Questions to Ask a Keynote Speaker Before You Book Them
The questions that predict whether a keynote lands are about preparation and self-knowledge, not credentials. Ask what the speaker needs from you before the event, ask about a room they were wrong for, and ask what your people will be able to do on Monday.Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 [&he
The Closed-Door Test: Should Managers Do Weekly 1:1s?
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, recommends that managers keep the weekly 1:1 and change what goes inside it. Status, pipeline, and information sharing belong in a group meeting. Performance, pay, conflict, and personal circumstances belong behind a closed door.Chris Dyer calls th
Progress Is the Currency Now: Why Money, Praise, and Perks Stopped Buying Effort
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, argues that the old motivational operating system was built on money, praise, and perks, and that it now buys attendance rather than effort. The replacement is progress: people stay where they can feel themselves moving forward, and that feeling is
Take It Hard: What Leaders Do in the First Ninety Seconds After Bad News
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, calls it Take It Hard: the discipline of absorbing bad news fully, in the moment, without transferring the weight of it back to the person delivering it. The first ninety seconds after someone tells you something you did not want to hear […]
Shrink the Loop: What Change Actually Looks Like Inside Companies Right Now
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, spent this year inside sales organizations, HR leadership groups, manufacturers, and associations working the same problem: change arriving faster than the organization can absorb it. His framework, Shrink the Loop, treats the gap between a change
What Employees Say When Leadership Is Not on the Call
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, interviews eight to fifteen employees before most of his keynotes. Fifteen minutes each, no leadership on the call, nothing attributed. Across 300-plus keynotes in more than 20 countries, the same five things come up, and almost none of them show u
