Keynote
Speaking & Lectures
Why are the elite 1% of the world’s sales and marketing people so different? Because they invest in learning from and applying the success principles of the other 1%.
Don Barden is a popular keynote speaker who shares proven methodologies for achieving the highest levels of leadership in communication, sales, and team management.
His experience with cultural change and record-setting growth has drawn corporate and political leaders who want to tap into his real-world expertise to move their organizations to higher levels.
His “unfair advantage” theories are revolutionary in today’s economy, deconstructing the myth of modern leadership and communication techniques and replacing them with achievement and innovation.
Don was awarded and recognized by John Maxwell as one of the Top 30 Most Transformational Leaders in North America. He has spent the last 30 years creating leaders who create leaders.
His books and engaging keynotes have transformed individual mindsets, corporate cultures, and bottom lines. Through his lectures, he shares the secrets cultivated through his academic inquiries, doctoral research, and practical experience on Wall Street.
He will teach you the same tools he uses to help CEOs build billion-dollar companies. He is also deeply involved with the U.S. military leadership training and helps faith-based organizations to discover the path forward in the 21st century.
Leadership Development: Creating Leaders Who Create Leaders
In this fascinating and provocative keynote, Don explores the historical emergence of modern leadership, beginning with Greek methodology and moving toward today’s primary concepts of the most impactful leadership styles that have successfully moved the needle across cultures and continents.
Participants will walk away with the following:
- An acute understanding of their leadership style.
- Identifying other leadership styles, internal, external, domestic, and foreign.
- Respect for all styles with specific ways to approach adversity with correlated outcomes
Decision-Making: Why do People Make the Decisions They Do?
Don reveals the simple secrets of success that elite leaders, communicators, and disruptors employ to curate teams to make big things happen. Refrain from being like your contemporaries mired in indecision, but discover the untapped potential of your team’s innate differences and explore the rationale behind the human decision-making process. Dive deep into doctoral science to understand why people make decisions and how you can predict their outcomes with 90+% accuracy.
Participants will learn from Don’s proven decision-making methods while getting a better understanding of popular processes including:
- Kolbe Methodology for Conative behavior
- The Decision-Making Pyramid
- Roles of emotion and their correlation to leadership styles
- Communication methodologies for maximum team effect
The Communication Pattern of the Worlds Elite Leaders: Promises and Beliefs
Learn the communication patterns and mindset of the world’s elite leaders using scientific performance standards and statistical support. This illuminating class invites leaders to explore practices necessary for elite communication skills in friendly and non-friendly environments.
Participants will hone the skills required to perform at the highest level and learn how to transfer those traits to future leaders effectively, and learn:
- Three Promises of the world’s elite leaders
- Three Beliefs of the world’s elite leaders
- The mindset of the faithful servant leader
- Exploration of understanding that “every life has a story.”
Hire Don for Your Next Event
“In a world where many business experts have perfected their presentations more than they’ve tested their assertions, Don Barden’s, The Perfect Plan offers proven solutions to advance your enterprise. If you’ve ‘heard it all,’ Don Barden is the fresh voice you will want to hear.”
R.D. Saunders, Vice President of Advancement,
John MAxwell’s EQUIP Leadership, Inc.
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Don Barden
“In my 14 years of operating The Brain Trust, we have now seen over 150 speakers. Don’s presentation on The Perfect Plan was easily in our top three presentations of all time.
The Perfect Plan is the highest value I have ever seen related to the field of best practices in selling. As a matter of fact, one of our members commented after the presentation that this was more than about selling … it was really about leadership at the highest level.”
“If Wall Street would really listen, The Perfect Plan would change their world. The impact it has had on our firm is immeasurable.”
“In a world where many business experts have perfected their presentations more than they’ve tested their assertions, Don Barden’s, The Perfect Plan offers proven solutions to advance your enterprise. If you’ve ‘heard it all’ Don Barden is the fresh voice you will want to hear.”