Keynote speaking · Dallas–Fort Worth and nationwide

Keynotes on building a culture that delivers results.

Mike Fromhold and Brittany Tipton speak to company kickoffs, leadership offsites and conferences about the work they did for years as executives: setting a clear direction, building teams that trust each other and growing people who deliver.

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Mike Fromhold speaking to a room of leaders in front of the Everest mountain banner
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Why leaders book us

Ideas we used to scale real companies.

Everything we speak about, we practiced first. Mike led multi-billion-dollar divisions and served as a CEO. Brittany ran more than $200 million in national accounts and built a culture consulting practice inside a multi-billion-dollar business. Along the way we used these ideas to scale companies, grow organically, develop leaders and build cultures that delivered the results the business needed.

Every keynote pairs the idea with the story of how it worked for us, where it broke and what we would do again. Your people leave inspired and with two or three things they can put to work on Monday.

Keynote topics

How to build a culture that executes.

Sixteen talks in four themes. Pick one, or we combine a few into a keynote built for your audience.

01

Set the direction

Purpose, mission, vision and values everyone can carry.

  • Purpose people can repeatWhy your company exists, said simply enough that every person can repeat it and use it to make a decision.
  • A mission and vision that pull a team forwardA clear picture of where you are going and how you will get there, so effort stops scattering across a dozen priorities.
  • Values that show up in behaviorTurning values from a wall poster into the behaviors you hire for, coach to, promote and protect.
  • Clarity beats complexityA few priorities, each owned by name and measured every week, and meetings that end with decisions.
02

Build the team

Trust, candor and commitment at the top.

  • Trust starts at the topWhy the strongest teams begin with leaders who go first, admit what they don’t know and ask for help.
  • Healthy debate, real commitmentTeams that tell each other the truth, argue about ideas and then leave the room behind one decision.
  • Belonging and shared purposeThe everyday signals that tell people they are safe, they matter and they are part of something bigger than their job.
  • The right people around the tableWho you hire and keep shapes everything. How to spot humility, drive and good judgment with people, and how to act early when the fit is wrong.
03

Grow the people

Learning, ownership, appreciation and joy.

  • A culture that learnsPraise effort and progress, treat setbacks as information and keep raising the bar for how people grow.
  • Ownership without bossingLeaders who serve first, give people real authority and expect them to own the outcome.
  • Appreciation that landsRecognition people value, delivered the way each person hears it best, so your best people feel seen and stay.
  • Joy at workWorkplaces people want to come back to, built on shared purpose, collaboration and progress everyone can see.
04

Lead through it

Resilience, discipline, candor and character.

  • Resilience in hard seasonsLeading a team through adversity and coming out stronger, including how Mike’s executive team grew through COVID.
  • Discipline that compoundsSteady progress in good years and bad, and the early warning signs that a successful company is starting to slip.
  • Candor and better decisionsA team where the truth reaches decision makers fast and every call is made on the best thinking in the room.
  • What great leaders doCharacter, courage and clarity, and how leaders earn the right to be followed.
“Great leaders build great teams. Great teams build great companies. And better companies build a better world.”
Mike Fromhold
Formats

From one talk to a year of them.

30 to 60 minutes

Keynote

For an all-hands, a company kickoff or a conference main stage. One idea, told through real stories, with a few takeaways people remember.

Half day

Keynote and working session

The talk, then a facilitated session where your leaders apply the idea to their own team and leave with commitments.

Across a year

Leadership series

A series of talks for your leaders, each one building on the last, so the ideas turn into habits.

Your speakers

Two former executives who did the work.

Mike Fromhold speaking at The Collective

Mike Fromhold

Co-founder · former CEO

Mike spent 15 years rising from an entry-level role to senior executive at a multi-billion-dollar company, with P&L responsibility for billions in revenue, then ran a company as CEO. He speaks from the operator’s seat: carrying the number, answering to a board and getting a large team pulling in one direction.

Brittany Tipton speaking to a room of leaders in front of the Everest mountain banner

Brittany Tipton

Co-founder · former EVP

Brittany ran more than $200 million in enterprise national accounts and built the culture consulting arm of a multi-billion-dollar business. She has led culture and leadership work across retail, telecom, nonprofit, healthcare and academia, and she gets every room talking.

Who books a keynote

Rooms full of people who lead.

  • Company all-hands meetings and annual kickoffs
  • Leadership offsites and management meetings
  • Industry associations and conferences
  • Universities, nonprofits and boards
  • Peer groups of CEOs and executives
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Questions

Keynotes, answered.

What does an Everest keynote cover?

How to build an organizational culture that delivers results: a clear purpose, mission and vision, values that show up in behavior, teams that trust each other, accountability without bossing, and leaders who grow people. We build each talk around the topics that matter most to your audience.

Can you tailor a keynote to our company or event?

Yes. Every keynote starts with a conversation with you about your audience, your goals and what is happening in your organization. When it helps, we talk with a few of your people first so the stories and examples fit the room.

Do Mike and Brittany speak together?

Either can speak on their own, and many clients book them together. Mike speaks from the CEO and operator’s seat. Brittany speaks from years of building culture inside large organizations. Together they cover both the business and the people side of every topic.

Can a keynote lead into more work with our team?

Often it does. Some clients pair the keynote with a working session the same day. Others follow it with an executive leadership retreat, leadership development or a culture assessment.

Where do you speak?

We are based in Dallas–Fort Worth and speak at events across the country.