Leadership & Influence Speaker; Founder of People Before Things; Former Executive, and Author
Chris Laping Biography
Chris Laping is a leadership, influence, and organizational change speaker who helps professionals and organizations strengthen their ability to lead, communicate, and drive meaningful results. With more than 30 years of executive experience, including serving as Chief Information and Innovation Officer across multiple organizations, he brings practical insight into what it takes to lead through complexity and transformation. Laping is known for translating real-world leadership experience into actionable frameworks audiences can immediately apply to improve collaboration, credibility, and execution.
Laping is the bestselling author of "People Before Things" and the author of the forthcoming book "Unignorable: The Science of Being Taken Seriously." His work combines organizational psychology, behavioral science, and leadership strategy to help professionals increase their influence and impact. His ideas have been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Forbes. He was also recognized by The Economist as one of the Top 5 Social Business Leaders. Through coaching, courses, and keynote presentations, Laping has helped more than 500,000 professionals worldwide strengthen their leadership and influence skills.
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Chris Laping Speaking Topics
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Unignorable: The Science of Being Taken Seriously
The most capable people in your organization aren’t always the most influential.
In today’s workplace, many smart, hard-working professionals struggle to gain traction for their ideas, slowing decision-making, limiting innovation, and leaving valuable contributions unheard.
Why? Because competence alone doesn’t make people listen.
In this keynote, Chris Laping challenges the common belief that great work speaks for itself, and shows what actually drives influence inside organizations.
Drawing on organizational psychology, cognitive-behavioral research, and real-world experience, Chris shares specific, learnable behaviors that help professionals earn attention, build credibility, and move work forward.
This session goes beyond inspiration. Attendees leave with practical tools they can apply immediately to feel heard and contribute more effectively to team and organizational outcomes.
Ideal for organizations looking to:
- Strengthen leadership presence at all levels
- Improve collaboration and decision-making
- Ensure strong ideas gain traction and execution
Target Audience: Professionals at all levels seeking to increase influence and impact
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People Before Things: How Healthy Organizations Lead Change
Most change initiatives don’t fail because organizations lack intelligence. They fail because change leaders don’t create the conditions for people to succeed.
In this keynote, Chris Laping challenges the common approach to change management.
Drawing on real-world executive leadership experience and insights from his bestselling book "People Before Things," Chris reveals why even well-planned initiatives break down, and what leaders must do differently to drive adoption and results.
This keynote introduces a practical, experience-driven framework for leading change. One grounded in real-world successes and failures. One that considers the human journey. One that puts people before things.
Audiences will learn how to enable and activate their teams, moving people from awareness to understanding to true buy-in.
Attendees will leave with clear, actionable strategies they can immediately apply to increase adoption, improve execution, and lead change that actually sticks.
Ideal for organizations looking to:
- Improve success rates of strategic initiatives
- Increase adoption of new systems, processes, or transformations
- Build stronger, more engaged teams during change
Target Audience: Executives, managers, and change leaders responsible for driving transformation
Chris Laping Videos
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Chris Laping is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business Authors, Business Leadership, Change Management, Customer Experience, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Disruptive Thinking, Executive Leadership, Strategic Leadership, Thought Leadership -
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Chris Laping is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Unignorable: The Science of Being Taken Seriously and People Before Things: How Healthy Organizations Lead Change. The estimated speaking fee range to book Chris Laping for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Chris Laping generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Leigh Angus, Chandhu Nair, Justin Honaman, Daniel Stanton and John T. Marcante. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Chris Laping for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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