Jay Gubrud

Jay Gubrud is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, leadership trainer, and performance strategist known for his energetic, audience engagement. In his presentations, Jay illustrates how the patterns of road rage, speed traps, and shifting gears mirror the daily challenges professionals face in the workplace. His relatable, story-driven keynotes empower attendees to navigate uncertainty, improve communication, and build stronger teams. Jay Gubrud is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Jay Gubrud’s fees.

Want to book Jay Gubrud for an event?

Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-995-0905 to book Jay Gubrud for a keynote speech, corporate event, leadership program, workshop, fireside chat, virtual appearance, or other private or professional event.

Our team will help confirm Jay Gubrud’s availability, speaking fee, travel requirements, and fit for your audience. To start the booking process, please share your event date, location, audience size, event format, and the type of presentation you are looking for.

The Mollie Plotkin Group is a full-service keynote speaker agency and entertainment bureau that helps organizations secure keynote speakers, entertainers, athletes, celebrities, and thought leaders for corporate meetings, conferences, fundraisers, and special events.

A Catalyst for Performance

Jay Gubrud has spent over two decades energizing teams, leaders, and organizations by helping them remove the everyday roadblocks limiting their success. With a client list spanning over 30 industries—including finance, construction, insurance, and medical devices—Jay’s insights resonate with any group looking to enhance productivity, collaboration, and morale.

“You Are What You Drive”

At the heart of Jay’s keynote approach is a brilliant metaphor: driving. From road rage and potholes to gear shifts and detours, Jay draws eye-opening parallels between our behavior behind the wheel and our behavior at work. His signature philosophy, “You are what you drive,” challenges audiences to reflect on their habits, assumptions, and communication patterns—and then shift gears toward something better.

Jay’s delivery is anything but static. He weaves in humor, real-life stories, and interactive moments that keep audiences engaged and inspired. His keynotes are grounded in a deep respect for individual differences and the belief that small mindset shifts can unlock big results.

Finding Meaning in the Hard Turns

Jay’s passion for human performance was ignited by profound personal loss. Within a single year—just before graduating college—Jay lost his mother to cancer, his grandfather, and his best friend to suicide. These experiences shaped his lifelong dedication to helping people find purpose, shift perspective, and thrive through adversity. He often shares how changing your thoughts and behaviors can chart a new course both professionally and personally.

Relatable, Reliable, Resilient – Hire Jay Gubrud

Jay has never missed a speaking engagement in the 20 years he’s been a keynote speaker. His message continues to resonate with organizations navigating change, managing conflict, and building high-functioning teams. Clients appreciate that Jay’s message connects with everyone—from the C-suite to the front lines—making it ideal for organizations seeking alignment across the board. Whether it’s R&D, Sales, Customer Service, Human Resources, or any other department, Jay’s insights meet people where they are and give them tools they can immediately apply. Whether he’s speaking to CPAs, CFOs, or construction executives, Jay’s ability to “connect the dots” between industries—and people—makes him a powerful presence at any event.

To hire Jay Gubrud for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format and program goals. Jay Gubrud 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 Jay Gubrud’s availability, discuss the event details and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Jay Gubrud for your program.

The cost to book Jay Gubrud depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Jay Gubrud’s speaking fee ranges from $10,000 to $15,000. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Jay Gubrud 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.

Jumping in the Driver’s Seat

Jumping in the Driver’s Seat empowers people to improve leadership skills and cultivate personal productivity. Today’s competitive and changing business environment demands that people have an innate sense of personal responsibility for their work, their actions, and their relationships. This program will enable people to steer themselves into a position that fully realizes their outstanding contributions to their employer, family, and community.

Through this program, attendees will:

• Define leadership.
• Learn how your assumptions can make you a better leader.
• Realize how to give and receive feedback most effectively.
• Create powerful and productive expectations.
• Discover practical communication skills for getting others moving in your direction…willingly.

Rev Up Your Relationships

More than ever, today’s professional environment requires working together as a team and getting closer to your customers. Rev Up Your Relationships will introduce a progressive thoroughfare for people to further improve personal and professional productivity. In this keynote, Jay illustrates a powerful approach for people to connect with colleagues and clientele alike, enabling people to create strong organizational ties that will increase productivity and drive an organization to new levels.

Through this program, attendees will:

• See how to create a winning “service mindset.”
• Be able to build instant and powerful connections with others.
• Discover how to keep existing relationships alive and thriving.
• Find out the 10 reasons relationships don’t succeed and how to overcome them.
• Learn how to appreciate people you never thought you could.

Shifting Gears & Changing Lanes

Whether an organization is growing or simply moving in a new direction, change is inevitable and happens at a dizzying pace. Shifting Gears & Changing Lanes will provide the tools to effectively navigate the road to change.

This keynote enables people to accept change, confront their fears, and move forward in a positive direction. Change is inevitable. Why not embrace it?

Through this program, attendees will:

• Understand the 4 major reactions to change and how to leverage them.
• Learn how to maximize your reaction style.
• Discover the top 15 reasons why people don’t take action.
• Overcome the 4 major fears that get in the way of change.

Road Rage in the Office

Reading the road map of workplace disputes can easily steer any team in the wrong direction. Although conflict is unavoidable, it can also be beneficial. Road Rage in the Office will guide people through the challenge of handling conflict and minimizing the possibility of failure.

Ultimately, audiences will learn to embrace healthy conflict as an advantage while confidently managing the unhealthy version.

Through this program, attendees will:

• Realize potential avenues for conflict before they happen.
• Learn to effectively handle conflict when it arises.
• Discover how to help control emotional responses.
• Recognize their own and other’s contributions to an issue.
• Understand the 4 steps to healthy conflict.
• Learn to use emotions as an asset and not as a liability.

Speed Traps, Pot Holes & Idiots

Speed Traps, Pot Holes & Idiots is designed to help your employees or members eliminate the everyday roadblocks to their success and maintain a winning mindset. Jay takes the best of all his programs and incorporates them into one dynamic look at how to obtain success both professionally and personally.

Through this program, attendees will:

• Establish rewarding new mindsets.
• Discover the 4 major reactions to change and how to overcome them.
• Overcome the 4 fears that get in the way of change.
• Understand the 15 reasons why people don’t take action.
• Learn proven strategies for healthy conflict with excellent outcomes.
• Find out how to get along with difficult people.
• Build instant and powerful connections with others.
• Realize how to give and receive feedback most effectively.