Keynote Speaker

A powerful and engaging leadership speaker with provocative questions, practical advice, relevant data, and proven solutions.
Key Topics of Expertise Include:

- Leadership and Management
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Experience
- Healthy Organizational Cultures
- The Future of Work
- The Thought Patterns and Behaviors of Superior Performers
Dr. Sharalyn has addressed tens of thousands of people at summits, seminars, and conferences across the globe. She has transformed minds, spurred thinking, and elevated expectations with her signature speaking approach. Dr. Sharalyn is an entertaining speaker who has been described as gifted by audiences for her to ability to capture and hold audience’s attention – pulling them into the experience and providing space for listeners to connect with what’s being shared.

“My goal is to provide your audience with cutting edge principles, rich insights, and powerful content based on years of experience and research, and with a delivery style that engages the mind, stirs the heart, and moves all into immediate and continuous action.”
Dr. Sharalyn Payne

Why Dr. Sharalyn?

- Rich insights, fresh perspectives, practical solution
- Challenges and provokes your thinking
- Awakens you to action
- Leaves you considering what’s possible
- Professional
- Easy to do business with
- Timely and relevant content
Most Requested Speaking Topics

Reshaping Leadership: Powerful Principles for Maximizing Potential, Performance, and Profitability
Reshaping Leadership has been leveraged by some of the world’s strongest companies to address current issues and trends as they ascend to their next level of success.
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Developing the Leaders You Need, Creating the Company They Love
Every company has the ability to maximize potential, performance, productivity, and profitability by developing the current and future leaders the organization needs, while building companies talent loves.
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Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable: Think Big, See Things Differently, and Achieve Seemingly Impossible Goals
This power packed, game-changing talk is based on Dr. Sharalyn Payne’s book, Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable. Read More
Developing the Leaders You Need, Creating the Company They Love

Every company has the ability to maximize potential, performance, productivity, and profitability by developing the current and future leaders the organization needs, while building companies talent loves. People don’t leave companies, they leave people. Years ago, we believed that statement to be true. While it still rings true today, people are leaving both companies and people. Employees want strong, fair leaders at companies with healthy work environments.
They want to contribute to the success of the company and be appreciated for who they are –what makes them unique. Employees want to bring their full selves to work without having to hide what makes them who they are.

Employees are looking for companies who value and appreciate who they are today, while contributing to the growth and evolution of who they aspire to be tomorrow. Gone are traditional benefits, flexible work arrangements, egotistical, ruthless people managers with leadership titles who lead with an autocratic leadership style. Profit-sharing, competitive salaries, and benefits are the entry ticket in a world where virtual and work from home is the norm. Ambitious, achievement-oriented employees desire and deserve what has been traditionally given. Loyalty, purpose, and meaning along with more traditional perks and leaders who can grow them, teach them, challenge them, and stretch them are the keys to retaining top talent and building sustainability companies.
Technology has drastically changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Technology gives us access –access to leverage our gifts, talents, and knowledge in a way that brings meaning and fulfilment.We’re seeing talent choosing to extend their problem-solving capabilities, critical thinking skills, and creativity to companies who align with their values and reflect their ideals. How prepared are you in developing leaders and creating a company that speaks to the needs of the employees and resonates with them in such a profound way that leads to your becoming an employer of choice, creating innovative products and services that make it challenging for competitors to respond to, and using your success to position your company as a leading and trusted voice here to improve humanity for all.
The market has changed and companies with a goal of sustaining, growing, expanding, and becoming more profitable must evolve into companies that employees love.These companies must create thought leaders, impact change, lead transformation, and work to build and shape a better world for each of us. Build competitive advantage by leveraging the strategies, insights, and components of the Developing the Leaders You Need, Creating the Company Talent Loves Framework™.
Keynote Principles
- Leading Across the Dimensions
- Leading In the Digital Age
- Creating Environments Where
- Employees Thrive
- Building High Performing Inclusive Teams
- Stronger and More Capable Leaders for a Better Tomorrow
Reshaping Leadership: Powerful Principles for Maximizing Potential, Performance, and Profitability

Reshaping Leadership has been leveraged by some of the world’s strongest companies to address current issues and trends as they ascend to their next level of success.
Reshaping Leadership is based upon Dr. Sharalyn’s years of business experience formulating leadership and talent strategies, coaching executives, and partnering with senior leaders to create and execute growth plans.
Dr. Sharalyn draws on her findings to uncover proven principles for developing exemplary leaders, building winning teams, and sustaining top talent that produces astounding results.
Using proven principles of leadership, business, management organizational and human psychology, Dr. Sharalyn explores the concepts leaders must master to lead companies through times of turbulence, disruption, change, growth, expansion, and sustainability.

The actionable strategies Dr. Sharalyn shares can be leveraged by companies of all sizes and industries to build competitive advantage, solidify and sustain position as an industry leader, execute growth plans, and increase the company’s financial performance.
Keynote Principles
- The Case for Reshaping Leadership and Creating Exemplary Leaders
- Building Competitive Advantage
- High-Performance Leadership
- What Employees Desire Most
- The Future of Work
Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable: Think Big, See Things Differently, and Achieve Seemingly Impossible Goals

This power packed, game-changing talk is based on Dr. Sharalyn Payne’s book, Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable.
Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable provides guidance on how you can move to your next level.
Dr. Sharalyn unearths how to shatter self-limiting beliefs, overcome derailers, and maximize your potential. Dr. Sharalyn reveals key insights for becoming and remaining unstuck, unleashing your greatness, and remaining unstoppable so that nothing can limit your sucess. Discover practices to increase your momentum, improve your effectiveness, and catapult you forward.

In Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable, Dr. Sharalyn provides practical strategies and tactics to help you pivot purposefully, leverage change, and thrive like never before.
Powerful lessons, provocative questions, and easy-to-implement strategies help and challenge you to dig deeper, push harder, and overcome any obstacle blocking your path to accomplishing your biggest goals.
Get ready to remove roadblocks, overcome adversity, think differently, win consistently, and achieve sustained success and peak performance.
Dr. Sharalyn uses her proprietary Predictive Personal Leadership Framework as the cornerstone for guiding forward thinkers, ambitious professionals, and leaders on how to maximize their full potential.
Keynote Principles
- Personal Leadership
- The Power of Vision: Focus on Your Win and Your End
- Identify, Seize, and Capitalize on Opportunity
- Your Decisions Determine Your Destiny
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What Clients Are Saying


L. Mayes
I had an opportunity to receive feedback from Dr. Payne's recent workshop and several guests stated how they had lost hope in their goals and dreams. Some felt like they were either too old or did not possess enough education. One attendee stated " Dr. Payne was able to challenge them to dream again no matter the age, stage, or background! Dr. Payne empowered them to not only dream, dream but to dream in color!" She inspired them to take ownership of their present as they were heading into their future. Those words served as not only a personal challenge for the workshop participants but inspired them that it was not too late to reconnect with their life's passion and ambitions!
She reminds us to dream BIG, plan BIG, and to embrace our uniqueness at each level.
I enjoy working with Dr. Payne because she is a part of the iron that keeps me sharp!