Right now, I’m preparing for a series of talks I’ll be giving at a few businesses over the next month. And as I sit down to map out what I want to say, I’m reminded again of something that’s been a quiet truth in my work for years. People do not need more information. If anything, many people are drowning in it.
There’s more content, more frameworks, more models, more expert advice out there today than at any other time in history. You can open YouTube or your podcast app and within five minutes, find a Harvard professor explaining leadership, a Navy SEAL talking about grit, and a billionaire telling you how to win at life.
And yet people are still stuck. Teams are still underperforming. Leaders are still burning out. Business owners are still overwhelmed.
So if information was the answer, we’d all be sorted by now.
The people I coach are not new to this game. I work with executives and business owners who have sat through decades of leadership training. They’ve been to the workshops. They’ve read the books. They’ve done the personality tests and filled out the forms. They know the principles. In some cases, they can recite them better than the facilitator.
And still, they come to coaching feeling like something is missing.
Because deep down, they know that knowing something is not the same as living it.
There’s a line I’ve started using in coaching and in these talks I’m putting together: “It’s not about how much you know — it’s about whether you’re actually doing it.”
That one sentence usually lands with a quiet silence. Not because it’s profound. But because people feel the truth of it in their bones.
You already know that empathy matters. That trust is essential. That communication shapes culture. That delegation creates freedom. That mindset drives performance. You don’t need a new article to tell you that.
But are you living it?
Are you showing up every day and being that?
That’s where transformation begins. Not in adding more knowledge to the pile, but in clearing space for something new to emerge. Something alive. Something true. Something that moves you to action without effort.
That’s what these talks are about.
I don’t call them motivational talks. I’m not here to fire people up or give them a shot of adrenaline that wears off by the next morning. There’s nothing wrong with motivation, but it doesn’t last. And it rarely changes anything.
These talks are about perspective. About helping people see differently. Because when you see differently, you do differently.
That’s real transformation.
One of the stories I often share in my talks is from a client who had been through over twenty years of leadership programs. When we first started working together, he said, “I feel like I know all the right things, but I’m not showing up the way I want to.” He wasn’t looking for more theory. He was looking for something to shift inside.
So we didn’t focus on adding more. We focused on subtracting. Letting go of the noise. Creating space for clarity to rise. And what happened over the next few months was not a dramatic reinvention. It was something quieter, more lasting. He began to trust himself again. He began leading from presence, not pressure. He became someone others wanted to follow, not because he said the right things, but because he embodied something real.
That’s the kind of transformation these talks are designed to spark.
Even in just 30 minutes, something can change.
You can walk in seeing the world one way and walk out seeing it differently. You can leave with less noise in your head and more truth in your gut. You can stop performing leadership and start living it. Not because you were given a new technique, but because something clicked. Something you already knew came alive again.
Steve Chandler often says the job of a coach or a speaker is not to give people answers but to help them wake up to their own truth. That’s how I approach these talks. I’m not interested in sounding impressive. I’m interested in creating a shift.
It might happen through a story. It might happen through a single sentence. It might happen through a moment of stillness that cuts through the noise.
But when it happens, people walk away changed.
Not hyped up. Not overloaded. Just clearer. Lighter. Ready to lead from a different place.
And that matters now more than ever. Because in this fast-paced world, clarity is a competitive advantage. Grounded leaders build stronger teams. Present leaders make better decisions. And teams that operate from truth and trust outperform those chasing the next trend.
This is why I love doing this work. Whether I’m coaching one-on-one or speaking to a room of business leaders, the goal is always the same. Create space. Invite clarity. Let something deeper in the person rise to the surface.
So as I prepare for these talks, I’m not asking myself what new information I can share.
I’m asking: how can I help people remember what’s already true?
Because when that happens, everything changes.
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