Billy Boughey has spent 25+ years in front of rooms. Corporate conferences, franchise conventions, leadership summits, college campuses. Along the way he founded Elevate Experiences, wrote Culture Reconstructed, and became the speaker Fortune 500s and franchise brands call when the message has to land.
He started as an athlete. That’s where he first watched culture do its work, in locker rooms where trust either got built or got faked, and where a coach who could see the further-out version of you changed what you became.
Now he does that from a stage. Every talk gets built from scratch around your theme, your people, and the thing your team is quietly dealing with. Then he runs a 60/40 room: 60% speaking, 40% real participation. Your audience doesn’t sit and absorb. They practice.
Sixty percent speaking, forty percent real participation. Your team practices the material in the room instead of just hearing it.
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Most keynotes peak at the applause and fade somewhere on the drive home. Billy builds for Tuesday morning.
Attendees leave able to name the beliefs driving their decisions, swap automatic reactions for chosen ones, and take ownership of something they’ve been circling for months. That’s Next Day Impact, and it’s the only reason he’s still doing this after 25 years.
Attendee feedback collected through Talkadot.
Energy, humour and honesty that get people to lean in instead of check out. The back row stays off their phones.
Every keynote comes packed with frameworks people can remember, use and apply the very next day.
Executives, frontline teams, franchisees, students. Billy gives each room the mindset and the skills to lead with confidence and strengthen culture together.
Real stories, real lessons. The story-driven approach is what makes the message memorable and the lesson personal.
Billy's message doesn't end when the event does. It sparks conversations, drives decisions and creates momentum that leads to measurable results.
“In my 37 years with Chick-fil-A, I have rarely, if ever, met anyone who has the ability to inspire, motivate, and elicit passion from people like Billy Boughey.”
— David Salyers, Author of Remarkable!, VP of Growth and Hospitality at Chick-fil-A
Four things planners tell us they notice in the weeks after Billy speaks.
The message gives teams a shared language, so they keep using it on each other. Planners tell us attendees are still quoting the keynote back to their colleagues well after the room has emptied.
Every talk hands over frameworks, and encouragement. Your leaders leave with something specific to try in their next one-on-one.
The 40% participation is where this happens. Teams work through the material together in the room, which changes how they talk to each other after it.
Post-event, every booking includes a 10-minute custom training video and a PDF implementation guide so the follow-through has somewhere to live.
Billy founded Elevate Experiences in 2011 and still leads it. He wrote Culture Reconstructed and Start From Scratch, hosts the Created for Experience podcast, and teaches speakers through his online course More Than a Microphone.
He also writes Fresh Take, a newsletter on leadership, culture and the craft of speaking, sent straight from the stage and the desk to your inbox.
Book him and your attendees get the book and the course for free.
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