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Roger Dooley

A Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty and a leading customer experience keynote speaker, he equips teams with practical, science-backed strategies that work in the real world.
  • Keynote Speaker & Author
  • Neuromarketing + AI + Psychology: Understand & Win Customers
  • Author of Friction and Brainfluence
Speaker Fee:
$15,000 - $20,000
Virtual Fee:
Please inquire
Travels From:
Tennessee
Roger Dooley
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Speaker Fee: $15,000 - $20,000
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Roger Dooley Speaker Biography

Roger Dooley is an internationally recognized author and keynote speaker who transforms how businesses think about persuasion and customer behavior. His newest book The Persuasion Engine (Wiley, May 2026) reveals how AI is democratizing behavioral science and neuromarketing techniques, making tools once exclusive to Fortune 500 companies accessible to organizations of any size.

Dooley is the author of Friction: The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage (McGraw Hill; named a Top 3 Management Book by PwC’s strategy+business) and the bestselling Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing (Wiley), now translated into eleven languages. He lectures at the Univerity of Texas McCombs Business School and other universities, contributes to Forbes, writes the popular Neuromarketing blog, and hosts the Brainfluence podcast with over 400 episodes. He co-founded College Confidential, the web’s busiest destination for college-bound families, which was acquired by the UK’s Daily Mail Group where Dooley served as Vice President of Digital Marketing.

Dooley’s unique perspective comes from bridging behavioral science with real-world business application. His approach delivers immediately actionable strategies that teams can implement without extensive training. He has worked with companies from Fortune 500 firms to entrepreneurial startups, enhancing their marketing, customer experience, and employee engagement. He has been named a Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty.

His signature framework, The Persuasion Slide™, simplifies complex behavioral principles into a practical model for identifying and eliminating friction points that prevent sales and reduce satisfaction. The framework has applications beyond marketing, including healthcare compliance and organizational change.

Dooley brings entrepreneurial experience as co-founder of a successful direct marketing catalog business and corporate expertise as director of corporate planning for a Fortune 1000 company. He holds an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Tennessee.

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Neuromarketing 2.0 & The Persuasion Engine: AI, Behavioral Science, Neuroscience and Marketing
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How To Make People Buy with Thomas Zoega Ramsoy – Brainfluence
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Speech Topics

Neuro-Loyalty: The Better Way to Attract and Keep Great Customers

A Better Path to Loyal Customers & Engaged Employees

What do your most valuable customers and employees have in common? They are LOYAL. There’s something else: they are HUMAN. We all spend far too much on acquiring new customers – advertising, marketing, social media, sales incentives, and more. A loyal customer doesn’t incur those costs, and is far more likely to do your marketing for you by recommending you to others. The same logic applies to your people – recruitment and training are the costly alternative to retaining your best team members. The key to a high-performing organization is understanding how our brains govern our behavior. Science-based business expert Roger Dooley, a Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty, will show you how simple changes in customer and employee experience can increase profits, reduce employee turnover, and cut customer churn.

Mind Reading for Marketers: AI-Powered Neuromarketing

Roger Dooley Neuromarketing 2.0

Understand your customer’s mind with groundbreaking advancements in neuromarketing. In this cutting-edge keynote, Roger Dooley reveals how the fusion of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and behavioral science is revolutionizing marketing. Discover how AI and mobile tech are transforming neuromarketing from a tool only big brands could afford into a powerful asset for businesses of all sizes. You’ll learn:

• How to leverage AI-powered neuromarketing techniques to predict and influence customer behavior with unprecedented accuracy
• How mobile devices and wearables are bringing neuromarketing out of the lab and into the real-world
• Practical techniques for turning AI models into your personal persuasion scientist and improve every aspect of your marketing

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge in understanding and connecting with your customers like never before.

Brainfluence Keynotes
Brainfluence by Roger DooleyNeuromarketing: How to Engage Your Customer’s Non-conscious Mind

Brainfluence for Business: B2B Customers are Human, Too

Neuro-CX: Brand Experience and Your Customer’s Brain

Roger is one of the world’s best-recognized experts on neuromarketing and applying behavioral science to marketing, sales and customer experience. His global bestseller Brainfluence has been translated into eleven languages and he has brought his insights to audiences around the world.

Topics vary by audience – affiliate marketers, consumer brands, B2B firms, and non-profits have very different objectives and needs. But, all keynotes start from the concept that 95% of human decisions are non-conscious. Appeals based on logic and reason alone never work. Even worse, marketing using facts, figures, and logic pushes customers into what Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman calls “System 2” thinking. Our brains don’t like that effortful thinking, and will try to exit that mode as soon as possible.

Each of Roger’s keynotes is full of startling insights and real-world examples. Roger inspire the audience with the one big idea – it’s important to sell to your customer’s brain and how it really works. Beyond that core principle, every audience member will leave with specific “neuro” tactics for messaging, pricing, and more.

Friction Keynotes
Friction by Roger DooleyFrictionless: Future-Proof Your Customer Experience

Frictionless: Customer Experience Principles of The World’s Most Disruptive Companies

Frictionless Culture: The “Easy” Path to Engaged Employees and Loyal Customers

Roger’s latest book, the award-winning Friction, offers a simple but critically important insight… friction, or unnecessary effort, changes behavior. Even the tiniest bit of friction in customer experience reduces sales and new customer acquisition.

Even worse, existing customers who have a high-friction interaction are ten times as likely to be disloyal. Roger’s insight are based on research and illustrated with stories. His fast-paced keynotes will show your audience how damaging friction can be, and teach them how to spot non-obvious points of friction.

Most important, Roger will inspire your audience to make both the large and small changes that will create an effortless customer experience.

Team Engagement. The same insights that lead to a frictionless customer experience can improve employee experience and build team engagement. When team members are rooting out friction in customer processes, it is inevitable they will spot friction in their own work experience. When the company recognizes and fixes these, there’s a double benefit. Productivity increases, of course, because wasted time and effort are reduced. More importantly, team members become more engaged with the company when they see that management is making their job easier, not just encouraging them to work harder.

A typical keynote focuses primarily on customer experience. For some groups, such as C-level executives, a broader focus that brings in employee experience and a company culture that strives for simplicity. Roger will focus on the ideas that will help your organization the most.