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Roy Reid

Roy Reid helps organizations build high-trust cultures and resilient teams as a trust and leadership speaker and executive coach. He works with Fortune 500 companies and healthcare systems, recognized as a Top 100 Trust Thought Leader.

Trusted by AdventHealth, Walmart, Duke Energy

Roy Reid, Speaker, Trust and Leadership Expert
Roy Reid

Roy Reid

Orlando, United States

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$11k–25k

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Roy Reid's biography

At a glance

  • Co-author, The Trust Transformation
  • Advised AdventHealth, Walmart, and Duke Energy
  • Trust Across America Top 100 Thought Leader

Roy Reid is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and trust and leadership expert who helps organizations build resilient, high-trust cultures. In 2019, he survived a life-threatening aortic dissection, an experience that reshaped his focus on purpose, gratitude, and impact.


Roy is co-author of The Trust Transformation, an evidence-based training program and book that teaches leaders how to earn, build, and restore trust to improve results. He served as a principal investigator on trust research at AdventHealth and is a Senior Fellow with the Stockworth Institute. Trust Across America-Trust Around the World honored him with a lifetime achievement award and named him one of its Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior.


Roy has advised Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, and public agencies, including AdventHealth, Walmart, CSX Transportation, and Duke Energy. His programs draw on his research background and his own recovery to help leaders move away from frustration and low-trust cultures toward confident, resilient teams that improve performance, wellbeing, and organizational outcomes.


Audiences leave Roy's sessions with practical frameworks for earning trust, strengthening communication, and building resilient teams. His stories, humor, and interactive style help attendees apply what they learn immediately, whether in Fortune 500 boardrooms, healthcare systems, or professional associations.


Book Roy to give your audience a research-backed, personally tested approach to leading with trust and building high-performing teams.

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Outrageous Trust

Roy Reid opens with the paradox that most organizations claim to value trust yet rarely build it on purpose. Drawing on his research at AdventHealth and his recovery from a near-fatal cardiac event, he shows leaders how low-trust cultures quietly erode performance, retention, and wellbeing. He walks audiences through the Trust Transformation framework, using stories, humor, and audience interaction to make the ideas immediately usable. Leaders leave with a concrete starting point for building safer, higher-performing teams.

Why we recommend booking Roy

Roy pairs executive coaching credentials with a personally tested story of resilience. His Trust Transformation framework gives leadership audiences practical tools they can use immediately, a strong fit for organizations working through culture or trust challenges.

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Trusted by AdventHealth, Walmart, Duke Energy

Testimonials

Roy Reid is an extraordinary speaker, a talented facilitator, and will bring tremendous value to your program and organization.

Tiffany Hughes

Senior Director, University of Central Florida

Roy was an outstanding keynote presenter and talked about the importance of trust building relationships, and making an organization more efficient and effective with trust being analogous to oil in the engine — making things run better with less friction. Roy spent time with conference delegates to understand what was happening at the field level and helped to tie together what was presented at the conference. It is with great pleasure that JA Worldwide recommends Roy Reid in bringing passion and purpose to all areas of your organization.

Sean Rush

President and CEO, JA Worldwide

In my time with the United Safety Council, never has a guest presenter taken the time and effort that you did to learn what the United Safety Council is all about before attempting to facilitate either a retreat or employee training. Due to your extra efforts, the overwhelming response on the exit surveys stated that this was the best retreat ever. Considering that many of the members have been coming to this event for over a decade, that says a lot!

Tom Guilmet

Executive Director, United Safety Council

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The Trust Transformation: Transform Your Health, Wellbeing, and Performance Through the Power of Trust

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Email roy.reid@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 Roy'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.

What is Roy Reid's speaking style like?

Roy Reid structures his sessions around the Trust Transformation framework, walking audiences through research drawn from his work as a principal investigator at AdventHealth, combined with personal narrative from his 2019 survival of an aortic dissection, and interactive audience engagement to make the framework applicable in the room.

What topics does Roy Reid specialise in?

Roy Reid speaks on trust-building in organisations, leadership culture, and team resilience and performance. He is co-author of The Trust Transformation and served as a principal investigator on trust research at AdventHealth, and has been named one of Trust Across America's Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior.

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