make your contribution count • for you • your organization • your community

YouMeWe | keynote description

Be the Change You Want to Lead

Conscious Leadership Practices to Create A WE Culture

 

 

Ideal for leaders seeking to enhance retention, foster collaboration, and cultivate cultures where individuals thrive.

The culture you create starts with the consciousness you bring to it.

 

You can’t create a thriving workplace with policies and paycheques alone.

Before your people decide to stay, contribute, and grow—they need to know they belong.

 

Now imagine leading in a way that makes every colleague feel seen, valued, and inspired to give their best.

 

Be the Change You Want to Lead is a transformational keynote for leaders ready to foster belonging, deepen engagement, and build a WE culture that attracts, empowers, and retains top talent.

 

What makes this talk different? You’ll discover what truly attracts, retains, and engages employees today—and experience how Conscious Leadership Practices address those needs and shift culture from ‘me’ to ‘WE.’ Each practice is a call to lead with radical responsibility, self-awareness, and belonging—strengthening trust, connection, and collaboration, whether you’re guiding a small team or shaping an entire organization.

 

Suzanne F. Stevens—multi-award-winning wave-maker, Certified Speaking Professional (one of only 65 in Canada), and host of the global YouMeWe Amplified Podcast—draws from 24 years on five continents and hundreds of interviews with pioneering conscious leaders. She delivers not just strategies, but the lived experiences and proven practices that shift cultures from “me” to “WE.”

 

Whether you’re leading in the boardroom, the field, or the community—your leadership has the power to make every contribution count.

 

 

 

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What You’ll Experience:

This isn’t a sit-back-and-take-notes kind of keynote. You’ll be challenged to look at your leadership in a whole new light—spotting where unconscious biases sneak in, noticing how your style shapes every interaction, and discovering what belonging really means to you through an exercise you won’t see coming. Along the way, you’ll recognize your own insights reflected in the 8 Conscious Leadership Practices—and realize you have the power to create a culture of high-trust, high-performance, high-happiness—you just need to lead with intention.

 

 

What You’ll Walk Away With:

    • Heighten self-awareness to understand your leadership style and its impact on the culture.

    • Foster belonging as a leadership strategy—so every team member feels valued, connected, and engaged.

    • Infuse the 8 Conscious Leadership Practices to address what will attract, engage, and retain employees while establishing a culture of high-trust, high-performance, high-happiness where everyone’s contribution counts.

This keynote creates the most significant value for…

Leaders, Managers, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and HR professionals.

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What clients are saying

  • Deri Latimer, CSP
    “Suzanne thank you for a most inspiring, thought-provoking and energizing talk"
    Deri Latimer, CSP Positive Speaking
  • Nancy Forrester, Manager
    “For our Women’s Leadership Network, Suzanne Stevens created a session on influencing, differentiating and engaging, specifically aimed at women.  Suzanne herself is an excellent role model for other women and the session was a big hit!  Her presentation was engaging and the content was interesting, relevant and thought-provoking.  Every participant enjoyed themselves and all of the feed back I received was very positive.”
    Nancy Forrester, Manager Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group) Canada
  • John D. Gamble, P.Eng.,
    "I have utilized Suzanne as a keynote speaker, session panelist and facilitator – always with outstanding results. Suzanne has become an important strategic partner and resource for our association.”
    John D. Gamble, P.Eng., President Association of Consulting Engineer Companies (ACEC), Canada
  • Deri Latimer, CSP
    "Brilliant. Innovative. Captivating. These are the words I use to describe Suzanne's YouMeWe keynote. It is a message that we all need to here; it is perfectly timed for the current state of our globe. The keynote is filled with not only inspiration, but also tons of information. It is bursting with current research, relate-able examples and practical ideas that I can put into action immediately. I left feeling energized and mobilized to reflect - and then act - on my conscious contribution strategy!"
    Deri Latimer, CSP Positively Speaking

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Make a social impact with Suzanne F. Stevens

In every keynote, session, and workshop, Suzanne brings her audiences to the front row by using a customized approach, her entrepreneurial experience, vast international adventures, interviews with leaders from 21 countries, human observations, slice of humor, and interactive process to get the audience to explore how to "make your contribution count." 

Suzanne's is an "interactive, thought-provoking, dynamic presenter" who shares strategies on how to implement conscious-contributions™ consistently for you, your company, in the community, and beyond. She transforms perspectives on how to maximize personal meaning, while attracting, engaging, and retaining colleagues, customers, and collaborators — sustainably and profitably.

Suzanne ignites a culture where your contribution counts
for •  you • me • we.