Franchise Leadership Keynote Speaker
Consistent Culture. Stronger Leaders. Franchise Growth Without the Burnout.
Betsy Allen-Manning is a nationally recognized franchise leadership keynote speaker and workplace culture strategist who helps franchise brands unify culture, elevate leadership, and improve retention across all locations; using research-backed tools and her proprietary Destination Workplace™ Framework.
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Challenges Franchise Leaders Are Facing Today.
From high burnout to broken culture, here’s how Betsy helps fix the core issues.
Betsy has trained franchise leaders for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Hilton, BMW, Orange Theory Fitness, and other multiple top-performing franchises. With a background in managing 5-star service teams and over a decade of leadership development experience, she understands the unique challenges that franchise brands face; such as disconnected culture, franchisee burnout, high turnover, and undertrained managers. Betsy doesn’t just deliver a motivational talk, or franchise culture training, she equips franchise teams with a data-backed blueprint to improve franchise workforce retention, build future-ready leaders, and create a consistent culture across every unit. The goal? A Destination Workplace™ where people deliver the brand experience you promise, and want to stay to grow it.
Record-Breaking Burnout
New hires are disengaged. Long-timers are burned out. Frontline franchise employees are burning out fast, and it’s hurting your customer experience.
Mass Exodus of Talent
High turnover on the frontlines and in management. 42% of workers are actively job hunting, and in franchise systems, it’s not the brand; it’s the boss. Untrained leaders push talent out the door.
Toxic Silence & Disengaged Teams
Culture breakdown happens fast when employee engagement in franchises goes unchecked. Toxic teams = poor reviews, lower sales, and frustrated franchisees.
Leaders Without Leadership Training
Owning a location doesn’t always mean knowing how to lead. When franchisees lack leadership skills, it erodes your customer and employee experience.
A Culture of Inconsistency
Culture that varies by location is costing you brand trust. 57% of workers say a toxic culture would make them leave. In franchises, culture left unmanaged quickly becomes toxic by default.
Stalled Careers
64% of employees would stay if they saw a clear path forward—but most entry-level workers in franchise systems never get the chance to grow.
Even in purpose-driven franchise brands, the culture can crack at the foundation.
Your employee experience IS your customer experience, and when one location bleeds talent, the entire brand suffers.
How Betsy Helps You Scale Culture Without Losing People!
With 25+ years of experience in training franchise teams and managing service excellence across brands, Betsy brings franchise-specific insight, data, and tools that help you build a Destination Workplace™; one location at a time.
CULTURE: Bring Purpose, Accountability & Loyalty Back into the Franchise Workplace.
Problem: In franchise systems, culture often depends on the owner. That leads to inconsistency, confusion, low employee engagement in franchises, and locations that don't live up to the brand promise.
Solution: franchise culture training. We help franchise brands turn core values into consistent employee experiences across every unit. From corporate to counter staff, every team member should know how their role drives the brand, and why it matters.
Deliverables:
✔ Franchise workforce
culture consultant - Improve team morale, reduce location-level turnover, and build culture consistency across units. Improve overall franchise workforce retention.
✔ Workplace culture keynotes, breakout sessions, and workshops - Hire Betsy Allen-Manning to speak at your next franchise convention or regional summit.
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Culture audit
to evaluate consistency and alignment between corporate and franchisee locations.
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Executive Strategy Sessions to align leadership around a scalable, culture-driven workforce strategy. Betsy helps build a Destination Workplace for franchises through her franchise culture training system.
VIEW THE KEYNOTE: Becoming a Destination Workplace™
Book This KeynoteFor franchise owners, executive teams, and regional leaders
• Learn why consistency in leadership is your biggest culture asset
• Discover 5 research-backed pillars that drive retention and engagement
• Create a workplace where people apply, engage, contribute, promote—and stay
The Destination Workplace™- How to Attract Top Talent, Drive Accountability, and Build a Culture People Never Want to Leave
The war for talent isn’t coming, it’s here. And most companies are losing.
In this data-backed program, leadership and culture strategist Betsy Allen-Manning walks executive teams through the Destination Workplace™ Framework—a proven roadmap to assess, align, and improve your employee experience so you can finally build a culture that attracts, engages, and retains top performers.
You’ll learn why 70% of leaders believe they have a great culture, but only 28% of employees agree, and how to close that gap by building an employee experience that actually matches your leadership narrative. This program isn’t about theory. It’s about measurable transformation, designed for organizations ready to lead the culture change, instead of complaining about it.
You'll walk away with Betsy's 6-part roadmap for building a Destination Workplace™.
The Destination Workplace™ Roadmap:
•Assess the Gap: Diagnose your culture gaps before they cost you talent.
•Align the Message: Link your mission, vision, and values to your desired behaviors.
•Elevate the Experience: Understand the 5 employee experiences that shape retention & loyalty.
•Execute With Accountability: Create accountability for culture, not just HR ownership.
•Measure Through Feedback: Create a feedback loop to ensure leaders stay aligned.
•Join the Movement: Retention is your new reputation. Let's make it official!
Backed by research and real-world results, Betsy combines data, storytelling, and leadership experience to help you stop guessing and start creating a workplace that works.
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LEADERSHIP: Set Up Your Pipeline of Well-Trained Leaders At Every Level
Problem: Most franchise managers and owners are promoted for operations—not leadership. But knowing how to schedule doesn’t mean knowing how to coach, communicate, or retain talent.
Solution: leadership training for franchises. We develop confident, self-aware leaders who earn trust, build strong teams, and drive performance—no matter the location.
Deliverables:
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Franchise Leadership Accelerator Training Program - Bring Betsy Allen-Manning in to train franchise owners, GMs, and field leaders on the 6 power skills today’s workforce demands.
✔ Franchise Leadership Keynote Speaker, breakout sessions, & leadership workshops. - For franchise conventions, brand summits, and multi-unit leadership meetings.
✔ Leadership training for franchise owners, unit managers, and shift supervisors.
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Emerging leader programs to grow bench strength and reduce burnout in high-potential team members.
✔ Executive retreats for top-performing franchisees, improving franchise workforce retention, employee engagement in franchises and brand leadership.
VIEW THE KEYNOTE: The Destination Workplace Leader
Book This KeynoteIdeal for franchisees, managers, and team leads
• Improve franchise leadership confidence and communication
• Train managers on coaching, accountability, and upskilling staff
• Build consistency in culture, values, and team development
The Destination Workplace™ Leader - How to Build Trust, Model Culture, and Multiply Your Impact at Every Level
Paycheck leaders will only ever produce paycheck employees.
The type of leader you are determines whether you will inspire ownership… or apathy. Whether you’re leading a team of 2 or a company of 2,000, one truth remains: the culture around you starts with the character within you. In this inspiring and highly interactive keynote, Betsy Allen-Manning equips current and emerging leaders with the mindset, behaviors, and leadership presence required to create a Destination Workplace™—where trust runs deep, growth is constant, and values actually mean something.
Built around her 4-part Destination Workplace™ Leadership Framework, this keynote gives your leaders practical tools to elevate how they lead, how they show up, and how they multiply impact across your organization.
The Destination Workplace™ Leadership Model:
1. Build Character: A leader's character is contagious. Learn how to model trust, respect & ownership.
2. Develop Skills: Discover the 6 Power Skills every modern leader needs for today's workforce.
3. Model Culture: Discover how to operationalize core values into consistent, modeled behavior.
4. Multiply Your Impact: Learn how to build a pipeline of leaders, so the mission doesn't stop with you.
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WELL-BEING: Reduce Burnout, Stress, & Negativity in Your Franchise Locations
Problem: 74% of employees say today’s workplace is more stressful than it was a decade ago, and burnout hits franchise teams the hardest with high turnover, absenteeism, and disengagement.
Solution: We offer programs that protect your people’s mental and emotional well-being, because burned-out employees don’t represent your brand, they damage it.
Deliverables:
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Wellness Keynotes, breakout sessions, &
Wellness workshops
tailored to frontline and management roles.
✔ Franchise burnout speaker for multi-unit events, manager meetings & brand conventions.
✔ Strategies to recognize and respond to location-level burnout, stress & toxic negativity.
✔ Wellness & Team-Building Retreats
for franchise owners, managers, and high-turnover teams.
VIEW THE WELLNESS KEYNOTE: Reset & Recharge
Book This KeynoteBest for all-staff meetings, brand retreats, or new store onboarding
• Reduce burnout and conflict between team members
• Build stronger trust and alignment across roles
• Includes team-building, communication, and resilience training
Reset & Recharge- The High-Energy Experience That Eliminates Stress, Negativity & Burnout Fast
Fueled by energy. Interactive experience. Applicable results.
This isn’t your typical sit-and-listen keynote. In this high-energy, unforgettable experience, Betsy Allen-Manning brings the fun and the facts to help you transform your mindset, recharge your motivation, and build resilience for whatever work (or life) throws your way. Designed for high-stress teams, burnt-out leaders, exhausted parents, or conferences that need an energizing boost. Backed by science, performance habits, and a whole lot of fun, this isn't just motivation...it's activation.
The 'Reset & Recharge' Framework:
•Reduce stress and Negativity: Identify triggers that drain you, and get quick reset tools to recover.
•Build Better Habits: Upgrade your daily decisions to support energy, consistency, and boundaries.
•Eliminate Burnout: Own your agenda before it owns you. Discover time mastery tools that reduce overwhelm.
•Become Resilient: Learn how to show up strong, even during seasons of setbacks.
Through games, brainteasers, dancing (yes—dancing!), and audience engagement, Betsy turns personal development into a full-on experience.
✔️ Laughter? Guaranteed.
✔️ Takeaways? Actionable.
✔️ Energy in the room? Through the roof.
If your people need a reset, this is the keynote that delivers it, in the most fun, refreshing way possible.
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TEAM COMMUNICATION: Improve Trust, Communication & Collaboration Across Franchise Units
Problem: Breakdowns between corporate, franchisees, and frontline teams are killing morale, and hurting your customer experience.
Solution: We help franchise teams communicate with clarity, collaborate across roles, and resolve conflict before it turns into turnover.
Deliverables:
✔ Franchise keynote speaker on
employee experience & team alignment.
✔ Communication Keynotes, breakout sessions, & DISC workshops for franchise leaders and frontline teams.
✔ Cross-location team-building programs to strengthen trust and accountability.
✔ Conflict resolution strategies tailored for franchisees, owners, and customer-facing teams.
VIEW THE WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION KEYNOTE: People Savvy
Book This KeynoteIdeal for: Teams, departmental teams, franchise leaders
People Savvy- Master Communication. Build Connection. Handle Anyone with Confidence
Did you know that 85% of your success in life and business has nothing to do with your technical skills and everything to do with how well you work with people?
The problem? People are complicated. Different personalities. Conflicting communication styles. Awkward conversations. Missed signals. Misunderstandings. Sound familiar?
In this highly interactive (and hilariously accurate) keynote, human behavior expert Betsy Allen-Manning teaches your audience how to become People Savvy™—the kind of person who can build instant rapport, defuse drama, and handle difficult people with confidence.
In this presentation, Betsy reveals a powerful, research-backed framework that helps people read others quickly, communicate more clearly, and connect across every kind of personality. This experience will get you up out of your seat, laughing, learning, and walking away with the single most important skill for success in life and leadership: how to understand people.
You’ll Discover How To:
•Identify Personalities Quickly: Discover key signals so you can spot personality styles fast.
•Avoid Common Mistakes: Prevent communication breakdowns before they happen.
•Lead and Influence people who aren't like you.
•Handle Difficult People without losing your cool.
•Build Strong Connections at work, home, and anywhere in between.
Whether you're leading a team, raising a family, managing clients, or navigating conflict, this experience will change the way you show up in every conversation.
*Top leadership franchise speaker Betsy Allen-Manning | Franchise communication workshops | Franchise team development expert
GROWTH & PERFORMANCE: Develop High-Performers & Future Leaders Across Your Franchise
Problem: Franchise teams lose their best people when they don’t see a future, aren’t being developed, or feel like there’s no way to win.
Solution: We help you grow high-performers, map clear advancement paths, and build a bench of emerging leaders ready to rise—so you stop losing talent to the competition.
Deliverables:
✔ Franchisee Training Speaker:
High-Performance motivational keynote Speeches, breakout sessions, and franchise high-performance workshops.
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Emerging leader programs for for hourly staff and high-potential team members.
✔ Fill your franchise leadership development pipelines to reduce external hiring and improve internal promotions.
VIEW THE KEYNOTE & WORKSHOP: DNA of High-Performing Teams
Book This KeynoteIdeal for: motivational events, sales kickoffs, team training
DNA of High Achievers- Develop the Mindset, Strategy, & Execution to Achieve Next-Level Success
Most people chase success...high-achievers engineer it.
In this unforgettable and high-impact experience, Betsy Allen-Manning shares the breakthrough habits and performance strategies she’s learned from interviewing elite performers—from champion UFC fighters to 8-figure entrepreneurs to leaders breaking glass ceilings.
You'll discover the COMMIT Method™—six strategic behaviors that separate those who get by… from those who stand out, level up, and go ALL IN. Whether you're chasing a promotion, your next high-level milestone, or your most courageous version of you, this keynote delivers the clarity, strategy, and execution plan to help you close the gap between where you are and who you're called to be. This program isn’t just about motivation—it’s about activation.
The COMMIT Method™
Clarify Goals: Define your purpose, priorities & plan.
Obtain New Skills: The skills that got you to your current level won't get you to your next.
Master Your Time: Own your agenda like your legacy depends on it.
Make Success Habits: Your habits either contribute to or contaminate your life.
Build a Strong Inner Circle: Your inner circle is either growing you or slowing you.
Develop Tenacity: Life will always throw curveballs; you just need to learn how to hit them.
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What Franchise Leaders Are Saying
"Betsy shared real life, industry-related scenarios, gave thought-provoking ideas, and used gamification to lock in the skills taught. This leadership training for franchises challenged us in new ways, and will reap rewards for our entire brand."
Brittany - Orange Theory Fitness
“Betsy presented a keynote for our real estate franchise auction company, and it was wonderful! She had everyone on their feet and they’re usually a low key bunch. She brought a lot of excitement and energy to the conference!”
Liz - Tranzon
"Betsy exceeded all expectations! Her thoroughly researched presentation delivered exceptional value to both our franchisees and corporate team members. As President of our franchise group, I can confidently say this was precisely the caliber of professional development we needed."
Anthony - SPEC
“We brought Betsy in to do our international conference, which consists of all our top owners, top account execs and top sales people around the world. Betsy came in front of these people who normally sit on their hands and are set in their ways, and she literally changed their lives in over an hour."
Kevin - New Horizons
ABOUT BETSY
Founder & CEO of Award-Winning Leadership & Workforce Development Firm, Destination Workplace™.
Featured on Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS & TEDx, is a franchise leadership keynote speaker, culture strategist, and founder of Destination Workplace™. She helps franchise brands reduce turnover, improve leadership at all levels, and create a consistent employee experience across every unit; no matter the size or location. With a background in leading 5-star service teams and a track record training thousands of franchise managers, Betsy is trusted by brands to deliver real transformation, not just motivation. She’s trained leaders for top franchises, with brands like Hilton, BMW, Six Flags, Orange Theory Fitness, and helps brands reduce turnover, improve engagement, and boost customer experience through aligned leadership. Her proprietary Destination Workplace™ Framework was built from national data in the Workplace Trends Study, and is specifically designed to solve your most urgent franchise challenges: culture inconsistency, retention issues, frontline burnout, and underdeveloped leadership pipelines.
While she speaks on a range of leadership and workplace topics, franchise clients most often seek Betsy for her bold, practical, and research-driven insights into:
- Leadership strategies for franchisees and unit managers.
- Scalable systems to improve retention across multiple locations.
- Strategies to build a culture that drives performance and brand loyalty.
- Proven tools to train, coach & communicate more effectively.
- Employee development programs to grow your next leaders in-house.
If you’re looking for a speaker who delivers actionable strategies with lasting impact, Betsy Allen-Manning is the partner franchise brands trust—for keynotes, training, and culture consulting. Betsy will help you improve your franchise brand employee experience.
BETSY IS ONE OF THE MOST RE-BOOKED FRANCHISE SPEAKERS IN DALLAS!
Watch Her High Energy & Interactive Keynotes To See Why!
"When we got the evals from our audience members we immediately booked Betsy to come back the next year!"
-Jackie H.
Stop putting Band-Aids on a broken culture. Let’s diagnose and then fix the root cause.
You can’t deliver a world-class brand experience with a workforce that’s drowning in dysfunction.
According to the National Workplace Trends Study:
• 49% of Gen Z franchise workers report high burnout.
• 42% of employees are already job hunting.
• 57% say distrust in leadership is why they quit.
When the people delivering your brand promise are burned out, disconnected from purpose, or walking out the door… your culture isn’t working. Using the
Destination Workplace™ Framework, Betsy Allen-Manning helps franchise leaders reduce turnover, re-engage teams, and build purpose-driven workplaces where people apply, engage, contribute, promote—and stay.
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If you're serious about reducing burnout, improving leadership, and creating a franchise culture where top talent wants to stay, this is your call to take action and create change!
Betsy Allen-Manning has helped franchise brands create cultures that energize teams, engage employees, and deliver consistent, brand-aligned performance. Now it’s your turn. Franchise growth starts with leadership consistency.
Let’s fix what’s broken. Let’s train your people. Let’s build your Destination Workplace™ together!