Keith Ferrazzi
CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight & Bestselling Author
Keith Ferrazzi
CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight & Bestselling Author
Biography
Keith Ferrazzi is a renowned executive team coach, keynote speaker, influential thought leader and founder of Ferrazzi Greenlight, where he has spent more than 20 years coaching Fortune 500 companies, unicorn startups, and even governments. Keith leads the Greenlight Research Institute, which is focused on team transformation. He is a business coach who challenges the way teams work to achieve breakthrough results through more connection and collaboration across silos, with a revolutionary shift from leadership to teamship. His Radical Innovators Collaborative brings together Fortune 500 CIOs and CHROs for peer-to-peer interaction and ongoing best practice sharing.
Keith’s columns are regularly published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, and Inc. Magazine. Ferrazzi is also a #1 New York Times Bestselling author with familiar titles like Never Eat Alone, Who’s Got Your Back, Leading Without Authority, and Competing in the New World of Work. His latest book, Never Lead Alone: 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship, draws on two decades of team coaching experience and research insights from 3,000+ diagnostic assessments with leading organizations. He is a 2024 recipient of the Coaches 50 Award, which recognizes the world’s most influential executive coaches. Ferrazzi is also a philanthropist and strategic investor, where he is committed to making a positive impact on society.
Speaker Videos
Speaking Reel
Keith Ferrazzi Introduction
Build Your Systemic RAP in Business Life
Future of Work
What is your MISSION and Who is Your TEAM?
Co-Elevation For Conflict Avoidance
Speaking Reel
It's All About Relationships
Keith Ferrazzi on Larry King
Deepening Your Most Important Relationships
Change Management
Pendulum Summit 2017
Speech Topics
The Future of Leadership is Shifting to Teamship
Research shows that 81% of team members believe they collectively fail to achieve their full potential, while 71% feel they don't sufficiently collaborate on their organization's most critical challenges. "Never Lead Alone," Ferrazzi's latest book, addresses this untapped potential with insights and practical strategies for building dream teams in the age of AI.
In this transformative keynote, you'll discover:
- The power of Co-Elevation behaviors and how they can dramatically improve team performance
- 10 critical shifts that provide a roadmap for transforming team dynamics in as little as six months
- High Return Practices for fostering a culture of candor, inclusivity, and purposeful collaboration
- Strategies for leveraging both human and AI perspectives to drive innovation and bold thinking
- Insights on building resilience, accountability, and sustained alignment around a shared vision
- Case studies from leading organizations including Cisco, Dropbox, IBM, JetBlue, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, and more
As AI reshapes the business landscape, the teams that will thrive are those who can adapt, innovate, and co-create with both human and AI teammates. This keynote is your guide to making the leap from leadership to teamship and unlocking your team's full potential in the AI era.
A Journey from Never Eat Alone to Never Lead Alone
Twenty years ago, Keith Ferrazzi revolutionized professional networking with his book Never Eat Alone. Now, this #1 New York Times bestselling author is set to transform the leadership landscape with his latest paradigm-shifting concept: "Never Lead Alone."
In this captivating talk, Ferrazzi will take you on a journey through two decades of insights gleaned from extensive research and hands-on experience coaching Fortune 500 companies. He'll unveil a fresh approach to leadership tailored for today's dynamic and interconnected business environment. Keith's insights will equip you with the tools to thrive in an era where connectedness is key.
Never Eat Alone: Mastering the Art of Authentic Connection to Drive Revenue
In today's dynamic and increasingly virtual landscape, professionals navigate the unique challenge of fostering connections through screens and in-person. Yet, amidst the digital divide, the enduring key to sustained revenue growth remains unchanged: cultivating authentic and deeply loyal relationships.
Keith will delve into the strategies that both transcend virtual barriers and leverage new technology to empower your teams to proactively forge meaningful connections with clients and prospects alike.
During this talk you will:
- Discover how to infuse loyalty building into every interaction, leveraging technology not as a barrier but as a conduit for trust and rapport.
- Learn the timeless principles that underscore successful relationship-building, providing you with actionable insights to elevate your business transactions.
Ferrazzi Challenge Talk
How much longer can your team afford to play it safe in the face of disruption? Keith Ferrazzi’s Challenge Talk propels teams out of their comfort zones and into the bold action disruption demands. This isn’t a speech for passive listening; it’s a catalytic moment for your leaders and employees to wrestle with the question: What do we need to adapt and adopt to create the future we want? Each Challenge Talk is customized based on pre-session interviews and diagnostics to reveal the strategic, operational, and cultural hurdles unique to your organization.
As a result, your teams will leave this session equipped to:
- Confidently test bold ideas, surfacing risks and opportunities early.
- Speak openly and honestly in ways that accelerate innovation and bold solutions.
- Tap into the full range of talent and expertise across the organization.
- Support one another with peer-driven accountability and coaching.
- Forge the critical relationships and networks that speed adoption of AI and other big shifts.
- Build agility into daily work, so teams can pivot quickly as conditions evolve.
The result is not just a talk, but a challenge experience – a powerful moment of alignment where your people walk away clear on how to step up, seize opportunities like AI, and contribute to the bold future your organization is building.
Reengineering Teams for AI-Optimized Collaboration
Keith Ferrazzi helps leaders harness AI not as a set of tools, but as a catalyst for transforming collaboration. By weaving AI into the fabric of Teamship, he shows how technology can strengthen trust, accountability, and connection, so teams achieve breakthroughs that no system or individual could deliver alone.
How teams collaborate smarter with AI:
- Clarify Human + AI Roles: Establish who interrogates the data, who decides, and who delivers, eliminating confusion and siloed work.
- Accelerate Feedback Loops: Use AI-driven insights to fuel high-trust huddles and rapid adjustments that optimize collective output.
- Spot and Solve Friction Fast: AI reveals where workflows break down, while teams practice co-creative problem-solving to fix them.
- Scale AI Know-How Through Champions: Build an internal “AI Blackbelt Squad” that spreads both technical know-how and habits of co-elevation.
Participants leave with a playbook for AI-optimized collaboration where empathy, shared accountability, and productivity scale together, ensuring technology strengthens the human bonds that drive performance.
Workshop/Breakout Session
Keith will build an interactive Workshop or Breakout Session that takes a deeper dive into the messages and lessons learned during his keynote. Workshops and Breakout Sessions can be from 30 to 90 minutes to fit your agenda.
Co-Elevation Dinner
A Co-Elevation Dinner is for any group that you want to reward with a truly memorable and impactful experience. This can be your senior leadership team, award winners, top sales achievers, sponsors…you curate the guest list. Facilitated by Keith, these intimate dinners drive deep connections and a commitment among the participants to go higher together by building authentic relationships that matter. At its core lies a simple truth: When you engage with genuine generosity and authentically invest in elevating others, you create ripples of opportunity that return tenfold in unexpected and profound ways. Here is a short video that describes the dinners: PREVIEW VIDEO: CO-ELEVATION DINNERS. Like his keynote, Keith will customize the Co-Elevation Dinner specifically for your group.
Testimonials
Books & Media
Books
Never Lead Alone: 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship
Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest
Leading Without Authority: How Co-Elevation Is Redefining Collaboration and Transforming Our Teams
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time