Promenade leadership speakers draw from a wide range of backgrounds and specialties. What should you look for when booking a leadership speaker whether in-person or virtual?

Demonstrated success as senior executive – ideally relevant to your industry, organization size, audience composition, challenges, opportunities. Not so much that they have worked in the same industry – often there are valuable lessons from other fields.

• Speaking, Training, Advisory, Coaching experience in your industry.
• Ability to translate & tailor accomplishments and lessons learned to your group.
• Strategy vs execution, people vs process. What matters to you most?
• Comfort with your session format – keynote, half-day workshop, full-day workshop, facilitation. Large vs small group.
• Background, public persona likely to resonate with your group – whether similar or different.
• An excellent presenter!
• Willingness to confer with event organizers/senior management beforehand and onsite.
• Diversity in all its forms.
• Have they founded organizations?
• Discretion when addressing sensitive or confidential topics.

We work with 100’s of leadership keynoters. Here is a representative sampling:

Dorie Clark – Author of The Long Game and Stand Out. Lauded by Thinkers50 and Marshall Goldsmith as a Top Communication Coach

   Sabrina Shafer – Offers a neuroscience approach to influence, decision-making and thriving amidst disruption. A behavior analyst, attorney, tech entrepreneur with 3 exits.

  Daniel Lubetzky – Founder of KIND Snacks, Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank and leading social entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar global brand known for health transparency and purpose-driven business.

 Leanne Meyer – Author of Climbing the Spiral Staircase, 30 Years of Fortune 100 Executive Coaching.

 Dr. Majid Fotuhi – Pioneering neurologist, neuroscientist, bestselling author and professor with over thirty-five years of experience in brain health, memory, neuroplasticity and the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. Learn how to protect and maximize your brain health.

  Mimi Nicklin – As the USA’s #1 Ranked Emotional Intelligence Keynote Speaker and Empathy Advocate, Mimi helps leaders and entrepreneurs balance humanism with capitalism. Author of 4 Bestselling Books.

   Torin Perez – An award-winning storyteller, leadership expert and bestselling author of Who Am I to Lead? The World is Waiting for You.

   Paul Epstein – A former NFL, NBA, and Super Bowl chief sales officer, now two-time bestselling author building High-Performing Organizations and Leaders at every level.

    Arel Moodie – Alignment Under Pressure: Unlock the Power of Your People When It’s Needed Most

 Erin King – Three-time entrepreneur, bestselling author, researcher, and co-founder of The Energy Institute who helps leaders turn their personal energy into their greatest competitive advantage.

   Dr. Parag Khanna – A leading global strategy advisor and bestselling author of 7 books. Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial analytics platform. Dr. Khanna helps leaders connect the dots between geopolitics, geotechnology and geoeconomics

 Ken Schmidt – Customer Loyalty Expert; Reputation and Brand-building Authority; Senior Role in Harley-Davidson Turnaround; and Author, Make Some Noise: The Unconventional Road to Dominance

 Matthew Emerzian – Founder & CEO of Every Monday Matters | 4× Bestselling Author | Creator of The Mattering Mindset™

  Cassie Kozyrkov – CEO of Kozyr, AI Luminary, Former Chief Decision Scientist at Google, and Pioneer of Decision Intelligence

   Justin Forsett – CEO, Co-Founder of Hustle Clean. Shark Tank Contestant, NFL Pro Bowl Running Back.

   Neil Redding – Near Futurist, a computer scientist with 30+ years bringing emerging technologies into real practice for the world’s largest companies. SXSW speaker.

   Matt Kovatchis – The Self-Compassion Advantage. Practical high-energy keynotes on self-compassion, resilience and stress management.

 Andrea Flack-Wetherald – Social Worker Turned Comedian, Speaker & Bestselling Author of Mindful Improv Thinking™? 

 Dr. Ruth Gotian – Weill Cornell Medicine’s Chief Learning Officer, Author of The Success Factor and other Books on High Achievers, Mentorship and Leadership Development.

Graphic Recorders, Visual Storytellers and Visual Note-Takers

    Daymond John – Founder/CEO of FUBU, Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship, Star of ABC’s Shark Tank and CEO of The Shark Group.

   Henna Pryor – CSP helps teams boost influence, trust, believability and communication in the age of doubt.

   Liz Wiseman – Author of Rookie Smarts, Thinkers 50 Authority

    Kristi Hedges – Author, The Inspiration Code on Leadership Influence

 Dave Crenshaw – Shows Audiences How to Find Focus in a World of Chaos. Author of The Myth of Multitasking.

    Zack Kass – Global AI Advisor, Author & Researcher, Co-Founder of Korza, and Former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI

 Candace Doby – Leadership communication strategist, author and courage coach delivering practical communication tools to build courageous leaders and high-performing teams.

   Adam Weiner – 14 Years in Navy SEAL Leadership, Subsequent Financial Services & Automotive Executive Roles

 Alana M. Hill – International change leadership expert, Author of What’s Your Catalyst, engineer, passionate energy industry veteran who has paved the way for Women leaders in tech.

   Friederike Fabritius – Author of The Wall Street Journal Bestselling Brain-Friendly Workplace: Why Talented People Quit and How to Get Them to Stay and of the award-winning book The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier.

Cassandra Worthy – Thrive in the face of merger, acquisition, and significant disruptions like COVID-19 from the world’s leading Change Enthusiast

 Terence Mauri – Global Disruption Thinker, Founder, Hack Future Lab, Partner, MIT Solve, Inc. Columnist, Thinkers50 Keynote Speaker, Amazon Bestselling Author, Advisor to Fortune 500 CEO’s.

Jez Rose – Behaviour Insight Advisor to most of the Fortune 500 and executive leadership performance coach, Author of Flip the Switch.

  Lindsay McGregor – Co-author of Primed for Performance. Data-Driven Culture Expert.

   Robyn Hatcher – Magnetic Leadership Communications

   Al Dea – Career-building and workplace trends expert with specialty serving Associations & Higher Education.

 Julie Smolyansky – Youngest Female CEO of a publicly held firm, Lifeway Foods.

   Diana Kander – Curiosity’s Contribution to Innovation, Author of The Curiosity Muscle.

 Jean Marie DiGiovanna – Author of Stop Talking, Start Asking. Global Leadership Speaker.

   Patty Azzarello – Tech CEO before 40, Author of Move and Rise on Leading Business Transformation

   Peter Sheahan – Innovation Strategist and author of Flip, Making it Happen and Matter

 Kate O’Neill – The “Tech Humanist,” is a globally recognized speaker, author of What Matters Next, and leading voice on the human future of technology.

   Robin Benincasa – Firefighter, Adventure Athlete, Bestselling Author, Leads World-Class Teams

Janine Driver – Author of You Can’t Lie to Me, over 16 years as a federal law enforcement officer who now shares her people-reading skills

Cy Wakeman – Drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership

Majora Carter – Sustainable Bronx Founder, MacArthur Fellow, Urban Revitalization Strategist.

   Tony Kitchens – Entrepreneur, Philanthropist who rose from humble beginnings in Chicago’s South Side to Build a 100 Million Dollar Tech Business. Shares his success mindset, driven by mental toughness.

  Dan Heath – Co-author of Made to Stick, Switch, Upstream, The Power of Moments.

Celeste Headlee – NPR Journalist whose TEDx Talk earned 36 Million views: Better Conversations

Juliet Funt – Whitespace Evangelist, Business Culture Speaker, Building Creativity, Engagement and Productivity

Christopher Littlefield – Employee Appreciation & Remote Team Leadership

   Simon T Bailey – Former Disney Institute Exec on Leading Change and Customer Experience

Carey Lohrenz – First Female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot in North America, Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, CEO, Board member, Leadership Expert

 

Dr. Natalie Stavas – Boston Marathon Hero & Physician, Mentor

Michelle Gielan – Bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change. HBR Top 10 author on resilience

   Laura Schwartz – Clinton Administration White House Director of Events. Author of Eat, Drink & Succeed!, TV Personality and Emcee.

   Michelle Stacy – Gillette, P&G, Keurig, Inc. Leader on World Class Cultures and Global Brands

Jon Dorenbos – Former NFL Player, Magician, TV Personality, Author & Motivational Speaker

Beau Lotto – Neuroscientist, 3-Time TED Mainstage Speaker & Author of Deviate

   Robert Cialdini PhD – Preeminent Expert in Persuasion and Influence, Author of Pre-Suasion

   Jon Gordon – Author of the Wall Street Journal Best Sellers “The Energy Bus”, “The Carpenter” and “The Power of Positive Leadership”.

Dr. Jason Carthen – Former New England Patriots player, an accomplished executive, bestselling author and speaker on Leadership, Motivation and Business Growth.

Todd Henry – Author of four books (The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, and Herding Tigers) on Leading Creative Professionals, Everyday Brilliance.

   Jim Carroll – Global Futurist & Author with Proven Virtual Skills and Pro-Caliber Studio. Rapid business model change, business transformation in a period of economic uncertainty and fast paced innovation

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