THE KEYNOTE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING!
Simon Lüthi - aka the Rocket Shaman
Simon Lüthi spent 25 years in financial services leadership (JPMorgan Chase, American Express), rising from a call center agent to Chief Strategy OfficeR.
Then two simultaneous pressure cookers, first the relentless demands of Fortune 100 leadership, and secondly a high-stress marriage with no off switch, eventually broke his body. First, a mystery autoimmune condition. Then cancer.
Simon rebuilt from the ground up: training at the HeartMath Institute, studying with Q’ero shamans, earning certifications in energy medicine and nervous system science. He applied the same systems thinking that built billion-dollar businesses to the one system he’d neglected — himself.
What came out the other side: a bestselling book (“Becoming the Rocket Shaman”, which earned Best Personal Transformation Book 2025), a proprietary methodology (Transmutation Design™), and the only keynote on the speaking circuit that combines Fortune 100 C-Suite credibility, peer-reviewed neuroscience, a lived phoenix transformation, and real-time biomarker proof.
Most bureaus have executive speakers. They have wellness speakers. Simon sits at the intersection — with Wall Street credibility, a story audiences don’t forget, and the biomarker receipts to back it up.
Credentials list
• Former Chief Strategy Officer — JPMorgan Chase & American Express
• Scaled Chase Travel from $2B to $10B in sales
• Bestselling Author — Best Personal Transformation Book 2025
• HeartMath Certified Building Personal Resilience Coach
• Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner
• Trained with Q’ero shamans
• 100+ media appearances — CBS, FOX, KTLA, NBC
• Creator of Transmutation Design™
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“Story is the original medicine—and connection is the spark that heals.”
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Explore Simon's Signature Keynotes:
Each of these transformational talks aligns with his signature CHAT framework:
Connect. Heal. Align. Transmute.
From boardrooms to retreats, from summits to soul-stirring stages - Simon invites your audience into their next-level evolution.
Signature Talk
2026: The Year Humanity Upgrades Its Operating System
How to Stay Healthy, Sharp, and Sovereign in a Post-AI Epoch
Every event planner building their 2026 agenda is asking the same question: what does leadership look like when AI is smarter than your executives?
This keynote answers that — and proves it live on stage.
Simon makes the case that the leaders who fail in the AI era won’t fail because they lacked intelligence, strategy, or tools. They’ll fail because their nervous systems are stuck in chronic survival mode — making high-stakes decisions while their bodies fight invisible tigers.
Using a continuous glucose monitor demonstration, Simon shows audiences in real time what stress does to the body — glucose spiking from a phone call, not a plate of food — and what happens when a leader learns to regulate. The line flattens. Decision-making sharpens. Presence transforms.
Part science demonstration. Part phoenix story. Part executive wake-up call.
Your body can’t tell the difference between a tiger and a Tuesday. This keynote proves it.
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What Audiences Walk Away With:
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Understanding of the invisible stress cascade destroying executive performance
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The neuroscience of why AI-era leadership requires nervous system regulation
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Practical techniques to interrupt fight-or-flight before critical decisions
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A new framework for measuring leadership readiness through biomarkers
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Ideal For:
Corporate Keynotes • Leadership Summits • C-Suite Retreats • Future-of-Work Conferences • AI and Innovation Events.
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The Most Dangerous Leader in the Room
Why Dysregulation — Not Incompetence — Is the Hidden Risk No Board Is Measuring
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Think about the most impressive leader you’ve ever worked for. The one who hit the biggest numbers, made the fastest decisions, radiated pressure like a force of nature.
Now ask: how did it feel to be in the room with that person?
The most dangerous leader in any organization is not the least experienced or the least intelligent. It’s the most dysregulated! The one flooding every room with the biochemical equivalent of a five-alarm fire while believing they’re performing at their best.
Simon draws on his journey from the C-Suite to the cancer ward to the stage and makes the counterintuitive case that in a post-AI world, a leader’s competitive advantage is no longer their intelligence. It’s their nervous system.
Backed by real biomarker data and delivered with the authority of someone who has lived both sides of this equation.
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What Audiences Walk Away With:
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A new definition of leadership risk beyond strategy and competence
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Understanding of how dysregulated leaders create toxic environments invisibly
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The case for nervous system regulation as a measurable leadership competency
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Awareness that the AI era demands a fundamentally different kind of leader
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Ideal For:
TEDx Events • Board Retreats • Executive Development Programs • HR/People Leadership Conferences • Resilience Summits​
Transmutation Design™: From Burned-Out to Brilliant
The Science and Practice of Upgrading the Human Operating System
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Most high performers are trying to run better apps on a phone that’s overheating, out of storage, and running on 3% battery. No amount of productivity hacking, biohacking, or executive coaching will fix that. You don’t need a better app. You need a new operating system.
Simon introduces Transmutation Design™ — the three-phase methodology (Reveal, Recode, Regenerate) he developed after transforming from a burned-out Fortune 100 CSO to a regulated, high-performing leader with the biomarker receipts to prove it.
Audiences learn how to use HRV data to read their own nervous system like a dashboard, how continuous glucose monitoring reveals invisible stress, and how the Rewrite Your Story™ process breaks patterns that keep leaders stuck.
The talk for organizations ready to move from awareness to action.
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What Audiences Walk Away With:
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The three-phase Transmutation Design™ framework
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Practical nervous system regulation techniques for high-stakes moments
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How to measure leadership performance through biomarkers
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The Rewrite Your Story™ approach to breaking survival patterns
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Ideal For:
Executive Retreats • Leadership Development Programs • Corporate Wellness Initiatives • Change Management Events.