Looking to kick your new year off right? To inspire your teams to sell more effectively in today’s economy, reach new heights in their performance, and make big things happen in 2025? You’ve come to the right place.
While planning your 2025 kick-off events, discover how our roster of top motivational speakers and leading industry experts can equip your teams with the strategies, skills, and motivation needed to start 2025 off strong.
Contact us to book a professional keynote speaker for your 2025 kick-off event today.
Unlocking Excellence and High Performance
Set the tone for a year of success by learning how to unlock team excellence, optimize performance, and sustain peak results.
Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan
Excellence: The Winners’ Traits
As one of the leading performance consultants in the field, Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan has coached and trained some of the world’s top athletes and teams.
Interspersed with real life examples from her Olympic, NHL, and NBA championship experiences, Kimberley explores the universal traits shared by those who experience the most success in their field, and demonstrates how to replicate them within your own careers, teams, and organizations.
Dr. Ivan Joseph
Success, Self-Confidence, and Performance
An award-winning coach and sports psychologist, Dr. Ivan Joseph has seen firsthand that success begins and ends with self-confidence. Believing in yourself is the foundation to achieving goals and unlocking your potential.
Ivan has developed, applied, and refined dozens of techniques that lead to high performance and excellence and shares those secrets in this energizing and motivational talk.
Tessa Virtue
Elite Performance: Unlocking Potential and Sustaining Excellence
Olympian Tessa Virtue has flourished under the spotlight on the world’s toughest rinks. Now, as an executive advisor with Deloitte with a masters in positive psychology, she’s taking on the most complex boardrooms.
Tessa draws on her experience as a world-class athlete and her academic and corporate background to show audiences how to unlock and empower high performance within leaders and teams.
Sales and Customer Experience
Accelerate sales in 2025 by equipping your team with winning strategies to build stronger customer relationships and drive substantial growth.
Riaz Meghji
Relationships First: How to Use Authentic Connection to Grow Sales
A human connection expert, Riaz Meghji’s fascinating talk goes beyond sales tactics to share key principles in turning sales into an art and discipline of crafting real relationships and experiences — not just transactions.
In a world of dwindling authentic connections, it’s easy to see sales as the least authentic interaction of all. Riaz shows why this doesn’t have to be the case, helping sales leaders and their teams transform the way they interact with customers to dramatically improve sales outcomes.
Brittany Hodak
Creating Superfans: How to Turn Customers into Lifelong Advocates
In today’s experience economy, customer experience (CX) drives over two-thirds of customer loyalty. The bestselling author of Creating Superfans, Brittany Hodak shares her proven five-step framework to help any organization elevate ordinary customer moments into extraordinary ones.
Brittany’s game-changing presentations are as entertaining as they are actionable, leaving audiences equipped with the strategies and tools needed to transform customers into lifelong advocates.
Shawn Casemore
Build an Unstoppable Sales Machine
The art of sales has changed with ever-shifting buying behaviours and consumer expectations. Your team, and the skills they use, must shift to accommodate this new economic reality.
Shawn Casemore — an expert in accelerating sales and revenue — shows sales professionals and leaders how to leverage a new way of selling to continuously out-perform their peers. He shares proven methods to earn attention, enhance relationships, and close deals faster than ever before.
Motivational Speakers
Inspire your team to embrace change, build confidence, and pursue audacious goals in 2025 with insights from dynamic and motivational leaders.
Col. Chris Hadfield
Preparing for the Future: Making it Happen
Colonel Chris Hadfield has made a career of turning dreams into reality. He brings audiences on a journey through his experiences as a test pilot and astronaut, and within the worlds of business and technology, to simplify and clarify how to make your desired future happen.
A powerful storyteller, Chris’ memorable anecdotes and insights will leave audiences equipped with powerful strategies and techniques that work in achieving even the most audacious goals.
Shawn Kanungo
Bold Ones: How to Innovate and Disrupt Ourselves
It has never been more crucial to adapt and evolve with the times. Yet, when faced with radical change, we tend to double down on what made us successful in the past.
“Bold Ones” is an awe-inspiring and provocative keynote from Shawn Kanungo where he empowers audiences to apply the innovations and disruptions occurring around them to become more dynamic and valuable. He shares specific, actionable techniques to help people evolve and excel.
Juan Bendaña
The Confidence Cycle: The Secret to Everyday Engagement and Motivation
In a world of rapid change and increasing demands, it’s easy to feel uncertain, disengaged, and overwhelmed. Juan Bendaña shares his ground-breaking framework to help audiences overcome self-doubt, find the determination to keep moving forward, and ignite excitement for the future.
Juan leaves audiences energized, ready to tackle their goals with renewed passion, and motivated to keep going, no matter what.
Business Strategy and Growth
In today’s competitive landscape, ensure your teams are equipped with the essential strategies to keep them agile in the face of uncertainty, a relentless need to innovate, and constant demands on their attention.
Ron Tite
The New Growth Matrix: How to Unleash Purpose-Driven Customer (and Employee) Experience to Fuel Growth
Over the past few years, leaders have been forced to react and respond to a rapidly changing environment, with the path forward filled with unclear and competing priorities.
Welcome to an era that requires a new approach to growth — one bound by purpose and driven by a frictionless and inspiring experience inside AND outside the organization. Ron Tite shows you how.
Diana Kander
Unleash Your Curiosity
Based on her book, The Curiosity Muscle, Diana Kander’s high-energy keynote shows audiences how to level up the simple questions they ask themselves on a daily basis to get significantly better results and drive innovation.
Having truly cracked the code on using curiosity as a catalyst for exponential growth, Diana helps organizations across sectors turn curiosity from a corporate value into a daily habit.
Dan Gardner
Getting Big Things Done on Budget and on Time
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Yet, research shows that fewer than one in 10 major projects finish on budget and on time — with catastrophic failure frighteningly common. If projects are so important, why are we so bad at them?
Dan Gardner draws on his book How Big Things Get Done to explore why failure is so common and shares mind-expanding lessons about how we conceive, plan, and deliver major projects.
Leadership and Team Building
Prepare your organization to thrive no matter what 2025 brings by developing resilient leaders and cultivating cohesive, high-performing teams ready to face any challenge.
Bruce Kirkby
Leadership in the Age of Change, Uncertainty, and Disruption
Uncertainty, change, and complexity have become modern norms. And leading organizations through this is the defining challenge of our times. With 30 years of expedition leadership experience, Bruce Kirkby knows that, given the right leadership strategies, challenge can raise performance to previously unimagined levels, along with morale and engagement.
This exciting, fast-paced keynote — with stories and imagery of high adventure — shares simple and practical tips for creating a powerful shared vision, building a culture of learning, and more.
Fahd Alhattab
How to Build Unstoppable Teams That Grow and Win
Why do certain groups add up greater than the sum of their parts while others add less? The critical insight is that interactions between individuals matter significantly more than the talent of the individual people on a team.
Leadership development expert Fahd Alhattab empowers audiences with game-changing insights of the “six levels of high performing teams”, enabling them to unite exceptional individuals into a cohesive and agile powerhouse.
Tim Arnold
Next-Level Teamwork: The 5 Tensions to Manage for High-Performance Teams
Despite having smart, hard-working people, most teams run rampant with dysfunction and division. This can make coming to work feel frustrating and exhausting.
While other teams run away from tension, business strategist Tim Arnold shows audiences how to embrace it. He empowers them with strategies and tools to harness the power of healthy tension in five key areas, and shift their teams from unproductive to unstoppable. Prepare to transform your team into a cohesive unit, energized and motivated to achieve collective goals!
When planning your 2025 kick-off event, contact us to find the right speaker to help your leaders, teams, and organizations start their year off right.