Two voices.
One stage.
Joe Watson and Toby Brazwell are leadership speakers who have spent 8 years and 100+ episodes talking about music — and, underneath it, about grief, faith, work, fatherhood and hope. They bring that conversation to your room: funny, warm, occasionally in disagreement, and always worth the time.
Music is the door. Leadership is the room.
Nobody leans forward for a slide about resilience. Everybody leans forward when a song they love starts playing. That is the whole trick — and it isn’t a trick. Joe and Toby have spent 8 years proving, out loud, that a three-minute pop song can carry the biggest questions people bring to work: How do I stay soft without getting crushed? What do I owe the people who came before me? Who am I when the applause stops?
Solo keynotes are everywhere. Two speakers with real chemistry — who disagree in public, laugh at each other, and land the point together — are not. Book them separately, or book the thing only these two can do.
Three ways to bring it in
Keynote
Joe and Toby together. One song, live on stage, pulled apart and put back together in front of the room — and then the riff: the leadership idea it opens onto. High energy, real chemistry, no slides you’ll remember.
Workshop
The keynote, made participatory. Teams work through a real problem using the same tools the show uses on a song: listen, trace it back, find the tension, resolve it. Built around your agenda.
Riffs Live
A talk with a band in it. Joe and Toby play — actually play — the music they’re talking about. Part concert, part conversation, entirely theirs. For closing nights, galas and rooms that need lifting.
Solo bookings: Joe at hopewithjoe.com · Toby at leadwithtoby.com
What they talk about
Harmony, Not Balance
Everyone is chasing work-life balance and nobody has found it. Musicians don’t balance notes — they make them work together. A talk about building a whole life and a whole team the way a song is built: tension, resolution, and knowing which voice leads when.
Hope Is a Verb
Resilience isn’t about getting harder. It’s about showing up when you’re nowhere near your best. Drawn from the artists who wrote their way through the worst year of their lives — and from two hosts who have buried people they loved and kept listening.
The Song Behind the Song
Every hit is built on something older. So is every person on your team. A session on listening past the surface — the sample under the beat, the story under the complaint — and what changes when people feel heard.
Every talk is tuned to the room. Tell us who’s in it and what they’re carrying.
Tell us about your event
A few details and we’ll come back within two business days with availability, a fee range, and a one-sheet.
Or email joe@switchinnovationlab.com