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Molly Grantham

Molly Grantham helps organizations build confidence and communicate with impact. A 4x Emmy-winning journalist and anchor who led #1 newscasts for 20 years, she now delivers keynotes for clients including Google, Bank of America, and Coca-Cola Consolidated.

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Molly Grantham

Molly Grantham

Charlotte, United States

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Molly Grantham's biography

At a glance

  • Sole female anchor of a #1 US primetime newscast for 20 years
  • Founded the sell-out Bet On Yourself Summit at an NFL stadium
  • Author of 3 books: Small Victories, The Juggle Is Real, Practice Makes... Progress

Molly Grantham is a 4x Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor with a 27-year broadcast career spanning ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates. For two decades, she anchored the #1 primetime newscast in her market and conducted more than 15,000 live interviews, including national segments for CNN and the Today Show.


In 2024, she founded the Bet On Yourself Summit, a sell-out event held at an NFL stadium that brought together thousands of people ready to invest in themselves. The summit marked a new chapter: taking the principles she'd developed on air, from leading under pressure to communicating with clarity and performing without a safety net, and translating them into keynote content for corporate audiences.


Her client list includes Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola Consolidated, Atrium Health, Wells Fargo, and Takeda. She speaks on confidence, communication, resilience, and high performance, drawing on firsthand experience of navigating a high-stakes, high-visibility career while raising three children.


Molly is also the author of three books: Small Victories, The Juggle Is Real, and Practice Makes... Progress. Each is rooted in honest, practical storytelling about ambition, setbacks, and growth.


Book Molly Grantham for practical, story-driven keynotes on confidence and communication from someone who spent 27 years delivering under live pressure.

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Bet On Yourself

After two decades leading top-rated newscasts, Molly Grantham chose not to renew her contract, then was abruptly locked out of the building eight minutes before air. Rather than wait for answers, she bet on herself, launching the sell-out Bet On Yourself Summit with a 1,600-plus waitlist within a month. In this session, Molly shows how to look through the windshield rather than the rearview, find the clarity and courage to take initiative, and build confidence that strengthens both the individual and the team.

Practice Makes Progress

Perfection was never the point. Drawing on 27 years in news, leading multimillion-dollar newscasts and speaking live to 100,000 people a night, Molly Grantham shows how fundamental steps combined with imaginative moves deliver long-term wins. She shares specifics on transforming the noise, staying elastic under pressure, and handling tough, critical clients. Simple, workable suggestions for managing relationships, a reminder that leadership is a choice, and a case for development as a cornerstone of organizations that flourish.

The Little Secret To Great Communication

Effective communication remains our best currency. After decades in the public eye and its pressures, Molly Grantham relays the three-word mantra she uses to navigate complicated conversations and build a culture of collaboration. She shares insider techniques from mass communication and storytelling, showing how to create a community of peers that amplifies belonging and voice. Words carry weight: choosing the right ones builds trust, sharpens command presence, and sets the standard others follow.

The Juggle Is Real

None of us work in silos: everyone has a life beyond the job title. Molly Grantham worked 2 p.m. to midnight for 20 years with no flexibility, raising three young children and writing three acclaimed books on the topic. In this interactive session she shares a three-step process for being authentic, getting it all done, and staying grounded, leaving the room laughing, feeling seen, and equipped to set priorities, own their leadership style, and deliver without drowning in the noise.

Why we recommend booking Molly

A 4x Emmy Award-winning journalist, Molly anchored the #1 primetime newscast in her market for two decades and conducted over 15,000 live interviews, including segments for CNN and the Today Show. She now speaks to corporate audiences on confidence and communication, drawing on that broadcast experience for teams facing high-stakes moments.

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Testimonials

I watched Molly engage with over 100 teammates, captivating us all with her own authentic narrative. We left there inspired and re-energized.

Amy Rogers

Coca-Cola Consolidated

Molly delivered a couple of outstanding sessions that made a real impact on attendees. Her leadership ideas were practical and easy to put into action, helping professionals think about ways to raise their own visibility and highlight our community. One point that really stuck with me was the importance of celebrating wins to build confidence. Molly's passion and purpose came through in every word she spoke.

Chip Vanderzee

2025 APWA-NC President, APWA-NC

Molly Grantham was an amazing keynote presenter at the October 2024 NCWorks Partnership Conference in Greensboro. She connected really well with conference attendees and delivered great content, shared heartfelt stories, and gave us wonderful takeaways. We departed this year’s conference with renewed motivation in our commitment to serve.

Colette Trombley

NCWorks Training Center

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Email molly.grantham@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Molly's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.

Molly Grantham structures her sessions around first-person broadcast experience, using a three-part framework of specific mantras, named techniques, and direct case examples drawn from 27 years of live television to translate high-pressure communication principles into workable guidance for corporate audiences.

What is Molly Grantham's speaking style like?

Molly Grantham structures her sessions around first-person broadcast experience, using a three-part framework of specific mantras, named techniques, and direct case examples drawn from 27 years of live television to translate high-pressure communication principles into workable guidance for corporate audiences.

Molly Grantham structures her sessions around first-person broadcast experience, using a three-part framework of specific mantras, named techniques, and direct case examples drawn from 27 years of live television to translate high-pressure communication principles into workable guidance for corporate audiences.

What topics does Molly Grantham specialise in?

Molly Grantham's sessions cover self-belief and career transitions, communication and storytelling techniques, and leadership development through iterative progress rather than perfectionism. She is a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor with a 27-year broadcast career, during which she served as the sole female anchor of a number-one primetime newscast for two decades, conducting more than 15,000 live interviews and speaking to audiences of 100,000 people a night.

Molly Grantham's sessions cover self-belief and career transitions, communication and storytelling techniques, and leadership development through iterative progress rather than perfectionism. She is a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor with a 27-year broadcast career, during which she served as the sole female anchor of a number-one primetime newscast for two decades, conducting more than 15,000 live interviews and speaking to audiences of 100,000 people a night.

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