Joy Baldridge’s first speaking engagement was at the White House at the age of 19. She got there by cold calling the president.
Joy is a Certified Speaking Professional, Certified Virtual Presenter, Certified Personnel Consultant, TEDx and globally renowned, virtual, and onsite event keynote speaker and facilitator, who has spoken from Boston to Bangkok, Denver to Dubai, Seattle to Singapore and Grand Rapids to Grand Cayman.
Joy is the author of 3 business books, most recently, The Joy in Business – Innovative Ideas to Find Positivity and Profit in Your Daily Work Life. In 2019 she made the 41 Top Motivational Speakers list along with Daymond John of Shark Tank and Author Simon Sinek. Her message is fresh and new,
her energy captivating, insights inspiring and motivating.
Joy has delivered over 2,500 virtual and in-person presentations for organizations and corporations including Google, KPMG, IBM, NBC, Rolling Stone, Citi, Skadden, Dentons, Architectural Digest, and Oprah Magazines, International Spa Association, Alexander Graham Bell Association, Yale University, The Jack Welch College of Business and Technology, SHRM, ANNA, ABA and AMA. She is the perfect kickoff speaker.
Joy shares innovative, actionable, invaluable tools and proven fresh ideas that all can quickly benefit from by applying to everyday challenges at work and in life.
Velvet Hammer words are velvety smooth, kind and accommodating, yet pack a punch and get results, and lead to better critical conversations, persuasion and action, while minimizing conflict and discord. Since words are containers of power, Joy Baldridge provides you with carefully selected words, phrases and questions to be better planned, not canned when interacting with your team, customers, and co-workers. These rapport building phrases also make positive connections and strengthen moral, productivity, and revenue.
Also available virtually.
“Joy is such a pleasant person to work with and really worked hard to connect to our attendees. This was her main concern was to be connected them, and I would say she killed. She was humorous had great tips for learning to cope with difficult situations and she was very fun to watch.”
