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Tissa Richards
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Austin, TX, USA
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Tissa helps organizations connect leadership to key outcomes with engaging keynotes/workshops
Tissa Richards is a TedX speaker who regularly keynotes at venues like the New York Stock Exchange, Forbes, Chief, and other Fortune 500 stages, as well as facilitates leadership summits and workshops at the world's largest private and public companies and rapid-growth companies.
She helps organizations directly connect leadership development to desired outcomes: increasing revenue, productivity and innovation. As a repeat software founder and CEO who has won awards for her innovation, and secured multiple patents, Tissa brings authenticity and credibility to her work. She connects with audiences with humor, pragmatic, actionable advice, and an understanding of how to develop high performing teams, high-functioning leaders, and create successful, competitive organizations.
Tissa also serves as a board member, mentors founders, entrepreneurs, and aspiring board members, and regularly contributes to and is featured in publications such as Forbes and the WSJ.
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Leadership
Organizational Change
Resilience
Female Empowerment
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Testimonials
Tara Dziedzic
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) - Head of Listings, US Sector, NYSE
Tissa's keynote at the New York Stock Exchange was powerful and pragmatic.
Suzanne Brown
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) - Program Manager, ESG Initiatives
Tissa was the keynote speaker at our NYSE board diversity event and the feedback from our attendees was overwhelmingly positive. She provided a relevant, engaging and actionable keynote that helped change how our board diversity candidates talk about themselves and their careers. I highly recommend her for your event. We look forward to having her back.
Aubrey Ghafari
Forbes Center for Women's Leadership - Manager
We invited Tissa to keynote at our inaugural Leadership Conference. We were thrilled with her keynote. She targeted it precisely to our audience in an accessible, compelling and engaging way. She effectively used storytelling and humor to draw people in, and in the breakout sessions afterwards everyone was already brainstorming how to begin applying what they'd learned. We recommend her for your event - she is professional to work with behind the scenes, popular with the audience, and always on-point.
Allison Barrow
24 Hour Home Care - Director of Marketing
Tissa was wonderful to work with as the keynote speaker for our company event. She and her team are responsive, reliable, and took the time to really understand our business opportunities to craft a relevant topic for her keynote. We got great feedback from attendees: Her keynote was entertaining, and impactful. I highly recommend her for your next corporate or team event.
Holly McMullan
Partner - Apollo Global Management
Tissa is an excellent speaker and has an empathetic understanding of what her audience is facing. She connects well with them and makes it engaging, so people remember her presentation or workshop.
Krista Satterthwaite
Hewlett Packard Enterprise - SVP & GM, HPE Mainstream Compute
"I attended one of Tissa's keynotes and she is awesome. She is a confident, personable and engaging speaker. And, she effectively works in both personal stories and stories from clients she works with, which makes it relatable for the audience to know that they are not alone in whatever they are struggling with, or working towards. If you have a chance to hear her speak, you definitely should."
Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi
Pepperdine & University of Arizona Global Campus - Associate Professor of Leadership
Tissa was a hit as our keynote speaker for the University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC) Forbes School of Business Leadership Summit. She provided our attendees with excellent, thought-provoking material and resources they could immediately begin applying to their careers. Her style is warm, approachable and engaging. In the breakout sessions immediately afterwards, everyone was raving about her and buzzing about what they’d learned. We can’t wait to have her back again for future events, and I’d definitely recommend her for your event.
Dr. Roseanne Bensley
University of Arizona - CHAMPS Program Coordinator
I attended Tissa’s keynote at the UAGC Forbes School of Business Leadership Conference, and believe her approach to teaching people to enter – and be successful – in the world of work is the gold standard. There are few keynotes and workshops like this that cover the female perspective in such a powerful way. Tissa broke open the unspoken rules we need to learn to create more successful women in the workplace. She used powerful examples, stories and methods that I intuitively understood and that more of us need to hear.
Vice President, Communications // ServiceMax
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Tissa is a natural and charismatic speaker, and always engages her audience. She is witty, smart, and relevant, and brings a fresh perspective. She leaves audiences wanting more.
Susan Boyle
Alternative Investments Global Forum - Program Director
Tissa says the things you need to hear and says something new each time. She relates to me professionally and also at a personal level. She says something relatable, and then has you exercise through it to how it really affects you. I would definitely recommend her.
President and Conference Organizer // AIF Institute
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Tissa has proven to be an invaluable asset to our global audience with bold thought leadership, approachable authenticity, and results-oriented approach.
Chairman // X Point Energy
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I know how to identify talented founders and leaders and Tissa Richards is right up there. She's a great speaker and a talented leader.