If you’re looking for a more interactive keynote or workshop experience, you should look at these great experiential speakers. Like regular keynote speakers, experiential speakers inform audiences on a wide range of business topics. What makes them different than your regular keynote speaker, however, is their presentations engage audience members with hands-on and interactive activities that make the information more meaningful and memorable.

These dynamic speakers make it fun through the use of technology, interactive demonstrations, and audience participation that gets everyone involved.

If you’re interested in having a memorable experience, here is a list of top booked experiential speakers (and one comedy troupe) who have turned their expertise into interaction on the topics of innovation, leadership, team building, and promoting event themes.

1. Tan Le

2. Robyn Benincasa

3. Jade Simmons

4. Chip Eichelberg

5. Mark Schulmann

6. Adam Christing

7. Phil Hansen

8. Duncan Wardle

9. Kevin Mitnick

10. Jeff Civillico

11. Second City Theater

12. Steve Acho

Tan Le

If you like technology: Tan Le is a top innovation speaker, entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of EMOTIV. Le uses technology to add a hands-on element to her talks. She gets the audience involved—and focused on innovation —by using her Emotiv headset to give a live “mind-reading” demonstration.

Robyn Benincasa

If you like sports: Robyn Benincasa is a top leadership and team-building speaker, world champion adventure racer, CNN Hero, and bestselling author. Whether talking about leadership, team building, or handling stress, Benincasa gets the audience involved with interactive activities, such as her famous audience arm-wrestling demonstration.

Jade Simmons

If you like piano: Jade Simmons is a rockstar concert pianist, powerhouse motivational and experiential speaker, and best of SXSW performer. She delivers stunning mainstage keynote presentations that potently combine music, virtuoso performance, and riveting storytelling to speak to the hearts, minds, and goals of a company’s most valuable resource…its people.

Chip Eichelberger

If you like strategy: Chip Eichelberger is a leadership and sales strategist keynote speaker who will help you set and conquer your wildest goals. Chip is known for his board breaking act, in which he invites everyone in the audience to break a wooden board, proving to themselves anything is possible and anchoring their power to this moment. 

Mark Schulmann

If you like drums: Mark Schulmann is a world-renowned drummer and has performed with bands like P!NK, Cher, and Velvet Revolver. In his team-building exercises, Schulman uses interactive songwriting and performance to have participants break through the barriers that have held them back from reaching their true potential. Schulman breaks groups into small “bands,” and coaches everyone through rewriting lyrics to famous songs, culminating in a “band” performance with the group’s lyrics displayed for others to enjoy and support.

Adam Christing

If you like magic: Adam Christing is a comedic magician who will take your audience’s breath away with interactive magic that is light and clean for the whole family. His after-dinner keynote is a perfect closing that will have everyone leaving with a smile. 

Phil Hansen

If you like art: Phil Hansen is not only a keynote speaker but also an artist who overcame a severe tremor. In his keynote he allows his audiences to experience the same creative breakthrough he had by incorporating live, interactive art. 

Duncan Wardle

If you like art and creativity: Duncan Wardle is an innovation and creativity keynote speaker. Using art and activities, Duncan pushes executives and their teams to overcome preconceived ideas, act more audaciously, and develop their own innovation “light switch.” 

Kevin Mitnick

If you like technology: Kevin Mitnick is a top cybersecurity speaker, the world’s most famous hacker, a bestselling author, and a security consultant to Fortune 500 and global governments. Mitnick likes to offer customized keynotes to give his audience a cyber experience. Using pre-arranged questions from the client, Mitnick performs a hacking demonstration to illustrate the key answers and event messaging.

Jeff Civillico

If you like fun and want to give back: Jeff Civillico is a Vegas headliner, TV host, and philanthropist. Jeff has headlined more than a 1000 Vegas shows and knows how to get your message across all while being a fun and interactive host. Civillico gets the audience up and involved in team-building and trust exercises with chair pyramids, live juggling and unicycling. In addition to doing stage and screen events for multi-day events (he’s great for your conference recap videos), he also works as an ambassador for organizations for charity events, offering to donate a portion of his fee in the name of the corporation.

Second City

If you like improv: The Second City Theater presenters take a unique, improv-based approach to developing more creative, inclusive, and inspiring leaders. At their events, participants will build their skills and receive feedback in a variety of areas, including using “Yes, And” (the language of collaboration), adapting in the moment, breaking down silos, and rapid idea generation.

Steve Acho

If you like music: Steve Acho is a Detroit-based, international pop/rock recording artist. At your event, he gathers information from attendees to create an original song about your company.

See Below For More Top Keynote Speakers:

Top Sports and Adventure Speakers

All Top Keynote Speakers

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