10 Corporate Culture Speakers for Atlanta Events

Last updated: August 2026

The best culture speaker for an Atlanta event is not always the person with the broadest message. It is the person whose experience matches the behaviour your team needs to change.

This guide brings together Atlanta practitioners and nationally available specialists with clear links to culture, belonging, teamwork, communication and organisational health. Some work from the Atlanta area. Others have a strong programme for organisations planning an event there.

Use the profiles to match a speaker's method to the result you want after the applause ends.

1. Michael Bonner

Educator, speaker and author, Ron Clark Academy.

Michael Bonner teaches fourth grade social studies and sixth grade English language arts at the Ron Clark Academy. His own biography says he calls Atlanta home, and his work connects classroom culture with the way leaders create energy, standards and belonging.

Bonner is a useful option for organisations that want a highly practical view of engagement. His story shows that culture is built through what a leader repeats, rewards and makes visible every day, not through a single statement of values.

2. Amber Cabral

Founder, Human(ing) Well Co.

Amber Cabral is a keynote speaker, author, leadership coach and founder of Human(ing) Well Co. Her current work helps leaders communicate clearly, strengthen culture and make inclusion part of ordinary leadership practice.

Cabral is particularly relevant when a team needs better conversations across difference. Her approach gives leaders language they can use when belonging, accountability and trust are all in the room at once.

3. Ron Clark

Founder, Ron Clark Academy, and author of Move Your Bus.

Ron Clark founded the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. The school is known for an intentionally energetic culture, while Clark's book Move Your Bus applies lessons about contribution, teamwork and momentum to work and life.

Clark suits audiences that need a vivid example of culture being designed through shared language, visible standards and participation. His work can help leaders see that values become credible only when people know what those values ask them to do.

4. Sean Glaze

Founder, Great Results Team Building.

Sean Glaze is an Atlanta based keynote speaker and team development facilitator. He founded Great Results Team Building after a coaching career that taught him how quickly performance changes when people understand expectations and trust one another.

Glaze's Sticky Cultures work focuses on connection, accountability and team resilience. He is a strong fit when the problem is not a lack of talent, but talented people pulling in different directions.

5. Andrea Hershatter

Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management, Emory University.

Andrea Hershatter is Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management and Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Her work includes entrepreneurship, innovation and generational differences in the workplace.

Hershatter offers an academic lens without losing practical relevance. She is worth considering when leaders need to understand how expectations about work, authority and communication shift across generations.

6. Ryan Jenkins

Chief People Officer, SyncLX.

Ryan Jenkins is Chief People Officer at SyncLX and a keynote speaker whose work centres on connection, belonging and loneliness at work. He translates research about human connection into tools for leaders of distributed and changing teams.

Jenkins is a useful option when hybrid work, generational friction or disconnection has weakened team identity. His message brings the conversation back to the everyday interactions that help people feel known and useful.

7. Mark Kamp

Keynote speaker and author, Marvelless Mark.

Mark Kamp, known as Marvelless Mark, uses the workings of a rock band to explore leadership, alignment and culture. His Atlanta programme frames strong teams as groups that share a purpose, listen closely and understand the part each person plays.

Kamp is a distinctive option for audiences that respond to music, story and strong stage energy. The metaphor is memorable, but the workplace application is clear: a team cannot perform as one if every member is playing a different song.

8. Gregory P. Smith

Founder and President, Chart Your Course International.

Gregory P. Smith is founder and president of Chart Your Course International. His speaking and consulting work covers leadership, employee retention and organisational culture.

Smith is relevant for Atlanta event teams dealing with avoidable turnover or inconsistent management. His perspective connects culture to the decisions that influence whether good people stay, grow and contribute.

9. Brandon Smith

Founder, The Worksmiths.

Brandon Smith founded The Worksmiths and describes his work through the memorable idea of the Workplace Therapist. His focus is workplace dysfunction, leadership and the patterns that stop teams doing healthy work together.

Smith is useful when an organisation senses a problem but has not named it. His diagnostic approach moves leaders from vague concern to behaviours they can address.

10. Dan Thurmon

Keynote speaker, author and founder, Motivation Works.

Dan Thurmon is an Atlanta area keynote speaker, author and founder of Motivation Works. He uses physical performance to explore change, teamwork and culture.

Thurmon suits teams facing pressure or disruption. He turns balance, movement and uncertainty into a practical conversation about responding when conditions change.

Conclusion

Together, these speakers cover education, belonging, generational change, team development, retention, organisational health and adaptability. Culture problems rarely have one cause.

Start with the behaviour you want. For disconnection, choose belonging. For friction or unclear standards, choose a team or organisational health framework. Values matter when they guide real choices.

About the Author

Jonno White is an Australian keynote speaker, leadership consultant and author who helps leaders build organisations people would move cities to work at.

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Planning an Atlanta culture event? I can help shape the brief or build a practical keynote. Email jonno@consultclarity.org.