Apr 30, 2024
Best Entertainment Speakers for Events, Meetings and Conferences
Looking for the best talent to entertain your audience? These top entertainment speakers bring a unique blend of insights, humor, and star power, captivating audiences with their stories and performances. Whether it’s a corporate event, educational summit, or industry conference, an entertainment keynote speaker can infuse energy and enthusiasm, leaving attendees inspired and energized. From actors, to talk show hosts, Disney animators, celebrity chefs, bestselling authors, and musicians, there is a wide pool of talented entertainment speakers to choose from who can appeal to various interests and industries.
Molly Bloom
Legendary for running the world’s most exclusive high stakes poker game frequented by A-List Hollywood celebrities and sports figures, Molly Bloom is a top-booked inspirational speaker and one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women. She shares a life journey of triumph, ruin, and reinvention—from Olympic dreams crushed by a career-ending accident to seeing her multi-million-dollar business threatened by organized crime and shut down by the FBI. Her story of grit, resilience and self-determination has been called a “goosebump experience,” inspiring corporate audiences and winning stellar reviews.
Omar Johnson
Hailed as a remarkable leader, Omar Johnson is the mastermind behind Beats by Dre’s rise from a $20 million niche player to a $2 billion category leader to a $3 billion acquisition by Apple. Named one of the “Most Innovative CMOs” by Business Insider, Omar’s dynamic human-centric approach revolves around the synergy of people, products and compelling storytelling. He is the CEO and Founder of ØPUS United and ØPUS Intelligence Labs. ØPUS Intelligence Labs is a leading software that is revolutionizing marketing tech. ØPUS United is a modern brand management company composed of a collective of award-winning executives, athletes, strategists, creatives and musicians.
Kate Davis
Kate’s generous Insight and outspoken character provides a powerful combination to help organizations empower their staff with effective tools for managing stress and sustaining motivation. As the world is becoming more unpredictable, finding balance, connectivity, motivation and peace of mind is challenging. Leaders most often look outward for the answers to these problems, but the foundation of balance and alignment lies within each of us. Kate Davis is an award-winning comic, author and sought after international keynote speaker. Her presentations on stress management, connectivity and resilience are grounded in 2 decades of research and development. Kate has appeared on Breakfast Television, Star TV, Toronto 1, Prime, WTN, TVO and is on Sirius XM radio. Kate can also be heard on CBC Radio One, “The Debaters.” Kate tours globally with her comedy and speaking. Kate has been published in Today’s parent magazine and the Mom and Caregiver Magazine. She has written 2 books and won the iparent media award and her second book “Second Best Mom – Stories, Tips and Okay Advice” is now available on all platforms.
Jay Ward
Jay Ward is a top innovation keynote speaker, a Creative Director of Franchise at Pixar, and a consultant on all Cars-related projects worldwide. He provides automotive and franchise expertise to both Disney and its partners in matters pertaining to Consumer Products, Interactive, Marketing, Publishing, and Theme Parks.
Jade Simmons
Jade Simmons is a creator of transformational experiences designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest version of themselves possible. The world-class concert artist is also the CEO of Jade Media Global, a revolutionary live experience and global content distribution company specializing in 360º personal development and strategic transformation. Nicknamed “Classical Music’s # 1 Maverick” and named one of the Best Keynote Speakers of 2019 and 2020, her electrifying, genre-bending concert adventures span Rachmaninoff all the way to rap and include virtuoso storytelling, uncommon insights, and boundless inspiration. Today, Jade’s experiences not only delight concert audiences, but her dazzling, high-impact presentations are fast becoming the go-to fuel for the world’ s superlative brands and organizations from financial services, to biotech, to entertainment, education, energy and beyond. The equal-opportunity disrupter was also a surprise Independent candidate for President in the 2020 elections.
Jim Breuer
Jim Breuer is a top happiness speaker, SNL alumni, and one of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Standups of All Time”. Since 2015, he’s shared his dual passions for comedy and baseball (particularly his New York Mets) with thousands via his video recaps of games that he posts on Facebook. Their viral impact has been massive, with clips airing on the MLB Network and ESPN Sportscenter among others, and even inspiring Mets fans in other cities to hang with Breuer to root their team on.
Deanna Marsigliese
Specializing in storytelling through character design, Deanna has worked at Pixar Animation Studios since 2012. Her credits include Luca (2021), Soul (2020), Onward (2020), Toy Story 4 (2019), Incredibles 2 (2018), Bao (2018), Inside Out (2015) & The Good Dinosaur (2013). Deanna delivers panel talks & leads workshops world-wide, having been hosted by SXSW, D23, ILM, Leaders London, Pixelatl, CTNX & The Walt Disney Family Museum.
James Corden
British actor James Corden is known around the world as a Tony Award-winning performer on Broadway, a BAFTA-winning comedy star, a feature film actor, and an acclaimed host, writer, and producer in several genres of television. Corden can currently be seen hosting Emmy Award-winning variety show, “The Late Late Show with James Cordon,” on CBS.
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is the Founder of the first multi-channel lifestyle company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, an entrepreneur, bestselling author of 96 to date lifestyle books and Emmy award winning television show host. Reaching more than 100 million devoted fans on a monthly basis through her magazines, television shows, books, and products for the home, sold at multiple retail and online outlets, Martha is the “go-to” source for the homemaker. She and her talented staff provide trusted, timely, and useful information on all aspects of everyday living: cooking, entertaining, gardening, home renovating, collecting, organizing, crafting, healthy living, holidays, weddings and pet care, both in print and social media.
Ross Shafer
Ross Shafer is a former headlining stand-up comedian and Emmy winning network talk and game show host (ABC’s Match Game and Day’s End, NBC’s Almost Live!, USA’s Love Me, Love Me Not, and FOX network’s Late Show). But what shocks most meeting planners is the fact that Ross is also a serial entrepreneur who has bought and sold two dozen companies. His interest in why some businesses succeed (while others fail) led him to write the books; RATTLED, NOBODY MOVED YOUR CHEESE, THE CUSTOMER SHOUTS BACK, ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, CUSTOMER EMPATHY, ARE YOU RELEVANT? NO MORE CUSTOMER FRICTION, SUCCESS: IT’S ON YOU, GRAB MORE MARKET SHARE, BEHAVE LIKE A START UP, and COOK LIKE A STUD. Ross is also in high demand as a convention Keynote Speaker and has been honored by the National Speakers Association with their CPAE Hall of Fame award.
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