




Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/23/2025.
You need to move fast, adapt to a changing environment, and deliver performance, yet your team is moving too slow when it comes to making tough decisions and are avoiding the more challenging conversations that drive results. What is at the heart of high performance is culture. Unfortunately, most leaders misunderstand culture; they believe culture exists across the organization; it doesn’t. It exists primarily on teams.
In this powerful virtual or live keynote, your team will learn the results from our study of 72,000 people that is published in the Harvard Business Review, which puts your managers and people leaders at the center of building your culture. Your people will learn specific tools to own and model the culture on their team in the critical moments, what we call Last 8% moments, that create culture. The Last 8% are those tougher conversations and decisions that many people struggle with and avoid, but are the secret to driving team performance.
In this impactful program, your team will learn:
= What the two pillars of a high performing culture are: High Connection (psychological safety) and High Courage (ability to do hard things skillfully) - Emotional Intelligence-based tools to be their best in Last 8% Situations - How to influence & engage others who are at a distance and create the conditions to keep the best and brightest
For many leaders, the topic of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) sounds soft and squishy. Yet research is clear that it’s a critical competency for effective leadership and building great cultures.
With his advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, Bill Benjamin was initially skeptical about EQ and any type of “soft skill” training. In this keynote, he shares his struggles early in his career as a leader, and how the EQ-based insights and strategies he teaches helped him manage his emotions so he could be more effective, empathetic (yes, you will learn empathy from a math guy!) and engaging, both at work and at home – and how it can help your team.
In this powerful program your team will learn:
Your people are facing the biggest challenge of their careers, yet most continue to rely on their IQ and technical skills to manage through it all. It’s not enough.
To survive, your organization needs to be agile in the midst of change and challenge, and see opportunities where others do not. Your team needs to learn how to work effectively with others who are, themselves, under pressure.
In this powerful program, your team members will learn:
This session can be delivered for sales people and sales teams, focusing on helping them harness emotional intelligence to deal with pressure, build stronger relationships with their clients, collaborate internally and deal with the setbacks and uncertainty that sales people must overcome to be successful.
Bill Benjamin is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Secret to Building a High-Performance Culture, Culture, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence from a Math Guy! and Performing Under Pressure. The estimated speaking fee range to book Bill Benjamin for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Bill Benjamin generally travels from IL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Libby Gill, Dr. Jackie Freiberg, Eric Boles, Chip Eichelberger and Eduardo Briceño. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Bill Benjamin for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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