Playing Offense in Defensive Environments

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How to Lead with Courage and Inspire Confidence

Paul is an expert at inspiring audiences to life impacting and purposeful change, starting by Winning Monday.  
Knowing the economic winter we’re in, how do we lead with confidence and courage to play offense in highly defensive environments? How do we make better decisions faster to overcome the stress and anxiety at our most paralyzing forks in the road?  How do shift our WHY from a distantNorth into a 365 operating system that creates camaraderie and connectionwithin any team?  ‍
WARNING: No sugar highs allowed. Keynotes are merely the starting point. Expect a 365 action plan to follow.

Leading Financial Service Industry Keynote Speaker

15 Year NFL & NBA Executive, Paul speaks to technology professionals seeking to drive GROWTH, navigate CHANGE, and develop an ACTIONABLE game plan to WIN MONDAY and beyond.

Trusted by the World's Best Financial Services Teams & Leaders

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Paul delivered the goods!  Inspiring us to our greatest heights, while arming us with a tactical playbook to WIN MONDAY.  Our producers left ready to perform with passion and break through uncertainty with unshakable confidence.  Paul's gameplan is the competitive advantage we all need!

Executive Director, Private Risk Management Association

The Power of Playing Offense in Financial Services

Leading with Confidence Amid Economic Uncertainty

In the financial services sector, global market volatility, regulatory changes, and economic unpredictability often force us into a defensive position. This defensive mindset can create confidence gaps that hinder strategic decision-making and growth. But what if you could flip the script and proactively drive growth and innovation while others are merely reacting?

This is precisely what Paul delivers in his transformative keynote, inspired by 15 years of leadership experience with top-tier teams in the NFL/NBA and his bestselling book, The Power of Playing Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Personal and Team Transformation.

Every attendee will gain access to the 5-pillar Playing Offense framework and WIN MONDAY playbook, resources designed to provide universal insights and actionable strategies that can be applied to any financial organization.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Inspire Strategic Vision: Empower your team to use purpose as a catalyst for driving commitment and performance, even in challenging market conditions.

  • Foster Resilience: Build a culture that can withstand economic turbulence and adapt to rapid changes with agility and confidence.

  • Master Best Practices: Learn advanced strategies for trust-building, collaboration, and growth that are crucial for success in the financial sector.

  • Emulate Leadership Excellence: Discover the behaviors of the most effective leaders and how to implement these standards across your organization.

  • Enhance Talent Management: Unlock strategies for attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent, ensuring sustained success and innovation.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for financial professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.

Making Better Decisions Faster in Financial Services

How to Overcome Paralysis and Inspire Action

In the high-stakes world of financial services, even top-performing professionals can struggle with poor judgments, decision paralysis, or decision fatigue. Navigating complex financial landscapes requires making timely, effective decisions under pressure.

In this keynote, Paul unveils a streamlined three-step process that has successfully transformed major sports franchises—from the locker room to the boardroom—and has now been proven and stress tested across industry.

Learn how to avoid decision pitfalls, move forward with clarity and confidence, and optimize your Most Valuable Decisions (MVDs).

Address the critical questions that impact your organization’s success:

🚥 Should I choose Investment Strategy A or B?
🚥 Which candidate best fits our leadership needs?
🚥 Where should I focus my time for maximum impact?
🚥 Should I pursue this acquisition or pull back?
🚥 What are our strategic goals for the coming year?

The key? The Head-Heart-Hands equation: a straightforward and repeatable process that harnesses the power of our core decision-making tools to enhance speed and effectiveness.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Transform Fear into Confidence: Convert uncertainty into clear, decisive action with a proven framework.

  • Empower Decisive Leadership: Equip leaders and teams with the skills to make intentional, impactful decisions.

  • Enhance Decision-Making Efficiency: Implement an operational framework designed for quick, efficient decision-making and reclaim valuable time.

  • Build High-Trust Teams: Foster a culture of authenticity and collaboration to strengthen team dynamics and trust.

  • Streamline Decision Processes: Walk away with a playbook that clarifies what to prioritize and what to avoid.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for financial professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.

Scaling Championship Culture in Financial Services

Leadership & Growth Insights from the NFL & NBA

In the financial services industry, scaling a culture of excellence requires every individual to embrace ownership, accountability, pride, and a relentless commitment to daily excellence. This is the essence of a championship mindset, and when cultivated effectively, culture becomes your ultimate competitive advantage.

In this keynote, Paul draws on 15 years of experience as a culture-building expert with the NFL and NBA—including multiple national awards as the Founder of the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy—and applies these insights to the financial sector. He delves into the common traits of the world’s greatest cultures and presents actionable strategies for cultivating a championship culture in your organization.

This is not a traditional top-down approach to culture. Instead, it’s a framework where every individual takes ownership of their local culture, feels seen, valued, and recognized. This deep personal engagement leads to skyrocketing performance and widespread positive impact throughout your organization.

Welcome to a championship culture, that scales.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Adapt Culture Building: Understand how to cultivate a high-performance culture in financial teams of any size—from a small group to a global workforce of thousands.

  • Foster a YES IF Culture: Shift from a NO BECAUSE mindset to one that encourages growth and collaboration across teams.

  • Build a Resilient Team: Develop a values-driven culture capable of withstanding market disruptions and adverse conditions.

  • Future-Proof Talent Management: Gain insights on recruiting, engaging, and retaining top talent to ensure long-term success.

  • Align Purpose: Learn how to connect organizational and individual purpose to drive cohesive performance.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for financial professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.

Closing the Confidence Gap in Financial Sales

A Masterclass to Accelerate Growth and WIN

In the financial services industry, sales are the lifeblood of the organization. Without robust sales performance, there’s no business to sustain, no talent to employ, no mission to achieve, and no impact to make in the market.

Confidence is the key ingredient that makes it all possible.

Paul’s experience shows how confidence can be the ultimate differentiator and competitive edge. From setting all-time Super Bowl revenue records to surpassing billion-dollar goals in new NFL stadiums and transforming struggling NBA teams from 28th to 2nd in league revenue within a single season, Paul has demonstrated the power of confidence in driving extraordinary sales results.

This keynote dissects exactly how Paul and his teams achieved these remarkable feats. The lessons and strategies shared are universally applicable and tailored to elevate performance in the financial services sector.

It combines a winning mindset with actionable tactics to boost confidence and drive breakthrough performance—right away.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Master Elite Sales Practices: Learn the strategies and habits of the elite and how they stand out in competitive sales environments.

  • Identify Confidence Gaps: Pinpoint the confidence barriers that hinder optimal and sustainable sales performance.

  • Develop Winning Habits: Discover essential daily rituals and practices that fuel continuous growth and success in financial sales.

  • Overcome Adversity: Uncover the tactics for navigating uncertainty and turning challenges into opportunities.

  • Unlock Your Potential: Implement a process to enhance your mindset, lead authentically, and drive purposeful sales actions.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for financial professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.

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This keynote is for you if...

You are growing weary of the never-ending battles of finding, engaging, and retaining talent.  Learn the keys to create an environment where people know they belong, can thrive, and will stay, because they matter.

Learning Outcomes

  • Reconnect fragmented and hybrid workforces to rally around a spirit of camaraderie, empathy, and trust

  • Elevate the level of adaptability and agility so your culture can persevere and endure any climate

  • Learn how purpose can galvanize your organization to greater passion, positivity, and happiness in the day-to-day

  • From partners to tourists to prisoners, learn to lead challenging teams through highly volatile times

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This keynote is for you if...

You are driven to compete in today’s relentless market.  Grit, agility, and a resilient mindset are the table stakes. Learn from a 15-year NBA and NFL sales leader, who has walked through the same fires.

Learning Outcomes

  • Discover how purpose can be the igniter of performance, productivity, and courage

  • Grow customer relationships from transactional to transformational, through one simple rule

  • Acquire a framework to build trust and earn loyalty from your team, clients, and key stakeholders

  • From firefighting to FIRED UP – energize your locker room to show up committed to a standard of excellence

This keynote is for you if...

You believe elite performance happens when people don’t need to be held accountable, they hold themselves accountable.  That’s the power of intrinsic motivation, carrots and sticks no longer required.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn the four cornerstones of intrinsically motivated teams, a case study from the San Francisco 49ers Academy, where you will be challenged by four critical questions:

    • Does your team believe deeply in the game they’re playing?

    • Are their fingerprints on the blueprint you’re asking them to execute?

    • Are people better when they go home than when they showed up that day?

    • Are people making a difference, that matters to them?

  • The answer to these questions should be HELL YES.  This keynote will deliver just that.

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This keynote is for you if...

You believe decisions and actions dictate the quality of our results.  What if you had a fail-proof equation that leads to more clear, confident, consistent, and purposeful outcomes?  This is it.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn the business and life benefits of conquering our mindset and igniting our passion so we can achieve inner success

  • Discover how you and your team can get unstuck and drive toward greater levels of happiness and fulfillment

  • Understand how you can leverage green, yellow, and red lights at every critical decision-making juncture

  • Walk away with a proven playbook of core values to lead the business, career, and life you want, ON PURPOSE

This keynote is for you if...

You subscribe to the platinum rule where you treat others as they want to be treated by speaking to their WHY.  The impact: an organization where people get clear, stand out, and play bigger—at scale.

Learning Outcomes

  • Drive greater awareness so you and your team appreciate how you think and WHY each of you do what you do

  • Learn to communicate WHY to WHY to enhance the identity, empathy, and relationships within your team

  • Through the power of WHY, you can most effectively leverage each person’s strengths, gifts and talents

  • Construct a holistic game plan where your collective WHY’s provide clarity on how the entire team puzzle of purpose and impact fit together

Customized For YOU

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We'll talk through...

  • Biggest challenges and pain points

  • Most sought-after goals

  • Current state to future state shifts and transformations

  • How you want every audience member to think, feel, and do

  • What an 11 out of 10 looks like

Ready to meet Paul at the 50?