Rene Godefroy

When pressure hits, most teams crumble. Stress breaks trust, turnover soars, and morale plummets. But the most resilient teams bounce back, get stronger, and turn challenges into momentum.

In this impactful keynote, Rene Godefroy teaches leaders and teams how to develop resilience to overcome adversity and succeed. Drawing from real-world experience and leadership principles, Rene provides a roadmap for creating teams that are unbreakable, unshakable, and unstoppable.

This is not about working harder. It is about building teams wired to bounce higher, move faster, and stay stronger when it matters most.

Audiences will leave ready to:

1. Build a culture where resilience is the rule, not the exception
2. Strengthen morale and retention even in high-pressure environments
3. Turn setbacks into the fuel for loyalty, innovation, and breakthrough performance
4. Lead with clarity, care, and a mindset that transforms challenges into victories

Best for:

• Corporate Leadership Conferences
• Team-Building Retreats
• Sales Kickoffs and Sales Summits
• Annual Company Meetings
• Human Resources and Talent Development Conferences
• Healthcare Leadership Summits
• Tech and Innovation Conferences (because change and stress are so high)
• Manufacturing, Logistics, and Operations Conferences (high pressure, fast-changing fields)
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Summits

When you are judged by how you look or how you sound, you have two choices: shrink back or use it to your advantage. Rene Godefroy knows this battle firsthand. His accent, his background, even his very presence often made people question whether he belonged.

In this impactful keynote, René shows that true leadership is not about fitting in. It is about standing firm when the world questions you the most.

He pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to rise above rejection, bias, and doubt.

Through mindset shifts, unshakable resilience, and authentic leadership, René shares how he claimed his seat at the table — and how your audience can too.

This is not just a story about overcoming obstacles. It is a blueprint for thriving, leading, and transforming in spaces that were never designed to include you.

Audiences will leave ready to:

1. Build unshakable self-leadership even when everything says they shouldn’t
2. Turn obstacles and judgments into fuel for massive growth
3. Lead with courage, authenticity, and undeniable purpose
4. Create cultures where belonging becomes the ultimate advantage

Best for:

• DEI Conferences (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion events)
• Employee Resource Group (ERG) Summits
• Leadership Development Conferences
• Women’s Leadership Conferences
• Employee Engagement or Culture Conferences
• Affinity Group Events (e.g., Black Employee Network, Latino Employee Network)
• Social Impact and Nonprofit Conferences
• Higher Education Conferences (especially those focused on first-gen students, diversity, or inclusion)