Lori Hanson

They call her The Success Whisperer.

Lori Hanson is a high-impact keynote speaker, leadership and culture strategist, and executive advisor who transforms the way leaders think, communicate, and perform.

A former corporate leader turned award-winning author of six books, Lori brings decades of real-world business experience, neuroscience-based mindset strategies, and contagious energy to every stage. She empowers leaders, especially women in executive roles, to rise above burnout, bias, and self-doubt and lead with influence, confidence, and authenticity.

Known for her dynamic, interactive style, Lori delivers programs that go beyond motivation, she equips audiences with actionable tools to create measurable change in their leadership, teams, and culture. Her insights have inspired audiences and companies of all sizes, women’s leadership conferences, and professional associations nationwide.

Whether she’s helping women reclaim their confidence or guiding leadership teams to build cultures of trust and resilience, Lori has one mission: to help every leader unlock their highest potential, and whisper success into every corner of your organization.

Talks/Workshops

Amplify Your Voice, Own Your Influence

Every woman has a voice, not every woman feels free to use it. Women leaders are expected to be confident, decisive, and unshakeable, yet still face bias and pressure to “fit in.” In this powerful, no-fluff keynote, Lori Hanson empowers women to step into their strength with authenticity and purpose, sharing inspiring stories and hard-won lessons from her personal and corporate journey. She helps women eliminate self-doubt, speak with authority, and lead with unapologetic authenticity. Learn how to command the room, navigate resistance, and negotiate from a position of strength.

Your audience will leave with tools to boost confidence, gain respect, negotiate with ease and advocate for themselves with confidence and grace.

Key Takeaways:

  • Instant confidence techniques that shift presence and power.
  • Strategies to overcome bias and be heard without pushing.
  • Frameworks for negotiation and influence that work in any situation.
Cultivating a Culture that Thrives

Culture isn’t just “soft stuff”, it’s the engine of performance and profits. Disconnected teams and leaders hurt your results. In this keynote, executives discover how to transform culture into a strategic advantage. Lori Hanson, The Success Whisperer™, a Culture Strategist, blends humor, insight, and actionable strategies to help leaders create workplaces where trust, collaboration, and accountability thrive.

Lori shows leaders how to navigate difficult conversations with confidence, inspire employees, and cultivate a culture that drives both individual and organizational success. This keynote empowers executives to turn culture from a challenge into a measurable engine of high performance. Attendees leave with three powerful steps to build trust, ignite collaboration, and elevate results, plus practical tools to reduce stress and boost energy.

Key Takeaways:

  • Strengthen alignment and engagement
  • Practical tools to reduce stress and boost energy, and
  • A proven framework to elevate team performance and ROI.
The Champions Mindset

Champions aren’t born, they’re trained. What does it take to perform at your best when pressure is high and obstacles are stacked against you? The Champions Mindset reveals the mental habits, discipline, and resilience strategies used by elite athletes and top-performing executives. Lori Hanson blends sports psychology, neuroscience, and real-world leadership experience to show audiences how to train their brain for clarity, confidence, and consistent results.

In this high-energy keynote, Lori demonstrates how to break limiting patterns, elevate focus, and tap into the inner drive required to excel. Participants learn how champions think, prepare, and recover—and how to apply those same principles at work and in life. Attendees leave equipped to boost performance, stay mentally strong, and prepare to “compete” like Corporate Athletes.

Key Takeaways:

  • A mental inventory to identify energy drains
  • Brain-based strategies to sustain peak performance
  • A visualization process used by elite performers
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Lori Hanson’s closing keynote for the ADA’s Health and Well Being Conference was the best program of the conference. I was fortunate enough to attend her program and to watch her tie the conference together as the closing speaker of the conference. After a full day of programs, it was a most welcome closing session. Her personal journey and stories really connected with our attendees. She inspired us to believe that anything is possible. She delivered her motivational message with lots of laughs, a burst of energy and created a lasting impression. If you’re looking for a dynamic keynote speaker with a different flavor to spice up your conference or event, I highly recommend Lori Hanson. She will challenge, entertain and motivate your attendees to take action.
Craig S. Armstrong DDS , Chair, Dental Health and Wellbeing Advisory Subcommittee American Dental Association
Lori’s presentation was amazing. She was super engaging with the audience. She kept us on our toes; it wasn’t just a lecture for 60-minutes. She gave us some really tangible things to work on to increase our confidence, to increase our compassion. I really loved the handout so folks had some takeaways and real-life things they could do after the presentation to help with those things.
Myranda Whitesides, Speaker Coordinator, Mile High SHRM Annual Conference
Lori’s ease of relaxing the crowd and changing the energy in the room full of hundreds of people was fantastic. I liked the introspection and liked looking inside of myself for a few minutes. She made it quite simple to look inside to find my voice and quickly decide on how to take action to improve with daily, incremental steps. I liked her leveraging of the imagination. She’s right, it’s a totally free thing, yet one of the most powerful we have on tap in our daily work.
Jordan Edwards, Corporate Director of Human Resources, Metalcraft Industries, Inc.
Lori Hanson’s Amplify Your Voice, Own Your Influence, was an impactful experience for our Erie Chamber of Commerce professional development seminar. Her program masterfully connected the importance of confidence with the skills needed to earn respect and master negotiation. This is more than a presentation—it’s an empowerment experience. Lori provides women in business with a clear roadmap to confidently own their voice and overcome the fear of asking for more. Thank you, Lori!
Pat Vero, Executive Director, Erie Chamber of Commerce
As female leaders, there is tremendous value in stepping back from our daily demands to consider how our approach to work and life influence our experience and the people around us. Lori walked our team through a lively discussion that really got us thinking about what we value, how those values show up in our work, and to recognize that our time is an investment – we need to use it wisely.
Grace Rink, Assistant Vice President, Decarbonization Strategy, AEMCO
Lori’s program The Champion’s Mindset was a great New Year’s Kickoff for our Colorado Women in Manufacturing chapter. We hosted a virtual event where Lori took us through how to focus your mind and body to achieve your goals. She led the group through an exercise to articulate a key goal for one’s life and gave good tips on how to go about achieving the goal as part of one’s daily routine. Lori’s presentation was very energetic and inspiring. More than half the group stayed for an optional 30-minute Q&A where she worked with each person to create a meaningful affirmation. I was impressed that Lori took big ideas, like having no limits and believing in yourself and coupled them with concrete “doable” actions to shift one’s mindset, like her Morning Mindset and using daily affirmations. Her empathetic style and genuine interest in helping everyone who joined us was an uplifting experience to be part of. I would highly recommend her.
Lale Lovell, Ph.D., Chair of Colorado Women in Manufacturing (WiM)