Keynotes That Fill Seats and Change Practices.

Laura Virili is a top-rated national speaker in financial services — delivering high-energy, immediately actionable keynotes for conferences, firm events, and leadership summits across the country.

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Laura's programs are ideal for:
President's Club & Chairman's Council Sales Leadership Conferences Wealth Management Retreats Advisor Training & Development Women's Leadership Events International Women's Day Client Appreciation Events Regional & National Advisor Conferences Broker-Dealer & Distribution Events
Signature Programs

Choose the Talk That Fits Your Audience.

Three signature keynotes, each adaptable to your audience — keynote, breakout, or 3-hour workshop format.

All Advisors

Contagious Growth — The O² Method for Financial Advisors

The framework behind Laura's book.

Most advisors are excellent at what they do. Their clients love them. Their results speak for themselves. And yet they're still the best-kept secret in their market. The problem isn't performance — it's architecture. This keynote introduces the O² Method (Online × Offline) — the framework that separates the advisors who grow by design from the ones who grow by chance. Adapts for HNW female client acquisition, LinkedIn visibility, wholesaler leverage, or AI-enabled practice depending on your audience.

Key Takeaways
  • The O² flywheel — how online presence creates the invitation and offline events generate the content that fuels it
  • The Contagious 12™ — Laura's signature framework for a full-year client acquisition system
  • How to position yourself as the advisor your market can't stop talking about — without being louder
All Advisors · Great for Conferences

Contagious Events™ — The Ultimate Client Acquisition Tool in Disguise

Why the right kind of event is the most underrated growth lever in your practice.

Inspired by Jonah Berger's Contagious, this is Laura's signature keynote — and the one event planners keep booking again. Laura breaks down exactly what separates a forgettable client dinner from a Contagious Event that clients talk about for months. Most advisors think events are about appreciation. The advisors who use them as their primary acquisition channel know better — events are the only client experience that turns attendees into advocates before they leave the room.

Key Takeaways
  • The anatomy of a Contagious Event — what makes it unforgettable and referral-generating
  • How to design client experiences that become social currency, not just appreciation gestures
  • The signature formats Laura has produced live — Chanel Lip Gloss Soirées, Fashion & Finance, and the playbook for designing your own
Solo Practices · Small Teams · Independent Advisors

Your AI Marketing Department — How Solo & Small-Team Advisors Compete

The plug-and-play AI playbook for advisors without a marketing team.

Big firms have marketing departments. Independent and small-team advisors don't. But every advisor now has access to the same AI tools — and most have no idea how to use them. This keynote gives advisors a practical, compliant, plug-and-play framework for using AI as their marketing department: content creation, event invitations, follow-up sequences, the works. Laura walks through prompts that work, prompts that don't, and the 31-touchpoint annual marketing calendar she runs with her own clients.

Key Takeaways
  • The AI prompts every advisor should have ready for content, events, and client communications
  • How to build a year-round marketing calendar that runs on autopilot (with AI doing the heavy lifting)
  • The compliance guardrails that keep AI-generated content client-ready and broker-dealer-approved
Previous Appearances Include:
Merrill Lynch Bank of America JPMorgan Chase Wells Fargo UBS RBC Raymond James Allianz Nationwide John Hancock Lincoln Financial TruChoice Belle Haven