Chelsea Husum
Areas of Focus
Leadership, Environment
Based In
Denver, CO
Speaker Fee Ranges
$5000 to $7500
Speaker Biography
Featured on Daymond John’s Next Level CEO and named one of the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business, Chelsea Husum is a construction company founder and CEO, bestselling author, and keynote speaker who helps leaders build trust, create lasting buy-in, and lead with greater courage and credibility. After launching American GPR & Coring in 2020 with no formal business training, Chelsea built a successful company in a demanding, male-dominated industry.
Through bold storytelling, humor, and practical frameworks, she speaks on leadership, trust, resilience, courage, and taking meaningful action before everything feels perfect.
Through bold storytelling, humor, and practical frameworks, she speaks on leadership, trust, resilience, courage, and taking meaningful action before everything feels perfect.
About
Keynote
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Her 2026 keynote engagements include the BuildHER Conference for Master Builders of Iowa, the Women in Manufacturing Summit in Las Vegas, CREW Denver’s Women of Influence Awards, R-CON in Boise, Rocky Mountain Construction Financial Management Association, Mile High Young Professionals, and the El Paso County Contractors Association Annual Awards Dinner.
Chelsea has also been invited to speak for the Unstoppable Success Summit in Dallas in both 2024 and 2025, Weekend at The Pitch Club in Scottsdale, Propeller’s Women in Construction: Authenticity Wins, Professional Women in Building Council and Young Leaders Council, Colorado Department of Transportation, Associated General Contractors of Colorado, Rocky Mountain Asphalt Conference, Women of Asphalt, Metro Wire Media, and the SHINE Conference.
Her on-camera experience also includes serving as a Guest Titan on the 2025 Go Fund Yourself! show. Chelsea’s keynotes combine bold storytelling, humor, practical frameworks, and real-world leadership lessons on trust, employee buy-in, resilience, courage, authenticity, and taking meaningful action.
Chelsea has also been invited to speak for the Unstoppable Success Summit in Dallas in both 2024 and 2025, Weekend at The Pitch Club in Scottsdale, Propeller’s Women in Construction: Authenticity Wins, Professional Women in Building Council and Young Leaders Council, Colorado Department of Transportation, Associated General Contractors of Colorado, Rocky Mountain Asphalt Conference, Women of Asphalt, Metro Wire Media, and the SHINE Conference.
Her on-camera experience also includes serving as a Guest Titan on the 2025 Go Fund Yourself! show. Chelsea’s keynotes combine bold storytelling, humor, practical frameworks, and real-world leadership lessons on trust, employee buy-in, resilience, courage, authenticity, and taking meaningful action.
✔️Earn the Follow: How Great Leaders Create Buy-In That Lasts:
Great leaders don’t demand buy-in—they earn it. Drawing from building and leading a successful construction company, Chelsea teaches leaders to Lead Out Loud, Learn the Person, and Match the Message so they can build trust, strengthen ownership, and create follow-through that lasts when the work gets hard.
✔️Built From the Mess: The Courage to Be Seen
Through bold storytelling, humor, and hard-won lessons, Chelsea challenges audiences to stop waiting for permission, come home to themselves, and have the courage to be seen. This keynote helps people turn adversity into action, own their story, use their voice, and move forward before they feel fully ready.
Great leaders don’t demand buy-in—they earn it. Drawing from building and leading a successful construction company, Chelsea teaches leaders to Lead Out Loud, Learn the Person, and Match the Message so they can build trust, strengthen ownership, and create follow-through that lasts when the work gets hard.
✔️Built From the Mess: The Courage to Be Seen
Through bold storytelling, humor, and hard-won lessons, Chelsea challenges audiences to stop waiting for permission, come home to themselves, and have the courage to be seen. This keynote helps people turn adversity into action, own their story, use their voice, and move forward before they feel fully ready.
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