Meet Cindy Solomon.
Leadership expert. Top keynote speaker.
Employee & consumer experience guru.
Courage champion.
Cindy Solomon is one of the most sought-after leadership and customer experience experts in the world. As the #6 Global Guru in Leadership for 2025, she is known for her bold voice, research-driven insights, and unforgettable keynote experiences that move audiences from inspiration to action.
Her extensive global work includes partnerships with 26 J.D. Power Award winners, 16 Best Places to Work, and over 462 organizations, including industry leaders like Google, Alaska Airlines, Oracle, UPS, Wells Fargo, Dow, the American Bankers Association, and The Gates Foundation—all looking to build Courageous Leadership® at scale.
As Founder and CEO of the Courageous Leadership Institute®, Cindy and her international team of facilitators deliver training and tools that help organizations cultivate everyday courage, breakthrough communication, and leadership that drives measurable results.
Her accessible, laugh-out-loud programs have reached more than 350,000 leaders worldwide, offering real-world frameworks that create customer loyalty and employee engagement—even in the most disrupted environments.
Cindy’s accolades include the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership by leadersHum, the Inc. 5000, Fast Company’s Fast 100, and 3.1M+ views on her TED Talk, 5 Tips for Dealing with Meeting Overload. Her bestselling books, The Courage Challenge Workbook and The Rules of Woo, are available on Amazon.
Clients who 
CindY
Popular Leadership Keynote Topics
Courageous Leadership:
THE New Leadership Challenge
Discover the secrets to building courageous leaders, teams, and individuals ready to face any business challenge.
Creating A Culture of Courage:
Building Exceptional Consumer & Employee Engagement
Creating consistent consumer and employee experiences across a large footprint takes courageous action from every employee and leader. This keynote shows you how.
Courageous Customer Service:
Inspire Diehard Customer Loyalty
Looking to create a consistent, exceptional customer experience while simultaneously focusing on how to attract, retain, and develop the very best frontline talent? Look no further than this extraordinary keynote.
Courageous Leadership For Women:
The Unwritten Rules of Success
Provocative, hilarious, and “real,” nothing is off-limits in this talk. Cindy shares 20+ years of experience and the courageous leadership skills it takes to be successful in any business environment, at any professional level.
Why Courage?
Courageous Leadership builds employee engagement and consumer experiences – quickly.
Courage tends to be thought of as an innate attribute – something we’re born with, or we’re not. But what if courage could be taught?
In today’s fast-paced corporate world, in which change is constant and disruption is the norm, courage plays a particularly crucial role in organizations’ ability to adapt and evolve. More than ever before, managers are required to act boldly, think innovatively, and inspire nimble, effective, and responsive teams.
As a result of Cindy’s exhaustive research, conducted with luminaries, leaders, visionaries, and innovators regarding how they achieved success in their respective industries, the discovery that courage can be learned was transformative. These insights show that courage can be broken down into a set of easily digested leadership skills and tools that can be practiced and used by everyone, everyday.
By introducing the use of Courageous Leadership® techniques into everyday workplace practices, Cindy's keynote speaking has helped organizations around the world transform and energize staff at all levels into leaders who are uniquely able to excel in the ever-changing marketplace of today – and tomorrow.
Here are just some of the reasons clients call Cindy their favorite keynote speaker:
Tailored and customized.
Cindy works closely with your organization to build a presentation 100% suited to your needs.
Tactical and useful.
Audiences walk away with game-changing leadership strategies they can put to use immediately.
Hilarious and compelling.
Cindy's razor-sharp take on real-world scenarios will get audiences laughing – and thinking.
Interactive and engaging.
These aren't your average powerpoint presentations. Cindy involves the audience at every turn!
Fast and lasting impact.
Cindy inspires change that transforms cultures, customer service, AND the bottom-line.
...above all, audiences walk away inspired, courageous, and ready to get results.
Monthly courage delivered straight to your inbox.
