Shola Richards

Shola Richards is the CEO and Founder of Go Together Global™, the best-selling author of Making Work Work and Go Together, and a prolific civility writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and wildly popular “Go Together Movement” email series have impacted people in over 160 countries. He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Shola Richards is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Shola Richards’s fees. 

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“Brother Teresa”

In a world where we’ve seemingly lost the ability to disagree without disrespect, Shola Richards is the leading authority on civility, employee happiness, and workplace engagement. As CEO and Founder of Go Together Global® and best-selling author of Making Work Work and Go Together, he leads a worldwide movement to change how we treat each other at work. Shola’s work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, and Business Insider Australia among many other outlets worldwide. His tireless efforts to make the world a kinder place have earned him the well-deserved nickname “Brother Teresa.”

Shola’s mission to create a kinder world began with a near tragedy. During Shola’s previous career, his mistreatment at work drove him to attempt suicide while driving to work. After sharply veering towards the guardrail, he survived the crash and committed himself to ensuring no other person would be pushed so far from workplace incivility again.  

Shola Richards Keynote Speaking

As a speaker, Shola has shared his transformative message with leading hospitality organizations, Fortune 50 companies, top universities, the motion picture industry, the TEDx stage, and more. In his greatest honor to date, the House of Representatives invited Shola to share his expert recommendations on how to bring more civility to Congress in September of 2021. He’ll be the first to tell you that they could use a refresher course and perhaps some divine intervention. A self-professed “kindness extremist,” Shola will not rest until bullying and incivility are extinct from the American workplace.

To hire Shola Richards for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format and program goals. Shola Richards is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Shola Richards’s availability, discuss the event details and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Shola Richards for your program.

The cost to book Shola Richards depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Shola Richards’s speaking fee starts at $27,500, while virtual programs typically start at $15,000. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Shola Richards booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing and the best format for your event.

While most speakers sell you on the idea of being “future focused,” Shola actually tells people he’s the complete opposite. He focuses on issues that haven’t been solved for millennia: leadership, civility, and understanding. During his keynotes, Shola not only imparts audiences with actionable takeaways to solve these issues, but with the energy to follow through with them the next day. Few speakers can say the same conference invited them to keynote back to back years. Shola has done that twice. Shola customizes his stories and deliverables based on his audience’s profile so if you would like to discuss tailoring his keynote further, schedule a Zoom call with Shola and the MPG team.

Strong Enough To Be Kind™

How We Build Cultures Worth Fighting For

Many organizations believe they must choose between being kind or delivering results. That false choice is driving top talent away, stalling momentum, and putting long-term success at risk.

In Strong Enough to Be Kind™, Shola Richards shatters this myth with a revolutionary truth: kindness isn’t just nice to have… it’s your competitive advantage.

Through three strategic pillars—Start Within, Just Today, and Go First—audiences gain the understanding and tools they need to build cultures that thrive in uncertainty, confront destructive behaviors head-on, and deliver results competitors struggle to match.

Because, when you’re strong enough to be kind, everything else becomes possible.

Perfect for Leaders & Teams Who Are:

• Building high-performing cultures where people thrive in uncertainty and grow stronger through every challenge.
• Committed to leading through change in ways that strengthens trust, morale, and well-being.
• Wanting to stop problematic behaviors before they take root to protect trust and team performance.
• Embracing courageous conversations that strengthen relationships and results.

Key Takeaways:

• A proven framework to transform workplace culture and drive measurable business impact.
• Inner strength strategies to sustain meaningful change in even the toughest environments.
• Access to the Strong Enough to be Kind™ self-assessment to identify your strengths and growth opportunities for workplace kindness.
• Clear proof that kindness is a competitive advantage—fueling retention, innovation, and teams that invest in each other’s success.

When you’re Strong Enough to Be Kind™, you don’t just change your workplace—you become the leader people choose to follow, and the organization your competitors wish they could build.

The Courage to Go Together™

Three Questions to Change How You Work, Live, & Lead

Organizations succeed or struggle based on how people treat each other. And right now, silos and disconnection are costing organizations more than money… they’re costing them their best people.

In The Courage to Go Together™, Shola Richards introduces a powerful framework for transforming fragmented teams into unbreakable forces of connection and performance. Grounded in the transformative Ubuntu philosophy—“I am, because we are”—this keynote reveals three simple but strategic questions that dissolve silos, strengthen civility, and unlock the kind of culture that drives breakthrough performance.

Applied consistently, they become the difference between teams that merely coexist and teams that Go Together™—the kind of workplace people never want to leave.

Perfect for Leaders & Teams Who Are:

• Feeling disconnected—with brilliant individuals who can’t perform as a true team.
• Losing ground to the hidden costs of incivility—lower innovation, higher turnover, and weakened performance.
• Ready to replace surface-level interactions with genuine connection that drives results.

Key Takeaways:

• The three essential questions that instantly improve team cohesion and build cultures of accountability and care.
• Practical strategies to overcome the most common barriers to unity, including proven ways to defuse cynicism and resistance.
• The self-awareness tools to recognize how individual behaviors impact the team—and the courage to consistently choose connection.

When teams have The Courage to Go Together™, they turn challenges into fuel for extraordinary performance.

Unstoppable Resilience™

The Keys to Staying Strong During Any Challenge

When the pressure never lets up, the strongest leaders and teams don’t just survive… they rise. In a world of competing priorities, mental health struggles, and constant change, real resilience isn’t about “sucking it up.” It’s about building genuine strength from the inside out.

In Unstoppable Resilience™, Shola Richards delivers the proven strategies used by high performers to stay strong, focused, and effective—no matter the challenge. Beyond quick fixes, he shares the keys to building unstoppable teams who consistently bring their best, even under intense pressure.

When teams embrace these principles, they gain the clarity, energy, and confidence to face any challenge head-on… and come out stronger.

Perfect for Leaders, & Teams Who Are:

• Watching burnout spread despite wellness initiatives that aren’t moving the needle on engagement or retention.
• Managing the overwhelm of team members balancing intense work demands with personal stress, anxiety, or mental health challenges.
• Needing practical strategies to support struggling colleagues without becoming overwhelmed themselves.

Key Takeaways:

• A resilience framework that empowers individuals to sustain peak performance under any conditions.
• Clear strategies to handle current pressures—whether professional challenges, personal setbacks, or organizational uncertainty.
• Personalized resilience commitments with built-in accountability to create lasting change—not just temporary motivation.

Unstoppable teams don’t just survive tough seasons—they emerge stronger, more resilient, and more committed to shared success.