Utilities Keynote Speaker Ryan Jenkins
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Leadership Author
and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker
Build More Connected Utility Teams
Utilities keep communities, businesses, and critical infrastructure running. Behind that reliability are people who must communicate, collaborate, and trust one another every day.
Today’s utility organizations are navigating workforce and leadership transitions, the retirement of experienced talent, skilled labor challenges, rapid advances in AI and technology, and a multigenerational workforce with up to five generations working side by side.
Today's utility organizations are working to:
Strengthen teamwork across field, operations, technical, and corporate teams
Connect employees across generations, roles, locations, and levels
Transfer critical knowledge and experience to the next generation
Attract, engage, develop, and retain emerging utility talent
Equip frontline leaders to build trust, improve communication, and lead multigenerational teams
Embrace AI and emerging technology while strengthening the human relationships essential to safety, reliability, and performance
Ryan equips utility professionals with practical, research-backed strategies to build stronger relationships, communicate more effectively across generations, and create teams where people trust one another and perform at their best.
Whether speaking to executives, field and operations teams, frontline leaders, emerging talent, or industry associations, Ryan delivers an engaging keynote experience with actionable insights that strengthen teamwork, improve knowledge transfer, and prepare people for what’s next.
Reliable service depends on reliable teams, and strong teams are built on connection.
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Ryan’s Keynote Topics for
Utility Organizations
Connectable
Strengthening Relationships to Improve Teamwork, Communication & Performance
Utility work depends on people across roles, departments, locations, and levels working together effectively. Strong relationships create the trust and communication that help teams perform when it matters most.
Ryan reveals practical strategies to strengthen workplace relationships and create cultures where people feel seen, supported, and connected.
Strengthen relationships across field, operations, technical, and corporate teams.
Improve communication and collaboration across roles and locations.
Build greater trust and connection between employees and leaders.
Create stronger workplace relationships that support teamwork and performance.
Generational Connection
Leading & Working Across Generations in Utilities
Utility organizations face a critical workforce challenge: preserving decades of experience while developing the people who will carry the industry forward.
Ryan helps leaders and employees move beyond generational stereotypes to understand what’s shaping each generation, and how to turn those differences into an organizational advantage.
Improve communication and collaboration across generations.
Understand what motivates different generations at work.
Attract, engage, develop, and retain the next generation of utility talent.
Strengthen relationships between experienced and emerging professionals.
Accelerate the transfer of critical knowledge and expertise across generations.
Team Binding
Building Stronger Teams in an Age of AI
As technology changes how utility work gets done, strong human teams become even more important. Communication alone doesn’t create connection, and traditional team building isn’t enough to sustain it.
Ryan introduces the practical habits and systems that help teams continuously strengthen trust, alignment, and support.
Build stronger, more connected teams.
Strengthen trust, alignment, and mutual support.
Create greater connection across field, office, hybrid, and distributed teams.
Help teams stay connected through workforce and technological change.
Move beyond episodic team building and create continuous team binding.
Every leader needs
to hear Ryan.
-Patrick Lencioni
Who Should Book Ryan Jenkins for Utility Events?
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Utility Executives & Senior Leaders
Equip leaders with practical strategies to strengthen culture, navigate workforce transitions, improve collaboration, and prepare their organizations for the future.
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Field, Operations & Technical Teams
Help employees strengthen trust, improve communication, collaborate across roles and generations, and build the relationships that support reliable performance.
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HR, Safety, Talent & Emerging Leader Programs
Give current and future leaders practical tools to engage a multigenerational workforce, improve knowledge transfer, strengthen retention, and develop the next generation of utility leaders.
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Utility Associations & Industry Conferences
Bring an engaging, research-backed keynote speaker to your annual meeting, leadership conference, safety event, professional development program, or industry gathering with timely insights on generations, teamwork, human connection, leadership, AI, and the future of work.
Utility & Energy Organizations Ryan Has Worked With
Exelon Corporation
Energy Insurance Mutual (EIM)
Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL)
Prairie State Generating Company
Gannett Fleming
Florida Natural Gas Association (FNGA)
Southern Company
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Risk Managers Information Meeting (RMIM)
OPITO
Oil & Gas Safety, Health and Environmental Conferences
The Impact of Ryan Jenkins'
Keynotes on Healthcare Organizations
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Stronger Teamwork & Team Connection
Create more connected teams that communicate better, collaborate more effectively, and build greater trust across roles, departments, locations, and levels.
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Greater Employee Engagement & Retention
Equip leaders to strengthen workplace relationships, engage employees across generations, and create cultures where talented people feel connected and want to stay.
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Better Generational Collaboration
Bridge communication gaps between experienced and emerging employees while helping different generations understand and leverage one another’s strengths.
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Future-Ready Teams
Prepare people to navigate workforce transitions, AI, and emerging technologies while strengthening the human capabilities—trust, communication, collaboration, and connection—that remain essential to performance.
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Greater Knowledge Transfer
Strengthen relationships across generations so decades of technical expertise, institutional knowledge, and hard-earned experience continue moving through the organization.
THE BUZZ
Excitement from Engaged Audiences:
“Ryan sparked insights and ideas that I can apply in my team and across our company."
- Donna Kimmel, Chief People Officer at Citrix
“The best speaker we’ve ever had!”
- Ashley Breedlove, Director at CVS
“Ryan was phenomenal!”
- Kaylin Orr, Kimberly-Clark
“Great feedback from ALL attendees!”
- Mariana Fagnilli, VP at Liberty Mutual
"Utterly groundbreaking! Ryan equipped us to build a more connected organization with improved engagement.”
- Melissa Bernstein, Co-founder of Melissa & Doug
Why Book Ryan Jenkins for Utility Events?
Utility Experience, Research-Backed Insights
Ryan has worked with leading utility and energy organizations and understands the people challenges shaping the industry…from workforce transitions and knowledge transfer to generations, teamwork, leadership, and technological change. His research-backed insights are translated into practical strategies your people can use immediately.
Engaging, Practical & Actionable
Ryan combines compelling stories, research, humor, audience interaction, and practical takeaways to create a keynote that’s both engaging and immediately useful. Attendees leave energized, and equipped with ideas they can put into practice the very next day.
Customized for Your Organization
Every utility organization has its own workforce, operational realities, culture, and challenges. Ryan customizes each keynote around your people, goals, workforce dynamics, and event objectives so the message feels relevant and specific.
Ready to Build a More Connected Utility Workforce?
Strengthen teamwork, bridge generational gaps, accelerate knowledge transfer, develop stronger leaders, and build teams prepared to thrive through workforce and technological change.