250+
keynotes, workshops, and leadership sessions delivered.
Chris has educated and challenged leading organizations from Amazon to Xerox, global marketing conferences, and executive leadership groups.
Every room leaves with a decision filter it did not have walking in.
FOR: MARKETING CONFERENCES, CMO SUMMITS, BRAND EVENTS
OUTBRAND: How to Make Better Marketing Decisions Under Pressure
They leave with: The questions that change how every marketing decision gets evaluated, to produce results.
Three talks. One through line:
better decisions under pressure.
Other Topics like Decision Razors and Uncommon Sense are also available,
and every talk is shaped to your audience and goals.
Each is built for the room. Below is the version most teams start with.
FOR: EXECUTIVE SUMMITS, CEO FORUMS, LEADERSHIP OFFSITES
The Judgment Advantage: Making the Call When Everyone Has the Same Tools
They leave with: A way to tell a real strategic choice from expensive activity.
THE KEYNOTES
When every team has more tools, more data, and more content than ever, the advantage is not output. It is judgment. This keynote gives a marketing audience a filter that kills mediocre work before it ships and a shared language for judging every brief that follows.
Execution is now cheap and abundant. Judgment is the scarce resource, and most teams have no system for it. This keynote shows leaders how to make the calls that hold when the data is incomplete and the pressure is high.
FOR: STRATEGY CONFERENCES, OPERATIONS AND TRANSFORMATION LEADERS
Escaping the Efficiency Trap: Why Doing the Wrong Things Right Kills Growth
Organizations do not fail from lack of effort. They get expert at doing the wrong things right, tighten every process, and become indistinguishable from the competitor running the same playbook. This keynote names the pattern and gives leaders a way to interrupt it.
They leave with: A read on where their own efficiency is quietly capping growth.
Keynote
60 to 90 minutes
A high-impact opening or closing session, customized to your audience and theme.
Any topic above works in any of these formats, shaped to your audience and goals.
Half-day workshop
3.5 hours
A deep dive with exercises. Teams leave with frameworks they build together in the room.
What fits your event?
FORMATS
Full-day workshop
7 hours
The topics of your choosing, applied to your organization's specific challenges.
Executive briefing
2 hours
A senior leadership session. Strategic clarity before an organization-wide rollout.
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