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KeyNote Speakers in North America

All the KeyNote speakers on our directory are screened by our recruitment team. They are inspirational thought-leaders, and experienced and accomplished speakers. Our teams are here to advise you on the most suitable speaker for your event. You can rest assured that you will get the inspirational subject-matter expert that you are looking for. Our speakers have typically spoken to large audiences (hundreds of people). In addition, we are training experts and thought-leaders to inspire from stage.

Are you looking for thought leaders and experts in the areas of leadership, marketing, HR, diversity and inclusion, technology, finance, sustainability, transformation, politics, mindfulness, or sexual health? We have them all! You can have a diverse and balanced speaker panel at your next conference, convention, or corporate gathering.

North America

Adaobi Ezeadum

Adaobi Ezeadum (nèe Ibeanu) is a divergent thinker, public speaker, mindset coach (Fear Strategist), and a lady with a positive mental attitude. She is the founder and chairperson on the board of trustees of the Empowered Sapiens Mulier Initiative (ESMI) – an NGO that seeks to provide solutions to socio-cultural women (girl) problems through community projects while leveraging innovative advocacy strategies.    Adaobi’s coaching prowess has helped women by putting them on the journey to self-discovery or rediscovery. She is committed to helping them reprogram their minds and not letting fear win. She is passionate about seeing women reinvent themselves where necessary and become the best version of themselves. She has a mantra that “all women will one day realize they are so powerful; much more powerful than society has made them believe”.   She is a licensed Nigerian attorney, a wife and mother, lover of God, and author of the book The Woman Within. 

Saying No to Fear

Woman Within

Women in Leadership

North America

Casey Halliley

"Casey Halliley is the Founder and Chief Educating Officer of Wealthology (www.wealthology101.com). She is a financial literacy expert who motivates and inspires young students and professionals to take control of their personal finances so they can live the lives they want and they deserve. After spending the first part of her career working at Citibank trading currencies, and Barclays Bank PLC trading Structured Credit Products, she founded Wealthology in 2014 when she realized, despite spending the past 15 years studying, structuring and trading sophisticated financial products, she had never received one hour of training on how to manage her own personal finances. Casey also consults for a Registered Investment Advisor, teaches financial literacy games to at-risk teens at a local Crisis Center, advises a digital insurance company on its educational content and sits on the board for The Center for Continuing Education in her community. Casey has spoken at numerous corporations and schools including Yale University and Columbia Business School."

Finance

Self-help

Success

North America

Lyn Dee Elridge

Lyn-Dee Eldridge is the Chief Happiness Officer/Founder of Happiness Jungle LLC. Entrepreneur Mentor, #1 Best-Selling Contributing International Author, Keynote Speaker, Breast Cancer Survivor, Humorist, Certified Co-Brand Partner, with Les Brown, Creator/Producer and TV personality of The Happiness Jungle TV Show. When your cookies crumble like Lyn-Dee's has; cancer, abuse, divorce, grieving, single-parenting, co-parenting, step-parenting, becoming a care-taker, business owner, and dealing with financial pressures, you can learn how to work through everything with a happier, more positive attitude and purpose. She has been able to scale, measure and add value by turning her cookie crumbs into opportunities for growth and empowerment. Lyn-Dee helps individuals, couples, families, small businesses, corporations, non-profit groups, schools, and universities understand how to apply happiness philosophies, how to live a less stressful life with positive actions and how to control your emotions.

Self-development

Self-help

Success

North America

Krista Neher

Krista Neher is an international speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, global thought-leader, and the CEO of Boot Camp Digital. Krista has written six best-selling books on digital marketing and personal branding, including a textbook and a “Dummies” book. With over 15 years of experience, Krista was a digital marketing pioneer – executing digital strategies before “digital marketing” was even a recognized term. She has worked with companies like Facebook, Nike, Procter & Gamble, GE, Macy’s, Google, and the United States Senate and has been featured as an expert in the New York Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, NBC, CBS, Entrepreneur, and the Associated Press. Krista is passionate about digital marketing and created one of the first accredited certification programs in the world.

Digital Marketing

Social Media Marketing

Personal Branding

North America

Sohee Jun

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North America

Ruchika Tulshyan

Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist and keynote speaker. She is the CEO of Candour, a practice that advises global organizations on diversity & inclusion strategy and communications. She is also author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace. An eminent journalist, Ruchika writes regularly for publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes and The Seattle Times.     She is also Distinguished Professional-in-Residence for the Communication Department at Seattle University. In 2019, Ruchika was named to the Thinkers50 "On the Radar" list, a global community of influential management thinkers to watch. Originally from Singapore, Ruchika has lived and worked in multiple countries over three continents. She currently resides in Seattle, USA. 

Equity

Inclusion

New work

North America

Hannah Austin

Hannah Austin is a highly sought-after corporate leader and management professional, specializing in the management and prevention of burnout for professionals. As the CEO and Founder of SheShatters, LLC, she draws on her experience consulting and coaching corporate leaders to provide employees- at the mid to high point of their careers with the support they need to burn brightly without burning out. Prior to founding SheShatters, Hannah spent 20 years as an executive in the healthcare industry, a role in which she faced immense pressures and witnessed her colleagues suffering the effect of burnout en-masse.   She became determined to make a change that would impact not only her own path in life but the paths of the many inspiring professionals she knew and worked with. Hannah founded SheShatters in 2021 with the goal of helping employees and managers to find a balance between their personal and professional lives, and on a macro level, leading a movement away from corporate hustle culture.

Leadership

Culture

Employee Engagement and Retention

Burnout

North America

Selena Rezvani

Selena Rezvani teaches women at all levels to negotiate at work like a boss. She also consults to employers on how to make work truly work for women - by architecting workplace culture changes that improve working women's experience. She's the author of two leadership books targeted at professional women, Pushback: How Smart Women Ask and Stand Up for What They Want (Jossey-Bass, 2012 & winner of an Axiom book award) and The Next Generation of Women Leaders (Praeger, 2009). Selena addresses thousands of professional women each year and has been featured in the LA Times, Oprah.com, HBR, Todayshow.com, and NPR. She wrote an award-winning column for The Washington Post and today, serves as a popular columnist on women and the workplace for Forbes and Philadelphia Magazine. Selena is based in Philadelphia where she lives with her husband Geoff and 6 year old boy-girl twins.

Empowerment

Gender

Self-development

North America

Heather Hansen O'Neill

Introducing a dynamic international keynote speaker, whose vision, strategic purpose, and expertise have helped countless leaders transform their companies in the throes of reorganization and M&A.      Heather Hansen O’Neill is a 2x TEDx speaker, award-winning author, behavioral expert, and podcast host known to Fire Up audiences. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results. With expertise in virtual, hybrid, and live events, as well as her focus on helping individuals and companies break through fears, judgments, and blocks to reach sales and leadership success, Heather’s innovative keynotes are in high demand during these changing times.     With a laser focus on the human side of the business transition, Heather Hansen O'Neill is disruptive, innovative, and real! As a catalyst for change, she penetrates the heart of what is often overlooked how to help your people feel better, adapt, and achieve results.

Change

Leadership

Behavioral Transformation

North America

Denise Morris Kipnis

Denise M. Kipnis Morris heads ChangeFlow Consulting, a global organization development consultancy that specializes in transformational change, and inclusion. Known for organizational puzzle-solving and big-picture thinking, her areas of expertise include: organization design, change management, culture, communication, and project management. Denise has led change projects across various sectors and countries; her clients include multinationals as well as SMEs, not-for-profits, and government agencies.     She believes in co-creating culture-specific solutions with people in the organization: developing new or existing capabilities by transferring knowledge and skills, leveraging employee leadership and participation, and fostering diversity and inclusion to build trustful working relationships. With a background in operations and project management, she focuses on practical solutions and business outcomes as well as human factors. Denise has an M.Sc in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, a B.A. in English from Stanford University, and project management certification from the U.C. Berkeley Extension. She has lived in Singapore since 2010. 

Leadership

Inclusion

Change Management

North America

Heather Flanagan

Heather Flanagan, Principal, and Owner at Spherical Cow Consulting come from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organizations on the Internet, including IDPro as Principal Editor, the IETF, the IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor, ICANN as Technical Writer, and REFEDS as Coordinator, to name a few.    Heather’s goal is to work with organisations to make the Internet a more functional, diverse, and less biased platform for the world. This involves hands-on engagement in developing and expanding business and administrative processes, designing technology strategies, forming and leading teams, and technical writing and editing.   If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards, or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work.

Digital Identity

Internet Standards Development

Multi Stakeholder Collaboration

North America

Shen Lee

Shen Lee is the author of Hungry for Disruption: How Tech Innovations Will Nourish 10 Billion by 2050 (A #1 New Release on Amazon) and associate at Thought For Food, a next-gen innovation engine for food and agriculture. She is also the founder of Fresco Foods, a social food venture. Through her work, she empowers and supports agri-food innovators, tackles pressing food issues, and advocates for tech innovations in a better food future. Ultimately, she helps build and support a more sustainable, inclusive, and nutritious food system. A lover of all things gastronomy, Shen went to the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration to pursue her undergraduate studies. She grew up in Malaysia and previously lived in Singapore. In Singapore, she started Fresco Supper Club, a social mission-driven restaurant, and spoke about her experiences with entrepreneurship and innovation in her TEDx Talk. In her free time, Shen loves to cook, go to farmer's markets, spin, and box. Learn more about Shen’s work at www.shenminglee.com.

Purpose

Success

Innovation

North America

Catarina Rivera

Catarina Rivera, MSEd, MPH, CPACC is a disabled public speaker and DEI consultant with over 14 years of experience in the public sector. Catarina works with companies to improve accessibility and inclusion, retain employees, and design better products. She is the founder of Blindish Latina, a platform smashing disability stigmas through storytelling, advocacy, and training. Catarina has worn hearing aids from a young age and was diagnosed with progressive vision loss at 17 years old.     Catarina has a BA from Duke University, an MSEd from Bank Street College of Education, and an MPH from Hunter College. She is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (IAAP). She is a member of RespectAbility's National Disability Speakers Bureau and. Catarina is also committed to social justice.    

Diversity

Equity & Inclusion

Disability Inclusion

Accessibility

North America

Jenny Dorsey

Jenny is a professional chef, writer and artist specializing in multi-platform storytelling fusing food with social good. She leads a nonprofit studio named Studio ATAO, is the Co-Host of Why Food? podcast on Heritage Radio Network and runs her own culinary consulting business. Her food and work has been profiled in outlets such as Eater, Business Insider, Food & Wine, Oxygen TV and NowTHIS. Her full biography, food portfolio and writing can be found at http://jennydorsey.co.

Self-development

Creativity

Storytelling

North America

Abbie Mirata

Abbie is a trainer, speaker, corporate executive, and business owner. From teen mom to VP, founder of the nonprofit Kyndly and owner of a franchise that concentrates on mentoring young people, she is focused on impacting people, creating community, and building a kinder world. She believes people are looking for a human connection in the companies they do business with. As former head of sales operations and training for a multi-billion-dollar public company and VP of People and Culture for a successful startup tech company, Abbie draws from her experiences to help others focus on cultivating joy and finding the light they give from within themselves, each and every day. As a Joy Coach and Keynote speaker, she brings her quick-witted humor, personal challenges, and relentless positivity to every interaction, workshop, and engagement.

Self-help

Communication
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