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Keynotes and Conference Sessions

Most Keynotes Are Forgotten by Lunch. Yours Won't Be.

Three decades inside the leadership teams of Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Walmart, and the World Bank, turned into talks that change how your audience works on Monday. Witty, evidence-backed, and built around your priorities.

Rob Whitfield, keynote speaker
30+ years

Inside enterprise leadership teams

80+

Organizations, Fortune 500 to scale-ups

237

Keynotes and conference sessions delivered

Signature Talks

Four Talks.
Each One Built Around Your Room.

Teamitis™: The Performance Gap Hiding in Every Team

Why capable, committed teams deliver a fraction of what they could, and how to name and treat it.

  • The four signals that show up before anything visibly breaks
  • Why only 1 in 7 teams share a definition of winning, and what the other six lose
  • The one agreement that outperforms years of working together
Best for
Leadership summits, all-hands, management offsites

In 6 to 18 Months, Your Org Chart Won't Make Sense

Agentic AI is rewriting who does the work, how decisions get made, and where accountability sits. Here's what leaders do now.

  • The 10 shifts every team will face, and which three to start with
  • Why AI adoption succeeds or fails at the team level, not the tool level
  • A 90-day plan for one team, one workflow, one deployment
Best for
Transformation kick-offs, technology conferences, executive forums

New Team, New Mandate: The First 90 Days

You get their habits before you get their trust. A field guide for leaders who just inherited a team or a mission.

  • The five questions that reveal a team's real state in week one
  • What to change first, and what to leave alone until day 60
  • How the best new leaders make performance measurable, fast
Best for
New leader programs, sales kick-offs, post-merger integration events

Culture Change CAN Happen Overnight

Organizations don't change; people do. How movements of change start small, spread fast, and stick.

  • The mistakes most transformations make in month one
  • Small moves that produce exponential shifts, with real examples
  • How to start the change you want regardless of title
Best for
Change and transformation programs, annual conferences, town halls

Every talk is tailored to your audience, your language, and your priorities and we build for your specific needs. Formats from a 45-minute keynote to a half-day session, in person or virtual.

What Happens After the Applause

Your Audience Leaves With a Number,
Not Just a Feeling

During the talk, everyone in the room runs the two-minute Co-Exponential™ team assessment on their phone. Before the close, they see their own result, and the room sees its collective score. The energy becomes a baseline, and the baseline becomes the next conversation.

Live room assessment

QR code on screen, results in two minutes, no app to install.

The room's score, revealed

A collective Teamitis reading your audience will talk about for weeks.

A follow-through path

Optional breakouts, a Team Experience, or the full Diagnostic for teams that want the in-depth version.

Rob Whitfield speaking on stage
The Speaker

Rob Whitfield

Award-winning CEO and team coach with three decades inside the leadership teams of some of the world's most significant organizations.

Has coached CEOs and C-suites through industry disruption, transformation, and the arrival of AI, and built the Co-Exponential methodology from what actually worked.

Known for talks that are witty, direct, and useful on Monday morning.

Trusted by leaders from

“They really helped us define the core problems, root them out, work together better as a team.”

Tom Knauff, CEO, EDP

“They put a format in place that broke down barriers, took the emotional and the personal out of the situation, and let us concentrate on the task at hand.”

Leadership Team, Fox Factory

“Today we took real business issues and hard topics and we candidly and eloquently worked as a team to help solve some of the most critical items.”

Dave Bezzant, Vice President, T-Mobile for Government

Watch the Client Testimonials

How It Works

Three Steps From First Call to Follow-Through

  1. 01

    Your priorities

    A 30-minute call to learn your audience, your language, and what needs to shift.

  2. 02

    Your event

    A tailored talk with real examples from inside the companies your audience recognizes. Optional breakouts and activities.

  3. 03

    Your follow-through

    The room's assessment results, a summary for your leaders, and clear options for the teams that want to go further.

Our Guarantee

The Relevance Guarantee

Every story, tool, and takeaway connects to priorities we agree with you in advance. If we can't explain why it belongs in your talk, it won't be in your talk.

Frequently Asked Questions

What You'll Want to Know

What does a keynote cost?

Keynotes start from $5,000 plus travel, with half-day and multi-session formats priced on scope. Tell us your event and budget and we'll shape options that fit.

What formats are available?

A 45 to 60 minute keynote, a 90-minute interactive session, a half-day workshop, or a virtual talk. Optional breakouts turn any of them into working sessions.

How tailored is the talk?

Fully. We meet you first, learn your priorities and vocabulary, and build the examples around your audience. No stock deck. Often, no deck at all.

What audience sizes work?

From a 15-person leadership offsite to a 2,000-seat conference. The live assessment works at any size.

How far ahead should we book?

Eight weeks gives us room to tailor comfortably. Shorter is often possible; just ask.

Let's Make Your Event the One They Remember on Monday.

Tell us about the audience, the date, and the shift you want to see. We'll come back within one business day.

Or book a call directly