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Colene Rogers
Transform your organization's talent management with Colene Rogers, a certified HR professional. Her insights help reduce turnover and boost employee satisfaction.
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Why you should book Colene Rogers for your next event
- Gain practical insights into employee retention and discover the leadership mindsets that help organizations keep their best talent.
- Strengthen employee engagement and critical communication with strategies shaped by more than 20 years in HR and consulting.
- Learn from an experienced executive coach and talent expert who connects recruitment, leadership and retention to business performance.
Non-binding request for Colene Rogers
Employee retention, talent management & communication expert
Colene Rogers is a speaker, executive coach and talent management expert with more than 20 years of experience in human resources and consulting. She helps organizations develop their most important asset: their people. Specializing in talent acquisition, employee retention and talent management, Colene provides practical perspectives on recruiting top talent, strengthening employee engagement, improving critical communication and reducing costly turnover. She sees retention as “the issue” facing organizations because the ability to keep great employees influences every other area of the business. Her fresh approach to this challenge has made her a sought-after keynote speaker and consultant.
Book Colene Rogers for your event
Colene Rogers is a speaker, executive coach and talent management expert who brings more than 20 years of experience in human resources and consulting to the stage. Her work centers on a challenge that affects organizations across industries: attracting talented people, developing them and creating the conditions that make them want to stay.
For Colene, employee turnover is more than one organizational issue among many. She describes it as “the issue” because retention influences virtually every other facet of a business. When talented employees leave, organizations face more than the immediate task of filling an empty position. Turnover can affect engagement, communication, team dynamics, productivity and the ability to build a strong organization over time.
Book speaker Colene Rogers for a keynote that brings talent management and employee retention into sharp focus. Drawing on extensive professional experience, she helps audiences understand the connection between people, leadership and organizational performance while providing perspectives they can take back to their own workplaces.
Retaining top talent
Colene Rogers specializes in talent acquisition and management and helps organizations recruit and manage top talent more effectively. Her approach also addresses employee engagement, critical communication and the high cost associated with turnover.
Rather than viewing retention as something to address only after employees begin leaving, Colene focuses attention on the mindsets and leadership practices that shape the employee experience. Her work gives leaders and organizations a clearer understanding of why retaining people matters and what they can do to create stronger, more effective workplaces.
Her expertise is also captured in her book, Retention: Key Mindsets that Retain Top Talent, released in May 2020. Designed as a leadership training tool, the book explores the mindsets that can help organizations retain their best people and reinforces the central message behind Colene’s speaking and consulting work.
A keynote with Colene Rogers can help audiences explore how to:
- Approach employee retention as a core organizational priority.
- Recruit and manage talented employees more effectively.
- Increase employee engagement and strengthen workplace relationships.
- Improve critical communication throughout an organization.
- Understand the wider organizational impact and cost of employee turnover.
- Develop leadership mindsets that support the retention of top talent.
Experience across organizations
Colene’s perspective is grounded in experience across several different professional environments. She is a graduate of the University of Central Florida, where she earned degrees in Organizational Communication and Public Speaking.
Throughout her career, Colene has worked for Walt Disney World Entertainment and Hyatt Hotel Sales. She has also served as an HR professional in nonprofit organizations, private organizations and state government. This breadth of experience gives her an understanding of people and talent challenges across different types of workplaces.
Her background in organizational communication and public speaking complements her HR expertise, allowing her to address the human side of organizational performance in an engaging and accessible way. Whether discussing employee retention, talent acquisition, engagement or difficult workplace conversations, she connects HR strategy with the everyday realities leaders and employees experience.
HR & communication expertise
Colene Rogers brings an extensive range of professional certifications and affiliations to her speaking, coaching and consulting work. She is a professional speaker with the National Speakers Association and a certified speaker, trainer and coach with the John Maxwell Team.
She is also a certified trainer for Vital Smarts Crucial Conversations, bringing additional expertise to her work with critical communication. Her HR credentials include Senior Certified Professional status through SHRM (SHRM-SCP) and Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification.
In addition, Colene is a DISC certified consultant and a partner with The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, associated with Patrick Lencioni and Wiley. Together, these qualifications support her work across leadership, communication, team development, talent management and employee retention.
Why Colene Rogers?
Organizations depend on people, yet keeping talented employees can be one of their most persistent challenges. Colene Rogers approaches this challenge with the experience of an HR professional, the perspective of an executive coach and the communication skills of a professional speaker.
Her keynotes bring together talent acquisition, retention, employee engagement and critical communication, helping audiences see how these areas influence one another. Rather than treating turnover as an isolated HR problem, Colene places it within the wider context of leadership and organizational success.
For leaders who want to recruit great people, communicate more effectively and build an environment where top talent wants to remain, Colene offers relevant insights backed by more than two decades of HR and consulting experience. Book Colene Rogers for your event to give leaders and teams a fresh perspective on retention and a stronger understanding of how their approach to people can shape the organization as a whole.
Customer Reviews
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With years of HR experience behind her, Colene Rogers has developed a keen sense of how to make an organization’s human capital its most valuable asset. Borrowing on that people-first approach, she effectively builds rapport and engages with her audience, creating a sense of connection and understanding. As our conference’s keynote speaker, Colene mesmerized our attendees. I am proud to recommend Colene as a speaker and a trainer.
Nicole Smith Florida Employment Law Attorney and Board Member of Big Bend SHRM
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I have known Colene personally for many years and have the opportunity to see her speak professionally on several occasions and on various human resources and leadership topics. Given her years of experience as an HR leader, she always presents sincere and engaging discussions to help other HR leaders both in their professional capacity and also personally. Colene has the amazing ability to connect with every audience member, providing valuable insight to navigate challenges effectively. Her real-life perspectives demonstrate her thoughtful ability to empower others. I highly recommend Colene to speak at your organization and share her journey with your team!
Bonnie Burke Executive Board Big Bend SHRM
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Colene served as the opening keynote speaker at our annual HR Tallahassee Conference, and she was truly exceptional. Her presentation, "Overcoming Fear and Uncertainty to Have the Life You Want," was both engaging and highly relevant, resonating deeply with our audience of HR professionals and local business leaders. Colene brings a dynamic presence, insightful content, and a polished delivery that set the perfect tone for our event. I highly recommend her as a keynote speaker for any conference seeking a meaningful and impactful experience.
Alison TaberPresident of Big Bend SHRM
5 of 5
Captivating, engaging, and relatable - these are the words that describe Colene Rogers throughout her keynote presentation at our annual HR Tallahassee event. People absolutely loved her and what she brought to the table. You can tell people left feeling energized and encouraged to overcoming the mountains that stand between you and the life you want! Highly recommend!
Nate KennedyConference Chair
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It is with great pleasure that I recommend Colene Rogers for your company’s leadership training and development needs. I had the opportunity to see Colene leadership seminar, and was so impressed I asked her to deliver leadership training for our company. Colene used techniques to engage all levels of our team. She gave our supervisors and managers on the job skills that they continue to utilize.
Barbara MatsumotoHR Manager, Aerosonic
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I have been fortunate to hear Colene Rogers as a Leadership and Motivational speaker and train within a Leadership Mastermind. She is a dynamic speaker with a wealth of knowledge on each topic she is presenting or training about. Her style is very interactive and engaging and allows you to maximize the retention of the presented materials. I would highly recommend Colene as your keynote speaker for any organization.
Martina McDowellBranch Manager, Manpower Inc.
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I am proud to give Colene my highest recommendation. Whether speaking from the stage to the large crowd of in a more intimate one-on-one conversation, Colene was highly professional and refreshingly thoughtful in her delivery. She is deliberate. As a keynote speaker at our international conference, Colene was highly engaging, funny, and interesting as she taught information that is timely, practical and highly relevant.
Dan HollandNorth America Operations Manager, Softwash Systems, Inc.
Rated 5.00/5 based on 7 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by Colene Rogers:
Retention: Key Mindsets That Retain Top Talent
Colene Roger’s newest keynote presentation is based on her book, Retention: Key Mindsets That Retain Top Talent. With 20 years of HR experience, she understands that organizations are looking for solutions to find and keep their employees. In this session, Colene takes attendees on a journey through the life cycle that every employee goes through upon entering an organization and the factors that determine their ultimate decision to stay or leave.
Program focus:
Company leaders identify recruiting and retaining qualified employees as their biggest challenge. When you lose your most talented employees it diminishes productivity, disrupts leadership, and reduces morale. This all amounts to an assault on the primary purpose of any business, to make a profit. Companies are looking for solutions but one person can’t tackle this problem alone; it must be a company-wide initiative. The solution lies in understanding that every employee has a mindset about the company they work for which reflects the level of commitment they have for the organization.
In this presentation you will learn to identify the dominant mindset employees have for your company and how to positively influence and change it. You will learn solutions that are repeatable and sustainable, designed to improve your employee’s work experience so they continually say “I want to work here.”
Program objectives:
- Learn the 4 mindsets that reveal the level of commitment you can expect from any employee.
- Learn how to discover the mindset of your employees and forecast future job vacancies.
- Discover the true cost of turnover and how to calculate it per position.
- Learn the 5 components of Retention Architecture that any company needs to retain more of their employees.
- Learn the 5 desired outcomes produced by Retention Architecture that can transform you into the company employees never want to leave.
Keynote by Colene Rogers:
Communication with Confidence: Elevate your Career by Being Skilled at Tough Talks
Our lives are full of Tough Talks. Let’s face it, we will never be comfortable with these conversations. But they can’t be avoided, at least not without a cost. How we handle these conversations has a direct impact on our success as a leader at any stage in our career. Whether it be addressing situations like a promotion with our supervisor, disrespect from a peer or poor performance with a direct report, we need tools to solve the issue at hand and a structure in which to use them.
Going in with the mindset to “win” or being too ready to “give in” doesn’t truly resolve the issue. Learn how to collaborate with your counterpart so solutions that seemed impossible to find begin to appear. Learning to address instead of ignoring Tough Talks leads to a more productive, and profitable organization and will help you build your career as a problem solver.
Participants will learn:
- How to begin a Tough Talk that sets the right tone for the whole conversation.
- The importance and benefits of all parties expressing their thoughts and opinions about the situation.
- Build confidence to advocate for yourself, your needs, and your career development.
- How to uncover your counterpart’s hidden fears that are preventing collaboration.
Keynote by Colene Rogers:
Tough Talks: Workshop
As a 20 year HR Professional, Colene Rogers, SHRM-SCP, had a mix of successes and failures in resolving conflict with others in her own life. When she became a certified conflict resolution expert, not only did her personal success rate get better but she is now able to teach others to be successful also. In this workshop attendees will walk away with tools to have conversations that resolve their differences with others. When that happens, our professional and personal relationships are strengthened and preserved.
Program focus:
The job of a leader is not getting any easier. The world is changing at rapid speed with incredible and unexpected technologies. And now we have the new workplace phenomenon of “ghosting” where individuals walk off the job or don’t show up at all. With so many challenges that threaten your ability to hold onto the employees you worked so hard to find, transparent and honest communication is essential.
There is considerable research to suggest that an organization’s success is greatly affected by the way their people handle high-stakes conversations. More specifically, those conversations where emotions and differences of opinion swirl around issues that need to be resolved, which impact the persons and organization involved. The research suggests that the organizational costs of avoiding these conversations or having them poorly, can include:
- Loss of clients or potential business
- Damage to company reputation
- High employee turnover
- Loss of morale
- Decreased productivity & engagement
Naturally, these amount to lost profits while opening the door to potential employment lawsuits. As a Crucial Conversations Trainer, Colene Rogers, SHRM-SCP teaches participants skills they can apply to handle these high stakes conversations with more success. The key is to create an environment of mutual respect where all those in the conversation are invited and encouraged to express their views.
Participants learn techniques to stay in the conversation until all facts and opinions are heard. Once all the relevant information is out in the open, issues can be resolved, superior decisions can be made, and relationships are preserved and strengthened. With the use of video, stories, interaction, application and easy to apply “take home” action steps, participants will feel more confident than ever to have the conversation they have been avoiding.
Program objectives:
- Learn how to be a change agent in your organization by facilitating company wide training for Tough Talks by learning the principles and setting up learning groups.
- Learn how to maximize your resources and your people with steps to implement effective communication.
- Learn how to use techniques for addressing effective communication that leaders use to improve relationships, retention and a reduction in turnover.
- Align communication with the values, vision, and mission of your company to support corporate objectives.
- Influence company wide accountability that leads to superior decision making and increased profits.
Keynote by Colene Rogers:
Managing Fear & Uncertainty: To Have the Life You Want
The inner voice of self-doubt and insecurity is universal. No human being is spared its attempt to keep each one of us on the sidelines. It likes to speak at the most inopportune times, when there is a lot on the line in our careers and in our personal lives. This voice can keep you from stepping on the ladder to career advancement, from pursuing the field of work you would really like, from conquering your fear of speaking in public that would increase your influence, from taking an unpopular position as the leader because you are concerned what others will think.
What matters in all of this is your response. You can follow the voice of possibility, or you can follow the voice of fear. Will you allow the voice to sideline you, and then come back later to taunt you with “what if?” In this dramatic presentation, Colene shares the story of how her world was rocked by an unforeseen circumstance. And the trail of steps that opened to reconciliation and greater opportunity.
In this keynote, we will explore:
- Expose your fears to weaken their power; your greatest limitations are self-imposed.
- The mountaintop is where you celebrate, the valley is where you learn.
- In the dark you take one thoughtful step at a time.
Keynote by Colene Rogers:
Leadership Is More Than a Title: It's Influence
This presentation by author and talent management expert, Colene Rogers, SHRM-SCP, will meet leaders at any stage in their leadership development journey. With a blend of leadership principles, storytelling and inspiring video, Colene shares the traits of great leaders. Participants will walk away on a path to greater leadership development and motivated to put their new leadership tools to work.
Program focus:
Life will present you with countless opportunities to lead. Will you be prepared to seize them or will you let others take the high ground? The good news is that leadership is a learnable skill. Acquire the skills that elite leaders exhibit and watch your success soar to greater heights. Fail to acquire these skills and any company or organization will see you as limited in value. This presentation will meet you at any stage in your leadership development journey. With a blend of leadership principles, storytelling and inspiring video, Colene shares the traits of great leaders. Participants will walk away on a path to greater leadership development and motivated to put their new leadership tools to work.
Program objectives:
- Learn the levels of leadership that enable leaders to maximize their level of influence for greater organizational success.
- Achieve a greater understanding of the correlation between effective leadership and employee retention.
- Learn the tangible and intangible costs of losing and replacing an employee of any position in your organization.
Keynote by Colene Rogers:
Reclaiming Your Story with God When Life Changes the Script.
A Keynote for Women of Faith.
Every woman knows what it feels like when life takes a turn she never saw coming. Plans shift. Roles change. The story you thought you were living suddenly looks different, unfamiliar, or even unrecognizable. In those moments, fear and selfdoubt speak loudly questioning your worth, your direction, and your ability to move forward.
But God is not surprised by the chapters that catch us off guard. When the script changes, He invites us into a deeper, more honest partnership with Him—one where we learn to trust His voice over the noise of fear, and where we discover that our story is not lost…it’s being rewritten with purpose.
In this hopefilled keynote, Colene shares how an unexpected situation reshaped her life and how God met her in that upheaval with clarity, strength, and a renewed sense of identity. Women will learn how to:
- Recognize the fears that distort their story—and invite God to dismantle them.
- Understand how God works in the unplanned chapters.
- Move forward with courage, wisdom, and daily obedience even when the path is unclear.
This message reminds women that when life changes the script, God doesn’t abandon the
story—He helps you reclaim it.
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