Corporate Social Responsibility Speakers

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

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

Scott Harrison is the founder and current CEO of the non-profit charity: water. Harrison is the author of Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World.

Fee Range: $20,000–$50,000
Travels From: NY

Craig Kielburger is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of a family of organizations dedicated to the power of WE, a movement of people coming together to change the world. Along with his brother Marc Kielburger, Craig co-founded WE Charity, which provides a holistic development model called WE Villages, helping to lift more than one million people out of poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Back at home in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, WE Schools and W corporate social reponsibilityE Day provide comprehensive service learning programs to 10,000 schools, engaging 2.4 million young change-makers. His work has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes and the BBC. Craig is the youngest ever graduate from the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He has also received 15 honorary doctorates and degrees for his work in the fields of education and human rights. Craig is a New York Times bestselling author, who has published 12 books, as well as a nationally syndicated columnist. Craig has received the Nelson Mandela Freedom Medal and the World Children’s Prize.

Fee Range: $25,000–$30,000
Travels From: Intl

A founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj has published ten books and over 100 academic articles. His books include Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose and Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business.

Fee: $32,000
Travels From: MA

TOMS founder, Blake Mycoskie rewrote the rules of for-profits and philanthropy by creating and following the “one for one” business model. As a social entrepreneur and enthusiastic speaker, Blake shows that using business to improve lives is the number one competitive advantage in today’s markets. He is passionate about inspiring people to help make tomorrow better, encouraging them to include, giving, in everything they do. His hope is to see a future full of social-minded businesses and consumers. He is author of Start Something that Matters.

Fee Range: $50,000–$150,000
Travels From: CA

Van Jones is the Founder of Dream Corps. He is a social entrepreneur, a CNN political commentator, Emmy Award-winning producer, and a three-time New York Times best-selling author. Jones was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act. Signed into law by George W. Bush in 2007, the Green Jobs Act was the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term "green jobs." A Yale-educated attorney, Jones has won numerous awards, including the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leader” designation, Rolling Stone’s 2012 “12 Leaders Who Get Things Done”, TIME’s 2009 “100 Most Influential People in The World”, the 2010 NAACP Image Award, a 2017 WEBBY Special Achievement Award, a 2019 Lumiere Award and a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program.

Fee Range: $43,000–$63,000
Travels From: CA

Author of Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World, Melissa Agnes is a leading authority on crisis preparedness, reputation management, and brand protection. Agnes is a coveted speaker, commentator, and advisor to some of today's leading organizations faced with the greatest risks. As a strategic advisor and keynote speaker, Melissa Agnes has worked with NATO, Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, financial firms, technology companies, healthcare organizations, cities and municipalities, law enforcement agencies, global non-profits, and many others, helping them understand risk and build invincible brands that can withstand even the most devastating of events.

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

Steven Aldana is one of the nation’s foremost experts on healthy living and worksite wellness. He is a former professor of lifestyle medicine at Brigham Young University. He is currently the CEO and founder of WellSteps, a turnkey wellness program designed to help employees adopt and maintain healthy behaviors for life. Aldana has published over 60 scientific articles on the prevention, arrest, and reversal of America’s most common chronic diseases. He has written 7 books on the ability of healthy lifestyle habits to prevent cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, and many chronic diseases. His most recent book, The Culprit and The Cure is currently being used by over 4,500 companies and corporations in an effort to boost productivity and reduce employee related health expenses. Most recently, he has become a special advisor to the U.S. Secretary of health and human services. Steven Aldana is determined to educate people about the tremendous impact lifestyle has on disease and is devoted to helping individuals adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.

Fee Range: $3,000–$6,000
Travels From: UT

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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

Amanda Brinkman has built a reputation as a revolutionary brand marketer who has the ability to foster creativity from the inside out. Building on her years in the creative world at advertising and marketing agencies, she cultivates that same level of passion within her marketing and creative departments in the corporate world. In executive leadership roles, she has built marketing departments from scratch, turned struggling departments into award-winning teams, created marketing services as external products and turned around a 100-year-old brand via a ground-breaking content marketing campaign that yielded 14x better ROI than traditional advertising and was nominated for an EMMY. She believes that all companies can “Do Well, by Doing Good” and is passionate about helping brands realize their true brand purpose and turn it into real brand actions. She is actively involved in the community through board service and volunteerism and is regarded as a brand and marketing expert in the media.

Fee Range: $18,000–$35,000
Travels From: MN

Fee: $125,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee: $8,000
Travels From: NY

Dan Buettner is a New York Times best-selling author as well as an internationally recognized researcher and explorer who founded Blue Zones®–a brand that compiles the world’s best practices in health, happiness, and longevity and helps people live longer and better.

Fee Range: $75,000–$125,000
Travels From: MN

Fee Range: $17,000–$25,000
Travels From: NC

A powerful female business speaker with philanthropic achievements, Lauren Bush Lauren is the CEO, Creative Director, and Co-Founder of FEED Projects, a charitable company with the mission “create good products that help FEED the world.” At the podium, Lauren is an inspiring business speaker about philanthropy, hunger, and global issues. Bush Lauren is the granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush, and is married to David Lauren, son of fashion designer Ralph Lauren, who serves as the president of the Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation.

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

Since their inception, Zipcar, GoLoco and Buzzcar have been seen as disruptive and innovative: they used technology and marketing to change the way people own and use cars; they changed the ways cities are lived in and built; they changed prejudices about the incompatibility of environmentalism and capitalism. Innovator Robin Chase helps individuals, companies and government understand where to look for innovation and how to enable it. She explores how rethinking “excess capacity” can be combined with technology and platforms for participation to unlock innovation, new profit centers and ultimately lead us to a sustainable planet. In 2009, Robin was honored by TIME magazine as one of the year's 100 Most Influential People. She has been frequently featured in the major media including Today, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Newsweek and TIME magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship.

Fee Range: $18,000–$30,000
Travels From: MA

Doug Conant is a top change management speaker who speaks widely to people and organizations on effective and enduring leadership practices for the modern age. Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies. For the past 20 years of his leadership journey, he has honed his leadership craft at the most senior levels – first as President of the Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and finally as Chairman of Avon Products.

Fee Range: Inquire
Travels From: PA

Mick Ebeling is a film/ television/ commercial producer, philanthropist, technology trailblazer, author, entrepreneur and public speaker, honored as one of the Top 50 Most Creative People, and a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award winner. Ebeling is CEO of Not Impossible, an organization that develops creative solutions to address real-world problems. Ebeling’s motto—technology for the sake of humanity—is defined in his book Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done. Mick believes that no matter how gnarly, niche, systemic, or structural the problem, changing the world starts with a commitment. And then a headfirst dive into the mess of making things. Accessible healthcare, food insecurity, freedom of expression - society's biggest problems can be solved with fewer echo chambers and more elbow grease.

Fee Range: $35,000–$75,000
Travels From: CA

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is an expert in corporate governance, purposeful business, practical investment strategies, behavioural finance, and time management. Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was featured in the Financial Times Best Business Books of 2020 and won the Financial Times award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education.

Fee Range: $14,500–$40,000
Travels From: Intl

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

Caleb Gardner’s career has been driven by curiosity and focused on change. Caleb is an innovation strategist and change management expert with unique experience: from startups to non-profits; from Fortune 100 clients to presidents of the United States. Caleb is passionate about helping organizations understand how to adapt to a world in which technology, communications, and media define our reality --where truth is dictated by tweet. Caleb trains teams and leads workshops on topics related to strategy, innovation, and change management, and his keynote presentations have inspired audiences around the world to understand their capacity to make change.

Fee Range: $10,000–$15,000
Travels From: IL

Fee Range: Inquire
Travels From: TX

Jeffery Tobias Halter is a Consultant, Author, Gender Strategist and the President of YWomen, a strategic consulting company focused on engaging men in women’s leadership advancement. YWomen focuses on driving actionable business plans and strategies to help organizations create Integrated Women’s Leadership Strategies. Jeffery is the former Director of Diversity Strategy for The Coca-Cola Company. Jeffery is a two-time TEDx speaker and the author of two books, WHY WOMEN, The Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men, and his first book, Selling to Men. Selling to Women. His clients include IBM, Amazon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies. Jeffery currently is on the Board of Directors Trustees for the Miss America Organization.

Fee Range: $16,000–$24,000
Travels From: DC