Speaking

As with mentoring, speaking events and workshops are completely customized for your group’s needs and desired results. You want participants to be moved and positively changed, not merely talked at.

For America’s Best Cleaners (pictured below), I delivered an experiential, day-long workshop for business owners who had been cooped up indoors in a conference for four days. The group was hungry to learn about management, but I knew they’d be tired of sitting around listening to people talk. We worked with simple movements from the martial art Aikido to give them an experience of centered and grounded leadership that words alone can’t deliver, on a pristine, autumn day in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

I’m passionate about finding new ways to help people grow. Change is challenging for everyone, and a good teacher is always asking themselves, “How can my audience learn faster? What are they needing that I’m not yet giving them?”

Great teaching means preparation, customization, and inevitably improvisation. I build on what’s worked in the past and tune into what the moment calls for. If you’d like me to work with your group, I’ll have myriad questions for you about their needs, priorities, and obstacles. Often I want to pre-interview participants if possible.

During events, energy and engagement is everything. Even for a one hour keynote, I’m part of the event team, from initial planning to debrief. Every moment during an event is an opportunity for either energy gain or energy drain, and each must do their part to ensure participants get more than they came for.

Hundreds of topics are possible, but the theme is inevitably about getting real. Speaking to the invisible dynamics that cause people’s frustrations is the most powerful: whether in management, finance, marketing, sales, or anything else, the real problem is usually hidden from view. We take people to deep places in themselves they didn’t realize existed, and through expanding awareness, help them solve their own problems.

The following are some of the most requested topics, that can be as short as a keynote, or as long as a multi-day workshop:

  • The Discipline of Self-Management: How invisible chronic overwhelm causes major business problems that can easily be fixed.
  • Fall in Love with Financial Management: Transform relationship to money and numbers and realize how fun it is.
  • The Nine Leadership Challenges: How to change where your strengths have become weaknesses.
  • Mentoring Employees: Appealing to healthy self-interest to cultivate authentic engagement.
  • Positioning and Differentiation: Using negative aspects of your industry’s reputation to your advantage.
  • The Power of the Enneagram: The best personality typing system on the planet that you can’t sell, lead, or manage well without.
  • Sales as Relationality: In an increasingly lonely world, authentic connection is the engine of powerful sales. Sales is more about awareness than skill.
  • How to be Coachable: If you want to go far, you need to learn. If you need to learn, you first need to be a great student.
  • Critical & Paradigmatic Thinking: Unfortunately school doesn’t make us smart enough for life’s challenges, and this is what it left out.
  • The Soul of Branding: Hollow marketing doesn’t work. It needs to be a direct expression of leaders’ values, not only appealing to customers’ needs.

I’ve been training business leaders and managers since 2002. There are very few topics I can’t shed a bright light on. Please listen to the podcast to learn more. To inquire about availability and explore if there’s a good fit, feel free to contact me. Please also see my LinkedIn page.

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