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I have to say Sam's presentation was outstanding. The group was attentive and if you could say "mesmerized" I would. No one got up and took a call. It was really nice to see people listening and learning.
-Jan Brezina
Attitude isn’t about being positive or negative, it’s YOUR STRATEGY to resilience, growth, culture, connection and impact. Once homeless, now a bestselling author, Sam Glenn brings his message to life with a mix of LIVE PAINTING, humor and inspiration. Always a highlight to every meeting and event.
KEYNOTE EXPERIENCE • LIVE ART PERFORMANCE • CULTURE IMPACT
ATTITUDE
ISN'T A MOOD. IT'S YOUR STRATEGY.
Sam Glenn delivers a keynote experience and live painting that helps organizations overcome burnout, strengthen resilience, and renew engagement.
EVERYONE TAKES HOME A PRINT OF SAM’S ARTWORK. A GREAT EVENT DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED.
WATCH SAM SPEAK & PAINT LIVE
Attitude is not a feeling you wait for. It is a navigation system that guides you through changes, challenges and the unexpected.
Sam's customized keynote is built around a LIVE PAINTING created throughout his entire speech. It's a teaching tool reinforces the message, key points and creates significant retention. The painting grows alongside the message, giving your audience something to watch, feel, and remember. It turns a keynote into an experience that sticks well beyond the final applause.
While, ATTITUDE may sound like a general topic. It is anything but. It is the one thing that touches every aspect of our life and work, every single day. It drives how we lead, how we respond, how we treat the person next to us, and how we show up when things get challenging. The right attitude does not just lift a room. It builds a culture. Sam teaches how to leverage our human intelligence to implement and achieve what external sources cannot.
Trusted by Thousands of
Organizations Worldwide
FROM HOMELESS TO BESTSELLING AUTHOR
It all starts with ATTITUDE. Everything follows ATTITUDE. And your ATTITUDE changes everything.
Sam Glenn's “attitude message” isn’t about being positive or negative, but rather how to use your attitude to help you overcome setbacks, lead better, find purpose in routine work, strengthen others, reframe circumstances, and author stories that change lives.
Sam Glenn's message wasn't borrowed from a research study or a corporate workshop. It wasn't generated by AI or pulled from someone else's framework. It came from sleeping in his 1982 Buick Regal, where Sam spent his nights homeless, battling depression and a mindset that was working against him at every turn.
The shift started over a cup of coffee. A good friend handed Sam what he now calls "a positive kick in the attitude". It was a challenge to stop treating attitude like a feeling and start using it like a strategy. That single conversation changed the trajectory of everything.
Sam now helps leaders from EVERY INDUSTRY leverage the impact of using attitude as a strategy and asset that transforms cultures. A better workplace starts with better attitudes. A better life starts with a better attitude. It all starts with attitude. Everything follows attitude and your attitude changes everything.
Over the past three decades, Sam has authored more than 30 books on attitude and professional development. Along the way, he has been named Speaker of the Year by leading meeting and event organizations, and he brings his self-taught artistry into every keynote, painting LIVE on stage to reinforce what the message means in real time.
The Painting Is Yours to Keep
The completed original belongs to your organization. Award it to a standout team member. Auction it for your charitable foundation. One of Sam's paintings has auctioned for as much as $100,000. Display it where your people see it every day.
Every Attendee Takes Home an Art Print
Each person in the audience receives a miniature poster print of Sam's artwork to take home, frame, and hang. In five years, when your event is long over, the impact lives on. The print keeps the message alive
Original Paintings Given Away During the Speech
For fun and engagement, Sam randomly gifts several original paintings from his studio directly to audience members during his speech. Values range from $100 to $10,000.
A Visual Anchor for Your Theme
The artwork isn't just decoration; it's a visual anchor that ties your conference theme to a memorable experience that attendees will talk about for years.
THE PROBLEM SAM SOLVES
Most Teams and Leaders Don't Need Another Pep Talk, They Just Need the Right Fuel.
Most organizations are not struggling because their people lack skills or talent. They are struggling because of burnout, expectations, demands, changes and challenges. After a while, those silent enemies show up in our effort, attitude and engagement.
The solution is not more information, but rather an opportunity to reconnect, refocus, reengage and reenergize. Sam has been delivering this metric to every type of industry for 30 years. He does it with humor, with honesty, with a LIVE painting, and with a framework people actually remember and utilize.
Sam’s Keynote is designed and customized to be an experience that your attendees will retain, remember and implement.
Sam's presentation offers the right amount of energy, multi-sensory experience that combines storytelling, humor, and live artistic creation.
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Built Around Your Group
The structure of Sam's keynote experience creates something your people can watch, feel, and remember. WATCH. FEEL. REMEMBER. Sam works with you before the event to shape the keynote around your theme, your industry, and the specific challenges your people are navigating right now.
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Live Painting on Stage
As Sam speaks, he paints a large, vibrant original work of art in front of the entire audience. Think Bob Ross meets keynote speaker. Nobody is checking their phone. The painting takes shape as the message unfolds, and the room is locked in for every minute of it.
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The Original Belongs to You
The completed painting is yours to keep. Award it to an exceptional team member. Auction it for your charitable cause. One of Sam's paintings has sold at auction for $100,000. Display it where your people will see it every day as a reminder of what they committed to.
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Every Person Takes an ART Print Home
At the close of the keynote, every single attendee receives a miniature print of Sam's artwork. It is not swag. It is a retention tool. In five years, when your event is well over, that print is still on their desk keeping the message alive. No other speaker in the industry offers this.
A System and Strategy They Can Actually Use.
Sam has spent three decades working with every industry refining a keynote that gives people something real to work with the day they get back. Sam is the bestselling author of over 30 books that focus on growth, leadership and how attitude drives everything. The content is practical, immediately applicable, and built around a framework that holds up long after the applause fades.
30+
3000+
Books Authored
Keynotes Delivered
2.0M+
2x
People Inspired
Speaker of the Year
How to Use Attitude as a Daily Strategy
A clear, actionable framework for treating attitude as something you practice and deploy, not something you wait to feel. The choices and behaviors that follow an intentional attitude become more effective.
The Process Behind Lasting Change
Sam's Process-Progress-Purpose framework gives every person a repeatable system for staying on course when the environment around them is changing, difficult, noisy, or discouraging.
Tools for Handling Negativity Without Losing Energy
A simple, practical technique for interrupting negative thinking in real time, and specific tools for navigating difficult people and high-pressure moments without dragging the team down with you.
How Your Attitude Shapes the Culture Around You
Every person's attitude has a direct, measurable impact on teammates, customers, and outcomes. Attendees leave understanding exactly what role they play in the culture they are part of.
Recognition That Builds Loyalty and Drives Results
A practical framework for recognizing wins in a way that actually motivates people. Not hollow praise but the kind of acknowledgment that makes people want to keep showing up and giving their best.
The Takeaway No Other Speaker Provides
Every attendee takes home a miniature print of Sam's original painting. It is not swag. It is a retention tool. In five years, when your event is well over, that print is still on their desk keeping the message alive. No other speaker in the industry offers this.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
They Say It Better Than We Can
★★★★★
"Sam Glenn is quite possibly the highest rated speaker we have had in the last 10 years."
Healthcare Leaders Association of Alabama
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“The speaker (Sam) was absolutely the best we have had.”
Newcomb Oil Co., LLC
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"Sam's presentation at our annual chamber banquet was fantastic. He provided non-stop laughs mixed with a great message on the power of having a positive attitude. We have heard nothing but positive reviews from attendees. 5/5 of stars!!"
President, Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
★★★★★
"If you are looking for a keynote speaker, look no further than Sam Glenn. His presentation “Attitude Changes Everything” was the perfect way to kick off our Association Executive Meeting. Glenn was personable, funny and shared a great message that reached every person in the audience."
E. Hervey, V.P. Missouri REALTORS®
★★★★★
“My wife and I lost our three-year-old son a few years ago and hadn’t laughed since. Sam Glenn was the closing keynote speaker at our annual conference, and I almost left before the closing. I am so thankful I didn’t. For the first time in years, I laughed. I even cried because I didn’t think it was even possible to laugh and feel good again. I know Sam isn’t a comedian, but he had everyone laughing and it felt so good. His realness and message behind the art had everyone captivated. I have been attending this conference for over 13 years and this was “literally” the first time I have seen and been apart of a standing ovation. I tried to catch Sam before he left as he was in a rush to catch the last flight home to be with his family. However, after sharing my story with him, he put his bags down and rebooked his flight home for the next day. We walked to the coffee shop, grabbed a cup of coffee, talked about life, the joys of fatherhood and laughed.
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Sam's style is completely genuine, so the audience trusts him right away. He lifts attitudes well beyond just the workplace. Attendees leave feeling engaged and positive about every aspect of their daily life. The laughter never stops. He leaves an imprint that lasts long after the event is over.
CINDY ARTERBURN
Legal Services, Indiana University Health -
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I don’t know too many people who would do this for a stranger. When I asked Sam, “Why?” His reply, “Because someone once did the same for me.” I honestly believe when you hire Sam, you are not just getting just another speaker, but a genuine person who cares. That is so rare today. So, if you are on the fence about having Sam speak at your meeting, let me just say, “JUST DO IT.” You just never know who needs to laugh again. My 3-year-old loved to laugh and as a way to honor his beautiful memory, I will keep laughing.”
- Kyle W.
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"Sam Glenn was able to lift our attendees' spirits, inspire us through stories and create the type of contagious laughter and camaraderie rarely found in a live session and never found virtually. The impact of his presentation was a feeling of joy that lasted well beyond the hour on screen."
- Christy Classi,
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“Your Opening Keynote received the highest marks on our attendee survey. Comments like Sam’s presentation was not only engaging, entertaining, but relevant. As a meeting planner, once I read your book “Attitude Changes Everything” - I knew I needed to reach out to you to speak at our event...”
- Utah Credit Union AssociationM.P.,
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“Sam Glenn was outstanding. His presentation and stories really resonated with and had a great impact on our team. He was the best-received speaker that we’ve had at our meetings. He was engaging, funny, impactful and brought a great energy to our day.”
- Wings Financial
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“We were absolutely delighted to have Sam Glenn as our keynote speaker at the 2019 Oklahoma Safety & Health Conference. He did NOT disappoint. The entire room was completely enraptured with his presentation. He made us laugh and he encouraged us to consider how attitude affects everything.”
- Oklahoma Safety Council
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"On behalf of GID and Windsor Property Management Company, I want to thank you for kicking off our annual conference. Your talents as a speaker certainly didn’t outshine your skills as an artist! Our attendees found you entertaining, engaging, inspirational, captivating and funny. Your positive messages and performance set the tone for a successful conference. We got the
“Kick in the Attitude” that we all needed!"
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"Sam Glenn did an amazing job kicking off our annual Summer Leadership Institute – not just once but twice in two different cities on different weekends – receiving rave reviews from our 3500 attendees. He got folks pumped up and ready to learn! You can’t go wrong in bringing Sam to your event."
- K.D, TX Association of School Boards
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"On behalf of the attendees and the Oregon School Boards Association, I want to thank you for your participation our Annual Convention. You held our members’ attention and had everyone laughing. You encouraged people in their unpaid volunteer service with your message on how they are their own real-life super heroes. People told us that we should have had you open the convention rather than close it.
Thank you for your service to our members!"
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"Can only say THANK YOU for bringing this presenter to close the convention. I appreciated his message and felt challenged to "check my attitude" and "share my popcorn!" Good job!"
-Others Clients
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“I saw you speak at the Indiana parks and recreation conference this week. I just wanted to send a quick thank you! I really appreciated your message and delivery, and needed a good laugh!”
- A.M.
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“Selecting Sam Glenn to come back for the fourth time to close out our annual Leadership Conference was an easy decision! As we prepared for our conference and we had a great dialogue with Sam on the conference theme and how he could customize his message to relate back to our focus. He brought our conference to a close with amazing stories that our team members could relate to and learn from. Sam’s high energy and personality shined on stage and left us inspired and laughing all the way home!”
- Gene B. Glick, Property Management
LET’S MAKE YOUR NEXT EVENT, CONFERENCE OR MEETING THE MOST MEMORABLE ONE YET.
What Happens Next?
Simply reach out to Sam’s incredible team to see if his Art Keynotes are the right fit for your big meeting.
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Sam's Team Makes Your Job Easier
From your first inquiry to post-event follow-up, Sam's team is known for being highly responsive, easy to coordinate with, and genuinely enjoyable to work with. You will not be chasing anyone down. This is consistently the first thing planners mention when they call to rebook.
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Built Around Your Event, Not a Generic Template
Sam works with you before the event to understand your conference theme, your audience, and what you need people to walk away knowing and feeling. The keynote is customized around your group, including the painting itself, which reflects your theme.
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Proven Results Across Every Industry for 30 Years
Healthcare, banking, real estate, education, government, HR, credit unions, associations, first responders. Sam has delivered for all of them. He adapts well and the results are consistent: top survey scores, standing ovations, and organizations calling back to rebook.
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The Takeaway No Other Speaker Provides
Every attendee takes home a miniature print of Sam's original painting. It is not swag. It is a retention tool. In five years, when your event is well over, that print is still on their desk keeping the message alive. No other speaker in the industry offers this.
READY TO BOOK?
Let's Talk
About Your Next Event
Check Sam's availability for your conference date or reach out with any questions. His team responds quickly, is easy to work with, and will help you figure out if Sam is the right fit without any pressure. Most planners know within the first five minutes of the call.