Book Lonnie for Your Event

Lonnie typically books events at least a couple of months ahead, which gives time to tailor the talk to your audience. If your event is sooner than that, it's still worth a conversation — just send the details through and we will tell you honestly whether it can work.

Lonnie can speak at any kind of event, including conferences, leadership retreats, team offsites, and corporate events. Lonnie works as a keynote speaker, breakout session leader, workshop facilitator and emcee, and shapes the format around what the event needs — from a single keynote to multi-day facilitation.

Every keynote is built around your event's goals rather than delivered off the shelf, so length and format are mutually agreed upon rather than fixed in advance. Talks include hands-on elements that reinforce your event's key messages, and Lonnie works with you beforehand to make the content specific to your organization.

Lonnie specializes in topics around giving and receiving hard feedback, workplace conflict, and resilience. Her talks draw on 25 years in leadership, more than 1,500 performance reviews delivered, and being terminated once for advocating for her team. She is a Certified Scrum Trainer®, one of roughly 300 worldwide, fewer than 30 of whom are women.

Yes. Lonnie delivers keynotes, workshops, facilitation, and emcee work both in person and virtually. She has presented on five continents, including delivering her feedback keynote to 400 people in Brazil, in broken Portuguese.

Her audiences are usually HR leaders, managers, and teams inside corporations and at industry conferences. She has spoken for organizations like UnitedHealthcare, Optum, Target, the National Education Association, and CapTech, and is a member of the National Speakers Association's Minnesota chapter.