Omar Hatamleh
First Chief AI Officer, NASA Goddard | Architect of NASA 2040 AI Strategy | Bestselling Author on Artificial Intelligence
Adam Toporek
Customer Experience Thought Leader | Author, Be Your Customer's Hero | Founder, Customers That Stick | 3E Leadership
Adam Toporek brings something rare to the customer experience stage: the perspective of a third-generation entrepreneur who has lived the frontline reality his frameworks are built on. Author of Be Your Customer's Hero and founder of Customers That Stick, he draws on psychology and neuroscience to move organizations beyond CX theory into practice. His keynotes are high-energy, actionable, and built to change how teams treat customers.
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Adam Toporek biography
Adam Toporek is one of the world’s most recognized customer experience thought leaders: a third-generation entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and author who has spent more than a decade helping organizations, from Fortune 100 companies to independent businesses, build customer-centric cultures that deliver measurable results. His foundation is practical. Before becoming a sought-after advisor, customer experience speaker Adam Toporek worked in the service trenches himself across retail, wholesale, franchising, and small business, giving him a ground-level fluency in what exceptional service actually requires, and why most organizations fall short of it.
Toporek is the author of Be Your Customer’s Hero, a frontline playbook that equips customer-facing teams with more than 80 concrete techniques for handling difficult interactions, managing customer emotions, and delivering consistently memorable service. The book has become a go-to resource across industries and a foundational text for customer experience programs at organizations of all sizes. He is also the founder of Customers That Stick, a platform and consultancy dedicated to helping businesses create lasting customer loyalty, and co-host of Crack the Customer Code, a podcast that has surpassed 100,000 downloads and features conversations with leading CX practitioners and thinkers.
The Science Behind the Experience
What sets Toporek apart in a crowded field is his grounding in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics. Rather than leaning on platitudes about putting the customer first, he builds his frameworks on how customers actually think, feel, and make decisions, and on how the specific words, interactions, and friction points in a journey shape emotion and memory. His proprietary 3E Leadership Framework gives leaders a structured methodology for inspiring, educating, and empowering their teams to deliver best-in-class service. He has applied these approaches with clients across retail, technology, manufacturing, franchising, and contact centers, including organizations such as Thomson Reuters and the NYC Department of Education, and has appeared in more than 200 media outlets, among them Entrepreneur and Forbes.
As a speaker, Adam Toporek is known for three things: energy, humor, and ideas that stick. His keynotes are built to be as engaging in the room as they are actionable afterward, packed with specific techniques audiences can apply immediately and delivered with the wit and warmth that keep rooms leaning forward. Whether he is addressing a leadership summit, a franchise annual meeting, or a customer experience conference, he leaves audiences not just motivated but genuinely equipped to change how their organizations treat customers.
Adam Toporek Speaking Videos
Adam Toporek: An Incredible Story of HERO Customer Service
Adam Toporek’s Mini-Keynote on Customer Experience Leadership
Adam Toporek Keynote Topics
Customer frustration is not just an inconvenience; it is a loyalty killer. In this keynote, Adam Toporek shows why removing hassle from the customer journey is one of the highest-leverage moves any organization can make, and exactly how to do it. Drawing on psychology and behavioral economics, he introduces a three-step framework for identifying, prioritizing, and eliminating the friction points that generate negative emotion, clearing the way for the experiences that build genuine loyalty. Audiences leave with tools they can deploy immediately.
Great customer experiences do not happen by accident; they are built by leaders who know how to inspire, educate, and empower their teams. This keynote introduces Adam Toporek's proprietary 3E Leadership Framework, a practical methodology for creating the conditions under which frontline teams consistently deliver exceptional service. Focused on the specific challenges of CX leadership rather than general management theory, it gives leaders the keys to building a customer-centric culture from the inside out.
The words your team chooses in every customer interaction are never neutral; they actively shape how customers feel, what they remember, and whether they return. In this research-backed keynote, Adam Toporek draws on neuroscience and psychology to show how specific language patterns create or destroy positive emotion. Audiences discover the most dangerous word in customer communication, how even isolated words shift perception, and why those who frame the experience ultimately control it. A humorous, thought-provoking talk that permanently changes how teams communicate with customers.
Based on his widely acclaimed book, this keynote gives customer-facing teams a concrete playbook for succeeding in even the most challenging service situations. Adam Toporek combines frontline experience with behavioral science to equip audiences with techniques for managing difficult interactions, handling customer emotion, and creating the memorable moments that build loyalty. Ideal for corporate and franchise annual meetings, it energizes frontline teams and hands them immediately actionable tools to raise their service game.
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FAQs on Booking Adam Toporek
Why Adam Toporek?
Booking Adam Toporek brings one of the world's most recognized customer experience experts to your audience, with a crucial difference from most CX speakers: his insights are built on real entrepreneurial experience, not just theory. As a third-generation entrepreneur who has operated across retail, franchising, and small business, Toporek speaks from the trenches. His keynotes combine psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics with practical, immediately applicable techniques that organizations from the Fortune 100 to independent businesses have used to measurably improve customer loyalty. Add his reputation for high energy, genuine humor, and fully customized presentations, and it is easy to see why event professionals call him a hero for their events. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check his availability.
What is Adam Toporek's book Be Your Customer's Hero about?
Be Your Customer's Hero is a frontline customer service playbook that gives customer-facing teams more than 80 practical concepts and techniques for succeeding in any customer interaction. It addresses the mindset, skills, and specific communication strategies needed to handle difficult customers, defuse tension, and create consistently positive experiences, even in high-pressure situations. The book has become a widely used resource for customer service training programs across industries, from hospitality and retail to technology and contact centers.
What is the Crack the Customer Code podcast?
Crack the Customer Code is a podcast co-hosted by Adam Toporek and customer experience strategist Jeannie Walters. The show features conversations with CX professionals, business leaders, and thought leaders on the practical challenges of building customer-centric organizations. With more than 100,000 downloads, it has become a go-to resource for customer experience practitioners looking for actionable ideas and industry perspective.
What topics does customer experience speaker Adam Toporek cover in his keynotes?
Adam Toporek speaks on customer experience strategy, customer-centric leadership, the psychology and neuroscience of customer behavior, reducing customer hassle, the power of language in service interactions, and building frontline teams that deliver consistently exceptional service. His keynotes suit franchise and corporate annual meetings, customer experience summits, contact center leadership events, and any gathering where organizations want to move from talking about customer centricity to actually achieving it. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to explore how Adam Toporek can energize and equip your next event.
How to book Adam Toporek as a keynote speaker?
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