Whether Laura Schwartz is serving as an emcee or delivering a keynote, she steps onto the stage as an ambassador for the organisation—fully aligned with its mission, message and desired outcomes. Her role is to set the tone, spark energy in the room, and guide the audience through an experience that feels purposeful, engaging and memorable.
As an emcee, Laura carefully manages the flow of the event—linking speakers, energising the audience, and maintaining momentum while ensuring each moment supports the broader vision of the program. As a keynote speaker, she brings powerful storytelling, insight and inspiration that encourage conversation and leave audiences feeling motivated long after the event has finished.
Above all, Laura approaches every stage as a partnership. Together with her clients, she helps create an atmosphere where their message resonates, their audience feels genuinely engaged, and their event delivers the impact it was designed to achieve.
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Eat, Drink and Succeed
Eat, Drink and SucceedEat, Drink and Succeed
High energy and motivation you’ll remember and strategies you’ll use.
Laura’s super-charged signature series is built on being prepared for partnership and turning the optional into opportunity. As she reminds audiences: “You never know when the next conversation will be the one to change your life—or someone else’s.”
Challenging traditional ideas of networking, Laura inspires audiences to ask “What can I do for you?” instead of the self-serving “What can you do for me?” She demonstrates how positive, powerful networking is about mentoring, leading, and building connections both inside and outside the office.
Customised to incorporate your conference programming and year-round engagement, Laura shares practical examples and actionable tips that increase results for every participant. When the event is over, these lessons carry back to the workplace—and into everyday life.
Eat, Drink & Succeed motivates, engages, and drives action. Whether a first-time attendee or seasoned veteran, every participant leaves empowered to transform conversations into opportunities, relationships into partnerships, and ideas into results.
Eat, Drink & Succeed inspires at:
Corporate and association conference kick-offs
Sales meetings
Employee engagement and culture-building programs
Innovation labs and strategy sessions
Professional development workshops and seminars
Team-building and professional growth initiatives
Leadership development programs
Activate Your Superpowers
Every leader has a cape. It’s time to wear yours.Activate Your Superpowers
From her start as a small-town girl with a speech impediment to becoming the youngest female presidential appointee in White House history—and ultimately an international professional speaker and television commentator—Laura shares powerful, relatable stories of challenges and triumphs. Along the way, she reveals the superpowers we all develop throughout our lives.
Audiences will uncover the five universal superpowers within themselves, learn how to activate them, and discover additional powers unique to their own journeys. These tools serve as invaluable assets for building leadership, driving engagement, and sparking growth—at work, at home, and in our communities.
Compelling, motivational, and deeply personal, this program leaves every audience inspired and energised—ready to put on their cape and embrace the superhero within.
Activate your superpowers is your cape for:
Corporate and association conferences
Innovation labs and strategy sessions
Employee engagement and culture-building programs
Women’s empowerment events
Professional development workshops and seminars
Leadership development programs
Team-building and professional growth initiatives
The Third Place
Laura transforms the stage into a third place: The Third Place
part experience, part revelation, all impact.
At the heart of opportunity is the space where conversations come alive. In The Third Place, Laura Schwartz brings to life the concept coined by urban sociologists in 1989—those spaces beyond home and work where we gather, connect, and create.
On stage, Laura doesn’t just talk about Third Places—she creates one in real time with members of your audience. Through interactive engagement, compelling stories, and actionable strategies, she demonstrates how these spaces transform relationships into partnerships and ideas into reality.
Audiences discover the power of Third Places and the potential to have the conversation—the one that shifts perspectives, opens doors, and changes the game. They leave energised, inspired, and ready to activate their own Third Place, transforming everyday interactions into extraordinary opportunities for growth, collaboration, and success.
The third place comes alive at:
Corporate and association conferences
Innovation labs and strategy sessions
Employee engagement and culture-building programs
Women’s empowerment events
Professional development workshops and seminars
Leadership development programs
Team-building and professional growth initiatives
Lead First
A dynamic presentation on leadership that inspires Lead First
in moments of triumph, turbulence, and transformation.
As any great leader will attest, leading in good times is easy—it’s in moments of turbulence and change that true leadership is revealed.
In this one-of-a-kind program, Laura Schwartz draws on little-known stories from more than 200 years of U.S. Presidents and First Ladies, weaving in her own White House experience to deliver non-partisan lessons that resonate with today’s organisations. She brings history to life with practical insights and powerful examples attendees can put into action immediately.
From the earliest White House inhabitants to defining moments of the Clinton administration, Laura shares stories that inspire and equip audiences with real-world leadership strategies they can apply daily—and carry back to their workplaces, communities, and beyond.
Lead First inspires leaders to rise at:
Women’s empowerment events
Corporate and association conferences
Professional development workshops and seminars
Innovation labs and strategy sessions
Leadership development programs
Team-building and professional growth initiatives
Employee engagement and culture-building programs
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Laura Emcee Sizzle Reel
Laura Keynote Sizzle Reel Short Form
Laura Full Length Keynote Sizzle
Laura's Signature Message on Networking
Laura's excerpt on how "We Must Be Present to Win"
Behind the scenes at the White House, Laura saw firsthand that we can best “achieve ourselves” by helping others, but that doing so requires us to go beyond our good intentions … and [commit ... keep reading President Bill Clinton
Thank you, Laura! We’re delighted you joined us as the emcee and a keynote! By sharing your own professional experiences on stage, you demonstrated how transformation is being powered across today’s business landscape. This resonated with our teams and helped put us on the right path for the conference itself and year ahead in AT&T Business.
I’ve never seen a gala crowd so enthusiastic and ready to give! Thank you for combining our mission with purpose and connecting it to every attendee in that room and beyond!
Former White House director of events Laura Schwartz brought an unrivaled level of enthusiasm, energy and expertise to the role of emcee.
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