Motivational Speakers
Energize your audience with stories that inspire peak performance. Our renowned motivational speakers are leaders in sports and business. This is a short list of speakers with moving stories, to see more keynote motivational speakers, click here.
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Susan O'Malley
Former President of Washington Sports and Entertainment
As the first female president of a professional sports franchise, Susan O'Malley is a pioneer in two fields: sports and business. Through her experience, she knows what it takes to be a leader in a tough business environment and how to recreate an organization from the ground up. Her presentations are marked by her warm sense of humor, her self-described "folksy" style, and her lifetime of experiences as a pioneering woman in business.
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Dr. John Grotzinger
Chief Scientist and Head of Strategic Planning for 2012 Mars Rover Mission
Dr. John Grotzinger is the chief scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover mission, which riveted the country with its dare-devil landing in August 2012. A geologist, his work focuses on the chemical and physical interactions between life and the environment. With the hypothesis that the early history of the red planet is similar to that of the Earth, Grotzinger hopes to gain more understanding of Earth’s evolution through the study of Mars.
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Terry Hawkins
Inspirational Speaker and Educator
Terry Hawkins is an exceptional award winning motivational speaker and educator. With 30 years experience reaching over 300,000 people, Terry can masterfully deliver a wide range of topics as a high energy, humorous, female motivational speaker (from attitude change, effective sales techniques to leadership training, and more). As a powerful corporate culture speaker she gets results and as the most booked female professional speaker Australia has seen, she now shares her talents across the USA.
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John Riggins
Former American Football Running Back for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins
John Riggins is best known for his days as a running back for the Washington Redskins. A famous sports motivational speaker, Riggins has had great success with the Redskins, setting a rushing record of 444 yards in three playoff games to help the team make it to Super Bowl XVII. Riggins was named All-Pro in 1983 for the first time in his career. He retired from professional football in 1985 and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992. Riggins has since started a career in acting and currently works as a sports commentator on television and radio.
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Scott Deming
Entertaining Marketer and Branding Expert
A unique business motivational speaker with a compelling style, Scott Deming captivates, motivates, and accelerates audiences to a new level of passion and commitment to delivering the ultimate customer experience. Scott is taking his nearly thirty years of advertising and marketing experience and showing proof positive that relationships rule and building a brand through emotional experiences, not just great advertising is the key to sustainable personal and professional success.
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Pat Riley
Famed NBA Coach
Sharing his philosophy on winning, leadership, and personal growth, Pat Riley give audiences a fresh perspective on change and how to manage the shifting dynamics of a team. A six-time NBA world champion coach, Riley offers a life plan for team players and discusses how to bring out the winner in each of us.
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Leroy Chiao
Astronaut and Entrepreneur
Drawing upon his years of space exploration, Leroy Chiao discusses how commitment, training, and teamwork can produce extraordinary achievement. Sharing anecdotes from his career as an astronaut, Chiao notes the importance of both being a leader and being part of a team. Chiao's "out of this world" experience makes him truly unique among motivational keynote speakers.
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Pat Williams
Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of the Orlando Magic
As one of America’s top motivational and inspirational speakers, Pat Williams has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. In his presentations, he addresses the qualities that leaders and winners must develop and utilize in order to be successful, and then he takes those lessons and applies them to the corporate world so that each person leaves with the tools he or she needs in order to affect real change in their own lives and at their organization.
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Robert Kriegel
New York Times and Business Week Best-Selling Author
Commentator, NPR's Marketplace Program Pioneer in Sports Psychology
Olympic and Professional Athlete Coach
A best-selling author and one of the country's greatest motivational speakers, Robert Kriegel gives audiences well researched and practical ideas to implement in the workplace. His mantra of "sacred cows make the best burgers" leads audiences to develop a new appreciation and acceptance toward change.
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Pat Croce
Former President of the Philadelphia 76ers
The creator of the world's "most outrageous" pirate museum, the founder of a chain of sports medicine centers and a judge on ABC's American Inventor, Pat Croce is a dynamic entrepreneur and entertainer, not to mention one of our most famous motivational speakers. Named the "best motivator" by Sales & Marketing Management magazine, Croce encourages executives to "lead or get off the pot" and challenges what they know about customer service.
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Tony Schwartz
President & CEO of The Energy Project
Tony Schwartz is president and CEO of The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations fuel energy, engagement, focus, and productivity by harnessing the science of high performance. Tony has spent 30 years studying, writing about, teaching, and coaching people in how to perform at their best. His motivational keynote presentations teach employers how to better meet their employees' multi-dimensional needs, so they're freed, fueled, and motivated to bring the best of themselves to work every day.
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Dan Clark
Master Motivator and Team-Building Expert
Both an athlete and an adventurer, motivational keynote speaker Dan Clark draws from his experiences to discuss leadership and how to build a winning team. A master storyteller, Clark provides entertaining anecdotes while offering strategies for taking a business to the next level.
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