Gregory Offner Keynote Speaker

Finding Your Imperfect Happy: Creating Optimism, Resilience, and High-Quality Moments

In demanding workplaces, it’s easy for individuals and teams to slip into survival mode—moving from one responsibility to the next while feeling disconnected from the present moment.

In this uplifting keynote, Kristel Bauer introduces a powerful mindset shift: finding your imperfect happy. Instead of waiting for circumstances to be perfect, audiences discover how to work with the present moment and intentionally create more high-quality moments each day.

Drawing from positive psychology, behavioral science, and insights from her award-winning book Work-Life Tango, Kristel explores how optimism, resilience, and intention can transform everyday experiences in ways that support both well-being and performance.

Through inspiring stories and actionable insights, audiences learn how embracing imperfection can unlock greater fulfillment, energy, and connection at work and in life.

Participants leave inspired to approach their work and lives with greater presence, clarity, and intention.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the science behind happiness and high performance.
• Cultivate optimism without ignoring real workplace pressures.
• Strengthen resilience and perspective during challenges.
• Increase engagement and presence in everyday moments.
• Embrace the power of being imperfectly happy.

Best For: Culture-building events, engagement initiatives, leadership conferences, and well-being programs.

Tip Jar Culture

For leaders, owners, and organizations seeking to improve workforce retention & increase engagement.

Today’s leaders face a critical workforce challenge, with employees demanding more for less—more pay, flexibility, and control, with less time spent working. This coincides with historically low engagement and loyalty, affecting not just productivity and profits, but also workplace culture and morale.

Globally, businesses spend 20 billion dollars each year trying to improve employee engagement and retention. Still, less than 30 percent of the workforce is actively engaged and working toward organizational success. What most leaders see as problems with workforce culture—or the workers themselves—are often just symptoms of the real issue: the employment experience.

In this unforgettable keynote, former dueling pianist turned award-winning speaker Gregory Offner reveals three principles of engaging experiences—used in piano bars—and demonstrates how to adapt them for your workforce.

Using these three principles (Take a Sip, Fill Out a Slip, and Leave a Tip), organizations can generate more engagement, deeper commitment, and better performance from their existing workforce. Attendees leave inspired, entertained, and equipped to put these principles into action—creating a Tip Jar Culture™ of their own.

Takeaways:

• A framework to create a sustainable engagement strategy that appeals to broad and diverse employee groups.
• Three tools to implement simple but effective shifts in the experience of work that eliminate the major frustrations causing employees to leave.
• Insight into the question that most leaders don’t ask—but all employees wish they would.

Dueling with Disruption

Amplify success by simplifying the science of change.

You may know that 70% of corporate change initiatives fail—but do you know why?

To create sound, we only need two elements: a source of agitation and a source of vibration. To create an organizational culture that thrives in and embraces disruption, we also need two essential elements.

In this captivating keynote, Greg Offner uses examples from the worlds of business and music to reveal the key to creating successful disruption.

Using principles of psychology and behavioral economics, Greg helps audiences explore their own approaches to change—and explains why most attempts to create lasting transformation fall flat.

Takeaways:

• Discover how to ignite the change resilience that lies within—and simplify how you deal with disruption.
• Learn the two critical ingredients needed to create and sustain disruption.
• Articulate what disruption really means—and how it applies to both organizational and individual change.