ABOUT HOWARD

I've spent 35 years inside businesses. Building them, turning them around, and helping leaders navigate the complexity of growth.

I've worked with hundreds of companies. Managed over $150 million in new revenue. Sat with founders through every kind of transition: from startup chaos to scaling challenges to complete reinvention.

Here's what I've learned: strategy alone doesn't create transformation. People do.

Most companies don't stall because of bad plans. They stall because leaders lose sight of what matters or their people stop believing in where they're going.

That's why my work goes deeper than tactics.

I help leaders and their teams remove what's in the way of what's possible. To challenge what they think they know. To reconnect with what they're actually building. And to lead in ways that don't require them to lose themselves in the process.

WHERE THE
DEEP WORK HAPPENS

Beyond speaking, I work privately with a small number of business owners each year through my Clarity Intensive, a 90-day investigation and transformation process.

Most of these engagements come from private Forum talks or people who've been reading my work. It's by referral only, and it's where business forensics meets personal truth.

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  • Most speakers sell inspiration. I help leaders see what's been in the way and what to do about it.

    I don't pump up the room. I show people how to think again. How to find momentum without burning out. How to lead without losing themselves in the process.

    I'm not here to:

    • Give you comfortable frameworks that avoid hard truths

    • Motivate your team for a week, then leave you where you started

    • Deliver content that sounds good but changes nothing

    If you want safe, predictable content, I'm not your person.

    If you want a talk your people will reference six months from now, not just applaud and forget, let's talk.

  • (And You Shouldn't Settle For)

    I won't tell you everything's fine when it's not.

    I won't stand on stage pretending leadership is easy or that growth comes without hard choices.

    I won't leave your audience feeling inspired but doing nothing.

    Most conferences are packed with speakers who repeat the same ideas:

    "Think outside the box."
    "Fail fast."
    "Dream bigger."

    Here's what nobody says:

    Your people don't need another motivational poster. They need to understand why they're stuck and what to do about it.

    That's what my talks deliver.