Keynotes
Leave the room
with a method.
Eric Sanchez and Stacie Monahan speak to conferences, leadership retreats, and company-wide meetings on what it actually takes to build a culture people do not leave.
The premise
Most leadership talks
change a mood.
It has been in vogue at conferences to run a session on making your employees feel safe. Leaders go home, announce that the company is a safe space, and everyone knows it is not true. It has the opposite effect: it demoralizes people.
These talks are built to survive the flight home. Every one of them ends with something a leader can inventory, ask, or change on Monday, and a way to tell whether it worked. Eric and Stacie speak from two decades of running and rebuilding organizations, not from theory.
Show us a successful business culture where people do not feel cared for. We do not think it exists.
Signature talks
Four talks, one thesis.
Each is delivered by one or both authors and tailored to your industry, your audience, and the problem you actually have. Tell us the room and we will tell you which one fits.
The Heart Holds the Antidote to Toxic Leadership
The flagship keynote. Why authentic leadership can be the most toxic style of all, what Invested Leadership adds, and the four moves that turn caring from a personality trait into an operating discipline.
Best for: conference mainstage, all-company meetings. 45 to 60 minutes.
The ROI of Caring
The business case, in numbers. What turnover, quiet quitting, and disengagement are costing you right now, and why compensation will not fix any of it. Written for the executives who need a P&L reason before a human one.
Best for: executive teams, boards, owner groups. 45 minutes.
Hall of Mirrors
How successful leaders build echo chambers around themselves without noticing, what it costs, and how to assemble a Cabinet of Rivals who will tell you the truth. The most uncomfortable talk of the four, by design.
Best for: senior leadership retreats, partner meetings. 45 to 60 minutes.
You Cannot Be Everything to Everyone
For leaders who know they are not naturally the warm one. How to inventory your interpersonal gaps honestly and staff around them, so your people get the care they need without anyone faking it.
Best for: managers and emerging leaders. 45 minutes.
What the room leaves with
Something to do,
not just something to feel.
- A plain-language definition of Invested Leadership and how it differs from authentic and servant leadership
- An honest read on the difference between caring about people and performing care
- The self-inventory that starts the method, and the questions that make it useful
- A way to find out how their own people need to be cared for, without a survey nobody believes
- The numbers to take to a CFO who wants the business case
- One thing to change before the next Monday
Formats and logistics
Built around your agenda.
We would rather fit your program than protect a format. If the slot is 30 minutes and the room is 800 people, say so and we will build for that.
- Mainstage keynote
- 45 to 60 minutes, one or both authors, Q&A optional
- Short-form
- 20 to 30 minutes for a packed agenda or an opening slot
- Fireside or panel
- Moderated conversation, either author, 30 to 60 minutes
- Keynote plus workshop
- Talk in the morning, working session with leadership in the afternoon
- Virtual
- Delivered live to remote and hybrid audiences
- Books
- Copies for every attendee, signed on request
- Travel
- Based in Durham, North Carolina. Available nationally.
Recent stages
Where they have spoken.
PILMMA Super Summit
Building Firm Culture, and Principles of Leadership.
LIF Webinar
The New Business of Personal Injury.
Grow Your Law Firm
Scaling Without Losing Culture or Control.
Client leadership retreats
Private sessions for executive teams and partner groups.
Start here
Check a date.
Tell us the audience, the date, and what you are actually trying to fix. We will tell you which talk fits and whether we are the right speakers for it.