About Roy
The foundation: from P&G to building a legacy
Roy Hirshland's career started where a lot of great ones do — in the field, learning to sell. His time in the Procter & Gamble Sales Management Training program didn't just teach him how to close; it taught him what actually moves people. Not the pitch. Not the data. The story behind it. That lesson followed him as he rose through the commercial real estate world, eventually leading him to co-found
T3 Advisors; a firm he built from a conviction he couldn't shake: that the innovation economy deserved better than the traditional brokerage model.
Over the next two decades, T3 became the leading real estate workplace solutions advisor to life sciences and technology companies. Roy became the kind of CEO who could walk into any boardroom — from a scrappy Series B to a Fortune 500; and read the room instantly.
In 2014, Ernst & Young named him Entrepreneur of the Year. The Boston Business Journal had put him on its 40 Under 40 list more than a decade earlier. The accolades were nice. But what Roy was really building was a track record of knowing how to communicate; clearly, honestly, and in a way that made people lean in.
The pivot
and the person
Somewhere along the way — across thousands of client conversations, dozens of leadership meetings, and more than a
few high-stakes presentations — Roy started noticing a pattern.
The leaders who got what they wanted weren't always the smartest in the room. They were the ones who knew how to tell a story.
That observation quietly became an obsession, and eventually a calling. Roy began teaching it — first informally, then as structured workshops for sales teams, leadership retreats, and college students. Bloomberg Radio came calling. Then company annual meetings, television appearances, and stages of every size. But what makes
Roy different from the typical business speaker isn't the resume —
it's the range.
He chaired the national board of BUILD, a nonprofit that gives high school students in under-resourced communities the entrepreneurship tools to become the CEOs of their own lives.
That combination — hard-won credibility and genuine human warmth is exactly what shows up when Roy is in front of your team. He's not there to impress anyone. He's there to help you find the story worth telling. And in his experience, every company has one.
See Roy In Action
There are speakers who talk about storytelling. And then there's Roy — who just does it. Watch him work, and you'll understand immediately why the people who book him once always call him back.
Places Roy has Inspired
Roy built a career on real conversations
this is where
yours starts.
If you're interested in having Roy speak at your event, partner on a workshop, or simply want to connect, drop a note below. No pitch decks needed — just tell him a little about what you're working on.
