Organizations across the United States and internationally have hired Laura Gassner Otting. Her audiences include universities, companies, conferences, accelerators, a TEDx stage, and a US military base. She customizes her message for each audience in ways that get them to think differently and do more.
Invitations, Not Limitations: Embracing Your Wonderhell
After stewarding thousands of leaders through massive moments of career shift and organizational disruption, Laura knows a thing or two about the emotional rollercoaster of going after everything you’ve ever wanted. This talk was born out of the question, “Why doesn’t success feel better?” In this keynote, Laura explains that success isn’t just an endpoint, but a waypoint. It shows you that you were made for even more. But only if you choose to embrace your ambition, conquer your fear, and learn to enjoy the ride. This talk throws down the gauntlet and dares your audience members to dream even bigger.
Live Limitlessly
Many of us spend our lives pursuing a singular idea of success, one that was created for us by someone else. We give votes to those who shouldn’t even have voices and strive to go faster and faster even as we find ourselves falling further and further behind. We chase gold stars, we check all the boxes, we Lean In – and we still feel incomplete.
In this keynote, Laura teaches you how to live your best life by ignoring the rules that created your limits, aligning your energies and your actions, and doing work that matters to you. Aimed at entrepreneurs and misfits, idealists and dreamers, as well as anyone seeking to align who they are with what they do, this talk lights a fire within that catalyzes energy and excitement toward becoming the change agent needed to maximize impact.
Limitless Sales
Your clients don’t buy your products. They don’t buy your services. Surprisingly, they don’t even buy your brand. They buy the solution that you provide to their problem. To win at the sales game, your audience must connect to why this product, service, and brand matters to them. Further, you need to be able to communicate that meaning as you build mutually beneficial relationships with your clients. In this talk, Laura uses her decades of entrepreneurial experience to break down the process of connection to self, product, and sale.
Limitless Leadership
Demographic shifts in the workforce have led to conversations about purpose and meaning that have heretofore never been had. Millennials, GenXers, and Boomers alike are all demanding that their work matter more. And, yet, only one-third of the US workforce reports that they are actively engaged in their work. We are using an outdated scorecard. One that measures the value of a job – title, money, prestige, among others – without adding in the most important part of the equation: the employee.
We know that engaged workers are 22% more productive and profitable for their employers. But what recruits the employee doesn’t retain them. Backed up by a 20-year career in executive search and a three-year research project – comprising nearly 6000 responses from 74 different countries from before, during, and after the pandemic – Laura Gassner Otting teaches leaders how to unlock their employees’ engagement thereby making their employees, their company, and their profits limitless.
