Michelle Rozen

Today more than ever, leaders are expected to navigate relentless change while keeping teams aligned, focused, and motivated.
But the greatest threat to any transformation isn’t the change itself—it’s your team’s emotional resistance to it. Fear, confusion, and lack of clarity stall progress long before execution begins.

In this captivating, high-impact experience, bestselling author and behavioral scientist Dr. Michelle Rozen delivers a science-based roadmap to help leaders not only manage change—but lead through it with confidence, clarity, and speed.

This keynote is about getting your leaders fully bought in to leading change—not just surviving it. It presents tools for thriving through change that can be used in both leadership and life, and leaves your attendees with not only a growth mindset and the motivation to lead change with confidence, but also with actionable tools and strategies that they can put to action right away.

Today’s leaders need more than just motivation. They need that powerful combination of a high energy experience with the tools they need in order to lead change, in today’s market and world, delivered by one of the most sought-after experts in the field of leadership and change.

Actionable Takeaways:
* Understand the roots of change resistance—and how to lead teams through it with confidence
* Learn the C.H.A.N.G.E.™ Model—a six-step blueprint for leading people through transformation with clarity and buy-in
* Master the 0–10 Rule™ for fast, confident prioritization and enhanced efficiency and communication
* Apply the Power of the Pause™ to lead proactively, especially in high-stakes situations
* Build a culture of momentum with the Change Engine™—so your people stay resilient, aligned, and ready for what’s next

Most people believe that the real challenge is the market, the industry, or the world. Based on Dr. Michelle Rozen’s extensive research and bestselling book, the real challenge- is within your own head.

In her groundbreaking research, bestselling author and behavioral scientist Dr. Michelle Rozen discovered a powerful truth: only 6% of people consistently follow through on their goals. Why? Because 94% simply do not know how to follow through. They just don’t have the formula.

In this captivating, high-impact keynote, Dr. Rozen reveals what separates the highest performers—and how anyone can learn to operate like them. Based on her national bestselling book The 6% Club—translated into multiple languages and embraced by global leaders and teams—this keynote equips your people with science-backed, easy-to-apply tools that drive results through clarity, focus, and follow-through.

Your audience will get excited about discovering the secrets of the six percenters and about becoming six percenters themselves in business and life. This is where growth mindset meet identity, and the tools for thriving in business and life become universal. This is a business and life- changing keynote with rave reviews from top brands, and the powerful takeaways that your attendees need today more than ever.

Actionable Takeaways:
* Understand why only 6% of people, leaders and teams achieve their goals
* Learn the 6% Performance Formula™—a step-by-step system for showing up, staying focused, and finishing strong
* Apply the 0–10 Rule™ to instantly eliminate distractions and prioritize what truly moves the needle in business and life
* Use the 20-Minute Rule™ to remain hyper-focused in high-stress situations without losing momentum
* Master The Power of the Pause™ to reset under pressure and lead with clarity and control
* Build a culture of consistency, ownership, and daily execution that fuels long-term excellence

What if the biggest threat to your AI strategy isn’t the tech—but your team’s fear of it?

In this powerful, research-based keynote, bestselling author and behavioral scientist Dr. Michelle Rozen brings the insights from her groundbreaking  research on AI Adoption, straight to the front lines of organizational leadership. After surveying 5,000 professionals across industries, Dr. Rozen uncovered a sobering reality: AI initiatives aren’t stalling because teams lack skill. They’re stalling because teams are overwhelmed, uncertain, and emotionally unprepared for change.

In her groundbreaking research, Dr. Michelle Rozen uncovered not only the emotional barriers holding teams back from AI adaptation—but also the science-based, easy-to-apply tools leaders can use right now to overcome them with clarity, speed, and confidence.

This keynote is your blueprint for cutting through AI Adoption Paralysis. With science-backed tools rooted in emotional intelligence and behavior change, Dr. Rozen equips leaders with the actionable tools and the confident motivation to master the tools to overcome resistance and earn buy-in, and align their people around real AI Adoption transformation. It’s a playbook for leaders who don’t just want to adapt to change, but to lead through it.

Actionable Takeaways:
* Understand the challenges in AI Adoption, and how you can overcome them in leadership and life
* Learn the C.L.E.A.R. Model for AI Transformation – a five-step framework to help leaders connect and communicate with diverse personalities through the AI transformation
* Master the Trust Trigger to Gain authentic Buy-In to gain fast, authentic buy-in and lower resistance across your organization
* Master The 15% Window for Seamless AI Adoption – a research-backed method for helping the team adapt to AI quickly and effectively  by presenting AI adoption in bite-sized increments.
* Activate the Adaptation Engine to Build Resilient Teams-build a culture that moves through AI adoption transition with speed, alignment, and resilience.
 

Resilience helps you recover. Bounce Forward™ teaches you how to become stronger because you moved forward.

AI is transforming industries, markets are shifting, organizations are restructuring, and leaders are being asked to make consequential decisions while the future becomes harder to predict. Disruption is no longer an occasional event that organizations prepare for. It has become part of the operating environment.

For decades, leaders have been taught to bounce back from adversity. Dr. Michelle Rozen challenges that model with Bounce Forward™, her proprietary framework for helping leaders and organizations do something more powerful: use disruption as a catalyst to adapt faster, make better decisions, build new capabilities, and perform at a higher level.

In this research-driven keynote, behavioral scientist, researcher, and bestselling author Dr. Michelle Rozen reveals the behavioral science behind why some people and organizations become stronger through disruption while others become stuck in resistance, uncertainty, and reaction.

She shows leaders how to move from simply managing disruption to using it as a strategic advantage.

The Leadership Question Has Changed

The question is no longer: “How do we get through this?”

The better question is: “Who do we need to become because of this?”

That shift is at the heart of Bounce Forward™.

When disruption occurs, organizations often focus on restoring what existed before. Yet the world that existed before the disruption may no longer be the world the organization needs to compete in.

The opportunity is not simply to recover the past. It is to determine what must change, what must be left behind, what new capabilities must be built, and how leaders can create forward movement when certainty is impossible.

What Your Audience Will Discover

1. Why Resilience Alone Is No Longer Enough
Resilience is the capacity to withstand adversity and recover. In an environment of continuous disruption, recovery cannot be the ultimate measure of organizational strength.

Dr. Rozen introduces the distinction between bouncing back and bouncing forward, showing leaders how to use disruption to build greater adaptability, stronger capabilities, and higher performance rather than simply restoring the status quo.

2. The Behavioral Science Behind Resistance to Change
People do not resist change simply because they dislike change. Uncertainty can trigger behaviors that cause people to protect familiar systems, delay decisions, question their ability to adapt, and hold onto approaches that worked in the past.

Dr. Rozen reveals what is happening behaviorally beneath the surface of disruption and gives leaders practical ways to create the conditions for faster, more sustainable adaptation.

3. How to Create Forward Movement When You Don’t Have All the Answers
Today’s leaders are often expected to provide certainty in environments where certainty does not exist.

Dr. Rozen shows leaders how to create clarity without pretending to know everything, communicate through ambiguity, and help teams take intelligent action even when the path ahead is still emerging.

4. How to Turn Disruption Into an Organizational Advantage
Disruption can expose weaknesses, but it can also reveal opportunities that were invisible before the environment changed.

Participants learn how to identify what needs to be stopped, started, strengthened, and redesigned so disruption becomes a catalyst for better decisions, stronger capabilities, and meaningful forward movement.

5. How to Focus When Everything Feels Urgent
Disruption creates competing priorities, and when everything becomes urgent, organizations can become extraordinarily busy without becoming meaningfully more effective.

Dr. Rozen connects Bounce Forward™ with her proprietary 0–10 Rule™, giving leaders a practical method for determining what deserves attention, what creates meaningful impact, and what should no longer consume organizational capacity.

6. How to Build an Organization That Gets Stronger Through Change
The ultimate competitive advantage is not experiencing less disruption.
It is developing the capacity to adapt more intelligently every time disruption occurs.

Participants learn how to create a culture in which change does not automatically produce paralysis, distraction, or resistance, but instead becomes an opportunity to learn, adapt, and perform at a higher level.

Actionable Takeaways

This keynote is designed to leave audiences with practical tools they can immediately apply with themselves and their teams.

* The Bounce Forward™ Assessment

Identify whether your team or organization is bouncing back, standing still, resisting, or actually moving forward through disruption.

* The Forward Decision

Determine what must be stopped, started, strengthened, or redesigned when circumstances change.

* The Adaptation Advantage

Recognize the behavioral patterns that accelerate adaptation and the leadership behaviors that unintentionally reinforce resistance.

* The Disruption-to-Opportunity Shift

Reframe disruption from something the organization must endure into an opportunity to build stronger capabilities.

* The 0–10 Connection

Apply The 0–10 Rule™ to determine what deserves attention when disruption makes everything feel urgent.

* The Bounce Forward™ Leadership Conversation

Use a practical set of questions to move teams from fear, frustration, and uncertainty toward learning, adaptation, and action.