Feb 13, 2024

Top 10 Black Motivational Speakers

Would you like to be more successful? Sometimes the difference between success and failure comes down to your mindset. In a Stanford study on grades and testing, researchers found embodying a ‘growth mindset’ closed achievement gaps between students by 30-50%.

If you would like to develop a more successful mindset, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau works with the Top 10 Black Motivational Speakers. These keynote speakers are athletes, thought leaders, company founders, and entertainers who have all encountered challenges in life and learned how to overcome them.

 

Top 10 Black Motivational Speakers

1) Cassandra Worthy

Cassandra Worthy is a top 10 black motivational speaker, innovator, and the world’s leading expert on Change Enthusiasm®  Cassandra inspires and empowers her audiences so they can shine and overcome any challenge in their life.

2) Simon T. Bailey

Simon T. Bailey is a top 10 black motivational speaker, Leadership Imagineer and the former leader of the Disney Institute. He has been named one of the top 25 people who will help you reach your business and life goals by SUCCESS magazine.

3) Vernice Flygirl Armour

FlyGirl is a top 10 black motivational speaker speaker, America’s first African-American female combat pilot, and author of Zero to Breakthrough. FlyGirl’s highly contagious energy, moving stories, and gutsy essence motivate audiences to action.

4) Daymond John

Daymond John is a top 10 black motivational speaker, founder of FUBU clothing, and a reality TV investor on Shark Tank. In his talks, Daymond shares his story of overcoming tough times to grow FUBU clothing from a garage startup to a multi-million dollar company.

5) Jade Simmons

Jade Simmons is a rockstar concert pianist and top 10 black motivational speaker. Her stunning mainstage presentations combine virtuoso performance with riveting storytelling to speak to the hearts, minds, and goals of a company’s most valuable resource…its people.

6) Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson is a world-renowned NBA Hall of Fame All-Star, philanthropist, and motivational speaker. His stories of overcoming challenges as an athlete, entrepreneur, and HIV survivor inspire corporate and business conferences around the world.

7) Chaunté Lowe

Chaunté Lowe is a top 10 black motivational keynote speaker, 4-time Olympian, 3-Time World Championship medalist, and breast cancer survivor. She has been in high demand ever since she decided to train for the Tokyo 2021 Olympics through Chemotherapy and a Double Mastectomy. Her story shows audiences the power of resilience through life’s challenges.

8) Butterscotch

Butterscotch is a top empowerment speaker and vocal percussionist virtuosa who uses her powerful voice to defy gender and music social constructs. She shares her story of how she overcame overt biases to become crowned the world’s first female beatbox champion.

9) Adolph Brown

Dr. Adolph Brown is a top 10 black motivational speaker and the Founder, President, and CEO of The Leadership & Learning Institute. Using stories, humor, and evidenced-based data, audiences come away from Adolph’s talks motivated and inspired.

10) Marcus Collins

Considered America’s leading cultural translator since the success of his best-selling book, For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be, Dr. Marcus Collins is the recognized authority on leveraging the power of culture to influence behavior, inspire collective change, get people to share your vision, and most importantly, move them to take action. Dr. Collins is a professor of marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, former head of strategy at Wieden + Kennedy, New York, and a regular contributor to Forbes. An inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement, he is the architect behind some of the most notable campaigns of the last decade for brands including Nike, Apple, Budweiser, and Beyoncé.

 

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