Feb 27, 2023
Top Business Topics For Speaking
What topics do businesses want to know more about in 2023? If you’re an event planner, choosing the most exciting topics for your conference can not only increase the excitement for your audience but also drive attendance for your event.
To help make your next event more exciting, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau took a look at what topics are in demand by organizations. After surveying our speaker booking data, we discovered eight hot topics, from artificial intelligence to DEI to habits.
1) Artificial Intelligence
It’s no surprise that artificial intelligence is a hot topic for businesses in 2023. At the end of 2022, programs like ChatGPT and DALL-E were all anyone could talk about for creating content. If you’re interested in learning what natural language processing programs can and cannot do for your business, consider these speakers.
Kevin Surace is an artificial intelligence expert, CEO, and TED speaker with over 15 TED talks. His company Appvance uses AI-Driven autonomous testing to evaluate code. He can share the many ways machine learning and artificial intelligence can change and challenge your business.
Adam Cheyer and Dag Kittlaus are the founders of Siri, one of the first virtual voice assistants. Find out from the pioneers of virtual assistants what you can expect from programs like ChatGPT and what’s coming in the future.
2) Habits
We all would like to build better habits and break old ones. All it takes are tiny changes that we can repeat systematically over time.
If you would like to learn more about making and breaking habits, James Clear is a habit expert who helps people build systems of success, detailed in his 10 million, worldwide-bestselling book Atomic Habits. You’ll learn good practices like “never miss twice” to stay on track and how to “chain new habits to old ones” to get started.
3) Storytelling
Everything in our lives revolves around a story. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about your day, marketing a product, or running a meeting. Stories are how we connect with people.
One of the best storytelling keynote speakers is Matthew Luhn. He is a former lead animator and storyteller at Pixar Studios with over 25 years of experience. He helped shape the humor and storytelling of such films as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille. Audiences will come away with the ingredients of creating a riveting story, from developing a great hook to making a likable hero.
4) Emotional Intelligence
Emotion is the principal driver in all our decision-making: good and bad. So to make better decisions, it’s crucial to develop our emotional intelligence so we can have more options when under stress.
Two of the best emotional intelligence keynote speakers are JP Pawliw Fry and Bill Benjamin. Using research from Pawliw-Fry’s New York Times bestselling book Performing Under Pressure, these two speakers help you understand your default behaviors in stressful situations, so you can make better decisions.
5) Resilience
One of the best teachers in life is failure. However, failure can also teach you the wrong lessons, like giving up or getting angry. So how can you rebound from failure and be a success? The best way is to develop resilience.
Jia Jiang is a top resilience keynote speaker with the most viewed TED Talk of 2017 and wrote the bestselling book Rejection Proof. In his talks, Jiang shares the skills you need to overcome your fear of rejection so you can bounce back from any failure.
6) Leadership
You aren’t born a leader. Good leadership is an acquired skill that anyone can learn. If you would like to improve your leadership skills, consider these speakers.
Jonathan Reckford is a top leadership expert and the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, a global Christian housing organization. Jonathan speaks about leadership skills based on his experience in the for-profit sector at Goldman Sachs, Marriott, The Walt Disney Co., and Best Buy.
Gregory Robinson is a top leadership expert best known as the man who successfully launched the James Webb Space Telescope after the project was years behind. Within months of being named Director, he increased the efficiency of the schedule from 55% to 95%. Greg shares how you can lead through the alignment of teams and open communication.
7) Motivation
We all need motivation in our daily lives. Motivation is the key to our personal and business success. But how do you stay motivated in the face of obstacles? Here are two great speakers on motivation.
One of the top motivational keynote speakers is Molly Bloom. Molly is a bestselling author and the subject of the Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film Molly’s Game. Using examples from her career, Molly shares how she overcame injuries in her career as a mogul skier and how she overcame losing her multi-million dollar business to rise again.
Cassandra Worthy is the Founder & CEO of Change Enthusiasm® Global, a well-respected Growth Enablement firm. She is the bestselling author of Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success and the world’s leading expert on Change Enthusiasm.
8) DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Did you know the most diverse companies have higher employee engagement, better productivity, and increased market share? DEI not only helps organizations improve work culture, but it also helps improve business outcomes.
One of the top speakers in DEI is Wema Hoover. Wema is a culture and DEI expert who has dedicated her career to serving as a catalyst for change and as a transformational leader. As a trusted C-suite and board-level advisor, Wema has leveraged her background leading global DEI efforts for companies like Google, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Bristol-Myers Squibb to help inform and guide corporate leadership through evolving corporate culture, creating inclusive work environments, and integrating DEI and sustainability to build high-performance organizations and drive business results.
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