Topics

Working it Out: How to Be Ready for the New World of Work

The world is changing and so is the very notion of “work”. For years we have been told that our aging workforce will mean a shortage of workers in many industries. More recently, the narrative has changed to one where AI and robots do everyone’s work, and there are not enough jobs to go around. Which view of the future is correct? More important, how will our lives and organizations change as we navigate the changing realities?

In this much-requested presentation based on her book of the same title, Linda Nazareth casts an economist’s eye to the way the big trends are changing our world. From looking at the way global change, demographics, and technology are coming together to reshape the work world through to examining the challenges for individuals, businesses, and governments, she sketches a vision that is both unsettling and exciting.

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The Global Economy in Context

Trade, tariffs, U.S., oil prices, interest rates, population change, currency markets, the markets and more – what is the big picture and how do you make the right decisions to stay ahead of the curve? How do you fit into the mix – and how do you plan for your own industry and investments in a world that is seemingly in turmoil?

In this timely presentation Linda Nazareth looks at the economic outlook, the opportunities in the face of challenges, and the way that the larger picture will affect your own business interests.

Economorphics: The Economic Trends Changing Today into Tomorrow

From technological disruption to shifting demographics to climate issues, huge forces are at play and they are causing the world we know to morph into a new one.

What are the trends taking today into tomorrow, and how can organizations best prepare for what is ahead?

In Economorphics, Linda Nazareth talks about the dozens of things she sees happening, and the challenges and opportunities they present to the economy, labor market, and financial markets—and to your industry as well.

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Highlights

• Economist with workforce specialization: Early career focused on labor market planning, creating a direct connection between economics and workforce realities.
• Makes macro trends practical: Translates demographics, labor shifts, technology, and economic forces into business implications leaders can actually use.
• Broadens the future-of-work conversation: Helps organizations understand forces outside internal culture and HR systems.
• Rare cross-sector credibility: Background spans government, financial institutions, media, research, and advisory work.
• Connects labor, economics, and technology: Brings larger systems thinking to workplace strategy conversations.
• Helps leaders separate signal from noise amid constant change.

Gravity Speaker Profile - https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/erica-orange

Speaker Website - https://www.ericaorange.com/

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Why Erica

As organizations rethink leadership, workforce structures, and human potential in an AI-driven world, Erica offers a perspective that extends beyond technological disruption alone. Her work focuses on how people, organizations, and leaders evolve alongside emerging technology—making her a compelling fit for a summit centered on redesigning the future of work.

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Recommended Keynotes:

The Trust Paradox

In a world where misinformation spreads rapidly and authenticity is questioned, the future of trust and truth is more critical than ever. This keynote explores “The Trust Paradox” where reliance on digital platforms, algorithms, and AI blurs the line between reality and fiction, while highlighting opportunities to foster authenticity, transparency and honesty.

Unleash Your Inner Futurist

‍The future doesn’t just belong to those who learn – it belongs to those who can unlearn. It’s about challenging entrenched beliefs, embracing uncertainty, and reimagining what’s possible. This keynote will shift your mindset, helping you adopt a future-ready perspective that unlocks new opportunities for innovation, growth and transformation.

AI + The New Human Frontier

‍As AI reshapes the world, our uniquely human traits – curiosity, intuition, ingenuity, critical thinking and empathy – become our greatest assets. This keynote explores how the next generation of AI isn’t here to replace us, but to elevate us. Discover how to harness AI to amplify human intelligence, fuel creativity, and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

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Highlights

• Human-centered futurist: Focuses less on technology itself and more on how leaders and organizations evolve alongside it.
• Helps organizations navigate uncertainty: Translates emerging signals into strategic action rather than abstract forecasting.
• Future readiness over fear: Reframes AI conversations away from anxiety and toward opportunity, adaptability, and human potential.
• Strong psychology foundation: Brings deeper understanding around behavior, identity, and decision-making during periods of change.
• Equips leaders for ambiguity: Helps organizations build confidence in moments where answers are not yet obvious.
• Balances imagination with practical organizational implications.

Speaker Reel - https://vimeo.com/1049427374?fl=pl&fe=vl

Gravity Speakers Profile - https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/nikki-greenberg

Speaker Website - https://www.nikkigreenberg.com/

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Why Nikki

Nikki aligns naturally with WorkBeyond Summit’s broader focus on workplace redesign and long-term workforce thinking. Her work examines the intersection of AI, generational shifts, workplace evolution, and emerging technology while helping leaders think beyond immediate challenges toward how organizations, leadership models, and industries may evolve over the next decade. She brings both futurist perspective and enterprise operating experience—giving audiences ideas that feel visionary, yet practical enough to implement.

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Suggested Topic

Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry

World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg equips leaders to proactively shape their organization’s future by navigating the major forces reshaping every industry, including AI, generational shifts, and workplace evolution. Drawing on her experience leading the digital transformation of a seventy billion dollar organization, Nikki provides practical tools and a forward thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies, and accelerate success. Delivered in her light hearted, dynamic, and entertaining style, this keynote blends inspiration, motivation, and practical insight on how to become future ready today.

Key Learning Outcomes

AI & Tech Made SimpleUnderstand how technology is reshaping industries without the overwhelm, as Nikki simplifies complex trends and shares lessons from leading global tech strategy.

Actionable Strategies TodayLearn Nikki’s Five Step Future Ready Framework to turn bold ideas into real outcomes that create impact, build momentum, and earn genuine organizational support.

Overcoming Barriers to ChangeLearn strategies to overcome the biggest barriers to innovation, from misaligned incentives and tight resources to budget pressures and multigenerational dynamics.

Become a Visionary LeaderDiscover how visionary leaders bring bold ideas to life and learn how to spark inspiration, shape a future-ready culture, and step confidently into what comes next.

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Highlights

• Enterprise operator, not just futurist: Led technology strategy for a $70B investment portfolio, bringing real-world transformation experience beyond trend forecasting.
• Future thinking with practical application: Helps leaders move from interesting ideas to actionable frameworks organizations can implement immediately.
• Global perspective on workplace evolution: Career spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia creates a broader lens on workforce and societal change.
• Connects AI with human behavior: Examines how emerging technology, generational shifts, and changing expectations reshape organizations simultaneously.
• Helps leaders prepare for 2030 and beyond: Focused on future readiness and organizational adaptation rather than prediction for prediction’s sake.
• Bridges inspiration and implementation: Delivers visionary ideas without losing practical relevance.

Speaker Reel - https://youtu.be/t9ynrPoHXso

Gravity Speakers Profile - https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/elisabeth-leamy

Speaker Website - https://www.elisabethleamy.com/

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Why Elisabeth

As organizations continue redesigning how work happens, many leaders face a growing challenge: more demands, more complexity, and fewer resources. Elisabeth offers a practical and refreshing perspective on sustainable performance by helping audiences rethink productivity and focus on work that creates meaningful impact.

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Exceptional Performance with Elisabeth Leamy's TRIoritize Technique™

Peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth Leamy helps individuals and organizations do exceptional work by adopting her counterintuitive prioritizing system. The barrier to greatness is having too many competing priorities. Priority overload is paralyzing for people and costly for companies. Ironically, the best intentioned are the most affected. But “when everything’s a priority, nothing’s a priority.”

This causes a devastating domino effect for employees, executives, and their companies. Employees who burn out and quit. Leaders who don’t get a chance to lead. And organizations that inadvertently put their core business at risk.

There’s a simple solution to this complicated problem: The TRIoritize Technique™, her method for cutting through the clutter to identify your true purpose and top priorities so you can accomplish great things.

But you don’t have to take Elisabeth’s word for it. She shares fascinating brain science and riveting business stories revealing why her counterintuitive system works.

As a result of this program AUDIENCES will:

• Zoom in on the right priorities using TALENT, REWARD, IMPACT
• Pursue priorities with GOOD, BETTER or BEST effort
• Minimize busy work and maximize deep work
• Trade doing more work for more important work
• Reallocate resources toward exceptional results

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Radical Productivity for Teams with The TRIoritize Technique™

How teams/employees/individuals can prioritize their time and assignments, be more effective, less stressed and do exceptional work.

In this enlightening yet entertaining talk tailored for employees, peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth Leamy shares her simple TRI Tool for sifting through competing priorities to set yourself up for excellence. Priority overload makes it difficult for employees to decipher what matters most to their organizations. Consequently, well-intentioned teams often devote time to bureaucratic work instead of the brain work they were hired to do. Disengagement and absenteeism go up. Motivation and performance go down. Soon employees are stressed out, next burned out, then...they leave. It’s a terrible waste of time and talent that costs millions.

Research shows there is a direct line that leads from prioritizing to peak performance and productivity. Elisabeth coaches teams to ensure all of their work meets a baseline quality threshold, while redirecting resources to the most important projects to make them shine. Equally important: she reminds employees how their role connects to the organization’s higher purpose. The TRIoritize Technique is so clear that teams are already planning how to conquer their competing priorities and amp up their productivity and performance before Elisabeth steps off the stage.

As a result of this program, TEAMS will:

• Learn a simple, systematic way of prioritizing their work—and their lives.
• Recognize the difference between tasks that are in-your-face versus important.
• Calibrate their energy and effort depending how consequential the assignment is.
• Ditch pointless perfectionism and embrace pragmatic prioritizing.
• Feel focused instead of frantic, fired up instead of burned out.

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Beat Burnout with The TRIoritize Technique™

How to use The TRIoritize Technique at both ends of the spectrum: to tamp down burnout and amp up achievement.

This practical yet inspirational keynote shows audiences a totally different way to approach work that is less stressful—and more effective. Peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth Leamy introduces a contrarian approach that helps audiences carve out space and time they can use to do better work—or to achieve better work-life balance. We have been taught since we were toddlers: “Always do your best.” Elisabeth’s alternative message is that all of our work must be GOOD. Much of it will be BETTER. And that allows us to conserve time and energy to make our BEST exceptional.
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Hard work alone does not cause burnout. Occupational psychologists have found the recipe is hard work + lack of control + inadequate resources + disappointing results. The TRIoritize Technique addresses all of these morale-killers. Elisabeth’s system gives people control over their level of effort. It reallocates our existing resources so that we invest our BEST in worthy goals that actually matter. And it reframes our results: If we make our less important work “good enough” on purpose instead of by accident, that same exact work is a success instead of a failure!
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As a result of this program, AUDIENCES will:

• Put an end to indiscriminate overwork and invest their time and talent thoughtfully.
• Rethink their expectations of themselves and their colleagues.
• Stop feeling depleted all the time and start feeling inspired again.
• Regain control over their work, their lives—and their future.
• Tap into the power of prioritizing to make all of their work GOOD and their BEST extraordinary.

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Highlights

• Executive-grade framework, not platitudes: A repeatable method leaders can apply immediately to reduce overload and restore strategic control.
• “Effort management” edge: Teaches when to go good / better / best so peak performance becomes sustainable instead of exhausting.
• Built in pressure-cooker conditions: Real credibility from a career where performance was public, immediate, and unforgiving.
• Leadership lens: Addresses how overload blocks mentoring, innovation, and strategic thinking — the very work senior leaders must protect.
• Practical delegation + prioritization: Helps leaders systematically decide what to elevate, what to minimize, and what to drop.
• Value-add options included (no cost): Breakout on positive media attention; panel moderation; on-stage CEO interview; emcee support.

Speaker Reel - https://vimeo.com/1082633673?fl=pl&fe=sh

Gravity Speakers Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/diane-allen

Speaker Website: https://dianeallen.com/

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Why Diane

As organizations rethink workplace design and redefine performance, Diane brings a human-centered perspective on helping people perform at their highest levels without sacrificing wellbeing. Her work focuses on helping leaders create cultures where engagement, fulfillment, and sustainable performance coexist—an increasingly important conversation as organizations navigate workforce transformation.

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Topic

Activate the Flow State and Turn ‘All’ Talent into ‘Top’ Talent

What if top talent wasn’t just a label for select few, but the norm across your entire workforce?

Enter, the Flow State, an optimal state of mind when people feel their best and perform their best. People in Flow are deeply engaged, at the top of their talent, and driven by purpose. Learning how to activate the Flow State is what turns all talent into top talent.

Flow State Expert Diane Allen, is known for creating a repeatable framework making Flow accessible to people from all walks of life. Backed by positive psychology and neuroscience, Diane’s systems on activating Flow awakens untapped potential, sustainable peak performance, and happiness.

As a 15-year Concertmaster, Diane led over 100 musicians and moved thousands of audience members, all without saying a word. Her ability to play a high-precision instrument while leading with presence came from discovering how to activate her Flow State, on demand. In Flow, she consistently performed at the top of her talent, fully aligned with her most authentic self, all in a way that refueled her (not drained).

In this immersive keynote, Diane blends music, neuroscience, and experiential learning so every employee can discover how to work at the top of their abilities. The result: unlocking a culture of authenticity, excellence, and a workplace people don’t want to leave.

Tangible Takeaways:

• Understand the neuroscience of Flow and why it’s a powerful antidote to burnout
• Identify your personal gateway into Flow and how to activate it at will
• Shift from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ to unlock your most energized, authentic presence
• Harness unique strengths so every employee contributes at their highest level
• Build cultures where high performance and well-being are in harmony, not at odds

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Unlock Your Genius, Love What You Do

“Being while you’re doing is the key to thriving.”

As a Concertmaster for 15 years, Diane knew that playing the right notes wasn’t enough. She was expected to lead a transformational experience for both the orchestra and the audience. Getting into her Flow State was how Diane reliably shifted from doing to being, igniting excellence and purpose, creating a meaningful experience for all.

Guided by her ground-breaking Flow Strategy™ system, participants learn how to navigate uncertainty, disruption, and burnout. Diane’s unique blend of music and experiential learning provides participants an unforgettable experience, helping them shift from doing to being in real-time—the key to deep engagement.

This program creates a thriving workplace culture where teams unlock their genius, fuel their purpose, and love their work.

Attendees will Learn:

• Essential knowledge and neuroscience of the flow state
• Two powerful methods to spark unstoppable flow
• How to unlock your signature strengths and love what you do

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Highlights

• Flow as organizational strategy: Positions engagement and performance as systems organizations can intentionally create.
• Built from lived leadership experience: Led over 100 musicians in high-pressure environments while driving alignment and excellence.
• Sustainable performance focus: Helps organizations pursue high performance without relying on burnout-driven cultures.
• Blends neuroscience and live musical performance into immersive experiences audiences remember.
• Creates practical pathways toward deeper engagement and fulfillment.
• Reframes peak performance as energizing rather than exhausting.

Gravity Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/sherhara-burrell

Speaker Website: https://www.sherhara.com/

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Why Sherhara

As organizations evolve and leaders are increasingly asked to communicate through uncertainty, change, and visibility, Sherhara’s work helps leaders develop stronger presence and greater trust. Her focus on authentic leadership and communication creates practical value for organizations navigating transformation.

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Beyond Confidence: The Keys to Owning Any Room

For Leaders Navigating High-Stakes Visibility & Influence

Many high-performing leaders hesitate in moments that matter because they rely on performative confidence rather than grounded conviction. This keynote helps leaders shift from performing confidence to leading from alignment, so their presence holds under pressure.

Leaders Leave With:

• Clearer identity and leadership voice
• Stronger presence in meetings and presentations
• Tools to communicate with credibility and conviction

Organizations Gain:

• Leaders who show up decisively and authentically
• Stronger communication culture and engagement
• Talent prepared to lead change and influence outcomes

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Mastering the Shameless Plug: Advocate. Influence. Lead.

For organizations developing visible, confident talent

When self-advocacy feels uncomfortable or unclear, capable leaders stay invisible. This keynote reframes self-advocacy as a leadership skill, giving leaders language and frameworks to articulate their value clearly without shrinking or over-explaining.

Leaders Leave With:

• A clear, confident way to speak about their value
• Tools to overcome imposter syndrome
• Stronger influence through intentional communication
  

Organizations Gain:

• Increased visibility of high-potential talent
• A culture of confident communication and ownership
• Improved collaboration and retention

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Highlights

• Presence under pressure: Helps leaders communicate effectively when visibility, uncertainty, and organizational stakes increase.
• Identity-driven leadership approach: Focuses on alignment and conviction rather than performative executive presence.
• Builds trust-based leadership cultures: Her work extends beyond presentation skills and into how leaders create credibility and influence.
• Equips leaders navigating change: Practical frameworks help leaders communicate through transition and uncertainty.
• Strategy and soul: Blends executive communication tools with emotional intelligence and authenticity.
• Develops leaders people want to follow—not simply leaders people listen to.

Speaker Video - https://youtu.be/jWoGl6KZW5Q?si=NU-M8PVXY-hDGLvt

Gravity Speakers Profile - https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/aubrey-blanche

Speaker Website - https://aubreyblanche.com/

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Why Aubrey

Aubrey brings a systems lens that aligns naturally with WorkBeyond’s broader theme of redesign. Rather than approaching challenges through isolated initiatives, her work challenges organizations to rethink how structures, processes, and technologies are built in the first place.

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Topic

Fair by Design: What HR and Recruiting Professionals Need to Know About AI Ethics

Hiring is one of the highest-stakes decisions an organisation makes — and increasingly, AI is in the room when we make it. From résumé screening to candidate scoring to interview analysis, the tools promising to make recruiting faster and more objective are everywhere. But faster isn't the same as fairer. And "objective" is often just bias with better branding.

As someone who has spent her career at the intersection of equity, technology, and organisational design, Aubrey Blanche has watched HR and recruiting become one of the most consequential — and under-examined — frontiers of AI ethics.

You'll leave with a practical ethical framework for evaluating AI tools, a set of questions to pressure-test any vendor's claims, and the confidence to push back when something doesn't feel right — even when the ROI deck looks compelling.

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From Program to Process: Designing Equitable Organizations & Products

How many organizations, processes, and products are poorly designed or produce real-world harm because the right voices weren't let into the room where the building...happens? How much money has been spent on “diversity & inclusion” while companies remain homogenous and underrepresented employees struggle to thrive?

Funding external partnerships and PR don’t address daily microaggressions underrepresented employees face, while unconscious bias training has been shown to potentially increase bias in the workplace. An almost singular focus on women in the workplace has left women of color behind, erased the experience of people with disabilities, and left almost everyone with “diversity fatigue”.

Progressive business leaders are questioning many traditional “best practices” that haven’t shown to have a positive impact on employees, and are building new, data-informed, and intersectional strategies to truly move the needle.

Join The Mathpath Aubrey Blanche, Director of Equitable Design & Impact at Culture Amp, to learn how you can evolve your programs to create fair experiences for every employee and build better, safer products.

The keynote may be adjusted to focus on DEI strategy, talent processes, collaboration (meetings & 1:1s), and/or product development.

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Highlights

• Systems thinker, not program builder: Challenges organizations to redesign structures rather than layering additional initiatives onto broken systems.
• Responsible AI perspective increasingly relevant to workforce transformation conversations.
• Combines technology, business operations, and people strategy into one integrated lens.
• Examines second- and third-order consequences: Helps leaders think beyond immediate decisions and understand long-term organizational implications.
• Data-informed and human-centered: Balances analytical rigor with practical leadership realities.
• Pushes organizations beyond surface-level transformation efforts.