Leadership Under Pressure
Practical lessons from major incidents, mission leadership, project environments, public service, and high-accountability decision-making.
Speaking
Speaking that connects leadership, faith, service, technology, and culture.
I speak to professional, academic, faith-based, community, youth, and justice-oriented audiences. My approach combines lived experience, research, storytelling, practical leadership lessons, and an ability to translate complex ideas into language people can use.
I am available for keynote addresses, panels, leadership workshops, fireside conversations, podcasts, ministry events, student programs, mission training, professional-development sessions, and community forums.
Topics
What I speak about
Each of these can run as a keynote, a breakout, or an extended workshop, and all of them get tailored to your audience beforehand.
From Calling to Competence
Why passion matters, but preparation, humility, discipline, teamwork, and execution determine whether a mission succeeds.
Cross-Cultural Leadership
How to lead, listen, communicate, and serve responsibly across cultural, organizational, generational, and national differences.
Technology, People, and Operational Resilience
What organizations can learn from system failures, incident response, root-cause analysis, process design, and organizational behavior.
Faith in Public Life
Exploring responsibility, justice, service, courage, identity, and the role of Christian conviction in complex social environments.
Mission Without the Savior Complex
A practical and ethical framework for short-term missions built around partnership, cultural humility, local leadership, preparation, and long-term responsibility.
Youth Leadership and Identity
Helping young people understand character, emotional intelligence, discipline, purpose, leadership, and their capacity to influence others.
The Courage to Ask Better Questions
How research, curiosity, history, theology, sociology, and honest inquiry can deepen leadership and strengthen communities.
From Flint to Global Service
A personal story about place, resilience, faith, technology, public responsibility, and learning to serve across different worlds.
Experience
Where I have spoken
Professional Leadership Program, University of North Texas
Speaker and leadership contributor
CLIMB Leadership Conference
Guest speaker
NAACP
Political Action Chair speaker and presenter
Correctional facilities
Guest speaker serving incarcerated juveniles and adults
Mission teams
Leadership trainer and mission facilitator across 14 mission trips
KIPP elementary schools
Guest speaker
One Community Church
Guest panelist, student ministry
Missionary training
Trainer for teams preparing to serve in culturally diverse environments
Ya'akobi Radio
Creator and host
The UnCommonCru
Co-host
Churches, ministries, and community organizations
Youth, community, and leadership-development speaker