Becks Vogels
Storytelling expert, tech leader, and Forbes columnist inspiring audiences to communicate with clarity and impact.
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- Learn how storytelling strengthens leadership, company culture, and authentic communication in modern organizations.
- Gain practical tools from a speaker who combines Silicon Valley innovation with Hollywood storytelling techniques.
- Inspire teams with engaging keynote experiences filled with real-life stories, creativity, and actionable insights.
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From Silicon Valley to Hollywood: The power of storytelling in business and life
Becks Vogels is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, storyteller, author, and former Silicon Valley executive who helps organizations use storytelling to strengthen leadership, communication, and human connection. After moving alone from Germany to New York City at 23, Becks discovered how stories shape identities, cultures, and opportunities. Her career later brought her to Salesforce in Silicon Valley, where she experienced how storytelling drives innovation and company culture. Today, Becks combines insights from tech, academia, and Hollywood screenwriting to deliver inspiring and practical keynotes filled with tools audiences can apply immediately.
Becks Vogels
Book Becks Vogels for your event and discover how storytelling can transform communication, leadership, innovation, and human connection. With a unique background spanning Silicon Valley, New York, academia, and Hollywood screenwriting, Becks delivers inspiring keynote experiences that combine creativity, business insight, and practical strategies.
Becks Vogels, Ph.D., moved from Germany to New York City when she was just 23 years old. The experience changed her life and opened her eyes to the power of stories. In New York, she encountered storytelling everywhere — from conversations with cab drivers to the energy and ambition of people building new lives and identities. These experiences shaped her understanding of how stories connect people, create meaning, and inspire change.
Years later, Becks brought that understanding into the world of technology and innovation. She worked in Silicon Valley at Salesforce, one of the world’s largest tech companies, where she gained firsthand insight into how storytelling influences company culture, leadership, branding, and innovation. She observed how the most successful organizations use stories to define values, encourage reinvention, and build strong emotional connections with employees and customers alike.
Today, Becks continues to deepen her expertise by studying screenwriting at UCLA, learning directly from some of Hollywood’s leading storytellers. This rare combination of experiences — from tech and academia to Hollywood storytelling — gives Becks a distinctive perspective that resonates with audiences across industries.
Storytelling That Creates Impact
Becks believes storytelling is one of the most powerful tools available to leaders, businesses, and individuals. Her keynotes explore how stories influence the way people communicate, collaborate, inspire, and lead.
Audiences gain practical insights into how storytelling can be used to:
- Build stronger leadership communication
- Create authentic company cultures
- Inspire innovation and reinvention
- Strengthen customer and employee engagement
- Communicate ideas with greater clarity and emotional impact
- Build trust and human connection
Becks combines strategic business understanding with emotional intelligence and creativity, making her presentations highly relevant for organizations navigating change, growth, and transformation.
From Silicon Valley to Hollywood
What makes Becks Vogels especially unique is her ability to bridge multiple worlds. Few speakers can combine deep experience from Silicon Valley with the narrative techniques of Hollywood storytelling.
At Salesforce, Becks saw how global companies use storytelling to shape identity, motivate teams, and communicate vision. Through her screenwriting studies at UCLA, she continues to explore how compelling narratives capture attention, create emotion, and move audiences to action.
This combination allows Becks to deliver keynotes that are both inspirational and highly actionable. Her sessions are creative, engaging, and filled with memorable stories, while also providing audiences with concrete tools they can immediately apply in business and everyday communication.
Whether speaking to executives, entrepreneurs, students, or creative professionals, Becks helps audiences understand how storytelling can become a practical advantage in leadership and communication.
Award-Winning Thought Leader
Becks Vogels has been widely recognized for her impact and leadership. She was named one of the California Diversity Council’s “Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech” and was shortlisted for “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Women in IT Awards in Silicon Valley.
She regularly shares her expertise through her Forbes column, where she writes about storytelling, leadership, innovation, and communication. Her insights have also appeared in numerous guest publications, and she previously wrote a “Women in Tech” column for HuffPost.
In addition to her speaking and writing, Becks is the author of three books and is currently working on a screenplay, further expanding her creative storytelling work.
Inspiring Keynotes with Practical Tools
Organizations book Becks Vogels because she delivers more than inspiration. Her presentations equip audiences with practical storytelling frameworks they can use immediately within leadership, teamwork, branding, communication, and personal development.
Her keynote style is dynamic, engaging, and deeply human. Becks combines personal experiences, professional insights, and storytelling techniques in a way that keeps audiences fully engaged while delivering clear takeaways.
She has worked with a wide range of global organizations and institutions, including:
- United Nations
- Vodafone
- Harvard University
- Deka Bank
- ÖBB
- Austrian Postal Service
- Salesforce
Her ability to connect with audiences across industries and cultures makes her a highly sought-after keynote speaker and workshop leader worldwide.
Education and Global Perspective
Becks Vogels brings a strong academic foundation to her work. She studied at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Arts Berlin, combining expertise from business, communication, creativity, and leadership.
Her international background and global career journey allow her to connect naturally with diverse audiences. Having lived and worked across cultures, Becks understands the importance of communication that is authentic, relatable, and human.
Book Becks Vogels for your event if you are looking for a keynote speaker who can inspire audiences while providing meaningful tools for communication, leadership, and storytelling. Her unique combination of Silicon Valley experience, Hollywood storytelling techniques, and global perspective creates keynote experiences that audiences remember long after the event ends.
Customer Reviews
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You won't forget this talk!
Grant Miller Apple
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I admit I am a fan. she made me one within the first hour i knew her, because what she brought to the table was... extraordinary.
Georg Wachtberger ERSTE Bank
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She gets what's happening in Silicon Valley.
Lali Kesiraju Yahoo!
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Her approach to storytelling is more powerful than i could imagine.
Dr. Alexander Frech CEO Amiblu
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Her enthusiasm is contagious!
Manu Zeta Google
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Rebecca sparked an ongoing conversation on how to develop the narrative of the Vodafone brand further.
Gregor Gründgens Brand Director, Vodafone
Rated 5.00/5 based on 6 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Becks Vogels :
What we can learn from Hollywood for our Work & our lives
There is a lot you can learn for your work and lives from Hollywood’s greatest storytellers. Hollywood tells stories that are memorable, that make us laugh, that encourage us, inspire us, and allow us to go through life differently.
It has never been so important for leaders to know the secrets of storytelling and how to communicate convincingly in different situations, how to start a meeting, what is a good ending? And how do you stay personal without revealing too much?
You’ll learn how to:
Discover 5 Hollywood Principles and how you can use them in your daily life and work
Think about the subplot you are telling with every story.
How to incorporate the creative dynamics of a writers’ room into your work.
Define your story concept and tell a story only you can tell to inspire others.
Think like a Hollywood Screenwriter and incorporate creativity into your life.
It has never been so important for leaders to know the secrets of storytelling and how to communicate convincingly in different situations, how to start a meeting, what is a good ending? And how do you stay personal without revealing too much?
You’ll learn how to:
Discover 5 Hollywood Principles and how you can use them in your daily life and work
Think about the subplot you are telling with every story.
How to incorporate the creative dynamics of a writers’ room into your work.
Define your story concept and tell a story only you can tell to inspire others.
Think like a Hollywood Screenwriter and incorporate creativity into your life.
Keynote by speaker Becks Vogels :
Lead with your story! How to tell your story
Storytelling isn’t a trick or a marketing gimmick. In fact, it’s a uniquely human way to form connections with others. Being able to lean into your personal story, show vulnerability, and communicate from a place of authenticity, makes a modern leader.
This keynote connects the personal and the professional, teaching you how to pull from your own work life to inspire others, communicate more effectively, inspire a team, and much more.
You’ll learn how to:
Discover and shape core stories from your professional life.
Communicate easily and form connections with coworkers, clients, and customers.
Increase your visibility to influence the inside and outside of your organization.
Identify and leverage your unique strengths.
This keynote connects the personal and the professional, teaching you how to pull from your own work life to inspire others, communicate more effectively, inspire a team, and much more.
You’ll learn how to:
Discover and shape core stories from your professional life.
Communicate easily and form connections with coworkers, clients, and customers.
Increase your visibility to influence the inside and outside of your organization.
Identify and leverage your unique strengths.
Keynote by speaker Becks Vogels :
The Netflix effect: What brands can learn from streaming services about storytelling
The advent of streaming services such as Netflix has changed how we tell stories. Prestige TV has moved from a plot-driven to a character-driven approach, and we should be following that lead. In the age of binge-watching, discover how brands can create serial content in formats that stick, and form lasting connections with their audiences as they do so.
You’ll learn:
How serial storytelling works and how it has created the phenomenon of binge-watching.
How streaming services are leveraging this phenomenon, and how you could borrow from their playbook.
How to create serial content in formats that work for your brand and maintain user or customer attention for the long-term.
The five most important storytelling tools for serial content.
You’ll learn:
How serial storytelling works and how it has created the phenomenon of binge-watching.
How streaming services are leveraging this phenomenon, and how you could borrow from their playbook.
How to create serial content in formats that work for your brand and maintain user or customer attention for the long-term.
The five most important storytelling tools for serial content.
Keynote by speaker Becks Vogels :
“No more hero's stories!" Why we need empathy-driven storytelling
Heros are alienating – we don’t see ourselves in them. In the modern marketing landscape, customers don’t want heroes. Instead, they want to know that brands “get them.” They want brands to understand their challenges and celebrate their wins. It’s about identity – a feeling of “Yes, this is me” that lets brands establish trustworthy connections that are like friendships.
This is a trend personified by the rise of relatable Instagram influencers taking over from celebrities as brand ambassadors, as well as the championing of “ordinary people” in campaigns by companies as big as Nike.
You’ll learn:
Methods to challenge traditional hero-centric storytelling models and embrace empathy-driven, human narratives.
How the transformative potential of empathy in fostering deeper connections and promoting understanding.
Practical strategies for infusing empathy into your storytelling practices.
How to inspire positive change by leveraging the empathetic potential of storytelling.
This is a trend personified by the rise of relatable Instagram influencers taking over from celebrities as brand ambassadors, as well as the championing of “ordinary people” in campaigns by companies as big as Nike.
You’ll learn:
Methods to challenge traditional hero-centric storytelling models and embrace empathy-driven, human narratives.
How the transformative potential of empathy in fostering deeper connections and promoting understanding.
Practical strategies for infusing empathy into your storytelling practices.
How to inspire positive change by leveraging the empathetic potential of storytelling.
Keynote by speaker Becks Vogels :
Story first: How to tell stories that sell
In today's busy and distracted marketplace, capturing attention has become more and more difficult. In this keynote, Becks pulls from the science of storytelling, psychology, and neuroscience, to educate audiences on the essential stories they must be able to tell to captivate an audience and sell a product or an idea.
You’ll learn:
How our brains work and what neurological processes occur when we hear a story.
How to craft captivating stories that bring the hidden benefits of your product to life, leaving a vivid and tangible impression on your customers.
Story first, product second: Tell a story that enhances the value of your product or service in a way that renders price irrelevant.
The Obama Principle: How telling a “Story of Us” helps you create a connection with anyone
You’ll learn:
How our brains work and what neurological processes occur when we hear a story.
How to craft captivating stories that bring the hidden benefits of your product to life, leaving a vivid and tangible impression on your customers.
Story first, product second: Tell a story that enhances the value of your product or service in a way that renders price irrelevant.
The Obama Principle: How telling a “Story of Us” helps you create a connection with anyone
