Keynote Speakers

Alan Berg is a leading sales strategist and consultant specializing in the event industry. With decades of experience working with venues, planners, and event professionals, he has helped thousands of businesses improve their sales processes and increase their closing rates.
Known for his practical approach and real-world insights, Alan focuses on helping teams convert more inquiries into booked clients while improving communication and overall customer experience.

Christie Osborne is a marketing strategist and educator who helps event professionals grow their businesses through clear messaging, brand positioning, and strategic marketing.
With years of experience in the wedding and event industry, Christie is known for helping business owners stand out in competitive markets and attract the right clients with confidence.

Rachel Druckenmiller is a keynote speaker and performance expert who helps organizations improve employee engagement, energy, and leadership effectiveness.
Her work focuses on creating stronger connections within teams, improving workplace culture, and helping professionals show up with more confidence, purpose, and impact.

Matt Radicelli is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and speaker from Cleveland, Ohio. Over the course of his career he built, scaled, and sold multiple companies in the event and entertainment industry, including a nationally operating production business handling thousands of events annually. After exiting his largest venture, Matt founded Mentor Pods, a group coaching platform designed to help entrepreneurs grow through accountability, strategy, and shared experience. Known for blending creative thinking with analytical problem solving, Matt helps business owners strengthen leadership, improve systems, and increase profitability. He speaks and coaches entrepreneurs across the United States and lives by the motto: Decline, Delegate, Do.

Rich Bracken is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and leadership
communication expert specializing in emotional intelligence, executive
presence, and high-impact communication.
He helps leaders and organizations improve confidence, influence, and
performance in today’s fast-paced business environment.
As Brand Ambassador for TalentSmartEQ, the world’s leading emotional
intelligence research and training company, Rich delivers data-backed insights
and practical strategies that drive lasting behavior change.

Besides my speaking credentials, as the wedding and event industry’s first Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®), a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association of the UK & Ireland, and one of only 46 Global Speaking Fellows in the world, I was inducted into the Mobile Entertainment Experience (MEX) Hall of Fame in 2024, the first non-DJ to be so honored. In 2024 I also achieved the designation of Executive Bourbon Steward.

Danielle Gertner is a speaker, emcee, and embodiment-based leadership coach known for delivering raw truth that moves people from motivation into embodied confidence and real-world ownership. She helps high-performing leaders stop outsourcing their power and start leading their lives, businesses, and communities with self-trust, clarity, and emotional resilience. Danielle's core philosophy is simple and uncompromising: Ownership is the new leadership, and your life was not meant to be rented; it was meant to be owned. Her work lives at the intersection of mindset, embodiment, and leadership, blending tools from NLP, somatic practices, habit transformation, and nervous system regulation to create transformation that lasts beyond inspiration. Danielle doesn't teach people how to perform confidence; she teaches them how to build it from the inside out. Danielle is the founder of Warrior Women ATX, Austin's most empowering community for women, and the creator of multiple transformational programs, including the Own Your Shit Self Mastery Program and the Radical Confidence Blueprint. She is also THE Queen of Hype and emcee for HYROX North America, where she has energized and inspired hundreds of thousands of athletes across the country. Whether she's on stage, behind a mic, or leading a room through movement and conversation, Danielle creates spaces where people feel safe to tell the truth, brave enough to choose themselves, and supported enough to take radical responsibility for the lives they are building.