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Personal Finance & Money keynote speakers

Dave Ramsey

Personal-Finance Authority, Founder of Ramsey Solutions & Author of The Total Money Makeover

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  • English
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Signature keynotes

What your audience walks away with

  • Outcome

    Build a Business You Love — The EntreLeadership System (current flagship)

    Drawn from his newest book, Build a Business You Love, this is Dave's road map for growth that takes the guesswork out of it. He walks owners through the five stages every business moves through — from grinding on the treadmill to building a lasting legacy — and shows what to focus on at each stage so the business works for you instead of owning you. Practical, hard-won, and built on the same system he used to grow Ramsey Solutions.

  • Leadership That Scales — Grow Yourself, Lead Your Team, Scale Your Business

    The heart of EntreLeadership: "your business grows when you do." Dave makes the case that the ceiling on a company is almost always the ceiling on its leader, then lays out the personal-growth and team-leadership habits that let founders stop doing every job themselves and start multiplying through other people. A keynote for owners and senior leaders who feel the business has outgrown how they lead.

  • Building a Company Culture People Never Want to Leave

    Dave built a large, values-driven, debt-free company where team members are treated as people with potential — "not units of production." In this talk he shows how culture is built on purpose, not by accident: how to hire it, protect it, and lead it, so that the workplace itself becomes a competitive advantage and people stay because they want to.

  • Countercultural Leadership in a Shifting Marketplace

    The framing of his EntreLeadership Summit keynote: winning "not with fast-money tactics, but with countercultural leadership." Dave challenges leaders to stop settling for average, to lead against the short-term grain, and to build the kind of durable, mission-first company that triggers real impact even when the market keeps moving.

  • The 7 Baby Steps — Financial Peace for Your People

    His signature personal-finance keynote, ideal for employee financial-wellness programs and general audiences. Dave lays out the 7 Baby Steps — from a starter emergency fund and the debt snowball to investing, giving, and building wealth — and the behavior-first philosophy behind them: money trouble is usually a behavior problem, not a math problem, and anyone can change it.

  • From Broke to Built — A Comeback Story

    The story underneath everything else: rebuilding from personal bankruptcy into one of the most trusted names in money and business. Part testimony, part playbook, this keynote is about resilience, discipline, and the decision to build something that lasts — a powerful, motivating close for conferences and kickoff events.

The story

Who Dave actually is

Dave Ramsey is America's most recognized voice on money and business, and the founder and CEO of Ramsey Solutions, the company he built in Franklin, Tennessee. He started it in 1991 as The Lampo Group — famously, from a card table in his living room — after rebuilding his own life from a personal bankruptcy, and he has grown it into an organization of more than a thousand team members that has helped people pay off over a billion dollars in debt. His first product, the self-published book Financial Peace, appeared in 1992; today Ramsey Solutions spans a hit radio show, bestselling books, live events, a business-coaching platform, and the Financial Peace University course, which has reached nearly ten million participants.

He is best known to the public as the host of The Ramsey Show, a call-in program he began on a single Nashville radio station in 1992 and has grown into one of the most-listened-to talk shows in the country, reaching more than eighteen million people each week across six hundred–plus radio stations, satellite radio, podcasts, and YouTube. On the air and on the page he is famous for a blunt, practical philosophy — that "winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge" — captured in his 7 Baby Steps and in a #1 New York Times bestseller, The Total Money Makeover.

Less visible to the public, but central to why he draws business audiences, is what Ramsey learned building his own company. Through EntreLeadership — his book, podcast, coaching platform, and annual summit — he teaches other owners the leadership and business-building principles he used to scale Ramsey Solutions, under the banner "your business grows when you do." He is a nine-time national bestselling author whose titles include EntreLeadership, Baby Steps Millionaires, and his 2025 release Build a Business You Love, which lays out his stage-by-stage EntreLeadership System for growth.

Ramsey was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2015. He continues to lead Ramsey Solutions as founder and CEO — with his son Daniel Ramsey serving as president — and headlines the company's EntreLeadership Summit each year, where thousands of business owners come to learn a countercultural approach to leadership, culture, and growth.

The receipts

Books & publications

  • The Total Money Makeover

    2003

    the #1 New York Times bestseller behind the 7 Baby Steps; his signature debt-free, behavior-first money plan.

  • EntreLeadership

    2011

    20 years of practical business wisdom from the trenches: the leadership playbook he used to build his own company.

  • Financial Peace

    1992

    the foundational personal-finance book that launched Ramsey Solutions.

  • Smart Money Smart Kids

    2014

    raising the next generation to win with money.

  • Baby Steps Millionaires

    2022

    how ordinary people built extraordinary wealth, and how you can too.

  • Build a Business You Love

    2025

    the EntreLeadership System and the five stages of business growth, drawn from 30 years building Ramsey Solutions.

Gravity

Career highlights & recognition

  • Credential

    Founder & CEO, Ramsey Solutions

    built from a card table in his living room into an organization of 1,000+ team members

  • Credential

    Host of The Ramsey Show

    reaching 18+ million combined weekly listeners across 600+ radio stations, SiriusXM, iHeartRadio, podcast & YouTube

  • Credential

    Creator of EntreLeadership

    his business-leadership platform (book, podcast, coaching, and the annual EntreLeadership Summit): "your business grows when you do"

  • Recognition2025

    Nine-time national bestselling author

    incl. The Total Money Makeover, EntreLeadership, Baby Steps Millionaires & Build a Business You Love (2025)

  • Credential

    Creator of Financial Peace University

    a personal-finance course that has reached nearly 10 million participants — and the 7 Baby Steps

  • Milestone

    Helped people pay off over a billion dollars in debt

    through his teaching and tools

  • Recognition2015

    National Radio Hall of Fame

    inductee (2015)

  • Milestone

    debt-free, values-driven

    model onto a large Franklin, Tennessee campus

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What formats does Dave offer?

Dave is available for Keynote, Fireside chat, Virtual and Workshop engagements. We'll match the format to your audience and run-of-show.

What does Dave speak about?

Dave's keynote themes include Personal Finance, Financial Wellness, Branding & Personal Branding and Team & Culture. Each talk is tailored to your audience and outcomes.

What languages does Dave present in?

Dave presents in English.

Where does Dave travel from?

Dave is based in Nashville, TN and travels internationally for engagements; virtual sessions are also available.

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