Sam creates a positively artistic & inspirational experience
Sam's unique brand of motivation and inspiration helps you create a safe, supportive workplace, where growth and greatness thrive, and mental health matters.
Celebrating 30 Years of Motivation & Inspiration
Let's Build On Your Success and Create a Customized Speech that Inspires, Recognizes Progress and Makes a Positive Difference in Your Organization
How do you know which keynote talk will work for your meeting? Sam will work with you to pick the best option. Once you book Sam, he will do a conference call with you or your team to discuss how to best customize his motivational speech and determine the best performance painting to pair with the speech. ( Below are keynote topics that give a general idea and direction of the speech, but again, Sam will customize his key points so it reflects your meeting objectives, theme or goals.)
INSPIRED TO INSPIRE
Keep Your Head Up
Look Up, Learn Up, Level Up, Lead Up
Inspired to Inspire by Sam Glenn focuses on a continuous journey of resilience, vision, learning, growth, and service. By keeping your head up, looking up, learning up, leveling up, and leading up, you create a legacy that uplifts yourself and those around you.
1. Look Up: Building Resilience
• Embrace Challenges: Every obstacle is an opportunity to grow. Embrace change and face challenges with confidence.
• Cultivate Positivity: Maintain optimism, perspective, and the right attitude.
Seek Inspiration: Inspiration fuels purpose and connection to our vision and keeps us focused on what matters most.
• Seek Inspiration Everywhere: Leaders draw strength from diverse perspectives and new ideas.
• Elevate Others: Encourage your team to rise above challenges and see their potential.
2. Learn Up: Lifelong Learning
• Stay Curious: Never stop asking questions or exploring new knowledge.
• Adapt and Evolve: Embrace change as a chance to grow and innovate.
• Learn from Failure: Every mistake holds a valuable lesson for future success.
3. Level Up: Personal and Professional Growth
• Invest in Yourself: Dedicate time to self-improvement, whether through skills, health, or mindset.
• Push Boundaries: Step outside your comfort zone to achieve greater heights.
• Celebrate Milestones: Acknowledge progress to fuel momentum for future achievements.
4. Lead Up: Empowering Others
• Serve First: Leadership is about enabling others to succeed. Lead with humility and empathy.
• Foster Collaboration: Great leaders create environments where everyone thrives together.
• Inspire Action: Transform ideas into impactful results by empowering and motivating your team.
Attitude Changes Everything
FOCUS: Inspirational/ Mental Health/ Leadership/ Reframing the Negatives/Developing Optimism and Resilience.
This is Sam Glenn’s most requested speech, and for good reason. It’s inspiring, engaging and relevant to how we live, lead and work.
“...the impact of Sam’s presentation was a feeling of joy that lasted well beyond the hour on screen." — Executive Director, KSAE
We’ve all heard speeches about attitude, but not like this one. Sam Glenn’s inspiring and artistic approach to educating and empowering will have you looking at your attitude in a whole new way.
Attitude plays a vital role in every part of our life, both personally and professionally. Sam Glenn is considered one of the leading experts on attitude, having written more than thirty books on the subject. Attitude Changes Everything offers an enlightening, entertaining, and educational look at how attitude works, what shapes it, how to maintain a healthy perspective, and finally how to use your attitude to create better experiences.
Sam’s speech will recharge your attitude like jumper cables to a drained car battery. Sometimes, we just need a little positive boost that helps us recharge, refocus and reengage.
This keynote breaks attitude down into four main components:
Adjustment – How to adjust your attitude, keep it moving in the right direction, and fuel it with positive momentum.
Instillation - What we feed our attitude is what drives it.
Application – How to align your attitude with your skills, work and efforts to achieve better outcomes.
Impact – How to measure the results of your attitude—what’s working and what’s not.
Depending on customization, Sam may also highlight these learning points:
• How to strengthen your attitude with resilience during times of change, challenge, and uncertainty
• How to manage negative thoughts and difficult encounters
• The number one source of positivity for your attitude
• How to create memorable experiences for yourself and others through attitude
• A simple thirty-second technique to reduce stress, fatigue, and frustration
If you would like to learn more, contact our amazing booking office. Let’s create an unforgettable experience for your group.
Contact@SamGlenn.com
The Strength of the Pack
Focus: Teamwork/Resilience/ Making a Difference/ Engagement/Leadership
Based on one of Sam’s favorite quotes,
“The strength of the wolf is in the pack, and the strength of the pack is in the wolf.”
This keynote is all about unity, impact, and shared success. Sam challenges audiences to not only to recognize the value they bring as individuals, but also how their attitude and actions contribute to the strength of the entire organization. With real stories, humor, and clear takeaways, Sam equips teams to face challenges with confidence, clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Key Outcomes:
- How to connect with your purpose every day
- Simple strategies to overcome setbacks and stay focused
- Why encouragement and recognition fuel stronger culture
- How to create a positive ripple effect throughout your organization
Throughout the keynote, Sam performs a live painting of a powerful and vibrant wolf. That original artwork becomes part of your story—it’s yours to keep after the keynote. Some groups choose to auction it for charity, award it to a standout team member, or proudly display it as a symbol of the experience and message.
Every attendee also receives a small art print to take home—something they can look at often to remember the message and reignite the inspiration.
The Strength of the Pack is customizable. Sam always tailors his message to align with your group’s specific goals, values, and culture. Every keynote delivers original takeaways that speak directly to the heart of your organization.
If you’d like to learn more or check Sam’s availability, we’re here to help. Dates are filling fast through 2026, and while we don’t hold dates, we’re happy to help you find the best fit. Contact us today at: Contact@SamGlenn.com
An Uplifting, Educational, and Fun Keynote by Award-Winning Speaker, Artist, and Best-Selling Author Sam Glenn
What does it look like to be the difference in your organization? In your leadership?
To be the difference means being the exception—through your example, empathy, and excellence. Making a positive difference doesn’t happen by accident. It takes intention, purpose, and consistency.
This keynote is about revisiting, reconnecting with, and reigniting your purpose so you can elevate the difference you make every day. Sam will show how the smallest actions often lead to the greatest impact. When you reflect on those who’ve made a lasting difference in your life, it’s usually because of simple, intentional gestures.
Maybe it was someone holding the door when your hands were full. Or a coworker staying late to help you through a tough workload.
Making a difference is the result of your attitude and actions working in alignment. This isn’t about fluffy theories—it’s about real-life leadership and the small moments that create big change. Sam will deliver practical, easy-to-use tools that you can put into action immediately.
Expect to laugh. Expect to think. Expect to walk away inspired—with a new live performance painting from Sam and a fresh outlook on how to raise your difference factor to a whole new level.
Contact us to discuss how Sam can customize this talk to your group.
The Resilience Factor
Equipping Yourself and Others with the Tools to Keep Moving Forward
Picture this: You and your team are preparing to climb a tough mountain. The path is unpredictable. The weather changes without warning. The climb is steep, exhausting, and full of unknowns. But—you’re not worried. You have the right gear, the right team, and most of all, the right mindset.
That mountain? It’s a metaphor for what we all face in work and life—uncertainty, stress, change, and pressure.
So what do you pack mentally and emotionally to keep your team focused, encouraged, and strong? How do you rally your team when things get hard?
In this powerful and energizing keynote, Sam Glenn shares the critical tools of resilience—tools your team can start using today. Through storytelling, humor, and a captivating live art performance, Sam will deliver a message that not only inspires but equips your group for real success—together.
Key Takeaways from This Keynote:
• How to develop a resilient mindset during constant change, uncertainty, and setbacks
• The daily habits that fuel encouragement and momentum—for yourself and your team
• How to shift your attitude when things get tough, and why that shift matters
• Simple tools to rally your team and keep moving forward, even when it’s hard
• Why resilience is a shared strength, and how to lift up the “weakest climber” to make the whole team stronger
Contact us to customize this unforgettable keynote for your group. Let’s build something strong together.Contact@SamGlenn.com
Be Your Own "Real Life" Superhero
A conference favorite!
This keynote talk is perfect for any group looking for something engaging, high energy and inspirational. Sam’s superhero talk highlights the simple ways we can all be a real life superhero.
“To be a real life superhero, you don’t need to save the world. It starts by doing the little things with a superhero attitude. What does a real life superhero look and act like in your organization?” — Sam Glenn
Real life superheroes don’t wear capes. (However, they are optional on Friday’s or casual days.) Each of us has the ability to make a positive impact with the superpowers we have. Being a real life superhero isn’t like the movies, it’s about doing the little things with a superhero attitude.
Being a real life superhero…
Means you may not get credit for your efforts, but you keep doing your best anyways.
Is about looking for opportunities to contribute, take initiative and help out.
Is about setting an example that others will want to follow and replicate.
Is knowing that you are going to encounter adversities, villains with bad attitudes and situations that will test your superhero spirit.
Is about being resilient, courageous and optimistic.
In this keynote, I like to learn what makes your people real life superheroes. What does that look like in real life? How can I help recognize your superheroes? How can I encourage them to take their superhero status to the next level?
To inquire about this keynote, contact our office of superheroes to discuss. Contact@SamGlenn.com
Your audience, delighted.
That's the Sam Glenn difference.
Finding the right keynote speaker to kick off your event or wrap things up on a positive note is not an easy task. You can have confidence and peace of mind that working with Sam Glenn and his team will prove to be a positive experience.