Energy and utilities keynote speaker
The grid is getting smarter. Public trust still runs through your people.
Real rooms. Real people. Real change.
Everyone now has the same AI, the same data and the same tools.
The only difference left is your people.
Smart meters, grid automation and renewables are changing how power is made and delivered, while rate cases, wildfire risk and outages put every utility under a microscope.
Customers, regulators and communities judge you through the people they meet.
Decades of knowledge about substations, pipelines and plants walk out the door with every retirement party. The next generation has to learn fast and has to want to stay.
Most people never think about their utility until a storm, a bill shock or a planned outage. In that moment the lineworker, the call center agent and the spokesperson are the company.
New generation, new rate designs and new technology all need a town hall, a commission hearing and a skeptical neighbor won over. Data starts the conversation, but people decide whether it’s believed.
Energy and infrastructure teams that trusted me, among others
Whether they work in a control room, a bucket truck or a boardroom, one of them is on their mind.
Will a machine do my job?
The better the machines get, the more your people will set you apart.
Why it lands with energy audiences: AI now forecasts load, flags failing equipment and routes crews after a storm. This shows your people why judgment in the field, calm under pressure and the human voice customers hear during an outage stay irreplaceable.
Why does someone else get chosen?
What your people know rarely gets them chosen. What others see in them does.
Why it lands with energy audiences: regulators, community leaders and customers decide in seconds whether a utility deserves the benefit of the doubt. This shows your leaders, field crews and customer teams how the five ABCDE dimensions shape that trust, from the hearing room to the customer’s front yard.
I partner with your organizers before the event to understand your people, from operations to customer care. Your storm stories, your customers and your transition goals become the keynote’s examples.
I can open your utility employee conference, close an energy association annual meeting or speak right after the safety moment at a safety and operations conference. The keynote flexes from 45 to 75 minutes and can be followed by an open Q&A with field and office leaders in the same room.
I know your meetings often start with a safety moment and your people value straight talk. The keynote stays practical, human and free of hype.
As the world’s first 3D immersive keynote, the session becomes the part of your employee conference or association meeting that people still mention at the next storm debrief.
Energy meetings bring together engineers, field crews, customer teams and executives who answer to regulators. The keynote is built to hold all of them.
No slides, no pre-recorded hologram beamed in from somewhere else.
I stay live in the room while your leaders, sponsors and theme step into the story.
How clients describe it, in their own words.
How clients make it their own.
I help energy teams become the people their communities choose to believe.
I’m Sylvie di Giusto. I spent nearly twenty years inside corporations, the last of them leading the management academy of Europe’s largest retail and tourism group, where I hired speakers myself and learned how much a single session can shape a culture. During those years I also trained teams at BASF in Germany. Today I’m a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker who has served audiences in more than 25 countries. Among others, Exelon or Getec trusted me with their people. Energy audiences carry real responsibility: keeping homes warm, hospitals running and communities safe. I build every keynote to honor that, and to help them be trusted for it.
In their words, not ours.
You were the best yesterday, I was lucky to be there and see you on stage!
In 27 years of planning conferences and hearing thousands of speakers, it’s truly rare to be enlightened and moved by one. I heard Sylvie di Giusto speak recently and she blew me away.
Having selected speakers for over 30 years, the challenge is to be relevant to your audience, be personable, easy to work with, flexible and genuine! Sylvie di Giusto is all of those! She’s among my top picks.
I am still at a loss of words for how incredible, warm, real, and engaging Sylvie is. She is truly one of, if not the best, speaker I have had the opportunity to hear and engage with.
What distinguishes Sylvie as a professional trainer is the care and attention she devotes to her diagnostic and customization process, which includes a detailed questionnaire to ensure the relevance of her material to the outcomes we desired. She truly delivered on what she promised.
KCI Technologies · 3D immersive keynote
My keynote The Power of Choice rests on my book The Image of Leadership. Its industrial edition, Builders, Movers, Makers, features a foreword by Jeannette Walker, CEO of MHEDA, and speaks to industries where physical work and public trust go hand in hand.
It shows leaders and field teams how appearance, behavior, communication, digital presence and environment decide whether customers, regulators and coworkers trust them. Some clients order a copy for each attendee to carry the message into the next storm season.
Models now forecast load, predict equipment failures and route crews before the storm has passed. Forever Human shows why the lineworker’s call in the field and the calm voice on the outage line remain human responsibilities.
Engineers, operators and customer teams learn where their experience counts most as the grid gets smarter and veterans retire. Many utilities give a copy to every leader at their meeting, so the ideas reach control rooms and field crews alike.
Sylvie di Giusto is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker trusted by energy companies such as Exelon or Getec, among others. She delivers Forever Human and The Power of Choice, both customized to utility audiences and available as the world’s first 3D immersive keynote.
Choose Forever Human when your people are absorbing grid automation, AI and new technology and need to see where they fit. Choose The Power of Choice when the focus is customer trust, community relations or leadership presence. Both work for mixed audiences of field crews, engineers and office teams.
Yes. The Power of Choice shows employees how customers judge a utility through every interaction, from the crew on site to the outage message on social media. Sylvie customizes the examples to your service territory so people recognize their own moments of truth.
Yes. Sylvie di Giusto’s Forever Human keynote focuses on what stays human as technology changes an industry. For energy audiences she connects it to the transition itself: new technology only succeeds when employees, customers and communities trust the people introducing it.
It can open the conversation. Forever Human gives experienced employees a reason to pass on what they know and gives younger employees a reason to see a long career in energy, while The Power of Choice helps supervisors become leaders people choose to stay with.
As soon as your date is confirmed. The 3D immersive keynote needs coordination with your venue and AV team, so earlier is better. Check availability to hold your date.
Yes. Both keynotes are available in person, hybrid or virtual, so crews and offices across your territory can join the same session. Each format is customized to your audience.
I also serve audiences in construction, government and manufacturing. See every audience I speak to.
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