Roy Gluckman Speaking Topics

• Psychological Safety Keynote: The Foundation of Innovation and High Performance

  Beyond the Buzzword

  Psychological safety is more than a buzzword; it’s the foundation of innovation, collaboration, and high performance. Many organizations understand the concept but struggle with implementation. In this session, Roy Gluckman moves past theory, equipping leaders and organizations with practical strategies and everyday behaviors to build psychological safety at work.

  Drawing on real-world examples, we connect psychological safety with critical topics like DEIB, unconscious bias, and belonging, showing how this integrated approach drives team effectiveness, strengthens collaboration, and creates genuinely high-performing workplaces.

  Three Key Audience Takeaways:

  • Reduce Hidden Costs: Understand how safe-to-speak-up cultures reduce hidden costs like employee churn and absenteeism, directly impacting the bottom line.

  • Unlock Innovation: Master the everyday behaviours that unlock creativity, empower people to bring their best ideas forward, and drive better problem-solving.

  • Actionable Frameworks: Receive practical, evidence-based strategies to build psychological safety, behaviors that leaders can implement immediately after the session concludes.

  Formats & Flexibility

  This session can be delivered as a powerful keynote, an interactive leadership session, or a focused masterclass, depending on your needs:

  • Keynote: 45

    • 60 minutes

  • Masterclass: 90

    • 120 minutes

  • Training Workshop: 2+ hours

  Delivery: Available both virtually and in-person.

• Unconscious Bias Keynote: Interrupting Bias in Decision Making and Trust

  The Silent Impact of Bias at Work

  This set of sessions explores how unconscious bias silently shapes leadership decisions, relationships, and team dynamics at work. From hiring and promotion to feedback and everyday interactions, bias often goes unnoticed, but it is always impactful.

  Through real-world examples and practical tools, Roy Gluckman helps leaders and teams identify blind spots, interrupt biased thinking, and build cultures grounded in trust, fairness, and psychological safety.

  Choose Your Focus: Two High-Impact Sessions

  • Option 1: Unconscious Bias, Trust & Favoritism

  This keynote pulls back the curtain on unconscious bias and how it silently shapes daily workplace dynamics. It explores how "go-to people," in-groups, and perceived favouritism are formed, and how to lead in ways that feel fair, transparent, and safe.

  Key Outcome: Learn concrete strategies to reduce bias and build a more inclusive workplace

  • Option 2: Unconscious Bias in Decision Making

  This talk focuses on how bias quietly shapes who leaders trust, stretch, and promote. Attendees move from insight to action, walking away with practical tools to make more inclusive decisions in real-time, even under pressure. This session spotlights AI as a bias-checking ally.

  Key Outcome: Apply a bias-disruption toolkit to improve coaching, feedback, and people decisions.

  Three Key Audience Takeaways:

  • Diagnose Leadership Blind Spots: Recognize how unconscious bias quietly shapes key people decisions, from who is trusted and promoted to how feedback is delivered.

  • Apply Disruption Toolkits: Walk away with concrete strategies and practical tools to interrupt biased thinking and make more objective, inclusive decisions in real-time, even under pressure

  • Build Fairer Teams: Learn how to lead in ways that feel transparent, safe, and merit-based, ensuring trust and reducing the impact of perceived favoritism and in-groups in daily interactions.

  Formats & Flexibility

  This session can be delivered as a powerful keynote, an interactive leadership session, or a focused masterclass, depending on your needs:

  • Keynote: 45

    • 60 minutes

  • Masterclass: 90

    • 120 minutes

  • Training Workshop: 2+ hours

  Delivery: Available both virtually and in-person.

• Burnout to Belonging Keynote: Building Healthier, High-Performing Teams

  The Power of Belonging on Wellness

  This keynote explores the concept of behavioral wellness—the intentional actions that foster connection, kindness, and belonging within teams. When belonging is prioritized, teams become healthier, more engaged, and more effective.

  By prioritizing these behaviors, teams can boost effectiveness, strengthen engagement, and enhance overall well-being. The session offers practical strategies to help leaders and teams build cultures of trust, strengthen relationships, and shift from burnout to belonging—where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to do their best work.

  Three Key Audience Takeaways:

  • Understand Belonging: Understand belonging and behavioral wellness and their impact on mental health and team performance.

  • Foster Connection and Kindness: Learn how to foster connection and kindness to create a culture of trust and belonging.

  • Enhance Engagement and Retention: Learn how to enhance engagement and retention through wellness-driven practices.

  Formats & Flexibility

  This session can be delivered as a powerful keynote, an interactive leadership session, or a focused masterclass, depending on your needs:

  • Keynote: 45

    • 60 minutes

  • Masterclass: 90

    • 120 minutes

  • Training Workshop: 2+ hours

  Delivery: Available both virtually and in-person.

• Is DEI Dead? Maybe. Rethinking the Strategic Value of Inclusion

  From Checkboxes to Core Performance

  DEI has been buried under buzzwords, backlash, and performative checklists. But when it's all stripped back, it remains about something simple and essential: how we work well together.

  In this keynote, Roy Gluckman unpacks what DEI really means in a world that is questioning its relevance. The session focuses on how identity, bias, and learned behaviors shape performance, and offers practical, real-world strategies to build stronger teams. This talk helps leaders cut through the noise and see DEI for what it truly is, a powerful framework for improving collaboration, team effectiveness, and culture.

  Three Key Audience Takeaways

  • Addressing the Critique: Understand why DEI is being critiqued and why this process is necessary to strip away the fluff and get back to the essence of what DEI is truly meant to achieve.

  • Linking Identity to Performance: Uncover the powerful and often misunderstood link between identity, bias, and measurable team performance, proving the strategic value of inclusion.

  • Building Stronger Teams: Walk away with practical, real-world strategies for building demonstrably stronger and more collaborative teams using a clear and effective DEI lens.

  Formats & Flexibility

  This session can be delivered as a powerful keynote, an interactive leadership session, or a focused masterclass, depending on your needs:

  • Keynote: 45

    • 60 minutes

  • Masterclass: 90

    • 120 minutes

  • Training Workshop: 2+ hours

  Delivery: Available both virtually and in-person.

• Managing Gen Z With Confidence: Unlocking Generational Diversity and Cohesion

  From Fear to Understanding: The Gen Z Catalyst

  Many managers feel they are "managing on eggshells" around Gen Z, wary of their directness and social awareness. But what if, instead of fearing this generation, leaders saw them as a catalyst for growth?

  This keynote dives into the values, expectations, and unique influence of Gen Z at work, and what that means for leadership, communication, inclusion, and performance. The session explores how generational diversity shapes team dynamics, where tensions emerge, and how organisations can engage younger talent while building bridges across generational lines. Roy Gluckman uses humor, insight, and practical tools to shift the narrative from "us vs them" to "what’s next together."

  Three Key Audience Takeaways

  • Understanding Gen Z: Learn how to effectively overcome managerial discomfort and apprehension surrounding Gen Z's unique communication style and social awareness.

  • Leveraging Strengths and Guiding Gaps: Gain practical insight into leveraging Gen Z's key strengths, including their demand for transparency, accountability, and inclusivity, as catalysts for positive change within the workplace.

  • Strengthening Cross-Generational Learning: Acquire specific, actionable strategies for building robust relationships and strengthening collaboration across all five generations currently in the workforce.

  Formats & Flexibility

  This session can be delivered as a powerful keynote, an interactive leadership session, or a focused masterclass, depending on your needs:

  • Keynote: 45

    • 60 minutes

  • Masterclass: 90

    • 120 minutes

  • Training Workshop: 2+ hours

  Delivery: Available both virtually and in-person.

• LGBT+ Inclusion & Allyship: Building Authentic, In-Touch Cultures

  The Business Imperative for Authentic Inclusion

  Creating a truly inclusive workplace for the LGBT+ community is not just a moral obligation; it is a strategic business imperative. When employees feel they must self-censor or hide their identity at work, engagement, trust, and psychological safety erode.

  Roy Gluckman offers three focused keynotes that provide leaders and teams with the language, behavioral tools, and systemic strategies to move from passive acceptance to active, visible allyship. The goal is to build a culture where every employee feels seen, supported, and motivated to do their best work.

  Select Your Focus: Three High-Impact Keynote Options

  • Option 1: Foundational Literacy & Allyship

  Understanding is the first step toward inclusion. In this foundational, engaging, and accessible talk, the LGBTIQA+ acronym is unpacked, the history and significance of Pride is explored, and why language matters is broken down. Whether your team is new to these conversations or ready to deepen their awareness, this session creates space for learning, empathy, and reflection.

  Key Outcome: Unpacking the LGBTIQA+ acronym and why language matters. The History and Reality of Pride. What True Allyship Looks Like.

  • Option 2: Psychological Safety & Performance

  Safety at work should not be a privilege; it should be a given. This keynote explores how LGBTQIA+ people have long faced environments—both physical and psychological—where safety is not a given. This history shapes confidence, self-belief, and performance at work. The session unpacks the role of unconscious bias in workplace culture and shares practical strategies to build true inclusion and belonging.

  Key Outcome: Understand how psychological safety affects LGBTQIA+ performance and confidence. Identify unconscious bias in workplace culture. Apply practical strategies to foster inclusion and belonging.

  • Option 3: Family Support & Breaking Bias

  LGBTQIA+ families often face unique challenges, but also bring deep joy, resilience, and strength. This keynote explores the lived experiences of queer families —from navigating unconscious bias to raising and affirming LGBTQIA+ children. The session helps teams understand what allyship looks like for these families and how to better support parents, caregivers, and children alike.

  Key Outcome: Understand the unique experiences of LGBTQIA+ families. Identify unconscious bias that impacts these families. Learn how to support and affirm LGBTQIA+ families and children.

  Three Key Audience Takeaways

  • Shift from Confusion to Confidence: The talks provide the foundational knowledge necessary to move beyond confusion surrounding the evolving LGBTIQA+ acronym and identity. The goal is to establish essential cultural literacy, language mastery, and understanding of the history of Pride, enabling participants to engage confidently and correctly.

  • Translate Awareness into Active Allyship: The sessions are designed to move participants from passive acceptance to visible, actionable support. The aim is to equip leaders and teams with practical tools to identify unconscious bias and apply specific strategies to foster inclusion and break down barriers in daily workplace interactions.

  • Embed Psychological Safety and Belonging: The ultimate aim is to create workplace environments where safety is a given, not a privilege. By exploring how historical lack of safety shapes confidence and performance , the talks empower organizations to build true belonging where LGBT+ employees feel seen, supported, and safe to thrive.

  Formats & Flexibility

  This session can be delivered as a powerful keynote, an interactive leadership session, or a focused masterclass, depending on your needs:

  • Keynote: 45

    • 60 minutes

  • Masterclass: 90

    • 120 minutes

  • Training Workshop: 2+ hours

  Delivery: Available both virtually and in-person.

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