Women in Business

Most leaders don’t realize they have a trust problem. They think they have a growth problem. Or an execution problem. Or a staffing problem. Meanwhile, effort keeps going up and traction quietly slips.
In this keynote, Marnie Kittelson of Accentuate Strategy + Execution shows how trust operates inside a business and why it has become one of the most underappreciated performance variables in most companies. Not as a feeling or a value, but as a system that directly affects speed, alignment, customer experience, and margin.

Drawing from real-world examples, Marnie walks through where trust is built, where it leaks, and how those leaks show up operationally: in delayed decisions, second-guessing, inconsistent delivery, and reputational drag. Leaders will learn how signals from the top are interpreted downstream, how execution either reinforces or erodes belief, and why visibility without consistency accelerates erosion instead of growth.

This session gives leaders a clear way to see trust in motion; across leadership, teams, customers, and the market, and understand what to fix when traction starts slipping. Because when trust breaks, effort doesn’t disappear. It just stops converting into progress.