Speaker comparison guides
Choosing a speaker starts with your audience and what you want them to take away. These guides compare publicly described speaking approaches to help you weigh themes, formats, and fit for your event.
Action & confidence
Mel Robbins vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Speaker on Courage and ActionBoth speakers address the gap between knowing and doing. Explore how their different approaches to hesitation, risk, and courage could fit your audience.
Risk & adventure
Tony Hawk vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Skateboarding Keynote SpeakerTwo skateboarding backgrounds can serve different event goals. Compare the themes, audience fit and planning questions that matter when choosing your speaker.
Risk & adventure
Alex Honnold vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Speakers on Fear, Risk and PreparationHow should an event translate extraordinary athletic risk into useful leadership lessons? Compare Honnold and DesJarlais through the decisions your audience faces.
Fear & stress
Rebecca Heiss vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Fear(less) and Finding FearlessFear(less) and Finding Fearless share a focus on fear and action. Compare Rebecca Heiss’s perspective on stress with Brandon DesJarlais’s 4C approach.
Leadership & community
Brené Brown vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Speaker on Courageous LeadershipA guide to comparing research-led conversations about vulnerability and leadership with Finding Fearless's practical approach to courage under pressure.
Action & confidence
David Goggins vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Speaker on Courage and PerformanceDiscipline and courageous decision-making can address different audience needs. Compare the published approaches of David Goggins and Brandon DesJarlais.
Leadership & community
Simon Sinek vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Leadership Speaker for Purpose and CouragePurpose and courage often belong in the same leadership conversation. This guide helps planners decide which emphasis their event needs.
Action & confidence
Tony Robbins vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Speaker to Turn Fear Into ActionLook beyond the shared language of courage and motivation to compare the event experience, practical focus, and audience needs behind each choice.
Risk & adventure
Bear Grylls vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Adventure Speakers on Courage and LeadershipAdventure stories can open useful conversations about leading through uncertainty. Here is how to compare the event fit of Bear Grylls and Brandon DesJarlais.
Action & confidence
Jia Jiang vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Keynote Speakers on Fear and CourageJia Jiang's work on rejection and Brandon DesJarlais's Finding Fearless address related barriers to action. Here is how to distinguish their focus for your event.
Action & confidence
Michelle Poler vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Speakers on Courage and ChangeMichelle Poler and Brandon DesJarlais both explore moving through fear. Compare their public approaches to courage, change, and community when planning an event.
Resilience & change
Connor Fields vs. Brandon DesJarlais: Choosing a Speaker on Resilience and ChangeOlympic BMX experience and downhill skateboarding offer distinct perspectives on change. Compare Connor Fields and Brandon DesJarlais through your audience’s next decision.
For Brandon’s program and event materials, visit Finding Fearless or the speaker kit.