Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World 2022 According to Real Leaders

Real Leaders recently released their list of Top 50 Keynote Speakers In the World 2022 and BigSpeak is proud to see some familiar faces there!  

As you’re reflecting on this last month of 2021 and making your New Year’s resolutions for 2022, your company might be looking for ways to strengthen leadership skills, emotional intelligence, innovation, motivation, and other important skills among team members.

What better way to ring in the new year than inviting one of the top keynote speakers in the world to your next event, meeting or conference? These keynote speakers will help your team build stronger mindsets and strengthen their skill sets so they can thrive and succeed in 2022 and beyond.

Here are the BigSpeak speakers featured in Real Leaders’ Top Top 50 Keynote Speakers In the World 2022:

 

Natalie Nixon 

Dr. Natalie Nixon is a top change management keynote speaker, consultant, and a strategy, foresight, and innovation expert. As president and founder of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC., she advises leaders on unique approaches for process transformation and leveraging creativity as an innovation resource to more rapidly achieve priority business goals.

Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is a top innovation keynote speaker, bestselling author, and creator of the “Disruptive Future” blog. He was recognized as one of Australia’s “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.” Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike focuses on the next five years – scanning the near horizon for disruptive technologies and consumer innovations on the verge of hitting critical mass – then translating these into usable business strategies.

Amanda Gore

Amanda Gore is a top emotional intelligence keynote speaker and best selling author. She uses the principles of emotional intelligence to transform the spirit of people and cultures by changing perceptions, improving relationships, connecting people, managing change, leadership, innovation, and team dynamics.

John O’Leary

John O’Leary is a top inspirational keynote speaker, author, and podcaster. As a childhood burn victim, John inspires 50,000+ people at 100+ events each year. He speaks to companies and organizations across industries, such as sales, healthcare, safety, marketing, finance, faith, education, and insurance.

Blake Morgan

Blake Morgan is a leader in customer experience. She is a top motivational keynote speaker, customer experience futurist, and author of two books on customer experience. She has worked with Accor Hotels, Accenture, Adobe, Comcast, Parker Hannifin, Ericsson, Verizon, Omron, Genentech and more.

Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman is a top leadership keynote speaker, researcher, and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world.  She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers:  How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect:  Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts:  Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work. 

David Nurse

David Nurse’s career has been based on helping high performers–whether they are CEOs, entrepreneurs or actors–to reach their full potential. But the people he has learned the most from? The hundreds of NBA players he has worked with. In fact, his method was dubbed as training “athletes of the future” because he taught them how to tap into different mindsets and become unstoppable. David has written two bestselling books, he runs a successful motivational coaching business and he speaks all over the world for companies like Dell, Salesforce, ESPN and The NBA, to help thousands of employees and athletes develop unshakeable mindsets.

Jane Chen

Jane Marie Chen is a top entrepreneur speaker and the co-founder and CEO of Embrace, a social enterprise that aims to help the 15 million premature and low birth-weight babies born every year, through a low-cost infant warmer. Her innovative idea takes the place of costly and technical incubators, allowing her technology to reach more remote villages around the world. Recently, Embrace Innovations launched a new line of baby products, Little Lotus, using the Embrace technology for the US market.

Amy Mahjoory

Amy is an expert Real Estate Investor & Educator, HGTV Personality, Best-Selling Author, Networking Coach and top entrepreneur keynote speaker. For the past twenty-one years, Amy has studied the art of strategic networking. Before pursuing her passion in Entrepreneurship, Amy was a highly recognized global leader in Procurement, Logistics, and Operations Management for Dell.

Christopher Gardner

Chris Gardner is the inspiration for the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, a top inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and single parent whose work has been recognized by many esteemed organizations. Always hard working and tenacious, a series of adverse circumstances in the early 1980’s left Chris Gardner homeless in San Francisco, the sole guardian of his toddler son. Unwilling to give up Chris Jr. or his dreams of success, Gardner climbed the financial industry ladder from the very bottom.

Lisa Bodell

Lisa Bodell is a top innovation keynote speaker, change management expert, founder of FutureThink, and the award-winning author of Kill The Company and Why Simple Wins. In her dynamic talks, Lisa empowers audiences with thought-provoking examples and practical techniques that ignite simplification and innovation immediately.

Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan is a best-selling author, top inspirational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Boss In Heels. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder for nearly 20 years, Heather Monahan is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.

Kim Perell 

Kim Perell is an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, CEO and angel investor with a passion for people, technology, and progress. Kim went from being laid off at 23 to becoming a multi-millionaire by the time she was 30 years old, selling her last company for $235 million in 2014. She is currently the CEO of Amobee, a global marketing technology company serving the world’s leading brands and agencies. Kim is also an investor in over 70 companies, 14 of which have been successfully acquired by some of the largest Fortune 500 companies including a billion-dollar IPO.

Barb Stegemann 

Barb Stegemann is a top motivational keynote speaker, social entrepreneur, one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, and the Founder of 7 Virtues. Barb is also the author of the bestselling book, The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queenwhich has empowered women (and men) to launch companies, run for public office, and end bullying.

Carla Harris 

Carla Harris is a top finance keynote speaker, author, and one of Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”. In her 30 year career, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors.

Inky Johnson 

Inky Johnson is a top motivational speaker and a football celebrity. Growing up, Johnson had always wanted to play professionally and he was making that dream a reality, until September 9, 2006. Johnson attended the University of Tennessee where he played defensive back for the Vols football team. During his football career at Tennessee, Johnson played in a total of 21 games and started 6 of them. September 9, 2006, started out as a regular football game between Tennessee and Air Force. This game changed Johnson’s life forever as a routine tackle turned into a life-threatening injury that made his right arm paralyzed. While the injury ended Johnson’s playing career, it did not kill his spirits.

Tim Grover

Tim S. Grover is a top peak performance keynote speaker, bestselling author, and the CEO of ATTACK Athletics, Inc., founded in 1989. World-renowned for his legendary work with elite champions and Hall of Famers, including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds of other NFL, MLB, NBA, and Olympic athletes, he is the preeminent authority on the science and art of physical and mental dominance and achieving excellence.

Vernice “Flygirl” Armour

FlyGirl is a top inspirational speaker, America’s first African-American female combat pilot, and the author of Zero to Breakthrough. FlyGirl’s fresh, edgy style, high, contagious energy and unique, gutsy essence jump off the stage, page, and screen and moves people to action.

Colonel Nicole Malachowski

Colonel Nicole Malachowski is a top virtual keynote speaker, former White House advisor, and the first female Thunderbird pilot. An inductee into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame and the National Women’s Hall of Fame, Malachowski brings her experience to the stage and holds audiences spellbound with an easygoing authenticity of someone who’s achieved greatness.

Brendon Burchard

Brendon Burchard is a top peak performance speaker and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger and The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives that Make You Feel Alive. He is also the founder of High Performance Academy, the legendary personal development program for achievers, and Experts Academy, the worlds most comprehensive marketing training for aspiring authors, speakers, coaches, and online thought leaders. For these works, Brendon is regularly recognized as one of the top business and motivation trainers in the world. (Inc. magazine, AndersonCooper.com, ABC, and more).

Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is a top peak performance speaker and one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a keen ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and higher levels of achievement.

Laila Ali

Laila Ali is a world-class athlete, top motivational keynote speaker, fitness & wellness expert, TV host, cooking enthusiast, founder of the Laila Ali Lifestyle Brand, and mother of two. The daughter of late beloved global icon and humanitarian, Muhammad Ali, she is a four-time undefeated boxing world champion, whose stellar record includes 24 wins (21 of which were “knockouts”) and zero losses. She is heralded as the most successful female in the history of women’s boxing.

Daymond John

Daymond John is a top business and motivational keynote speaker, founder of FUBU clothing, Shark Tank judge, and the bestselling author of The Power of Broke. As a dynamic business speaker with over twenty years of hands-on proven business experience, Daymond shares the strategies that continue to bring him financial success.

Ryan Holiday

Ryan is a top marketing speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and philosopher. At the core of Ryan’s teachings is Stoicism, a philosophy he has brought back from ancient Rome and into the workplace, entrepreneurship, politics, and sports. What is Stoicism? The idea that while we don’t always control what happens to us in life, we always control how we respond.

David Goggins

David Goggins the Navy SEAL, one of an elite group of military men regularly sent on some of the toughest missions in the world, needed more of a challenge for himself, so he set about conquering the hardest sporting events known to man. Today he is considered to be one of the greatest endurance athletes in the world.

Lisa Nichols 

Lisa Nichols is one of the world’s most-requested motivational speakers, as well as a media personality and corporate CEO whose global platform has reached and served nearly 30 million people. From a struggling single mom on public assistance to a millionaire entrepreneur, Lisa’s courage and determination has inspired fans worldwide and helped countless audiences break through, to discover their own untapped talents and infinite potential.

Jon Gordon

Jon Gordon is a top motivational speaker whose best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous NFL, NBA, MLB coaches and teams, Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals, and nonprofits. He is the author of numerous books including The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Energy Bus, Soup, The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp, and The Carpenter.

Mel Robbins 

Mel Robbins is a top motivational keynote speaker, award-winning CNN commentator, bestselling author, and one of the most booked motivational speakers in the world. Her inspirational book The 5 Second Rule is an international bestseller. She is also a contributing editor to Success magazine and co-founder of Inspire52, a news and entertainment website, with the goal to inspire people to think, act, and laugh seven days a week.

Tom Bilyeu

Tom Bilyeu is a unicorn entrepreneur who co-founded and built Quest Nutrition from nothing to a billion dollar business in just 5 years – all without outside funding. He is a filmmaker and serial entrepreneur who chased money HARD for nearly a decade and came up emotionally bankrupt. He realized that the struggle is guaranteed, but the money is not, so you’d damn-well better love the struggle.

Top Leadership Keynote Speakers by Category

Good leadership is important for the success of a company. Companies with good leaders have employees who are more engaged and productive. These leaders foster trust, have open communication, are accountable, and have a compelling vision to motivate their employees. Unfortunately, more than 77% of organizations report leadership is lacking.

 

If you’re looking for a leadership expert to take your company to the next level, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau has the top leadership keynote speakers who can help you in many areas. These leadership speakers are successful CEOs, company founders, military leaders, athletes, and thought leaders. They can teach organizations about change management, communication, diversity, remote work, and teamwork.

Change Management

In times of crisis and disruption, leadership is more important than ever. In fact, 60% of executives believe leaders need crisis preparedness. If you need to lead your company through change, consider these change leadership keynote speakers.

Lisa Bodell

Lisa Bodell is an expert on innovation and leadership and the bestselling author of Kill The Company. Lisa empowers leaders and teams with thought-provoking examples and practical techniques that ignite simplification and innovation immediately.

Thomas Kolditz

Retired Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz is a leadership expert and author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It. Thomas shows how extreme life-and-death situations can offer profound lessons for leaders and teams in any setting.

Michelle Rozen

Dr. Michelle Rozen is a top leadership keynote speaker and author who has been featured on NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX News, and other news outlets. Michelle teaches audiences science-based, easy-to-apply strategies that help leaders guide their teams through change.

Robert Sutton

Robert Sutton is an organizational change expert, Stanford professor, and bestselling author of Good Boss, Bad Boss. His funny and frank talks provide lessons on leadership, teamwork, workplace dynamics, and organizational change.

 

Communication

When it comes to leadership, 3 in 4 employees want their leaders to have effective and transparent communication. Transparent communication is rated as one of the most important qualities for communication. This is important for developing trust and showing empathy. In fact, 79% of employees will quit if they don’t receive adequate appreciation from their leaders. If you want your leaders to develop your soft skills, consider these leadership keynote speakers.

Bill Benjamin

Bill Benjamin is a top keynote speaker on leadership and peak performance. He helps leaders and teams from Fortune 500 companies overcome the barriers that often hold them back from reaching their full potential.

Patty McCord

Patty McCord is a top corporate culture speaker, leadership consultant, and former CTO of Netflix. Patty coaches and advises a small group of companies and entrepreneurs on culture and leadership.

Dr. JP-Pawliw-Fry

Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry is a top emotional intelligence keynote speaker on leadership and the bestselling author of Performing Under Pressure. He works with Fortune 500 companies, the military, and athletes to help them improve their performance under pressure.

Diversity

Companies with more diverse and inclusive leadership have 1.4 times higher revenues and were 45% more likely to capture more market share compared to companies with less diversity. Moreover, companies with more leadership diversity enjoyed more engaged employees with reduced turnover. If you’re looking for a diversity leadership expert, consider these diversity, equity, and inclusion keynote speakers.

Risha Grant

Risha Grant is a popular D, E, & I keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and author of the book That’s B.S. How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures. Risha can show how to realize your biases, how to attract and keep diverse talent, communicate with diverse audiences, and capture new markets.

 

Wema Hoover

Wema Hoover is a D, E, & I keynote speaker and leadership consultant who has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, including her time as Chief Diversity Officer at Google. Wema consults with organizations and helps them use their data to promote diversity and inclusion.

Omar Johnson

Omar Johnson is a diversity, marketing and leadership keynote speaker and the Former CMO at Beats by Dre. Johnson shares how to lead diverse teams and how businesses can partner with the communities they serve to expand markets.

Remote Work

How do you manage and lead a team when they don’t work in the same building as you? In a recent survey, 50% of workers felt that the ability to manage remotely was important. If you want to learn more about how to lead remotely, consider these remote leadership keynote speakers.

Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is a top future-of-work leadership speaker and author of The Adaptation Advantage. In her talks, she shares the skills humans will need to use to stay relevant in the age of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots.

Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is a top virtual work and organizational change leadership expert, business thought leader, and a Professor at the Harvard Business School. Her new book Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere is the #1 Bestseller in Business Teams on Amazon and provides companies and leaders with the best virtual practices to perform at the highest levels.

Teamwork

Leadership often comes down to managing small teams of people. However, only 2 in 5 employees feel their managers had clearly defined team roles and responsibilities. These teamwork leadership speakers can help your organization develop better teamwork and communication.

Robyn Benincasa

Robyn Benincasa is an inspired leadership and teamwork speaker, CNN Hero, adventure racing world champion, founder of Project Athena, and bestselling author of How Winning Works. Her entertaining keynotes teach audiences the foundations of inspired leadership and how to win as a team.

Dave Mochel

Dave Mochel is an author, CEO, and top leadership keynote speaker. He’s an expert on mindful, inclusive leadership. Dave helps leaders strengthen relationships with their teams and turn their challenges into opportunities for growth.

Top Health and Wellness Keynote Speakers

Entrepreneurs and business owners know that employees’ health and wellness are crucial to the bottom line. If workers are unhappy, chances are their performance will suffer.

If your team needs a wellness boost, look no further than BigSpeak‘s top health and wellness speakers of 2021. From the future of healthcare to mental health, these experts are sure to deliver terrific talks that will help boost the morale of any organization.

 

Jia Jiang 

Rejection is a common theme in life and can take a toll on one’s mental health. Jia Jiang is a top resilience keynote speaker who understands the fear of rejection holds people back. In his engaging presentations, Jia shares stories from his rejection experiment to teach audiences the importance of becoming rejection-proof, the basic principles of turning a NO into YES, as well as how to get more YESes.

James Clear 

There are no shortcuts to wellness. The only way to become truly healthy is by building sustainable habits. James Clear is a top personal development keynote speaker and the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Atomic Habits. He teaches audiences the steps needed to achieve health and wellness goals by becoming 1% better every day.

Robert Sutton 

Robert Sutton knows that employees’ health and wellness are critical to a successful business. In his highly entertaining talks, Sutton teaches leaders how to get in tune with their employees. He teaches how to prioritize the workers’ health to make them more efficient.

Jodi Womack 

Jodi Womack is a top personal development keynote speaker who coaches busy professionals to get momentum at work and in life. She recognizes the common theme throughout the industries that busy, hardworking people have more work to do than time to do it. She guides teams through designing new and improved individual health and wellness plans. Using top human performance research, she helps dial in the key criteria that help your team be at their best – even during the pandemic.

Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor is a top motivational speaker, happiness researcher, founder of GoodThink Inc., and the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. Achor explains that most organizations have things backward. Companies that promote employees’ happiness and wellness get their workers to perform better.

José Morey

Dr. José Morey is an expert in the future of healthcare. A top keynote speaker, Morey knows health and wellness are not just about going to the doctor. He argues that they are a part of a holistic process that also looks at how environments and behaviors interact with people’s well-being. Morey dazzles audiences with presentations that look to the future.

Daniel Kraft 

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician, scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. Kraft takes audiences on a deep dive into the future of healthcare; examining technology trends and how will be leveraged to change the face of healthcare and the practice of medicine in the next decade.

Jeanette Bronée

Jeanette Bronée is a global keynote and 2 time TEDx speaker who focuses on how to fuel performance, leadership, and culture from the inside out. She believes the most important resource is humanity. Bronée teaches leaders how to make health and wellness the foundation for sustainable personal and professional success by using self-management at work to transform company culture and the way employees work.

 

Top 10 Female Speakers of 2021

“Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice. They need to feel empowered to use it and people need to be encouraged to listen” – Megan Markle

BigSpeak’s Female Keynote Speakers are women from all walks of life who use their voices to spark positive change and empower other women to do the same. These women are some of the world’s top female entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives, authors, physicians, scientists, celebrities, relationship experts and motivational speakers.

No matter who your audience is, these Top 10 Female Speakers of 2021 will leave them inspired, enlightened and motivated to become the best versions of themselves, inch closer to their visions of success, and make a difference in the world.

Molly Bloom

Molly Bloom is a top inspirational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Molly’s Game. Her memoir was adapted into an award-winning film by Aaron Sorkin. Bloom has appeared on numerous shows and in media outlets such as EllenVice, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, and has been asked to speak at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women.  Molly was also in the Top 3 of the US Ski Team.

Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is a top innovation keynote speaker, author, and strategic consultant. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. McGowan’s clients range from start-ups to publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, including AMP Financial, Autodesk, Biogen, Citi, Accor Hotels, AARP, The World Bank, and BD Medical.

Robyn Benincasa 

Robyn Benincasa is a top leadership and teamwork keynote speaker, author, and Adventure Racing World Champion. One of the highest-rated, female motivational speakers in the world, she regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons, her customers include many Fortune companies like Starbucks, Deloitte, Aflac, Boeing, and more.

Tiffani Bova

Tiffani Bova is a business growth keynote speaker, innovation, growth evangelist, and the author of Growth IQ. A top influencer in Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, the Future of Work, and Sales, is a regular contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Marketing Matters on Wharton Business Radio – SiriusXM and Huffington Post in addition to a variety of industry-leading podcasts on sales, marketing, and digital business.

Risha Grant 

Risha Grant is a top diversity and inclusion keynote speaker, founder & CEO of Risha Grant LLC, an award-winning diversity consulting and communications firm, and author of That’s BS! How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures. Through her interactive keynotes and deep-dive training sessions, Risha teaches and empowers attendees with D&I tools to increase their bottom line.

Marita Cheng

Marita Cheng is a top technology keynote speaker, one of Forbes Worlds Top 50 Women in Tech, and the founder of Robogals, Aipoly, and Aubot. Marita is an inspirational speaker who has given over 350 speeches since 2012 in 15 countries.

Cassandra Worthy

Cassandra Worthy is a top innovation keynote speaker and Founder & CEO of Change Enthusiasm® Global, a well-respected Growth Enablement firm serving it’s client base through keynote speaking, training, and consulting. She is a former Fortune 100 Innovation Leader, highly dynamic speaker & presenter, chemical engineer, but above all else the world’s leading expert on Change Enthusiasm®.

Tan Le

Tan Le is a top innovation and business keynote speaker, technology entrepreneur, author, and founder and CEO of EMOTIV. She is one of the most influential pioneers in the emerging field of brain-computer interface. She has won numerous awards, including Young Australian of the Year in 1998,  Australia’s 30 Most Successful Women Under 30, Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company in 2010, and Forbes 50 Names You Need to Know in 2011.

Erica Dhawan

Erica Dhawan is the world’s leading authority on 21st-century Collaboration and Connectional Intelligence. She challenges audiences and organizations to innovate faster and further, together. Her newest book – Digital Body Language – decodes the new signals and cues of effective collaboration and teamwork in a digital-first human workplace. Erica Dhawan is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global organization that helps companies, leaders, and managers leverage 21st-century collaboration skills and behaviors to improve game-changing performance.

Natalie Nixon

Dr. Natalie Nixon is a top change management keynote speaker, consultant, and a strategy, foresight, and innovation expert. As president and founder of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC., she advises leaders on unique approaches for process transformation and leveraging creativity as an innovation resource to more rapidly achieve priority business goals.