Doug Manuel

Human Connection Keynote Speaker and Creator of the From Me To We™ Methodology, Building Trust, Belonging and Collaboration Live in the Room

Miami, FL, USA
Live Event: $30,000 - $50,000 Virtual Event: $20,000 - $30,000 More Fee Info
Belonging, Communication, Culture, Ethics & Integrity, Human Resources, Inspirational, Teamwork & Teambuilding, TED, Workshop
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Doug Manuel Biography

Doug Manuel doesn’t just talk about performing as one - he creates it live, in real-time. A room walks in as individuals. It walks out as one. His signature keynote, "From Me To We™," has now done that more than a thousand times, for over 500 organizations on five continents. Harvard Business School books him, as do the World Economic Forum, Google, McKinsey, LVMH and BMW. He has taught at IMD every year since 2002, with his methodology endorsed in IMD’s book Mastering Executive Education, and Oprah Winfrey chose him to open her third Super Soul Sessions.

He knows the problem from the inside, because he was it. He was six when he watched his father have a heart attack. His father survived. His parents were separating, and at eight he was sent to boarding school, surrounded by other boys at every hour and lonelier than he had ever been. It cost him years. He drifted from job to job, and could not build a relationship that felt truly authentic. One drumming workshop in Oxford in 1996 began to undo it, and within a year he had left television for West Africa, where village life gave him what no career had: people who knew him.

He was running his own sessions within two years, and has spent the three decades since doing both at once - the villages, and the stages. He is the creator of the From Me To We™ Methodology, which came out of those years, and he delivers it as "The Keynote, The Drums and The Workshop." He founded Lighting Up Lives, a not-for-profit working with rural West African villages. He is not offering a cure he read about. He is offering the one that worked on him.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/28/2026.

Doug Manuel Speaking Topics

  • FROM ME TO WE™ - THE KEYNOTE

    Loneliness is the defining condition of modern working life, and it costs US employers over $150 billion a year. This is not a talk about connection

    • it is connection, built live, in front of the room. The audience moves through the three steps of the From Me To We™ Methodology and ends up holding a piece of music that none of them could hold alone. No instruments, nobody performing, nobody left out. Thirty to seventy-five minutes, for ten people to five thousand, in person or virtual.

  • FROM ME TO WE™ - THE DRUMS

    You can tell a team to collaborate. You cannot tell them what it feels like. Every person receives a djembe, and within minutes they are listening before contributing, holding their own part while somebody else takes the lead, and noticing the instant a voice goes missing. Not one of them needs to have played before. Instruments, support musicians and logistics are handled end to end. Fifteen to ninety minutes, for ten to three thousand people.

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Doug Manuel Videos

Doug Manuel Short Showreel

Doug Manuel Short Showreel

Come and see how Doug turns human connection into your team's greatest advantage.

Doug Manuel Full Showreel

Doug Manuel Full Showreel

Uploaded by Doug Manuel on 2023-09-11.

Doug Manuel | TEDxHollywood

Doug Manuel | TEDxHollywood

Do You Speak Djembe?

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  • What topics does Doug Manuel speak about?

    Doug Manuel is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Belonging, Communication, Culture, Ethics & Integrity, Human Resources, Inspirational, Teamwork & Teambuilding, TED, Workshop

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Doug Manuel is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as FROM ME TO WE™ - THE KEYNOTE, FROM ME TO WE™ - THE DRUMS and FROM ME TO WE™ - THE WORKSHOP. The estimated speaking fee range to book Doug Manuel for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Doug Manuel generally travels from Miami, FL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ruth Rathblott, MSW, Cassandra Worthy, Chester Elton, Dr. Michael Time and Brandon Farbstein. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Doug Manuel for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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