Harvard instructor and bestselling author Carmine Gallo is one of the world’s top experts on leadership communication and storytelling in the age of AI. Fortune 500 executives and CEOs trust Gallo’s frameworks to elevate their storytelling and communication skills. He is the bestselling author of 11 books on leadership and communication, translated into more than 40 languages worldwide.

This engaging and actionable keynote, delivered in Gallo’s signature multimedia style, is designed for senior executives, high-potential emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, sales organizations, and customer-facing teams. It gives leaders the tools to communicate complex ideas clearly, inspire action, and stand out in an AI-saturated world.

Drawing on insights from his audio original Viral Voices—named one of Audible’s “Most Anticipated” audiobooks of 2026—along with his Wall Street Journal bestsellers Talk Like TED and The Storyteller’s Secret, Gallo reveals proven storytelling tactics leaders use to captivate audiences, sell ideas, and drive change. 

Audiences Will Learn How To:

• Combine ancient storytelling laws with the smart use of AI to make ideas clear, persuasive, and irresistible. 

• Create high-impact narratives using Hollywood’s three-act structure and the Hero’s Journey to pitch ideas, lead change, align teams around a common vision.

• Translate complex products, data, and AI-driven initiatives into simple stories that connect with customers, employees and stakeholders, and help sales teams close more deals.  

• Model the communication tactics of visionary founders Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, TED speakers, and digital-era influencers to create messages that stick.

• Apply storytelling elements including loglines and metaphors to share ideas, build trust, and reduce resistance to change. 

• Sharpen the human edge—the communication skills AI can’t replace—to turn a ‘soft skill’ into a true competitive advantage.

The Multimedia Experience

Gallo’s signature multimedia style is an experience that blends research with real-world insights to energize audiences and model world-class storytelling.

Through exclusive video interviews recorded for his books and audio original Viral Voices, Gallo brings audiences inside conversations with visionary leaders and world-class thinkers including Richard Branson, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins, Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Square co-founder Jim McKelvey who credits Gallo’s books for helping him create “the greatest pitch Silicon Valley had ever seen.”

Why Leading Organizations Trust Carmine Gallo

Carmine Gallo is a Harvard instructor, bestselling author, and one of the world’s top authorities on leadership communication in the age of AI. He coaches and advises senior executives at many of the world’s most valuable brands — including leaders at 7 of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and Walmart.

Gallo is a senior contributor to Forbes, Inc., and the Harvard Business Review, where he writes on communication, persuasion, storytelling, and leadership. His ideas have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and ABC’s 20/20.

With books translated into more than 40 languages and adopted by leaders worldwide, Gallo’s message is clear: in a world transformed by AI and automation, the ability to communicate with clarity and confidence in a way that no other person or machine can replicate is no longer optional — it is a competitive advantage.

Overview:

This inspiring and actionable keynote, highly customized for your audience, is based on Carmine Gallo’s international bestseller and modern classic on public speaking: Talk Like TED: The Communication Secrets of the World’s Top Minds. 

Gallo—a top-rated instructor and program leader at Harvard Executive Education—has taught Talk Like TED principles to C-suite and top leaders at 70% of the top ten Fortune 500 companies, including Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and many other admired brands. Now, your organization has access to Gallo’s proven frameworks that transform leaders into captivating communicators who inform, inspire, and ignite change in the age of AI.  

Celebrated as a “communications guru” by Publishers Weekly, Gallo’s tactics have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Inc, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, and ABC’s 20/20. Discover how to craft powerful stories, simplify complex ideas, and engage any audience using proven neuroscience tactics and actionable templates. 

Explore the Keynote:

Bestselling author and globally admired communication coach Carmine Gallo delivers an engaging and transformative keynote ideal for association members, and leaders across every field who seek to elevate their communication, presentation, and public speaking skills. 

This keynote, highly customized for your audience, is based on Carmine Gallo’s international bestseller, Talk Like TED, where he reveals the communication secrets of the world’s top minds. Celebrated as a “communications guru” by Publishers Weekly, Gallo’s tactics have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Inc, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, and ABC’s 20/20. Gallo has spoken to senior leaders at 70% of the top ten Fortune 500 companies including Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway Google, Microsoft, and many other admired brands. 

Gallo’s actionable and proven frameworks transform leaders into captivating communicators who inform, illuminate, and inspire.

Critical Acclaim:

Talk Like TED has become a modern classic on communication with remarkably broad appeal. It’s been read by Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce and baseball legend Alex Rodriguez, elite athletes who built powerful personal brands off the field. Tariq Trotter, frontman for The Tonight Show’s house band The Roots, travels with a copy of Talk Like TED and actress Maisie Williams—Arya Stark on Game of Thrones—turned to Gallo’s book to prepare for her TED Talk. 

Gallo’s books have been endorsed by billionaires and visionaries such as Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, Adam Grant, Tony Robbins, and Salesforce founder and CEO, Marc Benioff, among others. 

Audiences Will Learn:

• How to craft stories and presentations that make complex ideas simple, memorable, and repeatable.

• How to apply the latest neuroscience to communicate ideas that capture attention, make emotional connections, and inspire action. 

• How to raise the signal-to-noise ratio to cut through information overload. 

• Why storytelling isn’t a soft skill, but a superpower that separates great communicators.

• How to identify the three types of persuasive stories that change hearts and minds. 

• How to humanize data to make numbers meaningful and memorable. 

• How to apply exclusive templates like the Gallo Message Map to simplify even the most complex ideas. These are the same frameworks Gallo has taught to nuclear scientists, high-tech entrepreneurs, global country leaders, U.S. Special Forces teams, TOPGUN pilots, as well as graduate students at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. 

The Multimedia Experience:

Presented in Gallo’s signature multimedia style, this keynote features insights from Gallo’s first-person interviews with famed TED speakers, including Daniel Pink, Susan Cain, Bryan Stevenson, and astronaut Chris Hadfield, and others. Gallo draws on case studies from his work with Fortune 500 executives, as well as executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders around the world. 

The Takeaway:

Master the communication strategies that made TED Talks the gold standard for ideas worth spreading. Whether you’re pitching ideas, delivering presentations, leading teams, or speaking to teams, these proven frameworks will help you simplify complex ideas, create emotional connections, and communicate ideas that inform, illuminate, and inspire. 

Learn to Talk Like TED to inform, illuminate, and inspire. 

Overview:

Keynote speaker Carmine Gallo—a top-rated instructor and program leader at Harvard Executive Education, international bestselling author, and senior columnist for Forbes, Inc, and Harvard Business Review—delivers a transformative keynote based on two of his books, The Bezos Blueprint and The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs. Drawing on more than two decades of coaching Fortune 500 CEOs and executives, Gallo reveals the pioneering communication strategies of Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and visionary leaders who have scaled their ideas from garage startups to the global stage.

Learn the frameworks behind Amazon’s legendary narratives and Steve Jobs’ iconic presentations, as well as elevated communication strategies used by Warren Buffett, Indra Nooyi, Richard Branson, and Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, who credits Gallo’s ideas for helping him and Jack Dorsey create “The greatest pitch Silicon Valley has ever seen.”Presented in Gallo’s signature multimedia style, leaders will walk away ready to write with clarity, pitch with conviction, and communicate with the persuasive power of the world’s most admired brands.  

Explore the Keynote:

In this transformative keynote, communication coach Carmine Gallo—a top-rated instructor and program leader at Harvard Executive Education and international bestselling author—reveals the communication secrets behind two of the most influential and innovative leaders of our time: Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. 

Why did Bezos ban PowerPoint? How did he leverage the narrative power of analogy to fuel Amazon’s astonishing growth? How did Steve Jobs structure his most iconic presentations and reimagine the way he pitched Apple’s products? Drawing on his bestselling books The Bezos Blueprint and The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, and on two decades of coaching Fortune 500 CEOs, Gallo decodes the exact messaging strategies, writing techniques, and storytelling tactics that transform leaders into extraordinary communicators.  

Critical Acclaim:

Celebrated as a “communications guru” by Publishers Weekly, Gallo has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and ABC’s 20/20 as an expert on Steve Jobs. In addition, The Bezos Blueprint has been praised by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and was named a ‘must-read’ by the Next Big Idea book club.  

“The Bezos Blueprint reveals the writing and communication strategies that should be taught to everyone with a story to tell,” says Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph. U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, former allied commander at NATO, adds: “I highly recommend it for leaders at every level.” 

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, has been a go-to reference book for CEOs, leaders, and entrepreneurs since its publication. Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square, credits Gallo’s book for helping him and Jack Dorsey create “the greatest pitch Silicon Valley has ever seen.” 

Audiences will learn:

• How to apply strategic persuasion tactics to pitch ideas, lead teams, and stand out in their fields.

• Why Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint at Amazon and replaced it with storytelling narratives that painted vivid pictures of success.  

• How to write and craft messages with “the clarity of angels singing.”

• How to apply proven storytelling structures to keep people hooked to a message.

• When to use simple words to talk about hard things.

• How to leverage the power of analogy like Bezos, Buffett, and other extraordinary leaders to move people to action.

• How to align teams around a shared vision and motivate them to do the impossible.

The Multimedia Experience:

Presented in Gallo’s signature multimedia style, this keynote features real-world examples from leaders who have applied these advanced communication strategies to captivate stakeholders—including Richard Branson, Indra Nooyi, Warren Buffett, Melanie Perkins (Canva), and many others. 

Gallo draws on case studies and insights from his coaching experiences with CEOs and senior executives at 70% of the top ten Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Walmart, Amazon, Google, JPMorgan Chase, as well as insights and interviews from his columns in Forbes, Inc., and Harvard Business Review.

The Takeaway:

Master the communication strategies that scaled ideas from startups to the global stage. Whether you’re pitching investors, leading teams, or driving innovation, these proven frameworks give you the persuasive power of the world’s most admired leaders. Write with clarity, lead with vision, and communicate with the conviction that inspires action.