Make it matter.
Lead with purpose, unlock potential, and elevate performance.
Organizations have become experts at measuring performance, yet very few understand what actually creates it.
Great leaders don't unlock the best in people by managing performance; rather, they create the conditions where human potential can thrive.
THE MATTERING MINDSET
Long before Matt was asking organizations how to improve engagement, culture, or performance, he was asking a more fundamental question:
What do people need to experience in order to become more of who they're capable of becoming?
Today, Matt brings those twenty years of insight to leaders and organizations through keynote experiences and long-term programming that is deeply human, highly engaging, and grounded in a battle-tested framework for creating the conditions where people can thrive, contribute, and perform at their highest level.
Long-term Corporate Clients include: Jack in the Box, Kiehl’s, Truist Bank, HUB International, InVision, E&J Gallo Wines, H&R Block, Carolinas Healthcare System, Sutter Health, Zoom, Ken Blanchard Companies, Genentech, Edwards LifeSciences, and more.
The best organizations don't choose between developing people and driving performance. They understand that one makes the other possible.
KEYNOTES
Keynote Experiences on Leadership, Human Potential, and Performance
Make it Matter: For Leadership
Creating the Human Conditions That Bring Out the Best in People
Leaders are being asked to deliver more than ever… navigate constant change, embrace new technologies, build trust, retain great people, and drive performance in an increasingly complex world. But the greatest challenge of leadership hasn't changed: How do you bring out the best in people?
The answer isn't found in managing performance more closely. It's found upstream, in the experiences leaders create every day. How people experience their leaders shapes how they show up, how much of themselves they contribute, and ultimately how well they perform. Leadership isn't simply about directing the work. It's about creating the conditions that make great work possible.
Make it Matter: For Performance
Turning Human Potential into Human Performance
Organizations invest heavily in strategy, technology, systems, and talent all in pursuit of greater performance. Yet even the most capable people don't consistently perform at the level of their potential. The question isn't whether the potential exists. It's what determines how much of it actually makes it into the work.
Performance doesn't begin with productivity. It begins with the experiences that shape how people show up, contribute, and perform. When people experience greater trust, purpose, connection, and growth, more of what they're capable of becomes available—to themselves, their teams, and the organizations they serve.
Make it Matter: For Workplace Experience
Turning the Weight of Work into Greater Meaning and Momentum
People aren't showing up to work carrying only the demands of their jobs. They're carrying the weight of work and the weight of the world: constant change, uncertainty, new technologies, and lives that don't stop when the workday begins. The challenge isn't removing that weight. It's creating a workplace where people can carry it without losing their sense of purpose, connection, and possibility.
Culture, engagement, and well-being aren't created through programs or perks alone. They're shaped by the experiences people have every day. Those experiences don't just change how people feel about work. They change how people show up for it.
MEET MATT
Founder of Every Monday Matters, a 20-year global movement of mattering impacting 4+ million people
Creator of The Mattering Mindset
Developer of annual engagement and culture programs for Fortune 500 companies
5x Bestselling Author
Global Keynote Speaker with over 800 Keynotes
Former SVP for Robert Kardashian Entertainment
IN GOOD COMPANY
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"HIGHEST-RATED KEYNOTE SPEAKER WE'VE HAD TO DATE. HE WAS SIMPLY AMAZING."
Mike Faber | Leadership Enablement & Development
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"HE CHALLENGED US TO THINK DIFFERENTLY AND MADE US BELIEVE THAT MATTERING IS POSSIBLE FOR ALL OF US."
Lenny Comma | CEO
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"WE LAUGHED. WE CRIED. WE ARE FOREVER BETTER. TRULY TRANSFORMATIONAL."
Elizabeth Spaulding | Sr. Manager, Corporate Events
