Every day, we move in one direction or another. We’re free to choose from endless possibilities. Only you can choose the direction for the rest of your life. Whether you are a seasoned executive, emerging leader, stay-at-home parent, or college student, frustration is inevitable. Now is the time for you to SHIFT from, “I’m so busy and stressed,” to, “I’m living my ideal life right now.” In this presentation, Derek will teach you a 5-gear process that you can apply in your personal and professional lives. Each gear will uniquely move you from frustrated to fulfilled. Through powerful questions and compelling exercises, you’ll discover how to make today the day you are inspired to change. It’s your next move!

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to confront your fears.
• Learn how to form your core values.
• Learn how to pursue personal growth.
• Learn how to visualize your preferred future.
• Learn how to adopt a positive mindset.
• Learn how to personalize your ambitions.
• Learn how to exercise meaningful action.
• Learn how to fulfill your ideal life.
• Learn how to inspire fellow travelers.

Carefully look over all of the things that you want to do. Will you commit to action? The way to get started is to bridge the gap between thinking and doing. In this presentation, Derek will help you design every minute of your life’s activities around your passions and priorities with ten gap-closing behaviors. Put your pedal to the metal and move from desire to execution. You’ll go from, “I’m so frustrated and busy,” to, “I’m fulfilled and living my ideal life right now.”

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to personalize your plan for personal growth.
• Learn how to do it afraid.
• Learn how to set a deadline.
• Learn how to commit to daily YOUzones.
• Learn how to discover and do your 60-Xer.
• Learn how to schedule your to-dos.
• Learn how to say no.
• Learn how to try new things.
• Learn how to start consuming now.
• Learn how to mentor up.
• Learn how to recharge your battery.

Credibility is the foundation of leadership. The ability to earn and sustain credibility depends on how well you know yourself. Your behaviors and actions have a direct effect on how others perceive your credibility as a leader. In this highly interactive workshop, Derek will teach you how to establish your credibility by following a set of disciplines that will guide your actions and behaviors.

You’re intelligent and capable, but are you emotionally intelligent? The pressure of deadlines and interpersonal conflict can cause employees and managers to react negatively toward each other. And when those reasons are emotionally charged, they can sabotage teamwork. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll become aware of emotional habits, strengths, and limitations. Derek will teach you how to watch for and increase the positive impact of your emotional responses and behavior on others. You’ll learn how to apply optimism when managing change and challenges. You’ll walk away knowing how to lead constructively in stressful and difficult situations.

Competing priorities can create confusion, inefficiencies, and stress. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn a decision-making methodology that can help determine how to separate Must-Do, Should-Do, and Nice-to-Do tasks. Derek will show you how analyzing your tasks completely can help you prioritize and demonstrate laser-focused behaviors. You’ll learn how utilizing time management skills enable you to complete your tasks within the expected timeline.

Do you want to leave your failures and frustrations behind? To be able to move forward in life, you need great In this presentation, you’ll learn that the best way to create a solid foundation is to determine your true personal values. Derek will help you discover them. Once you do this, you’ll be able to move forward purposefully, based on your rock-solid foundation of values. Your values are the ideas and virtues that are most important to you. Your values are the things that you won’t compromise on, or that you would die to defend. When you consistently keep your personal values and your definition of success at the heart of everything you do, you’ll create a smoother journey toward living your ideal life right now.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to discover the crash that is holding you back.
• Learn how to create your own definition of success.
• Learn how to rate and form your top values.
• Learn how to define each of your values.
• Learn how to build your ideal day with your definition of success and your values.

Potential is one of the most powerful words in any language. In order to reach your potential, you must be intentional about your personal growth. In this presentation, you will understand how personal growth really works, and how you can develop yourself to become a more effective and fulfilled individual. You will learn how to build up your sense of purpose and become more successful in every area of your life. Once you make a mental decision to grow, you’ll create a vision that will give you the motivation for the choices and tradeoffs you’ll make on your journey. Come alongside Derek as he shares the core of what he has learned about developing yourself, so that you have the best chance of becoming the person you are destined to be!

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to keep increasing your potential so that it never gets “used up.”
• Learn how to become an intentional learner and commit to the Move to Grow principle daily.
• Learn how to overcome growth gaps and excuses.
• Learn how to find your passion and purpose with powerful questions.
• Learn how to follow the cues that get you excited.
• Learn how to become aware of your current location and determine your vision.
• Learn how to make the necessary tradeoffs to go from where you are to where you want to be.
• Learn how to become the person you were created to be.

Passion is your fuel for growth. Without passion, you’re likely to lose the great attitude and end up with fatigue and burnout. In this presentation, Derek will teach you how to spend time thinking, dreaming, and personalizing your ambitions. You’ll find your X, the intersection where what you love doing (passion) and what you want to be great at (skill) will cross. Unfortunately, many people never experience their X because they’ve never taken the time to find it, or they don’t believe that their dreams can come to fruition. Undo most of your negativity once and for all by connecting the 12 inches between your mind/attitude and your heart/passion.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to think about your reasons and motivations for waking up in the morning.
• Learn how to take responsibility to find your fit . . . there are no rules.
• Learn how to answer the questions to determine your X’s.
• Learn how to do more of what you love and less of what you like.
• Learn how to live your life with passion!

Life is not a dress rehearsal. It’s time to become the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. In this presentation, Derek will show you how to create a lasting ID that you actually admire and respect. Contrary to popular belief, you can fulfill your ideal life while executing your passions. You’ll stop separating your passions and priorities from life demands. Instead, you’ll learn how to apply work–life fusion vs. work–life balance. With integrated living, you’ll be happier, healthier, and wealthier.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to define what work means to you.
• Learn how to strive to match your personal and work values.
• Learn how to be present and capture your most precious moments.
• Learn how to create your ID, the intersection of your values.
• Learn how to evaluate your work–life fusion with the following: Question of Passion and Move Matrix.
• Learn how to spend as much time as you can enjoying your values.

In today’s world, we know that a commitment to wellness has a positive impact on everything. However, making a deep commitment to health and fitness can be challenging. In this workshop, Derek will teach you how to dial up brainpower, productivity and energy levels by managing stress, sleep, food, exercise and water. You’ll learn how leading by example can increase your team’s overall wellness engagement. You’ll learn why a nurturing environment will set up conditions to allow everyone to be their best. Choose to make wellness a part of your organization’s DNA once and for all. Together, we can build lives where we can work hard and stay healthy at the same time.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to build a life where you can get work done and stay healthy at the same time.
• Learn how to overcome your foolish wellness habits.
• Learn how to minimize stress by putting your primary diet ahead of your secondary diet.
• Learn how to respect sleep and experience total relaxation every day.
• Learn how to plan the FEW fundamentals.
• Learn how to make better eating decisions.
• Learn how to find your fit and move more.
• Learn how to make drinking water a conscious decision.
• Learn how to improve your employee’s quality of life at work.
• Learn how to lead a culture of wellness and increase engagement.

Do you wait until the annual performance review? In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn that frequent informal feedback positively impacts productivity and results. Feedback is a tool for driving results and developing employees. It’s not punishment. Derek will facilitate conversations and activities on how feedback can be helpful or harmful depending on how it’s delivered. You’ll walk away knowing that the intention for giving feedback is helping versus punishing, which will come through in your delivery for years to come.

Engagement is not employee ‘happiness,’ it is a sense of ownership and connection with organizational goals. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn that leaders are the link between the employee and the organization, and are a critical part of the organization engagement ecosystem. Derek will teach you how leaders impact engagement through day-to-day actions and decision making. You’ll walk away focusing on the engagement drivers that have the most impact to your team.

Effective communication requires work and practice. Everyone has different communication styles and preferences. In most conversations, however, there should be a balance between how much you talk, how much you ask, and how much you listen. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to adjust your communication style to your audience and the situation. Derek will show you how stating your point of view in a clear, concise, and compelling manner increases your ability to be heard and understood. You’ll walk away knowing how asking questions can help you open up communication channels and connect with others.

Do you want to be an effective facilitator? Do you want to know how adults learn and how to connect with them? In this highly interactive workshop, Derek will show you how to facilitate in a way that is interesting, exciting, and relevant to the audience. You’ll walk away knowing how to manage the learning environment and respond to challenging participant situations.

No matter what your personal definition of success is, you must have the right attitude to achieve it. In this presentation, Derek will show you how to adopt a positive, growth mindset. Attitude is your engine for growth. Stop your downward spiral once and for all. Today is the day that you will choose to have a positive and impassioned attitude. Opening yourself up to this change in attitude will help facilitate your desire to change your behavior.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to take full responsibility for your attitude.
• Learn how to create momentum toward your vision with a positive attitude.
• Learn how to recognize that optimism comes before success.
• Learn how to believe that you can achieve what you desire.

What separates a great leader from a good one? The best leaders invest their time and resources in equipping others to rise up to their best as leaders. With power-packed strategies and time-tested advice, Derek defines the win-win climate created when leaders proactively mentor those around them. He will carefully walk you through a progression of four stages: modeling, motivating, mentoring, and multiplying. This workshop will help you catapult your organization, and the people within it, to greater success.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to influence and add value to others through trust.
• Learn how to free people to reach their potential by feeding them encouragement, recognition, and hope.
• Learn how to get others to think more highly of themselves.
• Learn how to be impressed and interested, not impressive and interesting.
• Learn how to look beyond your own position and experiences when dealing with others.
• Learn how to stretch others to reach their full potential through personal growth.
• Learn how to walk beside others through life’s difficulties until they can travel under their own power.
• Learn how to initiate contact with others and meet them where they are.
• Learn how to share you influence, position, and wisdom with others so that they can function at their best.
• Learn how to multiply leaders.

Derek is much more than a speaker. He is also in the trenches as a manager at one of the top health and fitness clubs in the country. Over the past decade, Derek has learned that employee effectiveness is strongly related to how employees are led by their direct supervisors. Most well-led employees produce exceptional results, while poorly-led employees produce mediocre results. For that reason, Derek has packaged all of his leadership expertise into the one leadership development solution for your organization called Fit to Lead.

Fit to Lead is a practical solution designed to give your directors, managers, and team leaders the tools to improve or refresh their leadership skills. This creates a cultural shift of increased employee effectiveness, engagement, and retention – and, therefore, increased ROI and revenue for your organization. Your team will learn the foundational skills that every leader needs to know in a very practical, interactive, and thought-provoking way.

So what is the path to creating AND sustaining a strong leadership culture? It takes an organization to believe that success stems from investing in and developing their people. Fit to Lead consists of the following ten 2-hour workshops. Keep in mind that Derek can certify leaders at your organization to be Fit to Lead, which allows you to reproduce leaders and scale leadership development.

1. Establishing Credibility as a Leader
2. Setting and Completing Your Top Priorities at Work
3. Generating Effective Conversations and Become an Adaptable Leader
4. Assigning Work and Setting Expectations to Achieve Real Results
5. Giving Frequent, Helpful Feedback with a Confidence-Boosting Tool — BEST SELLER!
6. Boosting Employee Engagement within an Ecosystem
7. Increasing Emotional Intelligence Under Pressure
8. Leading Development Discussions, Not Performance Reviews — BEST SELLER!
9. Driving Accountability for Results with a Game-Changing Model — BEST SELLER!
10. Facilitating Engaging and Effective Meetings

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Everyone is part of a team. If you are married, you and your spouse are a team. If you are employed, you and your colleagues are a team. If you give your time to an organization, you are part of a team of volunteers. And while everyone knows teamwork is a good thing, you may not know how it really works. In this easy-to-get-it approach, Derek reveals the process of building a winning team, making it simple to grasp, retain and put into practice. Whether you are a leader or team member, this workshop will inspire you to dive into and enjoy the process of team building.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to be better, faster, and stronger…together!
• Learn why teamwork is so important.
• Learn the impact of good teamwork.
• Learn how your team can accomplish the dream.
• Learn how to develop a team that lasts.
• Learn the 9 characteristics of a good team.
• Learn what it means to be a team player.
• Learn how to go about building a winning team.
• Learn how a weak player impacts the team.
• Learn how to create positive energy on the team.
• Learn how to harness the team’s creativity.
• Learn how to achieve your team’s common goal.

If you want to succeed and influence others, you must learn how to connect with people. While it may seem like some folks are just born with it, the fact is anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful connection. In this workshop, Derek will show you how to get the message across by building a bridge to others. He will point out that cultivating relationships is every bit as important to effective communication as crafting the message. Derek will share four principles and four practices to develop the crucial skill of connecting that will give you the edge.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to identify with people and relate to others in a way that increases your influence with them.
• Learn how to connect with others authentically and patiently seek to understand them before speaking.
• Learn how to be aware that our actions, tone, and style communicate far more than our words.
• Learn how to step toward others relationally and emotionally by personalizing the message.
• Learn how to build positive relationships through common interests and values.
• Learn how to cut through the haze of complexity and bring simplicity and clarity to life’s issues.
• Learn how to craft your communications appealingly so that you do not bore others.
• Learn how to motivate and inspire people to contribute their utmost to the organization’s goals.

Do you wait until the annual performance review? In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn that frequent informal feedback positively impacts productivity and results. Feedback is a tool for driving results and developing employees. It’s not punishment. Derek will facilitate conversations and activities on how feedback can be helpful or harmful depending on how it’s delivered. You’ll walk away knowing that the intention for giving feedback is helping versus punishing, which will come through in your delivery for years to come.

Do you want to create a work culture in which employees take personal ownership for results, and foster the desire to learn and grow? In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to communicate clear expectations, responsibilities, and measurements that reinforce the right actions and behaviors. Join Derek as he teaches you how to empower employees to identify solutions, make good decisions, and take reasonable risks. You’ll walk away comfortable and confident holding employees accountable.

Performance reviews and development discussions are different. Employee development is a mutual responsibility of the employee and the leader. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn how employee development can deepen an employee’s knowledge and skills. Derek will teach you that development requires open and effective communication between the employee and the leader because development goals and activities vary for everyone. You’ll walk away knowing that development opportunities are everywhere and go beyond formal training.

Assigning work is important and relevant to all levels of leadership. It’s not only about what results you achieve, but how you achieve those results. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn that when you assign work, it’s important to determine what work to assign and how to assign that work. Derek will teach you how leaders need to ensure that each employee understands and is able to complete his or her work that aligns to business objectives. You’ll walk away knowing that when work is properly assigned, leaders are also developing team members.

Engagement is not employee ‘happiness,’ it is a sense of ownership and connection with organizational goals. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn that leaders are the link between the employee and the organization, and are a critical part of the organization engagement ecosystem. Derek will teach you how leaders impact engagement through day-to-day actions and decision making. You’ll walk away focusing on the engagement drivers that have the most impact to your team.

Do you want to be an effective facilitator? Do you want to know how adults learn and how to connect with them? In this highly interactive workshop, Derek will show you how to facilitate in a way that is interesting, exciting, and relevant to the audience. You’ll walk away knowing how to manage the learning environment and respond to challenging participant situations.

No matter what your personal definition of success is, you must have the right attitude to achieve it. In this presentation, Derek will show you how to adopt a positive, growth mindset. Attitude is your engine for growth. Stop your downward spiral once and for all. Today is the day that you will choose to have a positive and impassioned attitude. Opening yourself up to this change in attitude will help facilitate your desire to change your behavior.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to take full responsibility for your attitude.
• Learn how to create momentum toward your vision with a positive attitude.
• Learn how to recognize that optimism comes before success.
• Learn how to believe that you can achieve what you desire.