Bring Day 1 Energy & Play To Win
Antonio was a phenomenal speaker for our recent Visa event. Visa is currently in our midyear review cycle, so the timing of his presentation allowed Visa teammates to reflect on our individual goals and progress to re-energize going into the second half of our fiscal year. Antonio’s presentation was energetic, relatable, and engaging.
- Emily Leach - Vice President, VISA





Unleash Your Organization's True Potential with the Ultimate Live Event and Virtual Keynote Speaker
3 ways Antonio's practical, empowering, and research driven keynotes will help your team win:
Stop Complacency
Identify and break patterns that keep staff disengaged.
Play To Win
Learn actionable strategies and tools to apply to get real results.
A Clear Blueprint
Attendees walk away fired up with a clear plan for the road ahead.

Antonio’s excitement helped refuel our managers at our statewide meeting. His humble demeanor and electric personality were a great fit with our culture and our managers couldn’t stop talking about many of the takeaways Antonio left us with.
Kent Oram
Idaho Central Credit Union President/CEO
Transform your team’s morale and skyrocket employee engagement with the unparalleled expertise of Antonio Neves—a bestselling author, award-winning journalist (NBC, PBS, BET, etc.), and dynamic workplace engagement keynote speaker.
Antonio has mastered the art of unlocking professionals’ latent potential, enabling them to Reset, Refuel, and Reboot with invigorating “Day 1 Energy.”
As a leading workplace virtuoso, his transformative personal development tools have been embraced by corporate America and global organizations for more than a decade.
Experience Antonio’s magnetic charisma, signature humor, and inspiring real-talk as he captivates audiences with his empowering programs. Attendees leave not only invigorated but also equipped with powerful tools to challenge complacency, ignite engagement, and achieve extraordinary results.
Antonio is the renowned author of four books, including the game-changing Stop Living On Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You. He also hosts the captivating Antonio Neves Show podcast, where he instills hope that no matter where you are in life, your story is far from over.
For over a decade, Antonio has been instrumental in helping hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of professionals “Find The Edge.” His impactful message has graced stages worldwide at Google, Amazon, BCD Meetings & Events, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Visa, Booking.com, Credit Union National Association (CUNA), and Stanford University.
Over the years his exceptional work has earned him features on the TODAY Show, Forbes, PBS, Inc.com, Thrive Global, and beyond.
Don’t miss this opportunity to let Antonio equip your team with the tools they need to shatter complacency, embrace boldness and inspiration, and drive engagement to new heights. Act now and secure the future success of your organization.
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“Antonio is one of the most engaging speakers because of the relatable storytelling, laughs and true notes of inspiration.”
Jamie Lee (Clave) Tiffany, National Sales Manager – L’Auberge Del Mar (Destination Hotels)
Antonio is an inspirational, charismatic and engaging motivational speaker who genuinely inspired our employees to think as positively and act as effectively as they can. If your organization would like to stop and think about how you connect and work together, and be the best you can be... you should hire him.
- Scott Davenport -
Global Learning, Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Why Antonio?
Heralded as a world-renowned speaker, Antonio's practical and research based keynotes help organizations increase engagement, decrease turnover, and create a thriving culture of Allies.
For anyone fortunate enough to experience Antonio from the stage, they walk away inspired knowing that the best is ahead as long as they believe and work for it.

Antonio is a pro on all levels, and a pleasure to work with to boot. We had a lot of last minute changes, script updates, and additional requests for face-time with our group's senior leadership. Antonio had excellent communication throughout the planning process, and he went above and beyond to ensure he was overdelivering. His joyful spirit, professionalism, and execution of the job was first-rate.
- JOEY RODRIGUEZ -
Meeting Tomorrow Event Planner
Raving Testimonials
Antonio was our keynote speaker for our Sales Kick-off and he spoke creatively, emotionally, and personally to each of us. Antonio left us all feeling motivated and inspired to want to do better today than we did yesterday and to do better tomorrow than we did today.
Kevin Boland
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
It was a pleasure having Antonio present to us here in Grand Cayman. He delighted our audience with an enthusiasm and energy that had them captivated and wanting more. He is certainly an entertaining and engaging speaker and we would love to have him back!
Chris Bailey
President Cayman Islands HR Society
Antonio was exceptional. He provided a “vaccine” against mediocrity and accepting the status quo.
Max Villaronga
CEO, TFCU
For DataScienceGO, the inspirational aspect is paramount. Antonio over-delivered by deeply engaging with our attendees, bringing all his expertise on stage and gifting them actionable insights for their careers, all while making sure they had a great time!
Paulo Realpe
Event Manager at DataScienceGo
Antonio came as a guest speaker at our virtual offsite and knocked it out of the park! His energy was infectious, and the session chat window lit up with folks thanking Antonio or sharing personal anecdotes related to the messages Antonio was sharing. People were so engaged and many of them told me offline that it was the best session at our offsite! One attendee spoke for all of us when they said “Don’t goooooo Antonio!!” as the session was wrapping up.
Saurabh Saharan
Chief of Staff, Global IT, Equinix
SPEAKING TOPICS & OUTCOMES
SIGNATURE KeynotE
Find The Edge Again: From Burned Out to Fired Up!

“Antonio Neves brings so much energy to the stage, it’s impossible not to love his sessions. Our members enjoy Antonio’s content and that he provides actionable items each session they can take back to both their work and personal lives. He is relatable to all audiences and was easy to work with, you will want to bring him in for your next event.”
Amber Bailey, Cornerstone League
Whether you’re a leader at the helm of an organization or a professional at a crossroads in your career, you know a simple truth: in these complicated times, it’s more challenging than ever to feel motivated.
But that feeling of burnout, disengagement, and low morale is pernicious—once it sets in, it rarely just blows over. And if left unchecked, it can lead to a negative long-term effect on a company’s success.
So how do you hit the reset button to rekindle excitement, increase focus, and get folks fired up again? In his signature keynote, top live event and virtual keynote speaker, Antonio Neves helps audiences find that edge and beat burnout with three critical steps to boost workplace engagement, establish a culture of allies, and create systems for personal accountability and measurable results.
takeaways
Audiences Will Learn How To:
- Reignite the energy and drive that they brought to the table on day one
- Create a culture of allies that encourages contributing rather than settling
- Find purpose in their work and take action to spark positive change
- Reframe challenges as opportunities they can leverage to their advantage
- Recommit to a long-term mission that helps them power through tough times

Additional SPEAKING TOPICS CLENTS LOVE
Day 1 Energy: Recommitting & Playing To Win
Feel like your work or your team’s work is in a rut? It’s natural to have ebbs and flows in our energy but when success suffers because of it, it’s time to re-evaluate. In this brand new keynote, Antonio is teaching everyone from individuals to entire companies on how to bring day 1 energy—that insatiable energy we all had on the first day of the job—back into the workplace.
Audiences Will Learn:
● How to identify the things you stopped doing that led to your initial success and reintroduce them to your life and work
● What it looks like to play to lose and how to ensure your team is actually playing to win
● Why we all need to start living and working based on our standards and values versus our emotions
Stop Living on Autopilot: How to Recommit To Your Life
If you looked back over the past 30 days of your life, what would you find? Were you coasting? Giving it your all? Sinking into mediocrity? Taking inventory of the last 30 days determines where you are or are not heading in your life. But no matter where you stand today, your story isn’t over yet. A new chapter begins right now. Informed by Antonio’s popular book, Stop Living on Autopilot, this talk provides guidance on how to take inventory of your life so far to be able to move forward into the best thing that is yet to happen.
Audiences Will Learn:
● How to take proper stock of the past 30 days to measure what progress is or isn’t being made toward your dreams
● Why you need to start acting like you care about your life because no one can, or will, care more about your life than you do
● What expiration date your dreams have and how to act on them before time runs out
Allies of Glory: Upgrade Your Community. Upgrade Your Life.
Coming out of the Covid pandemic, people are more disconnected, isolated and feel lost more than ever. When it comes to improving our lives and reaching our goals, we often think of changing our personal habits and routines. We think about ourselves, but rarely do we look outside ourselves. However, to succeed in any aspect of life, what you truly need are the right people.When you intentionally build your community, you simultaneously upgrade all areas of your life.
Audiences Will Learn:
● The distinction between Allies of Glory & Thieves of Ambition
● How to find and surround yourself with Allies of Glory
● The people who make you better (and who you make better)
● The research-based benefits that spending time with a positive and ambitious community can have on your life.
Antonio was so great to work with. He was great at communicating and willing to go the extra mile with whatever we asked of him leading up to our conference. Not to mention, he was exactly what our attendees needed to help them reboot and refocus their actions both at home and in the workplace. Our attendees continued to quote Antonio throughout the duration of the conference!
- ANDREA GROVE -
National Association of College & University Food Services
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“Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, recently had Antonio speak to our employees. Not only did they leave inspired, but they appreciated his energy and message to be intentional with their lives. Thanks for your message Antonio!”
-John Hill, Techstars – VP of Network
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Just a few of Antonio’s Clients and Audiences
VISA
Amazon
Google
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Equinix
Booking.com
Vonage
Stanford University
BCD Meetings & Events
Credit Union National Association
Stryker Medical Instruments
Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
ADCOLOR
West Virginia Department of Tourism
StarRez, Inc.
NCAA
Idaho Central Credit Union
Southern California Edison
DataScienceGo
New York City Advertising Week
Day of Excellence
Grinnell Mutual
American Institute of CPAs
Cayman Islands Society of Human Resources
ASHP Pharmacists
American Advertising Association
Tinker Federal Credit Union
Idaho Central Credit Union
University of Georgia
TFCU
National Youth Leadership Forum
TechStars
Langley Federal Credit Union
AFLV
Kinecta
University of Wisconsin
National Association of Colleges & Employers
SITE SoCal
Intl Association of Ice Cream Distributors
GECU
PIHRA
Cornerstone Credit Union League
Xceed Financial Credit Union
CUInsight
MobilOil Credit Union
NACUFS