Brenda Bence

Global Speaker, Executive Coach & Author

As a Certified Global Executive Leadership Coach, Brenda Bence works with leaders at the highest levels of major multinationals across the world.  Known for inspiring long-lasting, positive changes in mindset and behavior, Brenda has coached over 1,000 executives who hail from 60 nationalities and 70 industries. Recognized by Thinkers50 as a World Leader in Coaching, Brenda is also consistently ranked by GlobalGurus as a Top 10 Executive Coach and a Top 10 Branding Guru.


With an MBA from Harvard Business School, Brenda began her career building mega brands for companies like Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was a senior executive responsible for billion-dollar businesses across four continents and 50 countries.  Brenda then left the corporate world to start her global executive coaching and motivational speaking business.


Today, she is trusted by many of the world’s most recognized companies. Given her experience as a Fortune 100 leader, Brenda brings to her coaching practice first-hand knowledge of the challenges faced by top executives in today’s rapidly changing and uncertain times. A pioneer and thought leader in the field of Leadership Branding, Brenda is also one of a handful of professional speakers worldwide who has earned the coveted title of Global Certified Speaking Professional. The author of 11 award-winning books on coaching, leadership, and branding, Brenda has also been featured in several hundred media outlets and publications across the world. As a sought-after podcast guest, Brenda offers listeners fresh perspectives and new ways of reframing situations.


Having lived outside her native homeland for the past 20+ years, Brenda has learned to approach life and career with a good dose of humor. She is an avid Mahjong player and has fuddled her way through trying to learn six foreign languages.

Here are three takeaways:

  • Build your people to build your business : People are going to deliver the business, yet we tend to focus more on the business
  • Your brand as a leader is foundational to success, and brand is the way others perceive think, and feel about you.
  • Executive presence and leadership is an inside out job: Once you conquer the inside, the outside changes

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