Cy Wakeman

Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, New York Times best-selling author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and 2023 World’s #1 Leadership Guru, renowned for her Reality-Based approach to leadership. With over 25 years of experience partnering with top brands across industries, she teaches leaders and teams to achieve better results with less drama, increase engagement without entitlement, and find more happiness—even in challenging circumstances.

Called “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace,” Cy inspires leaders to love their teams up while calling them up to greatness. Her clients include Google, Meta, Viacom, NBC Universal, Keurig Dr Pepper, NASA, Pfizer, CVS, Johns Hopkins, Stanford Medicine, and Bank of America.

A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Cy is among the top 3% of speakers worldwide and a highly sought-after conference headliner. She has published four best-selling books, most recently Life’s Messy, Live Happy (2022), and reaches over 30,000 engaged readers through her Reality-Based Leadership newsletter.

Cy’s online following exceeds 250,000, and her popular Reality-Based Leadership podcast delivers practical strategies to help leaders evolve their teams beyond daily challenges. Her message equips audiences to embrace reality, ditch the drama, and lead with clarity and courage.

KEYNOTE TOPICS

• No Ego: How leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results
• Reality-Based Leadership™: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace and Turn Excuses into Results
• Business Readiness – Ensuring Our Teams are Ready for What’s Next
• Hardwiring Accountability into Your Workforce
• Employee Engagement is Broken: Unlocking the True Driver of Employee Performance