Speaking & Keynotes

Built on the Purpose Compass.

Every talk maps to a real problem AI is making worse — and the move that fixes it. Not purpose as a soft add-on, but the specific shift your room needs to make.

200+ sessions delivered
7,000+ professionals reached
Five years on stages
Creator of the Purpose Compass™

Flagship

Purpose Is Your Edge

Leading with clarity in an AI-accelerated world

This is the flagship talk — the one that introduces the complete Purpose Compass in a single sitting. It's built for rooms ready to hear the whole picture: how to stay human, useful, and essential as AI keeps changing what's possible. If your event needs one talk to set the tone for everything that follows, this is it.

The flagship keynote covers all three moves. These go deep on one.

Discern

Judgment in the Age of Infinite Options

Teams chasing tools for their own sake, with no clear filter for what's actually worth adopting — this talk is built for leaders and teams overwhelmed by AI options and looking for a framework to decide what matters. The stakes are real: 86% of employers expect AI and information processing technologies to transform their business by 2030. (World Economic Forum, 2025) And skills gaps are the single biggest barrier to getting there, named by 63% of employers. (World Economic Forum, 2025)

Direct

The Alignment Gap

When goals and people are out of sync — everyone busy, nobody aligned — this talk speaks directly to mid-to-senior leaders whose teams are active but scattered. Global engagement sits at just 20%, its lowest point since 2020 (Gallup, 2026), and managers account for at least 70% of the variance in engagement across business units. (Gallup, 2015)

Sustain

Resilience That Compounds

For organizations mid-transformation, or any team showing signs of change resistance, this talk tackles the exhaustion of constant change head-on. Gallup estimates low engagement costs the world economy about $10 trillion a year in lost productivity — roughly 9% of global GDP (Gallup estimate, 2026) — much of it rooted in burnout and change fatigue, not a lack of effort.

Sustain at Scale: Embedding the Compass Into How You Operate

For organizations that score "On Course" and balanced across all three dimensions — they don't need a wake-up call, they need help institutionalizing what's already working. Positioned as a workshop or short consulting engagement rather than a single talk — Siena's upsell path from a keynote booking into ongoing work.

Formats

Every talk runs in four shapes.

Any of the topics above can be delivered in any of these. The keynote is the front door; the working sessions are where a room actually builds something.

Speaking formats, lengths, and who each is built for
Format	Length	Built for
Keynote — Purpose Is Your Edge	45–60 min	Conferences, all-hands, leadership summits
The Purpose Compass Working Session	3–4 hrs (half day)	Leadership teams, offsites, L&D programs
Full-Day Intensive	6–7 hrs	Compass plus implementation planning for a single organization
Lunch-and-learn / breakout	90 min	Chambers, associations, ERGs, member programming

For education & parent-adjacent audiences

Same framework, reframed as Cultivate.

Same three moves — Discern, Direct, Sustain — reskinned as seed, root, and growth for rooms where the bridge to SEED is the point: schools, parent associations, education conferences.

Raising Kids Who Know Their Why in an AI World

As AI does more of kids' thinking for them, this talk gives parents, educators, and school boards a framework for what's still worth their children learning to do themselves — a natural on-ramp to SEED without ever pitching it directly.

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