Speaker Profile

Gene Folkes

Chief Executive Officer,

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Gene Folkes, MSOL is a strategist, entrepreneur, and thought leader focused on helping individuals and business owners reclaim agency, clarity, and control over their personal and professional narratives. As the host of the Folkes Unfettered podcast, Gene has led candid, high-impact conversations with global leaders across business, finance, technology, and law---distilling complex realities into practical, actionable insight. His work centers on exposing the hidden systems, beliefs, and narratives that quietly limit performance, opportunity, and self-trust.

Gene brings a rare blend of operational leadership, lived experience, and strategic clarity, allowing him to speak not just from theory, but from hard-earned understanding of disruption, rebuilding, and resilience. He is the author of Unshackled: Owning Your Narrative and Reclaiming Your Strength, a forthcoming work that challenges conventional thinking around identity, power, and personal accountability. Gene is a service-disabled Veteran, former Lobbyist, and sought after international speaker having competed on NBC’s The Apprentice.