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make mattering
your performance multiplier.

And foster a workplace with greater trust, productivity, and humanity. Less mean, more meaning.

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Andrea Driessen delivers science-backed keynotes that teach audiences how to quickly and consistently boost connection, trust, and productivity through the practice of writing Gracenotes®—messages of mattering.

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Gracenotes are messages of mattering.

One short Gracenote can change the course of a day, a career, and a LIFE.

:Because the pain is real


Almost 1/3 of employees feel invisible. Record loneliness. Massive uncertainty. Waning trust. Rampant burnout. A sorry lack of human-to-human connection.


But when team members know how they matter via Gracenotes—when they’re seen for their best selves—the workplace becomes more productive, humane, trusting, engaging, and meaningful.


Studies show that practices focused on other people—such as telling others how they're impacting the world—increase wellbeing, life satisfaction, happiness, and positive emotions.

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Andrea Driessen's keynote "...engaged the head and the heart for tangible results…"

—Kristin Graham, Amazon.com

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For Executive Teams  •  Service-Driven Organizations  •  Financial Firms  •  Healthcare  •  Sales  •  Travel Incentive Events

Andrea’s evidence-based, interactive keynote experiences:

  • Help employees feel more seen and heard
  • Improve focus, engagement, and trust
  • Counter our sadder, meaner culture
  • Lessen loneliness—across generations
  • Reduce regret
  • Boost resiliency and wellness
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Andrea’s talk ”profoundly moved our team…

Her presence is warm, authentic, and intellectually rich...“

—CEO, Seattle Convention Center

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What are your meeting goals?

Gracenotes experiences are: 

Meaningful + Inspiring + Actionable + Science-based + In step with our times

Companies

Boost focus, engagement, sales, trust, human-to-human connection, and belonging.

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Financial & Legal Firms

Ensure clients get emotional affairs in order alongside financial and legal affairs • Tap a simple, powerful blueprint that amplifies legacy • Lessen regret

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Trade Groups

When members go from feeling unseen to feeling significant, they contribute more time and energy to your industry.

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Healthcare & Hospice

Help families and aging-services professionals easily and meaningfully share messages of mattering—and lessen regret.

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Learn Gracenotes' Origin Story

in this short, artful film: 

Together, we can move the dial—from a world that feels mean and filled with people who feel unseen—to one that’s more meaning-FULL, bursting with humans who feel more connected, more vibrant, and less alone.

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An antidote for our anxiety? Helping one another find meaning—in ourselves and in others.