IMPACT REBEL
Ignite Your Cause.
Spark Bold Collaboration.
Change What Matters.
IMPACT REBEL
Ignite Your Cause.
Spark Bold Collaboration.
Change What Matters.
The Impact Rebel Method.
Most employee engagement and leadership frameworks focus on process, metrics, and structure. But they are leaving out a powerful driver for employee performance, innovation, and personal ownership. When was the last time you asked yourself: "what do my actually people care about?"
Enter Courtney's Impact Rebel method - Passion. People. Power.
Courtney's most requested speaking programs
Keynote - Impact Rebel: Ignite Your Cause. Change What Matters. Drive Innovation.
Engaging, inspiring and immediately actionable, Courtney’s keynote sends your audience out the door with:
- Their Trash Elephant, Named — the one passion-driven idea sitting at the intersection of who they are and what your organization needs.
- Permission to Stop Waiting — the mindset shift that unlocks personal ownership instead of waiting for someone else to greenlight it.
- A New Definition of Leadership — shared leadership isn't about flattening hierarchy. It's about widening the lane for people to own their corner of it.
- A Monday Morning Move — one concrete, immediately actionable step that turns passion into innovation inside your organization.
Best for corporate, association, women in leadership, and employee engagement type audiences.
Workshop - Ignite Sustainability & CSR
Your sustainability strategy doesn't fail because the plan is wrong; it fails when your people are never invited to own it. This workshop pairs The Impact Rebel Method with your existing sustainability strategy, so your team walks away with:
- Their Passion, Connected to Your Strategy — sustainability goals that feel like their cause, not a mandate.
- A Clear Line Between Method and Strategy — how Passion, People, Power puts action behind People, Planet, Profit.
- Where Innovation Is Being Missed — the collaboration gaps quietly stalling your sustainability progress.
- A Personal Plan to Drive It Forward — through innovation and collaboration, not just compliance.
Available for half or full day session. Pairs well with the Impact Rebel keynote or can stand on its own.
Why book Courtney.
This is a keynote about passion as a strategy. It's the thing that drives innovation and gives your people permission to take personal ownership of their work. Courtney draws proof points from her own path through sustainability leadership, corporate culture change, and shared-leadership models but the throughline stays the same: unowned passion is your biggest untapped resource, and igniting it is what unlocks innovation.
I'm Courtney Lohmann...
...an Impact Rebel with a cause and 11 years of proof that passion is a business strategy, not a soft concept.
It started with a dumpster.
Early in my career planning festivals, I stood next to a 40-yard dumpster overflowing with waste — 12,000 pounds of it! And I was devastated. But I wasn't hired to fix it. That wasn't "my job." So, I did what most of us do in these situations, I tucked it away and got back to work.
That moment sat with me for nine years before I finally acted on it. And when I did, it didn't just change how I worked, it changed how viewed personal ownership and it became the strategy I now teach.
Since then, I've built sustainability programs that transformed how companies operate, led an organization's first-ever initiative to fight child sex trafficking within the events industry, and turned a personal "someone should really fix this" moment into a career and leadership path built entirely on the belief that your people's passions are your most underused resource.
I'm not a C-suite executive. I never had a corner office or a big title. I'm someone who took her passion, built a strategy around it, and now teaches individuals at every level how to do the same.
This isn't a framework I read about. It's the one I lived, tested, and rebuilt three separate times inside real organizations before I ever put it in a keynote.
The adventurous, rebellious spirit in me found its cause. Now it's time to find yours.
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