Florida Speakers

Shannon Miller is a top motivational speaker, women’s health expert, cancer survivor, and former Olympic Gymnast. She remains The Most Decorated American Gymnast in history. She is the only American to rank among the Top 10 All-Time gymnasts and is the only female athlete to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame twice. Shannon speaks professionally on the Gold Medal Mindset. Discussions include a focus on leadership, resilience, goal-setting, positive mental attitude, commitment to excellence and overcoming obstacles to audiences at corporations, organizations & universities across the country.

Fee Range: $15,000–$25,000
Travels From: FL

Sally Hogshead is a Hall of Fame speaker, author, and leading expert on fascination. Over the past decade, Sally’s research has uncovered surprising trends. In today’s distracted world, people have a 9-second attention span. With only 9 seconds to communicate value, we must use our advantages to immediately break through. Sally teaches how to break through the distraction and competition by creating moments of intense focus. When you fascinate a customer or employee, you create exciting moments of connection. Your listener is far more likely to remember and value you. In her research, Sally has measured over 100,000 people to identify a scientific approach to personal branding.

Fee Range: $25,000–$35,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $25,000–$37,500
Travels From: FL

Joseph meticulously customizes each speaking engagement to meet your needs through his workshops, breakout sessions, and keynote speeches. Whether you’re serving customers/clients in the financial industry, home building sector, or retail arena Joseph has you covered – given that he has worked with and written about companies from A to Z (Airbnb to Zappos).

Fee Range: $10,000–$25,000
Travels From: FL

Jon Gordon is one of the most sought-after speakers in the world today. His engaging talks and principles have influenced numerous leaders and teams in professional sports, business, healthcare and education. Jon speaks on a variety of topics (leadership, teamwork, culture, sales and service) based on his best-selling books and his clients include Southwest Airlines, The Atlanta Falcons, The Los Angeles Dodgers, Campbell Soup, Northwestern Mutual, Dell, Ritz Carlton Hotels, Wells Fargo, PGA Tour, Clemson Football, Intermountain Health Care, Denver Public Schools and many more.

Fee Range: $60,000–$80,000
Travels From: FL

Jordan Belfort is one of the country's most talked-about speakers. His story is the ultimate tale of how the pursuit of wealth can often trump the importance of ethics in the business world. Belfort's career was captured in the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film, The Wolf of Wall Street. Now recovered from the traps of his former high-flying lifestyle, Belfort has re-emerged in the business world as a speaker, author and leading voice on the importance of business ethics. His proprietary Straight Line System allows him to take virtually any company or individual and empower them to create massive wealth, abundance, and entrepreneurial success, without sacrificing integrity or ethics. He created the Jordan Belfort Foundation to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in underprivileged communities to create economic opportunities that transform their own lives, their families, and their communities. Belfort has two international best-selling memoirs, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street.

Fee Range: $62,000–$190,000
Travels From: FL

Shama Hyder is a trailblazing, award-winning entrepreneur who built a global audience and is known for helping brands succeed in The Digital Age. She is a visionary strategist, a web and TV personality, popular keynote speaker, bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of Zen Media – a global marketing and digital PR firm. She has been named the “Zen Master of Marketing” by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “Millennial Master of the Universe” by Fast Company. Shama has also been honored at both The White House and The United Nations as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country. Shama is the bestselling author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing, now in its 4th edition, and Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Shama has delivered keynotes in over 20 countries and spoken for recognized brands including Movado, Chase, Prudential, and Tupperware.

Fee Range: $15,000–$30,000
Travels From: FL

You must keep secrets but skillfully persuade others to tell you theirs. You have to love your country but willingly leave it behind for dangerous operations around the world. You need to live a double life but be trustworthy enough to carry out the nation’s most sensitive tasks. Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people. Working undercover for the CIA, she served in treacherous areas throughout the Middle East—a woman leading some of the most highly skilled operatives on the planet. The threats were real. The missions were perilous. And deep inside, Michele wondered: Could she really do this job or had she misunderstood her life’s calling? In her book Breaking Cover, Michele has at last been cleared to drop cover and tell her story of incredible struggle, of unexpected challenges and thwarted missions, and most significantly, of powerfully realizing what really matters in the face of her greatest fears. Breaking Cover is currently in production to be made into a major motion picture.

Fee Range: $10,000–$20,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $30,000–$50,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $13,000–$25,000
Travels From: FL

As an award-winning keynote speaker, business leadership coach, eleven-time New York Times best-selling author, and longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated, Don Yaeger has fashioned a career as one of America’s most provocative thought leaders. As a speaker, he has worked with audiences as diverse as Fortune 500 companies and cancer survivor groups, where he shares his personal story. He is primarily sought to discuss lessons on achieving greatness, learned from first-hand experiences with some of the greatest sports legends in the world. He is also often retained by companies and organizations to coach their leaders, management teams, and employees on building a culture of greatness by studying great teams in sports and discerning the business lessons we can learn from them.

Fee Range: $15,000–$45,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $50,000–$115,000
Travels From: FL

Grant Cardone is an international sales training expert and New York Times best-selling author, whose books and programs have positively affected hundreds of thousands of people and organizations worldwide. Appearing regularly on Fox, Grant has also been covered on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg Television, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and over seven hundred radio shows nationwide. Grant also stars in his own reality TV show, “Turnaround King”, where he demonstrates how to turn businesses around and get back to prosperity despite tough economic times. Grant's unique, commonsense approach, along with his humor, wit, and infectious energy, allow him to connect with any audience, giving him the title of the "Entrepreneur of the 21st Century." With his core tenets built on the basics, Grant believes that companies and individuals succeed only through selling and that even the family unit relies on selling to improve its members' stations in life.

Fee Range: $125,000–$325,000
Travels From: FL

Former NBA star Walter Bond is a speaker who motivates people through his life story of trials and triumphs. Growing up in Chicago, he always dreamed of playing in the NBA. Though he lacked the natural athletic gifts of many of his peers, through hard work, parental encouragement, and discipline, he achieved his dream, and had an eight-year professional playing career with the Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, and Detroit Pistons. He also spent time as a broadcast analyst for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He later applied the same principles he'd used as a pro-basketball player to achieve great success off the court as an entrepreneur, business owner, and financial analyst. His book, The Off Season for Financial Advisors, is designed to help financial advisors win big. A powerful keynote speaker, Walter Bond transforms his athletic and business savvy into an action-packed inspirational message that will deliver results to your organization, regardless of their circumstances. He spreads positivity through his inspirational story, and shows listeners how they truly can live their dreams.

Fee Range: $20,000–$25,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $35,000–$85,000
Travels From: FL

Current president and former head coach of the Miami Heat, Pat Riley is the consummate competitor who knows the exhilaration that comes with winning. He guided the Heat to the playoffs in each of his first three seasons with them and led the team to win the 2006 NBA Championship—the franchise's first title. Riley shares his strategies for winning and outdistancing the competition on the court—and off. Riley understands the psychology of teamwork and personal excellence and is a master at creating organizations whose achievements are greater than the sum of their parts. He shows how to recognize the cycles of team change and make the most of every opportunity. Author of The Winner Within, the Sporting News recently named Riley one of the 50 greatest coaches of all time.

Fee Range: $125,000–$150,000
Travels From: FL

Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. Well-known for his former internationally syndicated column, Dave Barry discusses (read: “pokes merciless fun at”) various major issues, including the international economy, the future of democracy, society and exploding bathroom fixtures. Barry has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary – and immediately demanded a recount. A prolific writer, Barry has written more than 30 books, including the novels Big Trouble, Lunatics, Tricky Business and, most recently, Insane City. He has also written a number of books with titles like I'll Mature When I'm Dead, which are technically classified as nonfiction, although according to Barry they contain numerous lies. Two of Barry's books were the basis for the CBS sitcom Dave's World, which Barry says can probably still be seen on cable TV in certain underdeveloped nations.

Fee Range: $28,000–$30,000
Travels From: FL

Mike Abrashoff was the most-junior officer in the Pacific Fleet when he took command of the near-worst performing ship. Twelve months later, the USS Benfold was the best ship in the entire Navy – using the same crew. The story of that stunning transformation has lessons for every organization: leadership matters – and culture is everything. Mike’s written three books – his first, It’s Your Ship, has sold over 1 million copies. His Leadership Roadmap offers clear, battle-tested, and actionable steps. Mike shows people at every level of the organization how to engage and take incremental steps toward change that can make a dramatic difference at work. Mike is clear, “I didn’t turn the ship around – my crew did that.  What I did was to create an environment where they felt safe, empowered and supported. When you do that, anything is possible.”

Fee Range: $23,000–$38,000
Travels From: FL

Mike Adams is an author, speaker, consultant and expert in transformation and performance excellence. Mike's keynotes and presentations cover 30 years of lessons learned in theme areas of performance excellence, Industry 4.0, operating discipline, business planning and alignment, customer satisfaction, and quality and change management. A highly rated speaker driven by real, no sugar coated examples with high energy and humor. Mike has authored a series of collaborative reports on answering global CEO challenges and was contributing writer to Leadership Prescription for the Future of Quality and Answering the CEO Challenge: Innovation Leads, Uncertainty Lingers reports published by The Conference Board.

Fee Range: $5,000–$8,000
Travels From: FL

Meridith Alexander is on a mission to help millions of businesses and individuals transform their impossibilities into I’m Possibilities, even in the midst of change and uncertainty. Meridith fuses her own compelling story with real actionable strategies to help leaders understand how can they too can tap into their own grit, resilience, and fearlessness. How they can inspire themselves and their team to perform at a higher, more satisfying level when the stakes are high, change is constant, competition is tough and team members are struggling with roles that feel mundane.

Fee Range: $8,000–$14,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $15,000–$35,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $10,000–$17,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $24,000–$35,000
Travels From: FL

Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D, LDN is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of nutrition, health, fitness and cardiovascular disease prevention. Published in noted scientific journals including the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and the International Journal of Obesity. Brill was just named Director of Nutrition for Fitness Together Franchise Corp., the world’s largest business of personal trainers. Dr. Brill works with various corporations, associations and universities, and continues to appear in numerous TV shows, radio programs, magazines and newspapers. Dr. Brill is the nutrition expert for the nationally televised television show "The Balancing Act" (Lifetime). Her book, Cholesterol Down: 10 Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in 4 Weeks—Without Prescription Drugs (Three Rivers, Dec. 2006), is available at bookstores nationwide. Currently Dr. Brill is writing her second book on the Mediterranean Diet, which will be published in February 2011.

Fee Range: $6,000–$8,000
Travels From: FL