KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professional. Entertaining. Inspiring.
Mari speaks to audiences in their messy middle — giving them what they need to keep going. With 20+ years of leadership, four businesses built, and a story that stops a room, her keynotes feel more like conversations than presentations. Professional enough for big stages. Real enough to change how people think long after.
THE EXPERIENCE
Everyone loves an inspiring and true story about transformation.
Mari transports audiences into their own possibility through entertaining stories, real-world lessons, and tangible actionable steps that equip them with what they need to get everything they want out of their life and work.
She keeps it simple yet manages to hit every category — from work and family to purpose and wealth, as well as growth and contribution. More like a conversation than a presentation, Mari engages her audiences in a way that helps her message stick.
20+ Years of Leadership
Mari helped build 3 companies over nearly 3 decades, sitting in every role from admin to CEO. From there, she began coaching others how to achieve similar success.
50+ Keynotes Delivered
From corporate conferences to intimate leadership summits, Mari has moved audiences across industries to take ownership of their next chapter with confidence.
Author of #KeepGoing
Mari shares her journey of transformation from teen mom to CEO and entrepreneur in her book — a roadmap for anyone ready to take charge of their life.
MARI'S SPEAKING STYLE
Polished. Personal. Unforgettable.
Mari provides a polished and professional experience that feels more like a one-on-one conversation than a presentation or talk. As a relatable and masterful storyteller, she engages her audiences in a way that helps her message stick.
She speaks to people sitting in their messy middle — the place almost everyone finds themselves at some point — and gives them real, practical tools to take the next step forward, in every category of life.
THE EXPERIENCE
What Mari brings to your stage.
KEYNOTE 2026-2027
Profit Loves Purpose.
Why the best leaders have stopped choosing between making money and making meaning — and how the ones who refuse to pick a side end up building the most profitable, most purpose-driven businesses of all.
Most leaders think they're stuck with a choice: build a profitable business or a purpose-driven one. Chase the numbers or chase the mission. Mari Tautimes has lived on both sides of that line, and she's here to call the choice what it is — false.
Drawing on 20+ years of building companies (including one she sold for $16 million) and her own improbable climb from teen mom to CEO, Mari makes the case that profit and purpose aren't rivals fighting over the same oxygen — they're multipliers. And quietly starving one shrinks the other.
Equal parts honest story and challenge, this talk hands leaders a new way to see their business, their team, and their own ambition: not as a trade-off to manage, but as a both/and to build.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:
A clear framework for aligning profit and purpose inside their business — not after it's successful, but as the engine of it.
The ability to spot where they've been quietly starving one side of the equation.
A new way to communicate mission to their team that drives performance, not just morale.
Mari's personal story of what it cost her to learn this — and what it unlocked when she did.
One decision they can make this week to start building a both/and business.
MEET MARI
From teen mom to CEO — and now training the next generation of speakers.
Entrepreneur · Speaker · Coach · Author
Mari Tautimes brings 20+ years of entrepreneurial leadership to coach, train, and inspire business leaders. A speaker, trainer, EOS Implementer®, and mentor, she helps leaders unlock potential and live more fulfilling lives.
Her journey took her from Administrative Assistant to CEO, ultimately selling her family’s businesses for $16 million. Today, she’s a mother of four in Phoenix, AZ, helping others dream big, define their vision, and take action.
20+
YEARS LEADING
200+
TALKS GIVEN
$16M
BUSINESS EXIT
SEE IT FOR YOURSELF
Professional.
Entertaining. Inspiring.
One watch is worth a thousand words. See what it feels like to be in Mari's audience.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Audiences don't just applaud, they rave.
Mari Tautimes' painfully honest account of her very challenging life — laid bare — is an emotional, inspiring tour de force. It reminded me that all of us are struggling and need help from time to time, and that we're all capable of far more than we may believe.
Mike Paton
Achieve Traction
Mari's talk was the highlight of our event. She had the entire room completely engaged — fully present in a way that rarely happens at conferences. Her story is impossible to ignore and her message is impossible to forget.
Sarah Mitchell
Event Oraganizer
Full of tragedy, self-discovery, and remarkable perseverance — this is the living embodiment of Churchill's famous line: "If you're going through hell, keep going." I couldn't put it down, and I couldn't stop thinking about it after.
Jennifer Carter
Conference Attendee
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