Speaking & Workshops
BRING IT TO
YOUR ROOM.
No slides full of theory. No motivational fluff that's forgotten by lunch. A direct, get-to-work session that sends your leaders home with something they can run on Monday. Built for rooms of former athletes who now lead: the associations, conferences, and leadership teams that are done being entertained and want to be changed.
01Why Matt
HE'S BEEN IN
THE ARENA.
Matt isn't a speaker who studied leadership. He's an operator who lived it. Walk-on to captain. Captain to CEO. CEO to a private-equity exit. When he speaks, your leaders hear someone who has carried what they carry, not a podium professional reading research.
Real scars, not slides
Every story comes from a business he actually ran. The wins and the wreckage. Leaders trust someone who's bled where they're bleeding.
The athlete's edge
Your room is full of competitors who lost their coach when they entered business. Matt gives that edge a system. They'll recognize themselves immediately.
Run it Monday
Inspiration fades by the parking lot. Matt sends people home with the actual FOSS tools, so the talk turns into action before the week is out.
02The signature talk
FROM LOCKER ROOM
TO BOARDROOM.
The talk that reframes how a room of leaders sees their own business: the athlete's edge, the cost of avoidance, and the one standard that changes everything. Adaptable for a keynote stage, a sales kickoff, or a leadership offsite. Core themes, built around your audience:
- The Edge. Why the same drive that won games quietly sabotages founders, and how to point it back in the right direction.
- The Standard. Why standards, not motivation, are what actually hold a team together when it's hard.
- The Structure. How to build a business that performs whether or not the leader is in the room.
- The Legacy. What you're really building, and the cost of avoiding the truth about it.
03The formats
TWO WAYS TO
BOOK MATT.
The Keynote
$15,000 in-person · $5,000 virtual
A keynote that reframes how a room of leaders sees their own business: the athlete's edge, the cost of avoidance, and the standard that changes everything. Optional Q&A. Perfect for conferences, association events, and annual kickoffs.
The Workshop
$32,500 at my office · $40,000 at yours
One full day, hands-on and built around your team. We pick the FOSS tools your leaders need most and put them to work in the room: alignment, standards, and a plan everyone owns by the time they leave. Built for leadership teams and offsites. Book an Installation within 90 days and $32,500 of your workshop fee credits toward it.
In-person fees include all travel. No itemized expenses, no surprises. Tell me about your event and I'll tell you if it's a fit and send a quote.
04The Keynote, up close
WHAT YOUR ROOM
ACTUALLY GETS.
Every keynote I give is built on the four pillars of the FOSS Method, and you pick the emphasis. Conference rooms usually want The Edge: what happens to a competitor when the season ends and the coach goes away. Corporate leadership rooms usually want The Standard: why standards, not motivation, hold a team together when it gets hard. And running underneath every version is my own story. Walk-on to captain. Captain to CEO. CEO to a sale. I tell it because most of your audience is living some version of it right now.
Where it works
Conferences, industry association events, and company annual meetings. 45 to 60 minutes on your stage, with optional Q&A after if your agenda has room for it. Before the event, you and I get on a call and I build the framing around your audience. You are not getting a canned deck with your logo dropped on slide one.
In person or virtual
In person is $15,000, travel included, never itemized. If the budget or the calendar says virtual, I deliver the same talk live on camera for $5,000. Same material, same intensity. Either way, there is no travel line on your invoice. Ever.
What they leave with
Not a quote for the wall. A diagnostic. Every talk I give ends the same way: a QR code on the last slide that opens The Score, my five-minute leadership assessment. Your people leave knowing where their leadership actually stands and the first thing to fix. You leave with an audience that did something, and you can measure it.
05What a workshop can be
YOU PICK THE WORK.
WE BUILD IT TOGETHER.
The workshop is one full day, hands-on, and you decide what it's about. Four ways companies use it:
The tools, by name
There are more than 30 tools inside the FOSS Method, and we can build the ones your team needs most: the Roster, the Scoreboard, the Strategic Game Plan, the Daily Huddle and the Weekly Game Plan Meeting, the 30-Day Play, the Alignment Check, the Depth Chart and the Exposure Score. Your team doesn't watch me demo them. They build them, on your business, in the room.
The sales workshop
Before I ever ran a company, I sold. Sales floors, then sales leadership, then the whole business. A full day on standards, accountability, and rhythm for your sales organization. I carried a number long before I carried a P&L.
A pillar, taken deep
The Edge, The Standard, The Structure, or The Legacy, taken far past keynote depth and applied directly to your team. This is the version for a leadership group that heard the keynote and wants to actually work the material.
Built on your biggest issue
Tell me the one problem costing you the most right now, and I'll build the entire day around it. This is what leadership teams book when they already know what's broken and want a full day of outside pressure on it.
How the day actually runs
- Before we meet. Every attendee takes The Score. I read the results before I walk in, so I already know where your team is strong and where it leaks.
- First hour. I set the frame with a short talk built on the pillar that fits your room. Thirty minutes. Then we work.
- Rest of the morning. Teach and build. I walk your team through the tools we picked, and they build the first drafts right there. On your business, not a case study.
- Afternoon. Application. Real names, real numbers, real problems. The room pressure-tests what got built in the morning against the issues you actually face.
- Last stretch. We pull it together with your leadership: what got built, who owns what, and a 30-day plan drafted before anyone leaves the room. Thirty days later, you and I get on a follow-up call to see what stuck.
Your team walks out with real work-product, not notes: a started Roster, a first Scoreboard draft, a 30-Day Play sketch, and a take-home workbook with every exercise in it. Bring up to 30 people.
Who books it: leadership offsites, annual team days, executive development programs, and PE firms running leadership days across a portfolio. One full day only. $32,500 at my office, $40,000 if I come to you, travel included, never itemized.
06The smart way in
THE WORKSHOP THAT
PAYS FOR ITSELF.
Here's the part I tell every CEO weighing a workshop against the full Installation: book the workshop first. If your company books an Installation within 90 days of your workshop, 100% of the workshop's office rate, all $32,500 of it, credits toward the Installation. If I traveled to you, the credit is still the full office rate; the traveled premium is the only piece that doesn't carry over.
Why would I do that? Because the workshop is the honest test drive. You see exactly how I work. Your team builds real tools on your real business for a full day. If that day convinces you the whole system belongs in your company, you shouldn't pay twice for ground we already covered. The Installation is three days with your leadership team at my office, and the system is running before I leave. The workshop is the smartest way to find out if that's your next move, because if it is, the day costs you nothing.
07From rooms he's worked
WHAT THE ROOMS SAY.
Open, candid conversations at the top.
"He created a trusted space and guided our team toward more open, candid, and productive conversations."
Operating at our highest level.
"He challenges us to have the difficult conversations we'd otherwise avoid, and gave our team the framework to operate at our highest level."
LET'S TALK ABOUT
YOUR EVENT.
Tell me your date, your audience, and what you need them to walk away with. One straight call, and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.
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Standards First. Results Follow.