Kevin Baker
Keynote Speaker | The Resilient Perspective | From Prison to Podium
- Role
- Library Production Manager at Freedom Reads
- Location
- West Hartford, CT, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Baker
Kevin Baker is a keynote speaker and founder of KevinBakerSpeaks.com, delivering presentations to corporate, financial services, and leadership audiences. Before taking the stage, Kevin spent nearly two decades in the financial services industry as a top-performing wholesaler and leader, working directly with advisors, sales teams, and management in high-pressure, performance-driven environments. His perspective is shaped by both professional success and a defining turning point that included a seven-year prison sentence for multiple armed bank robberies. What followed was not the end, but a turning point—forcing him to confront failure and rebuild from the ground up. Through years of work with counselors, coaches, and structured programs—including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)—Kevin developed practical tools for navigating adversity, making better decisions under pressure, and moving forward after setbacks. Today, he brings those insights to the stage through his keynote, THE RESILIENT PERSPECTIVE, combining lived experience with practical tools that help individuals and teams respond more effectively to pressure, adversity, and the decisions that define their trajectory. Kevin lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with his family. This work is grounded in lived experience and centered on one core idea: Perspective is the foundation of performance.
Experience
Library Production Manager
Apr 2023 — Present · Hamden, CT, US
Library Production Manager of the manufacturing of our Freedom Reads libraries that are built by formerly incarcerated men and women and placed in housing blocks at prison facilities coast to coast. Freedom Reads is an amazing concept and organization that is dedicated to helping incarcerated men and women find solace, knowledge and lessons in hundreds of books that these libraries place into their housing blocks.
Education
University of Connecticut
Bachelor's degree, Economics & English (dual degrees)
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