Chris Singleton
Keynote speaker Chris Singleton delivers a moving message on resilience, forgiveness, and unity that strengthens teams and inspires lasting change.
Why you should book Chris Singleton for your next event
- Chris Singleton equips teams with practical tools for resilience, empowering them to overcome adversity and thrive under pressure together.
- His keynote reveals how love-driven leadership strengthens communication, trust, and engagement across organizations and teams.
- With experience uniting over 100,000 students and educators worldwide, Chris brings a powerful global perspective to every audience.
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Resilience, forgiveness, & love-driven leadership that unites people & organizations
Chris Singleton is a keynote speaker who turns profound adversity into purpose-driven inspiration. As a survivor of the 2015 Mother Emanuel Church tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, he transformed personal loss into a message of resilience, forgiveness, and unity. His keynotes reach far beyond motivation, offering organizations a meaningful framework for growth, connection, and leadership rooted in compassion. Through powerful storytelling and authentic presence, Chris creates moments that stay with audiences long after the event ends.
Chris Singleton – A Voice of Resilience and Unity
Chris Singleton is more than a motivational speaker. He is a living example of resilience shaped through one of the most tragic events in modern American history. After surviving the 2015 Mother Emanuel Church tragedy, Chris chose forgiveness over hate and purpose over despair. Today, he shares that journey with organizations seeking to strengthen their culture, unite teams, and navigate challenges with clarity and heart.
His story resonates deeply because it is real, honest, and grounded in lived experience. Audiences connect with Chris not only because of what he has endured, but because of how he empowers others to move forward stronger together.
Resilient Hearts: Finding Purpose in Struggle
In times of uncertainty and pressure, resilience becomes the foundation for success. Chris Singleton’s keynote shows individuals and teams how to respond to adversity with strength rather than fear. He shares actionable strategies that help organizations adapt, persevere, and grow even in the face of disruption.
By reframing struggle as an opportunity for purpose, Chris helps audiences develop a mindset that supports long-term performance, emotional strength, and collective progress.
The Power of Forgiveness in Organizations
Unresolved conflict can quietly limit growth, collaboration, and trust. Chris Singleton addresses this challenge head-on by showing how forgiveness can restore balance and rebuild connection within teams. His message encourages healing without ignoring accountability, creating space for renewed cooperation and respect.
Organizations that embrace forgiveness experience stronger relationships, healthier communication, and a culture where people feel valued and understood.
Love-Driven Leadership That Inspires Action
Leadership is not defined by authority alone. Chris Singleton introduces a leadership approach grounded in love, compassion, and empathy. His insights demonstrate how leading with humanity increases engagement, motivation, and loyalty across teams.
Managers and leaders leave Chris’s keynote with a clearer understanding of how to inspire others, strengthen morale, and guide their organizations with integrity and purpose.
A Keynote Tailored to Your Event
Chris Singleton understands that every audience is different. Whether speaking at a corporate conference, team-building retreat, or educational seminar, his keynote is thoughtfully tailored to address the specific challenges and goals of your organization.
With experience impacting over 100,000 students and educators worldwide, Chris delivers a message that feels both personal and globally relevant, ensuring meaningful takeaways that can be applied immediately.
Book Chris Singleton for Your Event
When you book Chris Singleton, you invite a transformative experience into your organization. His keynote inspires unity, strengthens resilience, and replaces division with understanding. Audiences leave energized, aligned, and ready to move forward with renewed purpose.
Chris Singleton does not simply speak to your audience. He connects with them, challenges them, and empowers them to create lasting change together.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Chris Singleton:
Unity in Our Communities (LOVE > hate)
This is Chris' most requested keynote where he shares his expertise on how colleagues, colleges, educators and communities in general can be united. Although some talks of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging seem to bring about divisiveness, Chris shares very important truths in a non-pugnacious way. He will explain the differences between listening to argue your point vs listening to understand perspectives.
His heart warming story of how love conquers hate will leave the audience inspired to be the change that they wish to see in the world. Whether they agree with their counterparts or not, the audience will surely be equipped with a different perspective on privilege, racism and key takeaways they can use in their everyday life to be more empathetic.
His heart warming story of how love conquers hate will leave the audience inspired to be the change that they wish to see in the world. Whether they agree with their counterparts or not, the audience will surely be equipped with a different perspective on privilege, racism and key takeaways they can use in their everyday life to be more empathetic.
Keynote by speaker Chris Singleton:
Overcoming the unthinkable adversity
It's no secret that we all go through adversity. In this keynote speech Chris shares his keys to: Survive, Pivot, Adapt and Thrive (S.P.A.T) through all of life's obstacles. Chris knows first hand how to overcome the unthinkable with a mindset of resilience and understanding that we may not be able to choose what happens to us, but we can always control our responses. Chris' response in the aftermath of his mother being murdered while he was in college led him to be drafted by the Chicago Cubs and now being one of the most booked professional speakers under the age of 30.
Keynote by speaker Chris Singleton:
Faith and forgiveness
After the horrible racially motivated mass murders in Charleston, South Carolina many know that some members of Mother Emanuel AME Church forgave the killer for his hanis act. Chris Singleton was the first person to forgive the killer uttering the words, "
Love is Stronger Than Hate
''. Following his words thousands came together to wrap their arms around one another and grieve in unity.
Chris was raised in the church and shares his testimony of how faith and forgiveness led him into a relationship with God and how even in the midst of his darkest moments, his faith reassured him that the storm would eventually pass. As a board member for the Charleston Fellowship of Christian Athletes, he shares his faith on Sunday mornings to churches, christian schools and universities around 20 times a year.
Love is Stronger Than Hate
''. Following his words thousands came together to wrap their arms around one another and grieve in unity.
Chris was raised in the church and shares his testimony of how faith and forgiveness led him into a relationship with God and how even in the midst of his darkest moments, his faith reassured him that the storm would eventually pass. As a board member for the Charleston Fellowship of Christian Athletes, he shares his faith on Sunday mornings to churches, christian schools and universities around 20 times a year.
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