Date: September 25, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Venue: TBD
Pricing: Complimentary for EO Members, SAPs and KEF participants. Accelerators & guest may attend for a $99 fee.
Overview: In today’s fast-moving world, disruption and uncertainty are the new normal—and traditional leadership strategies are no longer enough. In this high-energy keynote, Juan Bendana shares a powerful framework for leading through change with authenticity, confidence, and clarity.
Drawing from his work with Fortune 100 leaders and top-performing teams, Juan equips attendees with practical tools to turn uncertainty into opportunity, reignite team engagement, and inspire a culture of trust and collaboration. Through compelling storytelling and actionable insights, this session is designed to help leaders at every level step up, align their teams, and move forward with purpose.
Key Takeaways:
Move from ideas to action with clarity and confidence
Lead authentically to inspire trust and collaboration
Unlock what drives high-performing, engaged teams
Reignite motivation and forward momentum within your organization
Ideal for business owners, leaders, and teams navigating change, this keynote will leave you energized and ready to lead with impact.
About our Speaker:
Juan Bendana is a highly sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and coach to top CEO’s, Olympians, Actors and Fortune 100 Leaders. He started his first leadership development company over a decade ago, where Juan and his team constructed bespoke programming for category leading companies such as Disney, Fidelity, American Express, Nationwide, Sony Pictures & Zillow.
Juan is the author of Confident By Choice (Penguin Random House, 2025). Based on his research of over 250,000 leaders at institutions such as Oxford, Penn State and the University of Toronto, his science- backed framework helps leaders activate the confidence mindset to lead boldly, thrive through change, and ignite extraordinary growth.
Considered by many as a walking shot of espresso, Juan’s dynamic blend of energy, humor and actionable advice empowers individuals to build unwavering confidence so that they can consistently show up at their best both personally and professionally.
EO Philadelphia Board Event Policy
Registration & Cancellation Deadline: Registration or cancelation of EO Members, EO Accelerators, or their guests' registrations within 72 hours of the start of an event will incur a charge per person.
This event's deadline is on or by 6:00 pm on September 21, 2025
No-Shows and Party-Crashers: EO Members, EO Accelerators, and their guests who fail to attend an event, or attend without registering will incur an event charge per person, plus any event-specific charges.
Charges: A $50 event charge applies to any EO Member, EO Accelerator, and/or their respective guests that fall in any of the above categories.
Charges will be automatically collected via eonetwork.org using the EO Member/EO Accelerators card on file or billed directly from the EO Philadelphia Finance Chair.
Please note, that all event-related charges collected due to late registration/cancelation/no-show/party-crashers will be allocated towards EO Philadelphia's annual GSEA competition prize package.