Speaker Spotlight
Every Other Productivity Keynote Tells a Room How to Do More. Hers Is About Deciding What to Stop.
Ginny Priem — Creator of the UNSUBSCRIBE™ Filter · #1 Bestselling Author · Master Certified Coach · 20+ Years in Corporate Leadership · Minneapolis
The standard productivity session hands a room a better system for absorbing more input. Ginny Priem’s starts from the opposite premise, which is that most people are not underperforming, they are overloaded, and another system is more input.
Her framework has four moves and none of them involve adding anything: BLOCK, MUTE, SWAP, MANAGE. The UNSUBSCRIBE™ Filter is a decision tool for what to keep and what to let go of, and audiences leave with it rather than with a general intention to be more focused.
She spent more than 20 years in corporate leadership before this, running teams and carrying revenue under the same conditions her audiences work in, which is why the material does not read as advice from outside the problem.
Why the Framing Works on Overloaded Teams
Decision fatigue is the mechanism she is actually addressing. When every hour brings more inputs than a person can meaningfully weigh, the default is autopilot: reacting to whatever is loudest, staying busy, and slowly disengaging from the work that mattered.
Naming what to stop is a much easier ask than naming what to prioritize, because subtraction is concrete and prioritization is abstract. That is the practical reason a room can act on this the same afternoon.
For an organization, she connects the individual filter to the outcomes leadership actually tracks: less burnout, better retention, and productivity that holds up over a year rather than a quarter. It works as an executive session, an HR conference keynote or an all-staff opener, and she adapts it to the organization’s own pressures.
The Line Planners Should Read Twice
Most testimonials describe the stage. The one from Compeer Financial describes the process of working with her, and it is the more useful document.
She spoke to more than 250 attendees, in person and virtually, and their organizer noted that she was prompt, organized and self-sufficient enough to need minimal direction while still aligning with their goals and audience. The word planners care about there is self-sufficient. A speaker who runs smoothly from first email through onsite delivery is a different proposition from one who is excellent onstage and demanding everywhere else.
The same reference confirms she delivers in both formats, which is worth knowing for a hybrid agenda. WINC described her as authentic and approachable and a joy to collaborate with. FEW singled out the interactivity and said their group left with tools they could actually use, and added that she treats a client as if they are the only one she is working with.
The Second Audience Most Planners Do Not Know About
Alongside the leadership work, Ginny’s content on high-conflict and toxic relationships has passed 3.2 million views on YouTube. That is a large audience built on a genuinely hard subject, and it makes her a credible voice on difficult workplace dynamics as well as personal ones.
It is not the keynote she leads with, but it is relevant context if you are programming for a group dealing with a difficult team dynamic, or looking for a women’s event speaker who can go past the surface of the topic.
How to Program Her
UNSUBSCRIBE™: Why Letting Go is the Secret to Getting Ahead is the signature keynote and the core of her work. It fits corporate meetings, leadership teams, association conferences and HR and people-focused events, and she tailors it to the organization’s culture and pressures rather than delivering it fixed.
She also works as an opening or closing speaker, and her range covers leadership, women in leadership, resilience, high-performing teams and sales audiences. Full details are on her speaker profile.
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Available for keynotes on focus, decision overload, sustainable productivity, leadership and resilience, in person and virtually.