Speaking | Lilah Jones, The Activated Leader
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Keynotes & Workshops

The Activated Leader™

Helping high performers make the leap from doing the work to leading the people, and helping teams move through change instead of stalling in it. Time to get activated.

Raised in her family’s body shop in Milwaukee. Built Google Cloud’s sales team from day one.

What Lilah does

Two programs. One promise: your people leave ready to move.

Program 01 · Most requested

From Operator to Leader

Your best engineer, nurse, advisor or seller just got promoted. Ten years of being great at the work did not prepare them to lead the people doing it. Lilah gives emerging leaders the mindset and the moves to make that shift.

Who it’s for

Mid-career pros stepping into their first people-leader role. Emerging leader programs and rising-star cohorts in manufacturing, HVAC and distribution, healthcare, financial services and tech.

What they walk away with

  • How to stop being the best “doer” and start multiplying their team
  • Feedback and hard conversations with people who used to be their peers
  • A 90-day plan to lead with confidence, not just competence

Keynote · Workshop · Emerging leader cohort coaching

Program 02

Leading Teams Through Change

New technology. New strategy. New leadership. Change is coming either way. Lilah helps teams treat it as something to embrace, not fear, and gives them a clear path to act while competitors stall.

Who it’s for

Leadership teams and conference audiences in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and tech facing reorgs, AI and automation, market shifts or a big number to hit.

What they walk away with

  • The Activated Leader framework for moving from stuck to action
  • A way to manage the messy middle without losing momentum
  • Energy that lifts the room, even at the end of a data-heavy day

Keynote · Leadership offsite · Virtual

The Activated Leader Framework

Four steps from stuck to activated.

  1. 01

    Find the Root Problem

    Name what’s really in the way, not the symptom everyone’s been circling.

  2. 02

    Take Resonant Action

    Choose the next move that fits who you are and where you’re going.

  3. 03

    Manage the Messy Middle

    Keep going when it gets uncomfortable, which is exactly where most people stop.

  4. 04

    Prepare for Acceleration

    Get ready for what success brings, so momentum builds instead of breaking.

PHOTO: Lilah on stage, or a family body shop photo
Milwaukee made

Why Lilah gets your people

From the body shop to Google Cloud.

Lilah grew up in her family’s body shop in Milwaukee. As a young estimator, customers in the worst week of their lives asked if she should get a man to help. Minutes later, they were calling her the expert. That’s where she learned to serve people through really hard moments.

She took that grit into 20 years of revenue leadership at Microsoft, Oracle, Dell EMC and Google, where she helped build Google Cloud from the founding sales team and her team hit a $500M number. Along the way she made the same leap your emerging leaders are making: from doing the work to leading the people who do it.

Today she teaches at Northwestern Kellogg and Suffolk University and is an ICF-certified coach. She’s at home in a room full of engineers and operators, because that’s where she started.

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average rating from her audiences

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of HVAC audience members rated it valuable

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years leading revenue teams in Fortune 100 tech

$500M

number her Google Cloud team carried, and hit

What event leaders say

Not cookie-cutter. Not forgettable.

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“[Quote from a Women in HVAC or emerging leaders attendee about what changed for them.]”
[Name][Title], HVAC industry
“Lilah closed our summit with a BANG, and gave attendees tools they could actually act on.”
Jen AlvarezDirector of Social Events
“Your session sparked a fire in me to create what I have called the Journey Forward series.”
Yvonne MatthewsManager
“Custom, collaborative and not cookie-cutter. A 10 out of 10 recommendation.”
Leah RobinsonDirector of Tax Policy and Legislative Affairs

See Lilah in Action

Movie clips. Music. Real participation.

The energy shift your agenda needs, especially at the end of a long, data-heavy day.

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Closing Keynote, MPI World Education Congress 2026
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Being Stuck

Easy to work with, by design

Meet the team behind your event.

When you book Lilah, you get a team that handles the details, from first call to final bow.

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Lilah Jones

Founder and Keynote Speaker

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Client Experience and Event Logistics

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Content and Operations

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Eagles Talent

Booking Partner, Speakers Bureau

Beyond the Stage

Make the keynote the start, not the end.

Emerging Leader Cohorts

Group coaching that turns the keynote into real behavior change for new people leaders over eight weeks.

Workshops & Offsites

Hands-on sessions that take a leadership team from decision paralysis to a sequenced action plan.

Book Bundles

Activation Required, Lilah’s upcoming book. Pair your keynote with copies for every attendee. Coming soon.

Fractional CRO & Consulting

Need senior revenue leadership after the event? Lilah steps in, leads and builds your team.

Explore consulting

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Ready to activate your people?

Tell us about your event. Here’s what happens next:

  1. 1We confirm availability within [X] business days
  2. 2Lilah meets with your team to align on audience, goals and where she fits in your agenda
  3. 3She talks with a few of your attendees, so the stories and tools land with your people

Working with a bureau? Lilah is represented by Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau.