Featured Speakers

Neelay’s career on six continents includes Disney, The Super Bowl, The Olympics, NBA-All Star and years of consulting, public speaking and training. He champions “Ideas Worth Spreading” as the curator for TEDxCollegePark, TEDxIndianapolis and TEDxIndianapolisWomen and his service as a trustee for the National Recreation and Park Association sought to ensure “no child was left indoors.”

As the Founder & CEO of Next Practice Partners, he combines inclusion and innovation to help agencies prepare for “what’s next” through planning, training, and technology solutions. Over his 25-year journey, he has trained and coached Olympic Gold Medalists, Indy Car Race Drivers, Oxford Physicists and start up CEOs to tell their story and discovering their WHY.

These include co-creating the world’s largest municipal customer service and leadership training for Chicago Park District’s 3000 employees, training Los Angeles County staff serving 12 million people as a part of discovering their collective WHY and focusing on a business and operations approach to excellence and training Olympic Governing bodies such as US Sailing.

His Master and Strategic planning work with Atlanta, Broward County, Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, San Diego, among others have recommended facility development and infrastructure improvements totaling over $2.5 billion, shaping a more equitable and accessible future for all.

As a first-generation immigrant raised by three women and a father who always showed up, he hopes to model the same for his two kids. These life experiences are woven into his keynotes and training sessions on the power of one, leading with your WHY, the art of storytelling and magical customer service, and have inspired executives, professionals, startups, and students from Charlotte to China and from Switzerland to New Zealand.