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 Real Estate Industry Keynote Speaker

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

Trusted by the World's Best Real Estate Teams & Leaders

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Paul was fantastic!  His message was perfectly tailored to our audience and reinforced our leadership principles to a tee, leaving every attendee with an actionable gameplan to WIN MONDAY.

JLL, Communications Director

The Power of Playing Offense in a Defensive Market

Leading with Confidence During Uncertainty

With market volatility, economic shifts, and changing regulations, many real estate professionals find themselves playing defense.

The result? A lack of confidence that stifles growth and fosters reactive decisions across the industry. But what if you had a playbook to play offense—strategically pursuing new opportunities and achieving standout success—while others are merely trying to survive?

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

Every real estate professional will walk away with Paul’s 5-pillar Playing Offense framework and WIN MONDAY playbook, packed with actionable strategies and universal insights tailored to the demands of the real estate industry.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Inspire Your Team to Leverage Purpose: Drive commitment and performance by aligning actions with a shared vision.

  • Cultivate a Resilient Culture: Equip your team to navigate market fluctuations and economic shifts with confidence.

  • Master Best Practices for Growth: Learn advanced strategies for building trust, enhancing collaboration, and fostering industry-leading growth.

  • Model the Best Behaviors of Top Leaders: Discover what top real estate leaders do and how to replicate their success across your organization.

  • Attract, Engage, and Retain Top Talent: Gain insights on how to build a confident and committed team that thrives in any market condition.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

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

Making Better Decisions Faster for Real Estate Professionals

Overcome Analysis Paralysis and Inspire Action in Your Business

Even top-performing real estate professionals can fall into the trap of poor judgments, freeze under the weight of crucial decisions, or feel drained by decision fatigue.

In this keynote, Paul unveils a streamlined three-step process that has transformed major real estate ventures — from high-stakes negotiations to strategic business planning. Learn how to sidestep common decision-making pitfalls, move forward with clarity and confidence, and maximize your Most Valuable Decisions (MVDs).

Discover how to make fast, effective decisions for the challenges that keep you up at night:

🚥 Should I choose strategy A or B?
🚥 Who to hire or fire?
🚥 Where should I focus my time and energy?
🚥 Should I take this deal, negotiate further, or walk away?
🚥 How do I set and prioritize my goals for the upcoming year?

The secret? The Head-Heart-Hands equation: a simple, repeatable process leveraging your three core decision-making tools to help you make better decisions faster.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Turn Uncertainty into Confidence: Gain clarity in your decisions and inspire action in your team.

  • Develop Decisive Leaders: Empower your agents and staff to become intentional, decisive, and self-aware.

  • Adopt an Efficient Framework: Implement a decision-making system designed for speed, efficiency, and reclaiming your time.

  • Cultivate High-Trust Teams: Enhance collaboration and authenticity, fostering an environment where everyone aligns with clear “yes” and “no” actions.

  • Leave with a Blueprint for Success: Equip your team with a playbook for consistent, winning decision-making.

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 Real Estate

Leadership & Growth Insights from the NFL & NBA

Culture in a real estate business can only scale when EVERY team member takes full ownership, accountability, pride, and commits to daily excellence.

That’s the mindset of a top performer, and when done right, culture becomes your ultimate competitive advantage.

This keynote is inspired by Paul’s 15 years of experience as a culture-building expert in high-stakes environments like the NFL and NBA, including multiple national awards for founding the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy. His expertise has been rigorously tested through training and consulting to uncover: what do the greatest cultures in the world have in common?

In this talk, you’ll gain the most impactful insights tailored for real estate to elevate your team’s culture.

Note: This is not your typical ‘top-down’ culture strategy. This is a framework that empowers every individual to own their part of the culture—feeling seen, valued, and recognized.The result? Increased buy-in, enhanced performance, and amplified contributions that ripple throughout your organization.

Welcome to a championship culture, that scales.

Keynote Outcomes

  • Adapt Culture Building: Understand how to scale a high-performance culture in real estate teams of any size—from boutique agencies to large firms.

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

  • Build a Resilient Team: Scale a values-driven team that can weather any market disruption or challenging environment.

  • Future-Proof Talent Management: Learn future-proof strategies to recruit, engage, and retain your top agents and staff.

  • Align Purpose: Align your organization’s purpose with individual goals, creating a cohesive and motivated team.

Takeaway Resource for Attendees

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

Closing the Confidence Gap in Real Estate Sales

A Masterclass to Build Momentum and WIN

Sales are the driving force of every real estate business. Without it, there are no properties to sell, no teams to lead, no visions to bring to life, and no communities to transform.

CONFIDENCE is what makes all the difference.

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 dives into how Paul and his teams consistently outperformed the market. The insights shared are not just for the sports world—they are universally applicable and tailored for real estate professionals who want to elevate their game.

It’s the perfect combination of a winning sales mindset, high-performance psychology, and actionable strategies designed to maximize confidence and drive results…immediately.

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 in real estate.

  • Overcome Adversity: Understand the tactics to overcome market challenges and navigate uncertainties.

  • 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 real estate 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?