Bridget Hilton: Workplace Culture
Bridget Hilton is an entrepreneur and keynote speaker exploring how meaningful experiences, human connection, and social purpose shape leadership, workplace culture, and personal growth.
Quick Facts:
- Co-founder of LSTN Sound Co.
- Entrepreneurial experience connecting business with social impact.
- Recognized by Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas.
- Speaking themes include meaningful work, resilience, leadership, and human connection.
Formats:
- Keynote presentations.
Audiences:
- Corporate teams, business leaders, entrepreneurs, employee engagement audiences, and organizations focused on purpose and workplace culture.
Outcomes:
- Reconsider how personal priorities and meaningful experiences inform success.
- Explore ways to strengthen connection and contribution at work.
- Apply entrepreneurial lessons to resilience, leadership, and purpose.
- Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
- **US Fee range: On Request
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Keynote Topics:
Keynote 1: Make "Someday" Today
How to create urgency and take action on your personal and professional goals – starting now.
Bridget Hilton’s transformational keynote takes attendees through a powerful and entertaining 60 minutes focused on all the ways companies, teams and leaders can unlock powerful results and untapped human potential by learning how to identify and prioritize investing in fulfilling experiences.
Told through engaging real life experiences and backed by science, her stories energize, inspire, and provide the tools and habits necessary for attendees to learn how to find peak inspiration, build deeper and more meaningful connections with their teams and co-workers, overcome burnout, optimize individual and team performance, and cultivate strong feelings of fulfillment, community, belonging and wellbeing.
“Make Someday Today” has inspired thousands to not only change their mindsets to thinking of experiences as the real wealth of life, but to follow and achieve their dreams personally and professionally.
As a Result of This Program, Attendees Will Gain:
- Renewed urgency on achieving personal and professional goals
- A lasting mindset shift from living ‘someday’ to living today
- Compelling science, research and personal stories on how investing in experiences can have a bottom line impact in creativity, productivity, relationships, and career growth
- An actionable toolkit of exercises to break down the barriers that arise when creating a more fulfilling personal and work life
Keynote 2: Prosper Through Connection
How to invest in relationships to create a culture of belonging and shared success at work.
Research has repeatedly shown that having best friends at work is crucial to employee engagement, job, and overall company success. Yet only 2 out of 10 employees have a friend at work.
Told through engaging real life experiences and backed by science, the stories in “Prosper Through Connection” energize, inspire, and provide the tools and habits necessary for attendees to learn how to build deeper and more meaningful connections with their teams and co-workers, overcome burnout, optimize individual and team performance, and cultivate a culture of community, belonging and wellbeing at both work and home.
As a Result of This Program, Attendees Will Learn:
- How to show your people that they’re seen and valued.
- How to foster employee loyalty through meaningful recognition.
- How to attract and retain top employees with a culture of appreciation.
- How to build a workplace employees won’t want to leave.
- Compelling science, research and personal stories on how investing in experiences can have a bottom line impact in creativity, productivity, relationships, and career growth.
- An actionable toolkit of exercises to break down the barriers that arise when creating a more fulfilling personal and work life.
Keynote 3: How to Live Forever
Infuse Purpose Into Your Business and Create a Ripple Effect Throughout the World as a Social Entrepreneur
Learn the story of starting the world’s first social good electronics company, bootstrapped from $5k to selling millions of products, giving 50,000 people around the world hearing for the first time, and partnering with Google, Delta Air Lines, Amazon, and Whole Foods.
As a Result of This Program, Attendees Will Learn:
- How to create a ripple effect in the world through giving – even if you’re starting from zero
- How infusing purpose in business gives a better work/life balance
- How to leverage purpose, connection and authenticity to partner with global brands
- Vulnerable stories and actionable life lessons that aren’t often told in the entrepreneurial journey
Talent Short Bio
Bridget Hilton is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and co-founder of LSTN Sound Co., a social enterprise connecting audio products with expanded access to hearing care. Raised in Flint, Michigan, she draws on her entrepreneurial journey to explore meaningful work, resilience, leadership, and social impact.
Her presentations connect the challenges of building a purpose-driven business with the everyday decisions that shape workplace culture. Through personal storytelling and practical business lessons, Bridget encourages leaders and teams to examine what motivates them, strengthen relationships, and create experiences that support connection and contribution.
Her work has received recognition from Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas. Bridget brings a perspective rooted in entrepreneurship to events focused on employee engagement, personal development, teamwork, and aligning professional achievement with a broader sense of purpose.
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