Communication & Negotiation Keynote Speakers
Find and hire top Communications and Negotiations Speakers for your event from Key Speakers Bureau. Whether you're looking to improve your communication skills, negotiate more effectively, or simply learn from the best, our speakers can help. Our speakers are passionate about helping others learn to negotiate and have a track record of success. Explore our selection of top communications and negotiations speakers and find the perfect speaker for your event.
Our Communication & Negotiation Speakers
At Key Speakers Bureau, our roster of communication and negotiation speakers is carefully selected for experience, credibility, and the impact they have on the world and your audience. It includes negotiation specialists with deep experience in high-level deal-making, communication coaches who help improve day-to-day working relationships, business mediators skilled in resolving conflict, and sales experts who know how to turn conversations into results. The speakers we represent are practitioners as well as thought leaders, with proven records across global organisations and a wide range of industries. Each negotiation keynote speaker brings a distinct perspective shaped by hands-on experience, not theory alone. Every speaker is vetted for subject expertise, clarity on stage, and the ability to tailor their content to the audience in front of them. Explore individual profiles to learn more about their focus areas, previous clients, and speaking style.
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Frank Luntz
More media outlets have turned to Dr. Frank Luntz for focus groups and consulting than to any other political pollster, making him one of the most honored political and communication professionals in America today. In addition to having worked with the media, U.S. News, World Report and The Wall Street Journal, Luntz has written and supervised more than 400 surveys for political and corporate clients. Luntz understands that there’s no better way to get employees on board than letting them hear directly from their customers. Using focus-group techniques, Luntz can bring your customers to you─live. Using cutting edge technology, Luntz shows the audience, exactly how customers react. Luntz's best-selling book, Words That Work, offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. He is also the author of What Americans Really Want . . . Really: The Truth About Our Hopes, Dreams and Fears (2009) and Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary (2011).
Fee Range: $14,500–$44,000
Travels From: DC

Haydn Shaw
Haydn Shaw is an expert on increasing personal productivity and turning around negative work environments and negative employees, as well as helping leaders bridge generation gaps within their organizations. For over twenty years, Haydn has helped Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers, and, most recently, Millennials, work together. He also has worked with Franklin Covey for twenty three years as a senior consultant and one of their most requested keynote speakers specializing in their generations, leadership, execution, personal productivity and trust methodologies. He is the author of Sticking Points: How to Get Four Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart.
Fee Range: $7,500–$14,000
Travels From: IL

Seth Mattison
As founder and CEO of FutureSight Labs, Seth advises many of the world's leading organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership, and the future of work. With a pulse on the changing nature of work, Seth’s ideas have been featured in such publications as The Wall St. Journal, Forbes, and Entrepreneur and his diverse client portfolio ranges from Wall Street to Main Street. From IBM and Adidas to John Deere and the Farm Credit Council.
Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
Travels From: CA

Sally Hogshead
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

Vanessa Van Edwards
Vanessa Van Edwards is the national bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People and Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication which have been translated into over 16 languages. As founder of Science of People, Vanessa’s YouTube videos have been seen by over 50 million people. For over a decade she has worked with top brands, government entities, nonprofits and companies to increase their effectiveness by improving their communication.
Fee Range: $20,000–$60,000
Travels From: MA

Phil M Jones
Roger Dawson is one of the country's top experts in the art of negotiating who has trained sales people and managers for the past 12 years. He has a unique ability to translate the lessons gained in international and corporate negotiations into skills that can be quickly learned and easily used by executives and sales people. His background includes being president of one of California's largest real estate companies with 28 offices, 540 sales associates, and a volume of over $400 Million per year. Roger is author of numerous books, and his cassette program "The Secrets of Power Negotiating" has passed the $20 Million sales mark, and is the best selling program in the history of business cassette publishing.
Fee Range: $30,000–$75,000
Travels From: NY

Kindra Hall
Kindra Hall is a professional storyteller. From Hilton Hotels to Facebook to guest faculty at the Harvard Medical School, from tech to financial services, for leaders in all roles and entrepreneurs across countless industries. Kindra Hall teaches each of them to harness and leverage the power of their stories. Her book, Stories that Stick debuted at #2 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List and Forbes said it “may be the most valuable business book you read." She is a contributing editor to SUCCESS Magazine, a former Director of Marketing and VP of Sales and currently serves as the President and Chief Storytelling Officer at Steller Collective -- a firm focused on the strategic application of storytelling in business.
Fee Range: $20,000–$35,000
Travels From: NY

Ori Brafman
A specialist in navigating change and achieving sustainable performance, Ori Brafman shares insight from his best-selling books and experiences working with Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. military on organizational dynamics, agile and adaptive leadership, accountability, and inclusion.
Fee Range: $10,000–$30,000
Travels From: CA

Tommy Spaulding
Tommy Spaulding is all about living and leading from the heart. His genuine love of people has led Tommy to a lifetime of teaching others the value of building deep and lasting authentic relationships that will change their organizations and their lives. His transformational message of Heart-Led leadership, told through the power of story, will inspire you to live, lead and love differently.
Fee Range: $20,000–$40,000
Travels From: CO

Molly Fletcher
Hailed as the “female Jerry Maguire” by CNN, Molly Fletcher made a name for herself as one of the first female sports agents. Molly is a high-energy, motivational speaker with an incredibly unique background who inspires fearless growth in individuals, teams and companies. Molly’s keynotes have received comments like “a world-class speaker and businessperson” who is “true-to-life, uplifting and entertaining” and great at “connecting and delivering unique tools that captivate audiences.” As a keynote speaker, she has been honored to serve hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, national associations, corporations, sports teams and start-up organizations.
Fee Range: $30,000–$50,000
Travels From: GA

Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur, and serves as the Chairman of VaynerX and the CEO of VaynerMedia. Gary is considered one of the leading global minds on what’s next in culture, relevance and the internet. Known as “GaryVee” he is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business - he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early to help others understand how these shifts impact markets and consumer behavior. Whether its emerging artists, esports, NFT investing or digital communications, Gary understands how to bring brand relevance to the forefront. He is a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Snapchat, Coinbase and Uber.
Fee Range: $94,000–$350,000
Travels From: NY

Mel Robbins
Mel Robbins is one of the most popular motivational female speakers in the world. She is the host of the daytime syndicated talk show, The Mel Robbins Show, which aired nationwide in September 2019. One of the world's leading experts on behavioral change, Mel Robbin's research and tools have helped millions of people overcome procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety. She is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, internationally recognized social media influencer, and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world. Mel is a no-nonsense motivational speaker who challenges audiences with strategies to revamp their personal lives and careers. Mel's practical, high-energy message provides tangible results that help people push through the everyday challenges we all face in life, work, and love.
Fee Range: $156,000–$325,000
Travels From: VT

Jonah Berger
Dr. Jonah Berger is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a world-renowned expert on decision making, social influence, word of mouth, and how products, ideas, and behaviors become popular The author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Contagious: Why Things Catch On, he consults, teaches, and researches consumer behavior and trends, leading effective change, making better decisions, becoming more influential, and getting things to catch on. Berger is an exciting and fresh voice on marketing and strategy. With a PhD in marketing, Berger has spent more than 15 years studying judgment and decision making and consulting for Fortune 500 companies. He looks at how organizations can sway behavior and describes how to prevent consumers from getting mired in “decision-making quicksand.”
Fee Range: $25,000–$40,000
Travels From: PA

Judy Smith
The real-life inspiration behind ABC's hit political thriller series Scandal, Judy Smith is the U.S.'s crisis management expert. As the founder and president of Smith & Company, Judy Smith is a leading strategic and crisis communications firm, she uniquely combines her communication skills, media savvy, and legal and political acumen to serve clients around the world. Smith honed her skills through her experiences with some of the most historic and sensational events of our time. She has become the go-to person for corporations, politicians, and celebrities seeking counsel in times of crisis. Smith is the author of Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets and her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, National Journal, New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune. She frequently appears on major television networks such as CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, NBC, and ABC.
Fee Range: $25,000–$38,000
Travels From: CA

Tasha Eurich
• Organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author who builds future-ready leaders that thrive in a changing world • Clients include Google, Salesforce, the NBA, Walmart, and the White House Leadership Development Program • Globally ranked the #1 self-awareness coach, #1 organizational culture expert, and a top 30 emerging management thinker • Author of Insight and Bankable Leadership • Her TEDxMileHigh talks have been viewed more than 7 million times • Featured in the Wall Street Journal, NBC, The New York Times, NPR, Harvard Business Review and Fast Company
Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
Travels From: CO
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How We Work with Communication & Negotiation Speakers
Frequently Asked Questions
What topics do communication and negotiation speakers cover?
Our communication and negotiation speakers cover a range of topics, including persuasive communication, conflict resolution, advanced negotiation tactics, diplomatic influencing, cross-cultural communication, active listening, public speaking for impact, sales negotiation, leadership communication, and crisis communication. They address both the psychological and strategic aspects essential for successful interactions.
How can negotiation keynote speakers help improve business outcomes?
Negotiation keynote speakers provide your team with actionable frameworks and proven techniques that directly impact business outcomes. They teach strategies for securing better deals, resolving internal and external conflicts more efficiently, encouraging stronger client relationships, and enhancing leadership influence. This directly translates to increased profitability, improved team cohesion, and a competitive edge in your industry.
Are these speakers suitable for both leadership and sales events?
They are. Our communication and negotiation keynote speakers are highly versatile. Their expertise is invaluable for leadership teams seeking to enhance strategic communication and decision-making, as well as for sales teams aiming to refine their closing techniques, objection handling, and client rapport-building. Many speakers offer customized content specifically designed for each audience type.
Can communication and negotiation speakers deliver virtual or hybrid sessions?
Yes, many of our communication and negotiation speakers are highly experienced and adept at delivering dynamic virtual and hybrid presentations. They utilize interactive platforms and engaging techniques to ensure the same high level of impact and audience participation as in-person events. We can help you identify speakers perfectly suited for your preferred format.
How far in advance should I book a negotiation keynote speaker?
To secure your preferred negotiation keynote speaker and ensure optimal planning, we generally recommend booking at least 3-6 months in advance, especially for high-demand speakers or peak event seasons. However, we can often accommodate requests on shorter notice depending on speaker availability. Contact us as soon as your event dates are firm.








