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Opening General Session
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
2:30pm-3:30pm
South hall
Rich Bracken
Rich Bracken is an award-winning keynote speaker and executive coach who fuses captivating storytelling with emotional intelligence research to spark sustainable change. As Brand Ambassador for TalentSmartEQ—the leading EQ training firm worldwide—he brings exclusive, data driven EI strategies to his audiences.
Drawing from his past life as a national touring DJ, Rich's presentations are more than informative—they're performances. With energy, empathy, and humor, he helps leaders and teams develop emotional intelligence, executive presence, and motivation.
Rich has empowered professionals at Fortune 100 companies and global organizations, and his insights have reached national media and top executives. He’s also a trusted coach for executives and celebrities. Named a National Top Speaker by Smart Meetings, his keynotes leave audiences informed, inspired, and energized.
Emotional Intelligence: The Ultimate Success Factor
Rich Bracken delivers an electrifying keynote that's part presentation, part dance party—merging emotional intelligence research with his experience as a national touring DJ.
In this high-energy session, you'll discover why EQ outperforms IQ in predicting success while learning to identify when emotions are controlling your decisions.
Elite Experience
Experience highlights:
- Live DJing combined with actionable EQ strategies
- Interactive sing-along moments that reinforce key concepts
- Practical techniques to transform vulnerability into strength
You'll leave knowing how to:
- Apply the foundational elements of emotional intelligence for professional success
- Retrain your emotional triggers like a DJ works a crowd
- Identify emotions in real-time (something 72% of people struggle with)
- Build positive EQ habits that enhance confidence and self-value
Event Chair
Scott Frankel, Animatic Media
Scott Frankel is the President of Animatic Media, an industry leader in event production and sought-after speaker at industry events. Animatic is a full-service event production company founded with the idea of offering agency-style service without the agency price tag. Since 1996, Scott and his team have produced events for clients of all sizes, from Fortune 500 conferences with thousands of attendees to smaller road shows and events. Scott is an innovator in the event technology space and insists on perfection and flawless execution for all of his events. In 2020 Animatic Media relaunched their on-demand web service as Conference-On-Demand +LIVE, a full-service virtual/hybrid event platform for fully “produced” virtual and hybrid events and will soon be introducing an Augmented Reality offering built for the live events industry.