KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

While I enjoy facilitating training sessions, coaching individuals, and consulting on organizational issue, I love reaching larger audiences through my keynote presentations. (I guess it’s the former actor in me!) So if you’re looking for an entertaining and educational presentation for your company or nonprofit organization, I hope you’ll consider me. Please take a look at the following keynote topics and let me know if you have any questions – or if you’re interested in booking me for an upcoming event.

Marathon Leadership®

This presentation focuses on The 26.2 Lessons for Modern Leaders, beginning with the most important: “Leadership is a marathon – management is a series of sprints.” Designed for both corporate and community leaders, “Marathon Leadership®” examines the similarities between training for and completing a marathon and becoming better leaders. By incorporating humor, real-life examples, and the most recent research on leadership and management, “Marathon Leadership®” will motivate and educate audience members who want to improve their leadership skills.

TALKING ‘BOUT MY GENERATION

This presentation is designed to help audience members better understand and manage the unique characteristics that members of different generations bring to the workplace. Specifically, I introduce the fours generations that constitute the American workforce (Veteran, Baby Boomer, Generation X, and Millennial) including each generation’s strengths and weaknesses as employees. Then I discuss how to recruit, develop, motivate, retain, and communicate with workers from each of the generations. My most popular keynote, “Talking ‘bout my Generation” will have audience members laughing and scrambling to take notes on how to bridge the workplace generational gap.

CHASING WINDMILLS

In 2004, I celebrated turning 40 years old by running 40 full marathons during the calendar year. “Chasing Windmills” chronicles that incredible experience for audience members. Based on the imagery of Cervantes’ classic novel Don Quixote, the presentation emphasizes the importance of having a vision by encouraging audience members to discover their own windmills in life and then chase them – even if everyone else calls them crazy for doing so.

MARATHON LIVING

“Marathon Living” transforms The 26.2 Lessons for Modern Leaders into life lessons for runners and non-runners alike. (Think of it as “Everything I Needed to Know about Living I Learned by Running a Marathon.”) Although developed with community and nonprofit audiences in mind, “Marathon Living” is also appropriate for corporate settings, challenging audience members to “live a life that’s truly worth living – because the greatest sin is the unlived life.”