Keynote Leadership Speaker

From Receptionist To C-Suite, Uncaging The Natural Leader Within Every One Of Your People

If your employees are unhappy and disengaged, your managers are struggling to lead effectively, or you’re worried about turnover, you need Rad Watkins to uncover the natural leaders within your company’s most precious resource, your people.

A negative work environment can spread like wildfire and infect even those who were once the happiest on the job and the most productive on the team. The truth is people don’t leave companies, people leave bad managers. But it doesn’t have to be that way for your organization.

With a presentation from Rad Watkins, your teams will be motivated and inspired to work and serve in their zone of genius. Rad helps international audiences discover the importance of knowing themselves and playing to their strengths so they can become the leader they’re meant to be. Rad’s entertaining and engaging talks, on discovering your own natural leadership personality will empower your people to perform at their peak ability and stay engaged.

Rad bases his presentations on his experiences as a wildlife biologist, including working with animals such as grizzly bears and wolves—so your audience is sure to stay mesmerized the entire time!

Ready to ignite creativity and inspire great leaders?

Natural Leadership

Leveraging Your Natural Abilities, Leading Within Your Zone of Greatness

Through stories of Rocky Mountain exploration including encounters with grizzly bears, learn how your group can build on their strengths to achieve greatness naturally without major organizational overhaul. Your group will see that they can be natural leaders who are more productive, efficient, and capable, engaging employees and impressing clients as they go. Natural Leadership will…

Improve your team’s ability to navigate around obstacles and handle the unexpected so they perform at their peak ability despite external or internal issues working against them.
Uncover each individual’s natural strengths and have them discover how to double down on their efforts in their particular zone of greatness

Animal Leadership

Build Connection with Clients & Coworkers by Understating Their Animal Personality

Extinguish group conflict by discovering how to bring the best of your team forward to skyrocket productivity. This talk will help you understand the people in your organization and their working style. Just like the wolf pack works together to bring down moose much larger than any one individual, your group can become super productive when everyone plays to their strengths. Animal Leadership will help you…

Escape and eliminate the typical domineering leader scenario, so your people feel supported, and empowered to communicate effectively within their teams and reach their full potential as a group and individually.
Create leaders who grow teams of motivated staff and create an exceptional employee experience to boost performance.

“Rad both entertained and educated our audience of government leaders. We chose Rad because the way he framed leadership principles in relation to wild animals was different and memorable. The animal leadership survey created 'buzz' before the event. We received fantastic feedback!””

“We just had Rad Watkins talk, he hit it out of the ballpark! Everybody that came out was just raving about it. He was fun. He was engaging. Great leadership topic. I can’t say enough great things about him. I would love to have him back some time.”

“The Animal Leadership angle Rad takes is very unique, and I would recommend him for groups that want a leadership speaker who can keep the audience engaged. The presentation was very interactive and entertaining, as well as delivering good strategies for developing leadership skills. Rad delivered more than we expected.”

“I found Rad easy to work with, and he customized his presentations to fit our agenda. Rad Watkins is a great choice when looking for a motivational speaker and leadership trainer.”

“Feedback was great! Everyone loved your presentation. It was fun to listen to them comment on how well the animal classification fit the various people they worked with.”

“I attended your presentation in Wausau at NWTC for a group of international students. I purchased $210 worth of books for my students.”

“I think your analogy of 'traps' is brilliant. I see both of my animals are 'loners.' While it's important for any potential partner to realize I need a fair amount of time alone, I also now realize I need to work on being approachable and more social, at least at times. Thank you!”

Four reasons to Hire Rad for Your Next Event

1. You want to make an investment in leadership and productivity but also have your people entertained.

Without good leadership, are you having trouble with employee retention, disengagement, burnout, or lack of commitment? Of course you want your audience to be entertained, but you also want your people to walk away from the presentation with something tangible that can make your organization work better together, have amazing engagement, build killer teams, and results in creating leaders who build a superior employee experience, boost productivity, and create stupendous organizational harmony. Rad Watkins is an entertaining speaker that will deliver memorable, proven strategies for developing leadership skills.

2. You want an event where your people will learn, have fun, and be engaged, NOT another boring corporate snooze-fest.

Your audience will be out of their seats and howling with laughter. Rad not only uses suspenseful stories about close encounters with all sorts of different wild animals to teach leadership principles, but he gets the audience involved. An audience always learns more when they are having fun, moving, and physically engaged in a presentation. Rad will have them climbing mountains, smelling the fresh alpine air, and letting the beast within out with a growl. Your group won’t be bored for a minute.

3. You want a unique speaker who shares cutting edge information and strategies, NOT a talk that could have been delivered ten years ago.

You don’t want another leadership speaker who instructs the audience to be decisive and speaks in platitudes. Your group has heard that before. Your group has never heard a leadership speaker who has studied grizzly bears, worked in the rainforest, and published in scientific journals. Rad has done all of this, and he will ignite innovation, spur creativity, and show you how leadership is natural. The Animal Leadership system delivers leadership lessons in a way that is valuable and memorable. Your event will generate buzz with this unique speaker and his stories of wild adventure.

4. You Need a Professional Leadership Speaker that Rocks, NOT a High-Maintenance Primadonna “Expert.”

You want your group entertained but you don’t want to be worried about managing a primadonna. The last thing you want when planning an event is to worry about the keynote speaker. Rad is reliable, easy going, and very professional. He will make sure his signature talk fits your event and your audience gets tremendous value. You can just relax and wait for your boss to thank you for booking Rad.