Speaking
Book the guy who has actually run something.
Chris is an attorney and executive who kept refusing to be only that. On stage the result is an operator’s credibility with a humorist’s timing, which is a rarer pairing than it should be.
Attorney. Executive. Entrepreneur. Speaker. Storyteller. Forbes Contributor. Expert Advisor.
Credentials
- Top 10 Corporate Counsel in the world 2024 OnCon Icon Awards
- Forbes Business Development Council Official member
- Forbes Contributor Since 2020
- Licensed to practice law Texas and Virginia
Rooms of every size, from a sales kickoff to a convention hall
What to expect
Forty-five minutes that do not feel like forty-five minutes.
01
He does the homework first
Before the date he wants to know who is in the seats, what the year has been like, and what a good outcome looks like to you. The argument stays the same. The evidence changes.
02
The laughs are structural
He is a humorist, so the humor is built into the talk rather than bolted on. A room that laughs is a room that is still listening twenty minutes later.
03
Clean, and safe for any program
Nothing that needs a warning in the run of show. No income claims, no hype, nothing that will land you an awkward email on Monday.
04
Easy to work with
Two decades in rooms where the details matter. Expect prompt replies, a simple tech rider, and someone who arrives early and stays to talk to people afterwards.
The talks
Two keynotes, same philosophy.
Corporate, sales & leadership
Maximum Velocity
Find direction. Rebuild momentum. Get moving again.
For organizations that have lost a step. Built for sales kickoffs, conventions, leadership events and field organizations, and specifically for the person who has quietly stopped doing the things that used to work.
Read the keynoteCollege & young adult
You Don’t Need a Five-Year Plan. You Need Five Options.
The pressure to have it figured out, and the better bet.
For students and early-career audiences. Takes the anxiety down, then asks something harder of them, because direction and character still decide most of it.
Read the keynoteAudiences
Where this works.
- Sales kickoffs
- Annual conventions
- Direct sales field organizations
- Leadership and management events
- Company all-hands and offsites
- Associations and annual conferences
- Entrepreneur and founder groups
- Teams coming through a hard stretch
- Colleges and universities
- Student leadership and career services
- Young professional networks
Logistics
- BasedAustin, Texas
- TravelAvailable nationally
- TechHandheld or lavalier mic, confidence monitor optional
- SlidesRarely. He would rather talk to the room
- FeeDepends on date, format, and travel. Ask