This presentation complements Chad’s book, Break & Untangle: The Freedom to Be You Despite the Inherited Mindsets Holding You Back

In this emotionally charged presentation, Chad will walk the audience through what it’s like to live through a difficult childhood. In Chad’s case it was growing up gay in rural Arkansas. Chad makes his experience resonate by asking the audience to relate to the experience of feeling like an outsider.

Chad will describe how he overcame his obstacles and the subsequent method he developed to thrive. His message will highlight the path toward living a life of meaning and purpose, being comfortable in your own skin, and ultimately create a legacy that will leave the world a better place.

Your audience will learn how to identify which version of them is showing up in the world and making decisions for their life. 

Format:

• 40-Minute Keynote (with option for Q&A)
• Podcast Interview Topic

Ideal Audience:

People open to expanding their potential by challenging inherited mindsets.

• Civic Organizations
• LGBT Employee Resource Groups
• Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
• Personal Development Conferences

This workshop complements Chad’s book, Break & Untangle.

If you’re looking for flexibility in your workshop, this is for you. Meeting planners may invite Chad to present one or more of the categories containing the mindset methods outlined in his book – choose the ones that best fit the needs of your audience.

The goal of these sessions is to develop and unleash your team’s potential. Through exposure to mindset research and by way of exercises, attendees are able to identify the resistances that are limiting their personal and professional lives. 

These workshops are styled as lecture + exercises with Q&A session.

Self, strategy, and social include these mindsets (chapters from the book): 

SELF

• Purpose
• Internal Dialogue
• Identity
• Unitary Functioning

STRATEGY

• Becoming
• Money
• Mindfulness
• Productivity

SOCIAL

• Belonging
• Help
• Ambition
• Legacy

Format:

• 60-Minute Workshop (Lecture-Style + Group Exercise)
• 90-Minute Workshop (Lecture-Style + Group Exercise + Q&A)

Ideal Audience:

People open to expanding their potential by challenging inherited mindsets.

• Civic Organizations
• LGBT Employee Resource Groups
• Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
• Personal Development Conferences

This is Chad’s most flexible speaking engagement, meant to suit the needs of your event or organization.
Contact us to discuss your needs.

A LIFE OF IMPACT AND INFLUENCE: The Source, Creation, and Expression of Leadership

In this presentation, Chad will guide the group through an ontological inquiry into leadership. As a guided group inquiry, the entire presentation is styled as an interactive experience – one where the nature and qualities of leadership are examined from the perspective of how we observe leadership, and how we become what others recognize as leadership. 

This presentation is based on Chad’s proprietary framework, the BCVE. Chad teaches that the components of the BCVE (Being, Commitment, Vision, Effort) are what makes leadership occur to others as leadership when they see us. 

Your audience will discover a new way to see themselves and how they view their role as a leader. 

Format:

• 30-Minute Keynote
• 60-Minute Workshop (Lecture-Style + Group Exercise)
• 90-Minute Workshop (Lecture-Style + Group Exercise + Hot Seat Coaching) 
• Podcast Interview Topic 

Ideal Audience:

Experienced and emerging leaders who are eager to step more boldly into their role as a leader. This presentation is well-suited for those who intellectualize.  

• Corporate Retreats
• Leadership Development Programs
• Break-Out Sessions
• Association Meetings
• Conferences
• Civic Organizations

GETTING UNSTUCK: What to do when what has always worked, no longer works.

In this presentation, Chad will answer the question “What do you do when what has always worked in your life, is no longer working?”

Chad will share his experience with feeling stuck, how he was able to navigate through the feeling, and what he learned along the way. Most notably, Chad will make the distinction for your group about change and transformation and the connection between stuckness and suffering.

Your audience will discover a new way to see how they are experiencing this phase of their life, and Chad will light a path for them to create a new way to see what they are experiencing.

Format:

• 40-Minute Keynote (with option for Q&A)
• Podcast Interview Topic 

Ideal Audience:

People going through a career or other significant life change who feel like nothing they are doing is getting them where they want to be. 

• Personal Development Conferences
• Professional Development Conferences
• Support Groups
• Civic Organizations

WORKING THE PLAN: Creating Your Mental Wellness Routine

There’s never been a better time to have a discussion about good mental health practices. In this presentation, Chad will present practical tips that your audience can immediately implement in their lives to create a mental health routine. 

Chad will draw from his own life experiences and share with your audience his journey of battling depression, anxiety, and feelings of loneliness. He will clearly define what it means to be depressed, or anxious, and how he has managed to make feelings occur less frequent, and become shorter in duration. 

Whether they are someone who lives with mental health challenges of their own, or they have someone in their life who does, your audience will glean insights into how to make sense of this part of our human experience. 

Format:

• 40-Minute Keynote (with option for Q&A)
• Podcast Interview Topic
• Contact to Discuss Possibilities for Workshop

Ideal Audience:

This presentation is suitable for any group where the human condition is openly discussed. 

• Personal Development Conferences
• Professional Development Meetings
• Support Groups
• Civic Organizations
• Association Meetings
• Youth Groups