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Tommy Spaulding

Tommy Spaulding

Keynote Speaker: Founder & President of Tommy Spaulding Companies; World-Renowned Leadership Speaker; Bestselling Author of "It's Not Just Who You Know," "The Heart-Led Leader" & "The Gift of Influence"

Tommy Spaulding Biography

Tommy Spaulding is the founder and president of Tommy Spaulding Companies, a leadership development, speaking, training, and teambuilding organization based in Denver, Colorado. A world-renowned speaker on leadership, Spaulding has spoken to thousands of organizations, associations, educational institutions, and corporations around the globe. His first book, "It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life and Your Organization by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships," quickly climbed to the top of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestseller lists. His second book, "The Heart-Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart will Change Your Organization and Your Life," is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal national bestseller, and was also listed on Inc.com’s Top 100 Business Books of 2015. His newest book, "The Gift of Influence: Creating Life-Changing and Lasting Impact in your Everyday Interactions," was a #3 Wall Street Journal national bestseller.

Spaulding spent most of his career and rose to become the youngest president and CEO of the world-renowned leadership organization, Up with People. In 2000, Tommy founded Leader’s Challenge, which grew to become the largest high school civic and leadership program in the state of Colorado. He is the founder and president of the Global Youth Leadership Academy, as well as the National Leadership Academy, a leading national non-profit high school leadership development organization.

Previously, Spaulding was the business partner sales manager at IBM/Lotus Development, and a member of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program. He received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from East Carolina University (1992); an MBA from Bond University in Australia (1998), where he was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar; and an MA in Non-Profit Management from Regis University (2005).

Spaulding was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award by East Carolina University (ECU), and Spaulding received an honorary Ph.D in Humanities from the Art Institute of Colorado. Spaulding was also named by Meetings & Conventions Magazine as one of the 100 MOST FAVORITE SPEAKERS in the nation.

Spaulding resides in Denver, CO with his wife and children.

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Tommy Spaulding Speaking Topics

The Gift of Influence

Researchers believe that the average person will influence up to 80,000 people—2.8 people daily—over the course of their lifetime. That’s a stadium full of people whom each of us affect positively or negatively—sometimes without us knowing.

What if we paid attention to this fact?

Would we live differently?

Would we lead differently?

Would we take more time to put down our phones and instead focus on the person in front of us?

The Gift of Influence is a manifesto on the everyday actions we can take to make a positive impact on the people we love and lead. Sharing stories from the exceptional leaders he has worked with over the years, from entrepreneurs who have made an impact far beyond their businesses to a teacher who changed the lives of thirty students with one simple lesson. Spaulding gives us a simple recipe for turning transactions into interactions, 0ffering more than “thoughts and prayers” to those in need, and transforming the lives each of us touch as we make our way through the world.

Return on Relationships

Economists and business leaders love to talk about building ROI, or return on investment—and for good reason. The greater the ROI, the greater the positive impact on their organization. But what if we told you there was something more to results-driven business than just increasing revenue and ROI? That something is ROR, return on relationship.

Organizations and leaders that build genuine and lifelong relationships are increasingly more successful than those that don’t. Transform your workforce, change habits, and develop deeper, more authentic relationships with your customers, employees, clients, and other stakeholders.

Tommy’s genuine character, sincerity, and humor will move you and your team. His heartwarming stories will connect with your audience in a relatable way and will arm them with practical tools that build relationships to higher and more satisfying levels. These connections bring ROR that translates into success, and brings results to any organization.

The Heart-Led Leader

On average, there are 18 inches between your head and your heart. Such a short distance, yet most leaders never take the journey. Leaders and organizations that lead with their hearts are most successful and achieve better results than those that don’t.

In Tommy’s Heart-Led Leader presentation, he shows that love and results are not mutually exclusive—in fact, they are two sides to the same coin. It’s not love or results, it’s love-driven results. If you love what you do, if you love the people you do it with, if you love your culture, your mission, your team, and your customers, you will achieve better results.

Webinars

Training on your terms. In these fully customized live or pre-recorded one-hour online webinars, Tommy offers a chance to teach and inspire your organizations or teams to be Heart-Led Leaders in the face of today’s challenges.

Choose any fully customizable topic from our list, such as:

  • Being a Heart-Led Leader in turbulent times and creating a culture of serving others. Motivating and inspiring togetherness for remote or geographically distributed workforces.
  • Leveraging tools to keep your customers, vendors, partners, and clients engaged, satisfied, and loyal.
  • Having Heart-Led conversations with compassion and empathy.
  • Building deeper and more meaningful relationships with your customers, clients, and teams.
  • Putting Heart-Led Leadership into action to prepare your company for success today and tomorrow.
  • Developing resilience and leadership in a world during uncertainty.

Tommy Spaulding Videos

Tommy Spaulding Heart Led Leader Keynote
Tommy Spaulding Summit Highlights
Tommy Spaulding Talks About the Global Youth Leadership Academy

How do I book Tommy Spaulding to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Tommy Spaulding for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Tommy Spaulding, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Tommy Spaulding or any other speaker of your choice.

How much does it cost to book Tommy Spaulding for a speaking engagement?

Speaking fees for Tommy Spaulding, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fee for a live event is $20,000 - $30,000. For the most current speaking fee to hire Tommy Spaulding, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.

What topics does Tommy Spaulding speak about?

Tommy Spaulding is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Peak Performance, Customer Experience, Business Growth, Authors, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Communication, Leadership, Corporate Culture, Sales, Teamwork & Teambuilding, Executive Leadership, Motivational, Social Media, Literary and Strategic Leadership.

Where does Tommy Spaulding travel from?

Tommy Spaulding generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

Who is the agent for Tommy Spaulding?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Tommy Spaulding for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Tommy Spaulding for your next private or corporate function.

What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Tommy Spaulding or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.

Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.


Tommy Spaulding is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Business, Peak Performance and Customer Experience. The estimated speaking fee range to book Tommy Spaulding for live events is $20,000 - $30,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Tommy Spaulding generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Tim Sanders, Richard Florida and Chip Conley. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Tommy Spaulding for an upcoming event.

Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/10/2024.

Tommy Spaulding Speaking Topics

  • The Gift of Influence

    Researchers believe that the average person will influence up to 80,000 people—2.8 people daily—over the course of their lifetime. That’s a stadium full of people whom each of us affect positively or negatively—sometimes without us knowing.

    What if we paid attention to this fact?

    Would we live differently?

    Would we lead differently?

    Would we take more time to put down our phones and instead focus on the person in front of us?

    The Gift of Influence is a manifesto on the everyday actions we can take to make a positive impact on the people we love and lead. Sharing stories from the exceptional leaders he has worked with over the years, from entrepreneurs who have made an impact far beyond their businesses to a teacher who changed the lives of thirty students with one simple lesson. Spaulding gives us a simple recipe for turning transactions into interactions, 0ffering more than “thoughts and prayers” to those in need, and transforming the lives each of us touch as we make our way through the world.

  • Return on Relationships

    Economists and business leaders love to talk about building ROI, or return on investment—and for good reason. The greater the ROI, the greater the positive impact on their organization. But what if we told you there was something more to results-driven business than just increasing revenue and ROI? That something is ROR, return on relationship.

    Organizations and leaders that build genuine and lifelong relationships are increasingly more successful than those that don’t. Transform your workforce, change habits, and develop deeper, more authentic relationships with your customers, employees, clients, and other stakeholders.

    Tommy’s genuine character, sincerity, and humor will move you and your team. His heartwarming stories will connect with your audience in a relatable way and will arm them with practical tools that build relationships to higher and more satisfying levels. These connections bring ROR that translates into success, and brings results to any organization.

  • The Heart-Led Leader

    On average, there are 18 inches between your head and your heart. Such a short distance, yet most leaders never take the journey. Leaders and organizations that lead with their hearts are most successful and achieve better results than those that don’t.

    In Tommy’s Heart-Led Leader presentation, he shows that love and results are not mutually exclusive—in fact, they are two sides to the same coin. It’s not love or results, it’s love-driven results. If you love what you do, if you love the people you do it with, if you love your culture, your mission, your team, and your customers, you will achieve better results.

  • Webinars

    Training on your terms. In these fully customized live or pre-recorded one-hour online webinars, Tommy offers a chance to teach and inspire your organizations or teams to be Heart-Led Leaders in the face of today’s challenges.

    Choose any fully customizable topic from our list, such as:

    • Being a Heart-Led Leader in turbulent times and creating a culture of serving others. Motivating and inspiring togetherness for remote or geographically distributed workforces.
    • Leveraging tools to keep your customers, vendors, partners, and clients engaged, satisfied, and loyal.
    • Having Heart-Led conversations with compassion and empathy.
    • Building deeper and more meaningful relationships with your customers, clients, and teams.
    • Putting Heart-Led Leadership into action to prepare your company for success today and tomorrow.
    • Developing resilience and leadership in a world during uncertainty.

Tommy Spaulding Videos

Tommy Spaulding Heart Led Leader Keynote
Tommy Spaulding Summit Highlights
Tommy Spaulding Talks About the Global Youth Leadership Academy
  • How do I book Tommy Spaulding to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Tommy Spaulding for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Tommy Spaulding, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Tommy Spaulding or any other speaker of your choice.
  • How much does it cost to book Tommy Spaulding for a speaking engagement?

    Speaking fees for Tommy Spaulding, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fee for a live event is $20,000 - $30,000. For the most current speaking fee to hire Tommy Spaulding, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Tommy Spaulding speak about?

  • Where does Tommy Spaulding travel from?

    Tommy Spaulding generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
  • Who is the agent for Tommy Spaulding?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Tommy Spaulding for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Tommy Spaulding for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Tommy Spaulding or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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