Speaking Samples

Keynote Address

Speaking Samples

The Scars of Suffering

Keynote Conference Topics

• The Scars of Hope: How God use the worst parts of your story to bless and serve others.
• The Perfect Storm: Why God is more intent on perfecting you through trouble than protecting you from trouble.  
• Invest Your Life: Understanding giftedness, motivation, and discovering your life’s calling. 
• Desperate For Hope: Coping with suffering and loss, and finding meaning in the midst of pain. 
• Lord of the Rings: Designed for marriage enrichment, specifically communication, emotional and physical intimacy, and conflict resolution. 
• The Upside of Failure: How God uses failure to teach you things success never can.
• The Born Identity: Developing a healthy sense of identity, personhood, and significance so we can become all that God created us to be. 
• Fearless: Overcoming fear, worry and anxiety, and learning to live courageously.  

Other Topics I Speak On:  

• Living and Loving Well with Depression: What to do when you or someone you love struggles with depression.
• A Compassionate, Biblical Approach to Gender Identity: How to help people struggling with gender identity. 
• Unlearning Poverty: How to practice healthy community development by moving beyond relief efforts to meaningful relationships with the poor. 
• Exposing The Matrix: Re-Imagining the Gospel in 21st century American culture and living it out in meaningful ways.
• The Church and Justice: Understanding the Church’s call to serve “the least of these.”
• The Gospel and Race Relations: Exploring racial inequity and what you can do to bring change

Corporate Presentations

Creating an Irresistible Culture: How to create a workplace environment where your employees thrive, engagement is through the roof, and turnover is a thing of the past

Work in Progress: Why personal development and growth matters, and how making progress in specific areas determines how happy you are with your life and work.

Navigating Change in the Workplace: How to communicate necessary change, get your team members excited about it, and take specific steps to implement it in healthy ways.

The Capital of Caring: Why creating a culture of kindness and generosity pays huge dividends for your employees, customers and community.

Or I can custom craft a message for your audience based on a specific theme for your event.

Previous Speaking Engagements:

• Making Love Last Valentines Banquet – Ingomar MS, Ingomar Baptist Church (2020)
• Fearless Grace Adventures Men’s Retreat, Mears, MI (2020)
• Speak Up Conference – Grand Rapids, MI (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
• GEMS National Conference – Grand Rapids, MI (2020, 2019)
• Help for the Hurting Girl – Baker Book House – Grand Rapids, MI (2019)
• Fearless Men’s Weekend – Christ Community Church, Pinehurst, NC (2019)
• Blue Christmas – The Landing, Huntsville, AL (2019, 2018)
• Joyful Living Conference – Chattanooga TN (2019)
• What is Love – CRU – UAH Campus, Huntsville AL (2019)
• The Scars of Suffering – Cove Church, Hampton Cove, AL (2018)
• The Upside of Failure – Southside Baptist Church (2018)
• The Problem of Mass Incarceration – Monte Sano UMC (2016)
• GO Conference – Cove Church, Hampton Cove, AL (2016)
• Authentic Manhood: RiverTree Church, Huntsville, AL (2016)
• CCDA National Conference – Workshop Leader (2015, 2012)
• The Perfect Storm – New Beginnings Christian Church, Huntsville, AL (2015)
• Cornerstone Conference for Community Compassion (C4) (2015, 2014, 2013)
• The Church and Race Relations – UAH Department of Diversity, Huntsville, AL (2015)
• All Lives Matter –  Forum for Huntsville Housing Authority, Huntsville, AL (2015)
• Desperate For Hope Conference at GracePointe Church, New Market AL, (2014)
• Deer Run Retreat Center – Couples Romance Weekends, Franklin, TN (2019, 17, 15, 13, 11)
• Young Business Leaders (YBL) – Huntsville, AL (2017, 2018)