Chris Laping

The most capable people in your organization aren’t always the most influential.

In today’s workplace, many smart, hard-working professionals struggle to gain traction for their ideas, slowing decision-making, limiting innovation, and leaving valuable contributions unheard.

Why? Because competence alone doesn’t make people listen.

In this keynote, Chris Laping challenges the common belief that great work speaks for itself, and shows what actually drives influence inside organizations.

Drawing on organizational psychology, cognitive-behavioral research, and real-world experience, Chris shares specific, learnable behaviors that help professionals earn attention, build credibility, and move work forward.

This session goes beyond inspiration. Attendees leave with practical tools they can apply immediately to feel heard and contribute more effectively to team and organizational outcomes.

Ideal for organizations looking to:

• Strengthen leadership presence at all levels
• Improve collaboration and decision-making
• Ensure strong ideas gain traction and execution

Target Audience: Professionals at all levels seeking to increase influence and impact

Most change initiatives don’t fail because organizations lack intelligence. They fail because change leaders don’t create the conditions for people to succeed.

In this keynote, Chris Laping challenges the common approach to change management.

Drawing on real-world executive leadership experience and insights from his bestselling book People Before Things, Chris reveals why even well-planned initiatives break down, and what leaders must do differently to drive adoption and results.

This keynote introduces a practical, experience-driven framework for leading change. One grounded in real-world successes and failures. One that considers the human journey. One that puts people before things.

Audiences will learn how to enable and activate their teams, moving people from awareness to understanding to true buy-in.

Attendees will leave with clear, actionable strategies they can immediately apply to increase adoption, improve execution, and lead change that actually sticks.

Ideal for organizations looking to:

• Improve success rates of strategic initiatives
• Increase adoption of new systems, processes, or transformations
• Build stronger, more engaged teams during change

Target Audience: Executives, managers, and change leaders responsible for driving transformation