TED Keynote Speakers
Book TED and TEDx speakers who bring widely shared ideas on leadership, human potential, technology, health, connection, and social impact to your event.
The most memorable TED and TEDx speakers do more than present an interesting idea. They give an audience a new lens that changes the conversation after the event. Simon Sinek made Start With Why a global leadership language. Alex Honnold and Amy Purdy turn extraordinary physical challenges into lessons on preparation, risk, and possibility. Dan Buettner and Kasley Killam translate research on longevity and human connection into practical choices for healthier organizations. Clara Durodie, Daniel Kraft, and Pascal Finette make complex shifts in AI, medicine, and exponential technology understandable. Mick Ebeling and Kenton Lee show how a focused idea can become a humanitarian solution. Whether the brief calls for a famous TED voice, a breakout TEDx storyteller, or a speaker who can connect a big idea directly to business, this roster offers credible thinkers with stage-tested messages.
Leadership, Culture, and Business Ideas
Influential thinkers on purpose, accountability, workplace culture, customer experience, markets, and the choices that shape organizational performance.
Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek's talk on how great leaders inspire action became one of TED's most watched ideas and helped make Start With Why a global leadership language. His optimism and simple frameworks give organizations a memorable way to rethink purpose, trust, and long-term leadership.
Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Culture Partners chief strategy officer, number-one USA Today bestselling author, and viral TEDx speaker Dr. Jessica Kriegel challenges comfortable leadership assumptions. Her research-backed frameworks connect accountability, culture, and change to results an organization can actually measure.
Scott Galloway
NYU Stern professor, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author Scott Galloway is known for sharp, data-rich takes on markets, technology, and society. His candor and fast-moving analysis give business audiences an idea-packed session designed to provoke debate well beyond the room.
Susan Salgado
Fast Company Most Creative People honoree and former partner of restaurateur Danny Meyer, Susan Salgado shows how trust and empathy improve decisions at every level. Her practical culture lessons connect employee experience directly to customer loyalty and business results.
Human Potential and Reinvention
Remarkable lives and memorable ideas about preparation, resilience, creativity, risk, and moving beyond the limits people assume are fixed.
Alex Honnold
Free Solo star and Honnold Foundation founder Alex Honnold brings audiences inside the preparation required to climb El Capitan without ropes. His calm, precise account turns an almost unimaginable feat into practical insight on risk, fear, mastery, and disciplined rehearsal.
Amy Purdy
Paralympic medalist and elite snowboarder Amy Purdy became a global voice on possibility after losing both legs below the knee. Her TEDx story and competitive journey show how creativity, adaptation, and a new relationship with obstacles can expand what comes next.
Ben Nemtin
Number-one New York Times bestselling author and Buried Life co-founder Ben Nemtin turned a personal list into a worldwide movement. His five steps for making the impossible possible give audiences a practical bridge from a meaningful idea to courageous action.
Janet Evans
Five-time Olympic medalist Janet Evans set world records that stood for nearly two decades. Her experiences across multiple Olympic Games give audiences a rare perspective on resilience, changing expectations, and the difference between winning once and continuing to perform like a champion.
Phil Hansen
Multimedia artist Phil Hansen developed a permanent hand tremor and transformed it from a career-ending constraint into a creative breakthrough. His widely viewed TED talk, live art, and interactive style give audiences a vivid way to see limitations as a source of possibility.
Technology, Health, and the Future
Clear guides to artificial intelligence, exponential medicine, responsible innovation, and the forces changing business and society.
Clara Durodié
Fintech strategist, Cognitive Finance Group founder, and TEDx speaker Clara Durodie makes artificial intelligence understandable without stripping away the ethical stakes. She helps financial and business leaders think clearly about trust, data, cybersecurity, and responsible AI adoption.
Daniel Kraft, M.D.
Physician, scientist, inventor, and founder of Exponential Medicine and NextMed Health, Daniel Kraft, M.D. has delivered multiple TED and TEDMED talks. He connects AI, digital health, extended reality, and personalized care in a vivid tour of medicine's fast-arriving future.
Pascal Finette
AI expert, entrepreneur, and former Mozilla vice president Pascal Finette has helped leaders navigate era-defining technology shifts. Drawing on work with Singularity University and be radical, he turns exponential change into practical questions organizations can use now.
Wellbeing, Connection, and Purpose
Research and human insight on longevity, social health, belonging, meaning, and the relationships that help people and organizations thrive.
Dan Buettner
Blue Zones founder, National Geographic Fellow, bestselling author, and Emmy-winning producer Dan Buettner identified communities where people live exceptionally long, healthy lives. He turns global fieldwork into practical environmental choices for stronger wellbeing at home, work, and across communities.
Kasley Killam
Harvard-trained social scientist and author Kasley Killam reframes connection as social health, alongside physical and mental health. Her research gives leaders a fresh, actionable way to address loneliness, belonging, resilience, engagement, and the relationships that sustain performance.
Jay Shetty
Former monk, New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, and global storyteller Jay Shetty translates timeless ideas into accessible guidance for modern audiences. Lessons on purpose, wellbeing, engagement, and connection meet people where they are and invite reflection without losing momentum.
Ideas Into Action and Impact
Journalists, inventors, and humanitarians who turn authenticity, collaboration, and practical compassion into visible change in the world.
Mick Ebeling
Not Impossible Labs founder, inventor, and two-time SXSW Innovator of the Year Mick Ebeling brings technology to human problems others overlook. His radical collaboration stories show how a clear commitment can mobilize unlikely partners and turn an impossible idea into a working solution.
Kenton Lee
Global humanitarian Kenton Lee created The Shoe That Grows after noticing children outgrowing their footwear. That expanding sandal now reaches children around the world, giving audiences a grounded example of generosity, frugal innovation, and the difference one attentive idea can make.
Mariana Atencio
Peabody Award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and TEDx speaker Mariana Atencio has reported from high-stakes moments and rebuilt her own path as an entrepreneur. A deeply reported view of authenticity, trust, and embracing uniqueness helps audiences turn personal truth into stronger leadership and connection.
Leadership, Culture, and Business Ideas features Simon Sinek, Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Scott Galloway, and Susan Salgado for audiences rethinking purpose, accountability, markets, and workplace culture. Human Potential and Reinvention brings Alex Honnold, Amy Purdy, Ben Nemtin, Janet Evans, and Phil Hansen together around preparation, resilience, limits, and the courage to adapt.
Technology, Health, and the Future covers responsible AI, exponential medicine, and practical futurism with Clara Durodie, Daniel Kraft, M.D., and Pascal Finette. Wellbeing, Connection, and Purpose explores longevity, social health, and meaning with Dan Buettner, Kasley Killam, and Jay Shetty. Ideas Into Action and Impact features Mariana Atencio, Mick Ebeling, and Kenton Lee on authenticity, radical collaboration, and practical compassion.
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