Professional Speaker Directory

Award Winning Sports Broadcaster, Entertaining Musician
Firestone is a seven-time Emmy Award-winning and seven-time cable ACE Award-winning host, interviewer, narrator, writer, and producer. As the ground-breaking, original host of ESPN’s legendary Up Close, Up Close Classic and Up Close Primetime, Firestone has interviewed more than 5,000 athletes, musicians, actors and political figures, as well as scores of writers and filmmakers.

Business Performance for the New Economy
Ryan Estis is a sales and leadership expert preparing companies and individual contributors to embrace change and achieve breakthrough performance. Each live event blends original research with compelling stories that move participants to take action. Ryan has 20 years of business experience working with the world’s best brands to initiate change, inspire innovation and deliver growth.

Former Director of Marketing, American Apparel, NY Times Bestselling Author, The Daily Stoic, Ego Is the Enemy, Perennial Seller, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph and Trust Me, I'm Lying

Seasoned Police Officer, Founder & CEO Breaking Barriers United, Host of Acclaimed #ITSNEEDED Podcast, Best-Selling Author

Why are you captivated by some people, but not others? How do certain leaders convince you to change your opinion? In an engaging presentation filled of actionable takeaways, advertising icon Sally Hogshead has the answers.

Sales Training and Relationship Building Expert

The Internet has radically changed the way that people buy and sell. Buyers have more information than ever, and they don’t have time to waste in data gathering meetings. Yet while buying behavior has changed, people still sell pretty much the same way they have for the past 50 years.

Founder of The Accountability Institute™, Named one of the World’s Top 5 Organizational Culture Professionals by Global Gurus, Bestselling author of 12 books including: The Accountability Advantage, I Am Accountable, Non-Negotiable, No More Excuses, and No Matter What, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame inductee

Sandy works with leaders who want to inspire and engage their teams, admins who want to create strong partnerships with leaders, and customer service professionals who want to WOW their customers.

Creator and Founder of Spanx
Sara Blakely wanted footless body-shaping pantyhose to wear with her cream-colored pants and open-toed shoes, but she couldn’t find them anywhere. As a frustrated consumer turned entrepreneur, Blakely took $5,000 in savings and began her adventure in the $2 billion male-dominated hosiery industry.

Sara Ross is on a mission to help leaders and their people get out of survival mode and reignite a sense of aliveness in their work and lives.

As an author, keynote speaker, founder, and the chief vitality officer at the leadership research firm BrainAmped, Sara does this by using brain-science based approaches to teach people how to amplify their emotional intelligence, resilience, and well-being. She is a coffee-loving meditation rookie who can’t help but slip in the occasional Canadian “eh” at the end of a sentence.