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Change Management Keynote Speaker

Updated July 2026

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Looking for a change management keynote speaker? Henna Pryor is a Certified Speaking Professional, 2x TEDx speaker, and author of The Signal Gap who shows change leaders why teams verify every announcement against the last broken promise - and how to earn the belief that turns rollouts into adoption instead of adoption theater.

Why do change initiatives stall in the verification era?

Employees' willingness to support enterprise change collapsed from 74% in 2016 to 43% in 2022, while the average employee absorbed 10 planned changes a year, up from two (Gartner, via HBR 2023).

Just 32% of business leaders say their last change achieved healthy adoption (Gartner, 2025). Teams fact-check the rollout before they believe it.

What does Henna Pryor speak about at transformation kickoffs?

The verification-ready launch, Named Loss (name the loss before you sell the gain), the AI smell test for change comms, subtraction as a credibility signal, and the Sponsor Signal Contract - built on the finding that active, visible sponsorship is the number-one contributor to change success and lifts benefit realization from about 25% to 85% (Prosci).

Who books this keynote?

Transformation offices, change leaders, HR and L&D teams, and executives launching reorganizations, system rollouts, or culture change - from startup to Fortune 500. Only about 12% of transformations achieve their original ambition (Bain, 2024); this keynote is built for the belief gap behind that number.

43%

willingness to support change, down from 74%

Gartner via HBR, 2023

25% to 85%

effective sponsorship lifts benefit realization

Prosci

12%

of transformations achieve their original ambition

Bain, 2024

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