Bring Derek to your stage or show.
For entrepreneurs, podcast hosts, and event organizers looking for a guest who can teach audiences how to build smarter businesses, create freedom through better systems, and lead under pressure. And for anyone who needs to hear that they're already enough.
Ten conversations,
each one a full segment.
Every topic works as a focused interview segment or a full keynote.
Turning your lowest moments into your credential
How the thing that hurt you becomes the reason people trust you, and how that changes the way you lead and sell.
Stop building a job for yourself
The difference between owning a business and being employed by one you happen to own.
Broken systems, not a lack of effort
Why most struggling businesses are full of people working hard inside a process that was never designed.
A company that runs without you in every decision
How to get out of the middle of every approval without losing control of the outcome.
Leadership under real pressure
What years as a firefighter, lieutenant, and instructor teach you about decisions that can't wait.
The hiring mistakes that cost the most
Where owners lose money, time, and morale in how they hire, lead, and try to grow a team.
Systems and process as a performance tool
Using structure to raise output instead of adding headcount.
Reclaiming the owner's time
Why hours returned to the owner is one of the most honest measures of business success.
Building companies without losing the family
Lessons from running multiple businesses alongside leadership, family, and service.
Becoming a better problem solver
How to think through a decision when the information is incomplete and the clock is running.
Teaching and leading, not posed.
Pick your date. Not a time.
Derek holds the entire day for travel, setup and the event, so every date shows a single slot at 8:00 AM. That is not your event time. The next screen asks when your event actually runs, how long you need him on stage, and when he needs to be on site.
Your date is held while Derek looks at it. He confirms or comes back to you within two business days.