Kevin Green

Why organisations work with Kevin Green

• A career arc that has tested his own frameworks in three different operating environments: professional kitchens, classroom education and corporate keynote delivery.
• The 3P Framework (Purpose, Passion, Potential) gives audiences a single, repeatable structure for moving from feeling stuck to taking action, useful for leaders managing people through reinvention.
• A teaching style built on practical demonstration, not abstraction. He came up running real kitchens and competing on Food Network’s Chopped, and brings that operator instinct to the stage.
• Strong fit for student and early-career audiences as well as corporate teams, with documented work with the University of Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Education and Pellissippi State Community College.

Biography highlights

• Founder of Kevin Green Elevates, a keynote and workshop practice focused on leadership alignment and personal execution.
• Competitor on Food Network’s Chopped.
• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Lipscomb University, Nashville.
• Built and ran Chef Kevin Culinary, a personal chef business spanning private dinners, cooking classes and culinary education.
• Speaking clients and partners include the University of Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Education, Pellissippi State Community College and Toastmasters.
• Reported keynote speaker for the IASP 2026 Global Conference, with a talk titled “Do It Scared”.

Biography

Most teams do not lack effort. They lack alignment. Priorities pile up, ownership drifts, and people work hard on the wrong things. That is the problem Kevin Green built his keynote practice around, drawing on a career that has crossed kitchens, classrooms and corporate rooms.

His operator background is unusual for a speaker on this topic. He trained as a chef, ran his own personal chef business in Knoxville, Tennessee, taught culinary arts to teenagers, and competed on Food Network’s Chopped. Each of those environments forced him to translate intent into clean, repeatable execution under pressure, and that is the frame he brings to leaders.

His core teaching tool is the 3P Framework, Purpose, Passion, Potential. It gives audiences a simple structure for separating what they actually want from what they have inherited, and then for moving from clarity into action. He uses it with college students choosing direction, with early-career professionals at crossroads, and with corporate teams trying to get priorities, roles and expectations into the same shape.

He is known for energy on stage and for breaking complex ideas into language a working audience can use the next morning. Clients include the University of Tennessee, the Tennessee Department of Education and Pellissippi State Community College, and he was named to open the IASP 2026 Global Conference with a keynote titled “Do It Scared”.

Key speaking topics

• Purpose, passion and potential as a personal operating framework
• Leadership and team alignment
• Personal execution and follow-through
• Resilience and self-leadership at career crossroads
• Authentic working life and identity at work
• Presence, body language and vocal delivery

Ideal for

• Corporate leadership offsites and all-hands events focused on execution and ownership
• Sales kick-offs and culture days where energy and clarity matter as much as content
• University and college audiences, including career services, student life and athletic departments
• Early-career and high-potential cohorts navigating career direction

Audience outcomes

• A clearer personal answer to what they are working towards and why
• A simple framework, the 3P method, that survives the trip back to the desk
• A sharper read on where their own priorities, roles and expectations are out of alignment
• Renewed momentum, with concrete actions to take in the days after the event
• Practical language for talking about presence, voice and how they show up at work