The Keynote Curators Podcast

Seth Dechtman - The Keynote Curators
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The Keynote Curators Podcast brings the most current and engaging topics from the best keynote speakers in the world. For two decades, The Keynote Curators have worked with event, meeting, and conference professionals to guarantee they hit a home run when it comes to the main stage. Find out for yourself why planners choose The Keynote Curators to deliver results and make planning a breeze. Contact our office today. VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://thekeynotecurators.com/ CONNECT WITH US: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2883493/

  1. 1d ago

    198. How to Master Change Leadership (Without Burning Yourself Out) with Cheryl Cran

    Not every workplace roadblock needs a new tool, process, or platform. Sometimes the problem is simpler. Two people don’t trust each other. Someone needs to be right. A leader isn’t listening. A difficult conversation keeps getting avoided. On this episode, change leadership expert Cheryl Cran and I talk about why the future of work may depend less on mastering technology and more on mastering ourselves and each other. We get into: ✅ Why Cheryl believes leaders need a stronger Relationship Quotient ✅ How to see conflict from more than one point of view ✅ Why metacognition helps leaders read the room in real time ✅ How AI can free leaders to do more of the work only humans can do ✅ Why empathy without accountability eventually becomes exhausting ✅ How adaptability starts with what you can actually control One idea worth keeping: Before you try to fix the process, ask whether you need to fix the relationship. 🎤 Explore Cheryl's keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on change, leadership, adaptability, and the human skills shaping the future of work, Cheryl delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if she’s the right fit: info@thekeynotecurators.com #change #futureofwork #leadership #adaptability #relationships #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    198. How to Master Change Leadership (Without Burning Yourself Out) with Cheryl Cran

  2. Oct 22

    197. Why Team Culture Beats Raw Talent Every Single Time with David Burkus

    When was the last time someone disagreed with you in front of your entire team? Corporate culture expert David Burkus says your answer tells him a lot about your company. Because trust isn’t something leaders announce. It shows up when someone takes a risk: Shares the weird idea. Admits they don’t know. Challenges the boss. And then watches what happens next. On The Keynote Curators Podcast, David and I get into what actually makes teams work: ✅ Why culture beats talent ✅ How leaders strengthen or shut down the trust loop ✅ The REAL method for actually listening ✅ Why “soft skills” are often the hardest leadership work ✅ How remote teams can create small moments of real connection ✅ Why a toxic high performer isn’t actually a high performer ✅ How clarity gives people more autonomy, not less One question worth stealing: When someone disagrees with you, does your reaction make them more likely or less likely to do it again? That’s culture. 🎤 Explore David’s keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on team culture, trust, leadership, and building teams that actually perform better together, David delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if he’s the right fit: info@thekeynotecurators.com #teamculture #trust #leadership #listening #teamperformance #remotework #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    197. Why Team Culture Beats Raw Talent Every Single Time with David Burkus

  3. Oct 15

    196. How to Master AI to Deliver High-Value Results with Sam Richter

    AI will replace your job. Sam Richter says yes. If you define your job as updating the CRM, building the deck, writing the first draft, or finding information, AI is coming for a lot of it. But if you define your job by the value you create? That’s a very different conversation. On The Keynote Curators Podcast, Sam and I get into where AI ends and the human work begins: ✅ Information is easy. Knowing what it means is harder. ✅ Your buyer cares a lot less about you than you think. ✅ “Short attention spans” are often a relevance problem. ✅ AI can write the first 85%. The last 15% is where you show up. ✅ Automating the work is useful. Outsourcing the thinking is dangerous. ✅ Expertise still has to be earned. One question worth asking: When AI finishes the task, what are YOU adding that makes the result more valuable? 🎤 Explore Sam's keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on AI, communication, sales, and staying genuinely human while technology does more of the work, Sam delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if he’s the right fit: info@thekeynotecurators.com #artificialintelligence #AI #communication #sales #authenticity #leadership #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    196. How to Master AI to Deliver High-Value Results with Sam Richter

  4. Oct 8

    195. Real Change Starts by Embracing Your Emotions, with Cassandra Worthy

    Here’s some unusual advice: embrace change and take rejection personally. Feel the frustration. The anxiety. Then get curious about what it’s trying to tell you. That’s the heart of Cassandra Worthy’s approach to change. On The Keynote Curators Podcast, Cassandra and I talk about using difficult emotions as signals, not obstacles: Recognize the signal. Find the opportunity. Make a choice. Inside this episode: ✅ Why leaders shouldn’t pretend they’re fearless ✅ How frustration can point toward growth ✅ Why rejection can be useful ✅ The real grief employees feel when AI changes how they work ✅ Why people may need to process what they’re losing before embracing what’s next One idea worth keeping: The emotion isn’t necessarily the problem. It might be the information. 🎤 Explore Cassandra’s keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on change, emotional intelligence, AI transformation, and turning discomfort into forward movement, Cassandra delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Contact us: info@thekeynotecurators.com #change #changemanagement #emotionalintelligence #artificialintelligence #personalgrowth #leadership #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    195. Real Change Starts by Embracing Your Emotions, with Cassandra Worthy

  5. Oct 1

    194. Ways to Strengthen Your Workplace Culture, with Danny Goldberg

    Ask your leadership team, “How’s your company culture?” and their response will probably be, "Great.” Now ask the employees. That’s where things get interesting. Danny Goldberg talks with both groups before his keynotes. And 9 times out of 10, he finds a gap between the culture leaders believe they’ve created and the one employees actually experience. He calls it the perceived gap. On this episode of The Keynote Curators Podcast, Danny and I get into what closes it: Not better perks. Not another values statement. Not telling people you care. Making sure they actually FEEL it. Inside this episode: ✅ Why pay and perks are now the baseline, not the solution ✅ What leaders learn when they understand the whole person, not just the employee ✅ Why psychological safety improves performance instead of lowering standards ✅ How small behaviors can quietly teach a team to stop speaking up ✅ Why toxic behavior becomes culture the moment everyone accepts it ✅ What great leaders do to make care felt consistently One question worth asking: Does your team experience the culture you think you’re leading? 🎤 Explore Danny’s keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on workplace culture, psychological safety, leadership, and creating the conditions for teams to perform at their best, Danny delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if he’s the right fit: info@thekeynotecurators.com #workplaceculture #leadership #psychologicalsafety #trust #employeeexperience #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    194. Ways to Strengthen Your Workplace Culture, with Danny Goldberg

  6. Sep 24

    193. Customer Experience Strategies that Actually Work with Brad Cleveland

    Easy is hard. For the customer, great service should feel almost invisible: A short wait. A useful answer. A bot that knows when to hand you to a human. A problem that doesn’t happen again. Behind that simplicity? Training. Staffing. Better systems. Clear values. And a willingness to actually learn from what customers are telling you. That’s the territory Brad Cleveland and I explore on this episode of The Keynote Curators Podcast. Brad has spent decades studying customer experience, and one thing becomes clear quickly: Customer service isn’t where problems go to die. It’s where companies should go to learn. We get into: ✅ Why a crisis reveals your company values rather than creating them ✅ How rushed AI can make customer experience worse, not better ✅ Why customers still need an easy path to a real human ✅ What wait times really communicate about how you value people ✅ Why effortless service requires serious work behind the scenes ✅ How complaints can expose the next product or process you need to fix One idea worth stealing: Don’t just measure how fast your team handled the problem. Ask why the customer had to contact you in the first place. 🎤 Explore Brad’s keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on customer experience, customer service, company values, and using AI without losing the human experience, Brad delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if he’s the right fit: info@thekeynotecurators.com #customerexperience #customerservice #companyvalues #artificialintelligence #CX #leadership #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    193. Customer Experience Strategies that Actually Work with Brad Cleveland

  7. Sep 17

    192. Your Career Could Show Up Where You Least Expect It with Melissa Proctor

    Forget the career ladder. Melissa Proctor prefers the jungle gym. Sideways.Backward.Up.Over.Into a role you never planned on taking. Her own path started as the Miami Heat’s first ball girl, folding towels, sweeping floors, and talking to everyone in the building, and eventually led to the C-suite as EVP and CMO of the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena. On this episode of The Keynote Curators Podcast, Melissa and I talk about what happens when you stop trying to make your career look perfectly linear and start paying attention to what each experience is teaching you. Inside this episode: ✅ Why career detours can make you a stronger leader ✅ What starting at the bottom taught Melissa about relationships ✅ Why great ideas can come from anyone, not just the highest-paid person in the room ✅ How leaders learn to step back and let their teams work ✅ Why brands have to earn the trust of their communities ✅ What happens when community impact becomes part of the business strategy One idea worth stealing: Don’t just ask, “What’s the next step up?” Ask, “What do I need to learn next?” That can take your career somewhere a ladder never could. 🎤 Explore Melissa’s keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on career growth, leadership, brand building, and creating opportunity through an unconventional path, Melissa delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if she’s the right fit: info@thekeynotecurators.com #career #careergrowth #leadership #brandbuilding #community #creativity #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    192. Your Career Could Show Up Where You Least Expect It with Melissa Proctor

  8. Sep 10

    191. Build a Business Culture People Want to Work For with Chris Dyer

    Want to know what your business culture is really like? Don’t read the values on the wall. Watch what happens when someone makes a mistake. When life gets messy. When a new employee walks in. When a leader has the chance to trust instead of control. That’s the real test. On this episode of The Keynote Curators Podcast, keynote speaker and 4x best-selling author Chris Dyer and I talk about the everyday leadership decisions that quietly shape how people experience a business and whether they want to stay. Inside this episode: ✅ Why letting go of control can make teams stronger ✅ The leadership moments employees never forget ✅ How a bad first day can start an employee relationship off wrong ✅ Why transparency creates trust ✅ What too many meetings may be telling you about your culture ✅ Why smaller groups can solve problems better than endless one-on-ones Culture isn’t what you tell people it is. It’s what they experience when it counts. 🎤 Explore Chris Dyer’s keynote speaker profile on our website. 📞 If your audience needs a message on company culture, employee experience, leadership, and building teams people actually want to be part of, Chris delivers. Schedule a time here and let's talk. 📩 Or send your audience + event theme and I’ll tell you if he’s the right: info@thekeynotecurators.com #companyculture #employeeexperience #leadership #workplaceculture #eventprofs #keynotespeakers #deliveringimpact

    191. Build a Business Culture People Want to Work For with Chris Dyer
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The Keynote Curators Podcast brings the most current and engaging topics from the best keynote speakers in the world. For two decades, The Keynote Curators have worked with event, meeting, and conference professionals to guarantee they hit a home run when it comes to the main stage. Find out for yourself why planners choose The Keynote Curators to deliver results and make planning a breeze. Contact our office today. VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://thekeynotecurators.com/ CONNECT WITH US: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2883493/

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  • Creator
    Seth Dechtman - The Keynote Curators
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    199
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