Articles
Written the way I talk.
First person, specific, honest about the expensive parts. If you're deciding whether to put me in front of your people, this is a fair preview.
What I Talk About When Someone Hands Me a Mic
I'm not a motivational speaker. I'm a guy who built things for thirty years and kept the receipts. Here's what my talks are actually made of.
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Six call centers in Grand Rapids. Real rooms, real payroll. And then the day I decided to close them all. Every other lesson I give traces back to that decision.
Read it →Talking About Happiness Without Sounding Like a Poster
I wrote a stack of books about growth and happiness. The hard part isn't the writing. It's saying it out loud to a room without turning into a greeting card.
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