Keynotes

Interactive, Experiential & Energized

Looking for a keynote that will uplift and delight your audience AND give them real value? Then you’re in the right place.

This isn’t just any keynote. Your attendees will be fully engaged and participating in experiences to discover your chosen topic. Innovative insights, valuable content and tangible tools will be shared and integrated through meaningful exchanges attendees can then take back and apply with their teams. This means your audience will remember the value of this session for years to come. And don’t worry — introverts are highly supported throughout this experience.

No Charlie Brown teacher talking heads here. 

Delivering an Interactive,
Energized, Valuable Experience

We’re Proud to be Company Culture Speakers for Amazing Organizations Across the Nation

Transformative Topics

Innovative and empowering
Kris Boesch brought energy and excitement to the Utah Library Association’s Annual Conference. Her ideas and approaches to making the workplace better are innovative and empowering. I’ve already used what I learned to coach 2 of my employees in the few weeks since our conference. We had a diverse group of conference attendees and it’s not always easy to find a speaker who can resonate with everyone. Kris accomplished this and her keynote address was listed the most as the favorite session by our conference attendees.
- Dan Compton, Director, Summit County Library
Extremely valuable
“It was extremely valuable to have specific areas we could focus on to improve our employee satisfaction therefore, our business. I give Choose People an enthusiastic recommendation. They have been a great partner for us.
— Paulette Hansen, Director of Career Development, Neenan
The perfect fit
Kris, you rocked it! You were the perfect fit as the keynote speaker for our annual AZ Women Leading Government. I’ve even had several attendees go out of their way to tell me you were their favorite speaker! What you shared really impacted our community and how many of them approach their work and their teams. Thank you for your contribution to creating extraordinary workplace cultures – and not just in the private sector, but in the public sector as well. Your message is important and your actionable recommendations and powerful takeaways were invaluable. Thank you for providing BOTH insightful innovative content AND tangible ways to meaningfully implement the ideas shared.
— Nicole Lance, CEO, Lance Strategies
She even had our 2,700 attendees up and doing the chicken dance!
AMAZING! AWESOME! I can’t wait to take this back to my workplace and start implementing! These types of comments were repeated over and over as our attendees filed out of Kris’s closing keynote at our HR Florida Conference & Expo. She even had our 2,700 attendees up and doing the chicken dance! She cleverly mixed valuable insights with interactive experiences. Boesch contributed to making our conference a huge success and was incredibly easy to work with. I would highly recommend her for anyone looking for a down-to-earth, high-energy keynote speaker who provides innovative and actionable content (and good dancing!).
— Heather Deyrieux, President, HR Florida State Council Inc.
Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive
We wanted to extend a HUGE thank you from our team to you! Thank you again for giving such a meaningful talk and for being such a great person to work with. From our first discussion, we knew you would be a wonderful speaker for Carle Health. Your willingness to learn about us, our areas of improvement, and how you could help our leaders was much appreciated. Feedback from our CDI has been overwhelmingly positive and many leaders expressed appreciation for how useful your tools will be.
— Brenna Kelley-Freiburger, MPH, CPH, Carle Experience Consultant, Carle Health
Engaging. Funny. Informative.
I attended your keynote and I must convey my deep appreciation to you. Not only did you present an engaging, funny, informative presentation but you gave the audience tangible items they could readily implement in their organizations. I go to a lot of conferences… I sit through a lot of speakers… you knocked my socks off! I am now receiving your Culture Tips and I’m elated. Thanks for doing what you do… for doing it so well… and for inspiring leadership!
— Katherine Shenar President/CEO, Asheville Humane Society
The kind of culture I strive to have in our company
Kris Boesch exceeded our expectations as our Opening Keynote Speaker at our association’s 2021 Human Resources Conference. After having to cancel our 2020 conference due to COVID-19 and reschedule to a virtual event a year later, Kris was very supportive as we transitioned our event. Kris brought relevant and tangible tools that our attendees could use immediately to create camaraderie in the workplace. I highly recommend Kris, it was a great way to kick off the conference! Our attendees raved “Kris Boesch was excellent, this is the kind of culture I strive to have in our company. Totally onboard with her presentation and information.
— Linda Olejniczak, Director, Research Services and Event Planning, ASE
A fantastic day for the constituents of our community!
I wanted to drop a quick follow-up note to THANK YOU for delivering such a high-quality, professional, actionable, and relevant leadership keynote this past Tuesday. We are grateful for your contribution to our event and for making it such a fantastic day for the constituents of our community. Very grateful!!
— Drew Hiss, CEO, Acumen Impact

Kris Boesch

A dynamic keynote speaker, Kris weaves valuable content, insightful stories and tangible tools into her speaking engagements so you walk away with tools to significantly improve your workplace culture. Kris, who approaches organizational culture as the most paramount asset to an organization’s financial success, provides audiences with specific, concrete no-cost ways to create a thriving organizational culture. She is often praised for her high energy and down-to-earth style.

Kris is the CEO and Founder of Choose People, a company that transforms company cultures, increases employee happiness and boosts the bottom line. The Choose People 360° Culture Audit is based on over 1000 hours of research. Boesch collaborated with the Industrial Organizational Psychology Department at Colorado State University to conduct this research.

Kris is also the acclaimed author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace. She has also been featured as a workplace culture expert in Inc., Entrepreneur and Forbes and was named one of the “Top 100 Leadership Speakers” in Inc.Prior to Choose People, Boesch was the CEO of Exodus Moving & Storage. Under her leadership, Exodus became the largest mover in Northern Colorado with a turnover rate nearly 40% less than the industry average and a bottom line twice that same average. Kris is also a proud mother, dancing diva and dog lover.

Trusted as an authority on workplace culture for over a decade.

Kenlyn Klamper

Kenlyn is the President of Choose People, a company that transforms company cultures, increases employee happiness and boosts the bottom line. She is known for her approachable, pragmatic speaking style that combines industry best practices with innovations and insights from the latest research in neuroscience, ​organizational psychology, and the new ​world of work.

She brings nearly two decades of experience in people operations and consulting, with clients ranging from international Fortune 100s to tech start-ups to the federal government. Since her early career at the CIA and in the Intelligence Community, she has served as a VP of HR and built teams both in the U.S. and abroad, where she was honored to receive Great Place to Work® certifications for hundreds of people.

She holds a number of degrees (including a Master of Science in HR Analytics and Measurement) and certifications, including HR’s highest as a SHRM-SCP and the Science of Happiness at Work certification from UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of the 2019 Dublin Women in Tech Leader award.

Known, Matter & Included

We know a thriving workplace culture requires that people feel cared about, believe their work matters, and experience a sense of shared identity, otherwise work is another day and another dollar.
As company culture speakers, at the core of every keynote is this message. It’s the backbone of Choose People’s research and passion. This message is built not only on peer-reviewed research, but also on our own boots-on-the-ground work as a CEO and VP of Culture + People. Company culture speakers with extensive experience and expertise are rare. We now have well over a decade of working with hundreds of organizations across a variety of industries and have proven this message has the staying power to transform workplaces anytime in any industry.

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