Brenda Bence

Brenda Bence

MBA, CSP, Global Speaking Fellow, HoF

Singapore, SG

Professional Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker & Executive Leadership Expert with Fortune 100 experience — delivering transformative insights worldwide. “Hiring Brenda is an insurance policy that your clients’ needs are met.”

Brenda Bence is a Professional Hall of Fame Speaker who is internationally recognized for delivering hundreds of powerful, high-impact keynote addresses across six continents. With more than two decades’ experience on stage, Brenda is known for empowering executive audiences with practical, immediately actionable strategies that elevate leadership, strengthen their leadership brands, and drive organizational performance.


Before building her global speaking and coaching business, Brenda spent the early years of her career leading billion-dollar brands for Fortune 100 multinationals, running businesses that spanned four continents. Today, she brings that real-world executive experience directly to the stage - blending business credibility, proven proprietary frameworks, compelling storytelling, and humor into keynotes that resonate deeply across all levels of leadership.


In addition to being a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, Brenda is a globally ranked C-Suite coach and advisor who is recognized by Thinkers50 as a Coaching Legend. She is also the author of multiple leadership, branding, and coaching books. But it is on stage where Brenda’s ideas come alive - challenging leaders to think differently, act more intentionally, and navigate change in uncertain times.

Brenda Bence is a Professional Hall of Fame Speaker who is internationally recognized for delivering hundreds of powerful, high-impact keynote addresses across six continents. With more than two decades’ experience on stage, Brenda is known for empowering executive audiences with practical, immediately actionable strategies that elevate leadership, strengthen their leadership brands, and drive organizational performance.


Before building her global speaking and coaching business, Brenda spent the early years of her career leading billion-dollar brands for Fortune 100 multinationals, running businesses that spanned four continents. Today, she brings that real-world executive experience directly to the stage - blending business credibility, proven proprietary frameworks, compelling storytelling, and humor into keynotes that resonate deeply across all levels of leadership.


In addition to being a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, Brenda is a globally ranked C-Suite coach and advisor who is recognized by Thinkers50 as a Coaching Legend. She is also the author of multiple leadership, branding, and coaching books. But it is on stage where Brenda’s ideas come alive - challenging leaders to think differently, act more intentionally, and navigate change in uncertain times.

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,...

LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

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...

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

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...

LeadershipAudience ActivityInspirational / Life-changing

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...

LeadershipEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

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...
LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

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...
LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

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...

LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing