Keynote Presentations: Revolutionizing History, Branding, & Travel
A Virtual and Live Keynote Speaker to Inspire!
Your conference or event needs a keynote that is truly an American experience. And your desire to build an enduring brand is truly an American Inheritance. It’s been handed down to us from the moment we declared independence, through the Revolutionary War, and over the years since our founding.
When we look back at our origins, we find examples to help us better understand the components that make enduring American brands. We can learn how we and our brands can be:
Unique. Consistent. Authentic.
With my proven history of building brands, coupled with my passion for American history, I make deepening your brand downright fun. I’ve given hundreds of presentations—both virtual and in person—to book clubs, corporations, and organizations across the US and Canada. I can’t wait to share my enthusiasm, joy, and downright practical advice with corporations, nonprofits, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and government and tourism entities.
Presentations, plus additional packages, help you simplify your brand. You’ll learn how to do less, while deepening and inspiring teams, leaders, and fans. To learn more about schedules and pricing for keynote presentations and packages listed below, contact me directly.
Keynote Speaker & Event Presentation Topics & Takeaways
1: Revolutionize Your Brand
Your desire to build an enduring brand is not just an American experience. It is truly an American Inheritance. It’s been handed down to us from the moment we declared independence, through the Revolutionary War, and over the years since our founding. When we look back at our origins, and combine them with branding terms we all hear—message, leadership, influencers, and more—we find memorable examples to help us better understand the components that make enduring American brands.
Audience: For leadership and employees of corporations, nonprofits, government agencies, and grass-roots organizations determined to build, deepen, or reinvent an inspiring American brand.
How: Historical and revolutionary facts are connected to three main branding components to help leadership and teams to structure and build enduring brands.
Key Takeaways:
- A deeper understanding of brand components
- A practical approach and set of worksheets for writing a brand plan
- Tangible examples of historical events or people that inspire teams
2: Secure Your Independence
The entrepreneurial spirit is an inherent, and inherited, American quality. Founding individuals who supported to the American cause, in ways both small and significant, contributed to creating a nation built like no other in the world at that time. Our country as a start-up was much like our businesses—created out of necessity, ingenuity, and with creativity over funding. When we study American origins, and combine it with the qualities and plans of successful brands, we find memorable examples to help us better understand tangible actions that can contribute to independent businesses that will succeed and endure.
Audience: Entrepreneurs, solo-practitioners, trade organizations, leaders, freelance organizations, women’s groups, and authors/writers.
How: Examples of unique, well-known, and lesser-known American founders and events are tied to three components every entrepreneur needs to build a successful and simple brand plan they can enact.
Key Takeaways:
- A basic understanding of the elements of a personal brand
- A practical approach & set of worksheets for writing a personal brand plan
- Tangible examples of everyday people who made history
- A workbook for building an author brand plan
3: Travel Like Historical Novelists
We often blindly travel. We go on vacation to get away from reality, bringing home photos and objects, and perhaps a few memories. However, when we travel with the eyes of a designer and historical novelist—with the intent to absorb details, connections, and truly experience a locale—we come home with a deeper sense of reality. Both our own and the one we’ve visited. Through real-travel examples audiences come away with simple, practical, actionable tools, and handouts to enliven their travel, research, and tourism experiences.
Audience: Travel and tourism owners and operators, hospitality, cultural and government organizations, authors, and educators.
How: Real-world travel and research techniques are coupled with historical adventures to show how everyone can live better and travel with adventure like a true historical novelist.
Key Takeaways:
- Pre-travel methods to deepen connections during your journey
- Methods for staying in the moment and documenting sensory travel details
- Tools to help record daily excursions & impressions
- Three small things to do post-journey to remember this trip & plan for the next
Add-ons: Workshops, Seminars, Game Shows, & Books
Add fun to your conference or shows through my hands-on events! Deepen the discussions and post-conference/event impact through any of the following add-ons:
- Workshop: 1-2 round table consultation sessions of 45-minutes each
- Up to 20 attendees per session
- Moderated, real-world brand problem solving Q&A
- Attendees provide questions, issues
- On-the-fly solutions and brainstorming + group think
- Seminar: Intensive, 1.5 hour brand planning session
- A questionnaire is sent ahead of the conference to 3 key individuals.
- I study and prepare ahead of time to guide an intensive brand evaluation session.
- We discuss potential issues and options for solutions.
- We brainstorm innovative ideas based on your specific industry.
- Up to 3 people submit the completed questionnaire
- Up to 15 people can attend the session
- Game Show: Chasing Histories Challenge
- A 1.5-hour team building game show style event (for in person programs only)
- Teams compete for prizes to answer questions about America’s Founding documents and history, and test their American brand knowledge.
- Teams consist of 15-25 attendees each, with up to 3-5 teams
- Workbooks and books
- A minimum of 25 and a maximum of 50 copies of either Brand the Author (Not the Book) or Carrying Independence or Bonjour 40 will be included for the appropriate events. Additional copies can be added in increments of 50, 100, or 200 with discounts off retail.
All this and Book Clubs too!
In addition to keynotes, I also offer special book club packages for conferences/events—for during, before, or after the conference for Carrying Independence or Bonjour 40. This includes a 30-45 minute discussion (live at the event or Zoom), and a 10% discount on book orders (min. 25, no max for book clubs), shipped to one address. Book plates with signature will be sent separately, unless the event is live, at which time a book signing follows the book club. Reach out via the contact form to get more information about book club coupled with keynote presentations.