Cheryl Cran

The Resilient Leader - Thriving Through Change and Transformation

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Business Speakers Innovation & Creativity Leadership Speakers Women In Leadership Speakers Communication Speakers Business Transformation/Change Management Future of Work Digital Transformation

Cheryl Cran

The Resilient Leader - Thriving Through Change and Transformation

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Why Book

Cheryl Cran is down to earth, highly energetic, insightful and she is a pragmatic optimist. Cheryl’s keynote style is dynamic, profound and interactive with inspiring calls for action.
Cheryl’s life work has been focused on her deep belief that the world can be transformed by leaders having a human centric and people first focus in business.
From Fortune 500’s to startups, Cheryl has inspired and empowered leaders and teams across the globe to lead change, be better humans, leverage AI for good and drive results.

Biography

Cheryl Cran is the founder of NextMapping™/NextMapping.com, creator of the NextNow podcast and the CEO of parent company Synthesis at Work Inc.

Named #1 Future of Work influencer by Onalytica, and in the top ten future of work experts by GoCatalant.

Cheryl is the author of 10 books including her newest, Super.Crucial.Human and her bestsellers, “NextMapping – Anticipate, Navigate and Create The Future of Work” and “The Art of Change Leadership – Driving Transformation In a Fast Paced-World”.

Cheryl’s thought leadership on the future of all things including work, society and life has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Huff Post, Forbes, Metro New York, Entrepreneur Magazine, Reader’s Digest, CBS Online, NBC Online, and more. For over two decades Cheryl has built a reputation for delivering extraordinary value for clients that include Amazon, Upwork, AT&T,, Gartner, Scottish Water, ExecOnline and more.

Clients rate her keynotes on hybrid workplace, the human future, the future of leadership and leading hybrid teams as being inspirational, research based and highly relevant to the fast changing now and future workplace.

Cheryl brings unique multiple perspectives to her clients, gained by years of successfully working with a multitude of organizations.

Her multi-industry experience and successful track record provides unparalleled value to her clients.

Cheryl helps leaders and teams to increase perspectives to expand opportunities, to identify patterns of success, and to learn and grow at the speed of change.

NextMapping™ was developed as our proprietary business solution brand that encompasses all of Cheryl’s work and research on the future of all things including work and the ‘future ready skills’ needed by leaders and teams to navigate change in the workplace.

Cheryl is not a futurist that just shares trends, she is a pragmatic optimist who is a future of work (all things) expert helping her clients to ‘create the future now’ by ‘leading the changes needed’ to get there.

It’s time to not just hear about the future but to create change and use models and tools developed including our proprietary NextMapping™ process to get there!
The common theme in all of Cheryl’s life’s work is to change the world through business.

Cheryl is passionate about helping leaders and teams develop the crucial human skills needed to lead a human focused future where we leverage technology to automate the mundane so that we can elevate the humane.

Programs

The Resilient Leader - Thriving Through Change and Transformation

Resiliency is the key to navigating the future.

In today’s fast-evolving world, leaders and individuals must develop resilience to navigate constant change. The ability to adapt, transform, and thrive is no longer optional—it’s essential. But resilience isn’t just about bouncing back; it’s about bouncing forward with greater wisdom, energy, and purpose.

This powerful keynote blends leadership strategies, neuroscience, and energy intelligence to help individuals and teams move beyond survival mode and into a state of thriving. Through inspiring stories, actionable insights, and transformative tools, attendees will learn how to strengthen their inner and outer resilience, embrace change as a catalyst for growth, and lead with confidence in uncertain times.

In this inspirational resilient leader keynote you will learn:

The science of resilience – How mindset, energy, and our habits contribute to our resiliency
Navigate uncertainty with courage – Strategies to reframe fear, reduce stress and use tools in the present to help focus on future focused solutions
The power of energetic intelligence – Understanding the ranges of energy and how to access energy to self lead and lead others
Transform your narrative – How to rewrite the stores we tell ourselves about our circumstances and transform them into a hero/heroine’s journey
Daily rituals – Everyday practices that are simple and easy to remember and to incorporate into your life and work for greater optimism, well being and impact
Practical ideas and solutions – Models and tools for you to take back to your workplace and apply right away for immediate

The Future is Human - How Being A Better Human Is Key To The Future of Work

This keynote focuses on what it means to be a better human in order to be a better leader – its not about being ‘soft’ its about caring, compassion and mutual accountability

Based on Cheryl’s new book, Super.Crucial.Human this keynote focuses on the concept that now and in the future ‘everyone is a leader’ and with that everyone needs to be a better human. Research has confirmed that not only are we in a workers market, we are going to need MORE people now and into the future even with the rise of automation, AI and robotics. What we need is people who have crucial human skills – skills that go beyond the basics when it comes to compassion, creativity, communication and collaboration.

This keynote will INSPIRE, elevate the mindsets of audience members to embrace that being human means we have infinite possibilities to evolve and to adapt at the speed of change.

In this keynote you will learn:

Research on the social trends that are driving the urgent need for everyone to develop ‘crucial human skills’
How to reframe challenges, setbacks and disruptions into elevated opportunities to evolve and grow
The 4 C’s of being a super crucial human – next level skills of compassion, creativity, conscious communication and collaboration
Why LQ (love quotient) is even MORE important than EQ (emotional intelligence) and how to apply it in both life and work
How to leverage the ‘me to we’ mindset model to increase collaboration in a hybrid workplace reality
Actionable models and strategic ideas on how to elevate crucial human skills and apply in real time in life and work for accelerated success in all relationships

The Future of Leadership

Inspiration, insights and models on how to be a now and future ready leader

Never before have workplaces had so much ambiguity, uncertainty and constant change. Workers are challenged with doing more with less, learning at the speed of disruption and working with diverse situations. There is a massive opportunity for leaders to create the future for themselves and their teams.

With the increase of digital transformation there is a calling for leaders to be connected, empathetic and inspiring for their teams.

Attendees will leave this session with:

The most recent and up to date research on the future workplace and what it means for leaders today
Statistics and sentiment analysis on worker attitudes and what workers want today and in the future from their leaders
Leadership models on the ‘me to we’ mindset and mapping the future of the leadership journey
Tips and strategies on how to leverage leadership mastery to increase the attraction and retention of top talent
Inspiring ideas that can be put into immediate action to increase employee motivation and engagement
Practical daily actions to help leaders feel energized and to help their teams to be inspired and excited to create the future of work

The Future of Work Is Now – Are You Ready?

Trends, insights and research on the Future of Work

Employee engagement, creating future ready leaders, attracting and retaining top talent are all elements that are rapidly changing and impacting the way we work and how we need to change to meet the challenges of the future workplace today.

This keynote will provide researched global business insights, thought provoking, creative, leading edge ideas and strategies on how leaders can take immediate action to increase team buy in, adaptability and execution NOW as we head towards 2030.

Attendees will leave this session with:

A look at the trends and technologies shaping the future workplace today
Ideas for leaders and their teams to adapt their personality style and leadership style to the fast changing workplace
“How” to successfully work with and engage the multiple generations in the workplace
Insights into how leaders need to adapt to the ever-changing reality of worker attitudes and shifting attitudes on loyalty, job satisfaction and how work is done

Mindset model on how to navigate fast pace of change as we head to future of work
Research on the multiple intelligences needed to navigate the future of work
Case studies and examples of progressive companies and leaders on the leading edge of creating innovative future ready workplaces
Strategies on how to get everyone on board with the overall future vision, build excitement for the company’s direction and create commitment and buy-in to taking action today and for the future
Cheryl’s style is dynamic high energy and interactive, she presents relevant research and her presentations always have fun movie clips and music. With Cheryl Cran as your keynote speaker you are guaranteed to have one of your best events ever with increased audience engagement, and an audience that leaves with easy to implement ideas as well as inspired to lead with 2030 vision to build the future workplace today.

Leading Hybrid Teams In A Fast Changing Workplace

We are firmly in a workers market. Hybrid workplace is here to stay. 89% of workers surveyed have stated that they want to work remotely at least two days a week. We are in a new reality where workers expect increased flexibility and increased life/work balance. Leaders need to upskill their mindset, perspectives and strategies to inspire their hybrid teams.

We are in a workers market until at least 2030 – hybrid workplace is here to stay!

There is no ‘right way’ to do hybrid. Every organization is lining up their hybrid strategy to align with their workplace culture. With the hybrid workplace comes challenges that include increased siloes, decreased communication, less sense of an embedded company culture, leaders challenged with engaging and motivating workers and more.

Workers have higher expectations from their leaders and their workplace and this means leaders and teams must upskill and reskill to ‘future ready skills’. This includes shifting to multiple perspectives, increasing compassion and patience and creating new strategies that match up with the hybrid workplace dynamics.

In this keynote you will learn:

The now and next hybrid workplace reality and what it means for leaders and the future of business
How leaders can engage workers in the company culture in a hybrid workplace
The three biases that increase siloes and hinder collaboration and what to do about it
The change leadership skills needed to successfully recreate a unified culture
A proprietary hybrid communication model to help leaders coach their teams to greater productivity
Actionable ideas on how to increase worker engagement and collaboration in the hybrid workplace

Books

Super. Crucial. Human

NextMapping: Anticipate, Navigate & Create The Future of Work

The Art of Change Leadership

Topics

Business Speakers, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership Speakers, Women In Leadership Speakers, Communication Speakers, Business Transformation/Change Management, Future of Work, Digital Transformation,

Cheryl Cran Reviews

“We had Cheryl as our Keynote speaker at our annual strategic retreat for our senior leaders. Her presentation on “Leading With Power, Energy & Passion” was exactly what our team needed. Cheryl has the unique ability to ‘hear’ what we needed and to completely create a customized message that was EXACTLY what we needed . Her knowledge of technology, leadership tools and emotional intelligence and her ability to give us tools to leverage our skills was right on track with where we need to go as a leadership team. We have a team of highly intelligent and accomplished leaders who are quite jaded and we had one of our long term leaders say, “I have been coming to these for years and Cheryl was by far the most relevant and excellent leadership expert we have had to date”. As a leadership expert Cheryl combines research, applied knowledge and tremendous insight that ultimately will help our leaders to perform to their next level of success.”

— PHM Hotels California

“Cheryl Cran’s presentation to our group of Executive, Senior Leaders and others was in a word, TIMELY! We had our bi-annial leadership conference and Cheryl was the closing speaker for our two day event. Her ability to weave in content that is current to the corporate situation as well as present in a way that is fun, intelligent and thought provoking is amazing. We have had overwhelmingly positive feedback from Cheryl’s session with comments that her message was the perfect close to the two day event and that they felt inspired and willing to shift their approach in their work as a result of hearing her. Cheryl brought research, the ability to connect, global intelligence and more to help make our conference a remarkable success.”

— Jamieson Vitamins

“You were amazing! Best Speaker So Far!”

“Great presentation ! You are sharing many thought provoking insights!”

“Thank you for the text message of questions! It made me more engaged.”

“Loved the polling – so good to see what others are thinking in the room.”

“Cheryl, thank you for making us think, and to help us better understand our role in creating the future!”

— CEO, NABCA

“I want to congratulate you on giving our 600+ attendees lots of food for thought in your session: The Future of Leadership. Your energy, enthusiasm and compassion for all that our attendees are dealing with came through loud and clear. Many of our attendees came up to me after your session and said: “Home Run”. Sometimes being the first presenter in the morning of the second day of a conference can often be a tough spot to draw: you immediately established a strong connection with all of us and kept us engaged and energized.

So well done…take a bow!”

— CEO ERA

“Thank you Cheryl!
Your closing keynote for our Raising The Bar conference in Orlando was spot on.
Our leaders gained immense value from your strategic insights on how to leverage collaboration for greater success.
The ‘me to we’ model provided all of us with a framework to self assess and improve our leadership abilities.
We loved your interactive style of texting and polling with the group – we were engaged!
You definitely helped us ‘raise the bar’!”

— President, Alera Group