Best-Selling Author | Speaker

Empowering Leaders Through Insight and Connection

Gina Matteson is a renowned leadership keynote speaker and best-selling business author, delivering actionable insights to executives, teams, and organizations. Through her corporate leadership events and executive development speaking, she inspires leaders to cultivate a leadership mindset, drive business transformation, and foster high-performing cultures.

 

Whether it’s a motivational leadership talk, a thought leadership keynote, or a tailored corporate keynote speaker session, Gina combines storytelling, strategy, and real-world experience to leave a lasting impact.

Heart-Led Leadership That Transforms Culture

She’s recognized as a leadership mindset speaker and business transformation speaker, creating brave spaces where real change happens. Her work fuses resilience, trauma-informed leadership, and talent strategy to challenge outdated norms, and build cultures where people thrive, not just survive.

 

Her groundbreaking The Inner Shift™ program, co-led with Dan de Luis, guides executives and elite performers to lead from the inside out, fostering purpose-driven leadership and sustainable impact.

 

Gina has worked with top organizations, including Google, American Express, SiriusXM, TekSavvy, Telesat, Charles Schwab, AGF Rebar, City of Phoenix, and the Department of National Defence.

Best-Selling Author | Speaker

Inspiring Leaders Through Words & Stages

From the page to the stage, Gina E. Matteson delivers powerful insights on leadership, hiring, and human connection. As a 2x international best-selling author and speaker, her work moves people—and businesses—forward. 

The Books That Inspire Leadership

A Thousand Masks

Unmask, Transform, Lead

This international best-seller blends real-life experience with fiction to explore resilience, personal truth, and leadership.

Speaking Topics from This Book:

  • Empowering silenced leaders to find their voice

  • Healing unseen personal and professional pain

  • Resilient leadership in high-pressure environments

  • Leading with authenticity and vulnerability

  • Breaking cycles and driving organizational transformation

How to Hire the Right Employee: 10 Steps

Blueprint for High-Performing Teams

Part of Preston Weeks’ acclaimed 10 Steps Books™ series, this book introduces Gina’s 5-Step Talent Mastery Process™, a proven framework for executive talent sourcing and technology leadership hiring.

Speaking Topics from This Book:

  • Trauma-informed leadership for high-stakes environments

  • Science-backed strategies for IT leadership talent acquisition

  • Building agile, diverse teams that scale

  • Culture clarity as a recruiting advantage

  • Making smart hiring decisions for long-term success

The Art of Connection: Vol 5

Legacy Through Leadership

As a contributor to this best-selling series, Gina delivers insight on executive development speaking, purpose-driven leadership, and authentic connection.

Inside The Book:

  • Daily leadership quotes to shift mindset

  • Reflection prompts for clarity and focus

  • Stories of resilience, gratitude, and connection

  • Practical tools to lead with impact and influence

Gina's Podcast

Gina Matteson brings her experience as a corporate keynote speaker and business transformation speaker to every episode. Her insights on leadership, executive development, and corporate change empower teams to perform at their best.

 

Listeners gain actionable strategies from her work with top-tier executives and high-performing teams across North America. Every episode includes lessons on motivational leadership talks, strategic decision-making, and culture-building.

THE SPEAKER. THE STRATEGIST. THE Shift

Why Book Gina Matteson?

Gina Matteson does not speak from theory. She speaks from fire. She has stood up to a billion dollar corporation, survived betrayal, loss, abuse, a life threatening birth, the collapse of a marriage, and the launch of a company just ten days before the world shut down.

Through every chapter, she chose truth over silence, courage over comfort, and integrity over compromise.

Today, as the Founder and CEO of GemTek, Gina stands at the intersection of AI, recruiting, leadership, and true culture alignment, helping organizations stop making people decisions that damage trust, performance, and lives. She is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, wife, mother, and leader who has lived the cost of broken systems and built a company to change them.

When Gina speaks, she does not just inspire a room. She challenges leaders to rise, tell the truth, protect their people, and do what is right every time.

“Gina doesn’t just speak, she transforms the room.”

Ready to Inspire Your Team?

Book Gina E. Matteson for corporate keynote events, workshops, or executive development speaking to deliver actionable insight and lasting organizational impact.

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