Laura Best

Motivational Keynote Speaker on Peak Performance, Employee Engagement, Workplace Culture, Personal Growth & Work-Life Balance

Expert on

  • Peak Performance
  • Employee Engagement
  • Motivational
  • Personal Growth
  • Women in Business
  • Workplace Culture

Fee Range

$10,000–$15,000

Travels from

MN, US

Biography

Laura Best is a keynote speaker and bestselling author of Born to Buzz who helps leaders unlock passion in their teams. Through a blend of story, science and her trademark Practical Inspiration®, leading brands invite Laura to inspire greater energy, contribution and performance in work and life.

After experiencing burnout during a successful marketing career, Laura began to question the belief that we must sacrifice the things we love to succeed. She set out to find a better way, one that allowed us to rediscover and pursue more of what we love while still taking care of the people and responsibilities that matter most. That search became Passion Collective, the global community Laura founded in 2014 that has helped thousands of people rediscover and pursue more of what they love in work and life, and ultimately inspired her bestselling book, Born to Buzz. How to Spark Your Passions (Without Quitting It All).

A US-based Brit, Laura brings warmth, humor and real-world credibility to every stage. Her advice has been featured in international media, including Fast Company, and as one U.S. Bank leader shared, “The world needs more of her light.”

Speaker Videos

Work Worth Loving

What if the key to firing up your team’s potential lies in helping them do more of what they love? Passion isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s the catalyst for innovation, engagement, and breakthrough performance.

Drawing from her corporate marketing experience and ten+ years leading global community Passion Collective, Laura shows how to reimagine leadership through job crafting, creating new possibilities for individual fulfillment and team connection.

Attendees will learn:

  • Discover fresh perspectives on leading with both passion and practicality
  • Learn creative approaches to uncovering your team’s strengths
  • Master conversations that uncover what truly motivates your people
  • Elevate your leadership through the power of meaningful connection

Fire to Shine

What if self-care wasn’t another item on your to-do list, but the very fuel that lights your way? In a world of constant demands and “always on” expectations, traditional self-care often feels like yet another obligation.

Drawing from her corporate leadership journey and insights from her global Passion Collective community, Laura reveals how rediscovering what truly fires you up can transform your approach to self-care, energy, and performance. She shares how pursuing our passions doesn’t just energize us, it creates deeper connections with our teams and opens doors to unexpected opportunities for collective growth.

Through storytelling and experiential exercises, Laura introduces her FIRE framework for reimagining self-care through the lens of passion. This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about finding ways to fuel your energy and spark your creativity while doing what you love, and helping your team do the same.

Attendees will learn:

  • Discover how to turn self-care from obligation to inspiration
  • Learn the FIRE framework for passion-driven energy
  • Create simple ways to weave what you love into daily life
  • Build stronger teams through shared energy and enthusiasm

Supercharge Your Work and Life

In a world that constantly asks for more productivity, more achievements, more of our attention, we’ve become experts at meeting expectations. We deliver on deadlines, we show up for our teams, we care for others.

Yet, something feels off. Despite checking all the right boxes, that sense of aliveness, of making a genuine impact, starts to feel increasingly distant. We wonder how we can regain energy, and what it means to love more of our lives.

What if the answer isn’t pushing harder but rediscovering and doing more of what truly lights us up?

In this entertaining and insightful keynote, motivational speaker Laura Best, founder of global community Passion Collective, brings her practical inspiration approach that weaves together science, stories and actionable advice, all centered on her core belief that we have one life to live.

Attendees will learn:

  • What passion really is (hint: it’s not what you think) and why it matters in today’s world
  • The comfort and clarity that comes from recognizing the universal barriers to doing what we love
  • Laura’s proven 5-Step Method that has helped thousands reclaim their passions