Dr. Chris Mullen Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

Chris Mullen, PhD, is a leadership and workplace expert who helps organizations navigate a reality every leader increasingly faces: finite capacity, constant change, and nearly infinite demands. For more than two decades, Chris has worked at the intersection of people, leadership, and business performance. His career spans human resources, marketing, sales, higher education, workplace strategy, and organizational transformation, giving him an unusually broad perspective on how leadership decisions affect both employees and business results. Most recently, Chris served as Vice President of Workplace Insights & Transformation at ADP, where he worked with organizations navigating changes in leadership, workforce strategy, employee experience, technology, and the future of work. His work allowed him to engage with leaders across some of the world's largest organizations and examine how workplace decisions translate into organizational outcomes. Before and alongside his corporate work, Chris spent more than 15 years as an HR practitioner and business leader. His experience includes leading HR strategy and service delivery for large, complex workforces as well as operating in marketing and sales environments. That combination allows Chris to speak about leadership not only from the perspective of people and culture, but also through the lenses of customers, revenue, execution, and organizational performance. Chris holds a PhD, with research examining the relationship between technology, work, and life. That research became part of the foundation for his forthcoming book, Better at Life: Negotiating Finite Time and Infinite Choices. The book explores a central tension of modern life and work: our time and capacity are limited, while the demands and possibilities competing for them are virtually endless. Today, Chris brings those ideas into organizations through keynotes, interactive workshops, executive sessions, and leadership experiences. His approach combines research-backed insights, practitioner experience, relatable stories, and practical tools audiences can use immediately. Rather than treating leadership, employee experience, change, and performance as separate issues, Chris helps organizations see how they connect. His work challenges leaders to identify the moments and decisions that matter most, reduce unnecessary friction, make better tradeoffs, and create the conditions for people and organizations to perform at a higher level. Chris has built an audience of more than 150,000 followers on LinkedIn and has been recognized for his thought leadership on leadership, work, and workplace transformation. His insights and work have been featured in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Inc., MSNBC, and NBC News. At the center of Chris's work is a simple belief: organizations do not create better results by asking people to do everything. They create better results by becoming much better at deciding what matters most.