Crisis Management Speakers

Fee Range: $37,000–$70,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $25,000–$40,000
Travels From: ME

Fee Range: $17,000–$35,000
Travels From: CA

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: $15,000–$40,000
Travels From: CA

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Fee Range: $18,000–$32,000
Travels From: Intl

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

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

Jack Andraka (Stanford B.S/B.A in Electrical Engineering with Honors and Anthropology with Honors) is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer who speaks to audiences of youths and adults all across the globe about his personal story, research, and his ideas for STEM education reform and fostering innovation and creativity. His journey began at age fifteen when, after losing a close family friend to pancreatic cancer, he invented an inexpensive early detection method for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer that costs 3 cents and takes 5 minutes to run. Now completing his MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, Andraka conducts research on nanorobots, inexpensive biosensors, disease diagnostics, and global health interventions while serving as faculty at the Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute. Outside of research, Jack has worked on combining anthropology, engineering, and big data to address pressing global health challenges, particularly in the monitoring of environmental contaminants and disease outbreaks.

Fee Range: $7,000–$19,000
Travels From: CA

One of the most controversial athletes in the history of sports, Lance Armstrong overcame Stage 3 testicular cancer to win seven consecutive Tour de France races and raise over a half billion dollars for cancer research through his Livestrong foundation before he was stripped of his titles and banned from cycling for using performance-enhancing drugs. Now a successful early stage investor in health care start-ups, he also leads WEDU, his global content and media platform and hosts two popular podcasts. Embracing his past mistakes with an endurance athlete’s tenacious mindset of powering through pain, challenges, and adversity; Armstrong’s inspirational, no-holds-barred talks champion resilience, integrity, leadership, and the ability we all have to overcome challenges and rise up from defeat.

Fee Range: $45,000–$75,000
Travels From: TX

Six weeks before the attacks of September 11th, 2001, Vinny Boles was a newly selected one-star General. He reported to take command of a contingency command, one that would be needed by the nation if "the worst thing happened." On September 11th, it did happen and Vinny and his team went from planning to execution in an ever-fluid environment. Across five continents and over eight years of this persistent conflict, as a combat commander, coach, trainer, leader and world-class logistician, he has built teams that have consistently gotten the right item to the right place at the right time under the tremendous pressures of war. Today, a recently retired Army Major General, Vinny will help your organization develop their leadership competency, bringing his time tested leadership applications to your team. Vinny is the author of 4-3-2-1 Leadership: What America's Sons and Daughters Taught Me on the Road from 2nd Lieutenant to 2 Star General.

Fee Range: $10,000–$17,500
Travels From: AL

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

Fee: $8,000
Travels From: NY

• Named a “Top Woman in Cybersecurity” by Cyberscoop news and voted DEF CON Hacker of the Year in 2020 • Has spent more than two decades in IT and cybersecurity fields • Protects clients against digital theft, hackers, and infections every day and regularly shares her insights with audiences around the world

Fee Range: $7,000–$15,000
Travels From: Intl

Dr. Dan Diamond came back from the trenches of Katrina with a burning question: "How is it that some people become unstoppable?" What he has discovered drives motivation, increases engagement and empowers corporations from the inside out. Dr. Diamond has a passion for equipping people to perform under pressure. He founded and serves as the Director of the Nation's first state-affiliated medical disaster response team and he has responded to a variety of international disasters. Most recently he responded to the typhoon in the Philippines and he served as the Medical Director for Medical Teams International's First Response Team to Haiti. Following Hurricane Katrina, he played a strategic role as Director of the Mass Casualty Triage Unit at the New Orleans Convention Center. He has been interviewed on CNN, Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper.

Fee Range: $15,500–$16,000
Travels From: WA

An expert in cybersecurity and network infrastructure, Nick Espinosa has consulted with clients ranging from small businesses up to the Fortune 100 level for decades. Nick founded Windy City Networks, Inc in 1998 at age 19 and was acquired in 2013. In 2015 Security Fanatics, a Cybersecurity/Cyberwarfare outfit dedicated to designing custom Cyberdefense strategies for medium to enterprise corporations, was launched. A internationally recognized speaker, member of the Forbes Technology Council, TEDx Speaker, strategic advisor to humanID, regular columnist for Forbes, award winning co-author of a bestselling book “Easy Prey,” host of “The Deep Dive,” nationally syndicated radio show, on the Board of Advisors for Roosevelt University’s College of Arts and Sciences as well as their Center for Cyber and Information Security, the President of The Foundation for a Human Internet and is the Official Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition. Nick is known as an industry thought leader and sought after for his advice on the future of technology and how it will impact every day businesses and consumers.

Fee Range: $5,000–$14,000
Travels From: IL

Andy Fastow was the Chief Financial Officer of Enron Corp. from 1998 – 2001, but in 2004, he pled guilty to two counts of securities fraud, and was sentenced to six years in federal prison. Since his release from prison, Fastow has been a top guest keynote speaker at universities and corporations speaking on leadership and corporate culture.

Fee Range: $12,500–$17,000
Travels From: TX

An expert who served in the White House and the Congress, Ari Fleischer provides an in-depth look at the Trump Administration, politics, the media and U.S. foreign policy.

Fee Range: $30,000–$38,000
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $9,000–$20,000
Travels From: Intl

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

Nothing can substitute experience. Dr. C.J. Huff has 19 years of experience in the field of education as a teacher, principal, and superintendent in rural, suburban, and urban school districts. His wide range of experiences as a classroom teacher, building principal, superintendent and a family farmer prepared him to lead his district of 1,100 employees and 7,700 students through the recovery effort that has followed the devastating Sunday, May 22, 2011 tornado that ripped through the heart of Joplin, KS.

Fee Range: $5,000–$11,000
Travels From: MO

John Iannarelli retired from the FBI after more than 20 years of service, during which time he was a member of the FBI SWAT Team and participated in the investigations of the Oklahoma City Bombing, the 9/11 attack, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the Sony Hack. Among his many FBI assignments, John previously served in Washington, D.C. as the FBI National Spokesperson and later a member of the Executive Staff of the FBI’s Cyber Division. John is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Computer Science in recognition of his contributions to the field of cyber investigations. An engaging and entertaining speaker, John is the author of four books, including Why Teens Fail and What to Fix, Information Governance Security and How to Spot A Terrorist Before It’s Too Late, just to name a few. John is now a highly sought-after keynote speaker, known for sharing his intriguing insights combined with his sense of humor.

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

Fee Range: $30,000–$55,000
Travels From: MA

Thomas Kolditz is a top leadership keynote speaker and expert, retired Brigadier General, author, and Executive Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. Tom has been named a top leadership Thought Leader by the Leader to Leader Institute and has appeared as an expert on more than a dozen national and international news agencies. Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz shows how extreme life-and-death situations can offer profound lessons for leaders in any setting. Gen. Kolditz’s research reveals that the leadership skills and principles evident in dangerous settings also apply to leading in business and everyday life, making this program applicable to both personal and professional success.

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