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Ignite what’s next.
Angelica Rosas McDaniel brings to the stage the same energy she brings to launching shows, transforming iconic brands and leading teams at CBS, Hearst and Warner Bros: big ideas, sharp instincts, great stories and a clear expectation that something should happen next.
Her keynotes are about the moments that shape who we become and what we do next: owning what makes us powerful, acting before permission arrives, and using what we've built to create opportunity for someone else.
No podium. No corporate-speak. No 47-slide deck. Just great stories, real laughs, hard-won lessons and something you can actually use on Monday.
THREE KEYNOTES. ONE PROGRESSION.
Greenlight yourself. Greenlight what's next. Greenlight someone else.
Three keynotes about owning who you are, moving what you want out of “someday,” and using what you have to create possibility for someone else.
Book one keynote, or bring all three as a series.
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BEST FOR: Leadership conferences • Company-wide events • Women's leadership • Colleges & universities • Culture & inclusion programs
Too ambitious. Too direct. Too emotional. Too intense. Too much.
Most of us learn early which parts of ourselves get applause and which parts make the room shift. So we edit. We soften the sentence. Shrink the ask. Turn down the ambition.
And eventually, we can get so good at editing ourselves that we forget we're doing it.
But Too Much Is the Point isn't an invitation to ignore feedback. Some notes make us better. Others ask us to cut something valuable simply to make the room more comfortable.
The hard part is knowing the difference.
Drawing on a career spent in television, where everybody has notes, Angelica gives audiences a simple framework for deciding what stays and what goes:
What am I editing?
Who am I editing it for?
Does it need to go? MAKE THE CUT.
Is it part of who I am? KEEP IT IN.Through deeply personal stories, hard-won leadership lessons and plenty of laughs, Angelica challenges audiences to size themselves for the life they're trying to build, not the room they're in.
And by the end, KEEP IT IN isn't just something Angelica says. The whole room is yelling it back.
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THE QUESTION: What are you waiting for someone else to greenlight?
THE FRAMEWORK: DEVELOPMENT → PACKAGE → PITCH → NOTES → GREENLIGHT
THE MOVE: MAKE A STEP DEAL.
BEST FOR: Leadership & company events • Colleges & universities • Innovation & growth events • Career & life transitions • Teams navigating change
We spend a remarkable amount of our lives waiting. For certainty. For the perfect plan. For someone to tell us we're ready.
Angelica spent her career developing, pitching, producing and greenlighting ideas. Now she takes audiences behind the velvet rope and gives them Hollywood's five-step process for moving something from “what if?” to “we're making this.”
Whether you're considering a career move, building something new or trying to figure out what comes next, Hollywood knows something most of us forget:
A greenlight isn't certainty. It's a decision that something is worth the bet.
In Hollywood, a step deal doesn't commit to the whole project. It commits to the next step. Before anyone leaves the room, they make a STEP DEAL with themselves: one concrete move that gets what they want out of development and into the world.
You don't need to greenlight the whole dream.
Greenlight the next step.
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THE QUESTION: Whose name belongs in a room they're not in yet?
THE FRAMEWORK: WHAT DO I KNOW? → WHAT ROOMS CAN I ACCESS? → WHAT CAN I CHANGE?
THE MOVE: SAY THE NAME.
BEST FOR: Leadership & company events • Colleges & universities • Women's leadership • Talent & people events • ERGs • Organizations building stronger pipelines
Some of the biggest decisions about our lives happen in rooms we're not in.
Who gets the opportunity? Who gets introduced? Who gets another look?
And when you're not in the room, somebody else has to say your name.
That's the difference between mentorship and sponsorship:
A mentor transfers knowledge. A sponsor transfers access.
Through the story of how a conversation with Nina Tassler, then President of CBS Entertainment, changed the trajectory of her career, and what happened when Angelica later had somebody else's name to say, she shows audiences that you don't need a big title to have power.
You already have something somebody else needs.
You know something. You know someone. You have access somebody else doesn't.
You don't repay sponsorship backward. You raise it forward.
By the end, every audience member has identified one person, one room and one name, and committed to saying that name somewhere it can matter within 24 hours.
WHY ANGELICA
Angelica doesn't speak from theory. She speaks from the chair where the calls get made.
She became the youngest Head of Daytime in network television history at CBS, leading a 1,400-person organization reaching 34 million viewers weekly and a lineup that included shows like The Talk, The Price Is Right and The Young and the Restless. During her tenure, the business delivered 20X+ profit growth.
At Hearst she built a new business from the ground up, creating the team, strategy and operating model, and developing projects for some of the biggest buyers in entertainment.
She is also the founder of Raise Women, an organization built to connect ambitious women with the people, access and advocacy that can change the trajectory of their careers.
She started in radio at 15. She has hired, developed, championed and occasionally argued passionately for talent ever since.
These aren't theories. They're lessons earned in the room.
FORMATS
Keynote: 40 to 45 minutes, with optional Q&A.
Fireside chat or moderated conversation: Candid, high-energy conversations on ambition, leadership, reinvention, making bold moves, building what’s next and bringing others with you.
Workshop or extended session: Available on request and developed around the keynote, audience and event goals.
Custom: Each keynotes can be tailored with relevant stories, examples and takeaways for your audience, organization and event goals.
Available in person and virtually.
BRING ANGELICA TO YOUR STAGE
Greenlight yourself. Greenlight what's next. Greenlight someone else.
Angelica's keynotes don't end with inspiration.
They end with action.
Ready to ignite what's next?BRING ANGELICA TO YOUR STAGE
