Keynotes + Facilitation

Your people want to bring their whole selves to work. The research backs it up.

So does ancient wisdom about what makes humans thrive.

We connect both—and turn insight into behavior.

Whether you need a catalytic keynote for 500 people or a focused half-day session with your leadership team, we blend cutting-edge research with ancient wisdom about what makes humans thrive. Psychological safety. Strengths. Customer-employee moments. The little things that compound into real cultural change.

Remote, on-site in Austin, or elsewhere for a fee.

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Three ways of working together

Keynote Speeches

  • 45-60 minutes

  • All-hands, leadership summits, conferences, offsites.

  • A data-rich, story-driven talk that connects culture, psychological safety, strengths, and customer experience directly to revenue, retention, and valuation. Perfect for creating shared language, urgency, and momentum across your organization.

    Available remote, on-site in Austin, or elsewhere (+ travel)."

    Investment range:
    $4,000–$12,000 depending on format and location

Half-Day Workshops

  • 3–4 hours

  • Leadership teams, managers, cross-functional groups (8–25 people)

  • We take one or two workshop topics (see below) and go deep with your team. Not just frameworks—real work on your context, your challenges, your next steps. You leave with clarity, commitments, and a roadmap.

    Customize the focus based on what's breaking: psychological safety, manager capability, customer-employee alignment, communication norms, or micro-behaviors.

    Investment range:
    $7,500–$11,000 (Austin); $9,000–$13,000 (elsewhere + travel)

Not sure which format is right?

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Full-Day Workshops

  • 6–8 hours

  • Leadership teams, executive offsites, manager cohorts.

  • Body copy:

    Combine 2–4 workshop topics into a comprehensive day’s facilitation. Morning: diagnosis and frameworks. Afternoon: application, design, and commitment. By the end of the day, your team has a shared operating system and concrete next steps.

    Best for teams ready to commit real time and energy to transformation—not just discussion.

    Investment range:
    $12,000–$18,000 (Austin); $14,000–$20,000 (elsewhere + travel)

Keynote Speaking

Standard Keynote

Culture, Success &
Coming Home to Yourself

Benjamin shares his journey from building culture at Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, and Lucid to redefining success through creativity, impact, and deeper connection to the land he comes from. Your leaders walk away seeing culture not as an HR initiative, but as the operating system that lets people bring their full selves to work—without having to quit, burn out, or start over.

  • Benjamin reached what many would call the peak of corporate success—helping build culture and leadership systems inside some of the world’s most demanding organizations—then chose to re-anchor his work around creativity, impact, and right relationship with place and community. That shift didn’t abandon performance; it reframed it, showing how culture can serve both outcomes and wholeness.​

    This keynote weaves that story with hard data on why most fast-growing companies stall and what the small minority do differently. The core message: you don’t need to quit your job or blow up your company to find meaning. The operating system you’re looking for is already inside your people and your place—you just haven’t been taught how to see it, name it, and build around it.​

    What it covers:

    • The problem: Why the vast majority of fast-growing companies fail to sustain scale, and the hidden cultural costs behind the numbers.​

    • The solution: How high-performing organizations treat culture as an operating system—integrating values, leadership behavior, and systems.​

    • The path home: Designing culture in a way that serves both the business and the humans in it, so people can bring more of themselves to work without having to leave everything behind.

    Best for:
    Organizations in hypergrowth, Series B/C companies, and leadership teams that can feel culture slipping and want a more grounded, human, and scalable way forward.

Tailored Keynote

Built Around Your
Inflection Point

We co‑design a talk around your specific moment—hypergrowth, founder‑to‑professional transition, M&A, or a customer experience shift—and tie cutting‑edge research to your real constraints. Your leaders leave with language, frameworks, and next steps that feel uncomfortably specific to your situation (in the best way).

  • A custom keynote starts with a 30–45 minute discovery call with your leadership team. We get clear on where you are: what’s breaking in culture, where leadership is misaligned, how your customer and employee experience actually feel right now, and what “success” would look like 12–18 months from today.

    From there, Benjamin builds a talk that blends your story with the research: Google’s Project Aristotle on psychological safety, Gallup’s HumanSigma on the employee–customer encounter, strengths‑based development, and the operating models of companies that scale without losing their soul. The content is customized; the backbone is consistent: culture as a strategic operating system, not a side project.

    What it covers (tailored):

    • Your specific inflection point: hypergrowth, leadership transition, M&A, culture drift, or stalled execution.

    • The levers that matter most in your context: psychological safety, strengths alignment, customer–employee encounters, or micro‑behaviors that compound. 

    • A clear, organization‑specific path forward: what to do in the next 90 days and 12–18 months to turn culture from a risk into an advantage.

    Best for:
    Executive teams and organizations that want high relevance and are ready to talk honestly about where things stand—and what needs to change—without resorting to generic culture talks.

    This keynote weaves that story with hard data on why most fast-growing companies stall and what the small minority do differently. The core message: you don’t need to quit your job or blow up your company to find meaning. The operating system you’re looking for is already inside your people and your place—you just haven’t been taught how to see it, name it, and build around it.​

    What it covers:

    • The problem: Why the vast majority of fast-growing companies fail to sustain scale, and the hidden cultural costs behind the numbers.​

    • The solution: How high-performing organizations treat culture as an operating system—integrating values, leadership behavior, and systems.​

    • The path home: Designing culture in a way that serves both the business and the humans in it, so people can bring more of themselves to work without having to leave everything behind.

    Best for:

    Organizations in hypergrowth, Series B/C companies, and leadership teams that can feel culture slipping and want a more grounded, human, and scalable way forward.

Logistics

Duration: 45–75 minutes + Q&A

Formats:

  • Remote/virtual (live or recorded)

  • On-site in Austin, Texas

  • On-site elsewhere (+ travel cost)

Investment:

  • Virtual: $3,000–$6,000

  • On-site Austin: $6,000–$8,500

  • On-site elsewhere: $8,500–$12,000 + travel

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In a 30-minute call, we'll talk about your audience, your moment, and whether a keynote or deeper facilitation is the right next step.

Facilitation

1. Hero Section: The Big Invitation

Headline: Leading from the Center: Facilitation for Sincere Seekers & Wisdom Keepers. Sub-headline: Moving beyond the whiteboard to replace cultural friction with actionable, ancient wisdom and high-performance behaviors.

Strategist’s Note: We lead with your core identity. This separates you from "corporate-speak" facilitators immediately.

2. The Offerings: The Culture Catalyst

We approach organizational health through two primary containers. Both are designed to identify the "invisible" friction points and map a path toward cultural resilience.

The Half-Day Spark

  • Focus: Breaking through a specific bottleneck or sparking a new mental model.

  • Best for: Teams in transition or those needing a high-impact "re-set."

  • Outcome: Immediate clarity on a single cultural challenge and a 30-day action plan.

The Full-Day Integration

  • Focus: A deep-dive experience into "Human Sigma" mapping and real-time practice.

  • Best for: Leadership teams building long-term legacy and sustainable excellence.

  • Outcome: A custom cultural roadmap and the "Human Sigma" visual map of your organization’s moments of truth.

3. The Wisdom Modules (The Accordion)

Organize these as clickable "paths" that expand to show the depth of your work.

I. Psychological Safety = High Performance

High-performing teams aren’t built on consensus; they are built on the ability to disagree without fear. This module uses neuroscience to build "brave spaces" where the best ideas rise to the surface.

  • The ROI: Lower turnover, higher engagement, and faster problem-solving cycles.

II. The Mindset of Marginal Gains

Success is the result of 1% improvements across a hundred areas. We identify the "invisible" friction in daily workflows—how you start meetings and give feedback—to create a compounding effect of excellence.

  • The ROI: A culture of excellence that is sustainable and immune to burnout.

III. The Art of the Story: Presenting with Presence

Drawing on Benjamin’s experience as a filmmaker and musician, we move from sharing data to sharing the soul. Learn to use narrative clarity to drive buy-in and simplify complex strategy.

  • The ROI: Authority, vulnerability, and lasting impressions on stakeholders.

IV. Human Sigma: The Experience Mapping

You cannot have a 5-star customer experience with a 2-star employee culture. We map the emotional journey of both staff and clients to identify where "leakage" occurs.

  • The ROI: Radical loyalty and long-term profitability through internal/external alignment.

V. Radical Listening: The Podcast Mindset

Inspired by the Seekers & Keepers podcast, this module teaches "active presence." We move from transactional hearing to transformational listening.

  • The ROI: Reduced miscommunication and doubled commitment to the mission.

VI. Ancestral Thinking for Future Strategy

Shift from the "next quarter" mindset to stewardship that serves the organization seven generations from now. Blend indigenous wisdom with modern strategic planning.

  • The ROI: Resilient strategy that weathers market volatility and fosters deep purpose.