Crush the Excuses. Increase the Success.

Take It Forward™ gives organizations a mindset built on discipline, ownership, and high performance. This keynote is built for leadership teams and corporate audiences who want to raise standards, strengthen culture, and eliminate excuse driven behavior.

This keynote fixes the performance problems leaders experience most:

• Teams that avoid ownership

• Leaders who react instead of lead

• Poor communication under pressure

• Lack of alignment across departments

• Declining engagement or cultural drift

• High stress environments with inconsistent execution

What your audience will walk away with:

• A repeatable mindset for responding to pressure with clarity

• Leadership tools that improve focus and decision quality

• A higher level of accountability at every position

• A culture shift based on action, not intention

• Confidence to lead through change without excuses

Designed for:
Corporate teams, executive leaders, senior management, leadership summits, enterprise culture events

Strengthen Decision Making. Improve Focus. Lead with Intent.

Most professionals are not held back by lack of talent. They are held back by unclear thinking, reactive behavior, and decisions made from habit instead of intention. Choice vs. Chance gives your audience a practical mindset that elevates how they think, respond, and lead in high pressure environments.

This keynote is built for organizations that want stronger leaders, sharper communication, and teams who take ownership of their internal decision making.

This keynote solves these common challenges:

• Inconsistent decision making during pressure

• Teams who react emotionally instead of strategically

• Employees who lose focus when environments get loud or stressful

• Leaders who struggle to stay composed during conflict

• Professionals who allow chance, distractions, or noise to control their performance

Your audience will learn:

• How to identify and eliminate the patterns that sabotage focus

• A clear method for making stronger decisions in challenging moments

• How to shift from emotional response to intention based leadership

• How to create personal standards that guide communication, behavior, and influence

• How to recognize distractions quickly and redirect energy back to purpose

• How to separate urgent noise from actions that actually drive results

Core message:

Every achievement begins with a clear choice, not a lucky moment.
Teams rise when leaders choose focus, discipline, and purpose over reaction and chaos.

Audience Outcomes:

• Higher personal accountability

• Improved emotional control and situational awareness

• More disciplined decision making

• Stronger presence in high stakes conversations

• Better alignment between intention and execution

• A mindset that supports long term professional growth

Best for:

Corporate teams, managers, high pressure work environments, professional development events, leadership retreats, and organizations that want sharper thinking and stronger internal discipline.

Build Trust. Strengthen Culture. Lead Through Service and Clarity.

Servant Leadership is not soft leadership. It is disciplined, intentional, and grounded in the idea that leaders serve the mission, the culture, and the people who carry it. Organizations that master this principle create high trust environments where communication is stronger, performance is higher, and teams stay aligned.

The Pillars of Servant Leadership gives leaders a modern and practical framework that improves influence, strengthens culture, and brings clarity to expectations and behavior.

This keynote is built for organizations that want a leadership approach that produces real results, not theory.

This keynote solves these common leadership problems:

• Leaders who struggle to inspire trust or engagement

• Teams who disconnect because communication feels unclear or inconsistent

• Workforces that do not feel supported by leadership

• Cultures where authority feels heavy but influence feels weak

• New leaders who have never been trained to serve while driving performance

• Experienced leaders who need a fresh, modern approach to influence and connection

Your audience will learn:

• How servant leadership strengthens influence, decision quality, and culture

• How to serve with clarity, purpose, and authority without losing strength

• A communication structure that removes confusion and strengthens trust

• How to build an environment where leaders support people without lowering standards

• How to address conflict, pressure, and performance gaps with confidence and calm

• How to model the behaviors that shape culture and drive long term success

The Pillars within this keynote include:

1. Clarity

Leaders create clarity that eliminates excuse driven behavior.
Clarity supports alignment, accountability, and consistent performance.

2. Presence

A leader’s behavior becomes the standard employees follow.
Presence determines how teams handle pressure, adapt to challenges, and communicate.

3. Communication

Effective communication creates trust, direction, and influence.
Leaders learn how to speak with intention, listen with focus, and reduce chaos.

4. Service

Service is not weakness.
Service is understanding what your people need in order to perform at a higher level.

5. Execution

Leadership without action delivers nothing.
Execution is where servant leadership becomes measurable.

These pillars create a leadership foundation that drives culture forward.

Audience outcomes:

• Stronger trust between leaders and teams

• Better communication habits that reduce conflict and confusion

• A culture built on clarity, alignment, and influence

• Leaders who understand how to support people while holding them to a higher standard

• A more unified leadership structure focused on growth and results

• A modern leadership approach that resonates with new and experienced professionals

Best for:

Organizations strengthening culture, executive teams, new leader development, management groups, frontline leadership, and companies preparing the next generation of leaders.

This message is the story about how Dustin’s life changes forever all because he was told… “Times running up”. Those words inspired Dustin to set out on becoming a Award-Winning speaker, author, and community impactor. Those in the room will walk understanding that anything worth achieving can’t wait.

Perfect for:
All employee conference/retreat
Leadership Conference/retreat
Student/Higher Education
Any conference/association