Best-Selling Author | Speaker

Empowering Leaders Through Insight and Connection

Gina Matteson is a renowned leadership keynote speaker and best-selling business author, delivering actionable insights to executives, teams, and organizations. Through her corporate leadership events and executive development speaking, she inspires leaders to cultivate a leadership mindset, drive business transformation, and foster high-performing cultures.

Whether it’s a motivational leadership talk, a thought leadership keynote, or a tailored corporate keynote speaker session, Gina combines storytelling, strategy, and real-world experience to leave a lasting impact.

Heart-Led Leadership That Transforms Culture

She’s recognized as a leadership mindset speaker and business transformation speaker, creating brave spaces where real change happens. Her work fuses resilience, trauma-informed leadership, and talent strategy to challenge outdated norms, and build cultures where people thrive, not just survive.

Her groundbreaking The Inner Shift™ program, co-led with Dan de Luis, guides executives and elite performers to lead from the inside out, fostering purpose-driven leadership and sustainable impact.

Gina has worked with top organizations, including Google, American Express, SiriusXM, TekSavvy, Telesat, Charles Schwab, AGF Rebar, City of Phoenix, and the Department of National Defence.

Best-Selling Author | Speaker

Inspiring Leaders Through Words & Stages

From the page to the stage, Gina E. Matteson delivers powerful insights on leadership, hiring, and human connection. As a 2x international best-selling author and speaker, her work moves people—and businesses—forward.

The Books That Inspire Leadership

A Thousand Masks

Unmask, Transform, Lead

This international best-seller blends real-life experience with fiction to explore resilience, personal truth, and leadership.

Speaking Topics from This Book:

Empowering silenced leaders to find their voice
Healing unseen personal and professional pain
Resilient leadership in high-pressure environments
Leading with authenticity and vulnerability
Breaking cycles and driving organizational transformation

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How to Hire the Right Employee: 10 Steps

Blueprint for High-Performing Teams

Part of Preston Weeks’ acclaimed 10 Steps Books™ series, this book introduces Gina’s 5-Step Talent Mastery Process™, a proven framework for executive talent sourcing and technology leadership hiring.

Speaking Topics from This Book:

Trauma-informed leadership for high-stakes environments
Science-backed strategies for IT leadership talent acquisition
Building agile, diverse teams that scale
Culture clarity as a recruiting advantage
Making smart hiring decisions for long-term success

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The Art of Connection: Vol 5

Legacy Through Leadership

As a contributor to this best-selling series, Gina delivers insight on executive development speaking, purpose-driven leadership, and authentic connection.

Inside The Book:

Daily leadership quotes to shift mindset
Reflection prompts for clarity and focus
Stories of resilience, gratitude, and connection
Practical tools to lead with impact and influence

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Gina's Podcast

Gina Matteson brings her experience as a corporate keynote speaker and business transformation speaker to every episode. Her insights on leadership, executive development, and corporate change empower teams to perform at their best.

Listeners gain actionable strategies from her work with top-tier executives and high-performing teams across North America. Every episode includes lessons on motivational leadership talks, strategic decision-making, and culture-building.

The Speaker. The Strategist. The Story.

Why Book Gina Matteson?

International best-selling business author
25+ years as an executive leadership speaker
Featured in CIO Magazine and The Art of Connection
98% placement success via GemTek
Creator of ConnectAive Intelligence™, blending AI + human insight
Trusted by Google, SiriusXM, American Express, and more

“Gina doesn’t just speak, she transforms the room.”

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Ready to Inspire Your Team?

Book Gina Matteson for corporate keynote events, workshops, or executive development speaking to deliver actionable insight and lasting organizational impact.