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Juan  Bendana

Juan Bendana

Leadership Expert

Juan Bendana

Leadership Expert

Biography

Confidence Coach to top CEOs, Olympians, actors and peak performers across every industry, Juan Bendana is an internationally recognized keynote speaker that helps leaders break through uncertainty, drive growth and achieve peak performance with unwavering confidence. One of the most engaging and high energy keynote speakers in North America, Juan brings a decade of experience on stage presenting to category leading companies such as Disney, American Express and Zillow. He is the author of The Confidence Cycle (Penguin Random House, Spring 2025) and his science-backed blueprint has helped over 250,000 leaders in person and millions online thrive both personally and professionally.

After starting his first company at 20, Juan dedicated his work to finding the answers when it comes to building and sustaining confidence. His groundbreaking work has transformed organizations from the inside out and has become a go-to resource for teams globally.

Whether it is a board room of 25 executives or a stadium of 30,000 leaders, Juan creates an electrifying experience that will have your audience leaving energized and inspired. His actionable, hilarious and high energy keynote gives people the roadmap for effectively navigating change and uncertainty by building unshakable confidence.

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Speech Topics

The Blueprint to Change: Helping Leaders Break Through Uncertainty, Drive Growth & Achieve Peak Performance

It's no secret that the world today is moving faster than it ever has and only a fraction of the speed that it will in the future. As a result, confidence is at an all-time low and uncertainty at an all-time high. We don't know how to deal with the overwhelming diversity of options and rapid change around every corner, which is causing a Confidence Crisis like we’ve never seen before. Traditional leadership methods where we point and demand are no longer effective, leaving people feeling disengaged and uninspired. Today requires leaders who can inspire confidence and pave a path towards a more positive future. Uncertainty is fast. Confidence is faster.

Leadership expert Juan Bendana has spent a decade helping category leading companies thrive through change, inspiring unwavering confidence in themselves and their teams. Through actionable tools and evidence-based strategies, Juan helps leaders bring the best version of themselves to work and to their teams every day to achieve new levels of growth. If we want a more motivated and engaged organization, it’s not going to come from improving culture,it will come from inspiring confidence. Too often, leaders are subconsciously creating self-doubt amongst their people, affecting their confidence and ultimately their performance. When we inspire confidence, we achieve peak performance and supercharge growth. In other words, the higher the confidence, the better the leader.

Your audience will experience a harrowing journey of how a leader can build their own confidence first, develop the confidence of their team and ensure that despite the world changing faster than it ever has before, your team will be able to confidently navigate the inevitable challenges of life and business, be better than they have ever been, and take care of themselves along the way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS OFTEN INCLUDE:

  • Science-backed strategies for leading through uncertainty
  • Actionable tools to inspire confidence across your organization
  • The traits of great leaders and what led them to become that way
  • Science-backed tools to instantly boost engagement and enthusiasm
  • How to inspire and sustain a culture of confidence and collaboration

The Confidence Cycle: How to Build Confidence, Mitigate Burnout & Navigate the Uncertainty of a Rapidly Changing World

With the future changing faster than ever before and uncertainty everywhere we look, we must realize that the skills that got us here today are not the same skills that will help us get to where we’re going next. Today, we need to build a new skill set that will allow us to experience the best version of ourselves so that we can thrive through tomorrow with courage and confidence.
Whether we like it or not, uncertainty isn’t going away. Instead of wishing for more certain times, let's create more certain people. The question is how.

By developing the unwavering confidence to thrive in any economy, market or period of change. Amidst the uncertainty, we can show up fully engaged and ready to conquer whatever is in our way. Even though things may feel like they are falling apart, we need to realize that we have the power to make them fall into place.

In this engaging and actionable presentation, leadership and confidence expert Juan Bendana shares his science-backed and actionable framework that helps leaders thrive through uncertain times and rapid change. Your audience will walk away with a new level of confidence and conviction to grow both personally and professionally so that they can effectively overcome burnout, build resilience and be future-ready. Juan will make your audience laugh, think, and feel empowered to break free from their comfort zones, embrace change with open arms and show up with energy and enthusiasm.

KEY TAKEAWAYS OFTEN INCLUDE:

  • Build unshakable confidence in a rapidly changing world
  • Methods for navigating uncertainty with confidence and courage
  • Take charge of how you show up to the world
  • Build unwavering resilience in the face of uncertainty
  • Science-backed strategies for dealing with burnout and exhaustion

Making Confidence Your Competitive Advantage: Break Through Performance Barriers & Supercharge Sales Growth

The business landscape is changing faster than it ever has before. The once effective sales tactics that got us here are now a thing of the past. There is an X-factor that enables those who break records to break away from those who just get by. That X-factor is confidence. Confidence unlocks the next level of our performance, amplifies growth, and allows us to produce exponential results. When we improve the belief we have in ourselves, the approach we take to our work transforms and as a by-product, so do our results. And it has to; the world around us is changing faster than it ever has before.

Confidence expert Juan Bendana has spent the last decade of his career training top CEO’s, Olympians, actors and Fortune 100 leaders on how to build unshakable confidence. In this high- energy keynote, He shares his actionable science-backed framework, the Confidence Cycle, that gives people the real-world tools to use confidence as their competitive advantage and perform at their best.

In this engaging keynote, Juan uses edge-of-your-seat stories, humor, and science-backed tools that give your people a roadmap to reach levels they never thought possible before. With his signature blend of humor and research-backed content, Juan will inspire and invigorate your people to improve their performance, break through limitations, all while enjoying their lives along the way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS OFTEN INCLUDE:

  • Confidently adapt to change in a competitive and fast-paced market
  • Understanding tactical anticipation psychology and using it to produce record-breaking results
  • How to leverage excitement and engagement to inspire sustained action
  • How taking a people-first approach to sales will supercharge growth
  • Research-backed tools to break through performance barriers and maximize sales results

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