Nancy Lyons Speaker Biography
Future of Work Expert, Leadership & Workplace Culture Authority, Bestselling Author, Emmy Award-Winning Entrepreneur, and Technology Innovator
Organizations everywhere are navigating unprecedented workplace transformation driven by artificial intelligence, changing employee expectations, and rapid technological innovation. Nancy Lyons helps leaders embrace that change by showing them how to build resilient workplace cultures, inspire accountability, and keep people at the center of business success. With her trademark humor, honesty, and practical insights, Lyons equips audiences with actionable strategies they can immediately implement to improve leadership, employee engagement, innovation, and organizational performance.
Technology Entrepreneur and Business Leader
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nancy Lyons is the founder and CEO of Everdare Advisors, where she advises organizations on leadership, workplace culture, innovation, and preparing for the future of work. She previously co-founded and served as CEO of Clockwork, one of the nation’s most respected digital consulting firms, leading the company for more than 25 years while helping organizations successfully navigate digital transformation and organizational change. A nationally recognized entrepreneur and business leader, Lyons has earned an Emmy Award, been inducted into the Minnesota Business Hall of Fame, and has been recognized among the world’s leading voices on workplace culture and leadership. She has served as a panelist at the White House Summit on Working Families and is a frequent media contributor discussing leadership, technology, artificial intelligence, and the evolving workplace.
Bestselling Author on Leadership and Workplace Success
Lyons is the bestselling author of Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) Your Power at Work, a leadership book that encourages professionals at every level to take ownership of their careers, embrace accountability, and become catalysts for positive organizational change. Her philosophy is simple: great organizations are not built by technology alone—they are built by people who lead with courage, curiosity, adaptability, and purpose.
Helping Organizations Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence reshapes nearly every industry, Nancy Lyons helps audiences understand that AI is an extraordinary business tool—but it cannot replace uniquely human strengths such as emotional intelligence, trust, creativity, collaboration, ethical decision-making, and sound judgment. Her keynote presentations explore how organizations can successfully integrate AI while building stronger leaders, more engaged employees, and healthier workplace cultures. Whether speaking to executives, managers, or frontline employees, Lyons provides practical strategies for leading through uncertainty, embracing innovation, developing resilient teams, and preparing organizations for long-term success in an AI-driven world.
A Dynamic and Engaging Keynote Speaker
Nancy’s keynote presentations combine compelling storytelling, current research, humor, and practical takeaways that resonate with audiences across industries. She customizes every presentation to address each organization’s unique challenges, strategic priorities, and event objectives, ensuring an engaging and highly relevant experience for every audience. Her impressive client roster includes Target, Best Buy, U.S. Bank, General Mills, Medtronic, Mayo Clinic, HealthPartners, 3M, Optum, SC Johnson, along with numerous Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, government agencies, educational institutions, and professional associations.
Leading Keynote Speaker on the Future of Work, AI, and Workplace Culture
Nancy Lyons delivers keynote presentations on the future of work, artificial intelligence and human leadership, workplace culture, leadership and accountability, innovation, organizational change, employee engagement, building high-performance teams, human-centered leadership, courageous leadership, women in leadership, and resilience and adaptability. Every presentation is tailored to the organization’s goals, audience, industry, and event objectives, ensuring practical insights and actionable strategies that resonate with each audience.
Why Organizations Book Nancy Lyons
Organizations book Nancy Lyons because she delivers far more than an inspiring keynote. She helps leaders and teams understand how to navigate change, embrace artificial intelligence responsibly, strengthen workplace culture, and develop the human skills that technology cannot replace. Combining research, real-world executive experience, engaging storytelling, and humor, Nancy equips audiences with practical tools they can immediately apply to improve leadership, foster innovation, increase employee engagement, and build organizations prepared to thrive in the future of work.
Nancy Lyons Speaking Topics
Own Your Power: Leadership Without Permission
Based on the principles of Work Like a Boss, this keynote inspires women to stop waiting for permission, trust their instincts, and embrace their ability to lead from wherever they are. Nancy shares practical strategies for overcoming fear, building confidence, challenging outdated workplace norms, and creating meaningful influence regardless of title. Filled with humor, candid stories, and actionable advice, this presentation encourages women to lead authentically while helping organizations cultivate stronger, more inclusive leadership cultures.
Culture Eats AI for Breakfast
As artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace, Nancy explains why organizations that thrive will combine powerful technology with emotional intelligence, human judgment, and courageous leadership. Audiences leave with practical strategies for leading confidently through the AI revolution.
The BRAVE Advantage
Nancy introduces her practical BRAVE framework—Boldness, Resilience, Accountability, Vulnerability, and Experimentation—to help organizations build stronger teams, execute strategy more effectively, and create cultures where innovation flourishes.
Cultivating a Human-Centered Culture
High-performing organizations put people first. Nancy explores how leaders can build trust, psychological safety, belonging, and authentic workplace cultures that improve engagement, retention, collaboration, and business performance.
Kick Your Fear in the Face
Fear limits innovation, leadership, and personal growth. Nancy delivers practical tools for overcoming self-doubt, embracing uncertainty, and developing the confidence to lead through change and challenge.
Nancy Lyons Books
Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) Your Power at Work
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Nancy Lyons Speaker Testimonials
"Nancy stole the show. Participants raved about her, noting how she struck just the right balance of real, practical insight and making them all feel like success was within their reach."
- Tracy Burns, CEO | Northeast Human Resources Association
"Nancy's keynote presentation was the highlight of our Women's Summit. Her great energy, empowering messages, and tell it like it is approach had us talking long after the event."
- Tammy Buchert, Chief Administrative Officer |
"Not only does she provide solid, useful information to her audience, she engages with energy and wit that make listening to a keynote fun and inspiring."
- Brett Harned | Digital PM Consulting
"Nancy Lyons is the best local speaker I know. The three times she has spoken to audiences at my request have been some of the best speeches I have heard locally."
- Linda Brandt | Hennepin County Public Health Promotion
