Bianca Best
Global Speaker of the Year 2025
Step into the world of Bianca, who after a career in the highest echelons of Dentsu, WPP and Publicis Groupe redirected her focus to what truly sets organizations apart in the AI age: human connection. In 2025 she was named Global Speaker of the Year. She has spoken for Google, Amazon, Accenture, Spotify, Haleon and Bauer Media, from intimate leadership sessions to international stages with over a thousand participants. Her message is as optimistic as it is urgent. As technology becomes more capable, our ability to connect with ourselves, with each other, and with purpose becomes the greatest human and commercial advantage there is.
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Biography
From C-suite to the Stage
Bianca Best built her career in the international advertising world, holding senior leadership positions at the highest level at Dentsu, WPP and Publicis Groupe. She worked in a sector where speed, performance pressure and constant change are the norm, and witnessed firsthand what this does to people and organizations. Campaign and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising previously named her 'Woman of Tomorrow'.
Bestselling author
She wrote two bestsellers: Flourish and Big Impact Without Burnout. In the latter book, she challenges the culture of endless pushing and shows how leaders can create extraordinary impact with more energy, clarity, and ease. Her new book, Human Connection, will be released worldwide in 2027 by publisher Wiley.
Global Speaker of the Year
In 2025, Bianca was named Global Speaker of the Year at the Women's Business Awards. She has spoken for Google in Cannes, IPG in New York, Bauer Media in Krakow, Haleon in a global broadcast, and at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the IAB in Warsaw, where she delivered the opening keynote for one thousand delegates.
Grounded in research and practice
In addition to her business background, Bianca is a certified Co-Active coach (CPCC) and Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. She has developed expertise in NLP, hypnotherapy, Jungian archetypes, nutritional therapy, and energy work, and is currently pursuing a four-year bioenergetics program. This combination of corporate experience and behavioral knowledge characterizes her work.
Expertise
Connection as a Commercial Advantage
Bianca's central thesis is that human connection is not a soft value but a hard one. She backs this up with figures: according to Gallup, low engagement cost the global economy an estimated ten trillion dollars in productivity in 2025. Connection with yourself, with others, and with a purpose determines the trust, energy, and adaptability that organizations need most right now.
Performing Without Burning Out
In Big Impact Without Burnout, Bianca challenges the culture of endless grinding. Globally, forty percent of employees experience significant stress daily and twenty-two percent feel lonely. She shows how leaders create extraordinary impact with more energy and clarity, and why working harder is rarely the answer to too much work.
Suffering from Uncertainty
The World Economic Forum expects that thirty-nine percent of core employee skills will change by 2030, with resilience, flexibility, and creative thinking increasing in importance. Bianca works with organizations in the midst of transformation: how do you regulate your own energy, stay grounded under pressure, and create momentum when no one knows what the path looks like?
The patterns underlying relationships and culture
Connection determines how we lead, communicate, and collaborate. Bianca makes the invisible patterns visible that strengthen or deplete connection, and translates those into practical shifts — in conversations, in teams, and in an organization's culture.
Themes
Human Connection in the AI Era
As technology becomes more capable, connection becomes the differentiating factor. On trust, adaptability and creativity as competitive advantage.
Big Impact Without Burnout
How to achieve more without sacrificing yourself. About the culture of relentless performance and the alternative.
Leading through change and uncertainty
How to regulate your energy, stay grounded under pressure and create momentum when the path ahead is unclear.
Connection with self, other and purpose
The three layers on which connection works, and the invisible patterns that strengthen or deplete it in teams and organizations.
Female leadership
On leadership, visibility and empowerment of women. Atopic on which Bianca speaks internationally and for which she was honored in 2025.
Human-centered peak performance
How to build sustainable performance on energy, trust and engagement instead of pressure and exhaustion.
Why Bianca
Global Speaker of the Year 2025
Awarded at the Women's Business Awards, with performances for Google, Amazon, Accenture and Spotify. Her stage presence is not only experienced but also externally recognized.
Lived C-suite experience
She didn't just talk about performance pressure from the sidelines, but held top positions at Dentsu, WPP and Publicis Groupe. For a room full of directors and managers, that makes all the difference between theory and recognition.
Two bestsellers and a third on the way
Flourish and Big Impact Without Burnout sold excellently; Human Connection will be published in 2027 by Wiley. You book the author of the work, not a retelling of it.
Figures instead of assumptions
Bianca substantiates her story with current research from Gallup and the World Economic Forum. For her, the human argument also becomes a business argument.
From intimate session to a thousand people
She works just as effectively at a leadership offsite with a handful of people as on a main stage in Warsaw. Also available for workshops and dinner or event speeches.
Optimistic, not alarmist
While many speakers on AI and work pressure primarily fuel concerns, Bianca brings a hopeful story with actionable perspective. The audience leaves the room energized rather than uneasy.
Talks
Human Connection: The Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI
45 - 60 minutesThe future is human
As technology becomes more capable, our ability to connect with ourselves, others and a purpose becomes our greatest human and commercial advantage. Bianca outlines why human connection is under pressure precisely now, while we are more digitally connected than ever.
What Connection Delivers
Trust, adaptability, creativity and performance: Bianca demonstrates through research how these four are connected to connection, and what it costs when they are missing.
An optimistic perspective
Not a warning about what technology takes from us, but a timely and hopeful perspective on what emerges when organizations take the human element seriously.
Big Impact Without Burnout
45 - 60 minutesThe Culture of Relentless Striving
Based on her bestseller, Bianca challenges the norm that greater impact automatically requires greater sacrifice. Where does this assumption come from and what does it really cost organizations?
Energy, clarity and ease
She shows how leaders achieve extraordinary results with a different relationship to energy and attention. Not less ambition, but a different route to get there.
From Insight to Practice
The session concludes with concrete shifts that participants can immediately apply, both for themselves and for the people they lead.
Anchoring Energy in Times of Change
45 - 60 minutesStaying Grounded Under Pressure
A keynote for organizations in the midst of transformation. Bianca addresses how to regulate your own energy when everything around you is moving and nobody knows the end picture.
Building Momentum Without Certainty
How do you create momentum in a team when the path forward is unclear? About the role of leaders when the answer doesn't yet exist.
Resilience as a Skill
Resilience, flexibility and creative thinking will be the defining competencies towards 2030. Bianca translates that into what people can develop themselves.
Reviews
“Your session made for a truly engaging and thought-provoking experience, the insights you shared challenged us to think differently, sparked rich discussion, and gave our leadership community fresh perspective on how we can be ambitious and strive for growth, without forgetting about our core asset: ourselves, as people.”
“Bianca is fantastically knowledgeable and energising. The most inspiring keynote this year!”
“Bianca has an infectious buzz about her. She’s a true visionary and brings the realm of the potential out in everyone in a super compelling way. Best feedback of the summit.”
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