Keynote Speakers

Leonard Brody
Regarded as one of the "top 30 management thinkers in the world" and "a controversial leader of the new world order,"" Leonard Brody is an award-wi

Ryan Leak
What has fear ultimately cost you, your team, your organization? In times of challenge and great uncertainty it's easy to feel paralyzed by fear, b

Martin G. Moore
Martin G. Moore is a no-nonsense communicator who has harnessed the deep experience of his 30-plus year career as a corporate executive in Australi
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Adam Smiley Poswolsky
Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky is an internationally renowned keynote speaker, workplace belonging expert, and bestselling author of three books: The Quar

Alex Goodson
Alex began her career at ABB quoting medium voltage transformers. She later transitioned in to the energy storage market and worked for a battery m

Andrew Colvard

Andy Berg

Chris Kuehl
Dr. Chris Kuehl is a Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence. He provides forecasts and strategic guidance for a wide variety of corpora

Courtney Clark
Courtney Clark is the luckiest unlucky person in the world. After a series of major struggles beginning in her mid-20s, she has built two successfu

Danna Stone
Danna has over 23 years of experience in electrical distribution. She has led commercial and supply chain teams of up to 600 people during that tim

Dave Peterson
David began his career with ERMCO in 2000 and has been part of the company’s executive leadership team since 2009. David is the current COO for ERM

David Meade
After many years of studying human behavior and dedicating his career to understanding what makes people ‘tick’, David Meade has become an inf

David O'Brien
Dave O’Brien is a CPA with over 40 years of experience and is widely respected and considered an expert in the area of accounting practices of

Dr. Rubin Cockrell
Dr. Rubin Cockrell is an Award-Winning International Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur and Retired Professor. Dr. Cockrell also serves as CEO of Positi

Edwin Lopez

Gabrielle Hartley
Gabrielle Hartley, Esq., is a divorce attorney and mediator, and American Bar Association Mediation Committee Co-Chair. She is the author of The Se

Jake Harriman
Jake Harriman is the founder and former CEO of Nuru International, a US-based social venture with a mission to eradicate extreme poverty in some of

James MacDonald
James currently serves as Executive Vice President for IC, ISC, Commercial, Service, Technology Solutions, Smart Cities, and Strategic Accounts for

Jason Faircloth
As the leader of Southwire’s Contractor Solution Professionals across the US, Jason and his team spend their time training contractors on the benef

Jon Finch
Jon Finch is the SVP of Talent for Milwaukee Tool. He leads the teams responsible for Talent Acquisition, Training, Development, and Talent Managem

Josh Bone
The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Josh Bone to the position of Director, Industry In

Keith Knight
After serving 5 years in the United States Navy, I started in the trade as a material handler about 33 years ago. Went through the electrical appre

Kellie Holland

Khaled Fakhuri
Khaled Fakhuri is a Strategic Executive with a proven track record of leading regional and global teams in the Energy, Construction, Real Estate an

Laurie Guest
During a successful career in the healthcare industry Laurie Guest was known as a “go-to-resource” for customer service excellence. She channeled t

Leonard Brody
Regarded as one of the "top 30 management thinkers in the world" and "a controversial leader of the new world order,"" Leonard Brody is an award-wi

Luke Borlee
Luke has been with United Rentals for 15 years in various roles within safety, focusing on customer training. He is an OSHA Outreach Trainer and Ce

Martin G. Moore
Martin G. Moore is a no-nonsense communicator who has harnessed the deep experience of his 30-plus year career as a corporate executive in Australi

Mike Carroll
Mike is a 28-year veteran of the electrical industry working from the Electrical Distributor side of the business. In leading various management ro

Morgan Traynor

Nancy Lindsay
Throughout her career, Nancy has developed a true passion for helping contractors excel through business development opportunities, new technologie

Ronald Bailey
Lt. Gen. Ronald Bailey is a national leader who joined NECA as Senior Vice President, Industry Development, in 2020. At NECA, he is working on crea

Russell Hess
Russell Hess is a Laboratory Manager at 3M supporting the Electrical Markets Division. Russell started his career at 3M as an Applications Engineer

Ryan Leak
What has fear ultimately cost you, your team, your organization? In times of challenge and great uncertainty it's easy to feel paralyzed by fear, b

Sasha Reed
As Director of Industry Advancement for Procore, Sasha leads the social impact team focused on elevating the construction industry. Procore.org del

Steve Gutzler
Research shows that 83% of the time, people can effectively manage relationships and tasks. However, in those 17% moments – when interactions becom

Stewart Van Duzer
Stewart Van Duzer is a first vice president and director of special projects – risk management at Federated Mutual Insurance Company. He attended M

Tim Gauthier

Toby Mitchell

Tracy Price
Tracy K. Price is the founder and driving force behind Qmerit. A serial entrepreneur with three successful exits, his vision to incorporate technol

Vincent Windrow
A popular national keynote speaker and conference presenter, Dr. Vincent Windrow was a featured speaker at the annual gatherings of the Nation