⸺ KEYNOTE SPEAKER · CORPORATE CULTURE EXPERT
The Science Behind Cultures That Outperform
The keynote your team quotes at dinner, references in meetings, and turns into action by Monday.
21+ years
cross-cultural leadership
PhD
Organizational Psychology
TEDx Speaker
Lake Shore Drive 2026
TRUSTED BY ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES WORLDWIDE
I’m Cam Dunson. I bring a PhD in organizational psychology, 21+ years of cross-cultural leadership, and original research on why people stay, leave, or quietly stop caring. Equal parts science and storytelling, zero fluff.
“Cam is professional, fantastic and takes complex topics and makes them relate to everyday life. She creates an atmosphere with audience buy-in and I leave each time with more knowledge and confidence after hearing her speak.”
— Event Planner
⸺ ABOUT
Dr. Cam Dunson, PhD | International Speaker, Corporate Culture Expert, & Researcher
Dr. Cam Dunson is an organizational psychologist and keynote speaker who makes the research on workplace culture actually useful. She shows leaders what’s quietly driving their best people out the door, and she does it with data, humor, and zero corporate jargon. Audiences call her talks practical, surprising, and the session they wish they’d heard five years ago.
Before earning her PhD, Cam spent 21 years leading cross-cultural teams on three continents, in environments where weak culture didn’t just lower engagement but caused real operational failure. That experience drove her to research why. She identified five components of workplace belonging that most organizations have never thought to measure. In January 2026, she took the TEDx stage in Chicago to deliver “You Don’t Find Belonging, You Create It,” a challenge to the way we think about where we do and don’t belong.
Cam’s keynotes are not DEI by another name, and they are not motivation disguised as strategy. She presents belonging and psychological safety as what the research says they are: measurable drivers of retention, innovation, and profit. Leaders leave her sessions with diagnostic frameworks, a shared vocabulary for the culture problems they’ve been tiptoeing around, and a clear picture of what to do next.
CREDENTIALS & RECOGNITION
PhD, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
SHRM-SCP, Senior Certified Professional
TEDxLakeShoreDrive speaker, Chicago, 2026
21 years of cross-cultural leadership on three continents
Founder & Principal, Dunson Insights LLC
Board Chair, Florida Industrial and Organizational Psychology (FIOP)
Developer of the Sense of Belonging in the Workplace Scale (SBWS)
Fluent in Portuguese (tries hard in Spanish)
⸺ KEYNOTES
Keynotes That Move Leaders to Act
Built on empirical research, two decades of cross-cultural leadership, and a refusal to confuse "feel good" with ROI.
The Belonging Advantage:The Hidden Driver of Retention, Innovation & Profit
Your best people aren’t leaving because of compensation. They’re leaving because they don’t feel known, safe, or valued, and nobody in leadership is measuring any of the three. This keynote changes that.
Cultural Intelligence:You Cannot Lead What You Do Not Understand
Every leader thinks they understand their culture. Most are only reading one of three cultures that matter: their organization's. This keynote reveals the two they're missing and why those blind spots are shaping every decision their team makes.
⸺ AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
Every room. Every topic.
The same result.
Aggregated attendee feedback across multiple audiences and topics, collected via Talkadot post-session surveys.
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attendee responses across eventsAttendees say Cam’s talks are:
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★★★★★
"Fascinating... her work has inspired me to become a better scientist and leader. "
— Attendee
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★★★★★
"Real, practical knowledge on truly improving work systems from the root, starting at the heart — its employees."
— Attendee
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★★★★★
You have given me words for what I've been experiencing my whole life
— Attendee
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Research insights, leadership
lessons, and culture strategy
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