Let’s create an unforgettable in-person event.
I speak to Catholic creators and the leaders who form them — and I build the talk around your audience, not my notes. You tell me who’s in the seats and what you need them to leave with. I show up easy to work with and hand your room something they can do on Monday.
Brought in by
Organizations across the Catholic world have brought me in to teach, host, and build with their audiences.
Who I speak to — and what I bring them
I speak to two rooms. Catholic creators — the people building platforms, podcasts, and ministries online — and the leaders who form them — diocesan teams, parish staff, conference programmers. Each talk hangs on a framework I actually use; the audience fit tells you which room it’s built for.
For creators and the creator economy
Your obsessions are your intellectual property.
Most Catholic creators have followers and almost none have ideas that spread. I walk the room through the Bookstore Method — how to turn what you can't stop thinking about into named frameworks people repeat without you.
Audience fit
Creator conferences · Podcaster & creator cohorts · Content & marketing teams
Stuck between too churchy and too generic.
This is the trap every Catholic creator falls into: lean churchy and you cap your growth; lean generic and you lose your identity. The room leaves with a way to be unmistakably Catholic and legible to people who aren't.
Audience fit
Catholic creator events · Apostolate & ministry comms teams · Diocesan digital teams
The resistance is the moat.
The thing you're tempted to sand off — the conviction that makes a purist on either side uncomfortable — is usually the thing that can't be copied. I make the case for building on it instead of around it.
Audience fit
Creator masterminds · Founders & entrepreneurs · Brand & marketing teams
Build in public, on purpose.
Proof of work beats credentials. I lay out the Brandshow — Seasons, Series, Plot Devices — so a creator's building becomes the content instead of competing with it.
Audience fit
Creator cohorts · Content teams · Marketing & comms staff
From followers to income without the bad trade.
Identity → IP → Authority → Income. The cascade that turns an audience into a body of work that pays, without the manufactured-urgency playbook that burns trust.
Audience fit
Creator conferences · Catholic creator communities · Entrepreneur audiences
For parish and ministry leaders
Most parish ministers are hired as Prophets and spend ninety percent of their time as Priests.
That's not a staffing problem — it's a design flaw. I bring Lencioni's organizational health into the parish office and give leaders a way to name what their people were actually called to do, and build the team around it.
Audience fit
Diocesan staff · Parish & ministry teams · Catechetical leaders · Ministry conferences
Speaking to a mixed room — creators and the leaders who form them in the same audience? That’s the bridge I’m built for. Tell me the makeup and I’ll build a talk that lands for both.
Ways to bring me in
Keynote
A single framework, built for your audience, delivered in thirty to sixty minutes. You tell me the room and the takeaway; I build the talk to fit it. Your audience leaves with one thing they can name and one thing they can do.
Workshop
Half-day or full-day, hands-on. I bring an organizational-scale brand-strategy method down to the size of the people in front of me — creators leave with the start of their own framework; teams leave with shared language for what they're building.
Host or moderator
Panels, interviews, live shows. I pull the orthogonal question, let smart people be smart, and keep the through-line visible so the room follows the conversation instead of losing it.
Fireside / Q&A
A conversation, not a lecture — for rooms that want range over a single thesis. I come prepped on your audience and follow where they actually are.
Where you’ve heard me lately
Interviews, panels, and teaching across the Catholic world — a sense of how I show up in someone else’s room.
A Catechist on AI — on the Pope's new encyclical
Magnifica Humanitas — the 3-part expert panel series
Same-day livestream on the encyclical with Katie Prejean McGrady
A Catholic VC and an Entrepreneur on Magnifica Humanitas
Content (Still) Is Not King
Interviews, talks & teaching
Beyond the Catholic Bubble: Learning to Lead from Unlikely Places
AI in Parish Life: What Every Catholic Needs to Know
Unlocking the Catechism
The Heart of a Catechist — catechist training
46 Minutes to Understand the Entire Catholic Faith (Masterclass)
What the Catholic Church Actually Teaches, About Everything
The First Steps in Evangelization and Catechesis (with Dcn. Bob Rice)
What It Means to Be Transformed by the Holy Spirit
How to Use Holy Water
The best talks are built for one room.
I don’t have a stock keynote I drop into every event. Tell me about your event and who’s in the room, and I’ll come back with whether I’m the right fit, which framework lands for your audience, and what your room walks away with. No pressure, no scripted pitch — if it’s not a fit, I’ll point you somewhere better.
Hi, Edmund Mitchell.
I build every talk myself, around your room. Fill out the form below and let's see if it's a fit.
Talk soon,
Edmund
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