Speaking & Workshops
Something more honest than a motivational speaker. More human than a corporate training
| Speaking
Keynote (20-60 minutes)
Corporate and Leadership Events
When Curt tells his story in a room, people go quiet. Not because it's dramatic. Because it's familiar.
Curt draws from a life that includes D1 basketball, 25 years in corporate America, decades of quiet struggle, sobriety at 53, and a complete identity rebuild that's still in progress. He says the things most people are thinking but won't say out loud, and he makes people feel something they weren't expecting to feel.
What audiences leave with: Not just motivation. Recognition. The sense that someone finally said the thing they've been carrying. And the realization that they don't have to figure it out alone. The rigor is real. The approach is human. And there is a path forward.
University & Student Life
Athletic Teams and Coaches
Interactive Session (45-75 mins)
Everything in the keynote, plus the tools to do something about it. Curt builds 2-3 exercises into the session that move people from recognition to action. Participants identify their core goals, name the values they've been honoring and the ones they've been neglecting, and walk out with a concrete first step they can take that week. This isn't the kind of session where people nod along and forget it by Thursday.
Recovery & Wellness Events
Community & Faith Events
Book Curt for your event or team.
Every engagement starts with a conversation about your people, who they are, what they're navigating, and what would actually help. No canned programs. Just real work, designed for your room.
Podcast Appearances
Men’s Conferences
Curt tells his story, and then tells yours. He starts with building a career that looked right from the outside and felt hollow from the inside and the unglamorous work of figuring out who he actually was underneath the performance. But the story isn't the point. The point is the moment when the room realizes he's not talking about himself anymore. He names the patterns people have been living but haven't had words for. People leave inspired, but more importantly recognized.
| Workshops - Performance and Meaning Tracks
For organizations ready to go deeper. Two types, both science-based, both led by a Heroic Workshop Instructor / Workshop Facilitator and Board Certified Coach.
HEROIC Performance Workshops
Goal Setting and Anti-Fragile Confidence
Built on the Heroic methodology — the same system adopted by the European Ryder Cup team, Naval Special Warfare Command, West Point, Notre Dame football, the Chicago Bulls, and the Miami Heat.
A randomized controlled trial by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky — one of the world's leading well-being researchers — showed participants moved from the 53rd to the 70th percentile on the accepted flourishing scale. In 35 years of research, she said she'd never seen results as positive.
Energy, focus, habits, goal-setting, and antifragile confidence. Half-day or full-day. Ideal for sports teams, fraternities, corporate teams, and any group where performance and team cohesion matter.
What teams leave with: A shared language for excellence. Individual protocols for energy, work, and daily discipline. The confidence that comes from doing hard things together.
Corporate Teams
Universities & Students
Community & Faith
Sports & Athletics
Navigating Change Workshops
Finding meaning in change
For groups navigating change — restructuring, career transitions, retirement, identity questions.
Grounded in positive psychology and strengths-based coaching. Participants work through values clarification, strengths assessment, and a personal meaning framework. Interactive, personal, and designed to leave people feeling seen — not lectured at.
Ideal for financial advisory firms, community organizations, churches, retirement groups, counseling centers, and universities.
What participants leave with: A personal strengths and values profile. A framework for creating meaning in the next chapter of their lives. And the feeling that someone finally asked them who they actually are.
What participants leave with: A personal strengths and values profile. A framework for creating meaning in the next chapter of their lives. And the feeling that someone finally asked them who they actually are.
Restructuring, uncertainty, meaning in the face of change. For teams navigating the moment when the org chart shifts and people realize their identity was more tied to the role than they thought.
Belonging, resilience, and identity beyond achievement. For the student who's performing well and still feels like something's off, or the senior about to lose the only identity they've known.
Connection, intention, and the courage to live with meaning. For groups ready to move past surface-level fellowship into the harder, better conversations about who they're becoming.
Leadership, mental toughness, goal setting and identity beyond the sport. For the athlete who's elite between the lines and has no idea who they are without the game. For coaching staffs looking to expand their own coaching skills.