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Inspiration Speakers

Inspire Your Team with these Top Keynote Speakers 

In an era marked by true adversity, nothing is as imperative to a company's success as inspiration. Emerging from a global pandemic, only to find ourselves on the brink of a recession, has left every industry dealing with change and uncertainty. Now is the time to fall back on our own morale, resilience, and emotional intelligence. And to do so, your team needs to be inspired to find the fight and reach new heights.

Inspiring Motivational Speakers for Your Next Event

Our carefully curated roster of highly acclaimed Inspirational Keynote Speakers holds people from every walk of life who are passionate about helping others find their best version of themselves through inspirational keynote speaking. You'll find championship athletes, business moguls, successful entrepreneurs, adrenaline junkies, mountain climbers, top academics, researchers, and more. Each Inspirational Keynote Speaker brings their own unique perspective to their audience in order to motivate them to overcome any challenge.

The Power of a Personal Story

We understand the profound impact that a powerful story can have on an organization. Bringing in inspirational speakers with compelling life stories and remarkable accomplishments is an investment in your team's motivation and mindset. These speakers share authentic tales of overcoming adversity and achieving success, which resonate deeply and foster a stronger organizational culture. A speaker who has experienced profound personal triumph can ignite passion, boost employee engagement, and inspire innovative thinking across all levels of your company. Whether it's a serial entrepreneur who built an empire from scratch or a leadership authority whose TED talk went viral, their experiences provide actionable insights that drive both personal growth and professional development. Our roster of top motivational speakers offers the perspective your team needs to see challenges as opportunities, directly contributing to enhanced morale and productivity.

The Best Motivational Speakers for Your Corporate Event

National Geographic Explorer and United Nations Speaker Chris Bashinelli brings his extreme worldview to his audiences to inspire them by changing their perspective. He’s traveled the world, from the United States to Lebanon to China and more, to understand the true human connection and what brings us all together. He surveys different cultures and perspectives to help reshape his audiences’ ideas of what is possible, what you can achieve, and how you view your dreams and goals.

Bert Jacobs, ​​Co-Founder and Chief Executive Optimist of Life is Good, launched a t-shirt company out of his van with his brother John when they were fresh out of school. From there, the company took off as a global source of optimism and a positive lifestyle brand. Throughout the years, the Life is Good Kids Foundation took shape and has helped over 120,000 kids daily facing poverty, violence, and illness with the profits from the business. Jacobs attributes this success to his view of life and his ability to always stay positive. He helps his audiences harness this positive worldview for their own success.

Maybe your team is inspired by extreme, action-packed stories. For those vicarious adrenaline junkies, we have speakers like Nicole Malachowski, a pioneering aviator, and the first woman Thunderbird pilot. As a 21-year USAF veteran, combat pilot in Iraq and Kosovo, commander of the F-15E Fighter Squadron, and a White House and Pentagon Fellow and Advisor, Malachowski’s inspirational keynote speeches are chalked full of real-life stories and personal experiences in the military. She pushes her audiences to a better version of themselves by guiding them through change, friction, and adversity.

Allison Massari is an Inspirational Keynote Speaker focused on resilience, change, adversity, and triumph. As a burn survivor herself, she advocates for the patient experience within the healthcare system. Massari applies her ideas for ideal patient care to help organizations transform internally and externally. She also pulls on her past experience to help her audiences find the art of happiness in the face of any adversity.

Alex Sheen is a social entrepreneur, humanitarian, and philanthropist who believes in the value of his word and your word. He’s on a mission to help transform our collective way of thinking about accountability and staying true to our word. Inspired by his own father’s dedication to his promises, he began a nationwide movement called Because I Said I Would that helps teach everyone from youths to corporate leaders the power of their promise.

Whether your team needs someone to speak to their soul with heartfelt stories or get their blood pumping with action-packed experiences, we have an Inspirational Keynote Speaker who can motivate and uplift them. Now more than ever, companies around the world are in need of a morale boost and actionable items to help them overcome adversity and maintain a can-do mood. Move your team to action and inspire them to achieve greatness with a tailored keynote speech from one of our top Inspirational Keynote Speakers.

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Shasta Nelson, speaker

Shasta Nelson

  • Friendship Expert: Improving Relationships, Inspiring Results

In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

California

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Ben Nemtin, Speaker

Ben Nemtin

  • Named #2 Best Motivational Speaker in the world by Global Gurus
  • Co-founder of The Buried Life movement
  • New York Times #1 Bestselling Author of What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? and The Bucket List Journal
  • Started an Inspiring Movement that Encourages Individuals to Realize their Dreams and Help Others Along the Way
In Person-Fee:

$30,000 - $50,000

Virtual Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

Travels From

California

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Dan Nevins Speaker

Dan Nevins

  • Staff Sergeant, United States Army (Retired)
  • Recipient of the George C. Lang Award for Courage, the highest award bestowed by Wounded Warrior Project
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

Florida

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Betty Nguyen, Speaker

Betty Nguyen

  • NBC News & MSNBC Anchor and Inspirational Role Model
  • Humanitarian, Diversity Leader
  • Shares her story of life as a Vietnamese Refugee 
In Person-Fee:

$20,000 - $30,000

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Travels From

New York

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Brad Nieder, Speaker

Brad Nieder M.D

  • The Healthy Humorist
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

Colorado

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Chris Norton, keynote speaker

Chris Norton

  • The Power to Stand
  • Inspirational Speaker on Overcoming Adversity, Resilience, and Teamwork
  • Subject of the Netflix Documentary 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story
In Person-Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

Virtual Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

Travels From

Florida

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Phill Nosworthy, speaker

Phill Nosworthy

  • Founder of Switch L+D
  • Inspiring audiences in areas of leadership, personal mastery, high performance and making work and life meaningful

     

In Person-Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

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Travels From

Australia

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Diana Nyad Speaker

Diana Nyad

  • Record-Breaking Long Distance Swimmer
  • First person to successfully complete the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida without the protection of a shark cage
  • Sports Journalist, Author, and Broadcaster
In Person-Fee:

$50,000 - $100,000

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Travels From

California

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