BUILD THE CAPACITY FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST
Shanon Tysland helps leaders, teams, and organizations rethink the way they pursue performance, health, and success. Drawing from more than two decades as a physical therapist, entrepreneur, and founder of Experience Momentum, his keynotes and workshops combine personal stories, practical science, and the framework from Unbound Momentum to help people create more capacity for the work—and life—that matters most.
THREE WAYS TO WORK WITH SHANON
Every engagement can be tailored to the audience, organization, and goals of the event.
Keynotes can also be paired with smaller workshops or leadership intensives to extend the learning beyond the stage.
KEYNOTE
45–60 min
Story-driven, thought-provoking, and practical. Designed for conferences, company-wide gatherings, annual meetings, and leadership events.
Best when the goal is: Inspiration + a memorable framework + an immediate next step.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
90 min
A participatory experience that moves beyond listening into reflection, conversation, and application.
Best when the goal is: Insight + discussion + tools participants can immediately use.
HALF-DAY INTENSIVE
~3 hours
A deeper facilitated experience for leadership teams, retreats, and organizations ready to turn insight into meaningful change.
Best when the goal is: Assessment + conversation + application + a concrete plan forward.
What would 10 percent more capacity look like in your life?
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
1) Unbound Momentum: Create Energy for What Matters Most
2) The High Achiever’s Trap: When the Strengths That Made You Successful Start Working Against You
2) The High Achiever’s Trap: When the Strengths That Made You Successful Start Working Against You
We can spend our lives moving without ever stopping to ask whether we’re moving in the right direction.
Drawing from Unbound Momentum, this keynote challenges audiences to rethink momentum—not as doing more or moving faster, but as creating the clarity and capacity to invest our energy in what matters most.
Through personal stories, practical insights, and the MOMENTUM framework, participants learn how to recognize drift, reconnect with what matters, and make meaningful changes that actually hold.
Ideal audiences:
Company-wide events, association conferences, healthcare organizations, leadership conferences, employee wellbeing programs.
Key takeaways:
- A new way to think about energy, direction, and sustainable performance
- A framework for recognizing where we have drifted
- Tools for reconnecting priorities with daily behavior
- One meaningful next step participants can act on immediately
2) The High Achiever’s Trap: When the Strengths That Made You Successful Start Working Against You
2) The High Achiever’s Trap: When the Strengths That Made You Successful Start Working Against You
2) The High Achiever’s Trap: When the Strengths That Made You Successful Start Working Against You
Drive. Responsibility. Independence. High standards. The ability to push through.
Those qualities can help us accomplish extraordinary things. But left unexamined, the same patterns can eventually cost us health, relationships, joy, and the ability to experience the life we’ve worked so hard to build.
This keynote explores the hidden patterns beneath achievement and asks:
Is the operating system that got you here still the one you need for what comes next?
Ideal audiences:
CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, executives, physicians, professional-services firms, executive peer groups, and leadership retreats.
Key takeaways:
- Greater awareness of the patterns beneath achievement
- A way to recognize when a strength begins developing a shadow side
- Permission to redefine success without abandoning ambition
- A framework for recalibrating for the next season of life and leadership
3) Your Next 20 Years: Build the Capacity to Keep Doing What You Love
2) The High Achiever’s Trap: When the Strengths That Made You Successful Start Working Against You
3) Your Next 20 Years: Build the Capacity to Keep Doing What You Love
Instead of beginning with disease, weight, or longevity statistics, this keynote begins with a more personal question:
Ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, what do you still want to be able to do?
Hike with your family. Ski. Travel. Get off the floor. Ride a bike. Carry your grandchildren. Live independently. Keep saying yes to adventure.
This talk helps audiences understand healthspan as the capacity to continue participating fully in their lives and explores the key areas that help create that reserve: strength, aerobic capacity, mobility and balance, nourishment and recovery, and connection and nervous-system health.
Ideal audiences:
Health and wellness conferences, employee wellbeing events, healthcare organizations, active-aging audiences, and executive wellness programs.
Key takeaways:
- A more useful definition of healthspan
- An understanding of physical reserve and why it matters
- Key areas of capacity worth paying attention to
- A more personal reason for investing in health today
- One area participants want to strengthen next
I want to take care of my health today so that years from now I can still…
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS AND INTENSIVES
1) The Momentum Reset: Turn Insight Into Action
2) Energy Is the Real Budget: How to Build, Protect, and Invest Your Capacity
2) Energy Is the Real Budget: How to Build, Protect, and Invest Your Capacity
We often know what matters. The harder part is creating a life that reflects it.
This workshop guides participants through a practical process to identify what matters now, notice where they’ve drifted, understand what is consuming or restoring their capacity, and choose a meaningful next move.
Participants work through:
- Map — What matters now?
- Own — Where am I out of alignment?
- Energy — What is withdrawing from and depositing into my capacity?
- Move — What is my next meaningful action?
- Calendar — Where will it actually live?
- Return — How will I notice drift and recalibrate?
Participants would leave with a simple Personal Momentum Map and a specific commitment to act on.
2) Energy Is the Real Budget: How to Build, Protect, and Invest Your Capacity
2) Energy Is the Real Budget: How to Build, Protect, and Invest Your Capacity
2) Energy Is the Real Budget: How to Build, Protect, and Invest Your Capacity
Most organizations spend enormous energy trying to optimize time. But two people with the same eight hours do not necessarily have the same capacity to use them.
This workshop helps individuals and teams examine the physical, mental, and organizational factors that deposit into or withdraw from human capacity.
Participants explore:
- Their biggest energy withdrawals
- Their most important recovery deposits
- Stress versus recovery
- Individual responsibility versus organizational responsibility
- How leaders affect team energy
- One unnecessary source of depletion they can change
Participants leave with a practical Capacity Plan for themselves and/or their team.
3) Redefining Success: An Executive Leadership Intensive
2) Energy Is the Real Budget: How to Build, Protect, and Invest Your Capacity
3) Redefining Success: An Executive Leadership Intensive
Designed for founders, executives, and leadership teams, this facilitated intensive examines the patterns that drive achievement, the cost of carrying them too far, and what success needs to look like in the next season.
Participants explore questions such as:
- What made me successful?
- Where has that strength developed a shadow side?
- What am I carrying that I no longer need to carry?
- What am I still trying to prove?
- What matters in this season?
- How do I want to lead?
- How do I want to live?
Participants leave with a Next-Season Leadership Plan.
FIELD GUIDE / WORKSHOP TOOLS
From Inspiration to Application
Shanon’s workshops are designed to continue beyond the presentation itself. Depending on the program, participants work with practical tools adapted from Unbound Momentum and Your Healthspan Field Guide to assess where they are, clarify what matters, identify where they need more reserve, and choose what comes next.
The field guide could especially support Your Next 20 Years, while we could create a separate Momentum Workshop Guide for The Momentum Reset and leadership sessions.
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