Keynote speaker for nonprofits and education-serving companies
Darryl helps your team, or the people you bring together, keep moving through fear and uncertainty, so they leave steadier for the communities they serve and for each other.
Uncertainty is the new normal
- Funding that can disappear with one grant decision or one election
- Teams asked to do more for the same communities with fewer people
- Policy and regulations changing faster than programs can adjust
- The weight of the students and families counting on the work
- Leaders carrying payroll, mission and their own family at the same time
You can't control all of it.
You can change what fear does to your people.
What nonprofit and education teams wrote on their cards
These are real cards from nonprofit, agency and education company rooms, shared without names. Your people are carrying some of these too.
hey, I'mDarryl!
Before I ever stood on a stage, I was a technology consultant for banks. I left that career to work with students, and along the way I started asking the room some version of the question: what do you fear? Their answers built the framework I use today.
Over ten years, the rooms grew to include the adults around those students: the educators, the staff, and the nonprofits, companies and agencies that hold it all together. Their cards taught me something. The mission doesn't make the fear go away. It just gives you a bigger reason to keep moving through it.
What the
experience looks like
This isn't a sit-and-listen keynote. Here's how it works, from the weeks before to the days after.
SAMPLE PRE-EVENT VIDEOBefore the day
Darryl sends a pre-event video, and your people have the option to share some of their challenges beforehand.
energy & interactiveIn the room
From the walk-on song to the fear cards to the fire pit, everyone takes part. Nobody just sits and listens.
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03picture worthy toolsTools they can use
Simple steps your people can use with their team, with the community they serve or at home the next day, not just a good feeling.
04Fear(less) bandAfter they leave
Everyone leaves with a Fear(less) band and one next step, so the conversation keeps going across your organization.
You're in good company
You will hear back within hours on business days.
