The Top Female Keynote Speakers of the Year

Over the years, it has become one of BigSpeak’s biggest priorities to focus on booking more female motivational speakers because of the keynote speaker industry being primarily male dominated. The ever increasing number of inspirational women BigSpeak has worked with includes powerful entrepreneurs, advocates, educators, and business leaders. We hope to carry on supporting these extremely talented individuals and encourage the continual emergence of female keynote speakers within the industry. 

Furthermore, we would like to spotlight some of our most booked and requested female motivational speakers to show our appreciation and help them positively influence others as they have for us. 

Molly Bloom

Molly Bloom is a top inspirational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Molly’s Game. Her memoir was adapted into an award-winning film by Aaron Sorkin. Molly was one of BigSpeak’s top booked speakers in 2021. She resonates with all audiences and talks about making the best of bad situations and pivoting to overcome setbacks as they arise, no matter how severe.

Wema Hoover 

An authentic, riveting and impactful speaker, Wema Hoover uses her lived experiences as a Black female senior executive working both in the US and abroad to provide practical insights, perspectives and actions enabling organizations to realize the true potential of diversity and inclusion. Working with the top Fortune 500 companies, Hoover is a huge driver of change for creating cultural competence and diverse talent.

Robyn Benincasa

One of the highest-rated, female motivational speakers in the world, Robyn Benincasa regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons, her customers include many Fortune companies like Starbucks, Deloitte, and Aflac. When the challenges are steep, and the competition fierce, Benincasa provides individuals and organizations the tools they need to inspire themselves and one another to their greatest heights and to cross their most challenging finish lines. 

Cassandra Worthy

Cassandra Worthy is a top change and transformation keynote speaker and Founder & CEO of Change Enthusiasm® Global, a well-respected Growth Enablement firm serving its client base through keynote speaking, training, and consulting. With contagious energy that radiates throughout every room she steps into, Worthy is the world’s truly disruptive thought-leader on change that companies need to build organizational resilience and adaptability.

Tiffani Bova

Tiffani Bova is a business growth keynote speaker, innovation, growth evangelist, and the author of Growth IQ. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers. She is a change maker whose thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a frequent guest on a variety of industry-leading podcasts and live broadcasts.

Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is a top innovation virtual keynote speaker, author, and strategic consultant. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Post Pandemic world of work. She’s transforming mindsets and entire organizations around the globe with her message about how the next phase of work will focus on continuous learning, rather than simply learning once in order to work. 

Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour

FlyGirl is a top inspirational speaker, America’s first African-American female combat pilot, and the author of Zero to Breakthrough. A relevant, engaging Inspirational Leadership speaker, FlyGirl will share the precise steps she used to break six-figures during her first year in business and seven-figures in only four! One of her passions is helping business leaders and female entrepreneurs make gutsy moves and create breakthrough results.

Nancy Giordano

Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy Giordano is a strategic futurist and bestselling author with a drive to help enterprise organizations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead. Invited to give over 100 global keynote talks, and with growing conviction of what will (and needs to) shift, executives value her unique abilities to sense and synthesize the terrain ahead.

Tan Le

Tan Le is a top innovation and business keynote speaker, technology entrepreneur, author, and founder and CEO of EMOTIV. Tan Le is recognized as one of the most influential pioneers in the emerging field of brain-computer interface. Le received the 2018 Industrial Research Institute Achievement Award for “outstanding accomplishment in individual creativity and innovation that contributes broadly to the development of industry and to the benefit of society.”

Risha Grant

Risha Grant is the founder and CEO of Risha Grant LLC, an award-winning diversity consulting and communications firm and the author of That’s BS! How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures. Through her empowering keynotes, Grant teaches others how to cultivate D&I tools to better their outcome. From her race, gender and lifestyle choices, to growing a small business and tackling economic issues, every area of her life intersects diversity. 

Ready to book a top female keynote speaker? Please email info@bigspeak.com or call 805-965-1400 to inquire.