Courageous Leadership KEYNOTE Clients
In over 25 years in this business, I’ve seen many leadership keynote speakers… none have left me with as much actionable information and motivation to improve my courageous leadership skills!
"Cindy Solomon... She did her homework on her audience and hit the stage with information that was relevant to us as senior executives and communicators. There was tremendous buzz after her remarks, and she left the audience on a “high” that lasted for months!"
President | Communication Leadership Exchange
What makes a Cindy Leadership Keynote different?
Customized for Attendees
Cindy personally interviews a cross-section of both planners and attendees to fully customize presentations designed to suit your unique organizational needs, guaranteed to deeply resonate with your audience.
Real-World Focus
As a recovering corporate executive, Cindy knows what she’s talking about. Attendees leave with real-world actions and next steps to create and build employee engagement, as well as improve customer loyalty.
Interactive, Inspiring, Effective
Cindy’s keynotes are designed to get inspiration flowing! Audiences are armed with relevant, game-changing strategies that can be immediately applied to improve daily leadership and frontline behaviors and skills, and grow customer loyalty across your footprint.
Hilarious and Provocative
Armed with her signature laser-sharp wit, Cindy cuts through the jargon to look beyond the headlines and deliver frank, thought-provoking insights that will get audiences thinking as hard as they laugh.
Popular Courageous Leadership Keynotes
Courageous Leadership:
Creating a Culture of Courage
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Courageous Leadership®
Your Competitive Differentiator
In today’s noisy, fast-moving world, courage isn’t optional—it’s your edge.
This powerful keynote teaches leaders how to use everyday courage as a business advantage. From rapidly shifting priorities to organizational pressure and global change, success today hinges on the ability to act with clarity, communicate with courage, and move with urgency.
Grounded in over two decades of research and insights from 9,000+ leadership interviews, Cindy Solomon’s Courageous Leadership® framework helps organizations:
- Accelerate decision-making in moments that matter
- Strengthen leadership presence at all levels
- Align teams across silos for faster action
- Build bold cultures that attract and retain top talent and achieve results
Used by over 350,000 leaders across 462 companies, including 26 J.D. Power award winners, this keynote delivers the mindset—and toolset—leaders need to stand out and deliver results in any environment.
Bonus: Includes insights from Cindy’s viral TED Talk (3.1M+ views) and best-selling book Courage Challenge Workbook.
Audiences learn to:
- Accelerate decision-making
- Strengthen leadership presence
- Align teams
- Build bold cultures
Creating A Culture Of Courage:
Thriving in Times of Change
Change is inevitable. Courage is the only way through.
In this timely keynote, Cindy shows how organizations can unlock and scale courage across their teams to create alignment, loyalty, and resilience—especially during times of disruption.
With her signature humor and razor-sharp insight, Cindy shares research-backed strategies to:
- Build a culture where courage becomes part of the daily conversation
- Improve communication and collaboration across teams
- Empower people to take action without fear of failure
- Foster innovation, loyalty, and accountability—even during change fatigue
This session is ideal for organizations navigating growth, transformation, or cultural evolution—and for leaders ready to build trust, lead with transparency, and develop teams who rise to every challenge.
Used by companies like Amazon, Wells Fargo, Google, and Alaska Airlines, this keynote is a reset button for teams who need to move forward—together.
Audiences learn to:
- Have daily courage conversations
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Empower action
- Foster innovation, loyalty, and accountability
Courageous Productivity
Building Results Through Everyday Actions
It’s time to stop glorifying burnout and start leading with intention.
This high-energy keynote flips the script on productivity by teaching leaders how to use courage—not hustle—as a daily performance tool. Drawing from her best-selling Courage Challenge Workbook and TED Talk with over 3.1 million views, Cindy delivers a real-world framework to help leaders and teams focus on what actually matters.
Attendees will walk away with:
- Practical strategies for “Taking a Pause” to refocus under pressure
- Courageous ways to say no to meetings, distractions, and overcommitment
- Tools to prioritize the highest-value actions each day
- Tactics to model and scale sustainable performance culture
Perfect for leadership offsites, team summits, or high-growth organizations, this keynote equips participants with the mindset and skillset to achieve better results—without burning out their people or themselves.
Audiences learn to:
- Take a pause
- Say no to overcommitment
- Prioritize high-value actions
- Model and scale performance culture
Courageous Leadership for Women®
The unwritten rules for success
It’s never been more important for women leaders to make a positive and proactive impact inside of their organizations, their teams, and their careers. But none of us can climb the mountain without first learning to use the ropes!
In this provocative, hilarious, and “real” talk, nothing is off-limits as Cindy shares best practices and learnings from over 8,700 interviews and 20+ years helping executives build their courage and their successes. Taking these learnings, Cindy has developed the courageous leadership skills it takes to be successful in any environment, whether entrepreneurial or corporate, as a leader or individual contributor.
Audiences will leave this program feeling inspired and with an action plan focused on building their courageous leadership skills – regardless of level or industry.
Audiences learn to:
- Develop high potential talent
- Attract and retain high performers
- Build influence and personal brand
- Identify and optimize strengths
- Improve leadership presence & effectiveness
Weeks later, Cindy continues to be the talk of the meeting!
Vice President
Engaging, smart, funny - Cindy Solomon is a gifted leadership keynote speaker and any meeting planner's dream come true.
Executive Director, NSAA
Cindy brought the house down! It was awesome.
Director
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