Speaking Topics / Engagements
Understanding Your Team: A Framework for Strengths, Growth Edges, and Performance
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP & UNIVERSITY AUDIENCES | KEYNOTE OR LECTURE, 45-60 MIN
Every team is really five personality types working the same problem from five different angles, and most companies never put a name to any of them. This keynote uses the Big Five personality model, the actual framework psychologists use to study personality, to give your organization a shared language for how people actually operate: what drives their strengths, where their blind spots show up under pressure, and how to get different types working together instead of past each other. Golf happens to be lens for this session, since a round of golf reveals these patterns faster and more honestly than almost anything else, but the framework itself applies to any team, in any industry, working under any kind of pressure.
Your audience will walk away with:
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A shared vocabulary for the five personality patterns already present on their team
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A way to identify each person's real strength and their specific "growth edge," the blind spot that undercuts that strength under pressure
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Practical ways to pair complementary types so collaboration improves instead of just tolerating differences
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A framework that travels beyond the talk itself, into how they hire, coach, and structure teams going forward
From Fairway to Negotiating Table: Reading Clients to Win Bigger Deals
SALES TEAMS & KICKOFFS | KEYNOTE, 30-60 MIN
The best golfers don't just play the course, they read their opponent: what they're afraid of, what they're overconfident about, and where the pressure will actually get to them. The best salespeople do the exact same thing at the negotiating table, and most were never taught how. This talk uses the Big Five personality model and lessons from golf's biggest names to teach your team how to read a client's real motivations beneath what they're saying, adapt their approach to who's actually in the room, and recognize the moment a deal turns on something other than price. The result isn't a new script. It's sharper instincts applied to the deals you're already working.
Your audience will walk away with:
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A practical way to read what a client actually needs validated, beyond their stated objections
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Language for adjusting their approach across different personality types without losing their own authenticity
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A sharper eye for the moment a negotiation is being decided by ego, fear, or trust rather than terms
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A framework for staying composed when a deal, or a client relationship, gets tense
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A note for non-golfers: the framework translates directly to whatever sport you've played — the game changes, the psychology doesn't.
Find Your Element: An Interactive Team Session
TEAM RETREATS & OFFSITES
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP, 60-90 MIN.
AETHER GOLF GAME,5 HOURS
This session turns the book's personality framework into something your team experiences together, not just reads about. Everyone takes a live version of the assessment (or prior to the session) to identify their dominant element, then the group gets divided by personality type and given a real task or project to complete. What happens next is the actual lesson: teams built entirely of one element hit the exact walls you'd predict, all spark and no follow-through, or all discipline and no movement, while teams that get the mix right start to see why balance isn't a nice idea, it's a performance advantage. The debrief connects what just happened in the room to how your team is actually structured day to day.
Your audience will walk away with:
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Their own dominant element and what it means for how they naturally work
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A firsthand look at what happens when a team is missing a key personality type, not just a theoretical explanation
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A shared vocabulary the team can keep using back at the office
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A clearer read on which of their real teams might benefit from a different mix
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A note for non-golfers: the framework translates directly to whatever sport you've played — the game changes, the psychology doesn't.
Take it to the course: Play a scramble tournament with mixed personality combinations, or run the book's original pressure-testing format, the Aether Game.
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Every session above can be tailored to your team, your industry, and the specific challenge you're trying to solve. Whether that means leaning harder into sales psychology for a kickoff, leadership dynamics for an offsite, or team structure for a group that's about to take on a new project, the underlying framework flexes to fit the room. Tell me about your audience and goals, and I'll help shape the right format.