Hope-Centered Leadership: Leading in a Time of Burnout and Change
You’ve read the leadership books, listened to the podcasts, and attended the webinars, but something’s still missing. Your team is tired. You’re wondering:
* Why aren’t traditional leadership methods delivering the results they promised? * Am I equipped to lead in this complex, post-crisis world? * And why are burnout, stress, and turnover skyrocketing while trust, peace, and performance decline?
You’re not alone. I’ve asked those same questions, and lived through the consequences of ignoring them.
In either a keynote or training session, I introduce Hope-Centered Leadership, a research-driven, nontraditional approach to leadership that begins with one essential truth: trauma affects performance and hope is the first step toward healing, trust, and results.
You’ll learn how effective leaders shift from managing tasks to inspiring hope, from enforcing compliance to fostering connection, and from burnout to resilience. You’ll discover how to unlock the science of hope to drive real-world outcomes:
* Higher engagement and motivation * Lower turnover and emotional exhaustion * A culture of safety, empathy, and sustainable performance
This session blends insights from behavioral science, leadership, and organizational psychology to equipping you and your team to lead and work not just with strength, but with hope.

The Human Side of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity isn’t just a technical challenge, it’s a human one.
Even the most advanced firewalls, encryption, and monitoring tools can be undone in seconds by a distracted employee, a poorly managed team, or a stressed-out leader. In today’s threat landscape, understanding human behavior is no longer optional, it’s essential.
In either a keynote or workshop, I explore the behavioral dimension of cybersecurity: how cognitive biases, decision fatigue, stress, and social pressures influence security outcomes more than we often realize. Drawing from my FBI background and academic research in leadership and behavioral science, I show how organizations can reduce risk by building cultures that prioritize awareness, trust, and resilience.
Participants will learn how to:
* Identify behavioral risk factors behind phishing, insider threats, and policy noncompliance * Apply principles of behavioral science to promote secure habits and smart decision-making * Create psychologically safe environments that encourage reporting and reduce fear-based silence * Equip leaders to model cyber-secure behavior and align security goals with team well-being
This isn’t a class on software, it’s a strategy session for aligning human behavior with organizational security. Whether you're a CISO, HR leader, or executive, this session will help you build a security-aware culture where people and technology work together and not against each other.