Clients and testimonials

"Dear Cheryl,On behalf of our entire team I want to extend our sincere thanks for your outstanding keynote presentation on "Flex - The Resilient Workplace” Your insights on adaptability, future readiness, and fostering resilience in today’s rapidly evolving workplace was not only insightful but incredibly inspiring. Your ability to connect with the audience, deliver actionable takeaways and spark meaningful conversation left a lasting impact. Thank you again for sharing your expertise with us - it was a pleasure having you as our keynote speaker we hope to collaborate again in the near future." Chief Strategy and Digital Growth Officer

"I’m happy to report that Cheryl Cran was a huge success as our inspirational speaker. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback on her content and on they way she delivered it as well. She was knowledgeable, engaging and really kept the crowd engaged the whole way through. I loved the effects and technology from her virtual studio and taking in comments and questions live – it made the session so much more personalized." Director

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the entire CIOCAN Team, thank you for contributing your time, insight, and expertise to this year’s CIO Peer Forum in Vancouver. With over 270 attendees, it was our most successful forum yet, and your thought leadership played a major role in that success.  I don’t always have the opportunity to sit in on all the sessions, fortunately I was present for yours and saw how you both connected with our audience.  Your style, content and presence resonated with our community! If you would like to extend your PPT presentation to our community, we’ll be happy to share. We’re grateful for partners like you who help strengthen the CIO Association of Canada and support our mission to connect IT leaders, share best practices, and foster executive development across the country. Thank you again for being part of this milestone event. Executive Director

Rave reviews from Side Conference Audience of 1100:

The event was incredible on Tuesday, as Cheryl was very engaging and promoted great discussion! The team really enjoyed her keynote and some of the tools she showcased. We couldn’t have asked for a greater way to bring the team together on a day 1 of our meeting!

Reviews from audience members:“You were amazing! Best Speaker So Far!”“Great presentation ! You are sharing many thought provoking insights!”“Thank you for the text message of questions! It made me more engaged.”“Loved the polling – so good to see what others are thinking in the room.”“Cheryl, thank you for making us think, and to help us better understand our role in creating the future!”

Cheryl, We want to thank you again for such a fantastic afternoon. Keynote speaking is an art form, and you have mastered it with your ability to inspire, inform, and captivate the audience. Sitting at the back of the room, I saw a sea of heads taking notes, completely enthralled, which was so great to see—The afternoon was an experience that will stay with many for a while afterward.

Thank you Cheryl!Your closing keynote for our Raising The Bar conference in Orlando was spot on.Our leaders gained immense value from your strategic insights on how to leverage collaboration for greater success.The ‘me to we’ model provided all of us with a framework to self assess and improve our leadership abilities.We loved your interactive style of texting and polling with the group – we were engaged!You definitely helped us ‘raise the bar’!

I want to congratulate you on giving our 600+ attendees lots of food for thought in your session: The Future of Leadership. Your energy, enthusiasm and compassion for all that our attendees are dealing with came through loud and clear. Many of our attendees came up to me after your session and said: “Home Run”. Sometimes being the first presenter in the morning of the second day of a conference can often be a tough spot to draw: you immediately established a strong connection with all of us and kept us engaged and energized.

Cheryl was the keynote speaker at our annual summit in Toronto and shared her thoughts on “The Future of Work” with 170 of our leaders. After a tumultuous year of unprecedented challenges with labour, inflation and the changing work environment, Cheryl’s insights and perspectives were both reassuring that we’re not alone and eye-opening in terms of how to tackle issues that aren’t going away anytime soon. Her ability to connect with the audience and make stories relatable and actionable was terrific. Cheryl’s keynote set the stage for two days of learning and inspiration for our leaders on how to embrace the future with confidence, resilience and conviction that we can win in business and in the hearts and minds of our associates.

“If you are looking for a workforce expert to speak at your next meeting, look no further! Cheryl Cran is wonderful to work with and provides an energetic and inspirational session your teams won’t want to miss!”

Cheryl’s keynote, The Future of Leadership was eye opening, confirming and exciting!She has a unique ability to provide context, and to articulate in a way that is inspiring AND provides strategies to our very discerning group of managing partners.The research, the statistics and the real world examples delivered with humor and insight made a huge impact – we even had several firms express interest in bringing her in to present directly to their management teams.

“Cheryl Cran was our event closing keynote speaker and our group was blown away! The energy, research and remarkable insights really resonated with the audience, expanding their perspectives about the now and future of work. We also engaged Cheryl to facilitate a panel to follow her keynote, with three local business leaders – her warm, engaging style along with her ability to adapt, quickly made for a dynamic panel dialogue that really brought some earlier topics to life. Thank you, Cheryl, for making our event remarkable.”

Cheryl Cran’s keynote was a major hit with our leaders – her keynote “The Future of Leadership” had it all – audience polling ,trends research, usable strategies AND delivered with massive energy that kept everyone entertained and engaged throughout.

Cheryl Cran’s presentation to our group of Executive, Senior Leaders and others was in a word, TIMELY! We had our bi-annial leadership conference and Cheryl was the closing speaker for our two day event. Her ability to weave in content that is current to the corporate situation as well as present in a way that is fun, intelligent and thought provoking is amazing. We have had overwhelmingly positive feedback from Cheryl’s session with comments that her message was the perfect close to the two day event and that they felt inspired and willing to shift their approach in their work as a result of hearing her.

We invited Cheryl to be our keynote speaker at a national leadership event. The Future is Human presentation was thought-provoking and pertinent to current events. Cheryl connected our associate’s feedback to research and relatable stories, and her charismatic personal style fostered engaging dialogue and challenging conversations. The Future is Human insight is a great reminder to cultivate a “we” mindset in all situations.