Simone Knego

Simone Knego is a keynote speaker, two-time TEDx presenter, and USA Today bestselling author who helps people stop waiting to feel ready and start taking the bold steps that lead to real results. Through her REAL Method®, organizations build more confident leaders and teams who speak up, make decisions, and perform at a higher level.
Simone shares her message with corporate teams, leadership conferences, associations, and women’s leadership events. She mixes humor and real-life stories with practical tools that audiences can use right away. Simone wrote REAL Confidence: A Simple Guide to Go from Unsure to Unshakeable and The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You. She also co-hosts the podcast Her Unshakeable Confidence with her daughter, Olivia. She’s been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Entrepreneur, and Yahoo News.
Simone earned her accounting degree at the University of Florida and started her career as a CPA. She later spent years at home raising her six children, and then, with zero hiking experience, decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. That climb became her most requested story and launched the work she does today: helping people and organizations stop waiting to feel ready. Simone and her husband, Rob, have been married for 33 years and live in Sarasota, Florida.