Speaking
Talks for audiences navigating drift, pressure, and change.
I speak to audiences who need a more useful way to think about discipline, resilience, coherence, and how we find our way back after drift.
Signature Talk
TEDx talk delivered — recording forthcoming
The Gentle Art of Finding Your Way Back
The central argument: we've been measuring discipline wrong. Not by how long we stay on track, but by how fast we return when we drift. This talk reframes the conversation about consistency, resilience, and self-direction around return as a meta-skill.
Leadership & Teams
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Organizational Drift: Why High-Performing Teams Lose Coherence
Every team drifts. Priorities blur. Values erode slowly. The systems that were supposed to prevent it become the noise. This talk gives leaders a way to diagnose drift early and design the conditions that make return faster and less political.
Organizations & Leadership
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Coherence Propagates: How Individual Return Builds Self-Led Organizations
Most organizations try to solve drift at the organizational level — better systems, clearer process, stronger management. But the same mechanism that pulls an individual off track operates inside every team and institution. This talk makes the case that self-led organizations aren't built top-down. They emerge when individuals develop real return capacity. When people can find their way back without being redirected, the whole system becomes more resilient, more adaptive, and cheaper to lead.
Adaptable Discipline
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Comeback Speed: The Metric That Actually Predicts Long-Term Performance
A talk on why streak-based discipline fails most people and what to build instead. Rooted in the Adaptable Discipline framework, this gives audiences a concrete model for engineering the conditions that make return possible.
Who these talks are for
- —Conferences and summits (technology, leadership, wellness, education)
- —Leadership offsites and executive team retreats
- —Corporate learning & development programs
- —University and professional development events
- —Podcasts and media interviews
What your audience gets
Every engagement starts with a briefing. I want to understand your audience, what they are wrestling with, and what useful means in your context. The talk is then built or adapted from there.
The goal isn't a room full of motivated people who return to the same behavior on Monday. It's a reframe that holds up after the energy fades — something the audience can actually use when conditions get hard.
"What if progress isn't about how long you stay on track but how fast you come back?"
Bring this to your event
I keep my speaking calendar selective so each engagement gets proper preparation. If the audience and event are a fit, send the details and I will follow up with the next step.
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