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

Leaders are under constant pressure to deliver with teams who are often stretched to their limits. The answer is often hiding in plain sight: helping people harness more of what they love at work and life. In this inspiring and practical keynote, Laura Best reframes passion as a performance advantage, showing how our passions can strengthen contribution, creativity, and connection. Drawing on stories, science, and practical how-to, Laura introduces “job crafting”, a method that empowers individuals to adapt their work to fit their motivations, strengths, and passions – while still driving their organization’s goals.

This keynote experience includes journaling, collaboration, and accountability activities. Participants leave inspired and equipped to act, with greater belief in their own abilities, a renewed desire to contribute, and a powerful connection to the people around them.

Tangible Takeaways:

  • 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

Today’s burnout is more than exhaustion; it’s a disconnection from the things we love in our work and our life – and that’s a problem for those who we rely on for leadership.

In this heartfelt and hands-on keynote, Laura Best shows how our passions can spark fulfilment, satisfaction and meaningful ambition. With her FIRE framework, Laura shares how putting our passions first is not selfish. In fact, it forges stronger bonds within our teams and unlocks opportunities for everyone to grow together.

Blending stories, research, and actionable tips, Laura reimagines passions as essential pursuits and proves they can fit into even the busiest schedules, sometimes in just an hour a week. Attendees leave encouraged, energized with fresh inspiration and equipped with guaranteed actions.

Tangible takeaways:

  • 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.

Tangible takeaways:

  • 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