Jori O'Neale — Keynote Speaker, Author & Co-Author
Keynote Speaker · Bestselling Author · Co-Author

I make rooms lean in.

Part preacher, part comedian, all storyteller. I turn a room full of strangers into people who laugh first and think differently after — then go home and actually do something about it.

In your next room
Jori O'Neale
The thing I believe

Nobody actually lost their voice. It just got talked over.

By bosses. By algorithms. By twenty years of being the quiet expert in the room. My whole job is handing it back — on a stage, on a page, on a mic — until the most powerful person in the building is the one who finally says the true thing out loud.

Hi, I'm Jori Portrait of Jori O'Neale
Who I am

I've spent my whole life being the voice for other people's stories.

Twenty-two years in classrooms. Three years giving words to kids who were nonverbal and families learning a brand-new country. Years on comedy stages and in pulpits, learning how to hold a room.

I've been the translator, the hype-woman, and the truth-teller — and somewhere in there it became a career. Now I do it from the stage and on the page: the funny that disarms you, and the deep that stays with you long after you've left.

See how to work with me
Bring me in

Put me to work on your stage.

01 / On your stage

Keynotes

Conferences, churches, summits, corporate rooms. A talk built for your audience — funny enough to disarm them, deep enough to land, and practical enough that they move when they leave.

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02 / Run the room

Hosting & MC

Award shows, galas, benefit nights, summits. I keep the energy high and the program tight — the host who makes your event feel like the room everyone wanted to be in.

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03 / For your people

Workshops

Talk Your Book, live. A hands-on session where your team, mastermind, or community leaves having actually said their story out loud — not just talked about doing it someday.

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Publish with me

I'm not a ghostwriter. I'm your co-author.

You don't have a writing problem. You have a book you haven't said out loud yet. We co-write it in real time, in your actual voice — you talk, my team of published editors shapes it, and you keep every ounce of your sound. Idea to a globally distributed book.

  • Co-author, not ghost. Your name, your voice, your story — written side by side, not handed off to a stranger.
  • You talk; you don't type. Record in the pockets of your day. We turn it into clean pages that still sound exactly like you.
  • Your time stays yours. Mostly async. Three Zoom calls, max — no marathon sessions to get your own book out of you.
  • Editors who've published. Everyone shaping your words has written a book of their own — so they protect your voice instead of erasing it.
The reviews are in

What people say after they've been heard.

There is a fire that has been ignited. I finally see my opportunity to reach the people I'm meant to reach.

Corina Espejo
Author, Bedtime Busyness

The creativity she brings keeps me focused, and the encouragement keeps me moving. I leave every session lit up.

Sabrina Verost
Author, Practical Toilet Training

Her questions orient me — where I am, where I want to be. I could listen to her tell stories all day.

Jessica Velasquez
Author, Longing for Love
Read

The Bookstore

Eleven books and counting — self-development hiding inside a devotional. Browse the full shelf, blog, and more in the bookstore.

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Listen

Thirty Minutes of Power

The podcast I host — real talk on story, voice, faith, and getting the thing out of your head and into the world.

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Let's talk dates

Got a stage? Let's fill it.

Tell me your date, your audience, and what you need the room to walk out believing. I'll bring the rest.

Jori O'Neale seated