Hire Tom Kolditz
Audiences can expect pragmatic, evidence based leadership lessons drawn from extreme, high risk environments and translated into clear practices leaders can use in business and everyday life. Across his talks, Tom connects volatility, complexity, and uncertainty to actionable principles for leading through crises, building capable teams, and developing the next generation of leaders for lasting performance.
Common keynote themes include: leading in crisis, practical leadership techniques, preparing for uncertainty, leadership development, performance and retention, personal and professional leadership application.
In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It
Leadership lessons from life and death situations that hold up in business and everyday life.
Operating environments for both government and business are characterized by volatility, complexity, and uncertainty—perfect conditions for crises to emerge. Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz, author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It, shows how extreme life-and-death situations can offer profound lessons for leaders in any setting. Tom’s research reveals that the leadership skills and principles evident in dangerous settings also apply to leading in business and everyday life, making this program applicable to both personal and professional success.
Ideal for leaders and teams operating in environments where uncertainty and pressure are constant.
Hope Is not a Method: 40 years of Leadership Takeaways
Eight proven techniques leaders can use immediately to get the job done.
Too often, leaders hope for success without using specific techniques for leading effectively. After leading dozens of organizations on 4 continents, and teaching leaders and leadership for 25 years, Tom distills eight proven techniques he uses regularly to get the job done as a leader. This presentation is extremely pragmatic and will allow for immediate application in peoples’ professional and personal lives.
Leaders Developing Leaders
A practical framework for developing people directly, improving performance, and strengthening retention.
One of a leader’s most powerful legacies is developing the leaders who follow them. Leadership development programs in business are often focused on talent managers and HR directors. Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz illustrates how, in an evidence-based way, each leader can personally and directly develop their people, increasing the performance and retention of employees and building a solid foundation for the future. Tapping leadership development principles used at West Point, the Yale School of Management, and other high-performing organizations, Tom’s presentation creates a clear path and practical framework for leaders to have greater impact and influence over their people while simultaneously helping them achieve their potential.
Ideal for leaders at every level who are accountable for building strong teams and future leaders.
Closing takeaway
Whether the challenge is a looming crisis, a fast changing environment, or the daily work of building a stronger team, Tom equips leaders with research grounded principles and pragmatic techniques they can apply immediately to lead more effectively and develop others with intent.
