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

YouMeWe | keynote description

Be the Change You Want to Lead

 

 

Leadership is rarely revealed in the moments we prepare for. It's revealed in the moments we don't.

Leadership is rarely revealed in the moments we prepare for. It's revealed in the moments we don't.

 

In this thought-provoking and deeply human keynote, Suzanne F. Stevens challenges leaders to rethink leadership through the lens of conscious leadership, connection, contribution, and belonging.

 

Drawing on 25 years of leadership development, work on five continents, and conversations with hundreds of conscious leaders and changemakers across more than 25 countries, Suzanne explores how conscious leadership shapes engagement, collaboration, contribution, and performance— and how intentional leadership creates results that extend far beyond the moment.

 

Through storytelling, reflection, humour, and interactive experiences, audiences explore how assumptions, pressure, and everyday leadership habits influence the way people experience them and how that impacts their colleagues' interactions.

 

Because the moments leaders overlook are often the moments people remember most.

 

At its core, this keynote challenges leaders to elevate their self-awareness, take responsibility for the impact they have on others, and rethink how everyday interactions shape engagement, contribution, and belonging.

 

Those intentional practices signal fundamental human needs, helping leaders move beyond managing people—and instead create the conditions where people choose to engage, grow, contribute, and stay.

 

Because leadership is revealed in moments long before it is measured in results.

suzanne f stevens keynote speaker purpose, people, profit

 

 

What You’ll Walk Away With:

1. Recognize the Hidden Cost of Unconscious Leadership

Explore how assumptions, reactions, and unconscious patterns quietly undermine leadership impact.

 

2. Learn Five Conscious Leadership Practices That Shape Everyday Interactions

Discover practical leadership approaches that strengthen connection, contribution, accountability, and belonging across generations, perspectives, and lived experiences.

 

3. Create the Conditions People Choose to Be Part Of

Learn how intentional leadership fosters environments where people choose to engage, grow, contribute, and stay.

 

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.