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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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Joe Pantaliano keynote speaker

Joe Pantoliano

  • Emmy Award-Winning Actor, Producer, & Mental Health Activist
  • Known for his role in The Sopranos and films such as The MatrixBad BoysMemento, and The Goonies—to name a few
  • On a mission to change the way people think and talk about mental health
In Person-Fee:

$20,000 - $30,000

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Travels From

California

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Scott Parazynski, Innovation Speaker

Scott Parazynski

  • Astronaut with Over 8 Weeks in Space
  • Medical Doctor and Inventor
  • Adventurer, Scientist and Writer
In Person-Fee:

$20,000 - $30,000

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Texas

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Jeremy Park, speaker

Jeremy Park

  • Helps individuals and organizations power the GOOD as a speaker, author of two books, contributor to Forbes, producer and host of tv and radio shows
  • CEO of cityCURRENT, an organization connecting businesses with communities
  • Speaks on model and power of “Giving for Growth” to achieve success by becoming a SPARK for your community
  • Other topics include Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Outreach, Volunteerism, Cause Marketing, Storytelling in Media, Connecting Nonprofits to Companies
In Person-Fee:

$5,000 - $10,000

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Travels From

Tennessee

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Cindy Parlow

Cindy Parlow

  • First Female President of U.S. Soccer
  • Three-Time Olympian with 2 Gold and 1 Silver Medal
  • National Soccer Hall of Fame Inductee
  • Helped U.S. Soccer reach a historic collective bargaining agreement that guarantees equal pay – including World Cup prize money – the first country to do so
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Travels From

Minnesota

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Neil Pasricha keynote speaker

Neil Pasricha

  • Author of 10 bestsellers including The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, and The Book of Awesome
  • Ranked one of the 10 Most Inspiring TED Speakers of All Time
  • Hosts award-winning podcast 3 Books featuring Brené Brown, Malcolm Gladwell, and Judy Blume
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$30,000 - $50,000

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Canada

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Danica Patrick

Danica Patrick

  • Former NASCAR Driver
  • Host of the Pretty IntenseTM Podcast
  • Shares insights from her transition from racing to business, including her ventures into wine, fitness, and lifestyle brands, offering lessons on branding, taking risks, and innovation
In Person-Fee:

$50,000 - $100,000

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Arizona

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Carly Patterson keynote speaker

Carly Patterson

  • Olympic Gold Medalist
  • 3X Gymnastics Hall of Fame Inductee
  • Expert on Skillfully Managing Change and the Pursuit of Excellence
In Person-Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

Virtual Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

Travels From

Texas

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Vinny Paz, Speaker

Vinny Paz

  • World Champion Boxer
  • Inspiration behind the film Bleed For This
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Rhode Island

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James Peach

James Peach

  • Multi-award-winning Global Marketing Leader behind Uber, Coca-Cola, Vinted, and Innocent Drinks
  • As a Resilience & Performance Expert and Adventurer, James has cycled 41,000 km around the world including the USA coast to coast, he has hiked solo across three continents, and pioneered the first triathlon of the entire U.K.—cycling its length, kayaking its width, and climbing its height non-stop
In Person-Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

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Travels From

United Kingdom

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Kyle and Brent Pease keynote speakers

Kyle & Brent Pease

  • Ironman Champion Triathletes, Inspiring Athletes, Advocates, and Co-Founders of The Kyle Pease Foundation
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

Georgia

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Saundra Pelletier speaker, Attitude Speaker

Saundra Pelletier

  • Fortune 500 Corporate VP
  • Author, Corporate Speaker, Executive and Life Coach
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

California

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Javier Pena Speaker

Javier Pena

  • Transforming Individuals & Organizations Through the Power of Music
In Person-Fee:

$5,000 - $10,000

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Travels From

Florida

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Jenean Merkel Perelstein, speaker

Jenean Merkel Perelstein

  • Workplace Culture Expert - Author, Speaker, Consultant, Coach
In Person-Fee:

$5,000 - $10,000

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Travels From

Arizona

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Neal Petersen, Teambuilding Speaker

Neal Petersen

  • World-class, history-making solo around-the-world racing sailor
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

South Carolina

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Jess Pettitt, speaker

Jess Pettitt

  • The "Diversity Educator" Your Family Warned You About
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

California

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Jon Petz, Speaker

Jon Petz

  • World’s ONLY Amazement Artist™ 
  • Engagement Expert and Author of “Boring Meetings Suck”
  • Makes people more valuable by teaching them “Rules for Amazement” to positively impact relationships, culture, sales and service.
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

Ohio

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Bertrand Piccard, Speaker

Bertrand Piccard

  • Famous balloonist
  • Swiss Psychiatrist
  • Change Speaker
In Person-Fee:

$50,000 - $100,000

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Travels From

Switzerland

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Joe Piscatella, Motivation Speaker

Joe Piscatella

  • President, Institute for Fitness & Health
  • National Thought Leader
In Person-Fee:

$10,000 - $15,000

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Travels From

Washington

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Tony Plana, Entertainment Speaker

Tony Plana

  • Actor, Ugly Betty
  • Education Advocate
In Person-Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

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Travels From

California

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Jeremy Poincenot

Jeremy Poincenot

  • Inspirational Speaker,
  • Performance Coach 
  • Blind Golf Champion
In Person-Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

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Travels From

California

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