This year's pick for The Top Ten Most Profound Influential Speakers in My Life are those who engaged and connected with their audiences while delivering value, inspiration or motivation. After listening to hundreds of speakers this year, I've chosen those that I feel did their best to combine both logic and compassion as they speak. Although they are numbered, my list is not in any particular order. Each speaker is equally and vitally as important to our world as they are to me personally.
If you are a speaker just starting out, or are a veteran speaker who needs an inspired boost, watch and learn. They each figured out where the gap is in their niche, where the pain of their audience is, and stepped in to fill it. This one aspect is the breath of your audience's listening experience, and is deep and fully engaging. This is also what drives them to engage with you.
A special thanks to each speaker, who made my Top Ten list this year, for contributing their time, energy and devoting their life to making the world a better place.
1. Bo Eason - A former NFL Star, Broadway Playwright, Actor and Expert Storyteller is one speaker you MUST hear. Totally intense and funny, Bo will have you laughing one minute and listening to your own heart pound the next. He might use a bit of profanity, but you'll rarely notice it because you'll be so gripped by his action-packed stories. Ask me how I know.
2. Pat Fortin Mussieux - Speaking to women solopreneurs who want to create and manage the marketing and sales aspect of business, Pat has both her mindset and her marketing skills down. As an Author, radio host and speaker, she is fun, funny and ready to draw in a crowd. What I love about her is her rags to riches story and her down to earth approach of sharing it while inspiring you to get out of your seat and just go do it!
3. Max Simon - Founder of Big Vision Business and an excellent speaker for spiritual visionaries, Max grew up surrounded by conscious business leaders and made his global impact at The Chopra Center. He is uniquely known as the 'barefoot presenter' in some circles and brings a tasteful sense of humor into each of his talks. Spiritual and intelligent, Max changes the lives of entrepreneurs everywhere.
4. Lisa Nichols - The founder of Motivating the Masses and CEO of Motivating the Teen Spirit, Lisa impacts the lives of those listening. She is a dynamic speaker with an extraordinary story and a tremendous ability to touch people's hearts and souls. She is funny, and spiritual, and has mastered moving the audience through both laughter and tears.
5. Ross Shafer - A 6-Time Emmy winner for his work in network television for FOX, ABC, NBC, USA, and COMEDY CENTRAL. Ross focuses his energy on studying how successful organizations adapt and innovate while others become lazy and obsolete. He is funny, powerful, not always nice about pin-pointing flaws, but totally engaging with his audiences. His messages focus on evolving innovation and leveraging the public consciousness to influence buying habits.
6. Jeffrey Wright - A Powerful and Influential Speaker who doesn't know how powerful he truly is. Jeffrey is a teacher and a leader that uses wacky experiments to teach children about the universe. Using his own personal story he teaches his students the true meaning of life. Caring for his uniquely-abled son, and sharing their life with audiences around the globe via YouTube, he impacts the lives of teenagers and adults around the world. Totally compassion driven.
7. Steve Bedwell - Motivational and Leadership speaker who leaves his audiences knowing that, "When you change how you see things, you'll see things change." Steve is fun, funny and shares his psychological tactics for skyrocketing results in business and in life. Very engaging.
8. Tony Robbins - Motivational Leader who journey's into movement to change your feelings. The power of celebration is what Tony teaches and lives. No one I know can get a room full of hundreds, or thousands, of people screaming and jumping up and down faster than Tony can. Powerful leader and speaker in the personal development and relationship world. Totally engaging.
9. Vishen Lakhiani - Founder of Mind Valley, a company whose mission is to bring enlightenment and personal growth to the world in a scalable way with hybrid marketing and technology. Vishen is a phenomenal pioneer of innovative traditions in business. That is not an oxymoron. He takes traditional entrepreneurship and adds to it brilliantly, creating new ideas of development and expansion both personally and professionally. Millions of people around the world know the power of this speaker, myself included, and have changed the way I do life as a result.
10. Anjelah Johnson - For a bit of nonconservative F-U-N... speaker, actress, comedian, and former NFL cheerleader Anjelah Johnson created two popular characters on the MADtv television series, the rude and ghetto fabulous Bon Qui Qui, plus a shifty nail salon employee named Tammy. Anjelah is so comfortable playing to her strengths that she has the audiences rolling in the isles within minutes.
So there you have it. If you are a speaker who didn't make my list this year, there is always next year! Let me know when and where you'll be speaking again, or send me a link to your YouTube video, and I'll be sure to check it out.
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Kellie Frazier is a Relationship Strategist, Best Selling Contributing Author, Speaker and Coach for Entrepreneurs.
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