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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

Jacqueline Kerr

Dr Jacqueline Kerr is a behaviour scientist and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide. Dr Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of burnout, to prevent burnout through comprehensive strategic planning for employee well-being aligned with DEIB, and to create sustainable and impactful organisational change informed by her two decades as a behaviour change and implementation scientist and practitioner.    Her TEDx talk (How to stop burnout before it starts) explains how burnout is a multi-level problem and provides actionable solutions that we can all use to change the social norms around burnout based on behaviour change science.

Burnout

Behaviour change

Gender equity

North America

Marian Bacol-Uba

"After her own life-changing transformation from Survivor to Thriver, Marian now empowers individuals and businesses all over the world to create a thriving life and business. In her talks, she artfully blends soulful inspiration with actionable steps while delivering massive value to her audience. Marian Bacol-Uba is the Founder of Thriver Lifestyle, a Business Coach, TEDx & Keynote Speaker. She is also a Certified Pranayama and Meditation Teacher and the host of Thriver Lifestyle Podcast and Thriver TV on YouTube. Marian speaks about purpose-driven Entrepreneurship, public speaking, conscious leadership, and mindset. She merges her 15+ years of marketing, event production, and business development experience with her mission to create positive social impact and help elevate the voices of women globally, especially BIPOC women. She has been featured on CBS-LA, ABC-7, International Business Times, Thrive Global, Miami Under 40, and over 50 podcasts and publications. For more info visit www.marianbacoluba.com and follow her on Instagram @mbacoluba. Watch her TEDx Talk: http://bit.ly/MBUTEDxTalk"

Empowerment

Self-development

Entrepreneurship

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

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

Rebecca Cafiero

Rebecca Cafiero is a TEDx Speaker and the Founder of Brand Camp Retreats and Elevate Your Life Project. She is the host of the Becoming You Podcast. After directing sales and marketing strategies for Fortune 500 companies and managing more than $1Billion in sales, Rebecca followed her heart to become an entrepreneur and speaker. She's married her extensive background in business, branding and sales strategy with her passion of empowering women to be their best, while designing a life + business they love.     Rebecca has mentored numerous women to attain a six-figure or more yearly income through social and online marketing and empowered hundreds more to start their own business. Rebecca speaks about strength in vulnerability, growing your income through impact, personal branding, sales and content creation. She has been featured on Reader's Digest, Women's Health Magazine, US News & World Report, Realtor Magazine, Brit + Co and over 25 podcasts and publications. 

Empowerment

Branding

Social

North America

Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame and founder of Ignite Insight + Innovation, is a leadership and organizational advisor. With over twenty-five years of experience, her transformational leadership ignites the growth of leaders and resilient high-performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia boldly role models putting people first.  Her aim is to create inclusive connections and collaborations that challenge and support people in an authentic, vulnerable, and engaging way.    Over the years, she has held a variety of roles from software engineer to executive in a range of industries.  Since 2010, Tricia has spoken for small workgroups to thousands of conference attendees. Today, she is a highly-rated advisor, trainer, coach, facilitator, and motivational keynote speaker.     

Leadership

Business Agility & Resilience

Motivation & Empowerment

North America

Constance Woulard

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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

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

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

Stacy Bernal

Stacy Bernal is an author, speaker & coach at See Stacy Speak LLC. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Weber State University with a BA in Communication. In 2018, she founded Awesome Autistic Ogden, northern Utah's premier autism appreciation event, as well as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Stacy feels passionate about working with organizations that want to cultivate the inner badassery of their team members so that they feel empowered to share their voices and ideas and create lasting change in themselves, their companies, and their communities.     She's especially engaged in promoting diversity, equity & inclusion in an ever-evolving world. Stacy has been featured on Thrive Global, Chicago Now, Scary Mommy, Autism Parenting Magazine, and HER Magazine. Her debut memoir The Things We Don't Talk About has received much acclaim and praise. She is an ultra-marathoner, eight-time marathoner, and three-time triathlete. She lives happily with her husband and two sons in beautiful Utah.

Inclusion

Self-development

Communication

North America

Melody Garcia

Melody Garcia is an International Best- Selling Author, Award-Winning Sought-After Keynote Speaker, Thought Leader, Writer, International Multi-Media Icon, Transformational Catalyst Coach, and Humanitarian. With over 20 years in Fortune 100 Corporate Management and Leadership, Melody has a proven track record of building winning sales teams, business processes, coaching, development, and mentorship, and extensive experience in behavioral-based hiring and training practices!   Melody is a Certified Green Belt Six Sigma, along with extensive leadership certifications and high-ranking accolades that boast of her winning mindset and expertise. Her entrepreneurial spirit, combined with top executive commercial industry expertise, gives her a lethal edge in a visionary focus, balancing microscopic attention to detail and macroscopic implementation for increased revenues, connectivity, and staying power of any marketplace. Her International-Best Selling and critically-acclaimed book, Women Who Influence was recently accepted into the US Library of Congress in March 2018. Led by her humanitarian heart, Melody founded the 14th Congressional advocacy team for  UNICEF. Known as UNICEF Unite, it is based in Orlando, Florida and represents 190 countries in global advocacy platforms, and has been deeply involved in various humanitarian endeavors.   She is also a board member for the Steinway Society. An international media powerhouse, Melody's award-winning articles, and TV show and Life Unscripted podcast exposed her to increased global connectivity and reach. Melody has had the incredible opportunity of securing world-exclusive interviews with iconic influencers and globally renowned figures such as Trent Shelton, Steve Sims, Dr. Steve Maraboli, and Kelly Wright - just to name a few. Melody is also the USA Editor for Germany's #1 Entrepreneur Magazine with a 74 countries distribution and 148 million reader reach. Dynamically, she also expanded Manila Up! International Magazine's reach by increasing distribution to five additional countries.

Purpose

Self-development

Communication

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

Jessica Harrington

Jessica Harrington received her Master's in Public Health at West Chester University. She is a Speaker, Stress Management Health Educator as well as the Founder of Journey to Yourself. Through her career and education, she realized that we all have a common issue—everyone, at some point or another, struggles with handling stress. Through her own life journey, Jessica created Journey To Yourself.

5 Habits to Relieve Stress Today

Change Starts With You

How Self-Love Reduces Stress

North America

Sohee Jun

Dr. Sohee Jun is a top leadership coach, keynote speaker, leadership development expert, Amazon best-selling author, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council. As founder and CEO of SJ Consulting, LLC, she works with emerging leaders and executives to unleash their untapped power for themselves and their teams. Dr. Jun holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Organizational Psychology and multiple leadership certifications.

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