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A keynote for the room that runs the company

Executive offsites, senior leadership days and leadership conferences

A senior leadership audience doesn't need to be told that change is hard or that AI is coming. It needs a speaker who can hold a mirror up to how leaders actually work, be uncomfortable in a useful way, and leave the room with something concrete to do before the next board meeting.

30-75 min · live English · Hungarian 98.8% excellent or very good · AI Summit Europe 2026
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Dorka Nagy-Józsa delivering a leadership keynote at a podium
What organisers need

Challenging, not humiliating

Executive offsites have a job: align the leadership team on what comes next. A keynote earns its place when it opens that conversation instead of interrupting it. Dorka builds the keynote after a stakeholder call with the people who own the offsite, around the strategy, the change ahead and the behaviours the leadership wants to see.

The content comes from neuroscience, organisational behaviour and performance psychology: why change programmes fail in the brain first, why your CEO's age predicts your remote work policy (Stanford has the data), how elite athletes and elite leaders prepare for high-stakes decisions, and what leading both humans and AI agents asks of a leadership team. The through-line is her signature idea from the book Horizontal Thinking: the end of the specialist era.

Which keynote fits

Three keynotes, customised to your event

How it works

Format, language and fee

Slot
30-75 minutes; opening the offsite to set the tone, or closing it to send the team back with a routine.
Customisation
Pre-event stakeholder call with the people who own the offsite; the keynote is built around your strategy and language.
Format
Live, in the room, with Q&A. No webinars.
Language
English or Hungarian.
Included
Pre-event stakeholder call, a keynote customised to your theme and audience, audience Q&A and a post-talk summary deck.
Fee
From €3,000 plus travel and accommodation. How the fee works.
Tell Dorka about your event dorka@y2y.hu

Answer within 48 hours. Tell us the date, the city, the audience and the slot.

Track record

Where this has worked

Senior leadership days for European industrial, logistics and insurance groups; KION Group booked Dorka back six months later for its senior leadership days. Her book Horizontal Thinking (out January 1, 2027) is endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith: "This book delivers."

Ratings, stages and references: Proof of Performance.

"I've counted, somewhere around 280 presentations on change management. After 200 you stop expecting surprises. Dorka managed to surprise me. Not in a gimmicky way, more like the feeling when someone explains something you've been doing wrong for years, but without making it humiliating. We had her back six months later for our senior leadership days."

Tobias Kirchner · Head of Org Development, KION Group (DE)
FAQ

Questions organisers ask

Should the keynote open or close our offsite?

Both work. Opening sets the tone and gives the team a shared language for the discussions; closing sends them home with a routine. Decide together on the stakeholder call.

Can the keynote address our own strategy and change?

Yes. The keynote is built after a stakeholder call around your strategy, your change ahead and the behaviours you want to see, without breaking confidentiality in the room.

Is it a motivational talk?

No. It is research-based and direct, with humour. The room leaves with a performance routine, not a personality type.

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