“Our fear of failure tends to grind off our enthusiasm for risk-taking and for entrepreneurship. We should be more in touch with what we get from our failure.” – Tom Kolditz, Author of In Extremis Leadership

Do you want to lead but are afraid to fail? Fear of failure can hold you back from developing your potential as a true leader. The best leaders and entrepreneurs have failed and learned from their failures to become better leaders.

If you want to learn how to take risks and bounce back from failure, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau works with the Top Leadership Keynote Speakers. These keynote speakers are former military leaders, NASA directors, and C-suite executives who learned the lessons of leadership the hard way.

1) Thomas Kolditz

Retired Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz is a leadership expert and author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It. Thomas shares profound lessons on leadership from his research that any leader can use to develop their soft skills.

2) JP Pawliw Fry 

JP Pawliw-Fry is a top leadership keynote speaker and emotional intelligence expert. Using research from Pawliw-Fry’s New York Times bestselling book Performing Under Pressure, he helps leaders and teams from Fortune 500 companies overcome their barriers to reach their full potential.

3) Gregory Robinson

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.

4) Wema Hoover

Wema Hoover is a culture and DEI expert who has dedicated her career to serving as a catalyst for change and as a transformational leader. Her expertise centers on diversity, equity, & inclusion, authentic leadership, and women’s empowerment, with a reputation for creating systemic organizational change in people, processes, and products on a global scale. Her deep experience spans multinational, market-leading consulting, pharmaceutical, and technology enterprises with a high degree of cultural awareness, having lived in the US, Europe, and Asia and leading globally dispersed teams. 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.

5) Bill Benjamin

Bill Benjamin is a top keynote speaker on leadership and peak performance. He helps leaders and teams from Fortune 500 companies overcome the barriers that often hold them back from reaching their full potential.

6) Vernice Flygirl Armour 

Vernice Armour is an inspirational leadership speaker and the first African-American female Marine combat pilot. Her moving and exciting talks inspire audiences and leaders to take ownership of their own work and lives.

7) Elise Mitchell

Elise is a top leadership keynote speaker, three-time CEO, leadership strategist, business consultant, and executive coach. She is the founder of Mitchell Communications Group, one of the top 10 fastest-growing public relations firms globally and a two-time Inc. 500/5000 fastest-growing company. Under her leadership, her agency grew more than 500% in five years.

8) Robyn Benincasa 

Robyn Beincasa is a top keynote speaker on inspired leadership and teamwork, CNN Hero, and bestselling author of How Winning Works. Robyn teaches audiences the foundations of inspired leadership and how to win as a team based on her experiences as a member of a world championship-winning Adventure Racing team.

9) Simon T. Bailey 

Simon T. Bailey is a 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.

10) Kevin Brown

Motivational speaker and author Kevin Brown is passionate about helping people and organizations embrace a simple philosophy that separates world-class organizations and high-performance people from everybody else – he calls it The HERO Effect®. Through his presentations, Kevin entertains, inspires, and challenges people to show up every day and make a positive difference at work and in life!

If you would like to book a Top Leadership Keynote Speaker, comedian, musician, or entertainer, contact BigSpeak Speakers Bureau. BigSpeak is a leading speaking agency and one of the top speakers bureaus for keynote experts and entertainers.

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