Joze Piranian

Joze Piranian is a lifelong stutterer turned Forbes featured Global TEDx Speaker on Disability and Neurodiversity Inclusion at the United Nations, Google, Boeing, Meta, Tesla, IBM, Dell, Deloitte, BCG as well as conferences and educational institutions worldwide.

Born and raised in Lebanon, Joze avoided speaking for more than 25 years out of the fear of being judged for being different. Then, everything changed. He won the Inspirational Speaker of the Year award in 2017, delivered 5 TEDx talks and performed stand-up comedy in 3 continents and 4 languages.

Joze graduated from McGill University with a Bachelors in Organizational Psychology, from Queen’s University with a Master of International Business and from Cornell University with a certificate in Diversity & Inclusion.

With millions of views on his speeches about resilience and inclusion, Joze has been featured on TED,Forbes, ABC, Fox, NowThis (where he was interviewed about public perception of Joe Biden’s stutter), John Krazinski’s “Some Good News” & Ashton Kutcher’s “A plus”.