“Laura isn’t just a keynote speaker; she’s a catalyst for change.
Her genuine enthusiasm and caring spirit create an atmosphere where growth feels like a heartfelt conversation with a trusted friend. Her impact resonates well beyond the event, creating a buzz for the kind of transformative energy that only she brings.”
Julie Pankey,
Managing Partner, JMPankey Partners
Success is never easy.
It takes motivation, hard work, and more importantly, an understanding that growth is never comfortable.
The most successful individuals and organizations know how to live (and thrive) in the uncomfortable places that precede exponential growth.
And your audience can too, with growth keynote speaker
Laura Gassner Otting.
Growth Keynote
Limitless Growth:
Turning Limitations into Invitations
Inspired by her Wall Street Journal bestseller, Wonderhell, and viral talk seen more than 2M times on TED.com, this keynote is perfect for audiences who feel stuck at their current level of success or who need to embrace new goals, changes, or opportunities.
Each time we experience success, we see what else might be possible. It’s wonderful to see a bigger, better version of ourselves, but it also fills us with anxiety, doubt, fear, impostor syndrome, uncertainty, and burnout. It is wonderful, and it’s hell. It’s Wonderhell.
We think success will make things easier, but it doesn’t. In fact, every new level brings a new devil.
After personally interviewing more than 100 Olympic medalists, corporate titans, start-up unicorns, world-changing philanthropists, and glass-ceiling shatterers, Laura made a startling discovery about growth. When we’re faced with the “burden of our potential,” the trajectory-shifting choice is whether we interpret the tsunami of emotions that flood in next as limitations, warning us to stay still, hunker down, and stagnate… or as invitations, cheering for us because we are on the right track.
In Limitless Growth, Laura unpacks the proven strategies that high achievers use to not just survive these most important inflection moments, but learn to look forward to them, learn from them, and thrive in them instead.
Your audience will leave with:
- A radical new approach that allows them to welcome uncertainty and stress and live just a little longer in the discomfort that is the only path to growth
- Deeply researched methodologies for moving past their overwhelm, doubt, and indecision – reinterpreting or renegotiating their relationship with the complex emotions that accompany every opportunity – so that they can embrace their full potential
- Unshakeable confidence that they can anticipate, accept, and get excited by the new, bigger, unproven goals that would have intimidated them in the past
Additional Keynotes
KEYNOTE ONE
Bringing Everything We Are to Everything We Do
Perfect for audiences ready to ignore the limits they’ve been given and achieve more than they ever thought possible.
KEYNOTE THREE
Limitless
Leadership
Unlocking Greatness to
Drive Profitable Growth
Perfect for leaders who want data-based strategies for cultivating greater employee engagement and buy-in
KEYNOTE Four
Limitless
Sales
Igniting Meaning to
Connect and Win
Perfect for igniting excitement and confidence in your sales team and empowering them to crush bigger sales goals
Want to Thrive Through Wonderhell?
Discover more about how you can renegotiate the complex emotions and expectations surrounding success and learn to enjoy the ride.
Meet Laura
Gassner Otting
Bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, executive advisor, and growth keynote speaker
Laura has spent her career studying success and asking the hard questions about what it takes to experience transformative growth.
As a serial entrepreneur, she founded and ran a multimillion-dollar executive search firm that upended the way executive search was done. Blazing new trails in her industry came with its fair share of challenges and change, but it instilled in Laura an insatiable desire for growth, the same desire she sparks in her audiences as a keynote speaker.
After selling her business, Laura began studying in depth what it takes for individuals and companies to achieve unprecedented success and why, in the end, it leaves us unfulfilled.
She conducted a 3-year global research study and hundreds of personal interviews with world-changers from multiple sectors and industries, leading her to discover powerful strategies for not just navigating but embracing the discomfort that leads to personal and professional growth.
Laura’s secret weapon as a growth keynote speaker is her ability to grab her audience from the first line and keep them hooked until the final line. Her no-holds-barred truth-telling, relatable stories, and eye-opening case studies engage and equip participants to embrace the unknown and achieve Limitless growth.
