KEYNOTE TOPIC #1
How to Lead with Courage and Inspire Confidence
The Tech industry's starting point for growth and transformation.
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15 Year NFL & NBA Executive, Paul speaks to tech professionals seeking to drive GROWTH, navigate CHANGE, and develop an ACTIONABLE game plan to WIN MONDAY and beyond.
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Paul’s energy is infectious, his stories touch the heart, and he instills a mindset to be your best. We all walked away with actionable tools to navigate uncertainty, battle through indecision, and perform with confidence, leaving us with a rallying cry to WIN MONDAY.
Head of Sales, Google Cloud
The tech industry is no stranger to disruption, rapid change, and economic volatility, often forcing companies into a defensive position. The outcome? Confidence gaps that lead to risk-averse mindsets, slowing down innovation and progress across organizations.
But what if you had a strategic playbook for playing offense — proactively driving innovation, setting bold goals, and achieving breakthrough results — even while others are focused solely on damage control?
This is precisely what Paul delivers in this flagship keynote, inspired by over 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 tech professional will leave equipped with Paul’s 5-pillar Playing Offense framework and his WIN MONDAY playbook, designed to provide actionable insights and growth strategies that can be applied across the fast-paced tech landscape.
Inspire Purpose-Driven Performance: Empower your teams to harness purpose as a catalyst for innovation and peak performance.
Build a Resilient Culture: Cultivate a culture of adaptability and resilience to navigate the ever-evolving world of tech.
Adopt ‘Next Practices’ in Collaboration and Growth: Learn the advanced strategies for trust-building, team alignment, and hyper-growth.
Scale Leadership Excellence: Discover the behaviors of top tech leaders and how to embed these practices within your organization.
Attract and Retain Top Talent: Understand the keys to drawing in, engaging, and retaining skilled professionals with confidence.
Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for tech professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.
In the fast-paced world of tech, even top leaders can fall into the traps of hasty decisions, get bogged down by analysis paralysis, or feel overwhelmed by decision fatigue.
In this keynote, Paul unveils his streamlined three-step process that’s been instrumental in turning around major tech companies—from product development to executive strategy. Avoid decision pitfalls, advance with clarity and confidence, and make the most of your MVDs: Most Valuable
Decisions.Discover the keys to making fast, effective decisions for the challenges that keep you up at night:
🚥 Should we pivot or stay the course with our product strategy?
🚥 Which candidate will best drive our innovation?
🚥 How should we allocate resources for maximum impact?
🚥 Do we partner with this startup or build in-house?
🚥 What’s our roadmap for the next fiscal 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.
Transform hesitation and doubt into decisive action and clear strategies.
Equip tech leaders and teams to be highly intentional, self-aware, and impactful in their choices.
Implement a decision-making framework designed for speed, efficiency, and reclaiming valuable time.
Foster high-trust, collaborative environments that fuel innovation and authenticity.
Walk away with a tactical playbook, ensuring everyone knows when to say “yes” and when to pivot.
Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for tech professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.
In the tech industry, culture scales only when every individual embodies ownership, accountability, pride, and a commitment to daily excellence.
This keynote brings the championship spirit to tech culture, transforming it into your ultimate competitive advantage.
Drawing from Paul’s 15 years as a culture-building expert in the NFL & NBA—where he earned multiple national awards as Founder of the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy—this session explores what sets the world’s greatest cultures apart.
Note: This is not a traditional top-down approach to culture. Instead, it’s a framework where every person contributes to their local culture, feeling seen, valued, and recognized.
The result? Enhanced buy-in, performance, and contributions from individuals that spread throughout your organization.
Welcome to a championship culture, that scales.
Adapt Culture Building: Understand how to cultivate a high-performance culture in tech teams of any size—from startups 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: Scale a values-driven team that thrives despite market disruptions and challenges.
Future-Proof Talent Management: Gain future-proof strategies for recruiting, engaging, and retaining top industry talent.
Align Purpose: Align organizational and individual purpose to create a connected, motivated workforce.
Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for tech professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.
In the tech industry, sales aren't just a function—they're the engine that drives innovation, growth, and market leadership. Without a strong sales strategy, there's no product launch, no team expansion, and no disruptive impact.
CONFIDENCE is the key to unlocking these opportunities.
Paul has harnessed confidence as a game-changer, achieving unprecedented success as a sales leader in high-stakes environments like the NFL and NBA. His track record includes setting Super Bowl revenue records, exceeding billion-dollar sales goals with new NFL stadiums, and catapulting NBA teams from revenue lows to top-tier standings within a single season.
In this keynote, Paul reveals the strategies and insights that fueled his achievements. These lessons are not only relevant but crucial across industries, particularly in tech.
This presentation blends cutting-edge sales strategies with powerful psychological techniques, offering practical tools to boost confidence and drive immediate, impactful results.
Master Best Practices: Learn how elite performers excel and distinguish themselves in competitive tech landscapes.
Identify Confidence Gaps: Pinpoint the confidence barriers that hinder peak and sustainable performance.
Adopt Winning Habits: Discover daily rituals and habits that fuel growth and success in tech sales.
Overcome Adversity: Uncover strategies to navigate challenges and embrace uncertainty with confidence.
Lead with Authenticity: Gain a process to unlock your mindset, lead effectively, and drive impactful actions.
Paul’s 52-Week Action Plan to WIN MONDAY—designed for tech professionals to drive consistent, proactive growth year-round.
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Here’s what to expect from the time you engage Paul to the 52 Mondays that follow:
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From pre-calls to co-promoting your event to WIN MONDAY promo videos to tailoring every talk to your goals, Paul will meet you at the 50.
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Paul will inspire, educate, and transform - customizing all content for audience specific application, tying every takeaway to how we can WIN MONDAY.
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All attendees will receive gifts and resources to WIN MONDAY, creating an instant ROI for everyone in the room.
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Every Monday morning, Paul will deliver a single insight to WIN MONDAY through his immediately actionable newsletter, Monday Momentum
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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