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Brian Biro
Brian Biro helps organizations build breakthrough leadership, navigate change, and strengthen team performance through high-energy, interactive keynotes. Author of 16 books, he has delivered over 2,000 presentations for clients including Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and Starbucks.
Brian Biro is a breakthrough leadership speaker who has delivered more than 2,000 interactive presentations worldwide over the past 36 years, turning corporate keynotes into experiences audiences and their teams remember for years afterward.
He is the author of 16 books, including the bestseller Beyond Success and his newest release, Lessons from the Legends, which reached number one on Amazon. A Stanford University graduate with an MBA from UCLA, Brian previously served as vice president of a Pacific Northwest transportation company.
At that company, Brian helped lead a turnaround that quadrupled revenue and earned recognition as the industry leader in customer service. He brings that same results focus to the stage, using a signature board-breaking exercise that moves every participant from spectator to active contributor, so leadership and change principles are experienced firsthand rather than simply discussed.
Attendees leave with a personal breakthrough goal they set themselves, a practical framework for leading through change built on vision, energy, and presence, and a direct experience of full team engagement, the kind that has brought Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente, and Microsoft back to book him again and again.
Book Brian to turn a conference keynote into a shared breakthrough experience an organization keeps returning to.
Topics, sessions and talks
Brian Biro built Breakthrough Leadership around the idea that every organization is in the business of helping people break through their own limits. Participants learn to shape their future, strengthen teams and relationships, and raise the energy they bring to work. The session closes with Brian's board-breaking experience, where each person names a personal barrier, breaks through a one-inch wooden board in front of a cheering team, and leaves with a concrete decision about the leader they intend to become.
Brian Biro built Breakthrough to Change Mastery around a simple distinction: the difference between surviving change and thriving on it comes down to controlling the controllables. Brian moves participants from watching the presentation to taking an active part in it, working through the three elements he returns to throughout the session, vision, energy, and presence. Attendees leave with a practical way to build momentum and confidence in their own teams the next time change arrives unannounced.
Brian Biro built The Master Asker around a simple premise: building trust, accountability, and resilience in a team depends on asking more than telling. Participants learn how the right questions raise energy, help colleagues feel valued and respected, and turn pushback into collaboration rather than resistance. Working through Brian's interactive format, attendees practice the technique in real time rather than simply hearing about it, and leave with a repeatable way to build trust with every person on their team.
Brian Biro has delivered more than 2,000 presentations over 36 years, including repeat engagements with Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente, and Microsoft, and is the author of 16 books. That combination of sustained client relationships and published thought leadership gives audiences a speaker whose frameworks have already been tested at scale.
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Brian Biro builds every keynote around live participation rather than a lecture, most visibly in his signature board-breaking exercise, where each attendee writes down a personal barrier, breaks through a one-inch wooden board in front of a cheering team, and leaves the session as an active participant rather than a spectator.
Brian Biro specializes in breakthrough leadership, change management, and building trust and accountability within teams, drawing on session formats that include Breakthrough Leadership, Breakthrough to Change Mastery, and The Master Asker. He has delivered more than 2,000 presentations over 36 years for organizations including Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente, and Microsoft, and is the author of 16 books including Beyond Success.
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