Meet Your Team of Experts
Our experienced team of industry speakers are eager to help you and your organization lay the foundation for maximizing greatness by offering deep-dive insight into a variety of topics.
Matt Skoy
Matt Skoy, Ph.D. is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and coach for helping individuals and teams develop the right mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets vital for organizational success. As Sagency's Director for Leadership and Talent Development, Matt partners with organizations of all sizes to unlock human potential and team success.
Current Keynote Presentations:
- Culture of Ownership
- Better Together: What Great Teams Do Differently
Mike Meagher
As the founder of Sagency, Mike is dedicated to helping leaders overcome the complexity of building top teams that achieve their desired results.
Current Keynote Presentations:
- Cultivating Team Greatness
- The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
- Fearless Leadership
Jackie Payne
Jackie Payne brings research-backed insight and genuine energy to every room she walks into. As a keynote speaker and advisor, she works with leaders and teams on individual and team performance in ways that stick long after she's gone.
Current Keynote Presentations:
- Trust: A Common Thread Connecting Us All
- Don’t Dodge Conflict: Embrace It
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Mike Meagher
Cultivating Team Greatness
Most teams don’t achieve more than the sum of their parts on their own. It takes intentionality co-create the optimal conditions for teams to thrive. In this session, you and your team will learn:
- How to get the right people into the right roles in order to achieve results
- How to create a team culture optimized for greatness
- Research-backed strategies for success
You will also learn more about 3 key areas all leaders should focus on building their leadership strategy around: psychological safety, trust, and realistic optimism.
Jackie Payne
Trust: A Common Thread Uniting Us All
Trust is the invisible thread that strengthens teams, deepens relationships, and shapes how far a team can go.
This session turns trust into a meaningful, shared experience your team can build together. In the session, you and your team will learn:
- What it looks like to lead with capability, authenticity, reliability, and empathy in today’s workplace
- How to identify trust-building and trust-eroding behaviors
- How to implement practical behavioral shifts that strengthen credibility, deepen connection, and enhance collaboration
Attendees will learn how everyday actions either weave trust tighter or quietly unravel it.
Matt Skoy
Culture of Ownership
“How do we hold others accountable?”
It’s a question that often leaders to frustration…and very little action.
What if we’re asking the wrong question?
Accountability doesn’t start with holding others to the standard, it starts by making the standard unmistakably clear and equipping people to own it. In this session, you and your team will learn how to:
- Distinguish between accountability and ownership, and why you can’t have one without the other
- Understand why teaching ownership is a true competitive advantage
- Apply practical strategies to take ownership in everyday moments
Ownership begins the moment we stop pointing outward…and start leading inward.
5 Reasons You Should Book A Sagency Speaking Engagement
1. Set the Foundation for Success
Receive fundamental insight on how to give both teams and leaders within your organization everything they need to achieve short-term and long-term greatness.
2. Learn How to Grow as a Leader
Good leadership is about growing, changing, and learning so that teams can achieve their full potential for the benefit of both the employees and the company.
3. Receive Science-Backed Insight
All of our areas of expertise and presentations are rooted in science and in-depth research and are based on years of leadership and coaching experience.
4. Multiply Greatness
Our speaking engagements are all designed to help teams, leaders, and organizations optimize their mindsets, approach, and dynamics to achieve new levels of success.
5. Stay Current On What’s Working
What worked for teams in the past may no longer apply in the future, which is why it’s best to stay current on the latest leadership and team engagement best practices.
Receive Targeted Guidance on Your Biggest Leadership Challenges
You’re not expected to have all the answers, but staying relevant requires learning and growth. Our speaking engagements are designed to help leaders and their teams communicate more effectively, develop their internal growth strategy, and achieve their full potential, together.
Let Sagency help steer you in the right direction toward organizational greatness.