6 Top Keynote Speakers Based in Greater Los Angeles for 2027 Events
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A room full of sales leaders needs a different keynote from a team looking to reconnect after a demanding year. Greater Los Angeles gives you both, along with speakers who can make creativity tangible, turn a business message into a performance and challenge people to find a new way forward.
These six speakers bring distinct strengths to a 2027 program. Their 2026 engagements span growth strategy, leadership, workplace connection and audience participation, giving you several compelling directions for your next event.
David Kwong: Creativity the Audience Can Experience
With David Kwong, an audience gets to feel its assumptions being challenged. The magician, puzzle creator and author of Spellbound uses illusion to draw people into questions about perception, influence and the way they think. Surprise becomes part of the learning experience.
His Conclave 2026 keynote in Orlando brings that combination of participation and business content to the conference stage. For a 2027 event about creativity or persuasion, David gives attendees something to experience together and a reason to examine how they arrived at their conclusions. An interactive keynote and a full entertainment performance offer different possibilities for your program. The Mollie Plotkin Group is his preferred exclusive booking partner for keynote speaking engagements and corporate and private entertainment.
Tiffani Bova: A Sharper Conversation About Growth
Growth puts pressure on every part of a business. Tiffani Bova connects what happens inside the organization to what customers experience outside it, drawing on her career at Gartner and Salesforce and the ideas in Growth IQ and The Experience Mindset. That perspective gives sales leaders more to work with than another call to increase activity.
Sandler Partners announced Tiffani as the keynote speaker for its October 26–29, 2026 National Summit, placing revenue growth at the center of her session. For a 2027 sales kickoff or executive meeting, she brings a clear connection between strategy, employee experience and customer relationships. Her work also makes room for the practical question facing sales organizations adopting AI: how will it change the way sellers work and the experience they deliver?
Paul Epstein: Decisions That Turn Into Action
Paul Epstein speaks to leaders who need their teams to make decisions and move. His “Win Monday” keynote at Remodelers Summit 2026 puts that message in front of business owners facing real pressure to perform. For a 2027 sales kickoff or leadership conference, that combination of confidence, accountability and action gives his keynote a clear purpose.
His career in professional sports business gives him a perspective on performance that reaches beyond the moment when a team feels motivated. The work continues through the decisions people make and the habits they bring into the next week. Paul fits a program built around taking ownership of a new plan, strengthening follow-through or giving leaders the confidence to act when the path is uncertain.
Shabnam Mogharabi: Making Connection Part of the Workday
Shabnam Mogharabi brings warmth to subjects organizations can struggle to talk about: joy, purpose and how people feel about working together. As a co-founder of SoulPancake with Rainn Wilson, she draws on an entertainment executive’s experience creating stories around human connection.
Her keynote at the October 25–27, 2026 Smart Meetings Epicurean Experience in Sacramento brings joy and community to professionals whose work is bringing people together. That message has a clear place at an employee gathering. Teams carrying fatigue or feeling disconnected need ways to make gratitude and belonging part of daily life. Shabnam offers an approachable entry into that conversation, with a perspective that gives workplace culture a human face.
Alex Banayan: Finding a Way Forward When the Obvious Route Closes
Alex Banayan built The Third Door around a pursuit: learning how successful people found their way in. The stories behind those careers give him a way to talk about persistence that feels specific, especially when an audience is facing a goal without a clear route to reach it.
His ChannelCon 2026 keynote in San Diego brings that perspective to a business and technology audience. For a 2027 sales meeting or entrepreneurship conference, Alex can help frame the challenge of approaching unfamiliar opportunities. His storytelling gives people a reason to question the route they have been following and the courage to look for another opening. That makes him a compelling choice for teams preparing to take on something ambitious.
Sekou Andrews: Giving the Meeting’s Message a Voice
Some programs need a speaker who can make the central message feel personal. Sekou Andrews created Poetic Voice by bringing spoken word poetry, keynote content and performance together. His format gives an event’s ideas rhythm, emotion and a shared experience in the room.
Gartner named him a guest keynote speaker for its 2026 Finance Symposium/Xpo in National Harbor, bringing his performance into a program for finance leaders. As an opening or closing speaker, Sekou can connect the business agenda to the people responsible for carrying it forward. A clear brief about your audience and organization gives that session a foundation in your story, so the performance carries a message that belongs to the meeting.
Find the Right Speaker for Your 2027 Event
Ask the Mollie Plotkin Group to check availability for your preferred Los Angeles based speakers and shape a shortlist around what you want your 2027 keynote to accomplish.
