Choose to Lead: Steps Leaders Take to Intentionally Create Positive Impact

This culture-shifting keynote inspires the audience to take responsibility for their leadership impact and empowers them with the mindset and methods for making decisions that create stronger teams, better communication, and a more significant impact. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders:

• Stressed by their lack of skills and confidence or afraid of making the wrong decisions when leading multi-generational employees with diverse backgrounds and attitudes toward work
• Challenged to rapidly equip, prepare and retain high potential employees for transition into management/leadership roles as the labor market tightens and their current leaders exit
• Needing to build a cohesive culture of trust as they navigate mergers, acquisitions, and rapid change 

THE AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

• A fresh outlook on the critical role that intentionally choosing to lead plays in elevating individual and organizational leadership effectiveness
• A powerful model for improving the quality and appropriateness of organizational decisions made
• The 5 bases of decision-making and actionable methods for making decisions that deliver better results.

Too Busy for Details: Strategies to Solidify Leadership Connection

The strategies presented in this engaging keynote equip audience members to evaluate their effectiveness at building authentic employee relationships and elevate the way they listen, communicate, and engage with their people. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders: 

• Dealing with broken trust, disengagement, conflict, or low productivity due to changing workplace demands or a disjointed organizational culture
• Preparing for management transitions brought on by reorganization or demographic, market, or culture shifts
• Anticipating rapid growth that will require high levels of teamwork, collaboration, and empowerment

THE AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

• A better understanding of why employees want authentic connections, how these connections affect engagement and performance, and how to establish those connections
• Steps to improve active listening and open communication and build greater respect, trust, and authenticity
• Engaging examples of what to do and what not to do to solidify trusting, cohesive relationships that improve employee performance and retention

We Need to Talk: Building Trust When Communicating Gets Critical (Based on Phillip’s book, We Need to Talk)

This commonsense keynote equips the audience with six unique communication strategies for building trust when relationships and results are riding on the words they say and the way they say them. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders:

• Needing to communicate difficult decisions about downsizing, layoffs, or restructuring due to rapid or unexpected business changes
• Experiencing distrust, disloyalty, and declining engagement due to changing values of the workforce or changing workplace demands
• Tasked with creating a cohesive culture following mergers and acquisitions, leadership shifts, or market changes

THE AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

• Tried-and-true strategies for communicating difficult, unpleasant messages in a way that strengthens relationships rather than damages them
• Strategic approaches to rebuilding the believability quotient when truthfulness hasn’t always been practiced
• Active listening and communication methods that build rapport, empathy, and trust with employees and customers

Moving Up, Moving On: Succession Planning for Continuity and Long-Term Growth (Joint Keynote with Alyson Van Hooser)

Moving Up, Moving On offers a modern, human-centered approach to succession planning designed for today’s multigenerational, high-pressure workplace.

Powerfully blending both male and female perspectives, two generations of leadership experience, and authentic insight alongside Van Hooser’s proprietary 6 Levels of Empowerment framework, this keynote inspires and equips leaders to navigate the human side of succession, build bench strength, and transfer responsibility smoothly without sacrificing trust, performance, or legacy.

THIS PROGRAM IS PERFECT FOR EXECUTIVE, ESTABLISHED & EMERGING LEADERS WHO:

• Know succession planning is critical but struggle with the human side of letting go and trusting others
• Carry too much responsibility themselves and need to build reliable bench strength
• Want a practical, proven framework for developing and transitioning future leaders
• Must navigate difficult conversations around readiness, timing, and transition

THE AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

• A proprietary, 6 Levels of Empowerment framework for strategically developing leaders ready to step into greater responsibility
• Practical communication insights for transferring responsibility, authority, and accountability with clarity
• Greater confidence navigating the hard conversations required for leaders to move up and move on
• A modern succession planning approach that strengthens continuity, reduces risk, and protects legacy