Speaking
Brad is an industry expert when it comes to talent, culture, and teams. Learn how to transform your team, organization, and community with proven models of excellence.
“If we are intentional, we can multiply life-changing and organizational impact "by design".
– Brad Black
Brad’s Topics
1. Select Another One Like Your Best
Brad shares his insights on creating a talent-driven organization and replicating of your best team members.
2. Cultures of Excellence by Design
Brad shares his expertise in cultivating intentional, impactful cultures, and the importance of creating a "culture by design".
3. High-Performing Teams…aka Championship Teams
Brad provides a comprehensive framework for building high-performing teams.
All keynotes and seminars can be customized to meet the needs of each client partner.
1. Select Another One Like Your Best
Brad shares his insights on creating a talent-driven organization. Drawing from his experience working with world-class organizations including firsthand leadership in 2 of the 18 organizations highlighted in the famous Jim Collins research (Good to Great and Great by Choice), Brad demonstrates that a sustainable competitive advantage lies in replicating of your best team members. He offers actionable strategies for identifying, recruiting, and retaining individuals with the potential to enhance the organization’s culture and performance. Participants will learn to leverage Brad’s integrated human capital model—a model he honed and applied in leadership roles where he architected the famed ‘Talent Offense’ (recognized by his Hall of Fame Award from Gallup)—highlighting how selecting and developing people can transform individual talent into a culture of excellence. Focused on lessons from across business in a wide range of industries, education, athletics, and non-profit organizations, the framework shared will be from proven, high performing, and unique models.
2. Cultures of Excellence by Design
Brad shares his expertise in cultivating intentional, impactful cultures, where he emphasizes the importance of creating a “culture by design” rather than by default. By examining successful implementations from his work with industry leaders, Brad illustrates how to build organizational habits, routines, and structures that empower each person to operate at their best. Drawing from his experience founding HUMANeX Ventures, Brad discusses the unique synergy that emerges when an organization’s culture aligns with a commitment and alignment with talent ‘one more like the best’. He highlights the framework leaders need who desire to shape environments where individuals are continuously motivated, highly engaged, supported, and aligned toward shared goals. Attendees gain practical guidance on fostering a high-trust, high- performance culture—a hallmark of Brad’s “communities of excellence” model—which he has instilled in industries ranging from healthcare to education to manufacturing to athletics to community non-profits, and beyond.
3. High-Performing Teams…aka Championship Teams
With decades of experience in defining and measuring excellence across organizations, Brad provides a comprehensive framework for building high-performing teams. Drawing from his pioneering work as an expert practitioner and transforming talent, culture, and team development practices across industry, Brad offers strategies to identify team strengths, foster accountability, and drive continuous improvement. This topic addresses the essential components of high performance—including relationships, trust, collaboration, commitment, and alignment—and Brad demonstrates how to instill these qualities using best practices, empirical research over decades, and metrics from his Gallup Hall of Fame-recognized model. By learning how to build teams that are both resilient and adaptable, participants walk away with the ability to create and sustain teams that consistently exceed expectations, contributing to a culture of excellence and a legacy of high impact.