Signature keynote
The Business Behind the Business
Leaders leave able to name the three systems their growth actually depends on — and which one is breaking right now.
Who it is for
- Founders and owner-operators
- Executive and leadership teams
- Operations and COO-level leaders
- Association and industry conferences
What they leave with
- A working diagnostic for people, process and technology — and how to tell which one is genuinely the constraint
- Why organizations mistake activity for throughput, and the handful of numbers that expose the difference
- The operating cadence behind twenty years of growth, from seven people to a market leader
45–60 min keynote · 90 min workshop · virtual
Keynote or workshop
Scaling Without Amplifying Dysfunction
Growth multiplies whatever you already are. Leaders leave with a method for finding the dysfunction before headcount doubles it.
Who it is for
- Organizations in a growth, merger or acquisition transition
- Leadership teams adding locations or lines of business
- Owners preparing for outside investment
What they leave with
- The three failure modes that only appear above a certain headcount
- How to pressure-test a process before you hire against it
- What to centralize, what to leave alone, and how to tell the two apart
45–60 min keynote · half-day workshop
Leadership track · from the book
The Cabinet of Rivals
How to build a leadership team that argues with you productively — and what the agreeable alternative quietly costs.
Who it is for
- Executive teams and leadership groups
- Leadership retreats and offsites
- Any organization where agreement has become a habit
What they leave with
- Why consensus hires feel safe and behave expensively
- Making disagreement a process rather than an event
- What disengagement actually costs, in numbers a board will believe
45 min keynote · leadership retreat session · virtual
Technology & AI
Change Nobody Fights
Technology rollouts fail for human reasons, not technical ones — from a named inventor on 30 patents who watched it happen from both sides of the table.
Who it is for
- Organizations adopting new systems, automation or AI
- Technology and operations committees
- Industry and technology conferences
What they leave with
- Why the better system loses to the one people already trust
- Sequencing a rollout so adoption is the default rather than the ask
- Where AI genuinely belongs in your operation right now — and where it does not
45–60 min keynote · workshop · virtual
Something else?
Eric also builds custom sessions — most often on Marine Corps leadership principles
applied to civilian teams, on running a large operation against a hard deadline, and on what twenty years of
building one company teaches you about building the next. If your program needs something specific, say so
on the inquiry form and he will tell you honestly whether he is the right speaker for it.
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