Sherry Keramidas
PHD
VA, USDr. Sherry Keramidas helps professionals lead forward when certainty is unavailable. Trained in neuroscience and with more than 30 years of executive leadership across biomedical research, health regulation, and global health policy, she brings uncommon depth to conversations about authority, uncertainty, and influence. Her keynotes combine neuroscience, leadership science, and lived executive experience to expand how leaders think — and how they show up — under pressure. Audiences leave with a framework they can apply Monday morning to build their capacity to lead and navigate uncertainty.
Your leaders are facing complexity their expertise didn't prepare them for. They're making decisions faster than they should. They're performing certainty they don't feel. And they're missing breakthrough opportunities because they think they already know what they're seeing.
Dr. Sherry Keramidas teaches them a better way.
Trained as a neuroscientist who became a CEO three times—each time deliberately outside her domain of expertise—Dr. Keramidas discovered that not-knowing isn't a leadership gap. It's a competitive advantage. When practiced strategically.
**What Your Audience Experiences:**
Dr. Keramidas doesn't deliver theory. She teaches a framework your leaders can use the day they return to work.
They'll discover why their expertise sometimes blinds them, how their brains actually grow (and how leadership works the same way), and the five specific practices that develop what she calls "leadership plasticity"—the capacity to expand and rewire how you lead when complexity demands it.
Your audience will learn:
→ When to pause and observe instead of deciding immediately
→ How to position "I don't know" as strategic strength, not weakness
→ Why collaborative problem-solving beats command-and-control in complexity
→ How to deliberately grow at the edge of their competence
→ The difference between practicing leadership and performing it
**Why Meeting Planners Choose Her:**
Dr. Keramidas combines neuroscience research with real executive experience and transforms both into stories your audience will remember. She's compelling without being academic. Challenging without being preachy. Practical without being simplistic.
She's delivered 350+ presentations globally and published in in leading professional journals. But what meeting planners value most is this: audiences leave energized, equipped, and ready to lead differently.
**Her Signature Keynote:** "Leadership Plasticity: Leading Through Strategic Not-Knowing"
Perfect for C-suite conferences, association meetings, healthcare leadership events, board retreats, and any gathering of leaders navigating unprecedented complexity.
Dr. Keramidas works collaboratively with meeting planners to customize content for your specific audience and conference theme. Whether you have 50 people or 1,000, she delivers frameworks they'll use and insights they'll remember.
**The Question She Leaves Your Audience With:**
"The most dangerous moment in leadership isn't when you don't know something. It's when you think you already know. What are you seeing through the lens of expertise—that you might be missing?"
Your leaders are facing complexity their expertise didn't prepare them for. They're making decisions faster than they should. They're performing certainty they don't feel. And they're missing breakthrough opportunities because they think they already know what they're seeing.
Dr. Sherry Keramidas teaches them a better way.
Trained as a neuroscientist who became a CEO three times—each time deliberately outside her domain of expertise—Dr. Keramidas discovered that not-knowing isn't a leadership gap. It's a competitive advantage. When practiced strategically.
**What Your Audience Experiences:**
Dr. Keramidas doesn't deliver theory. She teaches a framework your leaders can use the day they return to work.
They'll discover why their expertise sometimes blinds them, how their brains actually grow (and how leadership works the same way), and the five specific practices that develop what she calls "leadership plasticity"—the capacity to expand and rewire how you lead when complexity demands it.
Your audience will learn:
→ When to pause and observe instead of deciding immediately
→ How to position "I don't know" as strategic strength, not weakness
→ Why collaborative problem-solving beats command-and-control in complexity
→ How to deliberately grow at the edge of their competence
→ The difference between practicing leadership and performing it
**Why Meeting Planners Choose Her:**
Dr. Keramidas combines neuroscience research with real executive experience and transforms both into stories your audience will remember. She's compelling without being academic. Challenging without being preachy. Practical without being simplistic.
She's delivered 350+ presentations globally and published in in leading professional journals. But what meeting planners value most is this: audiences leave energized, equipped, and ready to lead differently.
**Her Signature Keynote:** "Leadership Plasticity: Leading Through Strategic Not-Knowing"
Perfect for C-suite conferences, association meetings, healthcare leadership events, board retreats, and any gathering of leaders navigating unprecedented complexity.
Dr. Keramidas works collaboratively with meeting planners to customize content for your specific audience and conference theme. Whether you have 50 people or 1,000, she delivers frameworks they'll use and insights they'll remember.
**The Question She Leaves Your Audience With:**
"The most dangerous moment in leadership isn't when you don't know something. It's when you think you already know. What are you seeing through the lens of expertise—that you might be missing?"
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