The Persuasion Shift
Who shapes what people believe, buy, and trust when AI and media increasingly influence the decision environment?
Educator✦Executive✦EntrepreneurMedia and speaking
Ideas that move the room forward.
Dr. Baker brings executive experience, academic insight, and a clear point of view to conversations about AI and media, financial-services marketing, trust, and institutional communication.
Featured broadcast conversation
Measuring Success Beyond Titles and Income
A discussion of how leaders can evaluate success through alignment, well-being, financial confidence, freedom, and impact.
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Expertise in motion.
Speaking translates research, executive experience, and complex ideas into sharper questions and practical decisions.
Keynotes and audience conversations · Explore topics
Student and campus conversations · Start an inquiry
Signature topics
Ideas that hold up in the room.
Human-First AI
How leaders can move from AI curiosity to responsible adoption without surrendering judgment, accountability, or trust.
Money, Meaning, and Modern Wealth
A sharper conversation about financial confidence, economic agency, and the forces that shape how people define success.
Positioned for Profit
How strategy, brand clarity, and credible communication create stronger paths to visibility, growth, and value.
Marketing leadership
From corporate leadership to entrepreneurship and academia.
Dr. Baker is a former Chief Marketing Officer who also served as President of The CMO Club’s Tampa Bay chapter from 2017 to 2023 and received its CMO Leadership Award in 2018. That experience informs how she teaches strategy, develops future talent, advises organizations, and convenes leaders around change.
Work with Dr. Baker
Bring the expertise into your room.
Every engagement is shaped around the audience, the decision at hand, and the level of depth the setting requires.
Keynotes and featured conversations
Compelling, evidence-informed talks on human-centered AI, trust, financial-services marketing, and communication in changing media environments.
For conferences · leadership events · industry conveningsExecutive and faculty education
Applied sessions that help leaders move from AI curiosity to sound adoption, clearer communication, and responsible organizational practice.
For executive teams · faculty · professional organizationsStrategic and media conversations
Accessible expert perspective on AI and media, marketing in regulated industries, trust, persuasion, and the changing relationship between people and technology.
For broadcast · podcasts · panels · moderated conversationsPlanning an AI and media program?Share the audience, format, date, and the decision or question you want the session to address.
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Broadcast conversations
July 15, 2026
How Hardship Can Become a Catalyst for Intentional LivingWFLA Bloom Health Club
June 16, 2026Intentional LeadershipWFLA Bloom Tampa Bay
April 24, 2026Fine Tuning Your Money MindsetWFLA Bloom Tampa Bay
April 23, 2026The Abundance FrameworkWFLA Bloom Tampa Bay
April 16, 2026Redefining Wealth and SuccessWFLA Rooted in Progress
Conferences and events
Selected speaking engagements
Keynotes, featured talks, workshops, and panel conversations across academic, industry, and community settings.
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Golden Table Talk: Metamorphosis in Real Life
Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church
May 27, 2026Featured speakerWit, Wisdom & Women
Athena Society · Leadership, abundance, and success
Be Prepared: Reputation Management in a Polarized AI World
AEJMC Law Division Preconference
Positioned for Profit
IQONIK Talks at The Speaking Industry Expo
AI Unleashed
AI Insights Summit
Power to Powerful
Women Entrepreneurship Conference
3DE EmpowerHer
Junior Achievement Tampa Bay
The Value Equation
Private financial-industry forum
Edward Jones B.E.L.I.E.V.E. Workshop
B.E.L.I.E.V.E. in Your Brand
Jump$tart National Educator Conference
What Does This Look Like Tomorrow?
InformaConnect EDGE Conference
InformaConnect
TEDxEustis
What We Get Wrong About the Racial Wealth Gap
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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Law Division Preconference
Panelist
IQONIK Talks at The Speaking Industry Expo
Positioned for Profit
AI Insights Summit
AI Unleashed
Women Entrepreneurship Conference
Keynote, Power to Powerful
Junior Achievement Tampa Bay, 3DE EmpowerHer
Keynote
AI Innovation Summit
Positioned for Profit
Women Leaders Association
Transform Your Marketing
Civility Experts
Civility and Leadership
Black Wealth Summit
Financial Empowerment
Organizations and stages
Selected organizations and stages.
Wealth Management EDGEInvestmentNewsSIFMAAssociation of African American Financial AdvisorsJump$tart CoalitionEdward JonesZenith Wealth PartnersJunior Achievement 3DEWomen Entrepreneurship ConferenceBlack Wealth SummitWFLA Bloom Tampa Bay
Podcast conversations
Listen to Dr. Baker
Hosted by Dr. Renée BakerThe Unleashed Life
ListenConversations about wealth, purpose, leadership, and building a life on your own terms.
Podcast appearances
2026
Rooted in Progress
Redefining Wealth and Success
2025Financially Empowered Women
Own Your Worth: How Women Can Stop Shrinking and Start Building Wealth
2024Financial Secrets Revealed
From Side Hustle to CEO with Dr. Renée Baker
2024Disruptive Forces
Making Dollars and Sense: The Critical Role of Financial Literacy
2023Working on Financial Literacy
A conversation with Dr. Renée Baker
2020Her Success Matters
InvestmentNews conversation with Dr. Renée Baker