Speaking, Interviews, and Media
I speak on leadership, entrepreneurship, the personal cost of success, and what the arts can teach leaders. I'm available for talks, panels, podcasts, and interviews, in person and virtually.
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I accept selected invitations for talks, panels, interviews, podcasts, private conversations, and media appearances.
The conversations I enjoy most are the ones where people want to go below the surface. I'm happy to share what I've learned from building and leading, and I'm just as glad to take the hard questions.
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Subjects
I'm glad to speak about:
- Entrepreneurship after the startup stage
- Finding the real problem in a complicated situation
- Building organizations that don't consume their leaders
- Protecting the person behind the role
- Business and venture architecture
- Growth, scale, and the hidden cost of becoming indispensable
- Career transition, succession, and legacy
- Public pressure and reputation
- Family and the personal cost of consequential work
- Writing, composing, and producing original plays, musicals, and music
- What the stage and the studio can teach about leadership
- Creativity, philosophy, theology, and institutional life
- What three decades of building across sectors has taught me
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Inquiry
To help me consider an invitation, please include the organization, the subject, the audience, the format, the proposed date, the location or platform, and whether the engagement is paid.