Motivational and leadership keynotes that move a room from resignation to hunger, and leave a framework behind. Built for Fortune 500 boardrooms, sales kickoffs, leadership summits and annual meetings.
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The Keynote
A customized keynote for organizations in the middle of change, pressure, or a season where their people have quietly stopped believing the work matters.
Les moves a room from resignation to hunger, then gives them the language to hold onto it once they're back at their desks.
Hunger is not a personality trait. It's a decision, and it can be taught.
The Four Stages
See exactly where you are, without flinching from it.
Stop waiting on permission that was never coming.
Decide out loud, and put something real on the line.
Do the work that was always yours to do.
The Seven Practices
From You've Got To Be Hungry · 2019
Length and format set with your team on the call
Where you land depends on format, location and the additions you choose. Virtual sits at the lower end, in person at the upper. Send the date you're holding and we'll confirm whether it's open. International events are welcome.
Fortune 500 boardrooms, federal agencies and national associations have put him in front of their people.
Most keynotes buy you a good mood that's gone by Monday. Les leaves your people with a method they can actually run, which is why the organizations that book him are buying a quarter, not an hour.
Output isn't a mood, but it starts as one. He gives people a reason to care about the work in front of them, and the managers who booked him feel it in the weeks after, not just in the room.
A sales team that believes the target is reachable behaves differently in week three than a team that has quietly written the quarter off. That gap is where the money is.
The ones already halfway out the door are the ones he speaks to directly. Getting more out of the team you've got costs less than replacing it, and it starts with them wanting to stay.
Four stages and seven practices, in plain language, that a manager can run in a Monday meeting. That's the difference between a keynote your people enjoyed and one still showing up in how they work.
The clips made him a household name. The work that fills his calendar is leadership: influence, the skills and the mindset that move people toward a goal they recognise as their own. It's the same man, aimed at your managers instead of the back row.
Millions of people watch him on YouTube every single day, for free. The difference is what happens when he's in the room with your team.
Book Partnership
Your name and his on the same cover. His words inside the book. Your story in front of an audience that has trusted him for over forty years. He doesn't rent his name. He chooses the people he partners with himself.
The book you keep meaning to write is the one nobody ever gets to read. Don't take yours with you.
It hasn't officially launched. We're opening it to 50 founding members first, and they'll set the tone for everyone who comes after.
Requirements
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Tell us what your people are up against, what the event has to accomplish, and who's in the room. Les builds the keynote around that moment.
Qualified requests get a call time on the spot so you can lock the date before it goes.