Corporate Keynote Speakers
The speakers your audience won't stop
talking about.
Bold voices. Rigorous thinking. Real results. We represent the speakers Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and fast-moving startups book when the stakes are high.
Why It Matters
The wrong speaker costs more than the fee.
Diverse rosters across every topic. Corporate speakers.. Women-owned, independent agency. No hidden fees. Honest pricing.
Every organization has a conference, an offsite, an all-hands, an awards dinner. Most settle for a speaker who fills the hour. The best ones book a speaker who changes the room — and the thinking that comes out of it.
Outspoken Agency represents speakers who have actually done the work: built billion-dollar companies, reshaped policy, changed the science, and led organizations through the hardest transitions in modern business. No platitudes. No recycled TED talks. Just ideas that hold up under pressure.
We work with teams across financial services, technology, sales, healthcare, legal, CPG, government and much more. And we know the difference between a speaker who sounds good and one who earns the standing ovation. Browse our curated corporate roster below, or tell us about your event and we'll build a shortlist for you.
Mary Abbajay
MANAGING UP EXPERT & AUTHOR
Leadership ★ Management ★ Workplace Dynamics
The number one reason people leave their jobs is their boss. Mary Abbajay, president of Careerstone Group and bestselling author of Managing Up, gives organizations the tools to fix that permanently. With 20+ years of leadership development experience across government and private sector clients, her research-driven, no-nonsense approach to navigating workplace relationships is one of the most practically useful frameworks on the conference circuit. A particular fit for legal teams, government agencies, and financial services firms with multigenerational workforces.
Minda Harts
TRUST STRATEGIST & BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
Trust & Communication ★ Women of Color ★ HR
LinkedIn's #1 Top Voice for Equity in the Workplace. NYU professor. Author of The Memo, Right Within, and her latest Talk to Me Nice: The Seven Trust Languages for a Better Workplace. Minda Harts has worked with Nike, Google, Best Buy, Zoom, and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies to fix the trust and communication breakdowns that quietly hemorrhage talent. She speaks with the authority of a scholar and the urgency of someone who has lived every story she tells, making her one of the most in-demand voices on corporate stages today.
Leah Solivan
FOUNDER OF TASKRABBIT & INVESTOR
Entrepreneurship ★ Future of Work ★ Gig Economy
She founded TaskRabbit as an IBM engineer with a dog food problem and built one of the defining companies of the gig economy, raising $50M+ in venture funding before a 2017 acquisition by IKEA. Named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, Leah Solivan now invests in the next generation of disruptors as General Partner at FUEL Capital. Her talks on the future of work, founder-market fit, and what it actually takes to scale a marketplace resonate deeply with technology companies, CPG brands, and any organization grappling with the fragmented workforce of the modern economy.
Josh Levine
COMPANY CULTURE DESIGNER & FUTURE OF WORK SPEAKER
Culture Design ★ AI Readiness ★ Employee Engagement
There is only one truly sustainable competitive advantage in business and it's culture. Josh Levine, author of Great Mondays (one of BookAuthority's best culture books of all time), is the advisor technology companies like IBM, Microsoft, and PagerDuty call when culture is falling apart or needs to scale. His newest talk equips executives with a four-part framework for building AI-ready teams and future-proof cultures. For tech companies, SaaS organizations, and any company navigating rapid transformation, Josh delivers clarity where others deliver buzzwords.
Michael Ventura
APPLIED EMPATHY EXPERT & PURPOSE STRATEGIST
Empathy & Leadership ★ Strategy & Design ★ Innovation
Empathy is not about being nice. It's about understanding — and it's a direct path to competitive advantage. Founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with GE, Google, Nike, Warby Parker, the United Nations, and the Obama Administration, Michael Ventura is the author of Applied Empathy (Simon & Schuster) and a lecturer at Princeton University and West Point. His framework — taught from boardrooms to military academies — gives leaders a repeatable practice for understanding customers, colleagues, and themselves at a level most organizations never reach.
Nidhi Tewari
WORKPLACE WELLBEING EXPERT & THERAPIST
Psychological Safety ★ Mental Health ★ Burnout
A licensed clinical social worker, Thinkers50 Radar 2026 honoree, and forthcoming Penguin Random House author of Working Well, Nidhi Tewari brings a decade of clinical expertise to corporate stages. She has transformed workplace culture at Godiva, LinkedIn, Molson Coors, and Warner Bros. Discovery, and has spoken at the World Economic Forum and TEDWomen. Her science of attunement — the next evolution of emotional intelligence — gives leaders a concrete, repeatable method for building trust, reducing burnout, and making people actually want to show up. Featured in Forbes, NYT, and Oprah Daily.
Dylan Alcott
PARALYMPIAN GOLD MEDALIST & DISABILITY ACTIVIST
Disability Inclusion ★ Authentic Leadership ★ Resilience
The only male tennis player in history to achieve the Golden Slam: winning all four Grand Slams and Paralympic gold in a single year. 2022 Australian of the Year. Founder of the Dylan Alcott Foundation and Get Skilled Access. Dylan Alcott's corporate keynote is not a feel-good story; it's a direct business case: disability inclusion represents a $13 trillion market that most organizations are systematically leaving on the table. With trademark humor, vulnerability, and unfiltered storytelling, he challenges leadership teams to move from awareness to action on accessibility, representation, and universal design. A genuine game-changer for any audience.
Louisa Loran
GLOBAL EXECUTIVE ADVISOR & BOARD STRATEGIST
Strategic Leadership ★ AI Transformation ★ Executive Decision-Making
Thinkers50 Radar 2026. Two decades of executive leadership at Google (where she launched a billion-dollar supply chain business), Maersk (where she co-authored the strategy that doubled the share price), Diageo, and Moët Hennessy. Author of Leadership Anatomy in Motion (Fast Company Press, 2025) — praised by Marshall Goldsmith as an essential guide for leaders navigating speed and noise. Louisa Loran speaks to boards and executive teams who are done with theory and need a speaker who has actually made the decisions. A top choice for financial services, technology, and CPG leadership summits.
Tayo Rockson
BEHAVIORAL DATA SCIENTIST & AUTHOR
Data & Decision-Making ★ Behavioral Science ★ Team Performance
What if your organization's biggest performance problem isn't strategy, it's behavior? Tayo Rockson is a behavioral data scientist who combines machine learning, natural language processing, and behavioral psychology to help organizations understand why people do what they do and design interventions that change outcomes. A 3x TEDx speaker who has presented at the World Bank and United Nations, and author of Use Your Difference to Make a Difference, Tayo's corporate work focuses on identifying and dismantling the unconscious behavioral patterns that undermine trust, decision-making, and team cohesion. A uniquely rigorous voice in a field crowded with anecdote.
Brandeis Marshall
DATA SCIENTIST & TECH EQUITY ADVOCATE
TAI Ethics ★ Data Equity ★ Technology
Who controls the data? Whose assumptions are baked into the model? Dr. Brandeis Marshall asks the questions that technology companies, financial services firms, and healthcare organizations need to answer before their AI initiatives become liabilities. A data scientist, author, and one of the most urgent voices on algorithmic accountability in the country, she gives technical and non-technical audiences alike a framework for building AI systems that are rigorous, equitable, and defensible. Essential programming for any organization deploying AI at scale — which, these days, means almost everyone.
Terence Keel
UCLA PROFESSOR, HISTORIAN OF SCIENCE & ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIST
Healthcare & Policy ★ Leadership ★ Hidden Talent
Every organization is sitting on talent it doesn't know it has. Award-winning UCLA Professor of Human Biology & Society, Terence Keel's new talk, The Untapped Advantage: How Hidden Talent Inside Your Organization Can Solve Your Biggest Challenges, gives leadership teams a science-backed framework for identifying the underutilized capabilities, perspectives, and problem-solving approaches already inside their workforce. Drawing on his research into how institutions systematically overlook non-traditional expertise, Keel shows organizations how to stop hiring for answers from the outside when the solution is already in the room. Particularly resonant for healthcare systems and medical device companies navigating innovation under constraint, government agencies managing complex policy challenges with limited resources, and any organization where the pressure to perform keeps outpacing the ability to see what's already there.
Alice Law
STRESS MASTERY EXPERT & BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Stress & Resilience ★ Peak Performance ★ Leadership Wellbeing
Co-founder of Unstressable alongside former Google [X] Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat, Alice Law is a Stress Mastery and Resilience Expert, Reiki Master, and Sunday Times bestselling author whose work has been named one of The Times 8 Best Self-Help Books of 2024. She has worked with Julius Baer, Fidelity Investments, Meta, FedEx, and The British Embassy, bringing a holistic integration of neuroscience, emotional mastery, and practical leadership tools that actually move the needle on performance. For high-pressure corporate environments (sales, manufacturing, financial services) Alice's approach reframes stress from enemy to signal, unlocking peak performance without the burnout tax.
Tina Sharkey
BRAND BUILDER, PROFESSOR, & SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Brand & Community ★ AI & Commerce ★ Digital Transformation
She coined the term "social media." She built Sesame Street's digital empire, scaled BabyCenter to 100M users at Johnson & Johnson, led AOL through its open web transition, and co-founded both iVillage (sold to NBC Universal for $600M) and Brandless. Business Insider Top 100 People Transforming Business. Fast Company Top Women in Technology. Now an investor and lecturer at USC's Iovine & Young Academy, Tina Sharkey is the rare speaker who can connect AI, brand strategy, and community economics in a way that speaks equally to CPG executives, technology leaders, and the next generation of builders. A consistently electrifying presence on global stages.
Julia Collins
FOUNDER & CEO, PLANET FWD & REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE STRATEGIST
Sustainability ★ Climate & ESG ★ Entrepreneurship
Harvard BA. Stanford MBA. Co-founder of Zume Pizza — the first company to make her the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn, with a $2.25B valuation. Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for consumer brands, whose snack brand Moonshot was acquired by Patagonia Provisions. An active angel investor focused on female and BIPOC founders, Julia Collins speaks with rare authority at the intersection of entrepreneurship, climate action, and ESG strategy, making her the go-to speaker for CPG companies, food and beverage brands, and any organization trying to turn sustainability commitments into supply chain reality.
A Peek at Some Industries We Serve
We know your audience. We know your stakes.
Financial Services
From trust and behavioral economics to leadership under regulatory pressure and DEIB in finance, we match FS organizations with speakers who understand the weight of the room.
Medical Device & Healthcare
Structural equity in medicine, innovation under constraint, and workforce wellbeing in high-stakes environments. Speakers who understand the unique pressure of healthcare leadership.
CPG & Consumer Brands
Brand community, sustainability imperatives, consumer behavior, and the gig economy reshaping distribution. Voices who have built and sold iconic products — and can tell that story compellingly.
HR & People Teams
Psychological safety, trust dynamics, burnout prevention, culture design, and the behavioral science behind why teams thrive or fracture. Our roster is exceptionally deep for CHRO summits, HR conferences, and people leadership offsites, with speakers who give practitioners frameworks they can actually implement Monday morning.
Technology & SaaS
AI ethics, culture at scale, founder storytelling, and what it actually means to build for humans in a machine-first world. We know what tech audiences need — and what bores them.
Legal & Professional Services
Managing up, trust dynamics, workplace culture, and DEIB for firms navigating generational transitions. Speakers who bring intellectual rigor and practical application.
Government & Public Sector
Leadership across political cycles, public health equity, behavioral design in policy, and workforce culture in mission-driven organizations. Speakers who understand what public service actually demands.
Insurance
A multigenerational workforce, an AI disruption story accelerating faster than most carriers are ready for, and a consumer trust deficit that demands new thinking on communication and culture. Our speakers bring rigorous, cross-industry perspective to an industry that's overdue for a keynote that doesn't sound like every other one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions we get from event teams.
What separates a great corporate keynote speaker from a forgettable one?
Specificity and credibility. The speakers audiences remember are the ones who have lived what they're talking about and who can reference real decisions, real consequences, and real results. At Outspoken, we represent speakers who have actually done the work, not just studied it. If you want speakers who leave your team with frameworks they'll actually use, tell us about your event and we'll send tailored recommendations.
Which topics are in highest demand for corporate events right now?
The conversations corporate audiences can't get enough of are: AI and its organizational implications, trust and communication breakdowns in hybrid teams, workplace mental health and burnout prevention, DEIB that goes beyond optics and into systems, and leadership under uncertainty. Browse our full topic directory to find speakers mapped to any of these areas.
Can you find speakers for niche or technical corporate audiences?
Yes — and this is where a boutique agency like Outspoken genuinely outperforms the large bureaus. We take time to understand your audience's expertise, vocabulary, and tolerance for abstraction before making recommendations. A roomful of data scientists needs a different speaker than a roomful of sales VPs, even if the topic is ostensibly the same. Request a custom proposal and we'll do that matching work for you.
Do you offer speakers for virtual and hybrid corporate events?
All of our speakers are available for virtual and hybrid formats. Some are genuinely exceptional in virtual settings. They've built their presentation craft specifically around screen-based engagement. If your event is hybrid or fully virtual, mention that when you reach out and we'll factor it into our recommendations. Contact us to discuss options.
How do I get a proposal from Outspoken Agency?
Fill out our speaker inquiry form with your event details: date, audience size, industry, topic priorities, and budget range. We typically respond within one business day with a curated shortlist. No obligation, no pressure, and no hidden fees. We handle all contracting, logistics, and travel coordination so your team can focus on the event itself.
Stop settling for fine.
Your audience deserves a speaker who will change how they think. We'll help you find that speaker.