Boston is a fantastic choice for your upcoming event! Home to iconic landmarks and traditions like Fenway Park, The Boston Marathon, and Cheers, this historic city is bustling with energy and excitement. And lucky for you, there are plenty of incredible keynote speakers in the Boston area. 

Our handpicked list of Boston keynote speakers are experts in leadership, business, and beyond, each with their own distinct style and perspective. Let’s get started on finding the ideal keynote speaker for your event in Boston!

Dara Torres 
Dara is a top sports and adventure speaker and an Olympic Gold Medal Swimming Champion. As the first US swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games, Dara Torres set three World records and won nine Olympic medals, including four gold in Sydney. Dara won gold in the 400m freestyle and 400m MR and bronze in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, and the 100m butterfly – this after a seven-year break from competitive swimming.

Mel Robbins 
Mel Robbins is a top motivational keynote speaker, award-winning CNN commentator, bestselling author, and one of the most booked motivational speakers in the world. Her inspirational book The 5 Second Rule is an international bestseller. She is also a contributing editor to Success magazine and co-founder of Inspire52, a news and entertainment website, with the goal to inspire people to think, act, and laugh seven days a week.

Mike Eruzione 
Mike Eruzione is a top motivational speaker, Director of Athletic Development at Boston University, and the captain of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” USA Hockey team. The U.S. team, made up of amateur and collegiate players, defeated the Soviet Union national team, which had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games. He scored the winning goal against the Soviets in the semi-final game—the goal and game that stunned the world.

Laura Gassner Otting
Laura speaks with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to get them past the doubt and indecision that consign their great ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and a catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, and philanthropic landscapes. 

Stephen Wunker 
Steve Wunker led development of one of the world’s first smartphones, has built and sold several successful technology businesses, and advises companies worldwide on turbocharging growth and innovation. Steve is the Managing Director of New Markets Advisors, a leading boutique consulting firm focused on innovation. He advises companies worldwide on innovation strategies and capability building, with clients including Microsoft, the Mayo Clinic, Nike, and the World Bank. Prior to founding New Markets in 2009, Steve was a longtime colleague of Harvard’s Clayton Christensen – the thinker who originated concepts like disruptive innovation and Jobs to be Done – in building up his consulting practice and writing several pieces together. He has also been a successful tech entrepreneur. Steve blends his own experiences, lessons from his clients, and Christensen’s research into unique insights on where industries are headed, how companies can win in them, and how they can build the capabilities to keep winning year-after-year.

Lisa Tanzer 
Lisa Tanzer’s journey to President of the $100 million optimistic lifestyle brand, Life is Good, started in 1990 when she joined the board of “Project Joy”, a small play therapy program for kids facing early childhood trauma in Boston. Today that little play group has evolved into The Life is Good Kids Foundation which positively impacts over 1 million kids per year by delivering Life is Good’s mission – to spread the power of optimism – through an integrated business and nonprofit model.

Tom Koulopoulos 
Tom Koulopoulos is Chairman and founder of Delphi Group, a 30-year-old Boston-based think tank named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine, and the founding partner of Acrovantage Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology startups. He is also the author of 13 books, an inventor with several patents, an Inc.com columnist, the past Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, the past director of the Dell Innovation Lab, and a professor at Boston University. His insights have received wide praise from luminaries such as the late Peter Drucker, the father of modern management; Dee Hock, founder of Visa International; and Tom Peters, who called his writing, “a brilliant vision of where we must take our enterprises to survive and thrive.” His Inc. column is read by over one million people yearly.

Bert Jacobs 
Keynote speaker Bert Jacobs is a top business keynote speaker and co-founder and CEO (Chief Executive Optimist) of Life is Good, which spreads the power of optimism through inspiring art, a passionate community, and groundbreaking nonprofit work. Bert and his brother John launched their business with $78 in their pockets, selling T-shirts in the streets of Boston. Today, Life is Good is a $100 million positive lifestyle brand sold by over 2,000 retailers across the US and Canada.

Tali Sharot 
Professor Tali Sharot is a top business growth keynote speaker, leading expert on human decision-making, optimism, and emotion. She combines research in psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience to reveal the forces that shape our decisions, beliefs, and expectations of the future.

Deepak Malhotra
Deepak Malhotra is a Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches Negotiation in the MBA program, and in a wide variety of executive programs including the Owner/President Management Program (OPM), Changing the Game and Families in Business.Deepak`s first book (with Max Bazerman), Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond, was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Deepak’s most recent book, I Moved Your Cheese, is now a Wall Street Journal best-seller, and has sold translation rights in over 15 languages.

Ravi Ramamurti 
Ravi Ramamurti is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation in emerging markets. He is University Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy and Founding Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern U. (University professorship is the highest honor bestowed on faculty at Northeastern U.) Besides Northeastern U, Ravi has been a visiting professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, at the Wharton School of the U. of Pennsylvania, and at the MIT-Sloan School of Management. He has also taught at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland. Prior to academia, Ravi worked as a Consultant to the Indian Planning Commission, as executive assistant to the CEO of India’s largest engineering company, and as a UN Adviser to Bangladesh and South Korea.

Andy Boynton 
Andy Boynton is Dean of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, an active author of books and articles, and is the co-creator of DeepDive™, a powerful and proven catalyst for innovation.  Under Andy’s leadership, The Carroll School at Boston College has thrived and was ranked as the 3rd best undergraduate business school in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek. Prior to joining Boston College, Andy was a professor of strategy and leadership for over ten years at the prestigious IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. At IMD, Andy designed and led many executive programs with leading companies and was the creator and program director of one of the world’s top ten Executive Global MBA programs. His latest and acclaimed book, The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen (Jossey-Bass), focuses on making innovation a key leadership skill and providing motivation and guidelines to unleash every leader and knowledge professional’s creative capability.

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