Nina Easton

Speech Topics

• Nina Easton: Accomplished Moderator & Emcee

  Today more than ever, business leaders need to communicate a vision that unites and motivates. Author, TV commentator, and Fortune conference chair Nina Easton has decades of experience interviewing CEOs, global leaders, and politicians–producing compelling and authentic narratives on stage. She is also an accomplished emcee of multi-day business events and a lively moderator for webcasts. From leading global CEOs to the Vatican to producing and emceeing business summits in Hong Kong, London and the US, Nina is a world-class moderator and emcee, adept at helping business leaders communicate their stories and message. She currently serves as co-chair of the Fortune Global Forum and chair of Fortune Most Powerful Women International. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Nina brings diplomats and high-profile international figures to the stage for insightful and lively interviews. With wit and intelligence, Nina helps people and businesses navigate today’s disruptive political and business environments. She also brings a sincere interest in hearing back from her audience, with lively question-and-answer periods that enhance the personal connection and give listeners an opportunity to showcase their own views and ideas.

• American Political Trends: Explained

  For more than a decade, when the election returns rolled in, Nina Easton was on-air to explain. She has covered scores of political conventions and elections on prime-time TV, providing analysis as the news unfolded. Her critically acclaimed book Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy ranks on the Vox list of “books to read to understand the world. In addition to being a member of the “all-star panel” on FOX News Special Report and FOX News Sunday, Easton has provided political commentary on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, ABC’s This Week, and many more. Her Fortune columns and in-depth features for both Fortune and The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine have garnered numerous top awards. During the 2004 presidential race, she co-authored a biography of Democratic nominee John Kerry and, as The Boston Globe’s deputy bureau chief in Washington, helped shape that paper’s political coverage. In 2012, she was appointed a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she taught a seminar on the U.S. economy and that year’s presidential election, interviewing top speakers from both sides of the aisle.

• What Matters Now: An Overview of the Most Pressing Issues of The Day

  A captivating speaker and regular TV news contributor, Easton runs through three major headlines of the day to paint a broad picture of the current state of the American experience. With intellectual depth and TV polish, she covers politics and the global economy to explain how we got here and where we’re going. In addition to being a member of the “all-star panel” on FOX News' Special Report and FOX News Sunday, Easton has provided political commentary on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’ Face the Nation, ABC’s This Week, and more. Her Fortune magazine columns and in-depth features for both Fortune magazine and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine have garnered numerous top awards.

• No Great Leader Was Born on Top

  From the greats of Hollywood (Meryl Streep, Bette Davis, Tom Hanks) to CEO disrupters (Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman) to transformative political figures (Barack Obama, Christine Lagarde), Nina Easton has interviewed the most interesting and dynamic people of our times. Her storytelling firm, SellersEaston Media, chronicles personal journeys of leadership and impact, and the SiriusXM show she co-hosts, "Making a Leader," mines the sources of extraordinary success. In this talk, Nina Easton shares with audiences the three decades of wisdom, insights, and advice she has collected from pioneers and world changers, providing an entertaining and enlightening tour of the top ranks of contemporary leadership.

• Smart Women, Smart Power

  In addition to her prominent role with Fortune, Easton hosts the “Smart Women, Smart Power” podcast series at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she regularly facilitates powerful conversations on a range of issues between leading women around the globe. Whether it’s hosting a gathering for 45 female ambassadors or interviewing Samantha Power or Melinda Gates, Easton knows women are economic and social engines of change and works to bring awareness to women’s issues globally. Having addressed the Nobel Peace Prize Forum and others on the topic, she shows why investment in girls’ education is the highest-return investment available in the developing world, how women are a “force for prosperity,” and what needs to be done to elevate women globally.

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