Brandon P. Fleming

Fleming’s message in “Impact: The Most Important Bottom Line” is one that has inspired leaders at
the nation’s largest companies including AirBnB, Bank of America, Walmart, KPMG, and many more. Fleming issues a riveting challenge for corporate leaders to redefine success beyond profit margins, urging them to prioritize the lasting effects their decisions have on society, the environment, and their workforce. In this speech, Brandon P. Fleming, a renowned entrepreneur, author, and international speaker who has earned national acclaim for developing the top talent in the world at Harvard University, brings his unique perspective and experience to the forefront. His journey from being an at-risk youth and dropout to becoming a national success story, combined with his history-making achievements developing perceived “underdogs” into global champions, helps executives at every level understand how to use impact as their greatest tool to develop talent, drive performance, and inspire employees to compete at the highest levels.

Fleming’s insights demonstrate how a commitment to impactful and empathetic leadership can enhance corporate reputation, foster employee loyalty, and contribute to a more sustainable and prosperous future for all stakeholders.

Every company and business leader finds themselves immersed in an ongoing dialogue. The victor emerges as the one capable of compelling talented candidates to join their ranks and enticing potential customers to choose their offerings over competitors’. Which company and product reigns supreme? The answer often transcends mere truth; it hinges on perception. In a landscape where companies stand on relatively equal footing, superiority isn’t solely determined by product quality but by the art of presentation. Mastering the craft of salesmanship is paramount, a skill that demands an understanding of people before products. Persuasion, indeed, follows a structured science, evolving from ancient philosophies like Aristotle’s “Modes of Persuasion” to contemporary frameworks like Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why.” Yet, many models fall short in practicality, leaving audiences with insights but lacking actionable strategies.

Brandon P. Fleming’s ability to teach persuasive communication led to his ascent as Harvard University’s assistant debate coach at the tender age of 26. For the past eight years, he has directly honed the skills of over 250 top communicators globally. Fleming’s persuasive blueprint not only breeds champions but also unlocks millions in funding through compelling pitches to philanthropists and investors as a social entrepreneur.

In this presentation, Fleming weaves captivating narratives to offer concrete examples and vivid illustrations of how diverse persuasive techniques manifest in everyday corporate discourse. Attendees will depart armed with tools and a profound comprehension of their application, empowering them to win hearts and minds by effectively conveying their company’s ideas, ideals, and impact.

Brandon P. Fleming’s captivating story is one that every leader and every human needs to hear. This riveting, high-energy presentation has inspired millions across vast industries ranging from corporate and educational gatherings to international platforms and even federal prisons, as it teaches critical life lessons from Fleming’s remarkable transformation about meeting people where they are.

In a span of just 10 years, Fleming rose from the depths of adversity as an at-risk youth and drug-dealing dropout to a nationally acclaimed author & Harvard educator. Fleming uses his story to help leaders understand what it looks like to meet people where they are, and how businesses can maximize profit by prioritizing impact. He teaches about the most important part of our journey on the climb to success, which is our responsibility to reach back and pull others up, too. This presentation will leave your audience challenged and charged, as it provides an honest and living example of struggle, success, and service.

This inspirational presentation demonstrates the power and practice of educational equity and its ability to transform students. Brandon P. Fleming went from being a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to becoming a nationally acclaimed author & Harvard educator. He uses this transformational story as a practical guide to equip educators with the equitable practices and tools that he once used to completely reinvent himself, and that he now uses to take underprivileged youth and transform them into global academic champions and Ivy League scholars. This presentation addresses diversity, equity, and inclusion in pedagogy, climate & culture, social & emotional learning, and much more.

Brandon P. Fleming’s captivating story is one that every leader and every human needs to hear. This riveting, high-energy presentation has inspired millions across vast industries ranging from corporate and educational gatherings to international platforms and even federal prisons, as it teaches critical life lessons from Fleming's remarkable transformation from at-risk youth and drug-dealing dropout to nationally acclaimed author & Harvard educator. Fleming uses his story to help us understand what it means to defy all odds. But most importantly, he teaches about the most important part of our journey on the climb to success, which is our responsibility to reach back and pull others up, too. This presentation will leave your audience challenged and charged, as it provides an honest and living example of struggle, success, and service.

At its core, leadership is about moving people from one point to an intended end while along the way managing skill development and social and emotional well-being. How do we inspire people to grow? How do we access their full potential? How do we transform low-performing students into “gifted” students? How do we cultivate low-performing workers into “high-potential” employees? These leadership questions in enterprise and education are the exact same: How do we get the best out of people? Leaders tend to fail for mistakenly believing that information moves people. It does not. Motivation is what moves people to perform.

Brandon P. Fleming was once the low-performing student, drug-dealing dropout, and seeming “low-potential” factory worker who astoundingly transformed into a gifted scholar and one of the most highly decorated education leaders in America - all because of a single leader who met him where he was. In this talk, Fleming shares dynamic stories of how a leader, mentor, and teacher was the catalyst for his transformation and his lifelong commitment to pay it forward. Fleming shares how he has used this experience to create an education and business leadership model that is designed to accelerate student and employee achievement. For over a decade, Fleming has made a career of taking hundreds of underdog students (who were considered low potential and low performing) and turning them into academic champions at Harvard University. The success of Fleming’s leadership model has drawn scores of national media coverage by Forbes, CNN, Good Morning America, and more. His practical formula that shows leaders how to drive performance by meeting people where they are has been sought by the nation’s largest brands such as Bank of America, Walmart, KPMG, The Coca-Cola Company, T-Mobile, and so many more who seek to build companies where products, services, and most importantly people are known to thrive. Fleming has shared his model with millions around the world, which led him to be named one of the top 100 African American leaders in the United States.

In this talk, Fleming gives practical examples of how talent functions like seeds. With the right conditions (culture) and the right nurturing (leadership), every seed, student, and employee can reach their full potential.