Feb 8, 2024
Why Hire a Leadership Keynote Speaker?
Ready to up-level your leadership strategies? Leadership keynote speakers inspire, educate, and drive positive change within your organization. If you’re wondering whether it’s worth booking a leadership keynote speaker for your next corporate event, here are some compelling reasons why it’s a smart investment.
- Inspiring Transformation: A leadership keynote speaker will ignite transformational change within your team. Their captivating stories of resilience, triumph, and innovation instill purpose and determination, fostering a culture of ambition and excellence.
- Sharing Invaluable Insights: These speakers offer practical knowledge and tools derived from their own experiences as accomplished leaders at well known organizations like NASA, Netflix, Google, Salesforce and more. From decision-making to effective communication, they equip your team with the skills needed for success in today’s competitive landscape.
- Cultivating a Positive Culture: By promoting core values like integrity and innovation, a leadership keynote speaker will help shape a positive organizational culture. This mindset shift can create an environment characterized by motivation, productivity, and enthusiasm.
- Enhancing Leadership Skills: The guidance provided by a seasoned leadership keynote speaker will significantly impact the development of leadership skills among your team members. Their teachings on management, adaptive leadership, and visionary thinking can propel personal and professional growth.
- Driving Motivation and Unity: A well-chosen leadership keynote speaker has the ability to galvanize your team, fostering collective purpose and unity. Their motivational presence aligns goals and infuses positivity into the workplace dynamics.
If you want to unlock new levels of achievement, resilience, and excellence within your organization, consider our list of top-booked leadership keynote speakers for your next corporate gathering.
Tiffani Bova
Consistently ranked as one of the world’s top business thinkers, two-time bestselling author Tiffani Bova is an acclaimed expert on all things top-line growth. She has helped hundreds of companies around the globe respond to changing market dynamics and customer expectations while developing a customer-centric go-to-market approach. Her energizing presentations ignite teams to succeed and provide transformative frameworks to unleash unparalleled growth. Unique as both a practitioner, academic, author, and influencer, Tiffani provides the perfect combination of research and real-world experience gained as the global growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and as an advisor to tech leaders including Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon-AWS and others.
Gregory Robinson
Best-known as the turnaround leader of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), 33-year NASA veteran Gregory Robinson is credited with transforming a program that was billions over budget and years behind schedule into one of NASA’s greatest achievements of the 21st century. Robinson’s renowned leadership skills and soft-spoken management and communication style have earned him numerous awards and honors, including being named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022 (alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky) and receiving the TIME100 Impact Award, which credited Robinson’s leadership on Webb as bringing us closer to understanding the universe.
Robyn Benincasa
Robyn Benincasa is a top leadership and teamwork keynote speaker, author, and Adventure Racing World Champion. One of the highest-rated, female motivational speakers in the world, she regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons, her customers include many Fortune companies like Starbucks, Deloitte, Aflac, Boeing, and more.
JP Pawliw-Fry
Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is a high-performance culture keynote speaker, leadership thought leader, peak performance expert, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Performing Under Pressure. His work with leaders from Fortune 500 companies, U.S. Marines, Olympic athletes, NBA, and NFL teams has provided him with considerable opportunities to test his science-based tools in environments of high pressure.
April Rinne
April Rinne is a change navigator: she helps individuals and organizations rethink and reshape their relationships with change, uncertainty, and a world in flux. She’s a trusted advisor, speaker, investor, lawyer, global development executive, adventurer (100+ countries) and insatiable handstander. She is ranked one of the 50 leading female futurists in the word and is a Harvard Law School graduate, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Silicon Guild and Thinkers50 Radar, and author of the international bestseller Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change.
Marc Randolph
Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, and investor, whose career as an entrepreneur spans four decades. In addition to being the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, Marc has founded or co-founded six other successful startups, mentored hundreds of early-stage entrepreneurs, and as an investor has helped seed dozens of successful tech ventures (and just as many unsuccessful ones). He is host of the top-10 Apple podcast That Will Never Work, where he works directly with entrepreneurs to provide 1-on-1 mentoring. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Wema Hoover
A transformational DEI leader at Google, Pfizer, Sanofi and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wema Hoover has earned her reputation as an inspiring catalyst for change. Her expertise and thought leadership centers on diversity, equity, & inclusion, authentic leadership, women’s empowerment, and unlocking the true potential of individuals, teams, leaders and organizations. As a trusted C-Suite and board-level advisor to multinational companies, Ms. Hoover guides corporate leadership and drives systemic, organizational change across people, processes, and products on a global scale. Her deep experience spans global, market-leading consulting, pharmaceutical, and technology enterprises. Throughout her distinguished career, Ms. Hoover has championed DEI as a competitive advantage—viewing it as a critical component of culture and community that brings out the best in individuals.
Ben Nemtin
BEN NEMTIN and his three childhood friends started THE BURIED LIFE in Victoria, British Columbia in 2006. They made a list of 100 things to do before you die. For every bucket list item they accomplished, they helped a stranger cross something off their bucket list. Since then, they have crossed off “Write a #1 New York Times Bestseller”, “Make a TV Show (on MTV)”, “Be Interviewed by Oprah” and have helped reunite a father and son after seventeen years and surprised a young girl with a much-needed bionic arm. Ben has crossed off 96 of 100 dreams and has helped countless people achieve their dreams. Ben Nemtin is ranked as the #2 Motivational Speaker in the World by Global Gurus and is listed as a Top Organizational Culture Thought Leader.
Tiana S. Clark
Tiana “the Audacious Commander” Clark is a leadership and resilience keynote speaker, professor, founder, and award-winning filmmaker of Soci Circle. As a Global Corporate Tech Leader, she created her own positions at two Fortune Top 10 companies, including building Microsoft’s first-ever and best-in-class U.S. Services Sales University. At NU Kellogg Business School, she teaches executive education and sales. And as the founder of the Audacious Academy, she helps corporate professionals of color who are still climbing to own their careers with audacity.
Paul Epstein
PAUL EPSTEIN has spent nearly 15 years as a professional sports executive for multiple NFL and NBA teams, a global sports agency, and the NFL league office, where he has broken every premium revenue metric in Super Bowl history, opened a billion-dollar stadium, and founded the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy, where he became known as the “Why Coach.”As an award-winning keynote speaker named one of SUCCESS magazines top thought leaders that get results, Paul’s impact continues off stage providing leadership development and culture transformation programs for companies and teams including Amazon, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Dallas Cowboys—and his work has been featured on ESPN, NBC, Fox Business, and in USA Today.