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Sandy Gerber
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Sandy Gerber helps leaders and teams communicate with more clarity, confidence, and psychological safety. An emotional intelligence and communication trainer, TEDx speaker, and author of 24x award-winning Emotional Magnetism, she was named 16th on the 2026 Global Gurus Top 30 Communication Professionals list.
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Sandy Gerber is a certified communication and emotional intelligence trainer who helps leaders and teams build trust, resolve conflict, and communicate with more clarity, confidence, and connection.
She is the author of the award-winning book Emotional Magnetism and the newly released Connected Conversations. A TEDx speaker, Sandy hosts the podcast Magnetic Communication, winner of the 2026 Best Mindset and Mental Health Podcast award, was named 16th on the Global Gurus World's Top 30 Communication Professionals list in 2026.
A former executive across finance, technology, and construction, Sandy built and scaled three companies, including growing a marketing agency from a home-based startup into one of British Columbia's Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies. That experience shaped her Connected Conversations framework, which gives leaders practical tools to build psychological safety and communicate under pressure without losing trust.
Audiences leave her sessions with simple tools to manage emotional triggers, communicate with more clarity under pressure, and build stronger, more trusting relationships at work. Sandy's practical frameworks, including the EQ Switch and Connection Cues, give leaders techniques they can use immediately, in high-stakes conversations and everyday ones alike.
Book Sandy to give your team communication tools that build psychological safety, resolve conflicts, and deliver the measurable results your organization needs to thrive.
Topics, sessions and talks
Sandy Gerber's most requested keynote explores the conversation people have with themselves before they ever speak to anyone else. Using her Connected Conversations Advantage framework, she gives leaders simple emotional intelligence tools to feel heard, valued, and truly connected, at work, at home, and within themselves. Built around story, live audience improv, and movement rather than lecture, the session leaves attendees with practical strategies, sharper self-awareness of their own communication patterns, and renewed motivation to communicate to connect.
Tense moments often trigger an emotional hijack before the rational brain can catch up, and Sandy Gerber shows exactly what is happening in that split second. Using a simple three-step technique, she teaches leaders how to pause the reaction, regain composure, and choose a clearer response instead of an impulsive one. Grounded in the science of emotional triggers, the session leaves leaders with sharper thinking under pressure and communication that stays intentional even when the stakes are high.
Trust is often decided before a single word is spoken, through posture, expression, and tone. Sandy Gerber walks teams through the non-verbal signals that instantly build or block connection, using quick, hands-on demonstrations rather than theory. Participants see for themselves how small shifts in body language can signal warmth, confidence, and openness. The result is a team that makes stronger first impressions and builds authentic connection and influence in every interaction, without needing to say more.
Tough conversations often go one of two ways: too harsh or too vague to matter. Sandy Gerber offers a simple three-step model for delivering honest feedback that builds trust instead of tension, illustrated through relatable stories from her own experience. The approach shows teams how to be direct without being unkind, and kind without losing the point. Conversations that once felt risky become opportunities to resolve tension, build respect, and strengthen working relationships.
Most people listen to respond rather than to understand, and that one habit is often what keeps a heated discussion heated. Sandy Gerber reveals the step most listeners skip and teaches a practical framework for making people feel truly seen, valued, and understood, even in difficult conversations. Through relatable examples, she shows how small changes in how leaders listen can defuse tension before it escalates. Teams leave with a repeatable way to reduce conflict, build collaboration, and keep people engaged.
Sandy Gerber's Connected Conversations framework gives leaders the emotional intelligence tools to build trust, resolve conflict, and communicate under pressure. For organizations navigating disengagement or difficult conversations, her practical approach turns communication gaps into real, measurable progress.
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Email sandy.gerber@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Sandy's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Sandy Gerber structures sessions around her Connected Conversations Advantage framework, delivering content through story, live audience improvisation, and movement rather than lecture, with named tools such as the EQ Switch and Connection Cues that participants can apply immediately.
Sandy Gerber structures sessions around her Connected Conversations Advantage framework, delivering content through story, live audience improvisation, and movement rather than lecture, with named tools such as the EQ Switch and Connection Cues that participants can apply immediately.
Sandy Gerber structures sessions around her Connected Conversations Advantage framework, delivering content through story, live audience improvisation, and movement rather than lecture, with named tools such as the EQ Switch and Connection Cues that participants can apply immediately.
Sandy Gerber's sessions cover emotionally intelligent communication, managing emotional triggers under pressure, and non-verbal connection cues. She was ranked 16th on the Global Gurus World's Top 30 Communication Professionals list in 2026 and is the author of Emotional Magnetism.
Sandy Gerber's sessions cover emotionally intelligent communication, managing emotional triggers under pressure, and non-verbal connection cues. She was ranked 16th on the Global Gurus World's Top 30 Communication Professionals list in 2026 and is the author of Emotional Magnetism.
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