Lilah Jones: Leadership Expert

Lilah Jones helps teams move from overwhelmed to focused with proven leadership frameworks built on 20+ years of Fortune 100 tech experience.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • Founding sales team member who helped build Google Cloud to a $106B global business
  • 20+ years of leadership experience across Google, Microsoft, and Oracle
  • Creator of The Activation Methodology™ for team clarity, confidence, and performance
  • Expert in driving transformation, fostering psychological safety, and strengthening decision-making

Formats: Keynote 45–60 minutes, fireside chat, moderated Q&A, or leadership activation workshop.

Audiences: Corporate teams, Fortune 500 leadership groups, sales organizations, innovation teams, and companies navigating transformation or internal change.

Outcomes:
  1. Clear frameworks for improving decision-making, focus, and confidence during periods of uncertainty.
  2. Practical tools for building trust, communication flow, and psychological safety within teams.
  3. Actionable strategies for turning everyday team challenges into drivers of performance and alignment.
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  • Travels from: Chicago, IL
  • **Fee range: $15,000 - $20,000

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Keynote Topics:

The Crisis: Organizations everywhere are hemorrhaging momentum. Research shows that 88% of teams slow down and lose focus during transitions, costing companies an average of $2.3M per failed change initiative.

The Breakthrough: Lilah’s signature keynote doesn’t just address the symptoms, it eliminates the root cause.

Her Activation Methodology has helped thousands of leaders transform from decision paralysis to decisive action in less than 90 minutes.

The Guarantee: Audiences don’t just leave inspired, they leave with a clear action plan and the psychological tools to implement it immediately.

Talent Short Bio

Lilah Jones is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, and former Google Cloud founding sales leader who specializes in helping teams break through uncertainty and take confident, strategic action. As a core member of the team that built Google Cloud from startup stage to a $106B powerhouse, she spent nearly a decade guiding Fortune 500 organizations through massive technological and cultural transformation. Before that, Lilah sharpened her leadership and communication skills at Microsoft and Oracle, giving her a rare, panoramic view of how top-performing teams operate across the tech industry.

After 20 years in Fortune 100 environments, Lilah made a deliberate shift: using her experience to help teams get unstuck. She developed The Activation Methodology™, a practical framework designed to help leaders and teams navigate ambiguity, improve communication, and make decisions that drive meaningful results. Her approach blends business strategy with behavioral insight, focusing on how people think, adapt, and perform under pressure.

Lilah Jones was part of the founding sales team that helped build Google Cloud from startup to $106B. She spent nearly a decade introducing Fortune 500 companies to cloud transformation while mastering the art of leading teams through change.

After 9 years at Google plus previous experience at Microsoft and Oracle, Lilah left to focus on what she discovered mattered most: helping teams get unstuck and move forward with confidence.

Today, Lilah Jones brings 20+ years of Fortune 100 tech experience to her work as a keynote speaker and leadership expert. At Google, she spent nearly a decade teaching teams how to create environments where people actually share their best ideas, admit mistakes, and push each other to excel.

Her signature framework, The Activation Methodology™, has helped thousands of teams move from overwhelmed to focused, from uncertain to clear. She connects proven business strategy with practical leadership development, teaching teams to make confident decisions, communicate their value, and create meaningful impact.

Lilah Jones’s approach: every team challenge contains an opportunity. Her mission is helping your team find it and use it to perform at their best.

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Lilah Jones - Speaker Reel - Activated Leader

A 4-minute highlight reel showcasing Lilah Jones’ high-impact leadership frameworks, transformation insights, and the practical strategies behind The Activation Methodology™.

This 4 minute 27 second speaker reel presents a fast-paced overview of Lilah Jones’ approach to leadership, clarity, and team activation. Throughout the video, she shares how her 20+ years in Fortune 100 tech—especially her role on the founding Google Cloud sales team—shaped her understanding of what teams need when facing uncertainty and change. Jones emphasizes that high performance doesn’t come from pressure or perfection, but from psychological safety, simplicity, and the confidence to make decisions even when not all information is available.

The reel highlights key principles from her Activation Methodology™, illustrating how she helps teams move from stalled or overwhelmed to focused and intentional. Jones speaks about unlocking team communication, building environments where people contribute honestly, and reducing the noise that keeps leaders stuck. Clips of her onstage, in workshops, and in conversation demonstrate her energetic, relatable style and her ability to simplify complex challenges into actionable steps.

She reinforces that transformation—technical or cultural—only works when leaders create clarity, remove fear, and cultivate trust. The reel closes with a powerful message: every team challenge contains an opportunity, and great leaders know how to activate it.

Key Moments

  • 00:34 Insights from her experience building Google Cloud and leading through uncertainty
  • 01:25 The role of communication, trust, and psychological safety in team performance
  • 02:20 Practical strategies for simplifying decisions and reducing overwhelm
  • 03:12 Examples of team transformation and leadership breakthroughs

A concise 3-minute look at how Lilah Jones equips teams to break through overwhelm, communicate clearly, and step into confident, focused leadership.

This 3 minute video distills Lilah Jones’ core message: activation begins when teams simplify, communicate openly, and make decisions with confidence. She explains that most teams aren’t struggling because they lack talent; they’re struggling because they’re drowning in noise—too many priorities, too much hesitation, and not enough clarity. Drawing from her 20+ years in Fortune 100 tech, she highlights how even high-performing groups stall when psychological safety is missing or when leaders avoid hard conversations.

Jones shares how her Activation Methodology™ gives teams a structured way to move forward. She emphasizes the importance of reducing friction, aligning around purpose, and creating environments where people are encouraged to contribute honestly. Short clips show her working with leaders, speaking onstage, and guiding groups through mindset shifts that turn confusion into momentum.

The video closes with her signature belief: every challenge contains an opportunity waiting to be activated, and great teams learn to see it, name it, and move toward it with intention.

Key Moments

  • 00:28 The Activation Methodology™ overview and why teams need clarity
  • 01:05 How psychological safety accelerates contribution and performance
  • 01:42 Practical tools for simplifying priorities and reducing friction
  • 02:25 Leadership shifts that unlock momentum and forward action

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