Seth Mattison

  • Workforce Strategist and Management Trendspotter
  • Author of The War at Work
  • Editors' Pick for Favorite Speakers by MeetingsNet

With his finger on the pulse of the changing nature of work and leadership, Seth Mattison blends storytelling from his own personal experience working with category-leading brands with cutting-edge research to develop fresh perspectives on the issues most relevant for organizations to thrive today.

Seth is an internationally recognized thought leader, author, advisor, and top- rated keynote speaker on talent management, high-performance cultures, leadership, and the Future of Work.


His research, case studies, and thought leadership focus on inspiring audiences, while sharing actionable strategies to support individuals and organizations in their pursuit to be future-ready.

For almost two decades, Seth has shared his insights with tens of thousands of business leaders around the globe for many of the world’s most recognizable brands including Mastercard, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, The Dallas Cowboys, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, E&Y, Caterpillar, and The Walt Disney Company, to name a few.


In addition to speaking, Seth is the founder and CEO of FutureSight Labs, an org design and transformation firm that supports many of the world’s most inspiring leaders by helping prepare themselves and their organizations for the Future of Work through research, training, advising, coaching, digital tools, and thought leadership.

 



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Past Hosts Include:
  • Guardian Life Insurance
  • MassMutual
  • Cardone Ventures
  • Tyler Technologies
  • International Sign Association
  • Career Education Colleges and Universites
  • Annual Administrative Professionals Conference (APC)
  • Wolters Kluwer
  • 3M Latin America Region
  • PMA
Rave Reviews About Seth Mattison as a Speaker
You have probably heard speakers on the topic of generational differences in the workplace, but Seth Mattison is by far the best. His presentation 'Rocking the Workplace: Managing and Leading the Four Generations' skips over all the negative and annoying stereotypes ('millennials have no loyalty, no work ethic') and gets the audience fired up about the idea of getting along with four—soon to be five—generations at once. His presentation is fun and funny, energetic, and totally relatable. He manages to engage every member of the audience, which in most cases will span every generation, in an affectionate and endearing way.

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All of Seth's sessions are CUSTOMIZED after a detailed research call prior to the event.

Seth delivers presentations with specific take-away value that will help organizations:• Harness the power and perspective of their top talent• Tap into the hidden brainpower throughout the entire organization• Establish an ongoing system to nurture and harvest the best ideas• Learn how to adapt mor ...

Seth delivers presentations with specific take-away value that will help organizations:
• Harness the power and perspective of their top talent
• Tap into the hidden brainpower throughout the entire organization
• Establish an ongoing system to nurture and harvest the best ideas
• Learn how to adapt more quickly and proactively to changes in the marketplace
• Foster a culture of stewardship of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and values

Navigating What’s Next: Insights for the Future of Work

The Future of Work is unfolding now and there has never been a more important moment to claim your version of it! What will we collectively create? We’re entering an unprecedented moment in the world of work. With so much in flux, everything is up for grabs as we collectively claim a Future of Work ...

The Future of Work is unfolding now and there has never been a more important moment to claim your version of it! What will we collectively create?

We’re entering an unprecedented moment in the world of work. With so much in flux, everything is up for grabs as we collectively claim a Future of Work that best supports us all as we draft a new social contract between employees and employers.

Seth Mattison will help you and your leaders answer some of today’s most pressing questions: What does talent need today? What type of leadership will be required? How will we nurture great teams? What employment experiences will matter most? How will we activate a culture of belonging to drive high-performance? As a researcher and thought leader, Seth will help you answer these questions and more.

As we enter a new era of work, leaders are making big bets on what’s next for their industry, the future before us, and the world at large. Navigating this defining moment while preparing to capture the opportunity will require a bold vision, the courage to change, and a commitment to contribute to the evolution of work and leadership.

Rooted in the research and bolstered by time helping high performing leaders through moments of transformation, Seth Mattison will share insights on the biggest trends impacting the state of work today. Armed with actionable insights and practical tools, participants will be primed to lead their teams and organizations as they intentionally shape the future.

Attendees will gain:
● Insights on the trends shaping the Future of Work and talent.
● Strategies to design compelling employee experiences and high-performance
cultures.
● Change strategies for growth and scale.
● Perspective on the leadership skills and competencies of the future.

High-Performance Hybrid Culture: Insights for Elevating Culture in a Work from Anywhere World

Culture does not live in the walls of your building; it lives in the hearts of your people. No one knows exactly what the Future of Work will look like, but we do know the culture drivers required to support talent working from anywhere today. Seth Mattison knows that we are never going back to busi ...

Culture does not live in the walls of your building; it lives in the hearts of your people.

No one knows exactly what the Future of Work will look like, but we do know the culture drivers required to support talent working from anywhere today. Seth Mattison knows that we are never going back to business as usual. After years of experimentation, it’s clear the
Future of Work is less about place and more about building cultures that support people’s potential, regardless of where they’re physically located.

As we enter a new era of work, leaders are faced with the challenge of reengineering their organizations to drive business performance and maintain the cohesiveness of their culture both inside and outside their four walls. The problem is, only half of organizations today are
prepared to support this transformation. Are you one of them? In this session, Seth Mattison helps leaders rethink how to best support talent and activate a high-performance culture in a work from anywhere world.

With teams mixed between essential onsite work and remote settings, new systems, processes, skills, and competencies will be required to build and maintain an inclusive and equitable culture rooted in belonging. These efforts will fuel a culture that feels engaging, participatory, and full of the human connection we deeply value.

Seth Mattison will unpack the challenges and opportunities our hybrid environments present, along with research, case studies, and best practices for what leaders and managers can do today to effectively support and lead a work from everywhere workforce.

  • Attendees will gain:
    ● Insight on the data of what drives real engagement with hybrid workers
    ● Frameworks for building a work from anywhere culture
    ● Strategies for supporting a culture of fairness and equity
    ● Techniques for maintaining human connection digitally

Elevating Employee Engagement: Connecting Hearts and Minds to Drive Better Business Outcomes in the New World of Work

As the war for talent continues to wage across industries today, organizations will be forced to battle for a smaller and smaller pool of qualified candidates. Losing high-performing individuals is simply not an option when growth is the mandate. Supporting leaders in their efforts to shape elevated ...

As the war for talent continues to wage across industries today, organizations will be forced to battle for a smaller and smaller pool of qualified candidates. Losing high-performing individuals is simply not an option when growth is the mandate.

Supporting leaders in their efforts to shape elevated employee engagement has never mattered more. Seth Mattison knows that talent needs more than a fleeting warm-fuzzy feeling and a decent paycheck to thrive today, helping leaders understand how to unlock the key drivers of engagement through purpose, meaning, vision, psychological safety, and opportunities for growth. Not only does engagement have the potential to significantly affect employee retention, productivity, and loyalty, it is also a key link to customer satisfaction, company reputation and overall stakeholder value.

The Great Reset has created a moment of reflection for the whole world- societal values are shifting and new expectations are emerging. Seth Mattison will help you answer some of the most pressing questions: What does talent need today to feel deeply connected to their work and their teams? What will be required of leaders and organizations to support these shifting values and drive engagement?

In this highly interactive deep-dive discussion, Seth Mattison will shed light on these questions and add a new perspective to the conversation today by dissecting the fundamental drivers of engagement and helping to unlock the employee experience of the future.

Attendees gain:
● Insights on how the drivers of engagement have shifted and what matters now.
● The 4 levels of employee engagement that drive productivity and performance.
● Perspectives on the employee value proposition of the future.
● Tools for building a culture rooted in trust and belonging.

The Heart of Leadership: The Secret and the Science to Influencing and Leading During Times of Transformation

In this moment of disruption leadership everywhere is faced with the challenge of defining the Future of Work while delivering value to the enterprise today. Navigating disruption of this magnitude is often messy and regularly takes years to work through. However, Seth Mattison knows these moments a ...

In this moment of disruption leadership everywhere is faced with the challenge of defining the Future of Work while delivering value to the enterprise today. Navigating disruption of this magnitude is often messy and regularly takes years to work through. However, Seth Mattison knows these moments also provide us with an incredible opportunity to re-assess, re-think, re-imagine, and re-design how we want to do this thing called work and the type of leadership that will be needed in this moment.

The stakes have never been higher for organizations looking to grow while competing for a smaller and smaller number of qualified potential employees who are pursuing opportunities across industries. Seth Mattison provides leaders with the insights and surprising truths about where the world is moving next and the type of leadership skills needed most to meet the moment.

As traditional hierarchies are re-examined, leadership becomes less about title and tenure at the organization and more about influence, impact, and the ability to connect. Developing and cultivating our capacity to reveal our full selves every single day will become the new mandate for leadership in the modern era.

In this highly interactive deep-dive discussion, Seth Mattison will add a new perspective to the conversation and unlock leadership potential by elevating empathy, courage, influence, and impact for a better world of work.

Attendees gain:

● Perspective on the neuroscience and neuroradiology of influence and change.
● An unprecedented look at the future-ready skills and competencies to prime performance,
culture, and organizational growth.
● Strategies for activating the power of empathy and attunement to drive engagement.
● Access to case studies from category-leading brands activating heart-based cultures to drive
growth.

Gritty: Building Resilience in the of Face Resistance

Leaning into uncertainty, ambiguity, and adversity as tools for grit, growth,and resilience. Seth Mattison defines resilience as the process of responding well in the face of adversity. As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from difficult experiences, it can also mean profound personal grow ...

Leaning into uncertainty, ambiguity, and adversity as tools for grit, growth,
and resilience.

Seth Mattison defines resilience as the process of responding well in the face of adversity. As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from difficult experiences, it can also mean profound personal growth through grit and grace. Seth unpacks one of the most critical leadership attributes of the moment and how the past two years have given leaders the opportunity to test their mettle and find their resilience in the face of unprecedented change.

In a world of ongoing marketplace disruptions and organizational transformation, the virtues of grit and tenacity stand tall among today’s most critical leadership attributes. The most resilient leaders of high-performing organizations can adapt to changing circumstances and encourage others to do the same. As a result, their teams operate with higher productivity, engagement, and a greater sense of well-being. Resilient leaders cultivate emotional intelligence and strong relationships, and they facilitate learning and personal development through everyday
experiences. More importantly, these exceptional leaders create a culture of psychological safety- the number one predictor of high-performing teams.

In this program, Seth Mattison will unpack the leadership habits that improve team well-being, productivity, and performance and share the latest research in neuroscience and psychology for developing resilient leaders, teams, and organizations.

Attendees gain:
● Insights on your habits, belief systems and the neuroscience that support and enhance
resilience
● Lessons to cultivate positive emotions, make stress work for you, and activities that
proactively build resilience
● Techniques for stepping out of reactivity and responding to what is most important
● Strategies for fostering a culture of psychological safety

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<p><strong>In this virtual series, Seth Mattison takes business leaders through a highly customized program focused on leadership, generational differences, and revamping workplace dynamics</strong></p>

In this virtual series, Seth Mattison takes business leaders through a highly customized program focused on leadership, generational differences, and revamping workplace dynamics

Described as a “force to be reckoned with” (PMA), highly lauded workforce and leadership strategist SETH MATTISON stands out for his “knowledge, expertise, energy, creativity, and brilliant speaking skills” (National Confectioners Association). In this virtual series, Mattison takes business leaders through a highly customized program focused on leadership, generational differences, and revamping workplace dynamics, even remotely. Mattison’s keynotes are consistently listed as the highlight of every conference at which he speaks, and he offers high production quality from his professional studio. Seth talks about virtual solutions as he did in this virtual keynote during CDW's Future of Work Virtual SummIT.   
 
At a recent event, he received 
this heartfelt review and introduction. We couldn't write something like this if we tried!  It’s 90 seconds long and worth a quick watch. Here’s a transcript, but you HAVE to watch the video: "Last Fall, in Nashville at our CEO Summit, we had Seth Mattison speak to our CEO leaders. I have done conventions for over 40 years. I have never met a plenary speaker who spends more time, more energy and more focus on an upcoming event than Seth. He absolutely hit a grand slam at our CEO Summit. He was so good, people said you have to have him back and you have to bring him to the National Convention. You should know that we have talked to Seth multiple times before this event because he wanted to know about you, about this event, about this sector. You’re never going to meet anybody who has more energy, more vision, more enthusiasm, more personality than this gentleman from Minnesota, Mr. Seth Mattison."

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<p>Virtual Programming: Seth Mattison transforms the way we connect</p>

Virtual Programming: Seth Mattison transforms the way we connect

After almost twenty years of studying business performance, transformation, and leadership inside some of the world’s most recognizable brands, SETH MATTISON is helping usher in a new era of work, one that is more human-centric, purpose-driven, and guided by leaders rooted in love for their people, their clients, and the communities they serve. Seth is here to help organizations transform the way they connect to their people virtually so that they can transform and grow the business. He has a home studio, offers high production quality, and has already been sought-out to deliver a virtual keynote during CDW's Future of Work Virtual SummIT. In his virtual engagements he offers:

-Virtual Leadership Meetings
-Virtual Conferences
-Webinars
-Leadership Consulting & Strategic Guidance
-Executive Coaching for Small Groups or One-on-One Support
-Ask the Expert Sessions

 

<p>Seth Mattison's rave video testimonial </p>

Seth Mattison's rave video testimonial 

An internationally renowned expert and author on workforce trends, generational dynamics, and business strategy SETH MATTISON hits it out of the park at each of his engagements. At a recent event, he received this heartfelt review and introduction. We couldn't write something like this if we tried!  It’s 90 seconds long and worth a quick watch. Here’s a transcript, but you HAVE to watch the video: "Last Fall, in Nashville at our CEO Summit, we had Seth Mattison speak to our CEO leaders. I have done conventions for over 40 years. I have never met a plenary speaker who spends more time, more energy and more focus on an upcoming event than Seth. He absolutely hit a grand slam at our CEO Summit. He was so good, people said you have to have him back and you have to bring him to the National Convention. You should know that we have talked to Seth multiple times before this event because he wanted to know about you, about this event, about this sector. You’re never going to meet anybody who has more energy, more vision, more enthusiasm, more personality than this gentleman from Minnesota, Mr. Seth Mattison." 

As Co-Founder and Chief Movement Officer of Luminate Labs, Seth advises many of the world’s leading brand and organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership, and the future of work. His ideas have been featured in such publications as The Wall St. Journal, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail and was named to the Editors’ Picks for Speakers to Watch by MeetingsNet. For the past decade Seth has shared his insights with thousands of business leaders around the world and has received accolades from many of the worlds best brands including: MasterCard, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, Cisco, State Farm, Merrill Lynch, Dow, and Disney.

 

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<p>Rave Reviews for Seth Mattison</p>

Rave Reviews for Seth Mattison

Described as a “force to be reckoned with” (PMA), highly-lauded workforce strategist SETH MATTISON stands out for his “knowledge, expertise, energy, creativity, and brilliant speaking skills” (National Confectioners Association). With a focus on generational differences and revamping workplace dynamics, Mattison’s keynotes are consistently listed as the highlight of every conference he speaks at. Recently, when Mattison keynoted the National Automatic Merchandising Association’s Coffee, Tea, and Water Conference, he demonstrated his seamless ability to tailor his fundamental savvy regarding workplace trends to any industry, providing invaluable, tangible and actionable takeaways. Read more praise for Mattison:

  • "Your Keynote was fabulous and provided key takeaways for the attendees to use right away…It was even more obvious during the photo opp & meet and greets (with that HUGE line) that our attendees really related to you and just absolutely loved you overall!" (Annual Administrative Professionals Conference)
  • Seth  was spot on with all aspects of his presentation and his 'prep work' on the front end set it all up. He was one of the most prepared and engaged speakers I have ever worked with. (Food Marketing Institute)
  • "Seth was fantastic … He spent time with us prior to the conference to get to know the audience and my Execs, modifying his presentation as requested and managing the delicate balance of some of our requests and his presentation. " (Wolters Kluwer)

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Biography

Seth is an internationally recognized thought leader, advisor, and top-rated keynote speaker on talent management, change and innovation, digital transformation, leadership, and the future of work.

His research, case studies, and thought leadership focus on inspiring audiences while sharing actionable strategies to drive meaningful outcomes for individuals and their organizations. He also coaches high-performing leaders with practical, life-tested ideas, concepts, and frameworks to elevate their impact and create lasting legacies.

Over the past decade, Seth has shared his insights with thousands of business leaders around the globe for many of the world’s most recognizable brands including Mastercard, Johnson and Johnson, IBM, The Dallas Cowboys, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, E&Y, Caterpillar, and The Walt Disney Company, to name a few.

In addition to speaking, Seth is the founder and CEO of FutureSight Labs, an org design and transformation firm that supports many of the world’s most inspiring leaders by helping prepare themselves and their organizations for the future of work through research, training, advising, coaching, digital tools, and thought leadership.