OnCourse Keynotes

OnCourse principals frequently deliver inspirational keynotes or launching addresses at stakeholder retreats, all-company meetings or client conferences.  The underlying theme for most addresses is either Inspirational Leadership or Authentic Relationships, tailored to the dynamics of your target audience.

We work with your event champion to craft an educational, entertaining and memorable address.  The format ranges from a 45-minute keynote, to a full-day, interactive workshop.  Shorter addresses typically provide your audience with actionable, take-home concepts or tools.  The experiential workshops anchor key concepts, with opportunities to practice and implement the tools.  Whichever format you choose, OnCourse Keynotes and Workshops create genuine and valuable connection among your audience.

Sample Topics:

Authentic Leadership: Of Your Enterprise ... Of Your Life

This evocative, and entertaining topic explores the fundamentals of Authentic Leadership, at both the enterprise level and the whole-life level.  We’ll outline the most common leadership challenges in high-growth, global enterprises, including: artificial harmony, entitlement, defensiveness, victimhood and fear of change.

Through eye-opening, experiential exercises you’ll take away specific tools for sustained, inspirational leadership.  These include ways to: address conflicts proactively, sense and navigate emotion, make clean agreements, and foster creativity and collaboration.  You’ll learn the ten probing questions that, when answered, unlock empowerment and accountability.

On the personal side, you’ll learn how to be authentic, curious, appreciative, caring and direct in all your relationships – in the workplace, with friends and family, and with yourself.

Aspirations to Greatness:
Navigating from Entrepreneurship to Enduring Excellence

Fewer than 10% of all entrepreneurial endeavors achieve ongoing stability.  Your company is in this elite 10%. Yet sustaining your success constantly requires re-tooling strategy, organizational makeup and even leadership.  You’ve graduated from survival, to owning your niche and choosing where to expand.  The swashbuckling of your start-up days now demands complementary systems and procedures.  You’ve added branch offices and international operations to your once small and close-knit organizational family.  You’ve teamed seasoned professionals transplanted from big companies with your original associates.  As the founder of a thriving enterprise, you start to ask, “Where are we going?  What is my role?  Where do I fit in?”

Aspirations to Greatness will outline the tensions, challenges and opportunities faced by successful entrepreneurial companies moving to enduring professional management.  The transition can be either a painful gauntlet or an enlivening adventure.  The latter requires perspective, courage, candor and inspiration from company leadership, plus commitment, trust and patience from every person at your organization.