Speaking
Your audience will not just hear about collaboration. They will experience it.
20 minutes in
Your audience is already solving real challenges together.
The wave starts in the room and goes beyond — your people take the lead; they solve problems together.
We’ve done this in conferences, off-sites, and rooms full of people who just met. That is how you make waves that last.
“Thank you for kicking off the TSHRM year with a bang!!
Your presentation was not only engaging and entertaining but so relevant and timely.”— Amanda Larkin, SHRM-CP, Marketing Director, TSHRM
Signature Keynotes featuring Noa Ronen, Founder & CEO
Experience the Power of Peers
Beyond the Answer
How Better Questions Expand Perspective and Create Better Outcomes
We live in a world that rewards quick answers. AI can generate solutions in seconds, yet the most important challenges people and organizations face rarely have simple answers.
This keynote explores how the quality of our questions shapes the quality of our thinking, relationships, and decisions. Instead of rushing to solve problems, participants discover how better questions uncover blind spots, challenge assumptions, expand perspectives, and unlock the collective intelligence already around them.
Through the ASK Framework, Noa demonstrates how asking better questions transforms conversations into opportunities for deeper understanding, stronger relationships, better decisions, and meaningful action.
Whether you're leading a team, growing a business, serving clients, teaching others, or building a community, this keynote will change the way you approach conversations and show why the path to better answers always begins with better questions.
What Your Audiences Gain
A new way of thinking about questions as a catalyst for better thinking, stronger relationships, and better outcomes.
An introduction to the ASK Framework and practical techniques for uncovering blind spots, challenging assumptions, and expanding perspectives.
Simple questioning practices that strengthen trust, encourage independent thinking, and improve decision-making.
Practical tools to immediately improve conversations with teams, clients, colleagues, students, and communities.
Formats: 45–60-minute keynote | 60–90-minute interactive keynote
Ideal for: Leadership conferences • Company events • Executive retreats • Founder and entrepreneurial communities • Sales and customer experience events • Leadership development programs • Mentor-mentee programs • Associations and community organizations
The Peer Mindset
How Peering With Others Changes People, Systems, and Communities
In today's fast-changing world, organizations need more than capable leaders. They need people who can think together, learn from one another, and solve challenges while doing the work.
This keynote introduces The Peer Mindset, a new way of thinking about leadership at every level. It shifts the focus from relying on individual expertise alone to unlocking the collective intelligence already within an organization.
Drawing on neuroscience, organizational research, and real-world stories, Noa explores why peer relationships are one of the most overlooked drivers of organizational performance. In a world where AI can generate answers in seconds, organizations don't gain an advantage from having more information. They gain an advantage from helping people uncover blind spots, challenge assumptions, and expand perspectives together. Through the PEER Framework, participants discover how simple shifts in the way people engage with peers strengthen trust, decision-making, accountability, collaboration, and execution.
Whether you're leading a team, growing an organization, or building a community, this keynote will challenge the way you think about leadership and relationships, revealing why organizations with strong peer cultures adapt, learn, and execute faster.
What Your Audiences Gain
Why organizations with strong peer relationships recognize them as a competitive advantage for adapting, learning, and executing faster.
The neuroscience and research behind why peer relationships shape trust, learning, performance, and innovation.
A firsthand introduction to the PEER Framework and how simple peer structures uncover blind spots, transform conversations, and strengthen ownership and follow-through.
Practical ideas leaders can immediately apply with their teams, clients, and communities.
Formats: 45-60 minute keynote | 60-90 minute interactive keynote
Ideal For: Leadership conferences • Company events • Executive retreats • Leadership development programs • Associations • Founder communities
Testimonials
“This morning, I joined an incredible conversation with someone I deeply admire, Noa Ronen, MCC.
The topic: how coming together gets you farther, solo.
That paradox stayed with me. Some work only gets done when you go quiet and do it alone. But even the solo work gets lighter when someone hears you're "building" something and hands you a "brick".
I've felt both sides at Carolina Climate. The heads-down stretches and the moments people show up to elevate each other. The trick is knowing which one the moment is asking for.” Start-Up Women Community Member
“Noa Ronen, MCC had some great key takeaways that I think are helpful no matter if you're a solo business owner or an exec in corporate wanting to be a more effective leader:
Lean on community support: Balance solo work with connection and intentional relationships. Don't try to do everything alone—leverage your community to think through challenges and find the right balance between independent work and collaborative support.
Be intentional about connection: While some of us naturally gravitate toward connection, the key is being intentional about it. Don't assume it happens automatically (even if you're an outgoing extrovert like me!) Everyone should actively seek out environments and relationships where you can connect with others.
Peer accountability works: When you're accountable to people you care about, you're 95% more likely to follow through on your goals. The magic happens when you pair psychological safety , candor, and consistency with your accountability.
“A special thank you to featured speaker Noa Ronen, MCC, Founder & CEO of ADVAgo, for an engaging and interactive presentation, “Ask Better Questions to Successfully Network, Grow Your Business, and Lead.”
The session was packed with practical insights that challenged us to think differently about conversations, relationships, and leadership.”Helen Zhang, RDU SMB
“I walk into a lot of rooms. Some weeks more than I should. Noa Ronen, MCC spoke at RDU SMB Meetup
last night about what it actually takes to connect with another person in her talk “Beyond Answers.” Her point was simple. Connection is not a byproduct of standing in the same room. It takes attention, and most of us are not giving it.” Participant, RDU-SMB Business Group
“Thank you to our incredible speaker, Noa Ronen, MCC, for leading such an engaging conversation about what it truly means to make genuine human connections. In a world full of networking, you reminded us that real relationships always come first.” Helen Zhang, founder-Leader RDU-SMB
ADVAgo Facilitation
Where People Think, Learn, and Solve Together.
Our ADVAgo facilitators create the structure and space for people to think together, surface what matters, and move toward decisions and action to take you beyond.
Whatever the topic or format, we adapt the experience to your culture, your people, and what you need from the room.
The most valuable leadership skills aren't learned in a classroom. They're developed through real conversations, shared experiences, and new perspectives.
Whether you're leading a team, growing a business, or building a community, these interactive sessions help people build the skills to see beyond their own perspective and create better outcomes together.
Beyond Your Strengths
Leverage Your Strengths to Build Strong Leaders and Teams
Ideal for:
Leadership teams, emerging leaders, cross-functional teams, executive retreats, and leadership development programs to create a shared language and understanding.
Formats:
45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop
Why It Matters
Our strengths shape how we lead, communicate, and solve problems. They also shape what we overlook.
Using assessments such as Lumina Spark or CliftonStrengths, this interactive workshop helps participants discover how their greatest strengths influence how they think, make decisions, and interact with others. More importantly, it reveals the blind spots that every strength creates when we overuse it in times of change and when we feel overstretched as individuals and teams.
Rather than focusing only on individual strengths, participants learn to better understand, recognize, appreciate, and leverage each other's strengths - the by-product is improved collaboration, innovation, trust, and team performance.
What Your Audiences Gain
A deeper understanding of how strengths influence the perspective, communication, and decision-making of individuals and teams in times of momentum and times of stress.
Greater awareness of the blind spots every strength creates when we overuse or underuse them as individuals and teams.
Practical strategies for working across differences to strengthen collaboration, innovation, and trust.
Tools to leverage diverse strengths for better team and organizational performance.
Through Peering, they also practice looking beyond their own perspective and using the strengths around them as a resource, rather than relying only on what comes most naturally to them.
From Correction to Connection
Using Feedback to Create Ownership Through Peering
Ideal for:
People Leaders, leadership teams, executive teams, board members, leadership cohorts, cross-functional teams, HR leaders, and teams looking to strengthen feedback and learning culture, accountability, mentorship, and communication.
Formats:
45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop
Why It Matters
How many of your leaders avoid giving feedback?
Feedback can easily become correction: here is what I saw, here is what went wrong, and here is what I think you should do differently. Even when the intention is good, we can unintentionally make the conversation about our answer instead of the other person's thinking.
From Correction to Connection introduces a Peering approach to feedback. Participants learn how to be clear about what they observed and its impact, then shift from telling to asking so the other person can reflect, explore, and take ownership of what comes next.
Most experiences focus on theory, case studies, or role-play. By using COIN to structure the feedback and ADVAgo’s ASK Framework, participants experience moving from telling to asking and empowering.
Rather than treating feedback as something one person gives and another receives, participants experience how feedback can become a conversation that strengthens ownership, accountability, and connection.
What Your Audiences Gain
Clear, specific, collaborative feedback system your audience uses right away.
How the peer mindset can help us recognize when feedback shifts from collaboration to telling someone what to do next.
Use the COIN framework to clearly communicate context, observations, impact, and next steps.
Use the ASK model to move from telling to curiosity and create space for the other person's thinking.
Peers equip each other with actionable next steps to better prepare for feedback conversations they can use today.
START THE RIPPLE - LET’S TALK
The HeART of Conflict
Partner to See Beyond the Conflict
Ideal for:
People Leaders, leadership teams, cross-functional teams, HR leaders, and leadership cohorts.
What you see: difficult conversations are being avoided, employees are asking why they only hear feedback during performance reviews, or unresolved tension is starting to affect trust, engagement, and retention.
Formats:
45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop
Why It Matters
Most conflict programs focus on what to say. But frameworks for how to communicate don't solve the heart of why difficult conversations so often end differently than we hoped.
This experience explores the space in between: what happens before we speak, where assumptions, emotions, and the stories we tell ourselves about what will happen shape the outcome long before the conversation begins.
Participants discover how asking better questions of themselves and partnering with a trusted peer or mentor before the conversation creates space to prepare with greater clarity, curiosity, and intention. They learn to explore the heart of what drives another person's behavior, recognizing that people often act not to hurt us but because they see the situation from a different perspective.
What Your Audiences Gain
How the peer mindset can help us recognize when we are reacting versus responding.
Ask better questions that spark curiosity about what may be driving the other person's behavior and perspective.
Peers equip each other with actionable next steps to better prepare for difficult conversations they can use today.
The Peering mindset shifts conflict from proving our perspective to becoming curious about another person's. It also gives people a way to think through it with a peer before escalating the issue or walking into the conversation with only their own story.
Beyond Change
Leading Change Beyond Action by Engaging the Peer Mindset
Ideal for:
Leadership teams, organizations navigating transformation, executive retreats, team offsites, and leaders responsible for guiding people through growth, uncertainty, and change.
Leaders believe there is clarity and alignment, but teams leave with different interpretations of priorities, decisions, and what needs to happen next.
Formats:
45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop
Why It Matters
In times of change, leaders often focus on what people need to do. But change isn't driven by action alone. It is shaped by our emotions, expectations, energy, and the meaning we make of what is happening around us.
Beyond Change explores the human side of change through a Peering lens. Participants examine how they are experiencing change themselves, become curious about how others may be experiencing the same change differently, and use peer conversations to make sense of what is happening together.
Using the PEER framework, participants practice moving beyond simply communicating change to creating the conversations, shared ownership, and connection that help people find their way forward together.
What Your Audiences Gain
The above- and below-the-line of peer mindset that impacts change behaviors.
Leverage the PEER framework to partner more effectively when communicating change.
Greater awareness of how the brain influences and impacts emotions, expectations, and energy when we communicate change, and how we can do it better.
Peers equip each other with actionable next steps to better prepare for change conversations they can use today.
Build Your Team or Community Building Blocks
LEGO® Experience
Turning individual perspectives into shared understanding.
Looking for a safe space to build meaningful conversations?
Using LEGO® bricks, participants think with their hands to make ideas visible, uncover new perspectives, build shared meaning, strengthen team alignment, and co-create practical solutions.
This highly interactive experience can be delivered as a standalone session for new teams, communities, team and company integrations, and culture-building initiatives, or integrated into keynotes, executive retreats, offsites, leadership meetings, and leadership development programs.
Formats: 45–90-minute interactive session | 2–4-hour workshop
Ideal for: New teams • Working teams • Cross-functional teams • Leadership meetings • Team offsites and on-sites • Community events • ERG events
Additional Offerings
Additional offerings include values and purpose, accountability, focus, people-pleasing, feedback, curiosity, team trust, and more.
Every experience can be adapted to your audience, culture, and the conversations you want to move forward.
BEyond Leadership
Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess
In BEyond Leadership book, executive coach Noa Ronen challenges the way we lead, decide, and avoid. With humor, candor, and real-life stories, she introduces the BEyond™ Model—a simple but powerful way to move from automatic doing to intentional leading.
The book is the foundation of our work at ADVAgo—helping fast-growing teams lead with clarity, trust, and connection. If you’re ready to take it further, explore our peer coaching programs.
By Noa Ronen
"Noa provides a unique, holistic approach to improving yourself as a leader in your personal and professional life.”
— Kelly Caldwell, Angel Investor and Business Adviser
What Participants Say
“One of the best programs I have attended! Noa was very effective; she provided new perspectives, and steps I can take back to my work and implement easily with my team.” Chief Technology Officer
“You brought a level of depth, clarity, and energy that truly helped bring this vision to life. You were the missing piece we needed, and I’m so glad you agreed to share your passion and gifts with our team.” Tech Community Leader
“Attended this session today and plan to use these ideas with my team. Thank you, Noa!”
- NCSHRM Conference Participant, VP of HR
“It was such a treat to witness your coaching in action to a full audience, as they shifted to their coaching mindset. I learned from your pace and it piqued my curiosity for group coaching. You are an incredible coach Noa! Thank you for bringing coaching expertise to our Human Resources professionals.”
“Noa was a great speaker, very engaging, kept us interested, and even got us out of our seats a few times. I truly enjoyed the material she shared. “
- Health Care Tech Leader
Let's Make Waves
Bring the Peer-to-Peer Power to your stage.
Book Noa for your next leadership event, company offsite, or community experience.
“With her presentation about teaching people to be leaders instead of teaching people how to lead, Ronen fits right in with the creative ideas on full display at the DisruptHR event held Wednesday at Durham’s PSI Theatre.”
— GrapeBeat Triangle Tech News
