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Ben Nemtin

Speaker

Los Angeles , California, USA

On Radical Possibility: #1 New York Times Bestselling Author & Co-founder of The Buried Life Movement

Ben Nemtin is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? and a star of the MTV show The Buried Life. He is recognized as one of the World’s Best Motivational Speakers by Global Gurus (2024). As the co-founder of The Buried Life movement, Ben’s message of radical possibility has been featured in major media including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, CNN, NBC, FOX, ABC, and CBS.

Keynote Speeches

Virtual Keynotes & Webinars
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Leading with Purpose

Transformational leaders want their teams to succeed in life, not just at work.

This is the new leadership.

One of the best ways to help your team gain purpose is to connect with them around their personal and professional goals. As the lines between personal and professional lives blur, it’s time for leaders to develop the whole person. To learn more, read this Forbes article featuring Ben and Deepak Chopra about Emotional EQ and Leadership.

Driving teams to thrive today requires new strategies for connecting and getting results. Retention and engagement are major issues and old leadership models don’t deliver like they once did. Effective leaders must go deeper and show empathy and understanding to help teams reach their true potential.

Once you commit to big goals and live with intention, life opens up with unending possibilities.

When team members truly feel that their leadership and organization cares about their personal and their professional development, that’s where the magic happens.

As a result of this program, attendees will learn:

  • A simple framework for connecting with your team around their personal and professional goals
  • Build a culture of belonging where team members know it’s ok to ask for help
  • Create a renewed feeling of purpose and trust within your team
  • Be a servant leader and maximize potential
  • Reignite commitment to the organization as people feel the organization is equally committed to them
Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty 

The world is changing faster than we ever imagined, leaders and teams have to dig deep within themselves to break through and find opportunity in uncertain times. Before becoming a #1 NYT best selling author, playing basketball at the White House, having beers with Prince Harry, or living out his other dreams, Ben suffered from crippling depression.

After committing to a series of positive life changes, Ben had a shift in perspective that changed his outlook on life and opened himself up to endless possibility. From there he committed to following his buried dreams and helping others through acts of service. The rest is history and Ben’s life changing message has opened up audiences around the world to cultures of service, gratitude and endless potential.

Attendees will:

  • Recognize that all aspects of their lives impact their work performance.
  • Learn 8 practices that increase wellbeing during times of stress, anxiety and burnout (Resilience Toolkit).
  • Recognize that small acts of service can create a large scale impact in your organization and community.
  • Transform their perspective to optimize performance.
Community of Service

“It is the power of giving, compassion and hope that will get us through hard times.” Ben has experienced this first hand. He has helped hundreds of people accomplish their dreams over the past 15 years and this feeling of connectedness and purpose has fueled him through feelings of uncertainty.

Ben shares touching stories of helping others to not only inspire but also offer insight that can improve our daily life and our work environment. A culture of service can unlock potential and align team members in the workplace and in their communities. And contrary to popular belief, helping others doesn’t always have to be a selfless act. Giving can actually help us in more ways than we think.

Attendees will:

  • Have five reasons why helping others actually helps themselves.
  • Understand that they can’t take care of others, unless they care for themselves.
  • Harness the power of the Ripple Effect by making kindness contagious.
  • Transform their understanding of what is possible.
5 Steps to Make the Impossible Possible

Ben has driven countless people to achieve their dreams, as both a helping hand and as an inspiration. These experiences have taught him that articulating and prioritizing your personal goals is not a selfish act—but one that creates a positive ripple effect that inspires others to live their best life. Ben weaves the remarkable story of how The Buried Life grew from 100 impossible dreams into a global movement and connects his lessons to the fabric of our daily lives.

Ben’s message of radical possibility combined with his ‘5 Steps to Make the Impossible Possible’ leaves audiences not only inspired but also equipped with tools to tackle the seemingly insurmountable. Ben’s system of achieving impossible goals demystifies daunting tasks by turning ‘pipe dreams’ into ‘projects’ and creates inspiration through action and accountability. Ben reminds us of the lasting power of service and that it’s never too late leave your impact on the world.

Attendees will:

  • Learn how to accomplish seemingly impossible goals (5 Steps to Make the Impossible Possible).
  • Identify the #1 thing that holds them back from accomplishing your goals.
  • Harness the power of moonshots
  • Adopt a mindset of endless possibility
New Leadership: Why You Matter

An organization can only become the-best-version-of-itself to the extent that its employees are becoming better-versions-of-themselves. Proving that you care enough to ask your people what matters most to them goes a long way, and it’s easier than you think to help them get there.

Ben brings home the importance of pursuing a bucket list, not only for your own wellbeing, but also for your career and for those around you. Ben facilitates goal sharing and inspires people into action through masterful storytelling and by implementing tiers of accountability to drive them towards their goals.

Attendees will:

  • Understand that their organization deeply cares about them, personally and professionally.
  • Learn how to implement tiers of accountability around personal goals.
  • Identify the most important dreams in their life and take actionable steps toward them.
  • Leverage their purpose to propel their performance.
Rethinking Mental Health

Ben is a mental health advocate who believes that all humans have ups and they have downs. He believes the stigma around mental illness can be broken through open, honest conversations. However, the onus is not on the 1 in 5 who struggle with mental health to break the stigma, the responsibility falls on all of us.

By showing how his vulnerabilities have become his strengths, Ben gives others the courage to talk about their internal battles. He shares the tools that help him cope with the stresses of life and emphasizes that it is ok to reach out for help.

Attendees will:

  • Increase resilience, lower stress and feel equipped to manage the ups and downs of life.
  • Build their own ‘Mental Health Toolkit’ of easy to implement practices that increase wellbeing during times of anxiety and burnout.
  • Recognize that it’s ok to not be ok.
  • Walk away with resources to boost their mental health.

Platform Plus Presentations

Unique formats and ways to connect with audiences.
Workshop| Mental Health Toolkit
This workshop offers tangible tools to help attendees navigate stressful times of uncertainty. It is designed to give tangible takeaway to boost mental health and energy, offering free tools and habits to implement immediately.
Workshop | List Writing
This workshop puts the ‘5 Steps to Make the Impossible Possible’ into action. Inspiration doesn’t hit us out of the blue, we must create inspiration through action and that is exactly what this session is designed to do. Ben will guide attendees through the list writing process helping them create a well rounded list representing all 10 categories of their life. He will then help them identify the most important items on their list and facilitate goal sharing among attendees. These steps are designed to build accountability, generate inspiration by stimulating small actionable steps and connect teams through shared goals. This breakout session can be added to any keynote.

Audience reviews:

  • The chat was exploding with so many people inspired! - Senior Speaker Coordinator, Northwestern Mutual
  • Dynamic!…Powerful!…Inspirational! Ben hit it out of the park” for our virtual Convention, you felt like you were in the room with him! - Director of Communications and Community Relations, Cooperative Credit Union Association
  • Since Ben's virtual keynote, a number of our team members have accomplished their goals and are helping each other through acts of service. - Head of Employee Experience, TaxJar
  • Ben's virtual keynote not only captivated the attention of our audience but evoked intense emotional responses that left everyone feeling motivated and inspired. I have never experienced a keynote speaker so seamlessly weave in small, but meaningful, tie-ins to our business and industry without feeling forced or unauthentic. - Event Marketing, Trimble
  • Having Ben as a guest speaker at Headspace was nothing short of sublime. Not only is his own story an incredible inspiration, he also stands for creating the culture where others can inhabit a life they love. - Creative Director, Headspace
  • Ben's transformational keynote energized our team to move towards more productive, satisfying lives by committing to something greater than ourselves. Ben inspired a culture of service where we support each other, both inside and outside the office. This was a catalyst moment for our newly promoted senior managers. - US Chief Wellbeing Officer, Deloitte
  • I laughed, and I cried. I think it was important for Harvard students especially to experience this because for most of the students here there is pressure to embrace the material things in life and sacrifice any in your way to make it to the top. This is a message that we could all embrace and learn from! - Director of Student Life, Harvard University
  • Perfect alignment with our values. Authentic and inspiring! - VP of Global Marketing, Levi's
  • Ben’s storytelling and ability to connect with our audience was apparent from the minute he greeted our participants. The message was perfectly aligned with our theme and I had so many attendees say it was the best event to date. I would highly recommend Ben to anyone wanting to add that “WOW” factor to their event. - HR Strategic Advisor, FedEx
  • He was really well received. From my end, he is a really nice man and easy to work with onsite! - Event Planner - Education & Membership, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board

Speaker Biography

Ben Nemtin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? and a star of MTV’s highest rated show on iTunes and Amazon called The Buried Life. As the co-founder of The Buried Life movement, Ben’s message of radical possibility has been featured on The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, FOX, and NBC News. President Obama called Ben and The Buried Life “inspiration for a new generation” and Oprah declared their mission “truly inspiring.” An acclaimed keynote speaker, Ben has headlined business conferences and Fortune 100 leadership teams around the world, garnering standing ovations from AIG, Anthem, Amazon, FedEx, Harvard, Microsoft, Verizon, and more. In 2024, Ben achieved a significant milestone by fulfilling his lifelong dream to speak at Google.

Ben is recognized as one of the World’s Top Organizational Culture Thought Leaders and was ranked the 2nd Best Motivational Speaker in the world by Global Gurus in 2023 and 2024.  Global Gurus also ranked his Mental Health Toolkit Workshop as the 2nd best program in the world for Motivational Speakers in 2022. 

In his first year of university, Ben was unexpectedly hit with a depression that forced him to drop out. In an attempt to feel more alive, he created the world’s greatest bucket list with his three best friends. They borrowed a rickety old RV and crisscrossed North America, achieving the unthinkable. And most importantly, every time they accomplished a dream, they helped a complete stranger cross something off their bucket list. From playing basketball with President Obama to having a beer with Prince Harry, from reuniting a father and son after seventeen years to surprising a young girl with a much-needed bionic arm—Ben’s bucket list quest has inspired millions to thrive personally and professionally.