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Briefing call to calibrate content to your audience's specific pressure context.
Signature Keynotes
MOSTREQUESTEDKEYNOTES
When organizations need a speaker who brings executive credibility and a room-shifting experience, Shawntà delivers — leaving audiences with tools they apply before they leave the building.
Every keynote blends 20 years of Fortune 100 risk methodology with neuroscience-backed performance frameworks grounded in mind, movement, and music.
Live Assessment Integration
Participants take the Pattern Intelligence Assessment™ and see real-time results.
Data They Keep
Every participant leaves with a personalized dashboard and Clarity Protocol playbook.
Measurable Impact
91% of participants reported sharper decision clarity after a single 90-minute session.
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Wisdom & Wounds · 10 Minutes
What happens when the worst moment of your career becomes the clearest one.
100%
entered the session dysregulated, overwhelmed, unfocused
91%
reported sharper decision clarity after one session
90%
had practical tools to apply the very next day
Source: GE Aerospace Early Career Experience, 2025
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Signature Keynote Topics
★ Featured Keynote
Associations · Leadership Retreats · Conferences
Leading Off the Wall
How a Generation's Music Became the Blueprint for Leading Through Pressure
This keynote is for you if —
Your teams are navigating more pressure than their frameworks were built for
You want a session audiences will still be referencing six months later
You need an opening or closing keynote that sets an entirely different tone
Your event focuses on leadership, culture, change, or association revenue
Audiences Leave With
A visceral, science-backed experience they will feel in their bodies and carry into their next high-stakes decision
A new understanding of how pressure quietly distorts their best thinking before they notice it happening
Their personal performance pattern via the live assessment
A science-backed tool for restoring clarity in high-stakes moments they can use before they leave the room
45-min60-min90-min with Live AssessmentVirtual Available
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Inner Audit™ Listening Session
Silent headphones. Shared presence.
The experience includes a silent headphones component — a guided Inner Audit™ listening session delivered through wireless headphones that creates collective presence in a room full of people. Research shows that when auditory input is controlled and shared, the nervous system regulates faster and retention increases significantly.
For meeting planners, this means one measurable outcome: your audience doesn't just hear the message — they feel it together, and they remember it.
Exactly what our industry needed to kick off the year.
Engaging. Inspiring.
— Ted Basco, Director of Sales, Visit Roswell | President, MPI Georgia
She's been working in a corporate environment and brings that credibility to every session.
Practicality together with mindfulness.
— Dan Beaudry, Managing Director of LDP Connect
Finance · Risk · LDP · Operations
Pressure Proof™
The Science Behind Why Smart Leaders Struggle When It Counts — and What to Do About It
This keynote is for you if —
Your LDP, HiPo, or early career program needs a measurable performance layer
Finance, risk, or audit teams are making decisions under increasing pressure
You want participants to leave with data, not just inspiration
Program leaders need measurable ROI from a single session
Audiences Leave With
Their Pattern Intelligence Profile™ — Speed, Steady, or Shutdown — from the live assessment
Three personalized Clarity Protocols™ mapped to their specific pressure pattern
A visual Pattern Intelligence Dashboard™ they keep and reference after the session
Language to name what has been happening to their decision-making under pressure
Access to the Decision Clarity GPT™ for real-time in-the-moment regulation support
60-min90-min with Live AssessmentHalf-Day WorkshopVirtual Available
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Under Pressure — Unmanaged
- Reactive decisions before clarity arrives
- Feedback lands as attack; behavior doesn't change
- High performers overfunction until the system breaks
- Your investment in talent disappears when stakes are highest
After Pressure Proof™
- Decisions made from regulated, clear-headed state
- Feedback received and integrated; behavior shifts
- High performers sustain output without burning the system
- Measurable ROI data program leaders can report upward
Leadership · Executive Teams · Finance & Audit
The Unaudited Leader™
Revealing the Root Cause of Decision Breakdown Under Pressure
This keynote is for you if —
Your executive team makes high-stakes decisions under intense pressure and scrutiny
Finance, risk, or audit leaders need analytical frameworks for their own leadership behavior
You want to address leadership gaps without generic soft-skills content
Decision quality matters more to your organization than feel-good inspiration
Audiences Leave With
The root cause framework for why capable leaders make expensive decisions under pressure
A personal audit of their highest-risk decision patterns applied to real leadership scenarios
The 5 Whys methodology drawn from risk management and Six Sigma applied to leadership behavior
A repeatable self-audit practice they can apply before their next board presentation or high-stakes decision
45-min60-minWorkshop Add-OnPanel Anchor
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Tech Leaders · Innovation · Boards · All Industries
Paranoia vs. Pronoia™
The Neurological Advantage in the Age of AI
This keynote is for you if —
AI disruption is creating fear, avoidance, or reactive decision-making in your organization
Your leaders are making strategy from a position of threat rather than opportunity
You want to shift the room from anxiety-driven to clarity-driven thinking
Your event addresses innovation, technology adoption, or the future of work
Audiences Leave With
The neuroscience of why paranoid thinking is costing organizations more than AI itself
The Pronoia Advantage framework — a measurable mindset shift from threat to opportunity
Three practical tools for making strategic decisions from clarity rather than fear
The language to reframe AI disruption as competitive advantage inside their organizations
45-min60-minHalf-Day WorkshopVirtual Available
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I didn't realize how much pressure was impacting my performance until I saw it mapped out. The Inner Audit gave me language and tools I can actually use in real time.
It has been a game-changer.
— Sam Morrison, GE Aerospace Engineer & Early Career Leader
It goes beyond telling you to close your eyes and just breathe. This session gives real instruction and guided practice. Shawntà has made mindfulness an accessible concept.
Life changing.
— Shannon Dean, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®), Senior Global Guest Experience Manager
Conference & Event Support
How I support
conferences and events.
This is not a speaker who talks at people and leaves. Every engagement option below is designed around one goal: your audience leaves changed, not just inspired.
Mainstage Keynote
45 — 90 MinutesOpening or Closing
This is not Shawntà talking at your audience. It is an experience.
Real-world storytelling rooted in 20 years of Fortune 100 risk methodology. Moments of music, movement, and mindfulness woven in as science-backed tools — not as entertainment.
Your audience leaves with their pressure pattern identified, their Clarity Protocols in hand, and a shared language they will still reference months later.
Every attendee receives
- Live Pattern Intelligence Assessment™
- Personalized Pattern Report delivered post-session
- Three Clarity Protocols™ mapped to their pattern
- Decision Clarity GPT™ access
- A session they will still be referencing six months later
Breakout Session
90 Minutes — 2 HoursDeeper Application
The mainstage creates the spark. The breakout builds the practice.
In a smaller group setting, attendees go deeper with The Inner Audit™ framework — working through the 5 Whys diagnostic and applying their Clarity Protocols to real current challenges.
They leave with a team-level shared language for pressure that extends beyond the conference.
Every attendee receives
- Full Pattern Intelligence Assessment™ + debrief
- 5 Whys diagnostic applied to real scenarios
- Team-level pressure mapping exercise
- Clarity Protocol practice and small group application
- Pattern Intelligence Report for each participant
Zen Zone™
Soundproof Reset StationAvailable All Day
Conferences are overwhelming by design — constant input, competing stimuli, and pressure to network, perform, and absorb all day.
The Zen Zone™ is a dedicated soundproof reset station staffed by Shawntà and her team.
Attendees step away from the noise, have a real conversation about pressure and clarity, and experience a guided listening session using The Inner Audit™ tools.
Every attendee receives
- Soundproof listening lounge experience
- 1:1 or small group conversations with Shawntà and her team
- Guided pressure + clarity practice
- Take the assessment on-site — results immediate
- A decompression space that creates the most memorable conference conversation
The Return
When you add The Inner Audit™ to your event…
If your attendees "leave energized but can't hold it once they're back in the office"
Then with The Inner Audit™
They leave with a system, not just a feeling. The protocols work before the next meeting — not just in the room where you felt inspired.
If your conference "needs a session people are still talking about at the next event"
Then with The Inner Audit™
You get a room that felt something together — and left with data, shared language, and a framework they can actually use.
If your planners "want an experience, not just a speech, with measurable proof it worked"
Then with The Inner Audit™
You have real data: 100% entered dysregulated. 91% left with sharper decision clarity. One session. That's your ROI story.
Clarity Begins Here™
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