Playing Offense in Defensive Environments

KEYNOTE TOPIC #1

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 Healthcare Industry Keynote Speaker

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

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Our team was  inspired with purpose, became more resilient, built more trusting relationships, and our culture is that much stronger thanks to Paul.  If you’re looking to grow your people, I couldn't recommend him more!

Johnson & Johnson, Commercial Marketing Leader

The Power of Playing Offense in Healthcare Environments

Leading with Confidence in Times of Uncertainty

The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving, marked by relentless change, staffing shortages, and economic uncertainty that often forces teams into a defensive mindset.

The impact? Confidence gaps that lead to reactive decisions and burnout across healthcare organizations. But imagine having a playbook that empowers you to play offense—proactively pursuing meaningful goals and driving breakthrough performance—even amid the most challenging environments.

This is exactly what Paul delivers in his flagship keynote, inspired by 15 years of leading high-performance teams and his bestselling book, The Power of Playing Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Personal and Team Transformation.

Every healthcare leader and team member will walk away equipped with Paul’s 5-pillar Playing Offense framework and WIN MONDAY playbook, packed with industry-specific insights and actionable strategies to apply in any healthcare setting.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Inspire Your Team to Leverage Purpose: Harness purpose-driven care to elevate commitment and performance even during the most demanding times.

  • Cultivate a Culture of Resilience: Build a resilient team that thrives in climates of rapid change, uncertainty, and high patient volumes.

  • Master Best Practices for Trust, Collaboration, and Growth: Learn proven strategies for building trust, enhancing collaboration, and fostering growth in healthcare settings.

  • Emulate Top Leadership Behaviors: Discover what the most effective healthcare leaders do to inspire and drive their teams, and learn how to scale these practices across your organization.

  • Attract, Engage, and Retain Talent with Confidence: Uncover the keys to becoming a healthcare employer of choice through leadership confidence and team engagement.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

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

Making Better Decisions Faster in Healthcare

How to Overcome Paralysis and Inspire Action in High-Stakes Environments

In healthcare, even the most skilled professionals can struggle with rushed decisions, paralyzing indecision, and the exhaustion of constant choices.

In this keynote, Paul introduces a streamlined three-step process he's used to drive transformative results in critical settings—from the ER to the executive suite. Learn how to avoid decision traps, move forward with clarity, and make the best out of your MVDs: Most Valuable Decisions.

Discover how to make fast, effective decisions on the questions that impact your patients, teams, and outcomes:

🚥 Should I implement Strategy A or B?
🚥 Which candidate should I hire to strengthen my department?
🚥 Where should I focus my time and resources?
🚥 Should I invest in new technology or stick with the current system?
🚥 What are our targets for improving patient outcomes next year?

The secret? The Head-Heart-Hands Equation

Paul’s simple, repeatable process taps into the power of our three most essential tools—our mindset, authenticity, and actions—to make better decisions faster.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Turn Fear and Uncertainty into Confidence and Clarity: Learn how to approach complex decisions with a calm, clear mind.

  • Empower Leaders to Be Decisive and Intentional: Foster a culture where healthcare professionals make decisions swiftly and with purpose.

  • Adopt a Framework for Efficiency and Speed: Gain tools designed to streamline decision-making, reclaim time, and enhance patient care.

  • Build Trust and Collaboration Among Teams: Develop high-performing teams that communicate openly, collaborate effectively, and align on shared goals.

  • Leave with a Practical Playbook: Equip your team with a clear framework for making consistent decisions about what to say “yes” to and when to say “no.”

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

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

Scaling Championship Culture in Healthcare

Leadership & Growth Insights from the NFL & NBA

In healthcare, culture can only thrive when EVERY team member—from the frontline to the executive suite—embraces ownership, accountability, pride, and a commitment to daily excellence. This is the spirit of a champion, and when culture is nurtured correctly, it becomes the ultimate competitive advantage for your organization.

This keynote draws from Paul’s 15 years of culture-building expertise in high-stakes environments, like the NFL and NBA, where he won multiple national awards as the Founder of the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy. His insights have been stress-tested across industries, including healthcare, to reveal what the most successful cultures have in common.

Get ready to discover the most impactful lessons in culture-building that will redefine your healthcare organization.

Warning: This isn’t the usual top-down approach. This framework empowers every individual to take ownership of their local culture, ensuring they feel seen, valued, and recognized. The result? Enhanced buy-in, performance, and contributions from every level, driving a ripple effect throughout your organization.

Welcome to a championship culture, that scales.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Adapt Culture Building: Learn the nuances of culture-building for a small clinic versus a large healthcare system.

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

  • Build a Resilient Team: Scale a values-driven team that can weather any market disruption, staffing shortage, or crisis.

  • Future-Proof Talent Management: Gain future-proof strategies for recruiting, engaging, and retaining top healthcare talent.

  • Align Purpose: Align individual purpose with organizational goals to boost morale and patient outcomes.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

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

Closing the Confidence Gap in Healthcare

A Masterclass to Build Momentum and WIN

Confidence is the pulse of every healthcare organization. Without it, patient care falters, team morale suffers, and the mission to improve lives loses momentum. Confidence is not just a personal asset—it’s a critical driver of healthcare excellence.

Paul’s journey revealed how confidence can be the ultimate differentiator and the competitive advantage needed to excel in high-stakes environments. From leading record-breaking sales initiatives in the NFL and NBA to transforming underperforming teams into top revenue-generating powerhouses, Paul understands what it takes to win.

This keynote breaks down how these principles apply directly to healthcare, equipping leaders and teams with the tools to close the confidence gap, elevate performance, and inspire those around them. The insights shared are universal, adaptable, and immediately actionable.

It’s the ideal combination of mindset mastery and winning psychology, paired with practical strategies to boost confidence and drive outstanding outcomes in healthcare—right now.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Master Elite Sales Practices: Learn the habits and strategies that separate the elite 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.

  • Overcome Adversity: Gain strategies to manage stress, navigate uncertainty, and turn 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 healthcare 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.

Customized For YOU

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To maximize the impact, let’s customize your experience TOGETHER!

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  • 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

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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

These keynotes are just the starting point.  
To maximize the impact, let’s customize your experience TOGETHER!

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?