Las Vegas women’s keynote speaker, Alexia Vernon, specializes in women’s empowerment, leadership, business, and healthcare presentations for conferences and corporate events.
She delivers transformational, story-driven presentations that ignite confidence, strengthen leadership capacity, and move audiences to action.
A two-time cancer survivor, award-winning author, and founder of Step into Your Moxie, Alexia blends depth, humor, and real-world strategy to help audiences, especially women, speak up with clarity, courage, and influence.
Whether addressing corporate leadership teams, women’s ERGs, investors, or government leaders, she equips audiences with the mindset and communication tools to lead boldly and create measurable impact.
Alexia is consistently ranked among the top women’s keynote speakers in the United States. With a background in theatre and comedy, Alexia infuses each keynote with humor, storytelling, and heart. Her presentations are not only rich with actionable insights but also create moments that move, inspire, and resonate—turning learning into an experience that stays with audiences long after the event.
A nationally recognized women’s keynote speaker, every keynote is built around Alexia’s proprietary Step into Your Moxie® framework, ensuring that audience members leave equipped to speak up with confidence and clarity.
The framework addresses Inner Voice, Physiological Sensation, Messaging, Presence, and Moving People to Take Action, giving audiences both the mindset and practical tools to transform how they communicate—on stage, in the boardroom, or in high-stakes situations.
Alexia’s keynotes are values-driven and highly adaptable. Audiences can also enjoy:
Event organizers consistently praise Alexia Vernon for making every step effortless. From clear and timely communication to anticipating logistics and customizing content for your audience, Alexia and her team handle every detail so you can focus on your event. She’s known for being proactive, flexible, and highly dependable, ensuring that every keynote, workshop, or book signing session runs flawlessly and leaves both organizers and audiences delighted.
Beyond entertainment, Alexia Vernon’s presentations produce measurable impact. Participants leave her sessions feeling more confident, visible, and capable of influencing decisions, driving action, and shaping workplace culture—helping organizations retain top talent, cultivate high-performing teams, and achieve their communication and leadership objectives.
Moxie is Your Birthright: The Time to Speak Your Truth is Now
In her signature keynote, award-winning author and transformational speaking expert, Alexia Vernon, presents a soul-stirring call to action to speak up and out – in your career, business, and personal life. Alexia fuses hilarious and at times heartbreaking stories with mindful and actionable advice to slay diminishing self-talk and cultivate the mindset and behaviors to be able to walk into any room (or onto any stage) and use your words to speak up for yourself, the ideas and issues that matter to you (and your organization), and move people to action.
Speak with Moxie: Persuasive Conversations That Inspire Action
Few situations are more anxiety-producing than those where you want your communication to drive people to take action. In this bold and playful keynote, Alexia shows audience members how to speak with moxie and sculpt persuasive communication that works face-to-face and in our new virtual world, so that people are eager to say yes to you and your ideas.
Create a “Speak Up” Culture to Increase Safety and Well-Being
Failing to speak up, whether for oneself, staff, or on behalf of patients, is one of the greatest contributors to employee burnout and turnover, negative reviews, and costly mistakes. In this provocative and timely keynote, audience members demystify the key components of vocal empowerment so they can create a workplace culture that facilitates speaking up. This keynote is a perfect fit for healthcare organizations and conferences, but it can be delivered for any group committed to creating a “speak up” culture.
“Alexia, you were simply brilliant. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, your stories, and your grace. Our team can’t stop talking about you!”
“Alexia spoke at our conference with great effect! She was incredibly easy to work with from planning through execution, and she skillfully addressed what I thought was a difficult training topic in our program. But the dynamic content and expert presentation skills she brought to the 200+ person audience were very well received and inspiring. Thank you, Alexia!”
“A huge thank you to Alexia for up-leveling our storytelling, presence, and for building confidence in our Comms Campers. The day was energetic and full of important
Learning… very valuable for all!”
“The Females in Food community, representing corporate leaders from over 350 companies across every sector of the Food and Beverage industry, has greatly valued working with Alexia. Over the years, we have consistently sought her expertise to speak, lead training, and facilitate fireside chats. Alexia has been, and will continue to be, a trusted advisor, speaker, and coach, playing a pivotal role in helping women within the F&B industry transform how they lead and communicate.”
“Wonderful presentation! I loved how you shared such personal, relatable stories and connected those vulnerable moments back to the importance of self-trust in one’s voice.
This session was every bit as powerful as the first one I saw you give—maybe even more so, because I got to watch my colleagues react, respond, and ask thoughtful questions in real time. I’m so glad I approached you that day, and even more grateful you followed up afterward so I could encourage our ERG committee to bring you to Shutterstock. It was an absolute joy to collaborate on this event.”
“I have had the honor of having Alexia speak to two of my Vistage groups…tremendous sessions. And I enjoyed it even more the second time around…some great reminders. At a recent event, several of my members specifically called out Alexia and her presentation on ‘Executive Presence’ as a very impactful session, which assisted them in their leadership growth. I have scheduled Alexia to speak again next year, and I highly recommend that you consider Alexia and learn more about ‘Step into Your Moxie’ so you learn how to amplify your executive presence and voice.”
Recognized as a “Moxie Maven” by the White House Office of Public Engagement for her unique and effective approach to vocal empowerment, Alexia Vernon is the founder and CEO of Step into Your Moxie, an executive and talent development company that helps organizations supercharge their leadership, communication, and culture. A sought-after advisor, executive coach, and Fractional Chief Learning Officer, she excels in helping leaders speak with an unshakeable presence, sell their ideas, navigate daring conversations, and build high-performing teams.
Alexia has delivered transformational keynotes and experiential coaching and training programs for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, healthcare, financial, and educational institutions, as well as professional associations, and has spoken at the United Nations during the Commission on the Status of Women. A featured expert by media including CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Entrepreneur, Inc., SUCCESS, and the European Business Review, she is also the author of the multi award-winning book, Step into Your Moxie: Amplify Your Voice, Visibility, and Influence in the World, the creator of LinkedIn Learning’s Communicating to Drive People to Take Action, and a past president of her local chapters of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Association for Talent Development (ATD).
Alexia is a member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Nevada, an invite-only group for preeminent women leaders across diverse fields. A two-time cancer survivor—first of thyroid cancer and more recently of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS), a stage 0, non-invasive breast cancer—Alexia is a passionate advocate for decision medicine and for reducing overtreatment of non-terminal cancers.
Organizations book Alexia when they want a nationally recognized women’s keynote speaker who blends strategy with storytelling.
To book Alexia Vernon as a women’s keynote speaker in Las Vegas (or beyond) for your company, conference, leadership development, or women’s leadership event, click here to submit a speaker request form or reach out directly to the Moxie Team at Speaking@AlexiaVernon.com.
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