“The best speaker we’ve had since Malcolm Gladwell!”
Cindy Chandler, Association Executive
What matters mosT
To The People You Need To Inspire
Keynote Speaker David Allison energizes audiences with truly revolutionary insights that add rocket fuel to sales, leadership, employee engagement and change.
Keynote speaker David Allison is the world’s leading authority on human values
What Matters most
To The People You Need To Inspire
Keynote Speaker David Allison energizes every room with a breakthrough discovery that inspires people, solves issues, and drives powerful change.
Every Solution Starts With People.
And people respond to what matters most to them. In other words, people respond to what they value. That’s what I deliver.
Thanks to a human values research breakthrough, I can show you exactly what shared values will drive the behaviors you’re trying to spark. The result is unprecedented clarity to lead change, increase sales, boost engagement, change minds, and create lasting momentum.
No one else in the world has these insights. No one else delivers a keynote like this.
"The star of our show – the feedback data was off the charts. Keynotes like this are few and FAR between."
~ Liz Ptak, Corporate Events Manager
“David is the single greatest keynote SPEAKER I have ever seen.”
~ Jason Thomson, Event Content & Creative Director
"David is a class act. Endless talent, enthusiasm, energy, and passion. People could listen to hiM all day!"
~ Orie Berlasso, Event Planner
Sales. Leadership. Engagement. Change.
Values are the answer. Let’s put them to work.
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The Values Guy
David Allison, Engagement & Influence Expert, Human Values Research Pioneer, Best-Selling Author & CEO
David Allison is the world’s leading authority on human values. People call him "The Values Guy" because he’s cracked the code on how to engage and influence anyone, anywhere, by aligning with what they value most.
His research, based on a million surveys in 152 languages, is used by global giants like Google, PayPal, lululemon, and the United Nations Foundation. His insights are taught in universities, featured in Harvard Business Review, and proven to be up to eight times more effective than traditional methods.
As a dynamic keynote speaker, David energizes audiences. People are on the edge of their seats, phones stay in their pockets, and their heads fill up with ideas. His message is simple: if you want to influence people, speak to their values—and he’ll show you how.
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Identifying what matters most is the only way to make things happen. Values are the answer!
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A free report for Event Planners on the shared values of event attendees, based on hundreds-of-millions of datapoints in the Valuegraphics Database.
“A delight to work with…we couldn’t have asked for a better partner!”
~ Megan Denhardt, Event Planner
“You know a keynote hit the mark when people are still talking about it at dinner and throughout the rest of the conference.”
~ Lori Anderson, Association CEO