Gregory Offner

Blending sharp business insight with his unexpected background as a world-traveling dueling pianist, Gregory Offner’s high-energy keynotes help audiences elevate performance, spark creativity, and strengthen engagement. 

Gregory Offner is a renowned workforce strategist and author known for helping leading organizations cultivate high-performing, deeply fulfilled leaders. Before launching his speaking and consulting career, he led global sales and marketing for Fortune 100 companies, advised major commercial clients on complex risk management and insurance programs, and championed process improvement as a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner. All the while, he lived an extraordinary double life: a polished corporate executive by day and a world-renowned dueling pianist by night, performing for audiences of every size on five continents.

That unlikely combination of strategic rigor and showmanship now fuels Greg’s signature keynote experiences, where business insights meet music, humor, and audience participation. His programs address a critical gap in modern leadership development—soft skills—and stem from his early-career study of 43 corporate onboarding and training programs, which revealed the profound performance differences between organizations that develop human skills and those that neglect them. His journey also includes a life-changing period spent in total silence following multiple vocal cord surgeries, an ordeal that nearly left him unable to speak and sparked his mission to help people and organizations identify the one change that can transform everything.

Whether he’s speaking, coaching, or leading workshops, Greg equips audiences with practical tools to elevate performance, spark creativity, strengthen engagement, and create work experiences that people want to repeat. By blending research-backed strategies with the immersive energy of a dueling piano bar, he shows teams how to unlock potential, build cultures where people thrive, and deliver performances—at work and in life—that leave others cheering for an encore.