
Brenda Bence
Seasoned speaker with global corporate experience building successful leadership brands for companies & executives worldwide. "Hiring Brenda is an insurance policy that your clients' needs are met!"
oBrenda Bence is passionate about two things: leadership and branding – and how the two work together. As Founder and President of Brenda Bence International (with offices in the U.S. and Asia), Brenda helps companies and executives build inspiring leadership brands through delivering engaging keynote addresses, both one-on-one and executive team coaching for C-Suite executives of major corporations.
After earning her MBA from Harvard Business School, Brenda spent the first part of her career building mega brands for Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was a senior leader responsible for dozens of brands across 50 countries.
Having hired professional speakers herself during her years as a corporate executive, Brenda understands first-hand the demands and concerns of speaking and coaching clients. Now, with a total of 22 years' experience as a professional speaker (both as a CSP and as a Certified Global Speaking Professional), Brenda has earned the trust and respect of many of the world's largest and most admired corporations, as is evidenced by her 97% customer repeat and referral rate.
Brenda has first-hand appreciation of the leadership issues faced by an increasingly global world. Having spoken on six continents and impacted hundreds of thousands of executives through her work and her books, Brenda delivers inspiring keynote addresses to international audiences around the world, presenting her unique and proprietary content in an approachable and humorous way at conferences, conventions, and corporate gatherings.
Consistently ranked by Global Gurus as the Top Ten Professional Coach and Top Ten Branding Experts worldwide, Brenda brings a unique approach to leadership branding. She has coached almost 1,000 executives from dozens of nationalities that span 70 industries, to help them achieve peak performance as leaders.
Brenda is the author of 11 award-winning books. As a columnist on executive coaching, leadership, and branding, Brenda's articles have been featured in more than 450 media outlets across the world, including NBC TV, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, SmartMoney, LinkedIn News, Cosmopolitan, Yahoo News, and The Los Angeles Times. Brenda is a popular guest on podcasts and radio shows.
oBrenda Bence is passionate about two things: leadership and branding – and how the two work together. As Founder and President of Brenda Bence International (with offices in the U.S. and Asia), Brenda helps companies and executives build inspiring leadership brands through delivering engaging keynote addresses, both one-on-one and executive team coaching for C-Suite executives of major corporations.
After earning her MBA from Harvard Business School, Brenda spent the first part of her career building mega brands for Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was a senior leader responsible for dozens of brands across 50 countries.
Having hired professional speakers herself during her years as a corporate executive, Brenda understands first-hand the demands and concerns of speaking and coaching clients. Now, with a total of 22 years' experience as a professional speaker (both as a CSP and as a Certified Global Speaking Professional), Brenda has earned the trust and respect of many of the world's largest and most admired corporations, as is evidenced by her 97% customer repeat and referral rate.
Brenda has first-hand appreciation of the leadership issues faced by an increasingly global world. Having spoken on six continents and impacted hundreds of thousands of executives through her work and her books, Brenda delivers inspiring keynote addresses to international audiences around the world, presenting her unique and proprietary content in an approachable and humorous way at conferences, conventions, and corporate gatherings.
Consistently ranked by Global Gurus as the Top Ten Professional Coach and Top Ten Branding Experts worldwide, Brenda brings a unique approach to leadership branding. She has coached almost 1,000 executives from dozens of nationalities that span 70 industries, to help them achieve peak performance as leaders.
Brenda is the author of 11 award-winning books. As a columnist on executive coaching, leadership, and branding, Brenda's articles have been featured in more than 450 media outlets across the world, including NBC TV, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, SmartMoney, LinkedIn News, Cosmopolitan, Yahoo News, and The Los Angeles Times. Brenda is a popular guest on podcasts and radio shows.
Master the Brand Called YOU™®: Achieve Greater Success Through Leadership Personal Branding
Why do some individuals continue to excel in an organization and others don't? The answer isn't necessarily because they have the most experience or the most education. The truth is: You're more likely to be selected for higher-level positions based on how well others perceive, think, and feel about "YOU™®"- the Trademarked YOU. The art - and science - of leadership personal branding is what keeps successful individuals moving up the ladder.
In this engaging and interactive program,...
Would YOU Want to Work for YOU™? How to Build an Executive Leadership Brand That Inspires Loyalty
In this interactive, eye-opening program, Brenda Bence, reveals the most damaging behaviors that she regularly sees in the workplace - the same behaviors that consistently hold otherwise-successful leaders back. There is one common thread that unites all of these behaviors: They are related to the art - and the science - of leading others.
Through her successful coaching practice, Brenda has worked with almost 1,000 senior level leaders from over 60 nationalities and across 70...
Master the “Inside Job” of Leadership: Three Keys to Success
Take charge of the “inside job” of leadership to achieve ongoing success
The entire world is in a state of uncertainty. Everything is changing: the way we communicate, work, shop, pay for goods, access news, what we eat, how we eat, and how we manage our daily lives. Before the start of the pandemic, ongoing turmoil was already causing rising levels of unanswered questions around how to lead others in the workplace. Now, add to that the first global pandemic in more...
Choose to Challenge: Disrupting YOU™ (Diversity & Inclusion)
How do you cut through the confusion of today’s increasingly diverse world and learn to navigate your way to success on a global scale?
Today’s workplace is the most diverse in the history of humankind. We regularly work across cultures, languages, nationalities, religions, and more – all without a textbook or a roadmap. So, how do you succeed in a workplace that seems to be in a constant state of change and disruption?
The answer: Disrupt the one...
How to Achieve Workplace Wellness—for YOU™ (For both individual contributors and/or leaders of others)
Self-leadership is the highest form of all leadership which is why it’s so important to look after your own wellbeing. Doing so can make the difference between personal success and failure.
In this engaging and pragmatic program, you will:
- Take a self-assessment to better understand how well you are currently managing your own wellbeing in the workplace.
- Learn the science behind why wellbeing is so critical during unsettling times.
- Identify...
How to Achieve Workplace Wellness—for Those You Lead (For people leaders)
Today more than ever, team members are struggling with the unknown, resulting in greater challenges to their own wellbeing that impact the workplace, and overall productivity.
Whether you are leading a team of two, 10, 50, or 5000, people are looking to you for answers. And most leaders today don’t have the solutions to share with others because they aren’t sure of the answers themselves.
In this inspiring and interactive leadership session, you will:
- Learn about...
Boost Your Executive Presence:How to Send the Right Signals, Influence Others and Get Better Results
Executive Presence (also referred to as "gravitas") is one of the most consistently requested topics in the leadership development world today. Defined in a variety of ways, "Executive Presence" generally means the attitudes, skills, and behaviors that - when combined - send the right signals, influence others, and ultimately drive better outcomes, both professionally and personally.
Executive Presence is a critical part of building a powerful personal brand as a leader and is...