Top 10 Leadership Keynote Speakers for High-Quality Leadership

 

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

 

In the DDI’s 2023 Global Leadership Forecast, organizations reported a drop in the number of high-quality leaders. High-quality leaders can empower employees and guide organizations through challenging times, while poor-quality leaders inspire employees to leave the company.

If you’re looking to improve the quality of your organization’s leaders, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau works with the Top 10 Leadership Keynote Speakers and consultants. These keynote speakers are experts in emotional intelligence, motivation, management, and communication. They have helped countless organizations develop high-quality leaders.

 

1) JP Pawliw Fry 

JP Pawliw-Fry is a top leadership keynote speaker and emotional intelligence expert. Using research from Pawliw-Fry’s New York Times bestselling book Performing Under Pressure, he helps leaders and teams from Fortune 500 companies overcome their barriers to reach their full potential.

2) Elise Mitchell

Elise is a top leadership keynote speaker, three-time CEO, leadership strategist, business consultant, and executive coach. She is the founder of Mitchell Communications Group, one of the top 10 fastest-growing public relations firms globally and a two-time Inc. 500/5000 fastest-growing company. Under her leadership, her agency grew more than 500% in five years.

3) Bill Benjamin

Bill Benjamin is a top keynote speaker on leadership and peak performance. He helps leaders and teams from Fortune 500 companies overcome the barriers that often hold them back from reaching their full potential.

4) Carey Lohrenz

Carey Lohrenz is a top leadership and motivational keynote speaker and was the first female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot in the U.S. Navy. Carey is a powerhouse in the field of delivering engaging leadership presentations that directly impacts a company’s ROI and bottom line. 

5) Gregory Robinson

Gregory Robinson is a top leadership expert best known as the man who successfully launched the James Webb Space Telescope after the project was years behind. Within months of being named Director, he increased the efficiency of the schedule from 55% to 95%. Greg shares how you can lead through the alignment of teams and open communication. 

6) Wema Hoover

Wema Hoover is a culture and DEI expert who has dedicated her career to serving as a catalyst for change and as a transformational leader. Her expertise centers on diversity, equity, & inclusion, authentic leadership, and women’s empowerment, with a reputation for creating systemic organizational change in people, processes, and products on a global scale. Her deep experience spans multinational, market-leading consulting, pharmaceutical, and technology enterprises with a high degree of cultural awareness, having lived in the US, Europe, and Asia and leading globally dispersed teams. As a trusted C-suite and board-level advisor, Wema has leveraged her background leading global DEI efforts for companies like Google, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Bristol-Myers Squibb to help inform and guide corporate leadership through evolving corporate culture, creating inclusive work environments, and integrating DEI and sustainability to build high-performance organizations and drive business results.

7) Kwame Christian

Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, business lawyer, and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI). Kwame’s interactive talks help leaders learn the skills they need so they can have difficult conversations and negotiate successful deals.

8) Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman is a top leadership keynote speaker, researcher, and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Multipliers:  How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.

9) Thomas Kolditz

Retired Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz is a leadership expert and author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It. Thomas shares profound lessons on leadership from his research that any leader can use to develop their soft skills.

10) Jonathan Reckford

Jonathan Reckford is a top leadership expert and the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, a global Christian housing organization. Jonathan speaks about leadership skills based on his experience in the for-profit sector at Goldman Sachs, Marriott, The Walt Disney Co., and Best Buy.

 

If you want to book a Top 10 Leadership Keynote Speaker, contact BigSpeak Speakers Bureau today, a leading speaking agency among speakers bureaus.

 

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