FROM TEAMWORK KEYNOTE SPEAKER SHANE SNOW:

DREAM TEAMS

Aiming higher and making breakthroughs together — without breaking apart!

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DREAM TEAMS: KEYNOTE DESCRIPTION

Take your team to the next level.

Dream Teams book and speech

"Dream Teams is mesmerizing. Combining storytelling with data to dissect what makes teams great, Shane delivers for anyone looking to up-level their team building and leadership skills."

–Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse

Your team is your most valuable asset.

But teamwork is work.

To be effective, teamwork requires trust and open communication. To be consistently effective, teamwork requires a group of diverse and humble thinkers who are willing to dig deep and engage even when conflict gets hard.

(This is the Dream Teams formula at its core: Different Thinkers + Engaging Productively + Intellectual Humility = More Than The Sum of Our Parts.)

Ironically, the very thing that gives teams their potential—individuals' different ways of thinking and working—is also the thing that can prevent a team from reaching its potential.

This inspiring and high-impact keynote provides a science-backed framework to transform any average (or below average) team into your company’s greatest asset. Pulling from his #1 best selling book Dream Teams and his experience building groundbreaking businesses, Shane Snow lays out counter-intuitive, rigorously-tested strategies of high-performing teams, and gives you the tools to conquer the major pitfalls most teams encounter.

With proven approaches to increase trust, leverage people's differences, supercharge problem-solving, and make conflict productive, the audience will walk away ready to create courageous and effective teams.

Audiences

This keynote is for leaders and teams who are:

  • Looking to improve communication and build trust amongst members.

  • Striving to break out of complacency and produce better results. 

  • Excited to turn team conflict into fuel for progress.

  • Wanting to resolve conflict, make better decisions, and motivate others to do the same.

Outcomes

Your audience will walk away having learned to:

  • How to create an environment team members feel safe contributing in.

  • Strategies to increase efficiency by solving problems in more effective ways.

  • How to make debates effective and push back productively.

  • Tools to de-personalize and de-pressurize team conflict. 

  • How to become curious in the face of opposition and open to “changing our minds.”

Formats

This topic has been shown to be particularly effective for:

  • Leadership meetings

  • Strategy kick-offs

  • Sales kick-offs

  • All-Hands & internal events 

  • Innovation programs

  • Client events

  • Association conferences

"An exceptionally engaging speaker. He delivered ideas with clarity in a way that captured the attention and imaginations of the audience throughout."

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VIDEO

Shane Snow knows teams.

Shane wrote the book on the science of synergy—teams that truly exceed the sum of their parts. Watch a sample of his Dream Teams keynote here:

 

Original Research

Several groundbreaking original studies and a rollicking adventure around the world form the backbone of what became the #1 bestselling business book globally when Dream Teams came out.

About the book »

Deep Personal Experience

Shane Snow has founded 4 companies, built teams of 100s of employees, and won Crain's Best Places To Work award, among other awards for high-growth, high-performing culture.

Learn about Shane's experience »

Success Stories

From helping Merck adapt during the pandemic (while teaming up on vaccines with J&J) to helping grow market share for Microsoft Teams, Shane's teamwork expertise has literally changed the world.

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5 Reasons to Book Shane Snow as Your Next

Teamwork Keynote Speaker:

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Inspiration + Actionability

Shane doesn't believe in choosing between "motivating" and "useful." Even when he's asked to go deep into brass tacks, Shane always leaves his audiences fired up as well.
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An Innovative Approach

Shane applies his background in science and business journalism to break topics down into first principles, then apply lateral thinking to uncover hidden insights. The result: new ideas that pull people out of their entrenched ways of thinking.
 
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A Blast To Work With

Shane Snow loves people, cares deeply about his clients' needs, and is a lot of fun. He's performed comedy on Broadway and has loved public speaking since he was 3 years old!
 
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Customized To Each Unique Audience

Shane believes that one size does not fit all, and that every client deserves his time spent researching and customizing to the unique challenges, vocabulary, and agenda of the organizers and their people.
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A Renowned Storyteller

Shane Snow is the #1 instructor on LinkedIn worldwide on Storytelling. He wields his signature cinematic storytelling approach in his books, speeches, and as a producer on Broadway and in TV/film. Your audience will never forget the stories he tells them.
 

More Keynote Topics

Shane customizes every keynote to each audience's specific needs. Here are his core topics, based on his bestselling books: