Is your team lacking a sense of drive? Are you constantly trying to motivate them to bolster performance and effectiveness? A motivational speaker might be the catalyst for the change you need in your organization.

Companies in just about any industry can benefit from working with highly experienced, multi-faceted motivational speakers. They can bring additional knowledge and experience, fresh perspectives, and many other invaluable benefits to your organization.

Here are five reasons why your organization can benefit from motivational speakers.

Every four years, Olympians from around the globe inspire us with their dedication, strength, precision, and power. For two weeks, they can capture our imaginations with sporting excellence. Some Olympians can inspire us further and show us that no feat is impossible with the right amount of preparation and commitment, like the incredible swimmer and five-time Olympian, Dara Torres.

The mission to end violence against girls is an ongoing campaign for Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the AHA Foundation. This organization was founded by Hirsi Ali and aims to end honor violence that shames, hurts, or kills millions of women across the globe.

The AHA Foundation is working to elevate the status of women globally by supporting women’s education initiatives and building campaigns that help create safer spaces in which women can work and live.

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Kids around the nation are back in school and many institutions are considering how best to enhance their classes and inspire their students to further success. Our team here at Worldwide Speakers Group has worked with and represented some of the leading educational speakers in the country and in this latest post, we’ll present our guide to three of the top speakers available for school speaking engagements.

Notable accomplishments are made even more impressive when you consider the barriers an individual overcomes in the pursuit of their goal. This holds true with the first woman Asian American member of a president's Cabinet.

Great leaders have the ability to see into the future of their company. They don’t just position themselves at the helm of their business, ideology, or movement. They are relentless in the pursuit of their goals and the goals of their company. They also take great care to make sure that their actions are inspiring to those who follow them.

Grief-stricken Nancy Brinker made a promise over thirty years ago that has blossomed into a global movement.

In 1980, Brinker lost her sister, Susan Komen, to breast cancer. In the last moments of her sister’s life, Brinker pledged that she would fight tirelessly against eradicating breast cancer for good. This sparked a drive for changing the way the world sees breast cancer. The movement that ensued in the decades to follow fundamentally changed fundraising and not-for-profit organizations around the world. And it all started with a promise.

Steve Wozniak is arguably one of the greatest innovators of our modern age, and you likely know him as one of our era’s great technology pioneers. He is one of the Steve’s responsible for the founding of Apple and he was a driving force behind developing the groundbreaking Apple II Computer. Apple’s influence has gone on to shape not only the industry but fundamentally has wielded an impact on the way we live (just see how many times Apple appears on Time Magazine’s most influential gadgets of all time list).

Choosing the right professional speakers for your audience can make or break an event. You want speakers who will motivate, inspire and of course entertain your audience. For that reason, selecting just the right pair of speakers can be a bit tricky. To help you plan your next event, we’ve put together a few speaker pairings that are sure to engage your audience.