Laura Gassner Otting

Invitations, Not Limitations: Embracing Your Wonderhell

What is this talk about?

After stewarding thousands of leaders through massive moments of career shift and organizational disruption, Laura knows a thing or two about the emotional rollercoaster of going after everything you’ve ever wanted. This talk was born out of the question, “Why doesn’t success feel better?”

In this keynote, Laura explains that success isn’t just an endpoint, but a waypoint, a portal that shows you that you were made for even more… if you choose to embrace your ambition, conquer your fear, and actually learn to enjoy the ride. This talk throws down the gauntlet and dares your audience members to dream even bigger.

How does this talk change audiences?

Each time we achieve a bit of success, large or small, we see a part of ourselves that we didn’t even know exists, a potential we didn’t dare to imagine, a future we didn’t think possible. In this talk, Laura invites audiences to:

• embrace the newfound potential
• renegotiate the relationship they have with the swirl of emotions that accompany the burden that this potential brings
• expect, embrace, and even get excited by each successful leveling up that is demanded of them

How does this talk benefit organizations?

Each new level brings a new devil. Anxiety, exhaustion, uncertainty, fear, and burnout are little bugaboos just waiting to waylay your team and sideline your growth. After this talk, your organization will dare to:

• dream bigger with team members excited that stress and fear is the sister to excitement and joy
• reposition your reaction to fast failures and growth opportunities
• embrace your fullest potential, make more money, crush bigger goals, and actually enjoy the ride

What audiences are the best fit for this talk?

Wonderhell resonates wildly with anyone who has ever achieved something, only to ask themselves, “Now what?!” including:

• Entrepreneurs
• Sales Professionals
• Franchisees
• Network Marketers
• ERGs
• Empowerment Audiences
• Athletes & Fitness Enthusiasts
• Human Performance Geeks
• …and Every Single One of Us

Live Limitlessly

What is this talk about?

Many of us spend our lives pursuing a singular idea of success, one that was created for us by someone else. We give votes to those who shouldn’t even have voices and strive to go faster and faster even as we find ourselves falling further and further behind. We chase gold stars, we check all the boxes, we Lean In – and we still feel incomplete.

In this keynote, Laura teaches you how to ignore the rules that created your limits, align your energies and your actions, and do work that really matters so that you can live your best life. Aimed at entrepreneurs and misfits, idealists and dreamers, as well as anyone seeking to align who they are with what they do, this talk lights a fire within that catalyzes energy and excitement towards becoming the change agent needed to maximize impact.

How does this talk change audiences?

We are all held back by everyone else’s idea of what we can be and who we can be and — gasp! — what we shouldn’t be. But, what if we cast aside those ideas and figured out what mattered to us?

When your audience learns to do this, they will:

• understand what truly excites them about the work they do and become more engaged, more passionate, and more productive
• learn how to find what makes them special, and bring the fullest versions of themselves to the work they do every day
• connect to what they really love about what they do, and have the type of contagious confidence that excites your customers to buy
• create a support system of like-minded achievers and accountability partners who never let them settle for mediocrity

How does this talk benefit organizations?

Engaged workers are 22% more productive in their organizations. With 20 years of experience recruiting the most successful people in the world, Laura truly understands what inspires people to bring their best and most productive selves to work.

As a result of this talk, your organization will see:

• more effective recruiting and retention, with higher engagement levels, less turnover, and a more cohesive culture all pointed in the same direction
• a more robust bottom line, with deeper and more expansive customer interaction built not on transactions but deeply rooted relationships
• a re-energized workforce that shares a common language and framework with empowers everyone to bring their best selves every day

What audiences are the best fit for this talk?

Live Limitlessly is loved by all audiences, including:

• Business Owners
• MLM/Network Marketers
• Entrepreneurs
• Associations
• Empowerment Audiences
• Anyone Looking to Align their Career to their Life’s Calling or Purpose.

Limitless Leadership

What is this talk about?

Demographic shifts in the workforce have led to conversations about purpose and meaning that have heretofore never been had. Millennials, GenXers, and Boomers alike are all demanding that their work matter more. And, yet, only one-third of the US workforce reports that they are actively engaged in their work.

We are using an outdated scorecard which measures the value of a job – title, money, prestige, among others – without adding in the most important part of the equation: the employee. We know that engaged workers are 22% more productive and profitable for their employers, but what recruits the employee doesn’t retain them.

Backed up by a 20-year career in executive search and a three-year research project, comprising nearly 6000 responses from 74 different countries from before, during, as now as we come out of the pandemic, Laura Gassner Otting teaches leaders how to unlock their employees’ engagement to not only make them limitless, but make their companies and their profits limitless too.

How does this talk change audiences?

Workers are dissatisfied, but they can’t quite put their fingers on why. Rather than figuring it out, they take one of two paths: disengagement (quiet quitting) or resignation (old fashioned loud quitting).

Your audience of leaders will learn:

• what is driving employee dissatisfaction, disengagement, and disillusionment… and what they need to do about it right now
• why being a “good leader” isn’t good enough, and how to create the kinds of relationships with their team to become better managers and leaders
• more confidence in how to use so-called “soft skills” to lead with inspiration and motivation
• a common language and framework for talking to team members and reignite their passion for the work

How does this talk benefit organizations?

Turnover is expensive. Quiet quitting is even worse. Organizations with Limitless Leaders will benefit from having:

• more effective recruiting and retention, with higher engagement levels, less turnover, and a more cohesive culture all pointed in the same direction
• a more robust bottom line, with deeper and more expansive customer interaction built not on transactions but deeply rooted relationships
• a more joy about common goals with less friction about difficult decisions and strategic investments
• self-aware and growth-oriented middle and senior management

• a re-energized workforce that shares a common language and framework with empowers everyone to bring their best selves every day

What audiences are the best fit for this talk?

The Limitless Leader is enjoyed by anyone who is making a strategic investment in their culture, their results, and their profits… and those people whose job it is to drive that message home through their organization, including:

• Leaders & Managers
• Talent Strategists
• Leadership Thinkers
• Human Resources Professionals

Limitless Sales

What is this talk about?

Your clients don’t buy your products. They don’t buy your services. They don’t buy your brand.

They buy the solution that you provide to the problem that they have.

In order to win at the sales game, your audience must connect to why this product, this service, this brand actually matters to them, and be able to communicate that meaning as they build mutually beneficial relationships with your clients.

In this talk, based on decades of experience as an entrepreneur and chief rainmaker, Laura breaks down the process of connection… to self, to product, and to sale.

How does this talk change audiences?

Your sales team will be more effective if they tap into what connects them to the products and services they sell. In this straight-talking keynote, Laura teaches them:

• why their current approach isn’t working, and a quick mental shift that will change everything
• how meaning matters to them and to their customers, and how to connect to and communicate the meaning behind what they do (and why they do it)
• why failure isn’t finale, but the place where we grow and iterate and change, and where to find the type of contagious confidence so that your customers can’t say anything but yes!

How does this talk benefit organizations?

Why wouldn’t you want a sales team brimming with excitement and enthusiasm about the products and services that you provide? Laura will help them get there so that:

• your sales team is more successful and fulfilled in their work, and not just because they are making more money
• turnover is reduced, customer relationships are deepened, and loyalty grows
• higher sales numbers feel not just attainable, but exciting, which leads to a better bottom line for all

What audiences are the best fit for this talk?

The Limitless Leader helps anyone who has to sell a product, a service, a company, or even themselves, including:

• Leaders & Managers
• Network Marketers
• Consultants
• Talent Strategists
• Leadership Thinkers
• Human Resources Professionals