Speaker
Human Transformation. Faith. Leadership. Technology. Global Impact.
International Keynote Speaker
Zachry Godfrey, “Big Z,” is an international keynote speaker, CEO, entrepreneur and host of Talks with Big Z™: The Global Impact Show, speaking at the intersection of human transformation, faith, leadership, technology, and global commerce.
He doesn’t simply speak about leadership from the stage; he lives it from the CEO chair.
Drawing from more than 25 years of building companies, navigating adversity, leading teams, developing global partnerships, and creating technology designed to move commerce toward measurable human impact, Zachry challenges audiences to rethink what success, leadership, and legacy should look like.
His message is both deeply personal and highly relevant to today’s leaders:
Build what comes next without losing what makes us human.
Core Differentiation
Zachry’s speaking platform extends beyond traditional motivation.
His experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, faith-led leader, technology builder, survivor, and global impact advocate allows him to speak authentically across personal transformation, executive leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, human performance, and the future of commerce.
Every message ultimately comes back to one question:
What are we building—and who becomes better because we built it?
Four Flagship Keynote Families
Battle — Personal Transformation
The seasons that almost break us can become the seasons that prepare us.
A deeply personal keynote about adversity, resilience, surrender, faith, identity, and what happens when the chapter you thought was destroying your future was actually preparing you for it.
Lead — Human-First Leadership
Companies don’t lead people. People lead people.
Technology is accelerating. Artificial intelligence is transforming business. Organizations are becoming more distributed and complex. But the future of leadership cannot become less human.
Drawing directly from the CEO chair, Zachry challenges leaders to build cultures where performance and humanity coexist, where accountability, innovation, service, trust, and purpose create organizations people actually want to belong to.
Build — Business, Technology & the Future
The greatest technological transformation in history should not require us to sacrifice the human experience.
AI, fintech, automation, embedded finance, and new forms of commerce are changing how the world moves value. As a technology CEO actively building inside that transformation, Zachry brings audiences beyond theory into the decisions leaders are making right now.
He explores how organizations can embrace innovation, scale intelligently, and build what’s next while keeping trust, relationships, and humanity at the center.
Impact — Global Conscious Commerce
What if every transaction could become an opportunity for impact?
Global Conscious Commerce is Zachry Godfrey’s vision for a future where profitability, technology, leadership, and human impact no longer operate as separate ideas.
Businesses should make money. But the most important organizations of the next generation will understand something more:
Profit can create possibility. Commerce can create impact. Leadership can create legacy.
Build — Technology & Fintech Keynote
Building the Next Era of Global Commerce Without Losing the Human Being
Zachry is able to address payments and commerce from a global CEO perspective while keeping humanity at the core of the transaction.
The future of payments will not be defined by a single processor, platform or rail. It will be defined by intelligent orchestration—technology capable of connecting payment methods, providers, markets, and experiences while making complexity disappear for the human being on either side of the transaction.
From the perspective of a CEO actively building global commerce infrastructure, Zachry explores what happens when payments stop being treated as a back-office function and become part of the human experience of business.
This keynote connects orchestration, embedded finance, AI, global expansion, trust, choice, and impact with one central challenge:
As technology becomes more powerful, how do we make commerce more human—not less?
101
Clear, novel perspective: why the next era of commerce must keep humanity at the center.
201
Decision frameworks leaders can use to evaluate orchestration, innovation, partnerships, and customer experience.
301
Executive working session: map a human-first commerce experience and identify where technology, orchestration, and organizational decisions can remove friction.
Available for fintech, payments, SaaS, AI, banking, commerce, retail technology, and digital-transformation conferences, as well as leadership events.
The Range
Faith-led leadership • Calling • Purpose • Stewardship • Identity • Legacy
Adversity • Resilience • Mental health • Reinvention • Preparation • Personal growth
CEO leadership • Culture • Servant leadership • Team development • Decision-making • Leading through uncertainty
Discipline • Health & wellness • Mental resilience • Longevity • Alignment • Human performance
Building companies • Scaling organizations • Founder leadership • Strategic partnerships • Capital and growth • Innovation
Artificial intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Payment orchestration • Embedded finance • Digital transformation • Commerce infrastructure • Future of business
Global Conscious Commerce • Purpose-driven capitalism • Social impact • Community transformation • Business as a force for good
Why Big Z
A personal story of adversity, rebuilding, and transformation.
Faith isn’t an addition to his leadership philosophy. It is the foundation of it.
He speaks about leadership while actively carrying the responsibility of leading.
He has spent more than two decades building companies, teams, partnerships, and technology.
He operates inside fintech, AI, payments, and the rapidly changing future of global commerce.
He believes spiritual, mental, and physical alignment determines how much responsibility a leader can sustainably carry.
He is advancing Global Conscious Commerce—a vision where economic growth and measurable human impact work together.
Through Talks with Big Z™: The Global Impact Show, Zachry brings leaders, founders, athletes, creators, and change-makers together around conversations capable of moving people into action.
Audiences
Leadership, culture, transformation, human performance and innovation.
Building, scaling, resilience, purpose and entrepreneurship.
AI, orchestration, embedded finance, payments, global commerce, innovation and humanity in technology.
Mindset, preparation, discipline, resilience and sustained performance.
Calling, stewardship, faith-led leadership and overcoming adversity.
Mental resilience, health, discipline, longevity and the responsibility to care for the person carrying the mission.
Purpose, entrepreneurship, leadership, identity and preparing for the future.
Service, conscious commerce, community impact and leadership beyond ourselves.
For Event Planners
The speaker reel shows Zachry’s keynote delivery. The walkout film is a produced stage introduction for your event.
Build what comes next without losing what makes us human.
Technology will change.
Markets will change.
Companies will change.
The way we communicate, transact, and work will continue changing faster than any generation before us has experienced.
But people will still need purpose.
Leaders will still need character.
Teams will still need trust.
Communities will still need people willing to serve.
And every leader will eventually have to answer the same question:
Did I simply build something successful, or did I build something that mattered?
That is the conversation Zachry Godfrey brings to the stage.
Love Big. Believe Big. Serve Big. Impact Big.
Book Zachry
Request a booking with Zachry Godfrey. Share your event details and Zachry’s team will follow up.
