Manufacturing keynote speaker
Machines raise the output. People decide whether customers keep choosing your plant.
Real rooms. Real people. Real change.
Everyone now has the same AI, the same data and the same tools.
The only difference left is your people.
Robots, sensors and AI have taken cost and variation out of your plants, and your competitors bought the same equipment.
Customers now stay or leave based on how your people respond when an order is late, a spec changes or a part fails.
Operators watch cobots take over stations and quietly wonder where they will fit in five years. People who feel replaceable stop raising their hand when they spot a problem.
Engineers and procurement teams can find a cheaper quote overnight. They reorder from the supplier whose account manager answered honestly when the shipment slipped.
Your best machinist became a shift lead because she knew the equipment, not because anyone taught her to lead people. Now her crew’s trust in her shapes your safety record and your scrap rate.
Manufacturers and industrial teams that trusted me, among others
From the C-suite to second shift, your people are asking one of them.
Will a machine do my job?
The better the machines get, the more your people will set you apart.
Why it lands with manufacturing audiences: predictive maintenance, vision inspection and AI scheduling now run much of the plant. This shows your people the judgment, problem solving and trust between crews that no algorithm replaces, and why their role matters more as the line gets smarter.
Why does someone else get chosen?
What your people know rarely gets them chosen. What others see in them does.
Why it lands with manufacturing audiences: customers, auditors and new hires form a verdict about your company on the first plant tour. This shows your leaders how the five ABCDE dimensions, from a clean, well-lit floor to a confident sales engineer, decide whether people choose to buy from you and work for you.
During my corporate years I trained teams at BASF or Henkel in Germany, two companies where precision is a way of life. I know engineers want proof, not hype.
I work closely with yours before the event to understand your people, from plant managers to sales engineers. Your OEE targets, your customers and your shift realities show up on stage.
I can open an annual leadership meeting, close an operations summit or reach every plant at once with a hybrid plant all-hands. Shift schedules matter, so I keep the keynote tight and can repeat a shorter version for a second shift.
Delivered live, hybrid for multiple plants, or as the world’s first 3D immersive keynote, so your locations share the same moment and the same language afterward.
Manufacturing meetings bring together people who run machines, people who run plants and people who sell what the plants make.
No slides, no pre-recorded hologram beamed in from somewhere else.
I stay live in the room while your leaders, sponsors and theme step into the story.
How clients describe it, in their own words.
How clients make it their own.
I help makers become the supplier customers refuse to replace and the employer people refuse to leave.
I’m Sylvie di Giusto. For nearly twenty years I worked inside corporations, and during those years I trained teams at BASF or Henkel in Germany, where engineering excellence is close to a religion. I later led the management academy of Europe’s largest retail and tourism group and booked speakers myself, so I know the risk of putting someone in front of a skeptical, data-driven room. Today I’m a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker. Among others, MHEDA or Haworth trusted me with their stages. Manufacturing audiences want evidence and practical takeaways. I give them both, plus a reason to feel proud of what they make.
In their words, not ours.
You are a super star! I have never seen such a performance on stage. It Was something really special for everyone!
Memorable from visualization to content Looks like simple and obvious things. But how intelligent and insightful you are to see and say them.
I was very impressed by how quickly and effectively she absorbed and understood the information about our organization and the goals of our event.
She spent a lot of time with me and the other director beforehand so she could cater her message to what we were looking for, and then she nailed it. She went above and beyond what we expected of her. She is a gem.
MHEDA · 3D immersive keynote
The Power of Choice grows out of my book The Image of Leadership. Its industrial edition, Builders, Movers, Makers, with a foreword by Jeannette Walker, CEO of MHEDA, takes those ideas onto the plant floor and into the industrial sales office.
It shows plant leaders, engineers and sales teams how appearance, behavior, communication, digital presence and environment shape the trust of customers, auditors and employees. Clients often give a copy to every attendee so the conversation continues at the next shift huddle.
Vision systems inspect the parts, sensors predict the breakdown and AI builds the production schedule. Forever Human explains why troubleshooting, the shift handoff and trust between crews still depend on people.
Operators, supervisors and plant leaders learn how their role grows as the line gets smarter. Many manufacturers give a copy to every leader at their operations meeting, so supervisors have language ready for the next automation project.
Sylvie di Giusto is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker who trained teams at BASF or Henkel early in her career and has been trusted by MHEDA or Haworth, among others. She offers Forever Human on staying human as automation spreads and The Power of Choice on how customers and employees decide whom to trust, live or as the world’s first 3D immersive keynote.
Forever Human is the stronger choice when your plants are rolling out automation, AI or Industry 4.0 projects and people need to see their future in them. The Power of Choice is the stronger choice when the goal is winning and keeping customers, or helping supervisors and sales engineers earn trust faster. Sylvie can help you decide on a short call.
Yes. Forever Human speaks directly to the fear that machines will replace people and shows operators, technicians and leaders which human strengths become more valuable as the line gets smarter. It also gives leaders language for change conversations that doesn’t sound like a corporate memo.
Yes. Sylvie customizes The Power of Choice for new and experienced supervisors, showing how their behavior, their communication and the environment they create decide whether a crew trusts them. Her prep with your team centers on your own people, so it feels like their plant, not a textbook.
It can help leaders become an employer young people choose. The Power of Choice shows how a company’s environment, digital presence and leaders’ behavior shape a candidate’s decision in seconds, from the careers page to the first plant tour, and Forever Human presents modern manufacturing as a deeply human career.
Yes. Sylvie delivers both keynotes in person, hybrid or virtual, so a main event can be streamed to other sites. Her team works with your communications or AV team on the details.
Yes. She partners with bureaus internationally and is happy to work through the one your company already uses for its industrial events.
I also serve audiences in dealer conferences, construction and automotive. See every audience I speak to.
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