Dec 8, 2022
Top Keynote Speaking Topics of the Year and Why They’re Important for Your Business
Want to know what’s important to companies these days? You can tell a lot about the priorities of the business world based on the most popular keynote speaking topics of the year. Some years it’s leadership, other times it’s motivation, but now storytelling is the most popular topic.
At BigSpeak Speakers Bureau, we work with some of the top keynote speakers with a finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the business world. These keynote speakers are thought leaders, bestselling authors, and creators of multi-million dollar businesses. Read more below to discover the top keynote speaking topics of 2022 and why they’re important.
1) Storytelling
Story is the way we connect with our customers, clients, and colleagues. It doesn’t matter if you’re marketing a product, making a sales call, or trying to lead a team, story is the best way to bridge the gap between emotion and logic. And one of the best storytelling keynote speakers is Matthew Luhn, who is a former lead animator and storyteller at Pixar Studios with over 25 years of experience. He helped shaped the humor and storytelling of such films as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille. Audiences come away with the ingredients of creating a riveting story from developing a great hook to making a likable hero.
2) Habits
Did you ever want to become better at something? We can improve our personal outcomes by learning to create good habits and by breaking our bad ones. According to personal development expert James Clear, all it takes are tiny changes that we can repeat systematically. James Clear is a habit expert who helps people build systems of success, detailed in his 9 million-copy, worldwide-bestselling book Atomic Habits. Audiences come away from his talks learning how small habits and continuous improvement can help them reach their personal and business goals. You’ll learn good practices like “never miss twice” to stay on track and how to “chain new habits to old ones” to get started.
3) Emotional Intelligence
Some articles would have you believe the business world is all about big data. However, the way we connect with our customers and colleagues through emotion is more important to our success as a team or business leader. Two of the best emotional intelligence keynote speakers are JP Pawliw Fry and Bill Benjamin. Using research from Pawliw-Fry’s New York Times bestselling book Performing Under Pressure, these two speakers help leaders and teams from Fortune 500 connect through emotion. Audiences will learn their default behaviors in stressful situations so they can have the important conversations with their colleagues, the ones that build a better team culture.
4) Resilence
No one likes to fail. However, failure is part of our business lives—especially in sales. That’s why it’s so important to improve your skills of resilience in order to bounce back from failure and rejection. Jia Jiang is a top resilience keynote speaker with the most viewed TED Talk of 2017. His bestselling book, Rejection Proof, has helped people all over the United States overcome their fear of rejection. In his talks, Jiang shares the skills you need to overcome your fear of rejection: such as rejection is only an opinion, rejection has a number, and always ask why before you say goodbye.
5) Leadership
Employees aren’t inspired by companies or mission statements. They are inspired by their leaders. Companies with good leadership thrive through good times and bad and can survive a change in leadership. But how do you become a better leader? One of the top speakers on leadership and teamwork is Cassandra Worthy. Cassandra is the Founder & CEO of Change Enthusiasm® Global, a well-respected Growth Enablement firm. She is one of BigSpeak’s highest-rated, female motivational speaker, and the bestselling author of Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success. Cassandra has an inexplicable radiance that captivates and mesmerizes any and every audience.
6) Motivation
Motivation is the key to personal and business success. But how do you stay motivated in the face of obstacles? One of the top motivational keynote speakers is Molly Bloom.
Molly is a bestselling author and the subject of the Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film, Molly’s Game. Using examples from her career, Molly shares how she overcome injuries in her career as a mogul skier and how she overcame losing her multi-million dollar business to rise again. Audiences come away with a mindset for success and how doing just a little more than the next person can have a great impact in the long run.
7) DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Did you know the most diverse companies have higher employee engagement, better productivity, and increased market share? DEI not only helps improve work culture but also helps improve business outcomes. One of the top speakers in DEI is Wema Hoover. Wema is a culture and DEI expert who has dedicated her career to serving as a catalyst for change and as a transformational leader. 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.
If you want to find a great speaker to talk about one of the top topics for business today, contact BigSpeak Speakers Bureau.
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