<p>Based on original research on today’s category-leading companies, Ryan Estis helps you lead through change, unleash your full potential, and enhance business performance, in the new economy. </p>
<p>Ryan spent 15 years helping companies connect with employees and customers as an ad agency executive and Fortune 500 chief strategy officer. Now, as the chief experience officer at Ryan Estis & Associates, he brings a deep level of visionary thinking and hands-on experience to a wide range of clients to help them achieve breakthrough success. He travels all over the world to get an inside look at what the world’s best companies do differently, and distills those insights so organizations can embrace change, improve performance, and deliver growth.</p>
<p>Recognized as one of the “The Best Keynote Speakers Ever Heard” by Meetings & Conventions magazine, his presentations include original research and actionable content customized for each audience. He informs and educates with case studies that include powerful sales and leadership takeaways that leave attendees with a purpose-driven plan for applying their new ideas once they get back to the office.</p>
Business Performance Expert and One of the Top 100 Keynote Speakers in the US Ranked by Meetings & Conventions Magazine
<ul><li><strong>Sell for Impact</strong></li><li>Value-Based Selling & Winning Customers in the Era of Complexity</li><li>The commercial landscape has fundamentally transformed. Today’s buyers are more sophisticated, self-directed, and simultaneously overwhelmed — leading 7 out of 10 CEOs to view their traditional growth strategies as obsolete.</li><li>Sales teams are navigating:<ul><li> Less time with decision-makers</li><li>More stakeholders involved and longer decision cycles </li><li>Margin pressure and intense competition </li><li>Higher expectations for differentiation</li><li>A mandatory focus on evidence-based ROI</li></ul></li><li>Sales transformation today requires a more strategic approach. By automating the tangible, sellers can leverage data and technology to create the necessary capacity for what truly drives growth: establishing trust, co-creating solutions, and navigating the 'human' friction inherent in every high-stakes deal.</li><li>The modern customer expects more, yet they are more paralyzed than ever. Research shows that 74% of buying teams—and nearly every modern consumer—are stalled by competing priorities and the paradox of choice...making the seller’s ability to transfer belief just as important as the solution itself.</li><li>Value-Based Selling is how commercial teams close that gap.</li><li>Ryan Estis — bestselling author, sales transformation expert, and former Fortune 500 Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) — delivers real-world strategies rooted in what works now. Through dynamic storytelling, proprietary research, and actionable frameworks, Sell for Impact is a high-energy, high-impact sales keynote designed to equip modern sellers with the confidence and capability to accelerate decisions and create a distinct competitive advantage.</li><li>Sellers leave prepared to earn greater customer access, position value over price, elevate buyer confidence from a position of expertise, and drive decisions to close — even in complex, consensus-driven buying environments.</li><li><strong>Human-Centered Leadership</strong></li><li>Leading High-Performance Teams in the Era Complexity </li><li>Today’s leaders are operating in a world defined by constant disruption — artificial intelligence reshaping work, distributed teams redefining collaboration, and unrelenting pressure to deliver results while protecting culture, engagement, and well-being.</li><li>The demands of this environment require a new leadership model.</li><li>The modern knowledge worker doesn’t want to be managed — they want to be developed, supported, and inspired. They expect leaders who invest in growth, foster psychological safety, communicate with clarity, and connect daily work to a meaningful purpose. Yet according to Gartner, fewer than half of today’s managers feel prepared for this expanded role.</li><li>Human-Centered Leadership is how organizations close that gap.</li><li>This high-impact leadership keynote reframes the job of leadership — shifting the focus from managing outcomes to unlocking contribution, ownership, and sustainable high performance. When leaders create the conditions for people to thrive, results follow.</li><li>Ryan Estis — bestselling author, former Fortune 500 Chief Revenue Officer, and trusted advisor to hyper-growth organizations — is at the forefront of the Human-Centered Growth movement transforming the future of work, leadership, and organizational culture.</li><li>Blending compelling storytelling with research-backed insights and actionable frameworks, Ryan equips leaders to build trust-based, psychologically safe, high-performance teams that thrive in complexity, adapt to change, and lead confidently in the age of complexity.</li></ul>