Top 10 Trending Keynote Speakers for Q2 2026
Each month we keep careful track of the Speakers and Topics Clients are asking about. Covering a vast range of topics, these speakers have been booked by organizations across North America.
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Here are the most requested speakers for 2026:
Blake Brewer – Inspiring Speaker on Creating a Legacy-driven Culture:
Blake Brewer is a visionary leader and founder of Legacy Letter Challenge, an organization with a mission to help 1 million people write at least one Legacy Letter.
Blake’s powerful story and mission have touched the hearts of many, and he continues to share it with organizations, businesses, and communities across the country. Most recently, he was featured on the “Dads Got This” segment on NBC’s Today Show.
Pam Didner – B2B keynote speaker and AI strategist
Booked by: IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and Southwest Airlines
Pam Didner is a globally recognized B2B marketing and AI strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five business books, including The Modern AI Marketer in the GPT Era. As the founder of Relentless Pursuit, she has worked with organizations like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and Southwest Airlines to align sales and marketing teams and turn complex strategies into predictable revenue. With over 20 years of enterprise marketing experience spanning demand generation, sales enablement, content strategy, and operations, Pam brings a rare ability to connect high-level strategy with real-world execution.
Siri Lindley – Best-selling Author, Two-time World Champion Triathlete, Inspiring Keynote Speaker
Against all odds, Siri Lindley defied the impossible—transforming from a non-swimmer to two-time World Champion triathlete and #1 ranked competitor in her sport. Her journey from battling crippling anxiety and self-doubt to dominating the world stage exemplifies the extraordinary power of belief and determination that has become her signature message.
With infectious energy and authentic passion, Siri doesn’t just share her remarkable story—she equips audiences with transformative frameworks that make their own “impossible” achievements not just conceivable, but inevitable. Her mission remains unwavering: to help every person she meets believe in themselves more deeply—and act more boldly than they ever thought possible.
Richard Newman – Best-selling Author, Speaker on Communication and Leadership
At 16 years old, Richard Newman was a shy introvert with a fear of speaking, who struggled to join conversations, let alone inspire people. Today, he stands on stages from LA to Paris and Bangkok, empowering audiences like yours to turn their ideas into impact through storytelling and communication.
He’s the author of two books, You Were Born to Speak and Lift Your Impact, and the Founder and CEO of BodyTalk, a multimillion-dollar global coaching consultancy that has trained over 150,000 people. His scientific research on communication is published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychology.
Shola Richards – Bestselling Author & Expert on Workplace Culture:
Booked by: Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, & St. Jude Children’s Hospital
Shola Richards speaks about workplace transformation, but he didn’t start out as a fighter. For years, he waited for someone else to step up when he faced bullying and workplace dysfunction. When no one came, he realized a simple truth: what you allow is what will continue. He had to become his own hero. That realization changed everything.
Today, he’s a workplace kindness expert and global keynote speaker whose work has taken him from testifying before Congress to speaking across three continents. Real kindness, he argues, takes guts. It requires you to fight incivility instead of managing it, to care about people and problems that don’t directly affect you, and to refuse to let harmful dynamics slide just because it’s easier to stay quiet.
One of the most accomplished endurance athletes on the planet, Sébastien’s long list of athletic accomplishments is made even more impressive by the fact that he lives with type 1 diabetes. Sébastien’s story embodies resilience, determination, and purpose. Today, he inspires leaders to galvanize teams around a mission and helps organizations boost engagement with his awe-inspiring stories.
An author, speaker, and athlete, he is a frequent guest on radio and TV shows, and has been featured in countless newspapers and magazines. Sébastien is a world-class communicator, and is well known for his inspiring stories, humor, and dynamic speeches. His greatest strength is his ability to build relevant parallels between athletic endurance and the corporate world.
Coming from an entrepreneurial upbringing, Stacey Hanke learned early on how we consistently show up and interact determines our success in our organizations and in our lives. Starting with a career in voice-over, she quickly realized how every word matters – every movement of your body matters and every sound you make matters (volume, tone and inflection). All of these combined determines who listens, who stays connected with you, who believes you and then acts on your recommendation.
Stacey then jumped into the corporate world as a trainer for Fortune 500 companies, training every possible topic from motivation to customer service to leadership. She traveled internationally researching the difference between a leader who is influential versus a leader who’s simply a good communicator.
Mike Lee – #1 Best-Selling Author | Leadership Speaker
Booked by: Morgan Stanley, AmFam, Cisco, SHRM and IBM
In a world of disruption, change, and adversity Mike Lee helps individual contributors, leaders, and organizations activate the purpose driven, future – focused, and heart – centered skills that drive engagement, win the war for talent and create cultures of belonging. He’s blended a diverse background of mindset, mindfulness, and high – performance to create a counter – cultural approach to the future of leadership.
Mike has delivered this approach through keynotes in packed ballrooms of a thousand where he’s shared the stage with cultural icons and speakers such Mike Tyson, Eric Thomas and Jesse Itzler, as well as, intimate workshops with 10 – person senior leadership teams. Mike has been described as “the easiest and most conscientious speaker I’ve worked with”, “the perfect choice to kick off our event” and having “an impeccable ability to tell a story”.
As a speaker and consultant for more than 350 of the world’s top corporations, law firms and universities, Lindsey is the leading global expert on succeeding in the multigenerational workplace.
Currently a visiting fellow at NYU Stern School of Business, Lindsey is the author of four career and workplace advice books, including The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace.
Her audiences and clients have included leading organizations across industries, such as: Aetna, Google, Goldman Sachs, Estee Lauder Companies, MIT, The National Association of Law Placement (NALP), Stanford and Wharton.
Terence Mauri – Innovation & Disruptive Leadership Speaker
Booked by: Facebook, HSBC, Alibaba, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix & Novartis
Terence Mauri is the Founder of global think tank Hack Future Lab and is a Partner with MIT Solve, an initiative to address world challenges. He brings decades of experience and knowledge sharing cutting edge principles on the future of leadership beyond disruption. He is a Bestselling Author and his book The 3D Leader: Take Your Leadership to the Next Dimension is an actionable and robust guide for ALL people to realize that a new dimension in personal leadership is at the core of creating opportunity. His new book The upside Of Disruption is a wake-up call for leaders. The future isn’t just about tech and trends. It’s about mindsets and choices too.
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