Workplace Culture Strategist; TEDx Speaker; CEO of The Meaningful Marketplace & Host of the "Mind Your Business" Podcast
Brandon Matthews Biography
Brandon Matthews is a TEDx speaker, keynote speaker, professional trainer, and founder of The Meaningful Marketplace. With over 20 years of experience in corporate communication, leadership, and personal development, Matthews helps organizations create workplace cultures where people feel valued, inspired, and engaged. His mission is simple: bring meaning back to the marketplace by prioritizing people over profits.
Matthews’s expertise spans leadership development, team coaching, and culture transformation across both corporate and nonprofit sectors. He has partnered with businesses of all sizes to improve communication, employee satisfaction, and mental wellness. His approach blends insight, humor, and practical tools that make a lasting impact on teams.
Matthews’s passion for customer experience began at age 16 during his first job as a cold-calling telemarketer. This experience helped him discover the power of connection with people and providing great service. This is something that still drives his work today.
He later founded an organization that plants thriving communities, endorses and equips leaders around the world, and runs local initiatives to improve lives. This includes his work in substance use prevention in partnership with the city of Alabaster, Alabama and CADCA.
Matthews speaks on topics including leadership, communication, customer service, workplace culture, mental health, and substance use prevention. With experience leading customer service teams at Apple, coaching executives, and growing organizations from the ground up, Matthews has delivered thousands of talks that inspire real change.
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Brandon Matthews Speaking Topics
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From Algorithms to Authenticity
A transformative look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we value empathy, creativity, and connection in the workplace.
In a world shaped by artificial intelligence and constant change, success isn’t about replacing people, it’s about rediscovering their value.
While AI can streamline tasks, only humans bring empathy, creativity, and connection. This keynote explores how the future of work belongs to organizations that blend smart tools with even smarter teams, where technology scales, but people shape the soul of the business.
Audience Takeaways
- Understand how AI can enhance human value in the workplace, not replace it
- Identify the uniquely human skills that drive innovation, trust, and team performance
- Learn how to create a culture where technology supports, but people lead
Leave inspired to lean into empathy, creativity, and purpose as your organization’s greatest advantage.
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Vibe Check: How Companies Lose Their Soul (And How to Keep Yours)
In a world rushing to modernize, too many companies are losing the very thing that made them matter. Their soul. We’re seeing the rise of “generic” at the cost of “genuine.” In this keynote, Brandon Matthews takes audiences on a thought-provoking journey into what it means to keep your culture alive in an age of convenience and cost-cutting. It’s not just about your brand. It’s about vibe, values, and why people fall in love with you in the first place.
Audience Takeaways:
- Learn how to clearly identify the emotional and experiential DNA of your brand or culture, and why that clarity is critical to your relevance.
- Discover how great companies grow and modernize without losing their identity, and how to apply those principles to your own organization.
- See why data alone is not enough and how measuring emotional connection can become your most powerful competitive advantage.
- Understand what causes brands to drift into sameness, and how to guard against it in your leadership, marketing, and customer experience.
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What topics does Brandon Matthews speak about?
Brandon Matthews is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business Leadership, Communication, Corporate Culture, Creativity, Customer Experience, Emotional Intelligence, Human Resources, Mindset, Personal Growth, Podcast Host, Resilience, Teamwork & Teambuilding, TED, Work-Life Balance -
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Brandon Matthews is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as From Algorithms to Authenticity, Vibe Check: How Companies Lose Their Soul (And How to Keep Yours), Going Above and Beyond in a Bare Minimum World and Resurrecting Customer Service. The estimated speaking fee range to book Brandon Matthews for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Brandon Matthews generally travels from Birmingham, AL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Cassie Trujillo, Dr. Michael Time, Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, Chester Elton and Kevin DeShazo. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Brandon Matthews for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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