For event planners
Make the right call.
Everything you need to know, pitch, and confirm Jerry for your next event. In one place. You are putting your name on whoever walks out on that stage, so nothing here is held back for a sales call.
Why Jerry fits your room
He is not a motivational speaker. He is an operator who ran the companies your audience is trying to run, and he leaves them with a system rather than a feeling.
The awards on that record went to teams, not to him. He will be the first person in the room to say it, and it is part of why leaders listen to him: he is talking about what the people around him built, and about the years he got it wrong before any of it worked.
An operator, not a career speaker
Senior leadership at 23. Led five companies with the payroll on his desk. $5.9MM to $15MM in 18 months at one, $7MM to $30MM in three years at another. Franchise 500 three times, Inc. 5000 twice, Best Places to Work, and Jacksonville Business Journal Ultimate CEO. Your audience can tell the difference in four minutes.
One framework they keep
Every talk hands the room a named system they can still run six months later. Not a highlight reel of stories with a lesson bolted on the end.
Built for your room, every time
The framework does not change. The examples, the language, and the pressure points do. He should sound like one of you, not like someone with your logo on his title slide.
Judged on Monday, not on applause
The question he builds every session around is what you need this audience to do differently on Monday morning. That is the outcome he is trying to produce, and the one he will ask you about afterward.
Best fit for these rooms
If your audience sits in any of these, Jerry belongs on your stage.
Leadership offsites
Founder and CEO peer groups
Sales kickoffs
Association conferences
Executive leadership teams
Franchise and multi-unit networks
Private equity portfolio companies
Manager and mid-level leadership programs
Annual company meetings
Board and ownership retreats
High-growth founder communities
Professional services firms
Talk formats
Keynote, 45 to 60 minutes. The full argument, the framework, and what to do Monday. Works best as the session the rest of your agenda builds on rather than the one that closes it out.
Half-day workshop. We work your team’s real problems, not a case study. People leave with their own work drafted, not a binder.
Offsite opener. Sets the standard for how the rest of the offsite gets run. Commitments made after this session tend to get kept.
Virtual, when it must be. It works on a screen. It works better in a room. Tell him which one you have and he will build for it.
Logistics at a glance
Fee
Keynote engagements start at $10,000. Workshops and multi-session days are quoted on scope. Tell me the format and I will give you a number, not a range that moves once you are committed.
Travel
A flat $1,500 for domestic events, billed with the fee. No receipts to chase and no expense reconciliation after your event. International is quoted with the date.
A/V
Standard presentation setup. A screen or TV, PowerPoint, a clicker, and a lavalier or headset mic. Slides go to you in advance. No rider, no exotic requests, and nothing your house team has not set up a hundred times.
Pre-event discovery
Included on every booking. Jerry wants to know who is in the seats, what they are currently missing, and what you need them to do differently on Monday. Fifteen minutes with two or three people who will actually be in the audience makes the session materially better.
Audience size
From a peer-group chapter of eight to sixteen owners up to a full conference main stage.
Customization
Every time. The framework holds; the examples, language, and pressure points are rebuilt for your room.
Selling from stage
Never. Your attendees came for the content and that is what they get.
Booking and lead time
Send the date and Jerry will tell you. He answers every inquiry himself, so you get a real answer on availability rather than a hold you have to chase.
Promotion assets
Short and long bio, photos, credentials, and a word-for-word introduction script are public in the speaker kit, so your marketing team is never waiting on him. The two-page speaker one-sheet is here if your committee wants something to pass around.
What organizers say
Jerry has singlehandedly sold out our VIP session three years in a row. No one matches his direct approach, creative insights and experience to drive action. Ask the attendees. Their businesses grow when you’re in the room with Jerry.
Donnie Boivin, Badass Business Summit
Jerry’s presentation at our JFC Coaches Symposium was incredibly impactful. His message around leadership, building an intentional culture, and holding ourselves to a higher standard resonated deeply with our staff and challenged each of us to become better leaders. Jerry has a rare ability to motivate, inspire, and challenge people in a way that creates real reflection and lasting impact.
Pat Cannon, Executive Director, Jacksonville FC
Making the internal case
You probably have to sell this booking to somebody. Here is the language, by who you are talking to. Use it word for word.
To your CEO or owner
“He has actually done this. He took his first senior leadership seat at 23 and has led five companies since, one from $5.9 million to $15 million in 18 months and another from $7 million to $30 million in three years. Those companies made the Franchise 500 three times and the Inc. 5000 twice, and he was named an Ultimate CEO by the Business Journal. He is not going to tell our leadership team something he read. He has advised more than a hundred B2B companies since, so he has seen our problem at scale, and he credits the teams rather than himself, which is the tone I want in front of our people.”
To your head of HR or people
“This is not a one-day motivation spike that evaporates by Wednesday. He hands managers a specific system for setting expectations and holding the standard, and a script for the conversation most of them have been avoiding. It gives us something to reinforce after the event instead of a nice memory.”
To your VP of sales
“The scoreboard already exists on our team. The conversations still do not happen. He goes straight at that gap, and he does it in the language of an operator who carried a number, not a trainer running a module.”
To your events lead or committee
“He does real discovery before the event, so the session feels built for our room rather than pulled from a folder. He answers his own inquiries, which means no agency layer and no chasing. And he does not sell from the stage, so we are not putting our attendees through a pitch.”
Frameworks your audience will remember
Jerry does not bring a motivational talk with a few good stories. He brings language your people can use afterward, in leadership meetings, pipeline reviews, and one-on-ones.
- Creating a Culture of Accountability. The line between holding people accountable and policing them, the four-part ask, and the only three outcomes of a commitment.
- Build the Machine. How a founder-led company stops depending on the founder, and what has to get built for it to scale.
- Influence: The Intersection of Authenticity, Intention, and Trust. How leaders get followed when they have responsibility without authority.
- Positive Constructive Conflict. Why the disagreement belongs in the room instead of the parking lot, and the ritual for running it.
- The 5 Ts of Execution. Tools, time, and training on the company side; talent and tenacity on the employee side. The “is it them or is it me” diagnostic.
- The 4 Cs of Compelling People. Clarity, challenged, comfortable, cared for. The four conditions under which people do their best work.
Questions organizers ask
Which talk should we book?
Book accountability if your problem is that people keep missing and nobody addresses it. Book Build the Machine if the company has outgrown the way it was run. Book Influence if your leaders carry responsibility without authority. If you are not sure, describe the room and Jerry will pick.
How far in advance should we book?
Send the date and Jerry will tell you. He answers every inquiry himself, so you get a real answer on availability rather than a hold you have to chase.
Has Jerry spoken to a room like ours?
Stages include AvKare, EDPA, the Badass Business Summit, Jacksonville Football Club, RockBox, Event Marketing Congress, and Equitable. That covers corporate leadership teams, association audiences, founder rooms, and sales organizations.
Will Jerry sell from the stage?
No. Your attendees came for the content and that is what they get. If people want to keep working with him they can find him, and they do not need to be sold from a stage you paid for.
Can we record the session?
Ask when you send the date. The answer depends on the format and what you plan to do with the recording, and it is a short conversation rather than a policy.
Start the conversation
Send the date, the room, and what you need the audience to walk out with. I answer every inquiry myself.