2023 CONFERENCE KEYNOTES

Steve Lowisz
Qualigence International

Opening Keynote: Steve Lowisz
Wednesday, Oct 18 2023 | 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM

Steve Lowisz delivers hard hitting, inspiring, and always actionable keynote sessions related to talent acquisition, personal and team development, and navigating change. His delivery is the perfect balance of energizing, direct, practical, motivating and results-focused. As a keynote speaker, successful fivetime entrepreneur, and global trainer, Steve blends deep, real-world experience with an engaging stage presence designed to capture attention, provoke thoughts, and drive real action. Every session is customized to drive the greatest possible impact, combining engaging stories (including personal failures) and practical tools and techniques that drive attendees to learn and act! Steve has more than two decades of experience helping companies unlock the performance of their teams. With deep expertise, an engaging stage presence, and high-touch focus, Steve will deliver extraordinary value at your next corporate or organizational event.

Mitch Albom

Closing Keynote: Mitch Albom - Giving is Living Sponsored by Lockton
Friday, Oct 20 2023 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-eight languages worldwide. He has written eight number-one New York Times bestsellers – including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years and celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022 – award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. After bestselling memoir Finding Chika and “Human Touch,” the weekly serial written and published online in real-time to raise funds for pandemic relief, his latest work is a return to fiction with New York Times bestseller The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, November 2021).  In 2006, he founded the nonprofit SAY Detroit, whose operations include a dessert shop and popcorn line to fund programs for Detroit’s most underserved citizens. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com, www.saydetroit.org, and www.havefaithaiti.org.