Speaking & Leadership Experiences
A keynote your audience enjoys is a nice event. A keynote they use is a leadership investment.
Tell Us About Your EventNot a motivational speaker. A leadership strategist who speaks.
Shanna Kennedy has spent more than 15 years building leaders inside nonprofit, healthcare, higher education, and workforce organizations. She speaks from that work, not from a book she read about it.
Every keynote and workshop is built on The ROOM Method™, which means your audience doesn't just leave inspired. They leave with a question they can't unask and a tool they can use on Monday.
Signature Keynotes & Leadership Experiences.
The ROOM Method™ The Four Rooms Every Leader Moves Through
Every leader moves through four critical rooms of growth, yet most leadership development programs miss the sequence entirely. Discover Kennedy & Co.'s proprietary framework for developing leaders with the confidence, clarity, influence, and strategic capacity to lead effectively in every room they're called to enter.
Lead From Here™ Leadership Before the Title
Leadership begins long before a promotion. Designed for emerging leaders, students, and young professionals, this keynote challenges participants to lead with purpose, initiative, and influence wherever they are today.
The Leadership Pause™ Leading Calmly Through Pressure and Change
Pressure doesn't create leaders it only reveals them. This keynote explores the discipline of responding instead of reacting and provides practical strategies for leading with clarity, resilience, and confidence during uncertainty and change.
Leadership Is an Organizational Strategy: Why Leadership Capacity Drives Organizational Success
Leadership capacity is not just strategic plans alone, it determines what an organization can accomplish. This keynote helps executive teams, boards, and senior leaders understand how investing in leadership creates stronger cultures, healthier organizations, and sustainable results.
Own the Room How Leaders Actually Grow
Leadership begins long before a promotion. Designed for emerging leaders, students, and young professionals, this keynote challenges participants to lead with purpose, initiative, and influence wherever they are today.
The Missing Middle The Four Rooms Every Nonprofit Leader Must Navigate
Nonprofits often promote their best people into leadership without preparing them for the hardest shift of their careers: moving from doing the work to leading people. The result is overwhelmed managers, executive bottlenecks, and burnout. This interactive workshop uses The ROOM Method™ to help nonprofit leaders find the room connected to their biggest challenge, work a real case, and leave with a 30-day action plan they can begin immediately.
Shanna Kennedy, M.Ed.
Founder & CEO, Kennedy & Co. Leadership
Shanna Kennedy is the Founder and CEO of Kennedy & Co. Leadership, where she helps nonprofit and mission-driven organizations strengthen managers, develop leadership pipelines, and prepare leaders for greater responsibility.
She brings more than 15 years of experience spanning nonprofit leadership, workforce development, higher education, healthcare, executive coaching, and strategic partnerships. Shanna has designed and led national leadership programs directly serving more than 150 senior leaders within initiatives that grew to reach more than 1,500 leaders overall. She has managed approximately $5 million in program operations and helped secure more than $2.2 million in corporate sponsorships and partnerships.
A UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach, Shanna created The ROOM Method™ to help leaders strengthen their identity, presence, people leadership, and organizational impact. She holds a Master of Education in Educational Leadership and Management.
Where she speaks.
Engagement options.
Keynote
A single session built on The ROOM Method™. Your audience leaves with a leadership question they can't unask.
- →Preparation call to tailor content to your theme
- →Signature Tool™ handout for every attendee
- →In person or virtual
Half-Day Workshop
Three to four hours of live practice. Leaders don't just hear it; they try it.
- →Everything in the keynote
- →Leadership Labs™ — practice, not lecture
- →Participant workbook
Full-Day Workshop
A full leadership day. Enough time for something to actually change.
- →Everything in the half-day
- →Multiple ROOM Method™ tools
- →A commitment each leader takes back to their team
Every engagement is scoped to your event and audience. Custom leadership days, retreats, and board sessions available.
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Let's talk about the leaders you're building.
A Leadership Strategy Conversation is a thirty-minute conversation about your organization, not a sales call. We'll talk about where your leadership gaps are, what's driving them, and whether we're the right partner to help. If we're not, we'll tell you that too.
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