Category: Human Resources & Workplace Speakers for Your Next Event
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Sylvie di Giusto
International keynote speaker, Sylvie di Giusto, brings her expertise from a successful corporate career in Europe to every presentation. Formerly the head of a management academy and innovation hub, she developed innovative programs for high-end education with never-before-used training methods. As the Chief of Staff for the Chief Human Resources Officer of Europe’s largest tourism and retail group, Sylvie also coordinated all group-wide human resources teams and activities.
Keynote : Forever Human
Keynote : The Power of Choice
Keynote: You Have 7 Seconds. Make Them Count!MULTI-AWARD WINNING HALL OF FAME KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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Sean Bott
If Jack Black, a Jedi, and a Wizard had a baby, it would be Sean Bott. Sean has been described as “A Crazy Blend of Jack Black and Criss Angel.” He has appeared on HBO, MTV, NBC, CBS, and with James Franco in the movie “127 Hours.” Sean has brought hilarious, mind blowing moments to over 1500 audiences around the world. As you can imagine, all of this has given him some anxiety. He has studied cognitive behavioral therapy and self-compassion. Combined with his mind-reading, he will show your audience how to create warm connections with other humans quickly and authentically.
Keynote: Connect For Keeps: Attract Keep And Build Thriving Talent, Teams and Organizations
Keynote: Survive To ThriveThe Mind-Blowing Experience that Creates Lasting Loyalty & Workplace Success
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April Rinne
A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and ranked one of the “50 Leading Female Futurists” in the world by Forbes, April Rinne (pronounced Rih-Nee) is a change navigator: she helps individuals and organizations rethink and reshape their relationship with change, uncertainty, and a world in flux. She is a trusted advisor to well-known startups and companies, financial institutions, nonprofits, and think tanks worldwide, including Airbnb, Nike, Intuit, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, NESTA, Tr?v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to
India. Her work has been featured in major publications worldwide, including Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company and CNBC. April is the author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for
Thriving in Constant Change.Keynote: Flux : 8 Superpowers for Thriving In Constant Change
Keynote : Finding Certainty In An Uncertain World
Keynote : Beyond The Ladder : The Future of Talent & CareersHelping audiences see differently and increase their tolerance for uncertainty.
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Frankie Russo
Frankie is a two-time bestselling author who has established himself as a leading voice in technological transformation and organizational growth. His work sits at the intersection of competitive advantage and continuous growth, making him uniquely qualified to help organizations unlock breakthrough results. Through hyper-customized keynote experiences, Frankie inspires cultures of sustained growth and innovation that continue to deliver value long after his presentations end. His entrepreneurial success (making the Inc. 500 list for eight consecutive years with two different companies and subsequently exiting to a Fortune 500) combined with his engaging speaking style makes him particularly effective at connecting with audiences and delivering actionable insights.
Frankie’s signature blend of humor and business wisdom makes him particularly valuable for: mLeadership conferences, Innovation summits, Industry transformations, Cultural change
initiatives, Technology adoption programsKeynote: Limitless Growth – Creating Sustainable Organizational Transformation
Keynote : Love Your Weird – Turning Uniqueness Into Competitive Advantage
Keynote Generation AI – Navigating Technological Change While Maintaining Human ConnectionFrankie Russo is a visionary in innovation and authenticity
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Cheryl Cran
Cheryl Cran is the founder of NextMappingTM/NextMapping.com, creator of the NextNow
podcast and the CEO of parent company Synthesis at Work Inc.
Named #1 Future of Work influencer by Onalytica, and in the top ten future of work experts by
GoCatalant.Cheryl’s thought leadership on the future of all things including work, society and life has been
featured in publications such as Fast Company, Huff Post, Forbes, Metro New York,
Entrepreneur Magazine, Reader’s Digest, CBS Online, NBC Online, and more. For over two
decades Cheryl has built a reputation for delivering extraordinary value for clients that include
Amazon, Upwork, AT&T,, Gartner, Scottish Water, ExecOnline and more.
Clients rate her keynotes on hybrid workplace, the human future, the future of leadership and
leading hybrid teams as being inspirational, research based and highly relevant to the fast
changing now and future workplace.Keynote : The Future of Work Is Now – Are You Ready?
Keynote: The Future of Attracting & Keeping Top TalentIn this age of fast paced change, increasing impact of AI, and hybrid workplace dynamics leaders need to be ‘change leaders’.
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Sara Ross
Sara Ross is on a mission to help organizations and their leaders reignite a sense of aliveness to reshape their work and refuel their life. She and her company do this by using brain science-based strategies to teach people how to amplify their vitality by strengthening their emotional intelligence, resilience, and well-being.
Keynote: The Excellence Multiplier : Activating the Three Vital Forces that Elevate Leadership and Collectively Bring Out the Best in Others
Keynote: Future-Ready Change Resilience : Transforming Stress into Strength, Uncertainty into Opportunity, and Resistance into Energizing Momentum
Keynote : Seize The Moment : Turning the Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Leadership into Your Competitive Advantage in an AI-Accelerated WorldBook : Dear Work www.dearworkbook.com
Sara Ross guides leaders in innovative ways to increase productivity by focusing on managing energy, stress, and emotional intelligence.
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Jeff Tobe, M.Ed, CSP
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in Change and Resilience Keynote Speakers, Creativity, Innovation and Disruption Keynote Speakers for Your Event, Customer Service & Customer Experience Speakers for Your Big Event, Employee Engagement Keynote Speakers for Your Event, Healthcare and Wellness, Human Resources & Workplace Speakers for Your Next Event, Leadership Expert Speakers, Motivational Speakers to Inspire Your AudienceOver 20 years as a global speaker, trainer, and business consultant has given Jeff the experience to apply best practices from leading companies to improve the customer experience across a wide range of industries. He has spoken in over 53 companies urging organizations to make the leap to customer experience thinking.
Whether you’re an accountant, an HR professional, a retailer, or a doctor, you share one survival imperative: If you truly want to focus on your customer, you must see your business as your customer sees it. Jeff helps employees and employers put on their “customer glasses” to create meaningful change.2026 NEW Keynote : The Future of Strategic Leadership
Keynote: Coloring Outside The Lines Creating A New Customer/Patient Experience
Keynote: Real Time Legacy : Creating A Mentoring MindsetMake the leap from customer SERVICE to customer EXPERIENCE! Author of the best seller: “The CX Edge: Critical Customer Experience Questions to Help You ATTRACT, KEEP and WOW Customers.
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Tony Chatman
The fuel that powers a lit-up culture is the incredible potential of your people. But in order to harness that fuel-power, you need heat. Whether it’s transforming your leaders, overcoming unconscious bias, embedding DEI, or navigating change and disruption, Tony Chatman brings the heat that will ignite the potential in your people to create a culture that shines.
Tony has over 20 years’ experience working with some of the most successful and diverse organizations in the world—including Chase Bank, the U.S. Secret Service, Phillips 66, Clear Channel and St. Joseph’s Health. He unites the variance in people’s beliefs, backgrounds, personalities, perspectives, and levels of power by speaking to the need we all have to be seen.
As a scientist and chemical engineer and as a husband, father, and former leader of a nonprofit dedicated to improving lives and livelihoods. Tony is equal parts head and heart, combining rigorous scientific research into human behavior and psychology with a deep love for humanity and a passion for cultural transformation. With his powerful stage presence and command of his subject, Tony delivers his highly entertaining and life-changing keynotes in a way that will make each of your participants feel he is speaking directly to them, giving everyone the opportunity to grow and laugh with each other over the shared, extraordinary experience of being part of the same human family. And with Tony and his team’s finely tuned and transformative trainings, you’ll experience firsthand what it feels like to finally get to the bottom of your culture issues and experience the full power of your people.
Keynote : Deliberately Leading Through The Disruption of Change
Keynote : The Force Multiplier :Leadership That Lights Up Your Culture
Keynote : The Future of DEI : Moving Beyond Diversity
Keynote : Breaking Bias – Disrupting Unconscious Decisions That Lead to Unexpected ConsequencesTony is an author, consultant, and recognized thought leader in the area of organizational relationships. He has devoted his adult life to understanding what makes people tick, how to bring out the best in people, and how to pass this information on in simple yet practical terms.
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Suneel Gupta
As the founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company, Suneel Gupta helped thousands of people build better habits for life and work. Now as a bestselling author and Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, Suneel has taken his mission one step further – helping people achieve sustainable peak performance by bolstering emotional resilience and engagement. Suneel asks, “How can an organization excel on the outside if its people are exhausted on the inside?”
Grit and hustle are simply not a long-term answer to dealing with non-stop change and stress. Suneel offers leaders and teams a better way to work; one that results in sustainable innovation, productivity, and fulfillment. He arms people with science-based habits that will avoid burnout, boost energy, and improve their professional and personal lives.
As CEO of RISE Suneel helped thousands of people establish a way to personalize their physical and mental health journey while connecting with certified nutritionists and trainers at an affordable price. The company was named “App of the Year” and partnered with then first-Lady Michelle Obama before being acquired by the NASDAQ-listed company One Medical Group. In 2022, with its acquisition of One Medical Group, RISE is now part of Amazon.Keynote : Momentum : Accelerate Your Performance Without The Burnout
Keynote : Head, Heart And Hands : A New Way To Look At Leadership
Keynote : Purpose An Action : Bringing Who You Are To Everything You Do.Reset, Re-engage, and Rediscover the Joy in What You Do
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Jessica Rector
Jessica Rector’s mission is simple: Transform Lives.
As the top burnout and mind wellness expert, Jessica is the authority on tackling your negative thoughts and turning them into outer success and positive action! As the CEO of Blaze Your Brain, Jessica is known for her rare combination of energy, entertainment, and enthusiasm, making her a dynamic, “must see” presenter. Whether she is doing the Running Man or interacting with participants on stage, audiences love her, because she’s “innovative, impactful, and interactive” and often cited as “the best at the event.”
Keynote : The Say Yes Experience – Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone And Into Possibilities
Keynote: Embrace The Yes – The Unconventional Way To Prevent And Blaze Burnout
Keynote: Blaze Your Brain : How To Turn Negative Thoughts Into Positivity, More Action and Bigger ResultsThrough her own experiences and years of burnout research, Jessica has discovered a different approach. One that no one else talks about. Employees and companies working together. That is the ultimate burnout solution.
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Sam Silverstein
Accountability Keynote Speaker Sam Silverstein’s mission is to empower people to live accountable lives, transform the way they do business, and to thrive at extraordinary levels. Ultimately Sam teaches and inspires leaders to design a high-performance culture to build stronger businesses, communities, and people.
By challenging leaders to shift priorities, cultivate an organizational culture based on accountability, and inspire both individuals and teams to take ownership in fresh and results-producing ways – he is helping companies dramatically increase productivity, profitability, and growth. Sam believes that accountability is the highest form of leadership.
As a former executive and owner, Sam’s manufacturing and distribution companies sold over $100 million in products and services. He successfully sold one of his businesses to a Fortune 500 company. Today, Sam writes, speaks, and consults with organizations around the globe to think differently, work with renewed purpose, and achieve record-breaking results. As a keynote speaker, Sam challenges audiences to discover and reach their best selves. He helps leaders build accountability throughout their organization. Sam works with entrepreneurs, multi-national companies, corporations, and government agencies to drive increased engagement and productivity. Sam is a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame.
Keynote : The Accountability Advantage™ … Building a Sustainable, High-Performance, Workplace Culture, Collaboration That Counts: How to Foster a Culture of Trust and Teamwork in Your Organization
Accountability Keynote Speaker Sam Silverstein’s mission is to empower people to live accountable lives, transform the way they do business, and to thrive at extraordinary levels. Ultimately Sam teaches and inspires leaders to design a high-performance culture to build stronger businesses, communities, and people.
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Risha Grant
Edgy, educational and motivational speaker, author Risha Grant is an internationally renowned diversity, inclusion and bias expert. She covers these topics as NBC KJRH TV News 2 for You community correspondent and host of the JustUs series, through her Tulsa World column, Risha Talks, as a contributor to Black Enterprise Magazine, in her book, That’s BS! How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures and her corresponding “BS” Video Series. She has motivated and educated numerous corporations, associations and universities and lead them to a new place of respect and understanding. These audiences have included Discover Card Financial Services, Samsung Electronics America, Cox Communications, Wells Fargo, USAA Diversified Financial Group, Boy Scouts of America, U.S. Airforce, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, University of Oklahoma and Roger Williams University, to name a few
Keynote : Radical Acceptance : Be Better Than Your BS, Get Rid of Your BS, Build An Inclusive Culture
NEW Book : Be Better Than Your BS
Edgy, educational and motivational speaker, author Risha Grant is an internationally renowned diversity, inclusion and bias expert.
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Phil Gwoke
Around BridgeWorks HQ, Phil Gwoke is known as the motivator and the historian. As an internationally recognized speaker, Phil has shared his wisdom and inspired audiences in 40 different states and 4 continents to over 100,000 people. Before becoming a speaker he pursued his passion to help people be their best selves as a high school teacher, college admissions professional, marketing coordinator, corporate trainer and even small business owner. He has maintained strong ties to his local community as a mentor and consultant to young entrepreneurs, and brings his diverse background and skill-set to the BridgeWorks team.
Phil is one of BridgeWorks’ resident Gen Xers, and brings his unique humor, experiences, research, and generational expertise to every keynote, workshop and training session he delivers. He is a firm believer that with the proper motivation, training, and support system, members of any generation can become capable of remarkable accomplishments. With his down-to-earth, relatable style and dedication to presenting research in a digestible, entertaining way, Phil has become a fast favorite with audiences around the country.
Long before becoming a BridgeWorks Gen Expert, Phil owned and ran a coffee shop in Minneapolis. He’s the proud father of a collegiate Gen Edger, and is adjusting to life as an empty-nest Gen Xer.Keynote : When Generations Connect, Demystifying Millennial Management, From Handshake to Hashtag (Selling and marketing to four generations)
Around BridgeWorks HQ, Phil Gwoke is known as the motivator and the historian. As an internationally recognized speaker, Phil has shared his wisdom and inspired audiences in 40 different states and 4 continents to over 100,000 people.
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Heather Younger
Heather Younger gets it. As a best-selling author, international TEDx speaker and facilitator, she has earned her reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”. Her experiences as a CEO, entrepreneur, manager, attorney, writer, coach, listener, speaker, collaborator and mother all lend themselves to a laser-focused clarity into what makes employees of organizations and companies – large and small – tick. Heather has facilitated more than 350 workshops, reaching +1,000 employers and their employees. Her motivation and philosophy has reached more than 10,000 attendees at her speaking engagements on large and small stages.
2026 NEW Keynote : The High Performance Culture Code : Where Compassion Ignites Engagement and Results
Keynote : The Self-Leadership Imperative – Turning Personal Growth into ImpactTED TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bp4-IHyf50
Heather Younger gets it. As a best-selling author, international TEDx speaker and facilitator, she has earned her reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”.













