Speaking

Bring me to the room you’re building.

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

SEEKNational Eucharistic CongressOSV SummitCatholic Creators RetreatHallowWord on Fire

Organizations across the Catholic world have brought me in to teach, host, and build with their audiences.

The Talks

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. The frameworks below are sorted by which room they’re built for, so you can see the fit before you book.

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.

Cordial Creator FrameworkThe Bookstore Method

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.

Cordial Communication

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.

DJ Thinking

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.

The BrandshowBuilding in Public

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.

Identity → IP → Authority → Income

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.

Organizational HealthThe Prophet / Priest framework

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.

How to bring me in

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.

Whatever the format, I tailor the content to your audience before I arrive, and I’m low-lift to work with — you’ll get what you need from me on time and without chasing.

Let’s talk

Let’s build your event

Tell me about your event and who’s in the room. 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 tell you and point you somewhere better.

The best talks are built for one room.

I don’t have a stock keynote I drop into every event. I have frameworks, and a habit of building the right one around the audience in front of me. Tell me who you’re gathering and what you need them to leave with — and I’ll build it.

Speaking — Edmund Mitchell