Top 20 Marketing Speakers to Book for Your Event in 2026

Rory Sutherland is Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, founder of its behavioral science practice, an author and speaker whose work connects advertising, psychology, creativity, and human decision-making.

Sutherland challenges the idea that customers always behave rationally. Through Alchemy, his talks, and his work at Ogilvy, he shows marketers how context, perception, testing, and unconventional ideas can influence behavior and create value.

Pam Didner is founder of Relentless Pursuit, a B2B marketing strategist, author, and keynote speaker who spent roughly two decades in global marketing and sales enablement roles at Intel.

Didner works where marketing strategy, sales enablement, and AI meet. Her consulting, books, workshops, and keynotes help B2B leaders align sales and marketing, build workable plans, and translate emerging AI capabilities into practical changes for teams and operations.

Shama Hyder is a keynote speaker, author, Professor of Practice at the Link School of Business, and founder of Zen Media, the global marketing firm she built and led for 17 years before selling it.

Hyder turns changes in AI, customer behavior, and technology into practical advice for leaders. Through her books, consulting, and speaking, she helps marketers act quickly, adapt to digital change, build influence, and focus on trends that matter.

Nancy Harhut is co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of HBT Marketing, where combines creative strategy with behavioral science after senior agency roles at Digitas, Mullen, and Hill Holliday.

Harhut uses behavioral science to understand how customers make decisions. Through her speaking and agency work, she shows marketers how cognitive biases, messaging, and creative techniques can make campaigns more persuasive.

Robert Rose is Chief Strategy Advisor at Content Marketing Institute and a marketing strategist, author, and advisor who helped build CMI into a major content marketing education platform.

Rose works on the strategic systems behind effective content rather than treating content as a production problem. Through CMI, Seventh Bear, books, consulting, and speaking, he helps marketing leaders connect differentiated stories, operating models, and content strategy to wider business goals.

Mitch Joel is Executive Director of Next Era Institute, an author, speaker, and business thinker. His work explores the intersection of technology, culture, marketing, leadership, and change.

Joel explores what new technology means for leaders, not just marketers. His writing and talks connect AI, digital platforms, customer behavior, media, and workplace change, helping marketing executives prepare for what comes next.

Dale Bertrand is founder of Fire&Spark, a Boston-area marketing agency, and a speaker and strategist focused on how AI search is reshaping SEO, content strategy, visibility, and acquisition.

Bertrand explores how AI is changing online search and brand discovery. He helps marketers rethink content, authority, and customer acquisition as people increasingly use AI tools to research brands.

Liza Adams is an AI advisor and go-to-market strategist at GrowthPath Partners. She helps marketing teams redesign strategy, workflows, and customer engagement for an AI-shaped market.

Adams approaches AI as an operating-model change, not just a new set of tools. Her work helps GTM leaders rethink workflows, brand visibility, data, and human-plus-AI collaboration, giving marketing teams practical ways to redesign work rather than simply automate old processes.

Mark Schaefer is Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, a keynote speaker, educator, consultant, and author. His work spans marketing strategy, AI, community, and personal branding.

Schaefer explores how marketers can stand out as technology changes how people create and consume content. Through his books, consulting, teaching, and talks, he covers AI, community, influence, personal branding, and the human qualities that help brands rise above automated content.

Christopher Penn is co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of Trust Insights, a keynote speaker and author. His work spans analytics, AI, machine learning, marketing technology, and strategy.

Penn translates technical developments into marketing applications, from analytics and measurement to generative AI and machine learning. His research, teaching, speaking, and writing give marketing leaders a data-oriented framework for understanding new technology and using it more deliberately.

Amanda Natividad is Chief Evangelist at SparkToro and founder of Zero Click Marketing, a consultancy and media company built around audience-first content and marketing for a clickless web.

Natividad’s Zero Click approach challenges marketers to create value where audiences already spend time instead of making every interaction depend on a website visit. Her speaking and teaching connect content distribution, audience research, algorithms, trust, and changing attribution models.

Ashley Zeckman is VP of Influencer Relations at Spotlight, where she leads B2B influencer programs and research focused on expert collaboration, creator relationships, and measurable marketing impact.

Zeckman sees B2B influence as building long-term relationships, not simply promoting content once. She helps brands find trusted experts, create useful content together, strengthen partnerships, and measure influence as AI makes credible outside voices more valuable.