Speaking & Programs

Laura Patterson’s signature keynote and workshop programs help executive audiences create customer-centric growth by improving strategic focus, decision-making, alignment, and execution. Each program is available as a keynote, workshop, executive retreat session, roundtable, or leadership summit presentation and can be customized to meet the needs of your audience.

Whether your attendees are looking to eliminate wasted effort, improve organizational alignment, leverage customer insight, or accelerate growth, these presentations provide practical frameworks and actionable takeaways leaders can put into practice immediately.

Signature Programs

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Say No to Random Acts
& Save $500K

A Signature Keynote or Workshop for Executive Audiences Ready to Eliminate Waste, Align Teams, and Accelerate Customer-Centric Growth

What Leaders Take Away

This program helps organizations move away from reactive execution and “random acts” that quietly drain growth potential.

The goal isn’t to give leaders more to do. It’s to help them know what deserves to be done.

When Everything Seems Important, Nothing Gets the Attention It Deserves

Many leadership teams are dealing with:

• Teams that are busy but not producing proportional results
• Misalignment across departments
• Reactive rather than intentional execution
• Constantly shifting priorities
• Difficulty connecting activity to measurable outcomes
• Disconnected customer experiences
• Pressure to grow with fewer resources and greater accountability

If leaders are asking:

“Why are we doing this?”

“What should we stop doing?”

“What actually matters most right now?”

They may already be experiencing the effects of Random Acts.

Say No to Random Acts gives leaders a practical way to surface those hidden gaps, regain strategic focus, and create the alignment needed to move forward.

Sessions can be customized for keynote presentations, facilitated workshops, executive retreats, and multi-day events.

If your business is launching initiatives without strategic alignment, chasing output over outcomes, or struggling to prove its value, this program delivers the clarity and course correction you need.

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The 4 Game Changers for 6X
Faster Growth

Are You Losing Customers and Don’t Even Know It?

Your business may be performing well. But are you sure you know what your customers value? Your customers are already making decisions before you know they’re evaluating you. In fact, 91%, yes, 91% of your customers have at least one supplier in mind before the formal evaluation begins. That’s why business success today hinges on more than just keeping up.

Customers can change their expectations, buying behavior, and supplier preferences without telling you. By the time declining sales, price pressure, lost customers, or disappointing returns become obvious, the underlying problem may have been developing for some time. The warning signs may already be there: sales teams working harder to win business, investments failing to deliver expected returns, customers buying less, or departments meeting their individual goals while the company falls short of its growth targets.

These problems may have something important in common. Leaders may be making decisions based on assumptions about customers rather than a clear understanding of what customers value and are willing to pay for. The question isn’t simply where to find more growth. It’s whether your organization is focused on the right customers, the right opportunities, and the right priorities to earn that growth.

The 4 Game Changers: A Practical Framework for Better Growth Decisions

Growth rarely stalls because organizations lack ideas or effort. More often, leaders face competing priorities, limited resources, changing customer expectations, and incomplete information about where the greatest opportunities lie. The 4 Game Changers for Customer-Centric Growth program gives leaders a practical framework for addressing these challenges. It connects customer insight to strategic choices, performance measures, and disciplined execution, helping organizations move beyond disconnected initiatives toward focused, measurable growth.

In this keynote or interactive workshop, learn how to:

• Understand the empowered customer. Recognize how customer expectations and buying behavior influence business performance.
• Use customer insight to make better decisions. Identify the customers, needs, and opportunities that offer the greatest potential.
• Focus strategy and resources. Prioritize the right growth opportunities and stop investing in initiatives that do not support strategic objectives.
• Align operations with customer and business value. Connect processes, performance measures, and execution to the outcomes the organization needs.

What Leaders Take Away:

Participants learn how to recognize potential customer blind spots, evaluate their current approach to growth, and identify where better decisions could improve results.

Attendees learn how to:

• Recognize warning signs that customer needs and business priorities may be misaligned.
  
• Use customer insight to make more confident growth decisions.
  
• Identify and prioritize opportunities with the greatest potential.
  
• Align strategy, resources, and teams around what matters most.
  
• Connect performance measures to meaningful business outcomes.
  
• Strengthen execution across functions and teams.

Executives leave with:

• A practical framework for making better customer-centric growth decisions
  
• Greater focus on the customers and opportunities that matter most.
  
• A stronger connection between customer value and business value.
  
• A more disciplined approach to strategic priorities, performance, and execution.
  
• Practical ideas they can apply to their own organizations.

Growth Doesn’t Happen by Accident

Many leadership teams face familiar challenges:

• More opportunities than they can realistically pursue.
  
• Pressure to grow profitably while managing limited resources.
  
• Sales efforts that aren’t producing the expected results.
  
• Customers questioning prices, reducing purchases, or considering alternatives.
  
• Difficulty turning customer data into strategic decisions.
  
• Competing priorities and misalignment across functions.
  
• Performance measures that track activity without revealing business impact.
  
• Gaps between strategy and execution.

These challenges don’t automatically mean a company is losing touch with its customers. But they are reasons to examine whether the organization understands what customers value, where it should focus, and how well its strategy translates into results.

If your leadership team is asking, “Where should we focus?”, “Which opportunities are worth pursuing?” or “Are we getting the return we should from our investments?”, the 4 Game Changers provides a structured way to examine those questions.

A Program Built for Executive Action

The goal isn’t to pursue growth faster for the sake of speed. It’s to make better decisions about where to compete, how to create customer value, and how to align the organization to deliver business results.

Sessions can be customized for executive keynotes, facilitated workshops, leadership off-sites, executive retreats, roundtables, and multi-day events.

Whether your organization wants to strengthen customer relationships, improve the return on growth investments, sharpen strategic priorities, or connect strategy more effectively to execution, the 4 Game Changers offers a practical framework for turning customer insight into measurable business value.

Bring the 4 Game Changers to your next executive event.

Additional Speaking Topics:

• Driving Business Growth Through Data-Driven Marketing Performance Management
• Accelerating Growth Through Customer-Centric Strategies
• Building the Strategic Foundation for AI-Enabled Growth
• Demonstrating the Value of Marketing in Tough Times