EMPLOYEE RETENTION & CULTURE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
No Condition
is Permanent
Pay gets them in the door. The hive is what makes them stay.
Turning RATTLESNAKES INTO BEES so your top performers stay.
MIT Sloan studied 34 million workers and found toxic culture is 10.4 times more powerful than pay in predicting who quits.
KEYNOTES DELIVERED
Fortune 500 Clients
Standing o in 1 keynote
$5
ARRIVED IN AMERICA WITH
From a Poor Haitian Village to
Fortune 500 Stages
What Happy Clients Are Saying
---- 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 not leaving for money. MIT Sloan studied 34 million workers and found toxic culture is 10.4 times more powerful than pay in predicting who quits. Your people are starving. Not for food. For recognition, appreciation, and a reason to believe their work matters.
Rene's solution is the hive. Recognition is the nectar that keeps your bees coming back every day. Pollination is your people making each other grow. The beehive is the workplace structure that protects the culture. The hive is the team inside it. When the hive is healthy, your best people stop leaving and start performing.
The engine underneath the hive is one insight: people behave based on the story in their head. Change the story, the rattlesnake becomes a bee. Rene gives leaders a specific framework to find that story, break it on purpose, and replace it with one that drives action instead of paralysis.
---- Watch Rene Work ----
See What an epic STORY Looks Like.
See why event planners call Rene the most impactful speaker they have ever booked. Whether in his hometown of Atlanta or anywhere else in the United States, people are raving about the difference he makes in their lives.
INDUSTRIES RENE SERVES
Healthcare & Senior Living
Nursing homes can lose almost all their staff in a year. When your caregivers are tired and feel unseen, residents suffer and feel forgotten. Rene has helped Blue Cross Blue Shield, Michigan Assisted Living, and Virginia Assisted Living.
Financial Services & Insurance
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
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. He understands their world and what makes them stay.
---- Why Event Planners Choose Rene ----
Why Book Rene
For Your Event?
Your team is not leaving because of the work. They are leaving because of the story your culture is telling them about the work. When that story turns toxic, your best people go quiet first. Then they leave.
Most keynote speakers give your people a feeling. It lasts a week. Rene gives them a system. He does not just inspire your people. He installs a hive. A peer recognition system your team runs on their own, so the culture sustains itself long after the keynote ends.
Rene has spoken for Coca-Cola, AT&T, Marriott, and the U.S. Army. The last time he was on a sales stage, the room gave him three standing ovations. Not because he taught a new tactic. Because he finally said out loud what the whole room was feeling and showed them exactly how to break it.
If your people have the skills but your best ones keep walking out the door, the problem is not training. It is the invisible story running in your culture. Rene knows what it is, how to find it, and how to build a hive that makes your top talent want to stay.
No Cookie-Cutter Speeches
Rene learns about your industry and your culture before he ever walks on stage. He connects simple retention ideas to the real problems your people are facing right now. You get a talk that feels like it was made just for your team.
Easy to Work With
Before he speaks, Rene takes time to learn how work really feels in your world. He ties clear restention tools to the stress, change, and pressure your people live with every day. You get a keynote that feels real, not a generic pep talk.
The Monday Morning Toolkit
Rene does his homework on your industry and your culture before he shows up. He links everyday resilience ideas to the exact struggles your people talk about in the hallway. You get a speech that sounds like it was written with them in mind.
---- 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
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.
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