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Alain Robert
Alain Robert is a world-renowned free climber and uses his own setbacks to deliver keynote speeches on determination, motivation, and goal setting.
France, Indonesia
French Spiderman is one of the most famous men on earth. His legendary feats, climbing 200 of the worlds tallest skyscrapers "with his bare hands" have brought him celebrity status in every...
Henrik von Scheel
Best known as the originator of the “4th Industrial Revolution” and Digital theme of today. Henrik von Scheel presents fresh thinking, deep insights and practical advice on the most important issues of our time.
Switzerland
Named the "leading authority on strategy" and recognized as “the most influential management thinker of our times” by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai with the prestigious Knowledge Award viz. the Nobel prize of...
Roi Shternin
Roi diagnosed himself with POTS Syndrome, saving his own life. He taught himself to walk again at 27, and now his mission is to save lives and help others regain control as a patient.
Austria
A real-life medical mystery, Roi diagnosed himself with a not so rare condition (POTS Syndrome), teaching himself to walk and talk again at 27. He started a medical revolution, saving lives, and promoting health on his way to saving his own life....
Duncan Wardle
A highly sought after innovation and creativity expert who designed his own Design Thinking toolkit whilst working for almost 3 decades at Disney. His unique approach can unlock the creative potential in anyone.
USA
Duncan Wardle was head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, one of the most creative companies in the world. It was here that he developed his unique Design Thinking methodology which he used to train Disney staff to be innovative. This...
Ryan Campbell
Youngest Solo Pilot to Circumnavigate the Globe, One of Australia's 50 Great Explorers, Plane Crash Survivor, Incomplete Paraplegic, and Best-Selling Author.
Australia
Born and raised in an Australian coastal town, Ryan discovered his passion at a very young age -- flight. Aviation would be the dominant fixture in the young Australian’s life, providing some amazing but also traumatic, life-altering experiences....
Marcus Lemonis
The charismatic serial entrepreneur shot to fame for his role in the reality series The Profit, in which he offers struggling small companies capital and expert advice in return for an ownership stake.
USA
If you or your client is looking for an interactive Business Executive Speaker to empower and motivate the audience, Marcus Lemonis has been professionally inspiring crowds through keynote addresses and fireside chats for almost a...
Sarah Moshman
Sarah is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker whose work has been featured on Upworthy, Marie Claire, CNN and Good Morning America.
USA
Sarah is an inspiration because of her tireless hard work to empower others through her incredible films and her unique perspective on why storytelling is so important makes her a powerhouse entrepreneur as well. She has worked behind the camera on...
Chris Riddell
Futurist, forensic optimist and energizing catalyst - combining insight and energy to provoke, inspire and surprise.
Australia
In the chaotic state of our world today, there’s never been a more critical time for optimism with rigour. The uncertainty, unpredictability and sheer pace of our hyper-connected world is Chris’ passion—and life’s work. His obsession with...
Keelan Leyser
KEYNOTE SPEAKER / DIGITAL ILLUSIONIST / TECHNOLOGY MAGICIAN / MENTALIST / GRAND PRIX CHAMPION WINNER
USA
Keelan Leyser is a multi award-winning magician, digital illusionist, Keynote speaker and futurist. Keelan is famous for his TV performances utilizing the latest technology where he creates unique illusions with iPads, Drones, LED Screens, Robotics,...
Bean Gill
Diversity and inclusion expert uses her own life experience to guide others in overcoming adversity and show why diversion and wellness matter
Canada
Benveet “Bean” Gill’s story serves up a dose of reality like you’ve never heard before. In her 20s, Gill was working as an X-ray technologist in a cardiac catheterization lab. But, in 2012, when she turned 30, everything changed. She left...
Byron Reese
Top serial entrepreneur, technologist and leading futurist Byron Reese helps you unlocking future opportunities.
USA
Speaking across the globe, Byron brings great enthusiasm and talent for deciphering our common destiny and unlocking business opportunities within it. As a successful entrepreneur and award-winning futurist, Byron employs his perspective as a...
Ben Alldis
As a health specialist, Ben combines his experience in sports to offer audiences performance enhancing motivation.
UK
Working for Peloton as a strength and cycle instructor, Ben develops his unique overall fitness brand, which combines performance athletics with extreme motivation to achieve total wellness. This inspirational combination influences his...
Gary Vaynerchuk
Vaynerchuk understands the culture of the internet and digital communication, including esports and NFTs. By analyzing the shifting patterns of online consumer behavior, he helps others understand how to improve brand awareness.
USA
Vaynerchuk is a business builder and internet personality. By leveraging consumer interest in content from his advertising agency, VaynerMedia, he helps businesses to improve brand awareness. Gary documents daily CEO life on various social media...
Christiana Figueres
Christiana Figueres is a transformational climate change leader who is recognized across the globe for her work spearheading international negotiations on climate change and successfully addressing climate challenges
UK
By bringing together corporations, activists, governments, financial institutions and other stakeholders, Figueres has helped raise awareness about the world's collective climate future. She is credited with the global strategy shift for...
Niall Breslin
Mental health speaker & Mindfulness expert
Ireland
Niall Breslin believes in the innate human capacity to heal, recover and transform. As a life transformation expert he devotes his life to helping people reach their true unlimited potential. Currently undertaking his PhD, Niall holds an MSc in...
Ian Rose
Resilience Coach, Motivational Speaker & Double Paralympic Medallist
UK
Speaker Ian Rose is a Paralympian, first rising to fame as the Judo World Champion in 1995; as his life progressed, he faced adversities which, since then, has allowed him to reach organizations of all kinds regarding topics of motivation and...
Karen Allen
Growth Mindset & Mindfulness Expert and TEDx Speaker - Helping her audience to improve thinking, guiding them to make better choices and subsequently create a healthier & happier life.
USA
Karen M. Allen is a Mindset Expert, TEDx Speaker, and the founder of the 100% Human movement. She is passionate about equipping individuals with the tools and resources to feel better, live better, and achieve their goals with a healthy...
Rasmus Ankersen
Trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the globe
UK
Keynote speaker Rasmus Ankersen is a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes worldwide. He implements ideas for employees and businesses to get and maintain peak performances within their organization. Rasmus showcases optimism as well as...
Liz Bohannon
CEO of Sseko Designs, Innovator, and Entrepreneur
USA
Speaker Liz Bohannon optimizes companies with her fresh know-how ideas by creating purpose and innovation techniques. Liz is an entrepreneur, as the CEO of Sseko designs she pairs with scholars to develop educational and economic opportunities for...
Susan Robinson
Legally blind, adviser on overcoming adversity helping businesses and nonprofits beat the odds
USA
Speaker Susan Robinson is a tango dancer, a yogi, tandem cyclist and a world traveler. Susan is also legally blind, but she has never let that fact slow down the pursuit of her dreams. A consultant and adviser in overcoming adversity and paving new...
Rochelle Gapere
Happiness Coach, Entrepreneur, and Author
USA
Speaker Rochelle Gapere is a happiness coach focusing on how people can take control of themselves and their future through self-happiness. Rochelle demonstrates how dominating your happiness, and your perspective around happiness leads to a...
Erik & Emily Orton
Authors, dreamers, and inspirational speakers sharing their journey through the Caribbean keys to successful change
USA
This husband and wife dynamic duo are the authors of the book "Seven at Sea" and lifestyle speakers. This compelling couple shares their experiences of how their journey through the Caribbean created an outpouring experience of family growth and...
Iyanla Vanzant
Author, empowerment and life coach, founder of Visions Institute for Spiritual Development
USA
Speaker Iyanla Vanzant is a spiritual leader as she guides audience members to further identify and classify problems as it applies to them. Iyanla specializes in self-love, personal development, life coaching, and spiritual consciousness. These...
Spencer West
World Change Warrior, Bestseller Author, Inspirational Speaker Spencer West redefines possible to help millions change
Canada
As a charismatic visionary and activist, speaker Spencer West has a truly moving life story to share. After losing both of his legs at the age of five, he faced the new circumstances with courage, navigating successfully in a challenging world....
Bob Roth
Transcendental Meditation teacher and executive inspiring business and people to succeed and elevate through meditation
USA
Speaker Bob Roth has provided hundreds of thousands of people with knowledge and the personal advantage through transcendental meditation. Bob is the meditation expert, CEO of The David Lynch Foundation and President of the Center of Health and...
Jade Simmons
Classical concert pianist, media host, author and leadership expert using music to inspire companies to act courageously
USA
Jade Simmons is a dynamic pianist and leadership expert. A classical pianist turned keynote speaker, Jade has shifted the way she has performed music by implementing her authentic self into her craft. A true inspiration to music and leadership,...
Jim Tselikis
Entrepreneur, co-Founder of Cousins Maine Lobster and author sharing know-how on starting a profitable business
USA
Speaker Jim Tselikis has undergone multiple life changes and taken great risks to create his multi-million dollar business. He shares his journey and how he remained focused, to maintain success through the process. Jim teaches audiences the steps...
Lucy Bloom
Energy, humour and inspiration in one unapologetic speaker who will teach your audience how to do business differently
Australia
Speaker Lucy Bloom is a rule breaker. In her entertaining yet thought-provoking style, she commands the stage with keynotes that are packed with life-affirming lessons taken from her personal experience. Audiences learn from her wins, her losses,...
Michelle Gielan
Positive psychologist and happiness & well-being speaker creating success through positive engagement
USA
Empower your organization with positive psychology. Happiness speaker Michelle Gielan is a former CBS news anchor turned positive psychologist. She has conducted extensive research into achieving well-being, happiness and...
Lucy Faulks-Barnard
Resilience and mental health expert using positive psychology to boost happiness, reduce stress and protect our mental wellbeing. Founder of award-winning employee wellbeing company Elevate
UK
Lucy Faulks Barnard is a keynote speaker on the topics of resilience, mental health, emotional intelligence and positive psychology. Lucy is the CEO and Founder of the award-winning employee wellbeing consultancy, Elevate, where she conducts...
Justin Skeesuck & Patrick Gray
Lifelong friends best-known for the popular book and movie “I’ll Push You” as well as their inspirational adventures
USA
Speakers Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray are the two friends behind the popular book and movie “I’ll Push You”. The two of them are lifelong friends and have been on many adventures together, despite the fact that Justin is in a wheelchair....
Erica Miller
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, pioneer and successful entrepreneur sharing her fascinating but harsh life story
USA
Speaker Erica Miller is a multi-faceted, dynamic individual with a long history of “telling it like it is”. We could all learn something from her fascinating life story. Not only is she a survivor of the Holocaust, her resilience and positive...
Christine Carter
Sociologist and happiness expert shares her tips for living a happy life in her award-winning blog “Brave Over Perfect”
USA
Keynote speaker Christine Carter teaches people to find their “sweet spot”, a place of power and ease, by teaching them the tactics they need to thrive. Tactics which are backed up by scientific and anecdotal evidence from Christine's own life...
Dr. Jeremy Goldberg
Mentor, Author, Behavioral scientist, Happiness expert
Canada
TEDx speaker Jeremy Goldberg is a Ph.D. scholar who spent five years studying the science of human behavior, specifically how attitudes affect action and how we can communicate to inspire greater and lasting change. He has presented his research at...
Marc Griffiths
Happiness expert using ventriloquism to give exciting and unique talks on motivation, happiness and success
USA
Everyone lives in a box, our keynote speaker Marc Griffiths gives keys that help people get out, get happy and get successful. He is inspirational and hilarious! If you want happier employees or students and outstanding new results, then Marc is...
Dr. Ava Eagle Brown
Life and business coach who will help you discover your talents and reach success by shifting your mindset!
UK
Dr. Ava Eagle Brown is a master coach and transformational speaker. She grew up in a very poor part of Jamaica, where she had to work hard as a little girl just to make enough for dinner. Today, keynote speaker Ava Eagle Brown is an international...
Mary Ann Baynton
Founder and executive director of Mindful Employer Canada and workplace relations specialist improving workplace well-being
Canada
Keynote speaker Mary Ann Baynton is a consultant with vast experience improving workplace well-being. She is a chair in the technical committee that developed the first standard guidelines in Canada for employers to establish a management system...
Tessa Todd Morgan
Mindfulness and optimism expert, accredited trainer in emotional intelligence and founder and CEO of TRIESSENCE
USA
Keynote speaker Tessa Todd Morgan is a mindfulness expert, personal growth coach and accredited trainer in Emotional Intelligence. As the Founder and CEO of TRIESSENCE, Tessa has coached hundreds of individuals and organizations to achieve a balance...
Emilia van Hauen
Cultural sociologist, marketing expert and best-selling author sharing her knowledge on social trends
Denmark
Keynote speaker Emilia van Hauen is a cultural sociologist and marketing expert and one of Scandinavia's most sought-after keynote speakers and most quoted sociologists on the topics of current trends and social tendencies and phenomena. She is...
Will Greenwood MBE
Former rugby player known as one of England's best players ever, entrepreneur and owner of SuperSkills Experiences
UK
Our keynote speaker Will Greenwood MBE, former rugby player for England, uses his plentiful experience from the pitch and the world of business to give charming & inspirational keynotes on leadership, change management, and...
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Legendary paralympic athlete & commentator having many different skills, which makes an unusually great speaker
UK
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is Britain's most successful Paralympic athlete. In combination with her English wit and lively personality, her ample experience from the worlds of sport, business, and politics makes her an unusually inspiring...
Ole Kassow
Be inspired by a visionary serial social entrepreneur and find out which bottom lines really count
Denmark
Ashoka Fellow, Ole Kassow, is an expert in finding ways to help others, and has turned this drive into a formula that creates engaged employees and enthusiastic customers, patients, users, and citizens. Ole is the founder of Cycling Without Age, and...
Jon Nielsen
Consultant, prime influence, and pioneer for happiness with passion for creating happy and more successful workplaces
Denmark
Since graduating with a Master of Science in Engineering in 2002, Jon has worked to create better, happier and more productive workplaces. His career led him to a job in corporate HR in the financial industry, and since becoming independent he has...
Paul Vitale
Founder of Vital Communications Inc., academic, and best-selling author motivating people to exceed their potential
USA
Paul Vitale is described by audiences all over the world as enthusiastic, energetic and motivational. His talks get the best out of people and encourage them to exceed their own expectations. Using a combination of his unique speaking skills,...
Steve Cunningham
Motivational speaker and fastest blind man in the world with a story about doing the impossible and overcoming adversity
UK
The inspiring keynote speaker Steve Cunningham found himself completely blind at the age of 12. Today, he tours the world with his insightful and touching keynotes about courage, driving change and overcoming...
Terry Paulson
Psychologist and change expert who is a leading authority on change management helping people to break through
USA
Keynote speaker Terry Paulson's motivating message is exactly what people need to get past the uncertainty and indecision of these challenging times to make change work. You get a fired up audience. More importantly, you'll see people implement what...
Billy Riggs
Magician and motivator known as "the Dr. Phil of magic" transforming ordinary events into something truly special
USA
Billy has used an atypical blend of comedy, magic, music, and motivation to spread his positive attitude to more than a million people on five continents. As soon as keynote speaker Billy Riggs appears, things on stage begin to disappear! Billy's...
About Optimism
- Optimism is a mental attitude or worldview. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full and the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
- To be optimistic is a good attribute to have in a stressful and ever-changing world, which challenges our worldview and the way we feel about changes.
- Optimistic people are usually more happy, less stressful, and more productive.
- Learn through our speakers why optimism is a very important subject to talk about and how it can change your organization, business, or yourself for the better.