Speaking Topics
Each topic is a chapter from my life, designed to give your audience real tools for their own journey.
The Resilience Advantage
This isn't a theoretical talk on resilience. It's a gripping, real-world account of surviving a plane crash and rebuilding from nothing. I share the mental frameworks required to turn trauma into triumph and adversity into your greatest advantage.
- The 'First 5 Minutes' Rule: How to respond, not react, in a crisis.
- Mental Rehearsal: Preparing your mind for the unthinkable.
- Finding purpose in pain and using it as fuel for your comeback.
- Practical tools for managing extreme stress and preventing burnout.
Choose Not to Participate: The Breakthrough Mindset
This is the core philosophy that saved my life and my businesses. Learn how to consciously reject negative external factors—a bad economy, a grim prognosis, widespread doubt—and create your own reality. This keynote provides a blueprint for building a will that cannot be broken.
- The mental framework for separating external circumstances from your internal resolve.
- How to take radical ownership and refuse to be a victim of circumstance.
- Practical exercises to build immunity to negativity and doubt.
- Creating a personal action plan for applying this mindset to your biggest challenges.
The Business Within: Building a Culture of Intrapreneurs
Learn to motivate, inspire, and create a corporate culture of ownership. This talk provides a deep understanding of how to impress upon your team that they are a 'business within a business,' part of a hierarchy that starts with the individual.
- Teaching employees to see themselves as the CEO of their own role.
- How to create opportunities for personal victories that fuel growth and satisfaction.
- Strengthening vertical relationships to create a cohesive, internally-driven team.
- Moving from a management mindset to a mentorship and motivation model.
Unlocking Peak Performance Under Pressure
Performing when things are good is easy. What about when everything is on the line? Drawing from my crash survival and business crises, I reveal the science and psychology of staying focused and executing flawlessly when failure is not an option.
- Neuroscience-backed techniques for maintaining focus in chaotic environments.
- How to manage the physiological effects of extreme stress (the adrenaline dump).
- Decision-making frameworks for high-stakes situations.
- Building sustainable habits that prepare you for future crises.