Shane Feldman

Leadership Passport: Attracting, Empowering and Retaining a High-Performing Team

Having researched community leadership and human behavior in over 20 countries, Shane has uncovered universal strategies that make teams click and businesses thrive. In this captivating and actionable talk, Shane Feldman reveals how to cultivate a work environment centered around community, that enables individuals and teams to perform at their highest levels. Shifting common misconceptions surrounding organizational culture, Shane breaks down how to foster an inclusive work environment where teams are inspired to innovate, think creatively, and collaborate.

Through engaging stories of remote African villages, bustling Asian cities and quaint European towns, Shane’s dynamic talk demonstrates simple shifts to become a stronger, more inclusive leader.

Motivational and actionable, Shane’s presentations are customized to fit the audience and objectives of each event. Key takeaways include:

• What it looks like to be a true community builder and to lead with authenticity
• The difference between culture and community, and what it takes to foster unity and collaboration at all levels
• One simple shift to ensure every voice feels valued and heard
• Building loyalty and engagement among employees to boost performance
• Empowering a courageous entrepreneurial mindset
• New and effective ways of working across all levels of an organization, regardless of your role

Relationship Passport: Inspiring and Retaining Loyal Customers

In today’s digital landscape, attention is the new economy. Organizations that rise above the noise do so through authentic relationships and community building.

In this talk, famed entrepreneur Shane Feldman bridges the gap between technology and relationships, giving audiences the tools to inspire customers and increase loyalty and retention.

Through his firsthand experiences traveling the world and spearheading the world’s largest millennial-led movement, Count Me In, Shane has uncovered the universal framework that allows certain organizations to build a community of customers who are also raving fans, followers and advocates. Break out of the constraints of old models, and learn how to use tech as an advantage to making customers an integral part of your company’s community and story.

This customized session gives audiences key takeaways to:

• Make customers a part of your company’s story in a way that inspires and empowers
• Put customers at the center of your company’s community by implementing pathways for them to connect in authentic ways
• Embrace social media as an asset for growth
• Build genuine relationships and connections with customers that transcend evolving tech and trends

Future-Proof Passport: Building and Scaling to Move Beyond Competition and Elevate Impact

In today's unpredictable landscape, your competitive edge is collaboration.
In this empowering, forward-looking talk, Shane Feldman goes beyond the hype and speculation to reveal a fundamental truth: In today's unpredictable landscape, community and purpose are what will set you apart.

New disruptive business models, new flexible work arrangements, new tech-fueled innovation are all part of the future of work. Shifting perceptions of entrepreneurship and moving beyond tech-fueled competition, Shane helps audiences re-focus, re-connect, and elevate their impact.

Taking audiences behind the lessons learned interviewing community leaders in places ranging from Albania and China to Ghana and France, Shane decodes how to empower human connection, future-proof your organization, and optimize people, planet, and profit through real-world

examples and clear strategies you can apply right away.

This customized session gives audiences key takeaways to:

• Become more persistent, courageous and resilient
• Build the community that will thrive through change and uncertainty
• Uncover the why behind your work, promoting authenticity
• Uncover a sustainable growth mindset

Future-Proof Your Organization: Build a Connected Culture, Move Beyond Competition, and Elevate Your Impact

The future is exciting, intimidating, scary, and ultimately unpredictable. We can no longer rely on past strategies and models if we want to achieve sustainable success.

If you’re committed to attract and retain the best talent, inspire high-performance across your team, and engage the most loyal customers, then it’s time to renew your focus on community building. In today's unpredictable landscape, your competitive edge is collaboration.
Famed entrepreneur and community builder behind COUNT ME IN, one of the largest youth-led movements in the world, Shane Feldman will break down the creative systems and game-changing ideas that have enabled his brand to thrive in 104 countries and serve a community of more than 10 million people.

Through real-world examples and clear strategies you can apply right away, Shane decodes how to empower human connection across your team, future-proof your organization, and optimize people, planet, and profit. Whether you are an executive, manager, front-line team member or sales rep, Shane is the guide that will help you and your organization become future-ready.

This empowering keynote will help your audience:

• Become more persistent, resilient and courageous
• Thrive through change
• Achieve higher performance
• Build unquestionable loyalty and engagement
• Increase commitment to sustainable growth
• Cultivate a collaborative environment ready to dominate objectives

LEADERSHIP REWIRED: IGNITE A THRIVING COMMUNITY IN A DIGITAL AGE OF DISCONNECTION

Believe business is built on relationships? In this inspiring and actionable keynote, renowned entrepreneur Shane Feldman will help you reimagine yourself as a community builder, so you and your organization can build thriving teams and attract loyal customers.

In this digital age of distraction and disconnection, we’re facing a community crisis. Companies are finding it increasingly challenging to engage and retain top-tier talent and customers. The solution is community building: redefining leadership as a daily choice to connect with others in a more intentional and meaningful way.

Whether you’re an executive, a sales rep, a dentist or an engineer, Shane's unique approach will help you connect with coworkers and customers more effectively, and equip you with the skills to be a true community builder within your organization. Having researched community in 20+ countries around the world, Shane takes the audience on a thrilling journey from remote villages to bustling metropolises, uncovering universal strategies that will help you and your organization build better relationships, and better business. Combining entertaining case studies with practical insights, this captivating keynote performance will help you and your organization optimize human connection so you can thrive in this digital age.

• Learn the daily leadership practice that drives creativity and innovation
• Build a culture that celebrates connection and collaboration
• Implement a next-level strategy to increase team buy-in and engagement
• How to offer a customer experience that guarantees loyalty
• The most effective strategy to make every interaction impactful
• Apply best practices currently used by the top-performing companies
• Proactively avoid the top 3 connection killers

LONELINESS TO LEADERSHIP: LEAD YOURSELF BEFORE OTHERS

Shane Feldman started his first business at 12, produced his first event at 13, and the brand he started in high school became a global phenomenon. From an early age, Shane was seen as a success story, but hidden behind his smile was deep loneliness and disconnection.

Sucker punched by relationship breakdown, he left the country to escape, reset, and recharge. That first plane ticket turned into an unplanned journey around the world, and the accidental discovery of some of the truths about community: how they start, what makes them tick, how people engage and the power of meaningful connection.

Equal parts inspiring and practical, this timely keynote combines entertaining stories from Shane’s global travels with key insights that you and your team can apply immediately to improve communication, collaboration, wellness, and workplace culture.

• Avoid a common mistake most people make in communicating
• Gain a fresh approach to problem-solving
• Learn how to make every interaction memorable
• Understand how to proactively avoid top-performer burnout
• Easy strategies to increase wellness at work
• How to build a team that embraces change and innovation
• Community building leadership practices that you can implement right away

Future-Proof Your Organization: Build a Connected Culture, Move Beyond Competition, and Elevate Your Impact

The future is exciting, intimidating, scary, and ultimately unpredictable. We can no longer rely on past strategies and models if we want to achieve sustainable success.

If you’re committed to attract and retain the best talent, inspire high-performance across your team, and engage the most loyal customers, then it’s time to renew your focus on community building. In today’s unpredictable landscape, your competitive edge is collaboration.
Famed entrepreneur and community builder behind COUNT ME IN, one of the largest millennial movements in the world, Shane Feldman will break down the creative systems and game-changing ideas that have enabled his brand to thrive in 104 countries and serve a community of more than 10 million people.

Through real-world examples and clear strategies you can apply right away, Shane decodes how to empower human connection across your team, future-proof your organization, and optimize people, planet, and profit. Whether you are an executive, manager, front-line team member or sales rep, Shane is the guide that will help you and your organization become future-ready.

• Become more persistent, resilient and courageous
• Thrive through change
• Achieve higher performance
• Build unquestionable loyalty and engagement
• Increase commitment to sustainable growth
• Cultivate a collaborative environment ready to dominate objectives

Education Topics:

Undercover Mentor: Elevate Your Influence and Impact

Perhaps the most in­-depth research project America’s education sector has ever seen, Shane Feldman recently completed a 2 ­year study that sent him into high schools, undercover as a student, to uncover the universal struggles facing today’s teens.

Shane’s stories will help education leaders gain new insight into the hidden social and psychological worlds of today’s youth. Shane’s findings will ignite honest conversations about the problems facing today’s teens and outline effective steps educators can take to better support their students.

At a time when the state of the average American teenager is far worse than most educators realize, this informative and captivating session will provide timely, critical insights, and practical steps that Principals can take in order to ensure their staff and students receive the support they need.

Shane’s adventures are at times hilarious, fascinating, deeply unsettling, and always inspiring. Most importantly, they provide a proven guide that will allow schools to adapt to these challenging times. Shane’s story will transport you into today’s physical and digital high school hallways, leaving you with a better understanding of this generation, and the tools to better support your school.

Building a Movement: Lead Yourself, Lead Others
Shane has spent the last ten years working with young people around the world — from the United States and Canada to Mexico and Malaysia.

Shane Feldman started COUNT ME IN out of his high school locker, and today the organization is one of the largest youth movements in the world, having impacted over 10 million students in over 100 countries. Over the past decade, COUNT ME IN has inspired more than 30,000 youth-led volunteer projects, equating to over 100 million hours of community service.

In this special one-man-show style keynote performance, Shane will take students behind the scenes of COUNT ME IN, revealing how the movement was born out of his challenging transition into high school. Students will leave with new ideas and insights into the power of meaningful connection, communication, leadership, and impact – and most importantly inspired to take action.

From leadership conferences to campus events, Shane’s thought-provoking message will transform the way students see themselves and interact within your community.

Leadership Passport: Empowering High-Performance
Having researched leadership and human behavior in over 25 countries, Shane has uncovered universal strategies that make teams click and communities thrive. In this captivating and actionable talk, Shane Feldman reveals how to cultivate an environment centered around community that enables individuals and teams to perform at their highest levels. Shifting common misconceptions surrounding organizational culture, Shane breaks down how to foster an inclusive environment that inspires innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

Through engaging stories of remote African villages, bustling Asian cities and quaint European towns, Shane’s dynamic talk demonstrates simple shifts to become a stronger, more inclusive leader. Motivational and actionable, Shane’s presentations are customized to fit the audience and objectives of each event.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Lead with authenticity and build trust
The difference between culture and community
How to foster unity and collaboration at all levels
Overcoming challenges and adversity​
Thrive in high-pressure situations​
Empower a courageous entrepreneurial mindset

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Increase confidence & self-esteem
Overcoming challenges and adversity​​
Thrive in high-pressure situations​
Avoid burnout​
Make an impact as a student leader in your school and community
Take responsibility and make great choices