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Company Culture Expert

Keynote Speaking

As a Company Culture Expert, I am often asked to help companies fix or shift their culture, but it’s much easier to build the proper culture from scratch than to try to repair one that is not functioning properly. What I enjoy the most is helping startup leaders to architect a culture that can grow and scale quicly.

Book Coop to Speak

I am regularly asked to speak to a wide variety of audiences around the globe about creativity, developing and optimizing cultures, leading innovation and leadership development.

To inquire about my availability, please fill out this contact form.

My Approach to Speaking

Your audience’s experience is my highest priority.

We’ve all sat through boring speeches and presentations with speakers droning on and on, reading their slides — not even aware that their audience is distracted, scrolling on their phones, doodling or wondering when they’ll hear something useful.

I take a bit of a different approach – instead of boring your audience, I coach them in a very interactive and engaging format to challenge their thinking, help them solve real-world problems and go back to work with newfound courage, information and action steps to help them do their jobs better.

My goal as a business culture expert and coach is for your audience to take action to shift their cultures because we are deeply engaged in a group conversation that is truly helpful for them, rather than sit around listening to some boring presenter talk at them.

Speaking Topics

My favorite topics to speak on:

Crafting Culture: Every Leader’s Most Important and Most Neglected Responsibility
How Our Brain Types Dictate our Motivators, Fears, Stress Responses and Information Needs
How to Future Proof Your Business
How Businesses are Killing Creativity and What to Do About It
Why Most Executives Aren’t Business Culture Experts, But They Need to Be

I can also work with you to craft a custom topic that immerses and engages your audience in deep thinking, learning and change suitable for their reality and circumstances. Please contact me to discuss your needs.

What Conference & Event Planners Say

Coop has been a rock star presenter for the past 5 years across a diverse portfolio of in-person and virtual Frost & Sullivan events. He collaborates to tailor his messaging to ensure that it resonates with his audience needs across industries and functions. Coop is adept at engaging people in candid conversations, consistently ranks in the top three highest rated speakers in our rosters, and is an absolute pleasure to work with.

Joanne Pilger

Vice President, Global Events & Membership Councils, Frost & Sullivan

Coop is not just another speaking proposal – he’s an event partner who has worked closely with us for over 14 years. Coop takes the time to understand the vision and goal of the overall event/program, and crafts his content and style to fit. As a result, your audience will get unique, thought-out, developed content that is meaningful, relatable, and actionable. As a presenter, Coop is quick on his feet, professionally engaging, and always one of our top-rated presenters.

Whether you are looking for a skilled facilitator, presenter to deliver forward-thinking content, or just need peace of mind that you are in good hands, select Coop.

Lisa Hickey

VP, Professional Development / Producer, HR West annual conference, Northern California Resources Association

I can’t say enough about having Coop as a keynote speaker or a workshop facilitator. Having worked with SCIP globally on several conferences, summits, and workshops, I can say with confidence that he is terrific and consistently develops and delivers content that is packed with value and is specifically targeted to our membership. He does his homework. He cares. He is approachable. His delivery style is engaging and fosters collaboration, which is evident by the audience members waiting to speak to him at the end of each talk that he delivers. He talks to your attendees not AT them which explains why he consistently ranks as one of our top-rated speakers.

Michelle Winter

Director of Education Programs and Events, Strategic & Competitive Intelligence Professional

Selected Past Speaking Topics & Events

I have presented at over 250 conferences in the last 22 years. Here is a select list:

The Importance of Psychological Safety for Innovation & Adaptation, NASA Innovation Workshop & Tour, Houston, TX, September 2023 (Keynote Speaker)

The Fix: Storytelling for Stakeholders, NASA Innovation Workshop & Tour, Houston, TX, September 2024

Adaptive Leadership, Customer Contact East, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2023 (Keynote Speaker)

Building & Repairing Trust, Customer Contact East, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2022 (Keynote Speaker)

Company Culture Considerations After Coronavirus, HR West, Online, March 2021 (Keynote Speaker)

Leading in Chaotic Times, HR West, Oakland, CA, March 2020

Lifelong Learning Experience for an Interdisciplinary and MultiCultural World, International Association of Coaching Global Conference, Barcelona, Spain, November 2019 (Keynote Speaker)

How to Think Creative to be Creative: Building Critical Capabilities Across Your Organization, Growth, Innovation & Leadership Conference, Austin, TX, September 2019 (Keynote Speaker)

The Agent Experience: A Force for Customer Experience Innovation and Opportunity, Customer Contact Europe, Dublin, Ireland, June 2019 (Keynote Speaker)

Contending with Reactionary Thinking in a Challenging Economy, Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Orlando, FL, May 2019 (Keynote Speaker)

How to Be a Better Leader, Customer Contact Europe, Dublin, Ireland, June 2018 (Keynote Speaker)

How to Get Executive Buy-In, Competitive Intelligence Summit, Santander, Spain, June 2018 (Keynote Speaker)

Culture – Tips from the Trenches, Women’s Leadership Forum, Los Angeles, CA, April 2018 (Co-Presenter)

How to Be a Better Leader, Customer Contact East, Marco Island, FL, April 2018 (Keynote Speaker)

How to Be a Better Leader, Sales Team Alpine Retreat, Lake Tahoe, CA, February 2018 (Keynote Speaker)

Building a Strong Bench with Gen Y & Gen Z Employees, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Cascais, Portugal, November 2017 (Keynote Speaker)

How to Deliver Value to Executives, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 2017 (Keynote Speaker)

The Importance of Neuro-Diversity When Solving Problems, American Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Latin American Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 2017 (Keynote Speaker)

Be a Better Leader: Adaptive Leadership Practices for Chaotic Times, Customer Contact West, Huntington Beach, CA, October 2017 (Keynote Speaker)

Meet Neuro-Management to Manage the Brains Around You, Customer Contact East, Nashville, TN, July 2017 (Keynote Speaker)

Master of Ceremonies and UnConference Facilitator, Binge Marketing, New York, NY, June 2017

How to Sell Ideas to Executives Using Neuro-Management, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Atlanta, GA, May 2017 (Keynote Speaker)

How to Sell Ideas to Executives Using Neuro-Management, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Prague, Czech Republic, November 2016 (Keynote Speaker)

Using Neuro-Management for Improved Communication, YMCA Leadership Off-Site, Walnut Creek, CA, September 2016 (Keynote Speaker)

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, HR West, Seattle, WA, July 2016

How to Sell Ideas to Executives Using Neuro-Management, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Orlando, FL, May 2016 (Keynote Speaker)

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Coaching: How to Coach Like a Pro HR West, Oakland, CA, March 2016

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Sacramento, CA, December 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, San Francisco, CA, November 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Santa Rosa, CA, October 2015

How to Get Executive Buy-in Using Neuro-Management, Growth, Innovation & Leadership Conference, Frost & Sullivan, San Jose, CA, September 2015 (Keyote Speaker)

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support,, NCHRA Chapter, Oakland, CA, September 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, San Mateo, CA, September 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, San Rafael, CA, August 2015

Understanding the Values Clash of Four Generations in the Workforce, BPM Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2015 (Keynote Speaker)

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Santa Clara, CA, June 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Pleasanton, CA, May 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Fairfield, CA, March 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, HRWest, Oakland, CA, February 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Walnut Creek, CA, February 2015

Defining HR Problems to Get Your CEO’s Attention, Buy-In, Budget & Support, NCHRA Chapter, Santa Cruz, CA, January 2015

Sony Global Security Summit Facilitator, Sony Companies, San Diego, CA. September 2011

Northern California Human Resource Association’s Millennials Conference, Host & Facilitator, San Francisco, CA, May 2006