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Daniel Amen learned to speak up
A grocer’s son who felt lost in a family of seven children found his way to books, television, and an audience of his own. The thread running through Daniel Amen’s career is the work of getting heard.
Julio Rodríguez Díaz and the business of passing it on
The founder of Red de Mentoring de España has built a career around connecting people who have something to learn from one another. His latest publishing project brings that same instinct home to Asturias.
Alexis Rose Quintal and the art of becoming known
She trained to teach, learned to sell, and built Rosarium Collective around people working for themselves. Alexis Rose Quintal’s approach to personal branding begins with a question she has spent years answering for herself: what do you want to be known for?
Ashley Stahl and the job hiding inside the job hunt
Ashley Stahl worked her way into counterterrorism, then found herself drawn to the conversations happening on the sidelines. The founder of Wise Whisper Agency has been turning those detours into a career ever since.
Donna Latson Gittens and the art of passing it on
She left Boston television to build an advertising agency around causes. Twenty-eight years later, Donna Latson Gittens handed MORE to two colleagues who already knew what it stood for.
Ariel Garten and the Art of Making an Idea Wearable
Before Muse, Ariel Garten put concrete in a jacket and brainwaves on T-shirts. Her route from Toronto fashion to a technology company began with a habit of giving invisible ideas a physical form.
Think Fast, Talk Smart. Go off script.
A Stanford-born podcast turned everyday speaking anxiety into a global education business. Its next bet: listeners need somewhere to practice, not just another episode to hear.
The Voice Elizabeth Koraca Had to Build for Herself
A teacher once told a shy Elizabeth Koraca not to quit her day job. She built a career on camera anyway, then made a second one from helping other people say the thing they came to say.
VaynerSpeakers and the Price of the Wrong Voice
A famous name can fill a ballroom and still miss the room. VaynerSpeakers built a business around the uncomfortable gap between booking attention and choosing the person an audience actually needs.
The Newsman Who Rehearsed the Ambush
Brent Boynton spent decades deciding which answers made the evening news. Then he built a practice that taught nervous people how to survive the question before the camera ever arrived.
The Famous Person Is Not the Product
Worldwide Speakers Group sells famous voices. Its real product is quieter: fewer unanswered emails, fewer travel surprises, and a Plan B before the ballroom doors open.
The Company You Join After the Applause
Various Events does not sell tickets or hire caterers. It gives speakers one durable place to put the fleeting work that ordinary résumés handle badly.
Wise Whisper’s $30,000 bet on a talk that outlives the room
Ashley Stahl built Wise Whisper Agency around the long afterlife of a good speech. Its offer combines writing, coaching and stage-booking support, with a much less predictable clock for getting heard.
HiPower grew to 18. Then it made the room smaller.
A community for women and nonbinary leaders found a limit to getting bigger. Its answer: small circles, candid feedback, and a public identity that survives a change of job.
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is one of the most recognized figures in cloud-native computing - a self-taught engineer who rose from sleeping in his car to becoming a Distinguished Engineer (L9) at Google. Co-author of 'Kubernetes: Up and Running' and creator of the legendary 'Kubernetes The Hard Way' tutorial, he spent nearly a decade evangelizing Kubernetes and cloud-native practices before retiring from Google in 2023. Known for his disarming candor, human-first philosophy, and gift for making complex infrastructure accessible, Kelsey now serves as Board Director at Civo and continues to shape the future of platform engineering, AI, and open source sustainability.