Alaina G. Levine
CSP
AZ, USA joyous, energetic, dynamic keynoter, Alaina helps organizations attract, retain, & harness the innovative brilliance of STEM unicorns. See why NASA said "her work is worth its weight in gold"!
Alaina G. Levine is an award-winning keynote speaker, career and speaking coach, TEDx speaker, science writer, and corporate comedian. She is the author of three books, Networking for Nerds (Wiley), which beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book of the Year, and Create Your Unicorn Career and Your Unicorn Career Workbook. As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, she is a prolific speaker, emcee, and expert on career and workforce development, networking, and reframing failure, fear, and uncertainty as rocket fuel for unparalleled innovation.
Alaina has delivered ~1000 speeches for clients in 35 US states, 15 nations, and 5 continents, and has written close to 500 articles in publications like Science, Scientific American, National Geographic News Watch, World Economic Forum, and Smithsonian, including her popular “Your Unicorn Career” column, which appeared in Science , the number 1 science magazine in the world.
With a deep background in career development and STEM careers, Alaina speaks for STEM audiences, STEM-based companies, nonprofits, pharma, healthcare, biotech, high tech, social media, government, foundations, medical schools, universities, and research and development organizations on all aspects of how to Create Your Unicorn Career, the customized and authentic career that brings you joy, meaning, and money, and how to leverage a data-driven process to make any job Your Unicorn Job- and thus attract, retain, and grow STEM talent in house.
Equally comfortable delivering keynotes, workshops, and webinars, Alaina served as the 2024 Eclipse Keynote Speaker, for which she delivered a public talk on Create Your Unicorn Career in STEM in the basketball arena at the University of Arkansas' eclipse events in 2024. She is also a masterful emcee and panel moderator, and as a moderator at a Nobel Prize conference, Alaina once stopped a fist fight on stage between Nobel Laureates and the CEO of a billion dollar company!
Happy Clients include NASA, US Department of Energy, Kimberly Clark, National Institutes of Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (the largest assembly of Nobel Laureates!), dozens of associations, and preeminent universities including Cambridge, Caltech, Princeton, Brown, NYU, Stockholm, Tokyo, Chicago, La Sapienza (Rome), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Stellenbosch (South Africa), LMU Munich, UCSD and Penn State.
The winner of over 20 business leadership and communications awards, Including the Tucson Leader of the Year award, which was previously bestowed upon former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona, Alaina was recently named the Johnson Lecturer in Science Communications at Penn State University.
And in 2025, she was named a Certified Speaking Professional by the National Speakers Association, an earned designation that honors the best professional speakers in the world. Only 500 people on the planet currently hold the CSP.
A proud, international NERD, Alaina studied at the American University in Cairo as a US Department of Defense Boren Fellow, and holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and anthropology from the University of Arizona, where as a student, she competed in national billiard tournaments under her moniker, Lady Dyn-o-mite.
Alaina G. Levine is an award-winning keynote speaker, career and speaking coach, TEDx speaker, science writer, and corporate comedian. She is the author of three books, Networking for Nerds (Wiley), which beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book of the Year, and Create Your Unicorn Career and Your Unicorn Career Workbook. As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, she is a prolific speaker, emcee, and expert on career and workforce development, networking, and reframing failure, fear, and uncertainty as rocket fuel for unparalleled innovation.
Alaina has delivered ~1000 speeches for clients in 35 US states, 15 nations, and 5 continents, and has written close to 500 articles in publications like Science, Scientific American, National Geographic News Watch, World Economic Forum, and Smithsonian, including her popular “Your Unicorn Career” column, which appeared in Science , the number 1 science magazine in the world.
With a deep background in career development and STEM careers, Alaina speaks for STEM audiences, STEM-based companies, nonprofits, pharma, healthcare, biotech, high tech, social media, government, foundations, medical schools, universities, and research and development organizations on all aspects of how to Create Your Unicorn Career, the customized and authentic career that brings you joy, meaning, and money, and how to leverage a data-driven process to make any job Your Unicorn Job- and thus attract, retain, and grow STEM talent in house.
Equally comfortable delivering keynotes, workshops, and webinars, Alaina served as the 2024 Eclipse Keynote Speaker, for which she delivered a public talk on Create Your Unicorn Career in STEM in the basketball arena at the University of Arkansas' eclipse events in 2024. She is also a masterful emcee and panel moderator, and as a moderator at a Nobel Prize conference, Alaina once stopped a fist fight on stage between Nobel Laureates and the CEO of a billion dollar company!
Happy Clients include NASA, US Department of Energy, Kimberly Clark, National Institutes of Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (the largest assembly of Nobel Laureates!), dozens of associations, and preeminent universities including Cambridge, Caltech, Princeton, Brown, NYU, Stockholm, Tokyo, Chicago, La Sapienza (Rome), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Stellenbosch (South Africa), LMU Munich, UCSD and Penn State.
The winner of over 20 business leadership and communications awards, Including the Tucson Leader of the Year award, which was previously bestowed upon former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona, Alaina was recently named the Johnson Lecturer in Science Communications at Penn State University.
And in 2025, she was named a Certified Speaking Professional by the National Speakers Association, an earned designation that honors the best professional speakers in the world. Only 500 people on the planet currently hold the CSP.
A proud, international NERD, Alaina studied at the American University in Cairo as a US Department of Defense Boren Fellow, and holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and anthropology from the University of Arizona, where as a student, she competed in national billiard tournaments under her moniker, Lady Dyn-o-mite.
Create Your Unicorn Career!
Format: A high value, high energy experiential program from the author of Create Your Unicorn Career. 30-60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout, or virtual program/webinar
This program is perfect for:
- Organizations who want to recruit, retain, grow, and harness the innovative brilliance of their workforce
- Associations who want to kick off their conferences with a dynamic,...
The Exquisite Fabulousness of Reframing Failure as Fuel
Format: 30-60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout, or virtual program/webinar
“Imagine a pep talk on failure that feels like you're at a comic convention, but with unicorns! The speaker used nerdy jokes and comic strips to turn failure into a magical quest, where every misstep is just another plot twist in your superhero origin story."-- Non-profit Leadership Conference of 700.
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Networking for Nerds
Format: 30-60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout, or virtual program/webinar. This program is especially exciting for the opening keynote of your conference, because it engages the audience in the networking experience and offers specific tactics to get the most out of your event and network during the event.
This program is perfect for:
- Organizations who want to recruit, retain, grow, and harness the...
Farewell to Frauding: Catalyze Innovation by Combatting Impostor Syndrome
Format: 30-60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout, or virtual program/webinar
This program is perfect for:
- Organizations who want to provide a specific framework to ensure employees can fight impostor syndrome to foster greater innovation, creativity, and productivity
- Associations who want to kick off their conferences with a dynamic, data-driven, and joyous keynote to...
Speak to Spark: Public Speaking Masterclass to grow confidence, increase influence, and land fat stacks of contracts
Format: 30-60 minute workshop, breakout, or virtual program/webinar
This program is perfect for:
- Organizations who want to provide a specific framework to ensure employees can improve their public speaking and oral communications skills to advance organizational objectives
- Associations who want to enable their members and attendees to be more confident as...
More Money, More Power: Salaries, negotiating, and knowing your worth
Format: 30-60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout, or virtual program/webinar
This program is perfect for:
- Associations who want to enable their members and attendees to be more confident in their negotiations and money management
- Women's Conferences and Organizations, ERGs, state and national associations
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