DeAnna Murphy

DeAnna Murphy

M.S., CPAC, SSCS

MN, US
Energizing. Inspiring. Educational. International award-winning speaker ignites the leader inside everyone, the daily Work Joy that is possible, and People Acuity's power to transform life & work.

DeAnna Murphy has a reputation for keeping you on the edge of your seat! She delivers highly interactive and enlightening sessions where the audience is on their feet, fully in, and contributing to the electrical transformation in the room. DeAnna has provided over 2,000 speeches and seminars to nearly 100,000 people over the past 25 years – including top-rated brands such as Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, Edward Jones, UnitedHealth, Barclay's Bank, Shell, FranklinCovey, Ford, and others. 


Recognized as a thought leader and Top 100 Global Coaching Leader by the World HRD Congress, she is the author of the popular book, Shift Up! Strengths Strategies for Optimal Living and the soon-to-be-released People Acuity: Revolutionizing Results and Relationships. She is the CEO of People Acuity, a fast-growing firm with over 500 consultants in 34 countries across the globe. She delivers over 45 cutting edge tools, models, assessments and programs to transform the disengagement drift and performance paralysis that is cascading across the world.


DeAnna is committed to empowering leaders to Shift Up their people – including their Work Joy (engagement), leadership, and individual and team performance – so they can Shift Up their bottom line. People who have experienced her describe her this way:


"DeAnna's session was the most transformative learning of my life! DeAnna's Shift Up framework help me reset my personal operating system, reframe my mindset to purpose and meaning, and recalibrate my highest aspirations and talents in the meaningful service of others. I highly recommend her!" (enthusiastic SHRM conference attendee).


"DeAnna is not some heard-it-a-million times, dime-a-dozen speaker. Rather, one experience with her and you are changed. There's no going back. She creates a relevant, timely, and transformative experience that unequivocally changes teams and leaders." (Norma Gilstrap, Retired HR EVP)


"DeAnna is the most talented facilitator of learning I have ever known! She has evolved to a thought leader of international stature." (Linda Shannon, former Director of Leadership Development)

DeAnna Murphy has a reputation for keeping you on the edge of your seat! She delivers highly interactive and enlightening sessions where the audience is on their feet, fully in, and contributing to the electrical transformation in the room. DeAnna has provided over 2,000 speeches and seminars to nearly 100,000 people over the past 25 years – including top-rated brands such as Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, Edward Jones, UnitedHealth, Barclay's Bank, Shell, FranklinCovey, Ford, and others. 


Recognized as a thought leader and Top 100 Global Coaching Leader by the World HRD Congress, she is the author of the popular book, Shift Up! Strengths Strategies for Optimal Living and the soon-to-be-released People Acuity: Revolutionizing Results and Relationships. She is the CEO of People Acuity, a fast-growing firm with over 500 consultants in 34 countries across the globe. She delivers over 45 cutting edge tools, models, assessments and programs to transform the disengagement drift and performance paralysis that is cascading across the world.


DeAnna is committed to empowering leaders to Shift Up their people – including their Work Joy (engagement), leadership, and individual and team performance – so they can Shift Up their bottom line. People who have experienced her describe her this way:


"DeAnna's session was the most transformative learning of my life! DeAnna's Shift Up framework help me reset my personal operating system, reframe my mindset to purpose and meaning, and recalibrate my highest aspirations and talents in the meaningful service of others. I highly recommend her!" (enthusiastic SHRM conference attendee).


"DeAnna is not some heard-it-a-million times, dime-a-dozen speaker. Rather, one experience with her and you are changed. There's no going back. She creates a relevant, timely, and transformative experience that unequivocally changes teams and leaders." (Norma Gilstrap, Retired HR EVP)


"DeAnna is the most talented facilitator of learning I have ever known! She has evolved to a thought leader of international stature." (Linda Shannon, former Director of Leadership Development)

People Acuity: One Skill That Impacts Everything

If you are dealing with people who make you crazy and it makes life unbearable, it is high time for you to discover the one thing that changes everything: People Acuity. "Acuity" means to see clearly - and there's nothing more important to see clearly than people. How you see people informs how you feel, what you do, and the results you get. When you change your way of seeing, especially your ability to see and optimize people, you change your way of being. This includes being a positive...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Igniting Work Joy!

Admit it - we've been trying to win the employee engagement war for decades and we are failing - miserably.  We are at a 17-year low and the scores have flat-lined for over a decade.  Apparently, what we are doing is not working! 

When you realize that disengagement cascades from leaders to managers, from managers to employees, and from employees to their families - we have a bigger problem on our hands as young people today have strong indicators of life...

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

The Most Wanted Leader – The Confidently Vulnerable One

There is no leadership without vulnerability - but no one wants to be vulnerable!  That is, unless you can add confidence to it.  Learn how Confident Vulnerability can set your leadership apart - and create a lasting legacy.

This session will teach one of the most important personal and interpersonal leadership skills you will ever learn: the ability to hold both your strengths and your weaknesses as valuable and integral to your ability to learn and grow, create authentic...

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing