Cassandra Worthy

Cassandra Worthy did not set out to become a change expert. She graduated with a chemical engineering degree from Georgia Tech, fast-tracked through Procter and Gamble, and then found herself leading a multi-billion dollar acquisition — an experience that created the kind of emotional turbulence that either breaks people or builds them. For Worthy, it built Change Enthusiasm. A two-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and founder of Change Enthusiasm Global, she speaks on leading through change, organizational resilience, and the emotional intelligence required to turn disruption into growth. Her clients include Procter and Gamble, Allstate, Cisco, Google, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson and Johnson, and Merck.

Change Enthusiasm
Worthy’s framework — which has been called revolutionary by Forbes and featured in SUCCESS Magazine — teaches individuals and organizations to see change emotions not as obstacles but as signals that contain the raw material for growth. Her book Change Enthusiasm was nominated for the Next Big Idea list curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink.

Infectious Energy, Measurable Results
Worthy is consistently rated among the top presenters at every conference she attends. Her CHANGER Traits keynote and 10 Commitments of Modern Change Leadership are designed for senior leaders navigating constant disruption.

Cassandra Worthy delivers keynotes on change leadership, organizational resilience, and building cultures that grow through disruption.

What does Cassandra Worthy speak about?

Cassandra Worthy speaks on change enthusiasm and helping organizations transform the anxiety of disruption into genuine energy for what comes next. Her keynotes give leaders a practical framework for turning change resistance into a competitive advantage.

What is Cassandra Worthy’s background?

Worthy is the author of Change Enthusiasm and a corporate innovation leader who built her speaking career on her work helping major organizations navigate transformation.

Who books Cassandra Worthy to speak?

Meeting planners book Cassandra Worthy for change management events, leadership conferences, and corporate audiences navigating organizational transformation.

Mastering The Chemistry Of Change – Empowerment to Excel in the Face of CHANGE

A startling 30 – 50% of major mergers & acquisitions fail to achieve their anticipated goals, in large part due to leaders not paying enough attention to cultural impacts of the deal. The attrition rate of top talent during major organizational shifts such as mergers is in excess of 20% (ref 2015 Business Insider Article). That’s 1 out of every 5 ‘water walkers’ hitting the door during times of major shift when top talent is most needed. More startling still, the attrition rates for minority talent, notably African Americans and women, is nearly twice that of their white male counterparts.

Cassandra was nearly part of that statistic. But because of her personal strategies to understand how to use the chemistry or feelings of change for the better, she not only survived, but thrived. Having been part of some of the biggest acquisitions in the history of the CPG industry, now as a motivational speaker she openly shares her struggles and strategies to today’s leading industries to inspire individuals and organizations alike to thrive in the face of restructuring, start-up, acquisition, merger, generational shifts, cultural transformations and other key factors contributing to today’s highly dynamic workplace.

Imagine a workforce where 9 out of every 10 employees were fully engaged, inspired, and performing at their peak in spite of significant shifts happening around them.  Cassandra’s message and easily digestible Change Enthusiasm® strategy will help make that a reality for you.

C.H.A.N.G.E. Traits – Exploring the Underbelly of Exceptional Leadership

Rapid change is impacting nearly every industry vertical, re-shaping, re-forming, and ultimately disrupting ‘business as usual’. With this comes workforce strain, stress, and frustration. Today more than ever industry needs people who fully understand, embrace, and exemplify the softer skills of leadership. With energy that could light up an entire city grid, in this keynote Cassandra captivates audiences with her stories and unique perspective on what it really means to effectively lead THROUGH change. In this keynote, she’s not only bringing her world-renown strategy of Change Enthusiasm® but coupling it with a distillation of more than a decade worth of multi-billion dollar acquisition leadership lessons. Her teachings, refreshingly, are not the one-size-fits-all type. Rather, grounded in simple principles, they will inspire authentic leadership of each and every individual who practices them.

Stem Foundation = Infinite Possibilities – Building a Diverse Pipeline of STEM Talent

About half of the workforce in engineering and advanced manufacturing is approaching retirement, and the growth in the percentage of young workers is not keeping pace, according to a 2015 USA news article. In fact, the number of young STEM workers has actually declined since 2001, per a 2015 study conducted by Change the Equation. And according to the 2016 Raytheon STEM index, as the number of white students who earned STEM degrees grew 15 percent in the last five years, the number of black students fell by roughly the same margin.

Bottomline, we need more students entering the world of STEM and more importantly we need to have fair minority representation of that population. Cassandra will inspire your students to the possibilities that a STEM education can afford through sharing her own personal journey.