Brant Menswar

Why organisations work with Brant Menswar

• A defined methodology, Black Sheep Values, that gives leaders a shared language for the five values their organisation will not trade away under pressure.
• Behavioural-science grounding through an eCornell Psychology of Leadership certification, applied to the everyday mechanics of trust, vulnerability and team performance.
• Author of two trade-published books on the same thesis: Black Sheep (Page Two, 2020) and Designing Momentum (Wiley, 2025), giving the work a documented intellectual spine rather than a slide deck.
• A 20-year career as a recording artist before the speaking work, which means a keynote that lands as a live performance, not a talk read off a screen.
• Track record inside large, brand-sensitive organisations including Netflix, Verizon, Microsoft, ESPN and Hilton, where the culture stakes are high and the audience is sceptical of motivational content.

Biography highlights

• Author, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You (Page Two, 2020).
• Author, Designing Momentum: A Big Goal Blueprint for Transforming Everyday Moments into Massive Success (Wiley, 2025).
• Certified in Psychology of Leadership, eCornell, Cornell University.
• Founder and CEO of Black Sheep Foundry; previously founder of Rock Star Impact and partner at Banding People Together.
• Host of Just a Moment, a podcast distributed by SURROUND Podcast Network.
• Keynote work delivered for organisations including Netflix, Verizon, Microsoft, ESPN, Hilton, Anthem, Sony Pictures and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Biography

Most companies can recite their stated values. Far fewer can name the values their teams actually use when a project slips, a leader leaves or a quarter goes sideways. That gap is the working territory of Brant Menswar’s keynote practice and the through-line of his two books.

The methodology has a name and a structure. Black Sheep Values are the five non-negotiable values that, in Menswar’s framing, sit underneath every meaningful decision a person or a team makes. The argument is that culture only holds when those values are explicit, shared, and used as a decision filter, rather than printed on a wall poster. Black Sheep (Page Two, 2020) introduced the framework. Designing Momentum (Wiley, 2025) applies it to how teams convert ordinary moments into compounding progress.

The credentials behind the work are concrete. Menswar holds a Psychology of Leadership certification from eCornell at Cornell University, and built the consulting practice through Banding People Together and Rock Star Impact before founding Black Sheep Foundry in 2023. The client list, including Netflix, Verizon, Microsoft, ESPN, Hilton, Anthem, Sony Pictures and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, sits inside industries where culture programmes are routinely cynical, and where a generic motivational keynote does not survive the room.

What separates the delivery from a standard culture talk is the craft of the room itself. Menswar spent twenty years as a recording artist before the keynote work, and the live performance discipline shows: pacing, music, structure, and a refusal to default to slide-driven exposition. The result is a session leadership teams can recall in detail months later, which is the only useful test of a culture keynote.

Key speaking topics

• Values-based culture and the Black Sheep Values methodology
• Connection, trust and team vulnerability
• Employee engagement and retention through values alignment
• Leading change without losing the workforce
• Personal and team resilience under pressure
• Authenticity and identity in professional life

Ideal for

• CHROs and chief people officers rebuilding culture after restructure, merger or rapid growth
• Sales, customer and client-facing leadership teams whose performance depends on trust
• All-employee or all-leader gatherings where the brief is engagement and connection, not strategy content
• Organisations using offsites to reset team norms after a period of fatigue or turnover

Audience outcomes

• A method for naming the five non-negotiable values a team will not trade away
• A clearer read on why specific cultural commitments are failing in the organisation today
• Language and a shared frame leaders can use back at work, not just in the room
• A more honest conversation about trust, vulnerability and what teams owe each other