Leadership expert helping organizations build trust, accountability, and high-performing cultures.
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Shane has been a speaker at several of our global events. He brings a rare combination of authenticity, practical wisdom, and engaging storytelling. His message resonates deeply with leaders who are serious about building strong teams and meaningful impact.
Patrick Adams
Shane A. Wentz, PhD is a transformation consultant, keynote speaker, author, and leadership coach with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations strengthen leadership, improve operational performance, and build cultures prepared for the future of work. Drawing from leadership roles at companies including Nike, Siemens, and Radial, alongside his service in the U.S. Army, Shane delivers practical, people-focused insights that inspire lasting organizational change. His engaging presentations challenge leaders to create workplaces built on trust, accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Shane A. Wentz, PhD is a trusted voice in leadership development, operational excellence, and organizational transformation. As a transformation consultant, keynote speaker, author, and leadership coach, Shane works with organizations that want to strengthen leadership systems, improve performance, and create cultures where people and businesses thrive together.
With leadership experience across manufacturing, supply chain, operations, and large-scale transformation initiatives, Shane brings practical knowledge shaped by years inside complex organizations. His corporate background includes leadership roles with globally recognized companies such as Nike, Siemens, and Radial, where he worked closely with teams navigating operational challenges, growth, and change. Combined with his experience serving in the U.S. Army, Shane offers audiences a unique perspective on leadership under pressure, accountability, adaptability, and team performance.
Today, Shane serves as COO and Lead Consultant for A Change in Latitude Consulting, where he partners with organizations to help them develop stronger leadership cultures, improve operational systems, and prepare for the evolving future of work. His work focuses on helping businesses move beyond outdated management approaches and create environments built on trust, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Shane A. Wentz believes leadership is not defined by titles alone. His approach focuses on influence, responsibility, and the ability to create positive change at every level of an organization. Through his keynote presentations and consulting work, he helps leaders understand how culture directly impacts operational performance, employee engagement, innovation, and long-term success.
Audiences appreciate Shane’s ability to translate complex leadership and operational concepts into practical strategies that can immediately be applied within organizations. His presentations are direct, relatable, and grounded in real-world experience rather than theory alone.
Shane encourages leaders to rethink traditional compliance-based management systems and instead create workplaces where employees feel empowered to contribute, take ownership, and continuously improve processes and performance.
Organizations today face constant pressure to adapt, improve efficiency, and remain competitive in changing markets. Shane A. Wentz helps leaders understand that sustainable operational excellence starts with culture and leadership behavior.
His presentations explore how organizations can:
Shane combines operational expertise with leadership development strategies that resonate across industries, including manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and corporate operations. His experience allows him to connect with executives, frontline leaders, and employees alike.
One of the reasons organizations book Shane A. Wentz, PhD is his engaging and authentic speaking style. His presentations blend practical business strategies with personal leadership lessons, creating keynote experiences that are both insightful and memorable.
Drawing from years of corporate leadership and military service, Shane uses storytelling to make leadership principles relatable and actionable. He shares lessons learned from leading teams through operational challenges, organizational change, and high-pressure environments, giving audiences practical tools they can take back to their own workplaces.
His ability to connect with audiences across industries makes him a valuable speaker for leadership conferences, corporate events, operational excellence programs, management meetings, and transformation initiatives.
Shane is also the author of Leading Without the Title: How to Build Influence and Drive Change, a book that reflects his belief that leadership is about action, influence, and responsibility rather than position alone.
The book explores how individuals at every level of an organization can contribute to meaningful change by developing trust, communication, accountability, and influence. These same themes are central to Shane’s keynote presentations and leadership workshops.
His message resonates strongly with organizations seeking to develop future-ready leaders capable of navigating uncertainty, driving performance, and building stronger workplace cultures.
Organizations book Shane A. Wentz, PhD to inspire leaders, strengthen culture, and improve operational performance through practical leadership strategies that create lasting impact. His presentations leave audiences with actionable insights, renewed motivation, and a clearer understanding of how leadership shapes every aspect of organizational success.
Whether speaking on leadership development, operational excellence, culture transformation, or the future of work, Shane delivers presentations that are authentic, practical, and highly relevant for today’s business environment.
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Shane has been a speaker at several of our global events. He brings a rare combination of authenticity, practical wisdom, and engaging storytelling. His message resonates deeply with leaders who are serious about building strong teams and meaningful impact.
Patrick Adams
5 of 5
Shane has led several sessions for our employees at Hertz, with his Public Speaking Workshop standing out as especially impactful. He brings real-life experience and expertise to create an engaging, open, and safe space for learning and growth. I witnessed participants open up in powerful ways—introverted employees gaining the confidence to speak and share authentically in a room of 60+ people.
April Raynes (Hertz)
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Shane’s ability to connect through storytelling is truly exceptional. His approach to facilitation is deeply relatable and human, meeting employees where they are and helping them better understand themselves and the impact they have on others.
Katie Anderson
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Shane brought incredible energy and insight to the stage. His session wasn’t just informative – it was a game changer. He left us all feeling inspired, focused, and ready to take immediate action. If you want someone who genuinely connects with your audience and drives real impact, Shane’s the one!
Billy Ray Taylor
Keynote by Shane A. Wentz PhD:
Most transformation efforts don’t fail during execution, they fail before they ever begin. Organizations invest heavily in strategy, tools, and technology, yet still struggle to deliver results.
The missing link isn’t the plan, it’s leadership behavior. In this keynote, Shane challenges conventional thinking around transformation and reveals why culture, trust, and clarity are the real drivers of success.
Drawing on real-world experience across global organizations and his own personal journey, he shows how leaders can create the conditions where transformation actually works.
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Keynote by Shane A. Wentz PhD:
Leadership is not a title, it’s the ability to influence others to accomplish shared goals by providing purpose, direction and motivation. Too often, organizations rely on hierarchy to drive results, only to find that authority creates compliance, not commitment.
Real leadership happens when individuals at every level take ownership and influence outcomes. In this engaging and practical keynote, Shane shows how anyone, regardless of title, can lead effectively by building trust, communicating with clarity, and creating alignment within teams.
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Keynote by Shane A. Wentz PhD:
Every organization talks about culture but few truly understand how it is created. Culture is not defined by values on a wall.
It is defined by what leaders allow, reinforce, and ignore. In this keynote, Shane breaks down how leadership behaviors shape culture and how misaligned behaviors quietly undermine performance, engagement, and results.
Through real-world examples and practical insights, he equips leaders with the tools to intentionally shape culture in a way that drives performance.
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