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 high-performance strategist who helps franchise brands unify culture, elevate leadership, and improve performance across all locations; using research-backed tools and her proprietary Destination Workplace™ & COMMIT 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
THE 'DNA FOR SUCCESS' KEYNOTE SERIES!
DNA OF HIGH-ACHIEVERS
Think, Behave, and Execute Like the Top 1%.
Best Fit For:
•Motivational & Women's Events
•Building Confidence
•Breaking Barriers
•Accelerating Your Career
DNA OF RESILIENT LEADERS & TEAMS
Reset Your Mind, Restore Your Energy, and Rekindle Your Purpose.
Best Fit For:
•High-Energy Opening or Closing Keynote
•Reducing Stress & Burnout
•Developing Work-Life Balance
•Becoming More Resilient
DNA OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS
Decode Behavior, Defuse Tension, and Drive Better Results With People
Best Fit For:
•High-interaction & Audience Participation
•Improving Communication
•Driving Team Collaboration
•Dealing With Difficult People
"Betsy was the highest-rated speaker at our entire conference! We will definitely bring her back next year."
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 and poor performance. 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!