Dan has over five years of speaking experience with audiences ranging from 20 to over 500. He’s spoken at some of the world’s most prestigious companies including Google, IBM, Time Warner, CitiGroup, NBC Universal, McGraw-Hill and Siemens, as well as some of the most notable schools, including Harvard Business School, Stanford, Cornell and MIT. In 2013, he will be speaking at the SHRM Annual Conference, the ASTD International Conference, the HCI Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference and more. His keynotes focus on helping companies learn how to recruit, manage and sell to Generation Y (18 to 29 year olds), as well as career advice for students and young professionals and personal branding.
Dan’s presentations are content driven, thought provoking and focus on business results. He will customize each presentation to match the audience.
Booking Dan
For additional resources, contact Dan’s speakers bureau:
American Program Bureau, Inc.
313 Washington Street, Suite 225
Newton, MA 02458
617.614.1600
Agent: Joshua White, 617.614.1648 or jwhite@apbspeakers.com
For information on fees and availability, visit APB’s speakers bureau contact page.
To learn more about Dan’s speaking topics, visit Dan Schawbel’s speaker profile.
Testimonials
“It is clear from the questions and comments you received that your presentation was thought-provoking and struck a nerve with the participants. This is exactly what I was hoping to achieve!”
– Natalie Scannell, Senior Manager, Siemens
“Dan is a skilled professional and imparts knowledge to his audience in a concise and enthusiastic manner. He is clearly an expert in multiple areas including social media and technology. I highly recommend him for both individual and organizational consulting.”
– Terri Austin, Chief Diversity Officer, The McGraw Hill Companies
“Dan’s in-depth knowledge of how to leverage social media for personal branding was so provocative that the room was buzzing after the session. While clearly an expert in the latest high tech trends in personal branding, Dan’s message was also one of finding your passion and unique edge and then leveraging it through creativity and communication in ways that captivated everyone’s attention.”
– Kerri St. Jean, Vice President, Human Resources, Comcast
“I can’t thank you enough for the excellent presentation last night. As I mentioned, the students and the staff were totally engrossed. I’ve worked in this field for more than 14 years and you are one of a very few exceptional speakers that I’ve invited to campus.”
– Nicole M. Anderson, Assistant Director of Career Services, Tufts University
Speaking videos
Speaking topics
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: How to Recruit, Retain and Grow Your Young Talent
Audience: HR leaders / Managers
This presentation will contain advice, research, case studies and examples that will illustrate how employers can both attract and manage Gen-Y workers so they can rise up to leadership positions instead of leaving for other opportunities. Companies are having a lot of trouble recruiting and retaining younger employees, yet they will represent 75 percent of the entire workforce by 2025. Based on our research, we found that the average Gen-Y worker leaves in just over two years. It’s imperative that companies’ keep their younger employee’s engaged and motivated to do work by create more opportunities for them. Case studies include Sodexo, Ernst & Young, Intel, DreamWorks, and more.
- You will learn how to more effectively and efficiently manage your workforce.
- You will hear new strategies and techniques that will help you better attract and retain millennials.
- You will save recruiting and training costs by getting the most out of the talent you already have.
Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success
Audience: Gen-Y employees
This presentation will reveal the secrets behind what it takes to be successful in the workplace in 2012 and beyond. Based on new research, case studies, interviews and advice, you will learn what managers are looking for when promoting. Workplace expectations are changing and the requirements for management roles aren’t what you think. You need a modern approach to get ahead at work or you’ll end up stuck in your position and eventually quit. This presentation will give you the confidence and tools you need in order to rise to the top faster.
- Learn how to build a strong network by reverse mentoring.
- How to work with employees at all levels in every generation.
- How to become a leader and excel in a team.
- How to take an entrepreneurial approach to work and get your company to invest in your ideas.
- How to turn your passion into a new position and make more money.
Personal Branding for Organizational Success
Audience: Employees
Your employees will learn how to achieve personal and organization success by developing a personal brand. Employees will gain insight into what personal branding is, how it applies to their job, key technologies and resources they can start using today, the best ways to communicate in the workplace using technology, and the social network tools that will propel them forward. There will be new research, examples, and exercises to further explain why developing a personal brand is necessary for career and business success. The core of the presentation is a four step branding process that employees can use to discover, create, communicate and maintain their brand throughout their career.
- Learn the skills you need to succeed at work: hard skills, soft skills and social media skills.
- Hear about the latest social networking tools that will shape the future of business.
- Listen to valuable networking techniques that will help you be more productive and build a strong rolodex that you can tap into.
- Become an expert in managing your digital reputation.
- Learn five different ways to bring more value to your company using social networks.
Additional topics
- Selling to Gen Y Consumers
- Job Search 2.0
- Power Networking for Career Success