International Speaker

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Did You Forget How Great You Are?

Sometimes the thing that makes you remarkable is often the thing you've stopped noticing about yourself.

I set out to update my website and it turned into a rediscovery of my career. Scrolling through 25 years of client work, I found projects I’d completely forgotten, including the accidental beginning of it all: a nervous first assignment interviewing nine board members with no training and no idea what I was doing. That one assignment became a skill. The skill became a career. And somewhere along the way, it became so familiar I stopped seeing it as special.

This talk is not just my story. It's everyone's. The longer we do something well, the more invisible it becomes to us. We assume our hardest-won abilities are "just what we do" and that everyone else can do them too. They can't. But we're too close to see it.

Let’s do a simple exercise to find what you’ve stopped seeing in yourself. The biggest breakthroughs aren’t always discovering something new. They’re remembering who you've already been.

The Things I’ve Learned by Just Asking
25 Years of Stakeholder Interviews and the Insights That Change Everything

Every leader thinks they know what their team, clients, and market really think. Most are wrong.

For 25 years, I’ve used, the stakeholder interview, to surface the truths that surveys, town halls, and org charts miss. These insights have redirected strategies, saved deals, and exposed blind spots, uncovered sales and marketing disconnects that leaders didn't know they had.

In this talk, I’ll show you how to ask better questions, listen past the polished answer, and uncover what people are really thinking. It's a practical case for curiosity as a leadership skill, not a soft one.

Takeaways for attendees:

• How to design a conversation that gets past rehearsed answers

• A simple framework any leader can use to run their own stakeholder interviews

The Sales and Marketing Disconnect

What the future looks like for sales and marketing

Most businesses don't have a sales or marketing problem. The problem is that sales and markting don’t speak to each other and neither can't articulate what makes the business truly different and why it matters so everything breaks down. Marketing burns through budgets without results, the sales team tells ten different stories, and customers feel confused.

Clarity. Alignment. Differentiation. is the framework that fixes this at the root. First, get crystal clear on what you do and why it matters so everyone can easily articulate it. Thread that message through every person, every pitch, every touchpoint in your company. Then create an experience that’s so genuinely different the market can't ignore you. When those three things click, marketing and sales perform, and whether you're selling your product, scaling your company, or selling the business itself, you've built something that practically sells itself.