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Dr. Renée Baker
Founder & CEO
Dr. Renée Baker equips executives, women leaders, and organizations to navigate change, build trust, and lead with influence in an AI-driven world. Blending boardroom experience with expertise in persuasion, leadership, and financial empowerment, she challenges audiences to think bigger, lead bolder, and turn ambition into meaningful results.
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About Dr. Renée
Dr. Renée Baker is a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, award-winning marketing executive, and trusted voice on leadership, wealth, persuasion, and the future of business.
As Founder and CEO of The RBI Group and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida, she brings nearly 30 years of experience helping individuals and organizations challenge conventional thinking, navigate change, and achieve meaningful growth.
A former Chief Marketing Officer in the investment management industry, Dr. Baker combines boardroom experience, academic insight, and real-world storytelling to explore the intersection of human behavior, artificial intelligence, influence, and financial empowerment.
She is the author of Abundance Unleashed: Redefining Wealth & Success and a passionate advocate for women's leadership and economic opportunity.
Known for her candid insights, strategic perspective, and engaging delivery, Dr. Baker inspires audiences to think differently, lead boldly, and redefine success on their own terms.
Watch Dr. Renée in Action
Signature Talks
Keynote
The Persuasion Shift: Trust and Influence in the Age of AI
Keynote
Abundance Unleashed: Redefining Wealth and Success
Keynote
Human + AI Leadership
Ideal For
Ideal for corporate leadership conferences, executive retreats, women’s leadership summits, financial services and AI forums, professional associations, and executive education programs. Dr. Baker engages C-suite executives, emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and ambitious professionals ready to navigate change, build influence, embrace innovation, and redefine success.
Books
Abundance Unleashed: Redefining Wealth & Success
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Featured In
WFLA-TV News Channel 8
Abundance Unleashed: Redefining Wealth and Success
AdvisorHub
Advisors, Not Algorithms: The 2026 Playbook for Growth & Relevance
WFLA-TV News Channel 8
Self-awareness is the foundation of great leadership
St. Pete Life Magazine
Women You Need to Know: Dr. Renée Baker
Financial Planning
20 people who will change wealth management in 2020
TEDx / TED
What We Get Wrong About the Racial Wealth Gap
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