Speaking

The Corner Man is available for speaking engagements!

About speaking – Moving, inspirational, no-nonsense and authentic are the words used to describe my speaking style. My presentations will make you laugh, cry and inspire you to take action in your own life, business or team. I make my impact on audiences by sharing touching and often profound stories about the lessons and methods I developed as a coach of world-class fighters, as a successful business owner and as one of the top senior level executive search consultants to corporate America. 

Most sought presentations include 

1) Tough, Love Leadership

In today’s entitlement society, political correctness gone amuck and the obvious lack of personal accountability by our so called leaders and coaches we ask ourselves where all have our leaders gone? 

Tough love leadership is a simple, honest, battle tested approach to leadership that has produced extraordinary results for centuries and has been used by some of the greatest politicians, sports coaches and business leaders of all times. 

This is an honest, non-nonsense powerful presentation that every manager, coach or business leader will not want to miss. 

In this presentation I will teach you: 

• The important difference between being liked and being loved as a leader. 
• The essential nature of personal integrity and how it impacts your effectiveness as a leader. 
• How to build a program that can produce repeatable results.
• How to build the expectation of success into your culture.
• The secret power of repetition and
• The secrets to maximizing performance when its needed most….plus many more  

• Format: 40-75 minutes (modified based on event requirements)
• Ideal audience – Leadership conferences, business gatherings and/or events.
• Fees: Please call for details. Travel expenses from Washington, D.C. are always required. 
• Scheduling: Please call (240-235-6624) or email (info@leaderbridge.com)  for scheduling and availability.

2) Be the “corner man” in your company. Lessons of leadership from a builder of champions. In this presentation I help audiences understand and apply leadership principals that are used by esteemed trainers, coaches and business leaders. Inspirational, educational and motivating, this presentation will ignite the audience and provide it with tools that can be used to make an immediate and lasting impact on their respective people and companies. This one is sure to motivate, inspire and teach.  

      Topics (sample) covered in this presentation include:
            The need for a compelling narrative
            The power of apprenticeship (coaching as a culture)
             Rituals, systems repetition and refinement 
             The power of expectation
             Nice is not necessary…but love is!
             You cannot ask them to be what you are not

• Format: 40-75 minutes (modified based on event requirements)
• Ideal audience – Leadership conferences, business gatherings and/or events.
• Fees: Please call for details. Travel expenses from Washington, D.C. are always required. 
• Scheduling: Please call (240-235-6624) or email (info@leaderbridge.com)  for scheduling and availability.

 

2) Bring them to the edge…then push them off: In this presentation, I help the audience understand how expectations create results. Through stories, examples and practical tips I will teach the audience to understand the circumstances that must be present for raising the expectations and for maximizing the performance of themselves, their staff, team or organization.  Highly motivational and emotional, the audience leaves supercharged and ready to go to the edge. 

• Format: 40-75 minutes (modified based on event requirements)
• Ideal audience – Leadership conferences, business gatherings and/or events.
• Fees: Please call for details. Travel expenses from Washington, D.C. are always required. 
• Scheduling: Please call (240-235-6624) or email (info@leaderbridge.com)  for scheduling and availability.

 

FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES - special presentations specifically for young audiences.

These are my FAVORITE presentations and my FAVORITE audiences!!!! These presentations are specifically designed to engage, inspire and challenge the younger audiences (high school and college young business and political). Based on storytelling, these presentations are thrilling, engaging, and emotional and will give the audience something to carry long after the event and are sure to please.

Most sought presentations for this audiance

1) Seize the day – A moving and powerful presentation designed to help younger audiences grasp the finite nature of time and to inspire them to take positive action in their lives.

2) Tough ain’t enough – In this presentation I help the young audience understand that talent and desire are not enough to become a true champion. During the presentation I focus on the power of expectations in our lives and help them understand the process involved in raising their expectations beyond what they currently believe possible. Using stories, examples and the coaching methods I have developed over the years, I  teach the audience the secrete power of expectation. Highly motivational and emotional, listeners leave supercharged, carrying a powerful new understanding and tools that will help ensure greater results in the next step in their lives. 

3) A state of grace: There is a standard that is higher than winning. A moment in time when the elements of preparation, expectation, opportunity and performance collide in an harmonic explosion and result. These moments are extraordinarily rare and represent the highest achievable level by a human performance. They are, in fact, “a state of grace.” In this presentation I help the audience understand what circumstances must be present to attain this level of performance and how they can position themselves for this rarest of opportunities.   Through storytelling and the concept of “the hero’s journey” I inspire and captivate the audience, supercharging them with hope and expectation.  

• Format:40-75 minutes (modified based on event requirements
• Ideal audience: Young leadership events. Annual sports banquets (high school and college)
• Fees: Please call for details. Travel expenses from Washington, D.C. are always required. 
• Scheduling: Please call (240-235-6624) or email  bruceb@leaderbridge.com for scheduling and availability.