Speaking
Most leadership speakers change how people feel for a day.
I give people a new framework and specific guidance for being trusted to lead — by colleagues and by clients. How to lead with excellence, and how to operate in a way that elevates the people around them.
And I make them think hard about themselves: where they actually need to improve, and how they can add value to everyone they touch, inside their unit, across the organization, and with clients.
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Corporate Leadership Program
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Law Firm Partnership Development
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Georgetown Business
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Stanford Advanced Leadership
Signature Topics
The Real Rules of Advancement
What gets said in promotion conversations, and what never does. Great work gives them the justification to promote you. Something else gives them the motivation. Most people are doing exactly one of those.
How to Make Any Boss or Client Love You
The people above you decide whether your name goes forward. Clients decide whether you keep the work. The mechanism is the same — and it isn't being the most technically excellent person in the room.
Stop Asking to Be Sponsored
Sponsorship is not something you request. It is something you make rational for someone else to give. What sponsors are actually risking, and what makes them willing to risk it.
Lead to Develop, Not to Manage
For organizations bringing their leaders together. Most leaders evaluate. Very few elevate. This session equips your leaders to spot capability that hasn't had a chance to show itself — including in the people they'd overlook — and to nurture it once they've seen it.
Even your best people have developmental needs. Especially them.
How to Create Moments That Matter
Careers turn on a small number of moments, and most people don't recognize them while they're happening. How to see them coming, with colleagues and with clients — and what five minutes can do that five months of hard work won't.
The Leader Everyone Loves
Being respected is a minimum requirement of leading effectively. Being wanted is what gets you chosen again. What the most consistently promoted leaders do differently with the people around them, above them, and outside the building.
Audiences and formats
Corporate leadership development
Leadership summits, annual meetings, and development programs. Sessions for your managers and leaders on being chosen — and on developing the people behind them.
EMBA and executive education
60–90 minute session plus optional fireside chat. Works as a residency opener or inside a leadership module. Program participants receive reduced coaching rates.
Law firms and professional services
Partner retreats, firmwide events, and associate development. Delivered by someone who ran a professional services practice and decided who made partner.
Sales and business development groups
Annual meetings and regional conferences for sales organizations, agency owners, and client-facing teams. Why clients choose one person over another.
Associations
Conferences and summits. Sessions built for members who want the next role and have never been given a framework for getting there.
Employee groups
Single group or all groups together. One session for everyone is often stronger than five separate ones — and easier to run.
hour-long keynotes · multi-hour fireside chats · half-day workshops · dinner discussions · virtual sessions · Contact for fees.
What people say
Representative speaking clients
Hogan Lovells · Bass Berry & Sims · Stoel Rives · AICPA · NABA · ALPFA · Ascend · Jackie Robinson Foundation · HACR · Georgetown · University of Mississippi · Columbia School of Professional Studies · NYU · Metropolitan State University of Denver
Book a Conversation
Most engagements are confirmed in a single conversation. Tell me what you're considering and I'll respond within one business day.