EisnerAmper is hosting its annual Partner Offsite in Orlando on June 8–9, 2026, bringing together 500+ firm partners from across the U.S. for two days of inspiration, strategic alignment, and forward-looking discussion.
They are seeking a keynote speaker to open the conference on Monday, June 8, with a focus on delivering a fresh, future-oriented perspective on business, leadership, and organic growth. The speaker should blend thought leadership with humanity, weaving storytelling, insight, and practical takeaways into a compelling narrative about the future of professional services.
Audience: Accomplished, business-minded partners who value substance, clarity, and authenticity.
Desired Themes & Qualities:
Budget: Targeting $50,000, with some flexibility slightly above this range.
Strat House is leading the program strategy and managing speaker selection.
Diana Kander is a New York Times bestselling author, innovation strategist, and serial entrepreneur who helps organizations spark growth through curiosity, alignment, and customer-centered thinking. A former refugee turned entrepreneur, Diana built and sold multiple companies before shifting her focus to advising Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, and high-growth teams. Her bestselling books—All In Startup and The Curiosity Muscle—are used in over 100 universities to teach innovation and leadership. With a blend of humor, insight, and actionable frameworks, Diana empowers leaders to challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and drive sustainable, long-term growth.
Other offerings:
1) Keynote (up to 60mins) + Same Day Workshop (up to 60 minutes) = $42,500 + $2,500 flat travel which covers airfare and all meals, Organizer provides car service for airport transfers in destination city PLUS Organizer provides (1) King Room for 2 nights hotel
2) Keynote (up to 60 mins) + Workshop (up to 60 minutes) + Curiousity Networking Activity (will get more information about this if there's interest) = $52,500 + $2,500 flat travel which covers airfare and all meals, Organizer provides car service for airport transfers in destination city PLUS Organizer provides (1) King Room for 2 nights hotel
Gravity Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/diana-kander
Speaker Website: https://dianakander.com/



“My team really enjoyed the hands on interaction with Diana and the mentoring that she provided. The level of engagement from Diana made it really meaningful and much more personal. Most importantly the training has provided a roadmap for transforming our business into a more entrepreneurial company.” - Perceptive Software/Lexmark
“It’s absolutely relevant in today’s business world. I’d highly recommend her, and her book — stop zombie projects, establish failure metrics and never stop being curious about your customers!” - Affiliated Distributors
Diana is not only inspiring—she is immediately practical, giving EisnerAmper’s partners a clear, usable framework to sharpen their thinking and fuel the firm’s long-term growth.
WANT AN INCREDIBLE OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER THAT MAKES PARTICIPANTS MORE OPEN AND ENGAGED IN EACH AND EVERY SESSION? THEN TEACH THEM HOW TO HARNESS THEIR CURIOSITY!
Based on her book, The Curiosity Muscle, Diana's high-energy keynote shows us how we can level up the simple questions we ask ourselves on a daily basis to get significantly better results and drive innovation. That includes the questions attendees are reflecting on throughout your event!
Diana will help participants understand that the longer they've been doing something, the more likely it is that their expertise has also created some blindspots. Blindspots that could be huge opportunities for growth. She'll demonstrate how we struggle with additive bias, or looking to add more things to our plate to solve a problem, when taking something away would be the much more optimal solution. And she'll help attendees understand how our natural desire to be right gets in the way of our learning and improvement.
Through hilarious case studies and interactive exercises, Diana will leave your audience excited to learn and open to changing how they see the world.
Key Takeaways
Jay Baer is a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the world’s leading experts on business growth, customer experience, and customer loyalty. For 30 years, Jay has advised more than 700 iconic brands—including Nike, Oracle, Salesforce, Bentley, and The United Nations—on how to attract and retain clients in rapidly changing markets. A 7th-generation entrepreneur and author of seven best-selling books, Jay blends research, humor, and practical strategy to help leaders drive measurable growth through better communication, responsiveness, and human connection.
Gravity Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/jay-baer
Speaker Website: https://www.jaybaer.com/
Jay is based in Indiana.



“Jay is a powerful presenter. He not only positively affected our members, but as a result of his presentation, our own organization completely changed our approach to growth.” – Bill Eckstrom, Ceo Of Ecsell Institute
"The minute Jay (literally) ran up on stage to inspire over 700 property managers, the energy level in the room reached phenomenal heights. His style — a perfect balance of humorous examples and educational insights — kept people engaged until the very end. It was informative, actionable, personal, and incredibly valuable to our customers." - Lisa Horner, Vice President Of Marketing, Appfolio
Jay’s flagship growth keynote
Customer expectations are always rising. Customers demand perfection (or nearly so) and they want it instantly. With customer experience often outweighing price as a deciding purchase factor, mastering the crucial customer interactions is vital for success.
In “Quick. Clear. Kind. The 3 Unbreakable Rules of Customer Loyalty,” Jay Baer delivers an energetic, compelling, highly customized, and hilarious presentation backed by real data. This keynote reveals the three essential components that foster customer loyalty: being quick, clear, and kind.
Attendees will learn actionable strategies to improve these pivotal areas, helping to win more customers and keep them coming back. Jay teaches a proven framework—developed from his work with hundreds of major brands—that provides specific, immediately implementable tactics and techniques.
Key Audience Learnings:
Hall of Fame keynote speaker Jay Baer is also an in-demand emcee and event host. Whether it’s a full-day program or a complex, multi-day event, Jay has hosted events [both virtually and in-person] for IBM, Oracle, Roche, D&H Distributing, and many other major brands for audiences as large as 15,000 attendees.
He prepares vigorously, reviewing presentations of all main stage speakers with event organizers beforehand, and remains largely unscripted to be able to connect the thematic dots on-the-fly.
Jay even offers to create a closing keynote written DURING the event, that closes the show with key takeaways and lessons for the audience.
He can easily pull double or triple duty at your event (keynote + emcee + panel moderator), and he can assist with run-of-show, tech platform selection, speaker coaching, interactive elements, marketing, and more.
Erica Dhawan is a globally recognized leadership and communication expert, bestselling author of Digital Body Language, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on connection, trust, and collaboration in modern business. As the leading voice on Connectional Intelligence®, she helps organizations transform how their people communicate, innovate, and build relationships in a world where digital communication, hybrid work, and AI shape every interaction.
A Thinkers50 award-winning management thinker—ranked among the most influential voices shaping the future of leadership—Erica advises Fortune 500 companies, global financial institutions, and professional services organizations navigating fast-paced change and the pressures of growth. Her work reveals how leaders can decode digital cues, strengthen trust in distributed environments, improve cross-team alignment, and foster collaboration that accelerates impact.
Erica’s insights have been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal, reinforcing her standing as a fresh, essential voice for modern leadership. She blends evidence-based research with memorable storytelling, practical frameworks, and an approachable, contemporary delivery style that resonates with analytically minded leaders.
For partner-level audiences, Erica deconstructs the hidden forces that influence communication and culture—clarity, responsiveness, tone, trust, and psychological safety—and shows how they directly impact performance, client experience, and organic growth. She equips leaders with the tools to reduce friction, strengthen alignment, elevate advisory value, and create environments where people feel confident, empowered, and connected.
Erica’s work is especially relevant to organizations tied to the future: future of clients, future of work, future of strategy, and future of talent. As EisnerAmper continues aligning around its long-term strategic direction, Erica offers partners a modern, energizing lens for leading through change, deepening relationships, and generating sustainable growth in the years ahead.
Gravity Speakers Profile - https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/erica-dhawan
Speaker Website - https://ericadhawan.com/
Erica is based in New York.


“Erica’s session was engaging, relevant, and actionable. She is thoughtful, inspirational, and smart with a contagious positive energy. All organizations and executive leaders would benefit from having her as an advisor to drive behavioral change, harness the power of networks, and think beyond traditional cohorts. She is a thought leader in the development of collaborative ways of working, improving productivity and customer engagement and experience.” ― Lisa McCann, COO & Global Head of Customer Success and Delivery Services, Korn Ferry
“Erica’s presentation was absolutely perfect for our leaders. Our group was diverse and Erica was a hit with everyone! Her storytelling style of presenting along with a healthy dose of informative case studies kept everyone engaged and interested and excited about using connectional intelligence to transform our business”. ― George Chavel, Chairman Emeritus, Sodexo
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We live in a world of endless meetings and emails and constant cross-team dysfunction, duplication and delays. Our collaboration skills aren’t working to unlock better value in our business. As radical a concept as Emotional Intelligence was in the 90s, Connectional Intelligence is turning people into superconnectors who accelerate innovation, break down silos and foster breakthrough top and bottom line impact.
With her signature energy and practical tools, Erica helps leaders and teams move from reaction to reinvention, accelerating performance, growth, and transformation across their organizations.
Seth Mattison is an internationally recognized business strategist, futurist, and leadership advisor who helps organizations navigate disruption and build future-ready cultures centered on trust, human potential, and sustainable performance. As the founder and CEO of FutureSight Labs, Seth has spent nearly two decades advising world-leading firms—including IBM, AT&T, Mastercard, NASA, MassMutual, and Allianz—on how to evolve their leadership models, engage top talent, and create human-centered growth strategies in times of accelerated change.
Known for his deeply researched insights and electrifying stage presence, Seth blends behavioral science, organizational psychology, and emerging technology trends to help leaders understand the real forces reshaping the future of work. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and numerous industry journals, and he is regarded as one of today’s most compelling voices on leadership transformation.
Seth’s recent focus has been on the financial and professional services sectors, where firms face intense pressure from digital disruption, heightened client expectations, workforce evolution, and the rapid adoption of AI. He works with financial institutions and advisory organizations to strengthen client trust, equip partners to lead confidently in an AI-enabled world, and build cultures that balance innovation with human-centered leadership.
At the core of Seth’s work is a belief that the organizations with the greatest competitive advantage will be those who unlock the full potential of their people. He helps senior leaders develop regenerative leadership practices, create environments where performance and well-being coexist, and design experiences that deepen client relationships in a landscape where trust and authenticity are more valuable than ever.
With a delivery style that is high-energy, story-driven, and deeply relatable to analytical audiences, Seth provides leaders with a forward-looking, practical roadmap for navigating change while aligning around strategy, purpose, and sustainable growth.
Seth also offers a keynote + same dame workshop = $45,000 plus a $2,500 flat travel fee to cover RT Airfare, Home Ground, Meals and Incidentals. Organizer to book and arrange Event City Ground Transfers and Hotel Accommodations for up to 2 nights
Gravity Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/seth-mattison
Speaker Website: https://www.sethmattison.com/
Seth is based in Los Angeles, CA


“Seth's work with the agency has had a big impact. A number of leaders have continued to reference the session and how much of an impact the ideas have had on their thinking as it relates to leading digital transformation at the agency.” - Jane Datta, Chief Human Capital Officer, NASA
“As we navigated our own transformational journey, Seth’s research and insights provided a spot-on and powerful framework to help our executive team challenge the assumptions they've made and the beliefs they carry about who they are and how they're showing up in the world as leaders.” - Susan Cisco, Head of HR & Employee Experience, MassMutual
Seth speaks specifically to the Financial Services Industry. While there are topics presented below, I encourage you to view his Financial Services Speaking Page, which specifically addresses your industries challenges - https://www.sethmattison.com/financialservices.
Some of the Key Industry Challenges, as outlined by Seth -
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As we find ourselves propelled into the age of artificial intelligence and hyper change, it's easy to think that tools will define our trades and machines will dominate our work. With jobs evolving faster than people, thriving in this era requires unlocking the power of both technology and human potential. While machines can replicate tasks, they can never replicate the heart and soul behind the work.
As technology commodifies competitive advantages, organizations must innovate and shift from mere efficiency to true augmentation. By blending Al with human creativity, empathy, and complex problem-solving, businesses can achieve a synergy that drives unprecedented growth and engagement. Let's harness new tools to drive efficiency and scale while amplifying the human touch that makes us unique.
As pressure mounts to deliver results, the future of sustainable growth depends on creating environments that nourish—rather than deplete—human potential. Financial and professional services institutions are in the midst of an identity shift. Traditional high-output cultures have fueled results for decades, but they’ve also generated burnout, disengagement, and a growing sense of purposelessness across the workforce.
Seth’s transformative keynote reframes leadership for a new era—one where regenerative practices inspire sustainable high performance, deepen human connection, and unlock unprecedented levels of creativity, innovation, and loyalty. By grounding leadership in purpose, passion, and human expression, organizations can create cultures that outperform competitors and inspire both employees and clients.
Financial institutions and professional service firms face unprecedented disruption. AI acceleration, evolving client expectations, regulatory pressures, and rapid digitalization demand leaders who can guide their teams with clarity, empathy, and agility. Future-ready leadership is no longer about directing from the top—it’s about empowering teams, fostering trust, and leading with a human-centered approach that inspires people through uncertainty.
In this powerful keynote, Seth reveals how future-ready leaders anticipate change, adapt with confidence, and transform challenges into opportunities for sustainable growth. By centering leadership on emotional intelligence, autonomy, authenticity, and shared purpose, organizations can build cultures that are resilient, aligned, and equipped to outperform in a rapidly shifting marketplace.
Keith Ferrazzi is a globally recognized thought leader, bestselling author, and transformational advisor to the world’s most influential organizations. Recently named to the prestigious Thinkers50 list, Keith is known for redefining how modern teams collaborate, innovate, and grow—especially in industries where alignment, trust, and strategic clarity are essential to long-term performance.
As the founder and chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he has spent more than two decades coaching executive teams in Fortune 500 companies to accelerate enterprise-wide transformation through behavioral science, high-return leadership practices, and sustainable organic growth strategies. His bestselling books—Never Eat Alone, Leading Without Authority, Competing in the New World of Work, and his forthcoming Never Lead Alone—have become foundational texts on creating high-performing, future-ready teams who thrive through change.
Keith is also the founder of the Radical Innovators Collaborative (RIC), an elite community of Fortune 500 CIOs, COOs, CHROs, and founders focused on reimagining the future of work. RIC members actively develop real-world pilots and innovation initiatives that reshape collaboration, accelerate AI integration, and redefine how organizations build value in a rapidly shifting landscape. This work gives Keith a front-row seat to the trends, behaviors, and mindset shifts driving competitive advantage across industries—including professional services.
Known for his energetic, conversational, and story-rich keynote style, Keith blends rigorous research with human-centered insights, delivering sessions that engage deeply while providing partners with clear, practical ways to rethink leadership, cultivate growth mindsets, and build cultures capable of achieving more together. His ability to connect authentically, inspire bold action, and translate complex change into actionable pathways makes him a powerful fit for executive-level audiences seeking alignment and momentum toward a shared strategic future.
Gravity Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/keith-ferrazzi
Speaker Website: https://www.keithferrazzi.com/
Keith is based in Los Angeles, CA





“Keith pushed us to think outside of the box and ‘added more to our wallets’! He gave us both motivation and tools to go out and apply his message in our everyday lives, not just with our clients, but with everyone in our lives." -- Goldman Sachs
"Keith spoke to a group comprised of the top talent across Deutsche Bank from VP's and directors to mid level executives, discussing the importance of building relationships to engender personal and professional growth. In a short period of time, he provided these folks with the tool sets needed to cultivate and expand their current network relationships along with strategies enabling them to build new meaningful and personable relationships. Success from a corporate standpoint hinges on the efficacy and ability to communicate both within and across all departments. I think Keith was instrumental in addressing our goals as a corporation and we'd love to have him back in the future." -- Deutsche Bank
“Thank you for your engaging and dynamic keynote presentation at our leadership conference. We have been getting rave reviews on both your message and delivery. Based on the stories and exercises you used to emphasize key points, the leaders I spoke with during the conference were able to see themselves a bit differently and identify ways to improve both their work and personal relationships going forward. It was great how you were able to tie in comments from our breakfast meeting just prior to your presentation in order to customize content– in the moment– to establish an early sense of connection with our group.” -- US Bank
Keith is committed to tailoring his content, through a Co-Creation Meeting with the Organizers, to be deliver the most relevant material. Ideas and Themes will be based on the below Keynotes:
How much longer can your team afford to play it safe in the face of disruption? Keith Ferrazzi’s Challenge Talk propels teams out of their comfort zones and into the bold action disruption demands. This isn’t a speech for passive listening; it’s a catalytic moment for your leaders and employees to wrestle with the question: What do we need to adapt and adopt to create the future we want? Each Challenge Talk is customized based on pre-session interviews and diagnostics to reveal the strategic, operational, and cultural hurdles unique to your organization.
The result is not just a talk, but a challenge experience — a powerful moment of alignment where your people walk away clear on how to step up, seize opportunities like AI, and contribute to the bold future your organization is building.
In today's dynamic and increasingly virtual landscape, professionals navigate the unique challenge of fostering connections through screens and in-person. Yet, amidst the digital divide, the enduring key to sustained revenue growth remains unchanged: cultivating authentic and deeply loyal relationships. Keith will delve into strategies that transcend virtual barriers and leverage new technologies to empower your teams to proactively forge meaningful connections with clients and prospects alike.
During this talk you will:
Research shows that 81% of team members believe they fail to achieve their full potential, while 71% say they don’t collaborate effectively on their organization’s most important challenges. Never Lead Alone, Keith’s forthcoming book, unlocks this untapped capacity through a new model of leadership designed for the AI era: Teamship.
As AI reshapes the business landscape, the teams that thrive will be those capable of adapting, innovating, and co-creating with both human and AI teammates. This keynote is a roadmap for making the leap from leadership to teamship—and unlocking the firm’s full potential.
Cassandra Worthy is the world’s leading voice on embracing change through emotion—and the creator of the Change Enthusiasm® strategy that’s transforming how teams across the globe approach disruption, uncertainty, and reinvention.
With a background as a chemical engineer and nearly two decades in the corporate trenches—including leading through a $5B acquisition—Cassandra speaks the language of high-performing, evolving organizations. She doesn’t shy away from the tough stuff. Instead, she helps companies tackle the emotional realities of change head-on and channel them into resilience, adaptability, and performance.
She’s been trusted by Procter & Gamble, Allstate, WeWork, and ConferenceDirect to inspire people across functions and levels to own change instead of resisting it.
Website: https://cassandraworthy.com/
Cassandra is based in Atlanta, GA

“Cassandra kicked off our annual Industrial Intelligence Conference with a ton of energy. Her unique background in business, leadership, and science really clicked with our attendees.” - Jeremy Boren, Brand Manager, GrayMatter
"Cassandra’s Change Enthusiast movement is revolutionary because it takes something subjective and innate – our feelings – and provides a framework to transform these visceral emotions into an objective action plan.” - Daniel Soffin, Innovation Manager, P&G
This keynote distills down 15 years of Cassandra’s Corporate M&A experience into the critical skills that will empower leaders to create and sustain growth through change.
This program is perfect for:
The audience will leave with:
Alex Banayan is the youngest bestselling business author in American history and the creator of The Third Door® framework—a groundbreaking approach to unlocking exponential growth by thinking beyond conventional pathways. His book, The Third Door, is a #1 international bestseller, translated into more than twenty languages, and chronicles his seven-year quest to uncover how the world’s most innovative leaders broke through and achieved extraordinary success.
Banayan interviewed Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Jane Goodall, Steve Wozniak, Maya Angelou, Jessica Alba, Quincy Jones, and dozens more, distilling their insights into actionable tools for mindset, perseverance, and strategic growth. His keynotes have inspired millions across 100+ countries and helped Fortune 500 teams rethink how they approach sales, innovation, leadership, and opportunity creation.
Other Offering: Keynote + Workshop - $37,500, plus a travel buyout of $2,500 for flights, meals, and incidentals. Client is responsible for event-city ground transportation and up to two nights of hotel.
Gravity Profile: https://www.gravityspeakers.com/speakers/alex-banayan
Speaker Website: https://alexbanayan.com/
Alex is based in Los Angeles, CA.

“Thought-provoking, practical, and engaging. Alex Banayan’s keynote opened our minds, moving us to a place of authenticity and growth.” — Mary Zackius-Shittu, Director of HR, The World Bank
“The feedback about Alex Banayan’s keynote has been off the charts. It was an outstanding event! Alex knocked it out of the park!” — Andy Sieg, President, Merrill Lynch
“Alex Banayan’s keynote was entertaining, informative, and most of all, memorable. Thousands of our team members were in the audience and Banayan’s storytelling made it feel like we were all sitting down with him, one on one, as he spoke directly to each of us. It was exactly the kind of engaging keynote we were looking for.” — Mike Miedler, CEO, Century 21 Real Estate
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How to Transform Your Thinking, Take the Third Door®, and Achieve your most Important Goals
We all face rejection. We all deal with fear. At times, it can feel like there are dozens of obstacles holding us back from achieving our biggest goals.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are certain mindsets and tools that can clear the obstacles along your path and add rocket fuel to your success. After spending fifteen years researching and interviewing the world’s most innovative leaders, bestselling author Alex Banayan’s widely acclaimed Third Door™ framework can help any organization achieve its goals and radically accelerate its growth.
In this high-energy keynote, Banayan takes audiences on an unprecedented adventure, from hacking The Price is Right to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to the multi-year quest to learn from Bill Gates and Lady Gaga. Alongside these larger-than-life stories, Banayan takes the insights from his bestselling book The Third Door to a whole new level, making them practical and applicable for organizations of all sizes.
This wildly entertaining keynote is packed with tools and lessons guaranteed to supercharge your mindset—to the point where growth becomes inevitable.