Antonio Neves

Antonio Neves opens many of his keynotes with a simple, uncomfortable question: are you living the life you actually want, or the one that just happened to you? It lands because most people in the audience already know the answer. Neves built his career helping them change it.

Stop Living on Autopilot

Neves is the author of Stop Living on Autopilot, a guide to reclaiming agency over your career and your life. He has worked as a journalist, a television host, and a leadership coach, and he brings all of that experience to the stage in a style that is direct, energizing, and deeply practical. His central message challenges audiences to stop drifting and start making intentional choices about what they want their work and life to look like.

Built for Leaders Ready to Do the Work

Corporate audiences respond to Neves because he does not traffic in vague inspiration. He gives people specific ways to examine where they are, decide where they want to go, and close the gap. His frameworks have been applied inside major companies, universities, and associations, and his work has been featured in major media outlets including Black Enterprise and Forbes.

Antonio Neves keynotes are booked for events focused on leadership, mindset, personal accountability, and transforming how professionals approach their careers and potential.

Find The Edge Again: From Burned Out to Fired Up!

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.

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.

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

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.