Most Requested Compelling Leadership Programs

These programs are designed to enable your organization to transform positional leaders into Compelling Leaders and strengthen and develop individuals at all levels of your organization.

Compelling Leadership - "Teddy" Roosevelt Leads the Charge details

The Incredible Results of Active Risk Taking details

Teddy Roosevelt - Practical Lessons for Work and Life details

Because each organization is different, each program is customized to meet the needs of the organization and the goals of the meeting or event.


Compelling Leadership - "Teddy" Roosevelt Leads the Charge

Do your leaders have the skills to make your leadership compelling? President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, one of the most effective leaders in the 20th Century, understood the difference between leadership and compelling leadership. By attracting others to follow him and support him "Teddy" led America to a greatness it had never known.

Compelling leaders at all levels understand the importance of followers. When you are ready to have others follow you to greater effectiveness and higher achievement - Compelling Leadership: "Teddy Roosevelt Leads the Charge - can show you how to integrate these lessons into your daily leadership activities.

Attendees will learn:
• What are the 4 core competencies that will make them compelling leaders
• How organization can develop & support compelling leadership practices
• How the 3 daily practices of compelling leadership lead to greater achievement

"Nothing can fully take the place of the indispensable work of leadership" Theodore Roosevelt

Ben recently gave a full-costume portrayal of Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt at our meeting and was a smash hit! Ben uses his training as a motivational speaker and actor to make "Teddy" really come alive. Ben's presentation is inspiring, historically accurate and lots of fun."
Chris Siciliano
The Children's Guild


. . as a "Rough Rider"

The Incredible Results of Active Risk Taking

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's Presidency and life was defined by his belief that he could not fail. This confidence gave him the ability to demonstrate Compelling Leadership by taking chances that others would not - and the results were incredible. "Teddy" personified active risk taking all his life and now you can reap the benefits. He did not always succeed, but he never gave up.

The Incredible Results of Active Risk Taking shows you how to put active risk taking to use to achieve your own incredible results. When you are ready to define your incredible results - productivity, profitability, motivation, excitement, success, etc. - the lessons of Teddy Roosevelt deliver the tools you need.

Attendees will learn:
• The 4 tools for overcoming self-doubt and risk avoidance traps
• How successful organization embrace acceptable risk taking principles
• The 3 daily practices of acceptable risk taking that enable incredible results

"Fearlessness is not recklessness. Acceptable risk should be calculated, based on the value of the endeavor at stake. "Theodore Roosevelt*

"There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright." Theodore Roosevelt March 4 1905 Inauguration Speech

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Teddy Roosevelt - Practical Lessons for Work and Life

President Theodore Roosevelt ("TR"), affectionately known as 'Teddy', lived a big life that was full of adversity, high achievement and genius. He was also human and with all of the success came failures. 'Teddy' looked upon these failures as lessons and used them to build on his achievements. Discover 'Teddy's' practical lessons and learn how to live big in both your work and personal life.

When you are ready to be inspired to live a bigger life - Teddy Roosevelt - Practical Lessons for Work and Life - can show you one mans path and how your bigger life can become your bigger reality.

Attendees will learn:
• The 4 tools for defining your "big life" dreams and translating them into fantastic achievements
• How TR's life will help you let go of that tight grip on "perfection"
• The 4 daily practices of "big life" living

"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." Theodore Roosevelt, November 4, 1910


Ben's customized programs are motivational, stimulating and humorous
- while delivering action-oriented and practical how-to steps that you can use today!


* as quoted from Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Lessons from the Bully Pulpit by James M. Strock,; Roseville, California: Forum, Prime Publishing, 2001; 278 pp

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