Focus Keynote speaker | Productivity and Performance Strategist

OWN YOUR FOCUS

Break the Addiction to Distraction

Reclaim Your Focus. Drive Performance. Accelerate Results.

Impactful Audience Experiences: Created for Sales Teams, Leadership Events, and High-Performance Organizations

Attention Is Not Focus

Focus isn’t just about attention and execution; it’s about clarity, direction, and alignment. Penny shares some practical tools to ensure you are getting the right things done.

  1. Create Reset Rhythms to dynamically reassess your priorities and stay focused on what matters.
  2. Utilize Penny’s 135 daily reset practice to stay on track.
  3. Establish Gatekeepers—ownership tools and systems to protect and direct your focus with intention.

Own Your Focus: Break the Addiction to Distraction

Managing the various demands and distractions of modern life is a constant challenge, where firefighting often feels like second nature. With competing priorities pulling you in multiple directions, focus has shifted from being the norm to a rare luxury. The real challenge isn’t just managing time—it’s leveraging it effectively to work and lead with clarity, drive continuous improvement, and create lasting impact. 

Leadership today is more than setting clear goals—it’s about providing clear direction and creating a culture that drives value and impact. Great leaders keep people focused on the core goals and remove obstacles and barriers that keep them from accomplishing these goals.

Penny Zenker, entrepreneur, strategist, and “Focusologist,” has spent decades uncovering what sets high-performing leaders and teams apart. The key? A Reset Mindset—a structured approach to focus with clarity, creativity, and confidence. The core tenets of the Reset Mindset are value creation, a willingness to reinvent, and dynamic reassessment. The Reset Mindset is a powerful cross-contextual framework for building adaptability and agility, unlocking resourcefulness, and maximizing impact at every level of leadership.

Dynamic Reassessment keeps you and your team in alignment with your highest priorities. As a leadership tool, it helps you tailor your approach to different generations, developmental needs, and personality styles.
The right focus drives the right behaviors, fuels engagement, boosts productivity, and accelerates growth & impact—both for individuals and the organization.

In this interactive session, you’ll learn how to:

This session leverages accelerated learning to deliver practical tools and strategies that can be implemented immediately, retained effortlessly, and create lasting impact—both professionally and personally.

Leave with simple tools to reduce obstacles and distractors, sharpen focus, simplify complexity, and empower teams to perform at their best.

Dynamic Reassessment:

Focus on Your Highest Priorities - Stay on Track

What Clients Say About the Best Sales Speaker, Penny Zenker

“Franchisees mentioned that your message was life-changing. The workshops were fantastic, a great mix of education and application. Doing three sessions at one conference is a tall order and you delivered so effortlessly.”

Becky Bongiovanni

Brand President Care Patrol

“Penny provided a fun and motivational interactive virtual event for our women’s corporate networking group. We left knowing more about ourselves, armed with strategies for reducing stress and obtaining clearer focus. Five Stars for Penny!”

Cindy Buhr

General Counsel, EVP Legal and Compliance, Secretary at PrimeLending

“We had extremely positive feedback from the team about the sales training and great results followed. One of our sales executives went from nothing in his pipeline to a $1.8 million deal in the month that followed.”

Pat M

CEO Bridgewell Resources

Both Entertaining and Transformative

Addicted to Distraction

Perspective Drives Behavior

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8020 Sales Strategies helps your team apply the Pareto Principle to prioritize the highest-value sales activities—focusing on the 20% of actions that drive 80% of results. By targeting the right audiences and qualifying customers more effectively, your team will work smarter, close faster, and maximize impact where it matters most.

Research from Harvard Business Review shows that top performers are up to 400% more productive by focusing on high-value activities—and this session equips your team to do the same.

Activate Your Reset Mindset to...

Be More Agile
Shorten learning curves to adapt and adjust faster to changing environments
Focus on what moves the needle: reducing wasted time and resources.
Reassess and align more frequently.
When teams know where to put their focus, they feel connected, they stay engaged, they feel like they make a difference and they stay loyal.