Presentations – LEAD ON

Our presentations offer sharp, engaging insights into the real work of leadership. Grounded in research and drawn from experience across sectors, each session is designed to challenge assumptions, introduce practical tools, and spark meaningful conversation. Whether you’re looking to energize a retreat, anchor a leadership program, or bring fresh perspective to your team, our presentations offer substance without jargon, and clarity without oversimplifying. Presentations stand on their own, or can be combined into a custom series tailored to your organization’s goals.

Introduction to Problem-Based Leadership
What it is, why it matters, how to do it. A lively, example-rich introduction to leadership that works.

The Leader’s Toolkit: Motivation That Works
Motivation isn’t a speech or a deadline. Effective leaders understand people’s core psychological needs and build roles and structures that support them.

The Leader’s Toolkit: Culture and the BS Gap
Culture is what people do when no one’s watching. It can support leadership — or quietly resist it. This presentation explores how culture shapes behavior, how it can substitute for leadership, and how effective leaders work with culture, not against it.

The Leader’s Toolkit: Working with Bureaucracy
The B-word. It’s worse than you think, better than you think — and essential for modern leadership. Understand bureaucracy as both obstacle and opportunity.

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The Leader’s Toolkit: Messaging That Gets Results
If you can’t get your message across — or worse, you have no message — why would people follow you? This fun, example-filled presentation highlights the keys to explaining, engaging, and activating people with your words.

The Leader’s Toolkit: Navigating and Delivering Change
The imperative to change is why organizations need leaders, especially those committed to problem-based leadership. Find out why change is the key reality of modern organizations, how to navigate it, and how to oversee effective change efforts.

The Leader’s Toolkit: Quantitative Data for Qualitative Leaders
Data is the lifeblood of organizations. Gain practical skill in getting, communicating, and aligning data to drive improvement.

Other topics available by arrangement.

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