Workshops

 

Since 2011, David has had the amazing opportunity to share leadership concepts with audiences in over 350 companies spanning 24 countries. While the content has changed a bit, the intent is the same – to help leaders create environments where people come to work because they want to, not because they have to. If you’d like to invite him to take a deep dive of these ideas with your team, let’s chat!

 
 

LEAD WITH (un)COMMON SENSE

How Great Leaders Create High Performance

Length: Half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)

Overview:

Great leadership isn’t a mystery. We can all name the traits of the best leaders we’ve followed—things like honesty, humility, and humanity. These ideas aren’t revolutionary. They’re common sense. And yet, they remain uncommon in practice. Why? Because pressure, deadlines, ego and friction get in the way. Things like:

  • Office politics & unspoken expectations

  • Resistance to feedback

  • Competing priorities

  • Quick fixes over long-term trust

  • Emotional distance in the name of “efficiency”

Most leaders try to solve these challenges with better policies, systems, and processes. But rules don’t build trust. Structure doesn’t create culture. Behavior does.

The real solution is to Lead with (un)Common Sense.

In this interactive, hands-on workshop, David takes the principles from his keynote and brings them to life through group exercises, small group conversations and personal reflection. Participants will take a deep dive into what makes practicing real leadership hard in the real world, identify their most common gaps and walk away with frictionless daily practices they can actually stick with.

In this workshop, participants will:

  • Identify the everyday pressures that pull leaders away from who they want to be

  • Explore the 3 Hs of leadership: Honesty, Humility, and Humanity

  • Learn and apply frictionless behaviors that increase trust, human connection and psychological safety, leading to higher team performance

  • Build a simple, practical action plan to start showing up more intentionally—right away

  • Shift their focus from managing people to creating a culture of connection and commitment

The best leadership traits are obvious. But it’s the leaders who practice them consistently—even when it’s hard—who create cultures where people thrive and produce sustainable results.

Because the truth is, people don’t follow job titles. They follow character.