Top Speaker Picks
Prime Time Speakers Bureau is proud to present our top speaker selections. We've hand-picked the cream of the crop based on current popularity, relevance of speech topic and delivery style.
In addition to the keynote speakers shown on this page, we regularly track down dozens of new and unique speakers for our clients every day. With Prime Time Speakers Bureau, you'll find technological visionaries, political pundits, humorists, popular entertainers and more.
Got a special request? Looking to get in touch with someone who you don't see here? We can get you instant access to the country's most sought-after speakers. Contact Julie Sloway at (707) 765-5959 or email julie@primetimespeakers.com
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Creative Thinking and Innovation
Competition
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Diversity
Electronic Commerce
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Education Policy
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Future Trends
Health Care
Humor
Inspiration
The Internet
Leadership
Marketing
Motivation and Achievement
Negotiations
Organizational Strategy
Partnering
Peak Performance
Political Analysis
Sales Skills
Security
Teambuilding
Telecommunications
Tomorrow's Workforce
Ben Stein
A true Renaissance Man, he has been lauded as an economist, award-winning actor, writer, journalist, and professor. Whereas most university students dread classes in law and economics, Ben Stein has been known to spice the otherwise dreary subjects with his wit – and still teach brilliantly. A wealth of films, advertisements, and reality television shows have casted him to portray himself, and the Nixon and Ford administrations summoned his speech-writing excellence throughout their terms in office. You, too, can benefit from Ben Stein's mastery of oratory; whatever the nature of your presentation, chances are that he has spoken eloquently on it before.
Peter Ricchiuti
Finance is an exciting field, but its professors are seldom so. It's why Peter Ricchiuti was twice elected Tulane University's top professor. His wit coupled with his crafty fiscal instincts have attracted the adoration of his students, the honors of his university, and the exalting reviews of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CNN. Peter Ricchiuti is an investment sage, one that won't bore your employees with his expertise but inspire them all to pursue the profits you know they're capable of catching.
Benjamin Zander
The charismatic conductor of The Boston Philharmonic and co-author of the book, The Art of Possibility, British-born, Grammy-nominated Benjamin Zander will take you on a journey that offers a revolutionary new perspective on leadership. He is a one man tour de force who not only dazzles with the piano, but also inspires people to engage their passions, avoid downward spiral thinking, and focus on the power of possibility.
The Water Coolers
The Water Coolers employ original songs, musical parodies and comic sketches
to lovingly lampoon the fast-changing, fast-talking, hard-driving office
environment of contemporary America. Both a salute and a send-up, The Water
Coolers satirize the myths, mores and madness of corporate living.
Oren Harari
There is a voltage to his delivery that few speakers have. Author of Break From the Pack: How to Compete In a Copycat Economy, Oren Harari himself is also very distinctive. Heralding a new era of competitive advantage, organizational change, and transformational leadership, and attracting followers en masse with his magnetic charm, he is the man to consult when the practices of your corporation are too antique to work in the contemporary global economy.
Tom Brokaw
He was once the lord of NBC Nightly News. And he only left because he chose to. Tom Brokaw, from intrepid reporter to news anchor, has covered domestic and international matters for over four decades. American news in particular will imprinted with his legacy for even more decades to come, and his books, the newest being Boom! Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How it Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow, are often national bestsellers. Whenever you need a global perspective, the kind of perspective corporations must have in our world economy, Tom Brokaw is the advisor you will fight for.
Ian Morrison
He has contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has been sponsored by the world's most prestigious drug companies. He has authored books on the arc of the health care industry in years to come. And he has captivated his audiences with a classic Scottish charm. Ian Morrison is, unsurprisingly, among the most sought-after futurists in health care today, advising medical companies, hospitals, and health care specialists in general on how to plan cleverly and prudently on the future.
Dara Torres
A mythical athlete, Torres has led one of the most decorated careers in Olympic swimming, one that even Michael Phelps would envy: twelve Olympic medals, at least one in each of the five Olympics she competed in, and the certainty that, if she swims again, the United States will have more cause to cheer. The only thing more remarkable than her record is that Torres is just 41 years old. The best-selling author of Age Is Just a Number, Torres will brighten your twilight years. If you or your employees feel that age is a burden and not a blessing, she is the speaker to go to; whatever your decade, you can always be successful.
Robyn Benincasa
There are few summits Benincasa has yet to surmount. Iconic in the World Champion Adventure Racing scene and heroic in the Fire Department of San Diego, her teams are the very avatars of synergy. Whereas most orators speaking on teamwork are only accustomed to white-collar vistas, Robyn Benincasa has braved more daunting peaks, venturing into the natural world with team members she must be in harmony with - cliffs are less forgiving than corporations. It's why Starbucks, AT&T, Honda, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett-Packard trust in her managerial insights. It's why that when Benincasa lectures, we listen.
Marcus Buckingham
The Buckingham method is rapidly becoming the method: cultivate merits before you shear flaws. After decades of study, we've come to know the power of diversity - it's what we strive for, and it's why Marcus Buckingham is such a magnetic speaker. High-profile corporations like Coca-Cola, Toyoto, Wells Fargo, and Disney feel this magnetism often. And Buckingham, by advising us to exercise our talents, is a welcome relief from all the focus we place on our shortcomings. An investment in his lectures is an investment in productivity.
Patrick Lencioni
He is your consultant's personal consultant. His teachings have been embraced by companies in every industry and celebrated on ESPN and CNBC alike. Five texts on effective management carry his name. And his own consulting firm - The Table Group, Inc. - has served the executive community since 1997, advising Fortune 500 CEOs on matters of vital managerial importance. Truly, Lencioni has rightfully come to the fore of the executive consulting market - and there he will stay. The Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal are only a few among the many who agree.
Tom Flick
In a football team, the quarterback is the executive. And if that quarterback was hailed as Player of the Year for leading his team to a Rose Bowl Championship, his executive prospects are sure to be bright. Not surprisingly, Tom Flick may very well be one of the country's most prolific speakers - 2,500 speechs in 20 years. Microsoft, Marriot, Merrill Lynch and a host of other top-tier corporations return to him year after year for his invigorating lectures on every topic in the business canon, from team-building to employee morale. His speechs might even have more fans than his football past.
Jackie Freiberg
The Freibergs are renowned for inspiring and high-energy lectures. The very title of Jackie's newest work, GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-As-Usual, represents the kind of rare vitality she brings to corporate meetings. And not only is she rousing, Jackie has an avant-garde, on-top-of-the-box mentality that will make your event as distinctive as her marketing style. Employees and customers alike will flock to your company once you apply her esoteric secrets and insights - secrets and insights her charismatic delivery will not let you soon forget.
Scott Deming
Although customer service is dying, his resolve is very much alive. And after nearly thirty years in the self-described trenches of corporate marketing warfare, Scott Deming has both the wisdom and the experience to bring that service back. By regarding customers and clients as potential relationships, not just as potential sales, we can rejuvenate the ailing faith they have in the good intentions of big - and small - business; and moreoever, we can sustain long-term growth through brand loyalty, the kind of allegiance only won by close, trusting connections. And to begin, Scott Deming himself will inspire that loyalty in you. His multi-million dollar marketing firm, RCI, didn't win The Business Journal's "Most Inspiring Business of the Year" award for any other reason.
Greg Schwem
Corporate life is taken much too seriously - or so Greg Schwem will make us believe. And Schwem, a comic of uncanny precision, never recycles his content. He will pry into your company quirks and remind you just how quirky they are, and his good-natured mischief just might expose some of your absurdity as well. Whereas most corporate speakers would like to teach you something, or sell a particularly hackneyed business model, Schwem is more concerned with easing your mind and splitting your side. And in a convention of severe and stoic presenters, that's a very welcome thing.
Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin is a seer of cities. His studies take him to modest hamlets and loci of commerce alike, and he devotes himself to divining what may become of them. The fortunes of some of the world's most eminent cities have been represented in his writings; and a few themes in particular, such as the relationship between ethnicity and fiscal success, are matters he is especially insightful in. As a consultant, Kotkin has been contracted by private companies and governments; as a writer, by Forbes and The New York Times. The World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, the Harvard Global Cities conference, and the christening of an Australian library have all contacted him to speak. In an economy that does not forgive poor investments, it pays to be wise; and if you want to be paid, consulting this oracle might be the wisest thing you can do.
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