Val Wright - Speaking Opportunities

Are you looking for a dynamic speaker who will provoke, inspire and provide immediate value to your audience? 

Val Wright is a recognized global leadership and innovation expert. Val moved to the United States from England 20 years ago and shares lessons from her corporate executive career working alongside some of the most prolific innovators at Xbox, BMW and Amazon.  Clients include executives from Starbucks, LinkedIn, Amazon, Lenovo, Ingram Micro, Arrow, francesca’s, Microsoft, Avnet, Financial Times, Seagate, Gartner, Datto, and the LA Lakers.

If you are looking for a creative, thought provoking and engaging speaker let’s talk to explore how I can support your event and have your attendees talking about your event long after they have left.

RECENT SPEAKING CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED:

• Gartner Evanta Global CIO Summit

• Gartner Evanta CIO Summit Dallas

• Gartner Evanta CISO Summit Dallas

• The Channel Company: Xchange

• The Channel Company: Women of the Channel

• The Channel Company: Midsize Enterprise Services Summit

• Retail Ascendant Network: New York

• Gartner Evanta CIO Summit London

• Gartner Evanta CISO Summit London

• Gartner Evanta CHRO Summit London

• Digital Ascendant Network - Silicon Valley

• Executive's Club of Chicago

• ACMP Midwest Change Connect Conference

• MESA Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit

• Harvest Summit

• CMI / University of Wolverhampton Crystal Lecture

• Evanta LA CMO Executive Summit

• IEEE Women in Engineering International
  Leadership Conference

• Gartner Evanta CIO Summit Seattle

• Gartner Evanta CIO Summit Southern California

• Gartner Evanta CHRO San Francisco

• Gartner Evanta CIO Dallas

• Gartner Evanta CISO Vancouver

• Institute of Directors, Birmingham, England

• Professional Speakers Association, London, England

• LA Chamber of Commerce

• Watermark Innovation Conference

• California HR Conference

• The Press Enterprise Top Workplace Awards

• Innovate Pasadena

• Association of Corporate Growth

• Entertainment Software HR Association

Sample Keynotes

• Words That Work: Executive Power Language That Gets You The Results You Need

• Your Executive Social Scorecard: Creating a Personal Digital Footprint That Matters

• Creating A Company of Truth Tellers: How to Spot and Remove Executive Insulation Barriers

• The Thoughtfully Ruthless Guide to Rapid Growth: Unlocking Time, Energy, and Resources for Success

• The Influence Bullseye: How to Rapidly Increase Your Power of Influence

• How to Become Brilliant at Demonstrating Your Brilliance: The Ultimate Power of Being a Magnetic Leader

• The Innovation Trifecta: How to Create a Symbiotic Relationship Between Creative, Technical, and Business Minds

• Unlocking Your Next Moonshot: A Practical Guide to Creating Your Next Company Big Idea

Additional general topics

• Managing your board, investors, and stakeholders

• Raising the height of performance for senior teams

• Executive communications that drive impact

• Immersing customers into the heart of your company

• Understanding and loving all your emotions (yes, even anger!)

• Making memorable media and external relationships

• Creating rapid growth during unprecedented times

• Overcoming success guilt

• Creative ways to lead, sell, market, communicate, and influence

• Defining, finding, and landing your perfect executive role

Your audience can benefit from copies of all three of Val’s books at preferential rates.

About Val

Internationally acclaimed innovation expert Val Wright was named as one of the top 50 resources for Chief Operating Officers by ClickSoftware. She is one of only 64 experts inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame.

The global clients who have requested her help include Starbucks, LinkedIn, Amazon, Microsoft, Financial Times, Seagate, Gartner, and the LA Lakers. Val’s corporate experience includes tenures during dramatic growth periods at Amazon, BMW, Microsoft, Harrods, and Xbox.

Val participated on the small team that created the fastest-selling device of all time, Kinect for Xbox, which won a Guinness Book of World Record, selling over 20 million devices. This contributed to the turnaround of Microsoft’s Entertainment business from a billion-dollar loss to a multimillion-dollar profit machine.

Her unique approach, which she has trademarked as Thoughtfully Ruthless®, has produced typical client results of market domination in extraordinarily short time frames along with compassionate truth telling, fearlessness, and extensive creative, technical, and leadership gains.

Val’s books include: Thoughtfully Ruthless: The Key to Exponential Growth Wiley, 2016 named UK Amazon Best Selling Time Management Skills book, best business book by Independent Press Awards and NYC Big Book Awards, and best career book by the Book Excellence Awards, and Rapid Growth, Done Right Lead, Influence and Innovate for Success Kogan Page, 2020 which was named best business book by NYC Big Book Awards and Words That Work: Communicate your Purpose, Performance, and Profit, Kogan Page 2022, named best business book by NYC Big Book Awards, best management book by the Book Excellence Awards and Amazon Best Selling Business Communications book in multiple countries. She is a regular contributor on CNBC, WSJ, BBC News, Fox Business News, Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Reuters, LA Times, and Today. Val was presented with the Entrepreneurial Award by the University of Wolverhampton in recognition of her entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to set a positive example for fellow business owners.

Originally from England, Val now lives in California with her three daughters and husband.

Hear Val Speak

Speaking Testimonials

"Val Wright was absolutely amazing as our keynote speaker for our Innovation Conference. I immediately heard from attendees that it was inspiring with great takeaways and I am looking forward to her upcoming book, Thoughtfully Ruthless. It was a really wonderful session."

MARILYN NAGEL

CEO, WATERMARK

"In a lively, warm, and personal presentation, Val Wright was a compass to the future as she shared key data points and trends that companies should play attention to on the road to success in the 21st century. Her comments about listening to young people in high school as the next generation of leaders was important to executives and business owners who often discount youth as irrelevant. On the contrary, they are future customers and employees and need to be part of every discussion by C-suite executives about how to grow a company and expand market share. It was such a powerful point."

Steve Churm

Vice President, Freedom Communications

"We had the pleasure of having Val Wright speak at our annual customer conference. Val was very engaging and created an interactive environment where leaders could reflect on their own company’s goals and strategies to spur growth and innovation. The conversations she inspired continued well after she was done with her presentation."

Dave Dickerson

CEO, Accurate Background, Inc.

Hear from the Watermark CEO and other attendees at Val Wright's Keynote Speech 'Impacting Innovation: The Organization of the Future' in front of 150 attendees at the Watermark Innovation Conference held at Ericsson's HQ in San Jose, CA, October 2013.

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