RAINMAKERTHINKING · SPEAKING & TRAINING
Practical ideas.
Lasting impact.
Explore 14 speaking programs designed to help people lead better, work together, and meet the challenges of a changing workplace.
START WITH WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
What should your audience do differently the next day?
Imagine your people leaving the room with a shared language for a problem they have struggled to solve—and a practical next step to try. Choose a topic around that change.
Are managers avoiding the hard conversations?
Are competing priorities slowing everyone down?
Are you struggling to develop and retain talent?
NEW SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
Strength and Wisdom
Karate Lessons for Life and Work
A lifetime in the dojo. A new perspective on leadership.
Bruce brings the lessons of a seventh-degree black belt to the challenges of work and life: discipline, resilience, humility, and the courage to keep learning.
Participants explore how to stay steady under pressure, combine toughness with flexibility, and meet new challenges with a beginner’s mind.
Keynotes · Workshops · Fireside conversations
In person or virtual. Tailored to your audience.
14 PROGRAMS · BRUCE TULGAN
Speaking program directory
Explore RainmakerThinking’s keynotes and workshops. Each program can be customized for the audience and organization.
01
Strength and Wisdom
Karate Lessons for Life and Work
Bruce connects a lifetime of karate training with workplace research in a personal program about strength, humility, courage and learning.
02
Make Accountability a Process, Not a Slogan
Turn expectations into a daily management practice
Managers learn to clarify expectations, track performance, and follow through with recognition and corrective action based on actual performance.
03
Winning the Talent Wars
Recruiting and Retention for the New Hybrid Workplace
Bruce presents six steps to gaining a strategic advantage as an employer, from recruiting and onboarding through development and retention.
04
Fight Overcommitment Syndrome
Learn the Proven Best Practices for Saying “Yes” and “No” at Work
Participants learn to choose commitments carefully, align priorities, and deliver results without overpromising and burning out.
05
Back-to-Fundamentals Collaboration
Skills for Establishing Extreme Alignment on Your Team
Teams learn to establish alignment across reporting lines and strengthen collaboration through structured communication.
06
Managing Remotely
When the Workplace Is No Longer a Place
Managers learn to communicate intentionally, set clear expectations, and support performance and development when teams work apart.
07
Fight the Undermanagement Epidemic
How to Build a Culture of Strong Leadership
Leaders learn to recognize undermanagement and build a culture of regular, structured guidance, direction, support and coaching.
08
It’s Okay to Be the Boss
Back-to-Fundamentals Leadership
Managers learn a step-by-step approach to highly-engaged management, from clear expectations and delegation to performance and retention.
09
Not Everyone Gets a Trophy
How to Bring Out the Best in Today’s Young Talent
Managers learn to engage, develop and retain young employees through clear expectations, support and practical guidance.
10
The Great Generational Shift
The Workforce Is Changing, Are You Ready?
Bruce explores how generational change affects management and talent strategy, helping organizations turn age diversity into an advantage.
11
It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss
Learn the Proven Best Practices of the Most Successful High Performing Employees
Employees learn to build productive relationships with their managers and seek the guidance, direction and support needed to succeed.
12
Building New Leaders
Critical Skills for First Time Managers
New leaders learn to assume authority, communicate with direct reports, and put the fundamentals of highly-engaged management into practice.
13
The 27 Challenges Managers Face
Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems
Bruce offers step-by-step approaches to the recurring management challenges identified through decades of research and problem-solving seminars.
14
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap
How to Teach the Missing Basics to Today’s Young Talent
Managers learn to identify and develop the soft skills employees need, using RainmakerThinking’s competency model and highly-engaged management.
LIVE VIRTUAL KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS
Bring your people together—wherever they work.
Can’t get everyone in the same room? Bring Bruce into the conversation live online. Virtual keynotes, workshops, and webinars connect his research and practical advice to the challenges your audience faces.
Plan a focused session or a series that gives people time to put the ideas to work between meetings. We’ll shape the topic, timing, and opportunities for questions around your team.
WATCH BRUCE IN ACTION · ABOUT 5 MINUTES
What will your audience take back to work?
See how Bruce turns familiar workplace frustrations into practical lessons—with candor, humor, and energy.
CLIENT EXPERIENCE
Put ideas into practice.
“The best part was they felt they had concrete strategies they could use immediately when they returned to be more effective managers for their teams.”
Ken Lineberger
President, Waters Edge Wineries
Title and affiliation at the time of the testimonial.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
What do your people need to take back to work?
Tell us about your audience, your event, and the challenge you want to address. We’ll help you choose a topic and explore the format, timing, and customization.
Plan your speaking program
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203-772-2002
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