Motivational speakers are a great way to inspire and spark the flame in your team, but sometimes, all that built up inspiration and drive has no direction moving forward and then eventually dissipates. This is why motivational business keynote speakers are often the better choice for corporations.

An article defines motivational business keynote speakers as a speaker who motivates your team with their story of overcoming adversity to reach their dreams and achieve success while reinforcing their message by providing “actionable insights from their highly tuned business acumen.”  

Motivational Business keynote speakers have beat the odds and have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, though they also usually have a background in or prior experience with the business world, which makes their motivational story particularly applicable to a business-centric audience.

Here are some of the top motivational business keynote speakers:

Isaac Lidsky

Isaac Lidsky played “Weasel” on the 1990’s “Saved by the Bell” spin-off series, graduated from Harvard College at the age of 19, and later graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. He served as a supreme court clerk for Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, started a tech company that sold for $230 million and transformed a struggling $15 million concrete subcontractor into an industry-leading $150 million construction services company in five years. Perhaps most striking, Lidsky is only 37, and he is blind. He was born with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare degenerative disease of the retina, though neither his youth nor his blindness has limited him. Motivational business speaker, Isaac Lidsky has been recognized for his achievements dozens of times and his leadership is routinely sought after for keynotes and corporate consultations.

Robyn Benincasa

Robyn Benincasa is a World Champion Eco-Challenge Adventure Racer, a CNN Hero, and a full-time firefighter with a background in corporate marketing who advises organizations on how to build a world class team of their own. She and her teammates have competed at the front of the pack in the most unique and compelling locations on earth–the jungles of Borneo, the Himalayan peaks of Tibet, the rivers of Fiji, the rainforests of Ecuador and the desert of Namibia–studying the good, the bad, and the not-so-pretty in extreme teamwork. Through these challenges, she has mastered the skills required to inspire a group of semi-exhausted people through a seemingly endless series of checkpoints, in pursuit of a seemingly impossible goal. Motivational business speaker Robyn Benincasa offers a refreshing and truly unique perspective on what it takes to build the kind of world class team that succeeds against all odds.  

Bert and John Jacobs

Motivational speakers, and brothers, Bert and John Jacobs have an inspirational story of turning their dream into a socially conscious business. The duo launched their retail company, Life is Good, with $78 in their pockets, by selling T-shirts on the streets of Boston. Today, Life is Good is a $100 million positive lifestyle brand sold by over 2,000 retailers across the US and Canada. The founding of Life is Good is more than just an inspiring tale, it’s also a lesson in building a business in the 21st century. The brand has built itself on the tenants of co-creation with its customers and focusing on corporate social responsibility (CSR) as ways of building a loyal community of customers. This makes Bert and John the perfect combination of motivational and business speakers.  

Colin O’Brady

In 2008 Colin suffered a tragic accident. He was severely burned in a fire, with burn injuries covering nearly 25% of his body and primarily damaging his legs and feet. Doctors told him he may never walk again, but Colin beat the odds, and then some! Last year Colin broke two world mountaineering records (three if you count Snapchatting from the summit of Mt. Everest!): conquering the speed records for the Explorers Grand Slam and Seven Summits, which entail climbing the tallest mountain on every continent including Mt. Everest and skiing the last degree of latitude to the North and South Poles. Before attempting the Explorers Grand Slam Challenge Colin built social media buzz and gained sponsorship from Nike and Columbia, among others, through a series of well orchestrated social media marketing campaigns. As a motivational business speaker, Colin will motivate your team while also providing them with insights into social media marketing.  

Tan Le

Tan Le is an innovator, entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of the bioinformatics company EMOTIV. In her motivational keynote speech, “My Immigration Story,” Tan recounts her childhood experiences fleeing from war-torn Communist Vietnam with her mother, and sister at the age of 4, to their life in Australia as refugees. Despite immense financial and emotional hardships, Tan explains how her single mother was able to support her and her sister and provide them with a good education. Audiences will be motivated by the tenacity of this young entrepreneur and all that she has accomplished, and inspired by her courage and grace in any situation.