Celeste Headlee: Speaker

In Spring 2015, Celeste spoke at the Tedx CreativeCoast in Savannah, Georgia. Ted.com featured her talk and it went viral! To date, it has been seen more than 19 million times by people throughout the world. Click here to see her talk on Ten Ways to Have Better Conversations.  CNBC voted Celeste as having one of the most watched TED talks in 2016 and Glassdoor named Celeste as having the #1 must-watch TED talk for every recruiter and hiring manager.  Now Celeste speaks to groups around the world on the art of conversation, music, journalism and more.

To contact Celeste for speaking engagements or workshops, send inquiries to Ashley Sandberg:

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See Celeste’s TedTalks here:

Don’t Find a Job, Find a Mission


Help Make America Talk Again


10 Ways to Have Better Conversations

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. “Go out, talk to people, listen to people,” she says. “And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed.”

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