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Domonique Townsend

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Trusted by Fortune 500 executives and purpose-driven leaders across industries.

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If you’re navigating change, launching an initiative, or looking to build a culture where employees and leaders are more empowered to take ownership, Domonique Townsend delivers the inspiration, strategy, and structure companies need to overcome resistance, rebuild momentum, and drive meaningful progress.

With over 17 years of experience transforming the way work feels across Fortune 500s, mission-driven organizations, and high-growth teams, Domonique is the go-to voice for companies serious about change leadership, employee engagement, and results that stick.

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Domonique Brings Unique Advantages and Transformative Delivery:

Real-world strategist, not just a storyteller.

With extensive experience in consulting, training, and partnering with organizations navigating high-stakes change, Domonique brings executive-level insight and firsthand experience. She’s led initiatives across the globe that have improved outcomes for thousands of employees while helping leaders align culture with company goals complexity into clarity and momentum.

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Speaks with strategy, heart and high performance in mind.

Domonique combines deep empathy with business acumen to help leaders connect, communicate, and lead with emotional intelligence. Her talks don’t just inspire, they validate the real tensions leaders and employees face, and reigniting ownership to rebuild trust across the organization.

Audiences walk away changed and ready to act.

Every keynote is designed to equip audiences with usable tools, conversation starters, and frameworks. Domonique translates big ideas into simple, strategic moves that teams can apply in meetings, project launches, and leadership moments the very next day.

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The Readiness Gap: Why Change Fails Before It Starts

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The Readiness Code: The Blueprint for Building an AI-Enabled Workforce

On average, 70% of change initiatives fail within six months of launching. AI workforce initiatives are not exempt from that statistic. But the organizations that get it right share one thing in common: they build the workforce capability infrastructure before they expect results from it.

That infrastructure is what this keynote is about.

When employees are equipped to apply AI with critical problem skills, when managers have a practical model for leading capability development from the middle, and when leaders can measure what is working and what is not, organizations will achieve higher-quality transformations instead of just small task-related improvements by leveraging AI as a collaborator.

Drawing from the frameworks behind The Readiness Code and the AI-Enabled Workforce Diagnostic™ (AEWD™), this keynote gives leaders the blueprint for building an AI-enabled workforce that is equipped to perform at the level the investment was designed to make possible.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Leadership conferences and executive events for manufacturing, logistics, energy, and corporate operations organizations
Executive offsites planning AI tool deployment or enterprise-wide workforce capability initiatives
Organizations that have invested in AI tools and are not seeing workforce performance results that match the investment
CEOs, CAIO, CHROs, COOs, and operations leaders building AI-enabled workforce capability across functions and locations
Teams preparing managers to lead workforce development from the middle, not just execute directives from the top

WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE KNOWING

What workforce capability infrastructure actually is and why it is the determining factor in whether AI investment produces performance or produces access
The exact confidence and capability gap that keeps employees using AI for small task improvements instead of the critical problem-solving and innovation work that creates competitive advantage
What AI-enabled workforce readiness looks like at the executive, manager, and frontline level and why each layer requires a different approach
Why the Level 2 manager is the most important and most overlooked variable in building an AI-enabled workforce and what equipping that layer actually looks like in practice
The readiness-first blueprint for building organizations where people feel equipped to solve critical problems, engage with each other confidently, and grow
The systematic process for diagnosing workforce readiness gaps before launching your next initiative so that your organization builds the conditions for an AI-enabled workforce that performs

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Domonique’s Keynotes Delivers Real Shifts

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This isn’t about inspiring at the surface, Domonique provides high-impact energy and strategy that drives action across the organization. After Domonique’s keynote, leaders and teams walk away in following areas:

Leaders will learn how to activate internal champions, build momentum across silos, and get the right people on board sooner.

Team members will be able to see how their day-to-day work connects to bigger goals within the organization.

Team members learn the proven WOW Model to improve their capacity and build more engaging collaborations through continuous improvement.

Leaders will develop actionable clarity to navigate uncertainty, communicate across complexity, and stay aligned through shifting priorities.

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What Sets Domonique Townsend Apart?

Domonique has experience as an employee and leader in the workplace with direct knowledge in the problem they solve. She understands why your leaders are stuck, what your teams aren’t saying, and how to move people into meaningful action. Whether you're hosting 100 leaders or 10,000 employees, Domonique delivers a keynote that feels personal, powerful, and perfectly timed.

Let’s partner in building that momentum, together!

What Clients Say About Domonique

Domonique’s style is clear, easily digestible and very relatable. I loved that Domonique had obviously been very clear on her audience's pain points and felt like she was speaking directly to you even without knowing you.

- A. Raines, Workplace Culture Strategist

Domonique’s process allows you to be part of the solution but also allows you to easily identify other areas of your day-to-day life that you could apply these concepts to as well. Within minutes you will see how her passion can easily spread to your team. You will be amazed how quickly you can make improvements, and this is what she helps you do.

- M. Schulz, Head of Engineering and Project Management

Domonique has such a great uplifting presence! The energy and honesty of the speaker really helped me connect with her insight.

- TEDx Talk Audience Member

Domonique helped our team to look at how we work. Her insight led us to work more collaboratively as a hybrid team that we were in-person.

- C. Rodriguez, VP of Product Innovation

Working with Domonique was transformative and impactful. She was able to draw participation at a level that is rarely achieved in the workplace.

- R. Beck, VP, Corporate Office Leader

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Meet Domonique Townsend

In the Press:

Domonique Speaks On:

AI-Enabled Workforce
Change Management, Innovation
Multi-Generational Engagement
Operational Excellence

Domonique is the CEO and Founder of We Optimize Work whose mission is to Make Change Feel Good At Work™. She leverages her expertise as an Industrial Engineer and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in various industries to help companies solve the largest challenges faced in employee engagement and workplace innovation.

We Optimize Work has partnered with non-profit organizations, and fast-growth startups to Fortune 10 Companies sharing her expertise to thousands of leaders, business owners and employees globally. Under Domonique’s leadership, We Optimize Work has helped add $80M+ in additional value in improved engagement, performance and productivity. Domonique has given a TEDx talk on the solutions to solve the plight of working mom professionals and has been recognized as a WBEC South Innovation Award Winner, a Nashville POST INCharge 2024 Leader in Charge: Management Consulting, American Express 100 for 100 Founder of Change, 2022 INNO Nashville Business Journal Top 10 Local Startups to Watch, Small Business Innovator Winner with Mastercard and Bank of America, 2021 Nashville CABLE ATHENA YP Nominee, 2023 Nashville Lifestyles Women In Business Honoree and recognized as a BeyGood Black Parade Route Small Business, an organization founded by Beyonce’ Knowles Carter.

Domonique has led keynotes, published works and facilitated workshops that have impacted over 100,000 leaders and emerging leaders globally in solving multi-generational and cross-functional team gaps that exist in workplace engagement needed to drive innovation solutions.

Domonique currently serves on the board at Purpose Preparatory Academy and is a part of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council NextGEN Advisory Council.

Domonique enjoys spending time writing, dancing and most importantly, making lasting memories with her husband and 4 amazing children affectionately known as The Townsend Crew. She also volunteers her time to mentor young, underrepresented leaders who seek to pursue Engineering career paths.