Clint Pulver

Clint Pulver is an Emmy Award-winning speaker, Hall of Fame inductee, professional drummer, and the world’s leading authority on employee retention and organizational culture. Named one of Business Q Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40, he has spent years traveling the globe undercover as the Undercover Millennial — attending company meetings, shadowing teams, and conducting more than 10,000 candid employee interviews to uncover what actually drives loyalty and what triggers people to leave. The motivational speaker Clint Pulver translates that research into high-energy keynotes that give leaders the tools to build workplaces their people never want to leave.

As founder and president of the Center for Employee Retention, Pulver has worked with organizations across industries and at every level, helping corporations like the NBA, Microsoft, Red Bull, and NASA reduce turnover and build lasting cultures of engagement. His core thesis is straightforward but often overlooked: people don’t quit companies, they quit managers. And every leader has the power to become the kind of mentor who changes that equation.

His bestselling book I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave distills the most actionable lessons from his decade of undercover research. Published in 2021, it quickly reached number one and has become required reading in leadership and HR circles for its candid look at what employees actually say when no one in authority is listening.

Emmy Award Winner, Hall of Fame Speaker

In 2020, Pulver won an Emmy Award for his short film Be a Mr. Jensen — a moving piece about a teacher whose single act of mentorship changed the course of a young student’s life. The film captures the philosophy at the heart of all his work: that one caring person, at the right moment, can alter the entire trajectory of someone’s career. He holds the distinction of being the fastest speaker in the history of the National Speakers Association to be inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, an honor earned by fewer than one percent of professional speakers worldwide.

Beyond the stage, Pulver is an avid helicopter pilot and founder of Dream Machines, a youth foundation that gives children with disabilities the experience of flight. He has appeared on America’s Got Talent and acted alongside Jack Black and Jon Heder in feature films.

As a speaker, Clint Pulver delivers something rare: a keynote that is equal parts entertaining and evidence-based. His sessions are high-energy, often featuring live drumming, and built around specific, research-backed strategies that attendees can put into practice immediately. Senior audiences at leadership conferences, HR summits, and corporate offsites consistently leave his talks with a clearer understanding of what retention really requires — and a renewed sense of what great mentorship looks like in practice.