The EEA Speakers Bureau: Master Engagement. Make Connections.

Drive Measurable Results and More Meaningful Experiences 

Let’s get something done together.

Employee and customer engagement are at record lows despite decades of talk and efforts. We don’t just talk about engagement and AI at our speaking and facilitation engagements—we help your audience collaboratively master the tools of enterprise engagement to address commitment remains at record lows. We engage and connect with your participants on to  how use the tools of engagement to address practical organization or team opportunities and challenges. We can help your organization master AI before AI masters you.

The EEA combines a focus on providing a measurable outcome for each event along with ideas on how to make it more interactive and connected with the community in which it is held. In fact, the EEA has an ongoing YouTube series on meaningful meetings practices.

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance speakers bureau, featuring global authorities like the EEA’s Bruce Bolger and Brigham Young University’s Gary Rhoads, helps organizations align employee engagement, customer engagement, and strategy—delivering measurable action at your event as well as to locate expert speakers nearer to your event to reduce unnecessary travel.

We address why employee and customer engagement are at record lows to help your organization achieve it’s event’s objectives while energizing participants and making them eager to return the following year.

Based on your event’s purpose, goals, objectives, and values, we can develop a format can include both plenaries and day-long interactive sessions focused on addressing specific organizational or team opportunities and/or challenges. We can even recommend and help produce off-sites that connect attendees with the local culture in an authentic way.

To book a speaker, contact Bruce Bolger at Bolger@TheEEA.org, or call 914-591-7600, ext. 230.

Why This Matters Now

Employee disengagement, customer churn, and AI disruption are at record highs,  eroding trust and engagement. Unless employees feel engaged in a purpose and to harness AI’s potential, technology may outpace your ability to fully profit from it. Engagement isn’t just HR—it’s a strategic imperative in the AI era. We help you align engagement and AI adoption to ensure your organization thrives using methods long proven in total quality management and featured in the EEA’s Impact Academy certification program.

Here is an article by Bolger in the EEA’s RRN media on how to engage employees in AI, rather than use it solely to cut costs.

What We Deliver

We partner with event organizers to tailor each session to a strategic, measurable goal. Before your event, we:

• Understand the purpose, goals, objectives and values of your event
• Research your audience and industry
• Align the session with specific desired outcomes
• Recommend highly interactive formats that highly involve attendees
• Provide state-of-the-art processes for ROI measurement beyond surveys
• When appropriate, help promote the event in our media and YouTube channel

Participants leave with:

• A full understanding of how to apply principles long proven in total quality management to almost any people opportunity or challenge.
• A problem defined, a challenge addressed, and actionable steps.
• A framework for measuring post-event impact.

Topics

The speakers are widely recognized experts on the link between customer and employee engagement and financial and other organizational results. The are founders of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance, founded in 2009, the first organization focused on helping organizations and teams achieve their purpose, goals, objectives and values by fostering the proactive involvement of all stakeholders.

Through plenary, breakout, and facilitated round-tables, we can help your attendees learn the key tools of of engagement proven for decades in total quality management, and specifically how to apply them to your organization’s or teams opportunities and challenges.

Topics can include: Why engagement fails today, how AI is amplifying the stakes, what leaders can do to integrate employee and customer engagement to tap the power of AI, more sustainable ways to cut cost. This isn’t theory; it’s a blueprint for aligning engagement with AI readiness and cost effectiveness.

Let’s not just talk at your event. Let’s get something done in a measurable way.  We help organizations understand how they can use AI to create or destroy value.

Bolger is an advocate for interactive and immersive events that can’t be accomplished in video meetings and in helping organizations identify locations for meaningful off-sites that authentically forge relationships through shared discovery. Our maxim: don’t do in a room what you can do in a Zoom.

We can turn conferences into action sessions. After aligning on your strategic goal or challenge, we guide participants to identify engagement gaps, AI readiness, and actions relevant to your priorities—so they leave with a game plan and real commitments.

World-Recognized Experts, With Multiple Books and Media Platforms on Engagement

Bruce Bolger (Enterprise Engagement Alliance founder), located in the NYC area, brings over two decades of experience aligning engagement with enterprise performance. He is publisher of two books on enterprise engagement and weeklies: ESM for enterprise engagement and RRN on total rewards and is host of over 100 YouTube shows with over 8,000 views a month. Having founded Fodor’s Short Escapes, one of the first travel series on authentic travel experiences, Bolger is an expert at selecting unique off-site opportunities.  Gary Rhoads, Professor Emeritus, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University, located in Salt Lake City, and founder of two companies focused on connecting employee and customer engagement, is an internationally recognized expert in engagement and performance improvement. They each offer a rare combination of systems thinking and evidence-based engagement. Both are proven dynamic and engaging speakers who can also facilitate dialog that creates long-lasting, measurable impact and enhanced relationships.

In addition, we can provide expert speakers in Europe and the UK, MEAPAC, and Asia.

Let’s Create Measurable Impact

If your event is tackling any issue that involves engagement, AI readiness, or loyalty—don’t just host a talk. Partner with us to drive real action and measurable progress. Let’s get something done together.

To book a speaker, contact Bruce Bolger at Bolger@TheEEA.org, or call 914-591-7600, ext. 230.

INTERVIEW ON ENTERPRISE ENGAGEMENT. To hear what an interview on Enterprise Engagement sounds like, listen to this interview with EEA Founder Bruce Bolger on Stakeholder Capitalism. Bolger is host of nearly 40 participative panel discussions with nearly 100 experts on the Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube Channel.

Recent YouTube interview with Bruce Bolger on effective people management and marketing practices.

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has created an interactive program for chambers of commerce and business organizations that provide education programs for CEOs, CFOs, boards, and management at all levels. The program is ideal for live video or event formats.

What People Are Saying

Bruce Bolger, the lead speaker and facilitator for the Enterprise Engagement Alliance, is now on the speaking roster of the legendary Jaki Baskow of Las Vegas Speakers Bureau. He runs a YouTube series and podcasts on all elements of engagement, with over 100 experts and speakers featured so far.

Says Heather Avella, Director of Membership & Community Partnerships, Greater Manchester, NH Chamber of Commerce, “Bruce Bolger is a powerhouse speaker who will provide a breadth of experience and impactful content to any audience. Bruce presented at a Virtual CEO Roundtable for our Greater Manchester Chamber and the attendee feedback was glowing. CEO participants learned about Stakeholder Capitalism and Employee Engagement – not only the what, but more importantly the why and how – and they left inspired and empowered with first steps. I highly recommend enlisting Bruce to share his expertise and wisdom with any group – it will be a decision you won’t regret.” Click here for a sample of the program.

Says Tengku Zarina Tengku Chik, Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), says, “Bruce Bolger, thank you for sharing your thoughts on Stakeholder Capitalism at the Stakeholders Capitalism at the Securities Industry Development Conference (SRI 2021). Very compact and clear guidance on how and the tools we can use to better meet and manage stakeholder expectations more effectively.”

A four-hour live virtual program held on a Saturday morning by the Accountant Lawyer Alliance qualifying lawyers and accountants for continuing education credits in their professions received a 9.7 out of 10 rating.

Says Donna Jean LaPlante, Executive Director, Specialty Advertising Association of Greater New York, of a recent webinar presentation with co-speaker Paul Kiewiet, Executive Director of Michigan Promotional Products Association, “You both were terrific.,.There are so many benefits to reap.”

Deliverables

• A speaking and or highly interactive program that supports broader organizational goals.
• Help with developing your organization’s “enterprise” brand to address all stakeholders.
• Help with kicking off or maintaining strategic engagement efforts with customers, employees, distribution partners, vendors, investors, and other communities.

To book a speaker, contact Bruce Bolger at Bolger@TheEEA.org, or call 914-591-7600, ext. 230.