Jeff Degraff 

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Jeff DeGraff ‘s creative and direct take on making innovation really happen have made him a world renowned thought-leader and have earned him the moniker “The Dean of Innovation”. Jeff is a Clinical Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross Business School. He is also the founder of leading innovation institute, the Innovatrium, a laboratory for experimenting with new ideas and creating tangible prototypes that has labs in Ann Arbor and Atlanta. As a guest speaker on innovation, Jeff is a natural performer and with his extensive experience you will get an exciting presentation that will propel any company to innovate. Jeff is a great guest speaker to bring into your organization to provide your people with tips and tricks to boost innovation and creativity rom how you structure your business model to how you set up your office space.

Robert Richman 

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Robert Richman is a culture strategist and was the co-creator of Zappos Insights, an innovative program focused on educating companies on the secrets behind Zappos’ amazing employee culture. Through his work, Robert has been helpful for improving the employee culture at hundreds of companies like Google, Toyota, Eli Lilly, and Inuit. He has pioneered a number of innovative techniques to build culture with group engaging activities, such as bringing improv comedy to the workplace. Robert’s culture hacking presentation is a must for any organization looking to bring a guest speaker in to help enhance their company culture and learn from the famous Zappos culture.

Peter Sheahan  

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Peter Sheahan is the founder & group CEO of Karrikins Group. Peter is known internationally for his innovative business thinking and thought leadership and has advised leaders from companies as diverse as Apple, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Hyundai, IBM, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, and Cardinal Health. As a guest speaker at a corporate meeting Peter will advise your company on matter such as, finding opportunity in disruption to create more value, how to turn a challenge into opportunity and disruption into competitive an advantage, and building organizations and teams capable of sustaining growth through a culture of innovation, courageous leadership, and aligned individuals.

Juliet Funt  

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Juliet Funt is the CEO of WhiteSpace at Work, a training and consulting firm that helps organizations, their leaders and employees flip the norms of business in order to reclaim their creativity, productivity and engagement. Juliet helps attendees learn the pivotal difference between activity and productivity. She teaches them a streamlined method for personal process improvement–leading to more creativity and engagement. She also helps executives, managers, and teams answer the critical question “What thoughts deserve my full attention today?” Booking Juliet as a guest speaker at your next corporate meeting will be a game changer, plus she’s really funny too!

Adam Christing 

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Hailed as a “meeting planner’s dream”, Adam Christing has become a favorite guest speaker, 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 a unique entertainer that blends comedy, magic, and leadership all into one highly customized presentation. BigSpeak personally experienced the pleasure of having Adam speak at one of our meetings, and it was the best meeting we ever had!

John Hall 

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

As co-founder and CEO of Influence & Co., John Hall is a very successful businessman. He has also founded other businesses, which has led him to be recognized by Forbes as the “#1 Keynote Speaker For Digital Trends” and also receive the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award. John’s passion for sharing his insight, experiences, successes, and failures helps others become better professionals.

Ty Bennett

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

When Ty was 21 years old, he started a business and built it to over $20 million in annual revenue while still in his twenties. Currently, as founder of Leadership Inc. Ty has helped develop over 500 sales managers globally with sales and leadership in 37 countries. In his talks, Ty uses the power of influence and storytelling to provide audiences with tangible techniques that will increase their influence and their impact as leaders and as salespeople.

Luke Williams

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Luke Williams is globally recognized as an authority on innovation leadership. He works with different organizations to help create new products and services, and transform organizational processes and behaviors. In addition to this, Luke is also professor of Innovation and executive director of the Berkley Entrepreneurship Center at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a best-selling author of the book, Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business. 

Dr. Randal Pinkett

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and scholar, and as a leading voice for his generation in business and technology. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a multimillion-dollar management consulting, research and evaluation, information technology, and data analytics firm. Dr. Pinkett has received many awards for business and technology excellence, and has been featured on nationally televised programs.

Amilya Antonetti

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Known for her business turnaround and brand extension skills, entrepreneur, speaker, and media personality Amilya has built almost a dozen multi-million-dollar companies. As a speaker, Amilya draws heavily on her own incredible life experience to teach others how to break the boundaries holding them back in business and in life.

Mallory Brown

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Mallory Brown is a successful social entrepreneur, worldwide adventure traveler, and humanitarian. She’s the founder of World Clothes Line – a “buy 1, give 1” apparel company on a mission to clothe the world. Mallory is also the first brand ambassador for CrowdRise, where she runs flash fundraisers to engage donors in full-circle philanthropy. After working in more than 22 countries, Mallory’s efforts have been featured on numerous TV shows and in publications.

Daymond John

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Daymond John is the personification of the American Dream: he started from humble beginnings, and now has over 4 billion in global products, is founder & CEO of FUBU and star of ABC’s Shark Tank. By utilizing guerrilla marketing and branding techniques, to cutting-edge innovation with social media, he is one of the top business strategists with a winning track record. Daymond empowers audiences to make positive change, set goals, and achieve success to live their own dreams.

Anne Mahlum

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Anne Mahlum is a philanthropist, humanitarian and professional speaker. She is the founder of the non-profit organization, Back on My Feet, which combats homelessness through the power of running and community support. Anne has also started a new business called Lagree Fitness studio, with this her goal is to build a national brand and community that helps people become the strongest version of themselves.

Bill Rancic

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

successful entrepreneur, Bill Rancic’s biggest strength is knowing how to manage and lead teams in times of uncertainty. He talks about seizing opportunities and using challenging times to your advantage to gain success in business and in life. Bill is also a published author of the New York Times best-selling book, You’re Hired: How To Succeed In Business And Life. And he makes regular appearances on numerous daytime broadcast and cable television programs to talk to viewers about business and entrepreneurship.

Josh Linkner

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Successful tech entrepreneur, best-selling author, keynote speaker and CEO, Josh Linkner has a unique and diverse set of experiences. Josh believes that it’s better to innovate and disrupt your organization before your competition does. As a result, all of the businesses that he’s helped start up have been very successful. It’s no wonder he was honored twice as the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” and as a President Barack Obama “Champion of Change” Award recipient.