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.
In this deeply human, highly engaging keynote experience, Matt combines compelling storytelling, humor, audience interaction, and moments of genuine reflection with a battle-tested framework for unlocking human potential. He takes a subject often reduced to metrics and makes it personal, practical, and impossible to see the same way again.
Audiences leave with a new understanding of what creates sustainable performance—and practical ways to unlock greater potential and contribution in themselves and those around them.
Audience Outcomes:
Rethink what creates performance
by understanding the human experiences that turn potential into contribution.
Recognize what unlocks human potential
and what prevents people from bringing more of themselves to the work.
Strengthen individual and team contribution
by creating greater purpose, connection, trust, and ownership.
Move beyond productivity alone
to create the conditions for more sustainable performance.
Turn more potential into performance
by making human experience an intentional part of how work gets done.
Make it Matter: For Performance
Turning Human Potential into Organizational 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.
Focus:
Reducing Burnout & Sustaining Engagement
Strengthen Belonging and Collaboration
Driving Engagement and Ownership
Connecting Purpose to Performance
Why Mattering Matters in
Performance
Potential is what people are capable of. Performance is what organizations see. Contribution is what turns one into the other.
Every person brings untapped potential to work, but having potential and realizing it are two very different things. Too often, organizations focus on measuring performance without understanding what makes it possible. When people experience trust, respect, connection, and a sense of purpose, they are more likely to bring their full capabilities, ideas, and energy to the work they do.
The experience of work determines how much of what people are capable of actually makes it into the work. Performance doesn’t start with performance.
20%
Only 20% of employees worldwide are engaged at work.
74%
Say it's very or critically important to find better ways to measure worker performance and value beyond traditional productivity.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026
Deloitte, 2025 Global Human Capital Trends
“MATT’S PASSION AND VISION UNLEASH POTENTIAL.”
Cammie Cannella | SVP Global Education and Customer Experience
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"BY FAR THE BEST PRESENTATION WE HAVE HAD IN YEARS."
Trilogy Health Services
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"MATT'S KEYNOTE WAS CONSISTENTLY HIGHLIGHTED AS ONE OF THE STRONGEST PARTS OF THE DAY. LEADERS FOUND IT ENGAGING, RELATABLE, AND IMPACTFUL ACROSS A BROAD AUDIENCE. THE MOST COMMEN FEEDBACK WAS THAT THEY WANTED MORE."
University of Kentucky Healthcare Leadership Summit
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" I GET TO WORK WITH SO MANY TALENTED SPEAKERS, BUT MATT WILL ALWAYS STAND OUT TO ME. WORKING WITH HIM WAS EASILY ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS THIS YEAR. I'D WORK WITH HIM AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT."
Kennedy Wells | Head Event Coordinator
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"MATT SHARES A MESSAGE THAT IS ORGANIZATION AND WORLD CHANGING. THAT BY LOVING OTHER PEOPLE WE CAN LEARN TO LOVE OURSELVES."
Vernon Sanders | Television Chief Executive
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"A UNIQUE HUMAN BEING WITH A UNIQUE WAY OF CONNECTING—WHETHER WITH ONE PERSON OR A ROOM FULL OF 2,000."
Mark Lovett | Head of TEDx San Diego
KEYNOTE CLIENTS
Three unique keynote experiences designed to change the way you work.
Leadership
Creating the Human Conditions That Bring Out the Best in People
Performance
Transforming Human Potential into Organizational Performance
Workplace Experience
Turning the Weight of Work into Greater Meaning and Momentum
WHAT MATT BRINGS
PURPOSE. This work matters to everyone. It is not transactional.
EXPERIENCE. There is nothing experimental about this.
AUTHENTICITY. The real deal and one with your people.
EMPATHY. Deep care for people and organizations.
DELIVERY. Hit your goals & objectives.
HUMANNESS. Mattering is human-centric… and so are you.
TRANSFORMATION. It’s more than just inspiration.
CUSTOMIZATION. No two events or companies are the same.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP. A proven framework for mattering.
PARTNER. It’s never one and done. Real change happens together.
Workshops.
JACK IN THE BOX
Drive the Mattering Mindset™ Methodology deeper into the DNA of your culture through a variety of engaging, human-centered, and thought-provoking workshops. Workshops are designed as keynotes or breakout sessions, booked as a series or individually.
Experiences.
KIEHL’S
Matt and the Every Monday Matters™ Experience Design team create and curate experiences grounded in connection, belonging, and team building. Experiences are custom built to meet the specific needs of our clients, but they are all transformational.
Activations.
ZOOM
Bring creative, interactive, and transformational activations to your next event or campus to experience mattering firsthand. Each activation results in a meaningful artifact (video, physical installation, etc.) to keep and share internally and externally.