Adam as he leads a workshop.

My current favorite topic is that leadership is unpredictable. It is difficult to predict when, where, how, or why leadership will happen. Leadership’s unpredictability is difficult to cope with.

To make leadership more manageable I talk about strategies that build faith and readiness for leadership. Faith in your mind that leadership will happen. Readiness in your heart when leadership does happen.

Keynote: Trust & Readiness

Introduction: The ‘story’ of leadership.  Three rhetorical questions: Where is your beginning? Where is your middle?  How will your story end?  I keep the show interactive by asking these questions involves a miniaturized game-show style demonstration with three to five audience members participating on stage.

Key points: Includes a personal story about a young boy who helps his father climb a mountain. The boy climbed first, the boy showed his dad the way, and the boy provided support and encouragement when dad doubted himself. The story illustrates what leadership is and why leadership can be unpredictable; consider the unlikely circumstances of a boy serving as his dad’s leader.

You never know when, where, how, or why leadership will happen! To cope with not knowing when, where, how, or why leadership will happen young and emerging leaders can build trust in their mind that leadership will happen and readiness in their heart for when it does.

Wrap up: Six compelling anecdotal stories and six poignant questions associated with measuring trust in the mind that leadership will happen and readiness in the heart for when it does. I keep attention through the end with a surprise tie back to the introductory question. How will your story end?

Workshop: Getting More And Going Further With Creativity

Find out what mixing crayons and a clear canvas with candy and collaboration can do for you and your student organization. This workshop dissects creativity to the core and then repackages it for easy reassembly with others.  There is a science underlying creative inhibition that includes asking questions, working together, and inspiring imaginations.

Workshop: The Friendship Case For Leadership

Boost the power of your organization by exploring ideas related to inclusion, recruitment, group dynamics, and motivation. Participants learn six specific strategies for building and benefiting from strong personal relationships. Each of the six segments in this session includes a mini-workshop for a fast-paced and content rich experience. Select participants leave with a souvenir to share with others and help remember the experience.

Fees And Integrity Promise

My fee always includes travel, hospitality, and expenses. I travel from North Carolina and offer discounts for engagements that require reduced travel. Click here to read about my fee integrity promise.

To spend no nights away from home my fee is $600 for up to one full day of programs. To spend one nights away from home my fee is $1,000. For two nights away my fee is $1,400.