Margie Warrell

Margie Warrell

Keynote Speaker: Global Authority on Courage and Leadership Development; Five-Time Bestselling Author, Including "The Courage Gap"

Margie Warrell Biography

Dr. Margie Warrell is a globally renowned expert on courageous leadership, trusted by top organizations -- from NASA, Google, and Deloitte to Johnson & Johnson, Mars, and Morgan Stanley -- to embolden leaders, foster bold cultures, and drive innovation. With a career spanning speaking engagements in over 25 countries, Warrell has delivered keynotes on some of the world’s biggest stages, equipping leaders with the mindset and strategies to navigate uncertainty, take smarter risks, and lead with greater impact. From advising Congressional Chiefs on Capitol Hill to mentoring leaders in emerging democracies, she brings a global lens and research-backed strategies that bridge head and heart to closing the gap between potential and action.

Her latest book, "The Courage Gap," unpacks the hidden fears that hold people back—offering practical tools to bridge the “know/do” gap and lead with greater clarity, confidence, and conviction. A former Senior Partner at Korn Ferry’s advising Fortune 100 executives, Warrell has worked alongside diverse business icons like Sir Richard Branson, Bill Marriott, Tony Robbins, Steve Forbes, and global heads of state to advance leadership in an increasingly complex world.

A regular contributor to Forbes, with expertise featured by CNN, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and "Today," Warrell serves on boards advancing female leadership and education, including the Women’s Democracy Network and the Forbes School of Business & Technology.

Beyond the stage, Warrell lives her message of courage -- whether crossing the Sahara desert, summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro with her husband and four children or, most recently, running her first marathon.

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Margie Warrell Speaking Topics

The Courage Gap

A sought-after speaker on leadership, mindset, and resilience, Margie Warrell’s powerful new keynote weaves compelling storytelling with cutting-edge insight to engage, educate, and empower action to close the ‘courage gap’ in your organization.

Key learning includes how to:

  • Rethink Risk: Discern smart from foolish risk taking amid complexity and uncertainty
  • Identify Fear Traps: Counter cognitive biases that hinder learning, stifle innovation, and block crucial conversations
  • Fail Right: Leverage a play-to-win mindset to embrace intelligent failure, accelerate learning and find the treasure when you trip
  • Lead With Courage: Reframe discomfort and use fear as a catalyst for growth
  • Cultivate Courage: Create a culture that supports ‘loyal dissent’ and unites purpose around a bold vision for future

Everyone needs courage, making this a ‘must-hear’ message for all audiences.

Lead with Courage

No organization can outperform its leaders over time. It’s why the #1 threat is never external but the fear that drives smart employees to play it too safe. Leaders who invite candor and encourage innovation without demonstrating vulnerability, normalizing dissent, and derisking ‘smart failure’ will fall short every time. Margie Warrell will embolden your leaders to lead from the inside out, building a ‘culture of courage’ that unlocks collective creativity and discretionary effort across your enterprise.

Learning objectives and audience outcomes:

  • Research into a ‘courage mindset’ and why it’s a force multiplier of talent
  • Harness ’emotional contagion’ to galvanize employees behind a bold vision with a big “Why”
  • What we get wrong about risk that makes us more vulnerable
  • Three ways to foster loyal dissent and harness constructive conflict
  • How to lead from self-certainty to make more effective decisions amid the unknowns
  • Identify the invisible ‘timidity tax’ of excess caution in your team/business
  • Accelerate learning and incubate innovation by scaling a play-to-win mindset

This program is ideal for leaders at all levels, from emerging to those at the top.

Falling Upward

No one is immune to life’s hardships and heartaches, yet some people handle them better and emerge better off. This powerful keynote blends research in psychology, well- being, and spiritual traditions to reframe how you view and process your biggest problems, expanding your bandwidth to handle them better and transform them into catalysts for growth.

Weaving personal stories – including losing a brother to mental illness and supporting another to adjust to life with paraplegia – Margie Warrell brings evidence backed strategies to expand your audiences capacity for life, find the opportunities for growth, and grow into the highest that our toughest challenges always hold.

This program will teach you how to:

  • Mine the lessons failure holds to improve the future
  • Short-circuit stressful thinking, turning the psychology of fear into the physiology of courage
  • Four pillars to activate post-traumatic growth and can-do optimism
  • Lead from ‘self-certainty’ to thrive through change
  • Build micro-habits to turn stressors into cues for courage
  • Rescript the stories to get unstuck and bounce forward stronger

This program is for broad audiences, from faith groups to business groups.

Brave Women Rising

When women are empowered to bring the full quota of their feminine leadership strengths to the table, it improves the decisions being made.  Yet, despite progress, the gender gap persists. Drawing on her doctoral research in women’s leadership and decades of experience empowering women from diverse backgrounds, Margie Warrell weaves relatable and entertaining personal stories as a ball-dropping working mother raising four children amid multiple global relocations. This session provides actionable strategies to help women get off their own backs and make the difference their difference makes.

Learning objectives and audience outcomes:

  • Reset the relationship with power to ‘take charge while taking care’  
  • Why courage precedes confidence and how to’ behave your way to believing’
  • Counter self-doubt and turn ‘imposterhood’ into a catalyst for growth
  • Navigate feminine double-binds to manage the backlash effect
  • Speak with authority to win followers and ignite action
  • Amplify the voice of other women, lifting as you climb

Can be customized for all women’s groups plus mixed audiences, championing men to lift women!

Margie Warrell Videos

Dr Margie Warrell Speaker Reel
Margie Warrell: Rise into your potential one brave action at a time
Margie Warrell - "The Morning Show"

How do I book Margie Warrell to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Margie Warrell for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Margie Warrell, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Margie Warrell or any other speaker of your choice.

How much does it cost to book Margie Warrell for a speaking engagement?

Speaking fees for Margie Warrell, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Margie Warrell are $30,000 - $50,000 for live events and $20,000 - $30,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Margie Warrell, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.

What topics does Margie Warrell speak about?

Margie Warrell is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Work-Life Balance, Personal Growth, Communication, Women, Change Management, Peak Performance, Health, Empowerment, Human Resources, Overcoming Adversity, Authors, Stress Management, Mental Health, Relationships, Female Leadership, Motivational, Leadership, Psychology, Social Sciences, Resilience and Mindset.

Where does Margie Warrell travel from?

Margie Warrell generally travels from Arlington, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

Who is the agent for Margie Warrell?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Margie Warrell for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Margie Warrell for your next private or corporate function.

What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Margie Warrell or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.

Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.


Margie Warrell is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Work-Life Balance, Personal Growth and Communication. The estimated speaking fee range to book Margie Warrell for live events is $30,000 - $50,000, and for virtual events $20,000 - $30,000. Margie Warrell generally travels from Arlington, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Shawn Achor, Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE and Amanda Gore. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Margie Warrell for an upcoming event.

Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 21/03/2025.

Margie Warrell Speaking Topics

  • The Courage Gap

    A sought-after speaker on leadership, mindset, and resilience, Margie Warrell’s powerful new keynote weaves compelling storytelling with cutting-edge insight to engage, educate, and empower action to close the ‘courage gap’ in your organization.

    Key learning includes how to:

    • Rethink Risk: Discern smart from foolish risk taking amid complexity and uncertainty
    • Identify Fear Traps: Counter cognitive biases that hinder learning, stifle innovation, and block crucial conversations
    • Fail Right: Leverage a play-to-win mindset to embrace intelligent failure, accelerate learning and find the treasure when you trip
    • Lead With Courage: Reframe discomfort and use fear as a catalyst for growth
    • Cultivate Courage: Create a culture that supports ‘loyal dissent’ and unites purpose around a bold vision for future

    Everyone needs courage, making this a ‘must-hear’ message for all audiences.

  • Lead with Courage

    No organization can outperform its leaders over time. It’s why the #1 threat is never external but the fear that drives smart employees to play it too safe. Leaders who invite candor and encourage innovation without demonstrating vulnerability, normalizing dissent, and derisking ‘smart failure’ will fall short every time. Margie Warrell will embolden your leaders to lead from the inside out, building a ‘culture of courage’ that unlocks collective creativity and discretionary effort across your enterprise.

    Learning objectives and audience outcomes:

    • Research into a ‘courage mindset’ and why it’s a force multiplier of talent
    • Harness ’emotional contagion’ to galvanize employees behind a bold vision with a big “Why”
    • What we get wrong about risk that makes us more vulnerable
    • Three ways to foster loyal dissent and harness constructive conflict
    • How to lead from self-certainty to make more effective decisions amid the unknowns
    • Identify the invisible ‘timidity tax’ of excess caution in your team/business
    • Accelerate learning and incubate innovation by scaling a play-to-win mindset

    This program is ideal for leaders at all levels, from emerging to those at the top.

  • Falling Upward

    No one is immune to life’s hardships and heartaches, yet some people handle them better and emerge better off. This powerful keynote blends research in psychology, well- being, and spiritual traditions to reframe how you view and process your biggest problems, expanding your bandwidth to handle them better and transform them into catalysts for growth.

    Weaving personal stories – including losing a brother to mental illness and supporting another to adjust to life with paraplegia – Margie Warrell brings evidence backed strategies to expand your audiences capacity for life, find the opportunities for growth, and grow into the highest that our toughest challenges always hold.

    This program will teach you how to:

    • Mine the lessons failure holds to improve the future
    • Short-circuit stressful thinking, turning the psychology of fear into the physiology of courage
    • Four pillars to activate post-traumatic growth and can-do optimism
    • Lead from ‘self-certainty’ to thrive through change
    • Build micro-habits to turn stressors into cues for courage
    • Rescript the stories to get unstuck and bounce forward stronger

    This program is for broad audiences, from faith groups to business groups.

  • Brave Women Rising

    When women are empowered to bring the full quota of their feminine leadership strengths to the table, it improves the decisions being made.  Yet, despite progress, the gender gap persists. Drawing on her doctoral research in women’s leadership and decades of experience empowering women from diverse backgrounds, Margie Warrell weaves relatable and entertaining personal stories as a ball-dropping working mother raising four children amid multiple global relocations. This session provides actionable strategies to help women get off their own backs and make the difference their difference makes.

    Learning objectives and audience outcomes:

    • Reset the relationship with power to ‘take charge while taking care’  
    • Why courage precedes confidence and how to’ behave your way to believing’
    • Counter self-doubt and turn ‘imposterhood’ into a catalyst for growth
    • Navigate feminine double-binds to manage the backlash effect
    • Speak with authority to win followers and ignite action
    • Amplify the voice of other women, lifting as you climb

    Can be customized for all women’s groups plus mixed audiences, championing men to lift women!

Margie Warrell Videos

Dr Margie Warrell Speaker Reel
Margie Warrell: Rise into your potential one brave action at a time
Margie Warrell - "The Morning Show"
Maggie Warrell - Dare To Lead the Change You Want To See
Margie Warrell - Embrace Your Challenges: You Cannot Grow Without Them

Margie Warrell Reviews

  • “Margie’s opening keynote at our annual conference was nothing short of spectacular! She has my highest recommendation for any event – in fact, her message is one that everyone should hear in their lifetime!”
    WorkForce Software - Feb 25 2025

  • “Margie’s authentic style and memorable story-telling captivated and inspired our 400 sales leaders. I highly recommend her for any organization wanting to empower their teams to take bold risks and ‘play to win’!” 
    Google Marketing - Feb 25 2025

  • “If you want to embolden your teams or leaders to raise their sights, reframe risk and take more courageous action amid fear and uncertainty, Margie is the perfect adrenaline-like shot of inspiration you need. A global thought leader on courage, and wonderful storyteller, Margie will have you laughing all while empowering you with practical strategies to enjoy greater professional success and personal fulfillment.” 
    Johnson & Johnson, Asia Pacific - Feb 25 2025

  • How do I book Margie Warrell to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Margie Warrell for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Margie Warrell, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Margie Warrell or any other speaker of your choice.
  • How much does it cost to book Margie Warrell for a speaking engagement?

    Speaking fees for Margie Warrell, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Margie Warrell are $30,000 - $50,000 for live events and $20,000 - $30,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Margie Warrell, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Margie Warrell speak about?

  • Where does Margie Warrell travel from?

    Margie Warrell generally travels from Arlington, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
  • Who is the agent for Margie Warrell?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Margie Warrell for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Margie Warrell for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Margie Warrell or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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