Financial Services
Keynote Speaker for Financial Services
Financial services conferences demand credibility. Yossi Ghinsberg has keynoted for major financial institutions across Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe, including the MDRT Main Stage in 2025.
20 days alone in the Amazon
1M+ books sold
Voted Most Unforgettable Speaker
Google / Apple / Microsoft / BMW
Financial services audiences are not easy to move. They are sharp, skeptical, and they have heard a lot of speakers. What Yossi brings is not technique or theory. He brings a story that makes a room go quiet. In 1981, at 22 years old, he got lost in the Bolivian Amazon for 20 days. No food. No map. No certainty of rescue. He came out the other side and has spent decades turning what he learned into one of the most requested keynotes on the international circuit.
For financial services conferences, the content maps directly onto the pressures the audience recognises: navigating uncertainty, making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, managing the stress of markets that do not wait for you to be ready. Yossi does not use those words. He tells the story, and the audience draws the parallel themselves. That is why it sticks.
He delivered the keynote on the MDRT Main Stage in 2025. He has keynoted for insurance companies, advisory firms, and banking institutions across multiple continents. His book sold over a million copies and was made into a Hollywood film. And he has been voted Most Unforgettable Speaker by event professionals. For a financial services conference that wants a keynote the audience talks about long after the event, this is it.
Keynote programs for financial services
Each program is tailored to your event theme and audience. These are the three most often requested by financial services organisers.
From Survival to Legacy
How to lead with clarity, courage, and creativity when the map runs out
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The Laws of the Jungle
Nature's principles for leadership, culture, and the legacy that outlasts you
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Real Survival vs Imaginary Survival
A survivor's perspective on chronic stress, and the path back to optimal performance
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What your audience walks away with
The story opens the room. These are the tools that stay after it.
Snake Breath
A breathing technique for acute stress, born in the jungle and taught live on stage. Your audience uses it the same day.
Full Sensory Activation
A practice for presence under pressure. The antidote to running on autopilot when the stakes are highest.
Real vs. imaginary survival
A framework that separates true threats from the manufactured stress that burns teams out. Most pressure is imaginary. Knowing the difference changes how people work.
A shared language
Teams quote the story for years. The next step, the river, the jungle. It becomes shorthand for how the team faces hard things.
Best fit
- Annual kickoffs and sales conferences
- Leadership summits and executive offsites
- Insurance and financial services (MDRT main stage, 2025)
- Resilience, wellbeing, and change programs
Formats and fee
- Keynote. 60 minutes, tailored to your event theme
- Keynote + fireside chat. Adds 20 to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A
- Workshop. Half day or full day, hands-on with the techniques
Most engagements fall between USD 30,000 and 50,000, depending on format, location, and travel. Every enquiry receives a tailored proposal within 48 hours.
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