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:
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 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 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 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 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 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’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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 Queen, which has empowered women (and men) to launch companies, run for public office, and end bullying.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
