EMPLOYEE RETENTION & CULTURE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rene Leaves Your Leaders With a System to Build a Sticky Culture
Most keynotes give people a good feeling that fades within a week. This one keeps working, so your best people stay long after the applause ends.
“Rene is the best keynote presenter in our 35 years of sponsoring conferences.”
Stop Paying for Replacement
Every good person who walks out leaves you recruiting and training gain.
Help Them Care
Some people leave. Others stay and stop caring. Help them care.
Build a Sticky culture
Create a workplace where your best people feel seen and want to stay.
★★★★★
"NAPT members have seen terrific speakers like Roger Crawford and Charlie Plumb. It is high praise when they give a standing ovation, much less for two standing ovations."
— Michael J. Martin
Executive Director, National Association For Pupil Transportation
★★★★★
“Rene’s presentation was the highlight of our annual provider conference. His inspirational message, warmth, and wit are unsurpassed. Rene is the best keynote presenter in our 35 years of sponsoring conferences.”
— Robert L. Stein
General Counsel, Michigan Assisted Living Association
★★★★★
“Rene was a big hit. He was motivational, entertaining and kept the audience engaged the entire time, which is rare for a speaker. People are still talking about his performance. I would highly recommend Rene to speak at your next event."
— Alan Martin
State Training Coordinator, Aflac
KEYNOTES DELIVERED
Fortune 500 Clients
Standing ovations in one keynote
$5
ARRIVED IN AMERICA WITH
MIT Sloan researchers analyzed 34 million online employee profiles and found a toxic corporate culture was 10.4 times more powerful than pay in predicting a company's attrition.
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
The System
What Stays long After the Keynote ends
Recognize
Recognition is the nectar that keeps your bees coming back every day.
Pollinate
Pollination is your team members helping each other expand and grow.
The Beehive
That is the workplace structure to protects the culture from collapsing.
The Hive
The hive is the team inside it. The goal is to have them working in collaboration.
From a Poor Haitian Village to
Fortune 500 Stages
Watch Rene Work
See Rene With a Room.
Watch how he connects with an audience, then decide if he is right for yours. Rene speaks in his hometown of Atlanta and across the United States.
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The Story
From a Village in Haiti.
Rene grew up in a small Haitian village with no electricity and no running water. At 21, he arrived in America with $5 in his pocket, two shirts, and no English, hiding near the rear tires of an eighteen-wheeler.
He swept floors. He washed cars on the streets of Miami. He worked as a hotel doorman for fourteen years, holding doors open for the people he dreamed of becoming.
Then one day he realized the real reason he had been stuck. It was not poverty. It was not the language. It was the story his culture had planted in his head. The moment he broke that story, everything changed.
Today, Rene helps companies solve the same problem. Your best people are often not leaving over money. Your people are starving. Not for food. For recognition, appreciation, and a reason to believe their work matters.
Rene's solution is the hive. When the hive is healthy, your best people stop leaving and start performing.
INDUSTRIES RENE SERVES
Healthcare & Senior Living
When your caregivers are burned out and feel unseen, some leave and the rest is left with more to do. Residents feel it too. Everyone feels the impact. Rene has helped Blue Cross Blue Shield, Michigan Assisted Living, and Virginia Assisted Living.
Financial Services & Insurance
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Your top producers get recruiter calls every week. Losing just one costs you time, clients, and momentum. The ones who stay need purpose and respect, not just a bigger check. Rene has worked with Aflac, Charles Schwab, Indiana Bankers, and GE Capital.
Hospitality & Food Service
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Hotels and restaurants lose a lot of good people every year. That nonstop turnover wears out your team and hurts the guest experience. Rene spent 14 years as a hotel doorman and has spoken for Marriott. He understands their world and what makes them stay.
Why Event Planners Choose Rene
Why Book Rene
For Your Event?
Rene will tell you the workplace is a village, and the people in it are starving. Not for food. For appreciation and recognition. He calls them kids in adult outfits. When nobody feeds them, some will leave. The rest will stay and check out.
A raise won’t fix that. Neither will one good speech.
When Rene was a boy in Haiti, an old man in his village named Mr. Raphael pointed to a swarm of bees and taught him a lesson he still carries. Bees look for sweetness and make honey. The man also told him rattlesnakes suck bitter leaves and make poison. Your workplace has both.
He shows your leaders how to protect the hive, and how to pour honey on a rattlesnake instead of cutting off its head. He leaves them with tools like peer recognition, so your people keep lifting each other up after the keynote is over. The tools he shares help leaders fix toxic cultures.
Rene has spoken for Coca-Cola, AT&T, Marriott, and the U.S. Army. If your good people keep walking out the door, let’s talk.
No Cookie-Cutter Speeches
Rene learns your industry and culture before he walks on stage. You get a talk that is crafted for your team.
He Has Done the Work
Rene spent 14 years as a hotel doorman. He talks to your people as someone with a view from the top.
It Stays After the Stage
Your leaders leave with a system they can keep using, so the work does not end when the applause does.
Social Proof
What event
planners Are Saying.
★★★★★
"We had an amazing experience. Thanks to Rene Godefroy. He absolutely crushed it and really engaged with our audience. The only speaker that received three standing ovations. He made people tear up and feel good."
Don Goettling
CEO, Sales Mastery & Momentum Builder
★★★★★
"NAPT members have seen terrific speakers like Roger Crawford and Charlie Plumb. It is high praise when they give a standing ovation, much less for two standing ovations."
— Michael J. Martin
Executive Director, National Association For Pupil Transportation
★★★★★
“Rene’s presentation was the highlight of our annual provider conference. His inspirational message, warmth, and wit are unsurpassed. Rene is the best keynote presenter in our 35 years of sponsoring conferences.”
— Robert L. Stein
General Counsel, Michigan Assisted Living Association
★★★★★
“Rene was a big hit. He was motivational, entertaining and kept the audience engaged the entire time, which is rare for a speaker. People are still talking about his performance. I would highly recommend Rene to speak at your next event."
— Alan Martin
State Training Coordinator, Aflac
Ready to Keep
Your Best People?
"Let's talk about what your audience needs
and how we can deliver it."
Coaching with Rene
Choose Your Path. Reach Your Breakthrough.
12 weeks of one on one coaching to launch a business or reach a career goal. Built on The Chosen Path Method.
Kick Your
Excuses Goodbye.
What excuse are you holding onto right now? Maybe it is your background. Your resources. The people who did not believe in you. The timing that was never quite right.
This is the book for anyone who is tired of waiting for the right conditions and is ready to start building the life they actually want. Learn the hard-won lessons of a man who had every reason to quit and chose to keep stepping instead.