Marissa Orr

Leadership Speaker, Former Google and Facebook Marketer, Truth Teller, Best-selling Author

Marissa Orr is a top leadership keynote speaker, former Google & Facebook executive, and the bestselling author of Lean Out. She spent 15 years working at today’s top tech giants and has conducted talks for thousands of people in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, at companies and universities such as Google, Twitter, Pace University, New School, and American Express.

  • Marissa Orr Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $10,001 - $20,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    New Jersey, USA

  • Marissa Orr Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $10,001 - $20,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    New Jersey, USA

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The Truth About Men, Women, Power and The Workplace

With female-dominant strengths such as empathy and consensus-building being the future of business, headlines forecast women will dominate future generations of corporate leaders. But that won’t happen until prescriptions for success stop requiring ...

With female-dominant strengths such as empathy and consensus-building being the future of business, headlines forecast women will dominate future generations of corporate leaders. But that won’t happen until prescriptions for success stop requiring women to act more like men, mistaking traits such as empathy as signals of weakness.

Google and Facebook veteran, Marissa Orr offers a fresh new perspective on the question few dare to ask: What have we’ve gotten wrong about women at work?

Based on in-depth research and personal experiences, Marissa shares her journey as a single mom of three trying to find success in her 15-year career at the world’s top tech giants. In an eye-opening personal account, she exposes the systemic dysfunction at the heart of today’s corporations and how efforts to close the gender gap have come at the expense of female well-being.

She doesn’t simply present a counterargument to modern feminist rhetoric but provides a revolutionary path forward to change the trajectory of the lives of women (and men) in the corporate world and beyond.

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Innovation, Creativity & Culture

Why do most organizations fail to innovate? Why do the most capable and experienced business leaders continue floundering when it comes to adapting their organizations in the face of today’s challenges to reach and retain market leadership. In ...

Why do most organizations fail to innovate? Why do the most capable and experienced business leaders continue floundering when it comes to adapting their organizations in the face of today’s challenges to reach and retain market leadership. In this revealing and thoughtful talk, Marissa explains why even those most progressive methods of fostering creativity and innovation have failed to create the products, cultures, and workplaces they are meant to inspire.

Weaving the latest, cutting edge research with humorous and engaging stories from her time at Google and Facebook, Orr overturns conventional wisdom on innovation, explains why common but empty platitudes like ‘fail harder’ actually fail to help companies be more innovative, and explores what most people get wrong about the best way to inspire collaboration, creativity, and higher performance.

 The compelling narrative offers a brand new, eye opening perspective on what it truly takes for companies to grow and adapt, and provides specific techniques and practical steps they can use to succeed in today’s rapidly changing business environment

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About Keynote Speaker Marissa Orr

About Speaker Marissa Orr…

Marissa Orr is a leadership keynote speaker, former Google & Facebook executive, and the bestselling author of Lean Out. She spent 15 years working at today’s top tech giants and has conducted talks for thousands of people in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, at companies and universities such as Google, Twitter, Pace University, New School, American Express, and more.

Originally from Miami, Orr received her Master’s degree in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida. Her debut book, Lean Out, The Truth About Women, Power, & the Workplace, was released by Harper Collins Leadership in June of 2019 and is an Amazon bestseller.

Featured in Forbes, Fox, Yahoo! Finance, and CNBC, Lean Out is not simply a retort to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, but a revolutionary path forward with the power to change the lives of men and women in the corporate world and beyond. With Lean Out, Orr provides a fresh voice for a new generation of thinkers.

Testimonials

“Everyone at Twitter is still talking about your women’s leadership presentation. It was one of the most engaging we’ve ever had.”

Balaji Sankaran

SVP Global Sales, Operations & Marketing, Twitter

“As keynote for our Innovate Emergency Medicine conference, Marissa’s speech thoroughly captivated the throngs of physicians and healthcare professions in the room. With engaging humor and deep insight, she explained why innovation is so difficult to cultivate in the workplace despite being such a simple concept. She challenged us to look at the topic from a wholly new and useful perspective, one which we’d not heard before, and one we’ve been talking about ever since. She was truly the highlight of the day for everyone.”

David Mishkin

MD FACEP, Chief Innovation Officer, Sheridan Health

“You were outstanding today! You have the right balance of charisma, knowledge and humor and you have been the highlight of the day for everyone.”

Julie Rollauer

Head of Industry, CPG, Google

Marissa’s keynote for our iEM conference was outstanding. With humor and grace, she challenged us to look at things from a wholly new and useful perspective; one which we’d not heard before, and one we’ve been talking about ever since.”

David Mishkin

MD FACEP, Chief Innovation Officer, Sheridan Health

“You crushed it and your energy was contagious. A great ending to our conference!”

Geraldine Conquest

Business Lead, Women@Google New York

“Marissa, thank you for creating and delivering a phenomenal presentation, sharing your own personal insights and time, and both inspiring us to push our thinking in this area as well as providing us with some very specific tactics we can adopt today! Yesterday was truly terrific and only because of the tremendous thought and passion you brought to the initiative.”

Elizabeth Ross-Ronchi

VP/GM, Global Field & Dialogic Marketing, American Express

“Thank you for coming to Canada to deliver the thought leadership presentation. The team thought it was simply OUTSTANDING – the best they’d seen in years.”

Bob Cornwall

Global Head of Sales L&D, YouTube

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May 6, 2019

Marissa Orr’s New View on Gender in the Workplace

Facebook and Google veteran Marissa Orr is changing the way we think about gender dynamics in the workplace. For years,...

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