WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE A FEMALE AS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT YOUR NEXT CORPORATE, ASSOCIATION OR LAW FIRM EVENT
Diversity and inclusion are more than just buzzwords—they’re necessities. Female speakers bring unique perspectives, experiences, and insights that enrich discussions and inspire audiences. This page delves into the significance of choosing female speakers, offering an in-depth look at their roles, benefits, and how to engage them for your events.
Types of Female Speakers for Corporate Events
Motivational Speakers
Motivational female speakers inspire audiences with their stories of overcoming adversity, achieving success, and fostering personal growth. They energize and uplift, making them ideal for events seeking to boost morale and motivation.
Technical Speakers
These women bring expertise in STEM fields, offering insights into the latest technological advancements, trends, and innovations. Female technical speakers are essential for tech conferences, educational forums, and industry-specific seminars.
Leadership Speakers
Female leadership speakers share their experiences and strategies for effective leadership, team management, and organizational success. They are valuable for corporate events, leadership summits, and professional development workshops for corporations and law firms.
Workforce Generational Speakers
Experts in multigenerational workforce and workplace dynamics, these speakers address the challenges and opportunities of managing a diverse age group within the workplace. They provide strategies for fostering collaboration and understanding across generations.
Corporate Speakers
Female corporate speakers focus on business growth, corporate culture, and strategic management. They bring a wealth of knowledge from their corporate experiences, offering valuable insights for business professionals and organizations.
Keynote Speakers
These high-profile women deliver keynote addresses that set the tone for events, providing thought-provoking content that resonates with audiences. They are often the highlight of conferences, seminars, and major events.
Meet Lindsey Pollak
A GENERATIONAL TRANSLATOR
Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author, international speaker, and often described as a “generational translator.” She is a globally recognized career and workplace expert and the leading voice on generational diversity.
In 2020, Lindsey was named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, which honors the top global management thinkers whose work is shaping the future of how organizations are managed and led.
She is the author of four career and workplace advice books including The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace, named book of the month by both The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
A sought-after speaker, Lindsey’s keynote audiences and consulting clients have included more than 300 corporations, law firms, conferences, nonprofits, and universities around the world. Her advice and opinions have appeared in media outlets such as The TODAY Show, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.
Lindsey is a graduate of Yale University and a proud member of Generation X.
What Sets Lindsey Apart as a Keynote Speaker?
There are many excellent corporate event speakers on the important topic of generational differences in the workplace. Lindsey is unique in a few key ways:
Generational Fluency
Lindsey doesn’t just understand different generations—she speaks their languages. She’s the Rosetta Stone of the workplace, translating Boomer to Millennial, Gen X to Gen Z, and more.
Data-Driven Insights
In a world of opinion, Lindsey brings facts. Her presentations are packed with research, ensuring your audience gets substance, not just style.
Actionable Strategies
Lindsey doesn’t do fluff. Every point comes with a “so what” and a “now what,” giving your audience tools they can implement immediately.
Positive Perspective
In a sea of speakers focused on what’s wrong with the workplace, Lindsey highlights what’s possible. She’s the optimist with a plan, showing how to turn generational differences into opportunities.
Snappy Delivery
Forget long-winded lectures; Lindsey’s style is quick, witty, and to the point. She knows your time is valuable and makes every second count.
Other Notable Female Speakers
Brené Brown
A research professor and author, Brené Brown is known for her work on vulnerability, courage, and leadership. Her TED Talk on the power of vulnerability has garnered millions of views, making her a sought-after speaker for her profound and relatable insights.
Carla Harris
Carla Harris is a Wall Street veteran with over three decades of experience that brings a potent mix of financial acumen and leadership wisdom to the stage. Known for her “Pearls of Wisdom,” Carla delivers actionable career advice with refreshing directness, covering everything from finding powerful sponsors to mastering the art of calculated risk-taking. Her ability to blend corporate insights with personal authenticity—she’s also an accomplished gospel singer—makes her a relatable and inspiring speaker for diverse audiences.
Malala Yousafzai
A Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai advocates for girls’ education and women’s rights. Her powerful story of resilience and activism has made her an inspirational speaker on global stages, promoting education and equality.
How to Book a Woman Speaker for Your Next Corporate Event
Finding the Right Speaker
- Know Your Audience: Understanding who’ll be in the seats helps you choose a speaker who’ll resonate. Are they entry-level employees or C-suite executives? Tech-savvy millennials or experienced boomers?
- Define Your Goals: Before you start googling “best female speakers,” get clear on what you want to achieve. Are you looking to motivate, educate, or challenge your audience?
- Research: Start looking for potential speakers! Look online or get recommendations from colleagues, industry professionals, and past event organizers. Watch their videos, read their books, check out their social media to get a feel for their style and expertise.
Booking
- Reach Out: Contact speakers directly through their websites or via speaker bureaus. Be clear about your event, expectations, and budget. Remember, you’re not just booking a speaker—you’re starting a partnership.
- Negotiate: Don’t be afraid to discuss terms. Many speakers are open to customizing their offerings to fit your needs and budget. Remember to consider travel, accommodation, book sales, and other expenses.
- Contracts: Ensure all agreements are formalized in a contract outlining the terms, fees, and expectations.
Event preparation
- Briefing: Provide your speaker with all the info they need to knock it out of the park. Share audience demographics, event goals, logistics, tech requirements, and any specific topics you want covered.
- Promotion: Create buzz and build anticipation by advertising your upcoming event and speaker. Don’t forget to share promotional assets with your speaker so they can share it on their channels too.
- Follow-Up: The impact of a great speaker shouldn’t end when they leave the stage. Consider ways to reinforce their message in the days and weeks following the event.
Benefits of Choosing Female Speakers for Your Corporate Event
Unique Perspectives
Female speakers often bring viewpoints that challenge the status quo, sparking innovation and fresh thinking in your organization. Their experiences and insights contribute to more inclusive and comprehensive discussions.
Representation and Inspiration
Having female speakers on stage serves as a powerful representation of gender diversity, inspiring other women to aspire to leadership and speaking roles. It demonstrates a commitment to equality and inclusivity.
Relatability
Female speakers often share personal stories that resonate deeply with audience members, creating connections that last long after the event ends.
Emotional Intelligence
Female speakers often excel at reading the room and adapting their message, ensuring your audience feels heard and understood.
The Lindsey Pollak Advantage
Choosing Lindsey Pollak as your female speaker means getting a generational translator who can bridge gaps and foster understanding across five generations in the workplace. Her snappy, corporate-friendly style combined with personal anecdotes makes complex topics accessible and actionable for all audience members.
Lindsey’s Keynote Event Speaking Topics
Lindsey offers three main speaking topics that can be customized to match your goals. Through her own research and discussions with you prior to an event, Lindsey customizes every program to each unique audience’s needs.
The Remix:
How to Lead and Succeed in the
Multigenerational Workplace
What if generational change is not a problem to overcome, but an opportunity for individuals and organizations to optimize?
For the first time in history, five generations now share the workplace, and employees of all roles and levels must learn to work effectively with people who might be decades older or younger.
In this dynamic, engaging, and action-oriented program, New York Times bestselling author and multigenerational workplace expert, Lindsey Pollak — often called a “generational translator” — will share her uniquely positive and data-driven approach to generational diversity.
Attendees will leave this program with both immediately applicable strategies and a toolkit for lasting results.
This program may be presented as a keynote, interactive workshop or virtual event.
The Remix For Leaders:
Managing Across generations
In today’s dynamic workplace, leaders face the unique challenge of managing teams composed of individuals spanning multiple generations.
Each generation brings its own set of values, communication styles, and work preferences, making effective leadership across generations essential for organizational success.
This program, led by New York Times bestselling author and multigenerational work expert, Lindsey Pollak, is designed to equip leaders with the tools and strategies needed to navigate and leverage the strengths of employees of every generation.
Leaders will leave this program with a positive mindset and a specific toolkit for success.
This program may be presented as a keynote, interactive workshop or virtual event.
Starting Strong:
Launch Your Career in the Multigenerational Workforce
Navigating the multigenerational workplace is an essential skill for today’s Generation Z and young Millennial professionals.
Through interactive exercises, real-world scenarios and actionable strategies, New York Times bestselling author, Lindsey Pollak, leads this program with wise and empathetic advice honed over 20 years as a career and workplace expert.
Participants will gain the skills and insights needed to build strong personal brands, manage relationships with leaders of different generations, integrate into team culture, build multigenerational professional networks and master communication across diverse audiences and situations.
With special attention to the challenges of the post-Covid hybrid work environment, this program positions attendees for success now and into the future.
This program may be presented as a keynote, interactive workshop or virtual event.
A Keynote Speaker and New York Times Bestselling Author
Lindsey Pollak is the author of four must-read guides for thriving in today’s multigenerational workplace.
The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace
The Remix, named a Book of the Month by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, is the essential guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and employees looking to navigate today’s multigenerational workplace, which spans more generations than ever before.
BECOMING THE BOSS: NEW RULES FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS
In Becoming the Boss, a New York Times Bestseller, Lindsey Pollak reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to take the next step: becoming a leader.
Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work
Lindsey’s fourth book, written as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, was published by HarperCollins on March 23, 2021. Recalculating is an inspirational, practical and forward-looking career playbook for recent grads, career changers and transitioning professionals looking to survive and thrive in today’s rapidly evolving employment and work landscape.
Getting From College to Career: Revised Edition: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World
How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It’s the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. In Getting from College to Career, Lindsey Pollak offers the first definitive guide to building the experience, skills and confidence you need before starting your first major job search.
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Additional Reading and Resources
Take one of Lindsey’s LinkedIn Learning Courses
Lindsey Pollak has developed four unique LinkedIn Learning courses, all designed to help you thrive in the multigenerational workforce. With topics on management, organizational awareness, and internal mobility planning, each course will give you the tools you need to become a better people manager and overall professional – and in 45 minutes or less. (And try LinkedIn Learning free for 30 days)
Check out Lindsey’s Blog
Want some quick inspiration or advice? Lindsey has a library of short and sweet thought pieces on everything from early career advice, workplace trends, personal development, and more.
Follow Lindsey on LinkedIn
Follow along and join in on the conversation with Lindsey as she regularly shares advice, learnings, and discussion topics on LinkedIn.
The Future is Female (Keynote Speakers)
Women keynote speakers bring diverse perspectives, innovative solutions, and a fresh approach to age-old problems. Whether you’re looking to bridge generational gaps, spark innovation, or simply inspire your team to greatness, there’s a female speaker out there who can help you achieve your goals.
Ready to level up your next corporate event with a dynamic female speaker? Consider Lindsey Pollak, the expert in helping professionals of all generations thrive in today’s workplace. Her optimistic perspective and actionable strategies will leave your audience energized and equipped to tackle the challenges of the multigenerational workforce.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Lindsey’s Speaking Events
Can Lindsey tailor her message for our group(s)?
Yes. Through her own research and discussions with you prior to an event, Lindsey customizes every program to each unique audience’s needs.
What kinds of audiences does Lindsey speak to?
Lindsey frequently speaks to a wide variety of audiences, including global corporations, boards of directors, employee resource groups, law firms, professional associations, conferences, universities, business schools and non-profit organizations.
Is Lindsey available for customized speaking programs (length, topic, etc.)?
Lindsey frequently speaks to a wide variety of audiences, including global corporations, boards of directors, employee resource groups, law firms, professional associations, conferences, universities, business schools and non-profit organizations.
What is the optimal audience size?
Over her 15-plus-year speaking career, Lindsey has spoken to audiences ranging from 5 people to 2,500 people. All audience sizes are welcome.
Does Lindsey provide a Q&A session in the keynote?
Lindsey is happy to offer a Q&A session upon request.
Can we make a video and / or audio recording of Lindsey’s talk for an additional fee?
Yes, upon request and within some parameters. Many clients have made various types of recordings of Lindsey’s presentations as part of their contracts.
Does Lindsey create different talks on the same topic for different audiences–senior leadership vs. junior employees, HR professionals, etc.?
All of Lindsey’s speeches are customized to the specific audience. General audience programs are also available. See Lindsey’s speaking page for more details.
How interactive are Lindsey’s keynote presentations?
As you can see in Lindsey’s videos, her natural speaking style is conversational and interactive with her audiences. However, the level of audience participation will vary depending on a client’s goals, the size of the audience and the allotted time. For example, a half-day corporate training will include multiple activities and exercises. The level of interactivity can be customized to your needs.
Can we make Lindsey’s slides available for attendees of her presentation?
Yes. All clients receive a digital copy of Lindsey’s presentation that may be shared with participants.
If Lindsey had one message that all audiences should take away from one of her talks, what is it?
Generational change isn’t a problem to be solved; it is an opportunity to be optimized.
Does Lindsey specialize in any particular industry?
Lindsey speaks across multiple industries, including but not limited to: advertising, banking and financial services, beauty, energy, healthcare, government, insurance, law, manufacturing, media, real estate and technology.
Can Lindsey do an interactive talk with a smaller group, such as a Board of Directors or an intact team within our organization?
Absolutely.
Is Lindsey available to moderate and/or speak on panel discussions?
Yes. Lindsey frequently moderates and participates as a panelist for a variety of audiences.
Can we book Lindsey for multiple events in a single day or two-day block?
Yes. Lindsey often delivers multiple presentations during the same conference or company visit. For example, at a large conference she will deliver a keynote address and also present a breakout session, or at a law firm she will deliver a morning program to partners and an afternoon program to associates.
What format of presentations are most effective?
We are happy to help you determine the best presentation format for your audience, event or business goals. Common formats include:
- Keynote speeches (generally 30 to 90 minutes)
- Corporate training (generally 90 minutes to 4 hours)
- Campus workshops (generally 1 to 2 hours)
- Webinars (generally 45 to 75 minutes)
Will Lindsey help us with the marketing of our event?
Yes. Lindsey would be delighted to help promote your event on social media, upon request.
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lindsey pollak
career & workplace expert
Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author, international speaker and often described as a “generational translator.” She is the author of four career and workplace advice books, including The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace. Her speaking audiences and consulting clients have included more than 300 top corporations, law firms and universities, and her insights have appeared in such media outlets as The TODAY Show, The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. Lindsey is a graduate of Yale University and is a proud member of Generation X.