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Robert “Fireman Rob” Verhelst is a resilient leadership and performance speaker who helps people lead themselves first so they can make stronger decisions, manage pressure, overcome adversity, and become greater assets to the people around them. A career firefighter, U.S. Air Force veteran, 9/11 search-and-recovery responder, endurance athlete, author, and world-record holder, Rob has spent his life in environments where uncertainty is real, adversity is unavoidable, and how you respond matters. His signature *Forged in the Fires* programs are built around the 7 Catalysts for Growth: Passion, Ownership, Decisions, Emotional Control, Resilience, Faith Over Fear, and Mental Strength. Through powerful storytelling and hard-earned lessons from the fireground, military service, endurance racing, leadership, mental health struggles, failure, and recovery, Rob moves audiences beyond temporary motivation. He challenges people to look inward, take ownership of how they show up, control the controllables, make intentional decisions, and develop the habits required to stay resilient when life and work get difficult. Rob believes you cannot lead where you do not go. His message gives audiences practical tools to lead themselves first, perform with purpose under pressure, and create lasting value for their teams, organizations, families, and communities.
$5,001 - $10,000
Most HR and leadership speakers talk about culture. I show organizations exactly what's actually driving their people problems — and how to fix it without a bigger budget. The short version: I help leaders turn expensive people problems into P&L wins. Here's what makes my approach different: BUSINESS OUTCOMES, NOT BUZZWORDS I don't teach culture, risk, trust, or leadership as feel-good initiatives. I teach them as business issues — because retention, people-risk, broken trust, and disengaged leadership are some of the most expensive line items most organizations aren't tracking until it's too late. LIVED EXPERIENCE, NOT JUST THEORY 25+ years actually sitting in the C-suite leading HR and people strategy — standing up new entities, running M&As, leading teams through pressure and uncertainty, and closing the gaps in compliance and culture before they became expensive. I've built what I teach from the inside of real organizations, not from a textbook. PROVEN RESULTS A real client case: 65% turnover, four lawsuits, 18 open roles the business couldn't fill. Cost of doing nothing — $6.8M. The fix cost less than 1% of that. Six months later, EBITDA was up 38%. WHAT I SPEAK ON Whether the ask is Protect Your Profit Line (keeping leaders and companies out of trouble), Beyond the Org Chart (building trust, accountability, and team alignment), Leading in the Age of AI (protecting your workforce and risk profile), Speak the Language of Your Own Value (helping people advocate for what they've actually delivered), The Boardroom's Blind Spot (translating culture and compliance into numbers the C-suite acts on), or a program built around your specific challenge — it's the same underlying skill: reading what's really happening with people, risk, and trust, and giving leaders both the inspiration to act and a practical framework for how. If you need a speaker who moves your audience and gives them real tools to protect their culture, their people, their trust, and their bottom line, let's talk. Protecting profits. Prescribing solutions. Powering people.
$5,001 - $10,000
I help leaders in Houston, Texas build trust, communicate clearly, and hold people accountable—without lowering the standard. Through engaging keynotes and hands-on leadership experiences, I partner with managers and organizations to strengthen how teams lead, develop, and follow through. My work equips people leaders, coaches, and leadership teams with practical tools and language they can use immediately: how to set expectations, give feedback with integrity, and create the conditions where individuals and teams can flourish. I focus on raising performance while keeping relationships strong—so your next generation of leaders can grow and your organization can thrive.
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Moira Mills grew up on a homestead in rural Alaska and never attended school. That unusual beginning shaped much more than her ideas about education. It gave her a lifelong perspective on what happens when we stop assuming the systems around us are the only way things can be done. She has spent more than 25 years as an entrepreneur, becoming a Certified Rolfer®, studying health and human development, building events and alternative learning spaces, and raising her own son outside conventional schooling while traveling throughout the United States. Her work explores the assumptions and structures underneath how we learn, work, build businesses, raise children, and make decisions about our lives. Rather than starting with what people are supposed to do, Moira is interested in what becomes possible when we question the framework itself. Drawing heavily from lived experience, she brings those ideas into conversations about education, entrepreneurship, identity, systems, and building lives that actually fit the people living them.
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I help leaders and organizations navigate change by combining storytelling, communication, and practical transformation experience from global organizations. I work with teams to turn uncertainty into clarity, alignment, and momentum, making change feel meaningful, engaging, and human. Based in Sweden, I partner with executives, change leaders, and communication teams to design and deliver change narratives that people can connect to—then translate those stories into real ways of working. My approach blends strategy with hands-on facilitation so your organization can communicate with confidence and sustain transformation beyond the rollout.
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I believe the most powerful conversations do more than inspire us. They challenge what we know, deepen how we understand one another, and move us toward meaningful action. I am a speaker, facilitator, trainer, and community advocate passionate about creating spaces where people feel seen, heard, valued, and equipped to make a difference. My work brings together community engagement, maternal and infant health, early childhood and family well-being, cultural humility, trauma-informed practice, social-emotional wellness, and advocacy. At the heart of my speaking is a belief in the power of people and relationships. I explore how culture, lived experience, community, and the systems around us shape the way we learn, lead, advocate, care for one another, and create change. My approach combines storytelling, research-informed practices, reflection, and interactive learning to make complex conversations accessible, relevant, and actionable. I speak to educators, advocates, health and human service professionals, community leaders, families, and organizations seeking fresh approaches to strengthening relationships and creating environments where people can thrive. Whether I am facilitating a workshop, joining a panel, delivering professional development, or speaking before a conference audience, my goal is never simply to leave people inspired. I want them to leave equipped. I invite audiences to think differently, ask better questions, recognize the strengths already present within their communities, and turn insight into action. Because lasting change is not something we create for communities. It is something we build with them.
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I am a Leadership Performance Speaker, entrepreneur, former college athlete and coach, licensed insurance professional, higher education lecturer, and community leader passionate about helping people reach their full potential. My experiences in athletics, business, education, and community engagement have shaped my perspective on leadership, resilience, accountability, risk management, and high performance. I believe success is built through discipline, purpose, and a commitment to continuous growth. Through real-life stories and practical lessons, I challenge individuals and teams to overcome obstacles, embrace challenges, make informed decisions, and take ownership of their development both personally and professionally. Whether I'm speaking to students, athletes, young professionals, or organizational leaders, my goal is to create lasting impact that goes beyond motivation. I want people to leave with a stronger mindset, greater confidence, and actionable strategies they can immediately apply. My mission is to help others turn potential into performance, lead with purpose, manage challenges effectively, and achieve meaningful results in their lives, careers, and communities.
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I have spent more than seventeen years inside global supply chains, first at IKEA and then at Volvo Cars. I have led international transport, procurement and transformation work across three continents, including a transport portfolio worth more than one billion dollars. I have also led operations through COVID 19, the Ever Given blockage and the Red Sea crisis. Today I am Founder and Principal Advisor at Cognitive Industrial in Basel. I work with executives who need to make complex operations more resilient, simpler and more useful to the business. My talks draw on decisions made under pressure, from building a global Centre of Excellence and predictive tracking capability to redesigning operating models, sourcing strategies and control towers. I do not speak about transformation as a theory. I show what changes when leaders connect systems, incentives, decision rights and frontline execution. Audiences leave with practical questions and actions they can take back to their own operations.
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I’m Lisa Steed, and I help transportation professionals, business owners, and emerging leaders build stronger teams through practical leadership, safety-focused operations, and professional driver development. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, I bring firsthand experience as a transportation entrepreneur, fleet leader, professional driver, and mentor—so my guidance is grounded in real-world operations, not theory. My work centers on creating accountable teams, strengthening safety culture, developing employees, and leading by example. I share actionable lessons that help leaders improve communication, increase reliability, and turn day-to-day coaching into measurable performance and safer outcomes for everyone on the road.
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I’m Alon Nachmany, a cybersecurity founder and 4x CISO based in Boca Raton, Florida. My focus is securing operational technology (OT) and critical infrastructure environments, where uptime, safety, and legacy constraints demand a different approach than traditional IT security. I help organizations strengthen OT/ICS defenses, implement Zero Trust, and build identity and cyber-risk programs boards can rely on. As a Global Cyber 40-Under-40 honoree and co-chair of the Cloud Security Alliance’s IAM working group, I translate modern security strategy into practical operating models for complex, regulated environments.
$251 - $1,500
I'm Richard Weylman, a Keynote Speaker Hall of Fame inductee and Customer Experience Hall of Fame Honoree based in Punta Gorda, Florida. Over nearly three decades as a business growth strategist, researcher, and three-time international best-selling author, I've helped organizations around the world turn customer experience into their strongest competitive advantage. My path here was not a straight line. Orphaned at six, I grew up across 19 foster homes and 11 schools, and that early lesson in resilience still shapes how I help teams adapt and win. I went on to lead an award-winning Rolls-Royce Motor Cars operation and to build the original sales and marketing organization for The Robb Report, experiences that taught me exactly how customers decide, stay, and refer. Today I deliver keynotes, consulting, and executive coaching that improve sales performance, customer engagement, and leadership. My approach is prescriptive, not motivational: audiences leave with research-backed strategies and practical tactics they can apply the very next week, especially as AI erodes the product edge and relationships become the real differentiator. Above all, I measure success by the lasting impact on the businesses, teams, and individuals I serve. Whether on your main stage or in a breakout, my goal is the same: to engage, educate, and equip your audience to grow.
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Subah Wadhwani (born 20 August 2004) is the co-founder and CEO of Atomik Growth, content creator, and angel investor. He is based in San Francisco and Bangalore. Atomik Growth is a media and technology company that produces launch videos and short form clipping for technology startups, and its clients include Acquired, Andreessen Horowitz, Google DeepMind, Brex, Airwallex, Figma, and Airtable. Wadhwani was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and began creating content as a teenager, starting with gaming videos on YouTube and later building fitness pages on Instagram. He completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma and speaks English, Hindi, Spanish, and French. His first professional role came at the education company Educate, where he worked as a social media manager. The team he was part of built one of the fastest growing YouTube channels in the personal finance category. In 2023 Wadhwani co-founded Atomik Growth. The agency began by helping venture capital funds and technology companies produce and distribute podcasts, working with shows such as Acquired and Darknet Diaries and with investors including Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, and South Park Commons, along with founders such as Reid Hoffman and Henrique Dubugras. The company operates from offices in San Francisco and Bangalore, and Wadhwani built the team in his early twenties. It later expanded into the two services that now define it, launch videos and short form clipping. Its clipping operation, Atomik Clips, runs on a private network of more than three thousand creators who build side accounts and post short videos designed to travel, and it charges clients for guaranteed views rather than for production alone. When a company has no existing footage to work from, the team films original material and builds a library of clips from it. The launch side of the business operates under a separate brand, LaunchVideo.com, which Wadhwani co-founded with Arthur Zargaryan, Vihaan Khanna, and Hannaan Kirmani. It runs product launch campaigns for startups on the social platform X, aiming announcements at the founders, operators, investors, and developers who influence whether a product gains traction. Documented campaigns include the launch of Helena, an autonomous marketing product from Enrich Labs, which reached 3.6 million views and produced close to nine thousand product demos, and a period in which Wadhwani launched three startups in seven days for more than five million combined views. Its launch clients have included Composio, Superblocks, Wispr Flow, HydraDB, and Merge.dev. In 2026 the launch business announced an expansion to meet rising demand from venture backed companies. Alongside his agency work, Wadhwani creates business content on YouTube and Instagram, where he posts lessons about building and running an agency to audiences of tens of thousands. He co-hosts Distribution, a show about how AI startups capture attention whose first episode drew more than five hundred thousand views on X. Wadhwani invests as an angel in early stage founders, with a focus on future media, video generation, consumer applications, and agencies. His check sizes typically range between 5,000 and 20,000 dollars, and he offers the founders he backs access to distribution alongside capital.
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