Public Speaking & Keynote

Overview

Looking for an entertaining storyteller? Lance is available for talks, workshops, and facilitated conversations ready to help individuals and organizations gain insight and make meaning in both personal and professional contexts.

Lance’s speaking blends psychology, personal narrative, mythic structure, and practical frameworks to help people and teams gain perspective, understand why they might be stuck and discover how to move forward with clarity and integrity.

This is not motivational speaking.
It is orienting work.

Areas of Expertise

🔹 Personal Mythology & Authorship

How identity forms, fractures, and can be consciously reclaimed.
Why people lose authorship of their lives, and how to take it back.

🔹 Navigating Thresholds & Transitions

Life, leadership, and career shifts as developmental thresholds.
Why old strategies fail at new stages, and what comes next.

🔹 Relationship Dynamics, Identity & Integration

Moving beyond performance, shame, and fragmentation in rela.
Integrating strength, empathy, responsibility, and self-trust.

🔹 Shame, Narrative, and Psychological Survival

How early coping strategies become adult liabilities.
Why shame hardens language and collapses growth.

🔹 Meaning-Making in a Fragmented World

Why certainty is tempting, but curiosity is necessary.
How polarized thinking undermines personal and collective health.

Formats Available

• Keynotes (45–75 minutes)

• Interactive Workshops (90 minutes to full-day)

• Breakout Sessions

• Panel Facilitation & Guided Dialogue

• Custom Talks tailored to your audience and theme

Each engagement is adapted to the context, audience, and goals of the event.

Ideal Audiences

• Conferences & professional associations

• Universities & counseling programs

• Leadership teams & organizations

• Men’s groups and community organizations

• Faith-adjacent or post-faith spaces exploring identity and meaning

If your audience is asking “What do we do with this moment?”—this work fits.