INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER IN SANTIAGO, CHILE
Behavioural Psychologist | Zayed Award for Speaking | Fortune 500 & World Champions | 30+ Countries
Santiago Keynote Speaker
Duncan Stevens is often engaged as a sales speaker, leadership keynote speaker and change management speaker in and around Santiago to increase performance and navigate industry changes. His humorous, interactive and visual keynote presentations inspire attendees to embrace new perspectives.As a reuslt, Duncan is regularly engaged as an inspirational motivational speaker in Santiago. As a keynote speaker, he assists several of the industry’s most recognisable brands, teams and executives become more persuasive and more effective and adapt to change through what they say and how they act.
Duncan has over 10 years of experience and is globally recognised as the leading authority on persuasion and performance and change management. He is often regarded as an easy-to-work-with speaker and has delivered his keynote speech at summits and events globally and all throughout Santiago.
With over ten years of expertise, Duncan has established himself as an in-demand a highly experienced keynote speaker due to his content-rich, engaging, inspiring and fascinating keynote speeches and masterclasses. He is the founder and CEO of the Influence Association and author of the number one best-selling book Effective Influence. He is a successful entrepreneur, critically acclaimed ‘mentalist’ and is widely considered as one of the world’s premier authorities on influence, persuasion, high performance and adapting to economic change. He speaks internationally from Toronto to Dubai and from Geneva to Nottingham.
Before Duncan became a keynote speaker, he secured an Honours degree in Business Management, served as an officer in the UK’s Royal Navy, was a business coach and trainer as well as a senior manager for some globally recognised brands.
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Reasons Santiago Event Planners
Trust Duncan Stevens With Their Events
A keynote in Santiago has to earn its place, particularly when delegates from finance, mining and technology are weighing what the session was actually worth before they leave the room.
1,000+ Keynotes, 30+ Countries, 1.1M+ People Inspired
He has done this before, at scale, for audiences exactly like yours. From the first briefing to the final applause, your event is in safe hands.
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLISTS
Microsoft, Toyota, Shell, Deloitte, KPMG and Olympic gold medallists. The world’s most demanding organisations do not book the same speaker twice by accident.
BUILT FOR YOUR AUDIENCE NOT BORROWED FROM SOMEONE ELSE
Every keynote is shaped around your industry, your people, and your priorities. Not adapted. Built.
BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGY, NOT MOTIVATIONAL NOISE
Scientific rigour over slogans. Content built on evidence, not on what sounds good from a stage.
THE MAGIC WHEEL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE™
A proprietary five-pillar framework. 23 evidence-based principles. Tools your audience can apply immediately.
PRACTICAL OUTCOMES BEYOND THE EVENT DAY
Stronger leaders. Higher performing teams. Better collaboration with a lasting message and tools people can use after the event.
Conference Topics for Santiago Audiences
Turning High Potential Into High Performance: Duncan’s signature keynote equips executives and leaders with the behaviours and mindsets to deliver strategic goals, drive change, inspire teams and enhance the culture. As strategic complexity grows across Santiago’s financial services sector, this keynote equips leaders with the performance mindset to stay ahead.
The High-Performing Team Advantage: This inspiring, entertaining and educational keynote equips teams with the tools and tactics to enhance collaboration, drive marginal gains, take ownership, & thrive in times of change. The most requested team session from Santiago’s professional landscape for conference and leadership away-day formats.
The Magic of Collaboration: This keynote equips teams with the behaviours, mindsets, and proven strategies to bridge silos, strengthen trust, share ownership, and achieve more together than they could alone, both internally and externally. Rebuilding trust and shared ownership across Santiago’s financial services organisations, this session makes genuine collaboration the default.
Keeping Pace With Change: This keynote provides practical strategies for navigating uncertainty, overcoming resistance, building resilience, and fostering a culture of adaptability when conditions are at their most demanding. Leaders and teams across Santiago’s fast-paced landscape leave this session equipped to lead change and not simply survive it.
The Psychology Of Influence: This talk equips audiences with proven principles of influence and persuasion that will help you build trust, communicate with impact, shape decisions, and inspire positive action. When communication across Santiago’s professional sector is technically competent but failing to land, this session solves the problem at source.
The Human Edge In The World of AI: This keynote helps teams and leaders adapt their mindsets, behaviours, and skills to thrive alongside artificial intelligence technology to positively impact the bottom line, culture and growth. Against a backdrop of rapid AI adoption across Santiago’s multinational market, this session builds the human edge organisations need.
Additional Speaking Topics
Duncan also delivers specialist sessions for Santiago’s financial services, mining, and technology organisations across a wider range of topics, including:
Some of Duncan's Global and Santiago Clients Include:
“Duncan’s closing keynote was the highlight of our conference as I’m sure most of the delegates would agree. He gave 60 minutes of really great advice, insight and inspiration and engaged all of the team. It was also really entertaining which is a bit of a rarity for keynote presentations. We look forward to working with Duncan again. Thank you.”
Key Sectors for Duncan Stevens in Santiago
Santiago is Chile’s business capital and one of South America’s most stable investment environments, combining an ambitious clean energy transition, a major transport electrification programme, and a federal government that underwent significant structural change in 2026. Duncan Stevens speaks for senior leadership audiences across the city’s core industries, from transport and energy to government and industrial manufacturing.
Santiago Transport and Logistics
Santiago’s transport and logistics sector is being reshaped by one of Latin America’s most ambitious public transit electrification programmes, with Desarrollo País operating within the Santiago Metropolitan E-Bus Network under the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT). Santiago reached its target of electrifying 65 percent of its public bus fleet in 2026, integrating 1,800 new electric buses to bring the total zero-emission fleet to 4,406. Transport operators and public transit businesses across Santiago hire Duncan Stevens for regional team programmes, sector conferences, and the programme leadership days that run for the clean transport community. His keynotes for these audiences cover what managing a fleet-wide transformation actually demands from leadership: keeping service standards and teams performing at pace while the vehicles, the training, and the infrastructure all change simultaneously. Duncan’s keynote on change management is one of the more frequently booked topics for organisations in this sector.
Santiago Energy
Chile’s energy sector is taking shape around the National Clean Energy Cluster in Santiago, where Reborn Electric Motors and the Ministerio de Energía are leading the country’s clean technology investment programme through a multi-year green hydrogen strategy. Chile presented its updated National Green Hydrogen Strategy 2026-2030 in 2026, establishing new commercialisation phases and clean technology investment platforms. Energy companies and clean tech businesses across Santiago book Duncan Stevens for executive offsites, internal leadership programmes, and the cross-sector energy events held across the city. His keynotes for energy leadership cover what committing to a decade-long investment strategy actually demands: making decisions now whose returns come years later, and keeping large organisations on plan when the commercial pressure always runs by the quarter. For organisations in the energy sector, his keynote on high performance leadership is one of the most commonly booked.
Santiago Government
La Moneda anchors Santiago’s government leadership community, with the Presidencia de la República and the wider ministerial structure coordinating Chile’s executive and policy agenda from the capital’s central political district. President José Antonio Kast executed a major cabinet shuffle in 2026, appointing Martín Arrau as Security Minister and consolidating the Transport and Public Works ministries. Civil service teams and ministry leadership across the Chilean government bring Duncan Stevens in for cross-ministry leadership sessions, departmental events, and the senior government programmes that run for official audiences. His keynotes for government audiences cover what a new administration’s early months demand of senior leadership: keeping institutions delivering when a cabinet shuffle changes who is responsible for what, and building the ministerial team coherence that makes an executive agenda land. For more on this work, his influence and persuasion page covers his content across the sector.
Santiago Manufacturing
Techint Engineering and Construction and the industrial manufacturers within Santiago’s manufacturing sector are concentrated in the Industrial Mining Equipment Cluster, producing heavy machinery for Chile’s copper and mining industries under the oversight of the Ministerio de Minería. Liebherr formalised its integration into the Hyvolution Chile 2026 clean tech platform to deploy green hydrogen construction and mining machinery. Industrial manufacturers and mining equipment companies across Santiago are a regular speaking audience for Duncan Stevens, at site leadership events, regional management programmes, and operations leadership days. His keynotes for manufacturing audiences cover what running a large industrial operation through a clean technology transition actually demands: keeping production output and safety standards consistent while the equipment, the fuel sources, and the skills base all change around the workforce. His high performing teams keynote is a common booking for companies operating in this sector.
Other Industries in Santiago
Beyond the four sectors above, Santiago draws Duncan Stevens in regularly across the financial services sector, the pharmaceutical industry, the real estate community, and the retail sector. Duncan works with leadership audiences in all four areas, covering the challenges that come with operating in one of South America’s most commercially open and competitive economies.
The industries mentioned here are not the limit of Duncan’s work, and his industries keynote speaker page explains the additional sectors he covers.
Duncan Stevens: High-Performance Keynote Speaker in Santiago
Santiago is the corporate and financial capital of Chile and one of the most developed business markets in South America, hosting Banco de Chile, Codelco (the world’s largest copper producer), LATAM Airlines Group, Falabella (the major Latin American retail conglomerate), and the cluster of mining, banking, and retail firms that anchor the Chilean export and consumer economies. The corporate event identity centres on the Centro de Convenciones CasaPiedra and Espacio Riesco, alongside the cluster of premium hotel ballrooms across the modern Las Condes financial corridor and the historic central business district. The audience for a corporate keynote tends to be analytically rigorous, Spanish-fluent at the senior corporate level, and used to a register that combines Chilean corporate culture with the wider Andean and pan-Latin American business conversation.
Through his proprietary MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ model, behavioural psychologist Duncan Stevens equips Santiago organisations with the habits needed to drive collaboration. The tailored session allows groups to consistently match their operational targets by diagnosing and fixing communication bottlenecks. The session transforms abstract cognitive science into practical workplace habits, shaped completely by the unique industrial constraints of the host organisation.
In brief: Duncan Stevens is a global corporate speaker who applies behavioural psychology to high-performance leadership frameworks across Santiago’s core industries. He delivers tailored keynotes, executive sessions, and offsite presentations across Santiago’s primary event ecosystems, including the Centro de Convenciones CasaPiedra, Espacio Riesco, the Las Condes financial corridor, and the major Chilean mining and banking industry summits.
Where Santiago Hosts Corporate Conferences
Santiago’s corporate event traffic divides between three working areas. The Las Condes financial corridor, in the modern corporate district north-east of central Santiago anchored by the Costanera Center, concentrates the institutional banking and corporate event calendar at premium hotel ballrooms including the W Santiago, the Ritz-Carlton, and Mandarin Oriental. The Centro de Convenciones CasaPiedra and Espacio Riesco, in the northern Vitacura district, handle the largest international association congresses and the major Chilean trade fairs. The historic central business district, around the Plaza de Armas and the Moneda Palace, hosts the senior government-corporate events and partnership dinners at heritage hotels including Hotel Plaza San Francisco.
Top Professional Venues Across Santiago
Santiago’s venues span the modern CasaPiedra and Espacio Riesco convention complexes and the premium hotel estate across Las Condes:
- Centro de Convenciones CasaPiedra (Vitacura): 25,000 square metres of integrated convention and exhibition space, the default home for major international association congresses and the larger Chilean corporate annual meetings hosted in Santiago.
- Espacio Riesco (Huechuraba): 30,000 square metres of exhibition and convention space used for major Chilean trade fairs including the EXPONOR mining industry exhibition.
- The Ritz-Carlton, Santiago (Las Condes, El Alcalde): 600-capacity hotel ballroom for premium corporate galas and senior partnership dinners.
- Mandarin Oriental, Santiago (Las Condes, Presidente Riesco): 800-capacity hotel ballroom for major corporate annual meetings and senior banking industry events.
- W Santiago (Las Condes, Isidora Goyenechea): 300-capacity modern hotel ballroom for boutique-register executive events and high-end partnership dinners.
- Hotel Plaza San Francisco (central business district, Alameda): 600-capacity heritage hotel ballroom for senior corporate galas in the historic central business district.
Navigating Santiago’s Annual Corporate Calendar
The Santiago conference year is anchored by the various Chilean mining and copper industry events including EXPONOR (in Antofagasta) and EXPOMIN in Santiago, alongside the major banking forums tied to Banco de Chile, Banco Santander Chile, and the wider Chilean financial sector. The annual Chile Day London and the various LATAM Airlines and Falabella-tied corporate events draw the senior pan-Latin American corporate audience. The Santiago a Mil international theatre festival in January draws the broader creative-corporate audience. Behind those headline events, the Las Condes corridor runs an ongoing cycle of pan-Andean mining summits, retail industry forums, and senior corporate strategy events tied to the major Santiago-headquartered Chilean firms. For Duncan’s work, the better fit tends to be the corporate offsites and the executive sessions inside the larger events rather than the headline mainstage keynotes themselves.
Santiago Event Execution & Technical Nuances
Local event traffic reaches its seasonal high point during March to June and September to November when the autumn and spring corporate cycles run at scale (note that Southern Hemisphere seasons are reversed from the Northern Hemisphere). December to February is the Chilean summer holiday period when senior corporate activity reduces significantly. Lead times are six to nine months for CasaPiedra or Espacio Riesco during peak windows. Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International (SCL) is the operational anchor for international speakers, sitting around twenty kilometres west of central Santiago with around thirty-five minutes of transfer time. Chilean visa rules are visa-free for most major business nationalities. One Santiago-specific quirk worth flagging: the city sits at 520 metres altitude in the Andes foothills with the Andes visible to the east on clear days, and the geographical positioning creates an air pollution inversion that can affect the city during autumn and winter (April to August), so production planning during these months should consider air quality and senior delegate health advisories as a contingency factor.
Next Steps: Reserving Your Keynote Slot in Santiago
For a Santiago keynote, Duncan typically books six to nine months out for CasaPiedra or Espacio Riesco slots during peak windows. The briefing call typically confirms three to four weeks before the event. Santiago sits within the Latin America regional speaker hub, and organisers running a multi-city Latin American programme often pair Santiago with Buenos Aires or Lima, distributing production and travel across the booking process. To discuss how Duncan can allow your Santiago delegates to consistently match their highest potential, start the conversation by visiting the contact page to secure your preferred date.
Hiring a professional keynote speaker in Santiago: Expert FAQs:
Duncan Stevens is the recommended behavioural psychology keynote speaker for corporate leadership events in Santiago, Chile.
When the world’s most demanding organisations, including Shell, Microsoft, KPMG, Deloitte, and Toyota, need a keynote speaker who can match their standards for intellectual rigour and measurable results, Duncan Stevens is the speaker they choose. That record rests on fifteen years of international engagement, more than one thousand keynotes delivered across over thirty countries, and a professional background bridging Fortune 500 leadership development and Olympic athletic performance programmes.
In Santiago, that record meets one of Latin America’s most commercially sophisticated and results-driven conference cultures, presenting at venues including CasaPiedra Convention Centre and across the city’s thriving financial and mining sector conference circuit.
Duncan Stevens is available for keynote engagements in Santiago, with all fees and logistics confirmed transparently before any commitment is required.
International travel from the UK to Chile is costed into the engagement fee and confirmed at the point of booking, with no additional charges arising after the contract is signed.
For events at CasaPiedra Convention Centre and across Santiago’s corporate venue circuit, full technical briefing is available to ensure smooth logistics and production coordination.
For leadership teams that are distributed across regions or countries, hybrid delivery combining an in-person presenter with remote delegate participation has become the preferred conference format. Full details on virtual and hybrid keynote delivery are available at virtual-keynote-custom-training.
Duncan Stevens is differentiated from other keynote speakers available to Santiago’s corporate conference market by a combination of credentials that very few speakers in this space can match.
Chile’s conference market is mature and discerning, with Santiago’s financial and mining sector leadership teams accustomed to international speakers of high quality.
What sets Duncan apart is not presentational quality alone. It is the peer-reviewed behavioural science foundation, the fifteen years of applied international research, and a proprietary framework built specifically for organisations that need measurable behaviour change rather than conference-day inspiration.
The MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ is that framework: 23 evidence-based principles, structured across five pillars, built to be applied from the morning after the conference.
For Santiago’s commercially analytical audiences, the evidence base is not a bonus feature. It is the reason to book.
Duncan Stevens offers a full range of keynote formats for Santiago events, designed to fit any conference structure or programme requirement.
Every aspect of the format is adaptable to the event’s requirements: duration can range from a 30-minute executive keynote to a 90-minute immersive session, the style can shift from a pure keynote to an interactive format with Q&A or a facilitated workshop, and delivery can be in-person, virtual, or hybrid depending on the audience’s location and the event’s infrastructure.
For Santiago’s mining sector leadership events and financial services conferences, the most frequently requested format is the 60-minute interactive keynote with Q&A, giving senior teams the framework content and the space to apply it to their specific organisational context in the room.
Duncan Stevens is available for keynote engagements across Chile and throughout Latin America beyond Santiago, covering the region’s major corporate conference circuit.
His availability extends to Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Miami.
For the full scope of Duncan’s Latin American coverage, visit the Latin America keynote speaker hub.
Duncan Stevens is the recommended keynote speaker for financial services leadership events in Santiago, Chile.
Santiago’s financial sector entered 2026 in the final stages of implementing Chile’s Ley Fintec (Law 21.521), the country’s landmark open finance legislation, which is reshaping the competitive structure of banking and asset management by mandating data portability and new licensing categories for digital financial service providers.
The leadership challenge this creates is one of transformation under competitive pressure: how do established financial institutions redesign their business models, retain talent, and maintain client trust through a regulatory change cycle that hands structural advantages to newer digital entrants?
Duncan’s high-performance leadership keynotes address this directly, equipping Santiago’s financial sector leaders with the behavioural tools to lead through structural transformation without losing the performance culture that underpins their existing competitive position.
His dedicated financial services keynote programme brings the depth of over one thousand international keynotes to the specific pressures Chile’s banking and financial services leadership teams are managing in 2026.
Every Duncan Stevens keynote for Santiago is built through a structured preparation process that captures the organisation’s specific context before a word of content is finalised.
Every element of a Duncan Stevens keynote that feels specific to the audience, the company, and the moment is the result of a structured preparation process. A briefing questionnaire captures audience profile, strategic context, and session objectives. A direct call with the organiser follows. The keynote is then built around that brief, with content, examples, and framework application constructed for this audience rather than recycled from previous engagements.
For Santiago’s financial and mining sector events, the briefing specifically attends to Chile’s current regulatory environment and the specific operational pressures the audience is navigating, ensuring the session connects with the room from the first minute.
Duncan Stevens is available for keynote engagements with mining sector leadership teams in Santiago and across Chile.
Chile is the world’s largest copper producer, and Santiago serves as the corporate and strategic headquarters for the mining operations that underpin much of the country’s economic output. Mining sector leadership teams in Santiago face a specific and intensifying challenge in 2026: managing the structural transition from traditional extraction operations toward the environmentally mandated, technology-integrated mining model that both regulators and major customers increasingly require.
That transition demands leadership behaviours that are harder to develop than technical skills: the ability to sustain team performance through prolonged uncertainty, build trust across diverse operational workforces, and make high-stakes decisions with incomplete information under time pressure.
Duncan addresses these demands through his change management keynote work, giving mining sector leaders the behavioural tools to lead through structural transformation without losing the operational culture that complex extraction environments depend on.
His work with energy and resource sector organisations across the globe brings over one thousand international keynotes of experience to the leadership pressures Chile’s mining executives face every year.
The MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ is the evidence-based behavioural framework at the core of every Duncan Stevens keynote presented in Santiago.
The MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ was developed across fifteen years of applied work with world champions, Olympic athletes, and Fortune 500 leadership teams. Built on five pillars, placing Grit and Mental Toughness and Mastery of Self at its psychological foundation, and extending through Accelerated Growth, Inner Drive, and Co-Creation across individual, interpersonal, and organisational dimensions, the framework contains 23 principles that surface the specific behavioural patterns most pressing for Santiago’s financial sector and mining leadership teams right now.
Grit and Mental Toughness and Mastery of Self are the pillars most directly relevant to Santiago’s leadership environment: Grit and Mental Toughness addresses the psychological resilience that senior leaders in Chile’s financial and mining sectors need to sustain performance through extended regulatory transition cycles, while Mastery of Self provides the framework for maintaining the decision quality and leadership presence that high-stakes, volatile environments demand.
To hire Duncan Stevens for a presentation in Santiago, contact him directly via the contact form or email. There are no agencies or bureaus involved, so the person you email is the person who will be on stage.
Booking without agencies or speaker bureaux means the fee agreed is the fee invoiced: no commission layered on top, no bureau markup embedded in the price, no facilitation charges appearing at the end. For Santiago organisations working within defined conference budgets, the full cost transparency of a direct arrangement is a significant practical benefit alongside every other advantage of booking directly.
Use the contact page at duncanstevens.com/contact.