North Carolina Speakers

Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
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Fee Range: $12,000–$15,000
Travels From: NC

Alan Stein, Jr. teaches proven strategies to improve organizational performance, create effective leadership, increase team cohesion and collaboration, and develop winning mindsets, rituals, and routines. A successful business owner and veteran basketball performance coach, he spent 15 years working with the highest-performing athletes on the planet (including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Kobe Bryant). In his corporate keynote programs and workshops, Alan reveals how to utilize the same approaches in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level. He delivers practical lessons that can be implemented immediately. The strategies from Alan’s book, Raise Your Game: High Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best, are implemented by corporate teams and sports teams around the country. His inspirational words are featured on 12-foot mural outside the Penn State Football Training Center, so that players run past it on the way to practice every day

Fee Range: $15,000–$25,000
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Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
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Lenora Billings-Harris is an award winning authority as a diversity strategist, researcher and author. Diversity and Inclusion is a full-time focus, not just one topic among many for Lenora - whether through keynotes, workshops, or organizational consulting, she partners with clients to help them build effective relationships that leverage diversity in order to increase inclusion, employee engagement, customer satisfaction and bottom-line results

Fee Range: $18,000–$25,000
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Fee Range: $17,000–$25,000
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As one of the world’s premiere interactive entertainers, Adam Christing has amused, mystified, and delighted more than 3,000 separate audiences across North America. Hailed as a “meeting planner’s dream”, Adam has become a favorite guest performer, emcee, and after-dinner entertainer for hundreds of the top companies and organizations in the world, including Toyota, Microsoft, Stanford University and scores of others. Adam is the author of Comedy Comes Clean: A Hilarious Collection of Jokes, Quotes and One-Liners published by Random House, Three Rivers Press. Adam earned a degree in public speaking from Biola University and has been named to Biola’s Alumni Hall of Fame.

Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
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Fee Range: $8,000–$10,000
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Bill Clement is a 2-Time Stanley Cup Champion and critically acclaimed speaker, actor, entrepreneur and broadcaster. He has experienced being the best, but also knows what it means to have to build success all over again after complete financial and emotional defeat. As a speaker few can match the impact Bill has on his audiences around the world. His carefully crafted speeches and keynotes leave audiences spellbound and begging for more! Bill has broadcast five different Olympic Games and has worked for ESPN, NBC, ABC, Versus, Comcast SportsNet and TNT in the U.S., and CTV, CBC, Rogers Sportsnet and Sirius-XM Radio in Canada. As an 11 year NHL center, he played in two All Star games, Captained an NHL team and won both Stanley Cup Championships with the Philadelphia Flyers, aka the Broad Street Bullies. Bill also played for the Washington Capitals and the Flames, both in Atlanta and Calgary.

Fee Range: $7,500–$15,000
Travels From: NC

Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker, executive coach, emcee, host and moderator ready to make your event a smashing success, whether in person or virtual. As a Certified Diversity Executive CDE®, agency owner, cancer survivor, Olympic Torch Bearer, author and communications expert, Sharon knows how to get the job done. In addition to speaking and training, Sharon offers a robust executive coaching program for women . Focusing on female leaders looking to grow their influence and impact is her specialty.

Fee Range: $10,000–$16,000
Travels From: NC

Scott Deming takes his thirty plus years of business ownership, board positions, working with small, independently owned companies as well as multi-national, publicly traded corporations, employee relationship expertise, customer experience savvy, and wraps it into a comprehensive, easy to implement, and energetic program. As one national publication wrote: “Scott Deming’s customer experience process is more like the ten moral principles for great business practice and success!” Deming is an international corporate speaker, business trainer, author, and a leading authority on the topics of teamwork; successful sales techniques; brand building and creating the ultimate customer experience. Scott shows his audiences to: Communicate better. Become a stronger leader. Build a team that loves the corporate mission and sells with passion. Improve business and increase sales. Create a powerful, emotional, one-of-a-kind cult brand. Turn customers into evangelists for life. Be a marketing machine. Own your space.

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

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, highly engaging corporate motivational keynote speaker Meridith Elliott Powell delivers a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. Meridith’s presentations are full of powerful content, highly interactive, and fun. She helps her clients learn the leadership development, sales and business growth strategies to turn uncertainty to competitive advantage. Meridith is a business motivational speaker who gets her audiences to do the impossible – take action!

Fee Range: $10,000–$22,500
Travels From: NC

Mike Hourigan is a refreshingly unique keynote speaker, change management expert and author who helps empower top companies and associations to navigate constant change with real-world wisdom. Years of corporate experience have allowed Mike to develop a completely fresh approach to safety, team building, sales management and customer service training. Mike’s change management and safety awareness presentations have helped teams across a variety of industries improve their workplace morale and get employees to take ownership of serious issues that affect the bottom line. With a style that engages listeners in a way that’s meaningful to them and their company culture, Mike rarely gives his audiences a moment between laughs.

Fee Range: $5,000–$10,000
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Four time Olympic medalist and American record holder Cullen Jones is an Ambassador for the USA Swimming Foundation's Make a Splash Tour. Dedicated to raising national awareness about the importance of learning to swim, Cullen travels across the country and teaches swim lessons to inner city children. In 2010 launched his project the “Cullen Jones Diversity Invitational.” The goal of the invitational is create a truly inclusive environment for swimmers that combines education, safety and the competitive natural of the sport he loves.

Fee Range: $10,000–$25,000
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Since making history at the age of 14 as the first and youngest female champion in the Skip Barber Racing Series, Julia Landauer has amassed dozens of racing series wins. Julia graduated from Stanford University in 2014, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Technology, and Society. Julia has since purposefully built her brand where technology, community and racing intersect and fuse, becoming an advocate for STEM education and women’s empowerment, as well as a 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 member for sports.

Fee Range: $15,000–$22,000
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After Andy Papathanassiou earned an undergraduate degree in Economics and a master's degree in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University, he sought to explore various industries to start a career. Though he didn't know much about it, NASCAR racing was on the list. He always had an interest in racing and believed his degree in organizational behavior combined with his athleticism could benefit the sport.

Fee Range: $8,500–$15,000
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Stan Phelps inspires brands to be remark-able, showing them how to stand out in ways that customers and employees can’t help but talk about. He offers engaging in-person and virtual programs that are designed to drive customer loyalty and increase employee engagement by Forbes contributor, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author of the Goldfish Series

Fee Range: $8,000–$10,000
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Matthew Pollard is a top sales speaker and the highly touted “Rapid Growth Guy,” known around the world as a leader in differentiation, niche marketing, and sales systemization. As a highly-introverted teenager, Matthew fell into sales when the company he worked for shut down just days before Christmas, and commission-only sales was the only job he could find. His first day, he received 92 rejections in a row, and knew something had to change. Matthew created, practiced, and perfected his system, and fast became the #1 salesperson at the largest sales and marketing firm in the southern hemisphere – and in charge of training all the sales teams.

Fee Range: $15,000–$20,000
Travels From: NC

Dave Sanderson is an Inspirational TEDx Speaker & Author who channeled his life-changing experience on US Airways Flight 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson, into a mission to provide insight on the important facets of faith, conviction and leadership; attributes that he credits with saving his life, and those of fellow passengers as the last passenger to leave the plane.

Fee Range: $5,000–$10,000
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Linda is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s preeminent thought leaders on global leadership development working in over 170 countries. At the foundation of Linda’s success are years of “in-the-trenches” experience with some of the world’s largest and most admired companies like HP and GE Capital. Most recently, Linda was Chief Talent Officer and V.P., People Development at Hewlett Packard, responsible for establishing and driving the company’s talent management initiative, performance management processes, career development, executive staffing, coaching, employee engagement, and diversity and inclusion efforts. She was instrumental in building high-performing teams and developing talent that drove productivity and company growth. She is also a Founding Member of the Marshall Goldsmith Group, a premier executive coaching organization. Linda Sharkey, Ph.D.Dr. is a trusted transformational expert and speaker. She is the co-author of The Future-Proof Workplace and specializes in helping businesses prepare for the future.

Fee: $18,500
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Fee Range: $10,000–$15,000
Travels From: NC