Public Speaking, Workshops & Keynotes
One of The JSO Consulting Group’s core service areas, Public Speaking, Workshops & Keynotes brings practical leadership experience, strategy, storytelling, and organizational insight into conferences, classrooms, retreats, meetings, panels, and public conversations.
More than a speech. A useful experience.
This service area supports organizations seeking engaging, thoughtful, and practical presentations that connect leadership experience, organizational strategy, community impact, and real-world lessons to the needs of an audience.
Audiences should leave with something they can use.
JSO speaking engagements are designed to do more than fill a program slot. Each keynote, workshop, facilitated session, or panel contribution is shaped around the audience, organization, event objective, and desired takeaway. Sessions can combine storytelling, practical frameworks, organizational strategy, leadership lessons, civic experience, and audience engagement to create conversations that are both meaningful and actionable.
Content is tailored to the audience, organization, event theme, and desired outcomes.
Sessions connect ideas to lessons, frameworks, experiences, and strategies audiences can apply.
Storytelling, discussion, interaction, and clear communication keep audiences connected to the message.
Speaking in rooms where ideas matter.
Use this section to showcase different environments and audiences, from major conference stages to workshops, classrooms, community conversations, and leadership sessions.
The right format for the right room.
Speaking engagements can be designed for large audiences, smaller leadership groups, classrooms, boards, conferences, retreats, media, or interactive learning environments.
Keynote Addresses
Signature and customized keynote presentations designed for conferences, summits, organizational gatherings, civic events, and major convenings.
Interactive Workshops
Facilitated learning experiences that combine presentation, discussion, practical exercises, strategy development, and participant engagement.
Executive & Leadership Sessions
Customized sessions for boards, executives, managers, leadership teams, and organizations navigating growth, strategy, change, or development.
Panels & Moderation
Panel participation and moderated conversations that bring structure, thoughtful questions, lived experience, and strategic insight to public dialogue.
Organizational Trainings
Practical sessions for staff, teams, boards, students, volunteers, and emerging leaders focused on defined organizational or leadership needs.
Media, Podcast & Expert Commentary
Interviews and commentary related to nonprofit leadership, civic engagement, higher education, public administration, communications, leadership, and community impact.
Experience across multiple sectors.
Topics can be customized to fit an organization, audience, conference theme, learning objective, or leadership challenge.
Building Stronger Organizations
Strategy, governance, fundraising, capacity-building, partnerships, and organizational sustainability.
Leading With Purpose
Leadership development, executive presence, values, service, growth, accountability, and institutional impact.
Community Voice & Public Service
Civic engagement, community leadership, public administration, participation, advocacy, and service.
Student Success & Leadership
Student engagement, college access, mentoring, leadership development, belonging, and persistence.
Storytelling That Moves People
Executive messaging, public relations, brand communication, storytelling, reputation, and audience engagement.
Innovate. Strategize. Excel.
Organizational strategy, innovation, implementation, growth, community relationships, and moving ideas forward.
Start with the audience. Build toward the outcome.
Every speaking engagement begins with understanding the event, audience, theme, organizational context, format, and what participants should take away.
Discover
Understand the audience, event, organization, format, objectives, and desired takeaways.
Customize
Align the topic, stories, examples, framework, tone, and content to the audience.
Deliver
Facilitate an engaging presentation, workshop, discussion, panel, or leadership experience.
Extend
When appropriate, provide supporting resources, discussion tools, or continued strategic engagement.
Built for rooms where ideas need to move people.
Speaking and facilitation can support organizations, conferences, institutions, teams, and communities across a wide range of settings.
Conferences & Summits
Keynotes, panels, moderated conversations, workshops, and conference learning experiences.
Nonprofit Organizations
Board retreats, leadership sessions, staff development, conferences, and organizational trainings.
Colleges & Universities
Student programs, leadership development, classes, conferences, commencements, and campus events.
Businesses & Associations
Leadership meetings, professional development, member programs, retreats, and organizational events.
Civic & Community Organizations
Community conversations, leadership programs, public events, forums, and civic engagement initiatives.
Media & Podcasts
Interviews, expert commentary, podcasts, panels, broadcasts, and public conversations.
Keynotes. Workshops. Conversations.
This gallery features a mix of professional stages, workshops, classrooms, panels, conferences, civic events, and candid audience interactions.
Flexible enough for the stage, boardroom, classroom, or studio.
Engagements can be structured as stand-alone presentations or integrated into broader consulting work when an organization needs both strategic support and facilitated learning.
Bring Julien to your next event, meeting, or conversation.
Speaking engagements are customized based on format, topic, audience, preparation, event scope, travel, and organizational needs. Use the press and media kit for approved biography information, media assets, speaking topics, and additional booking details.
Bring a useful conversation into the room.
This is one of seven core service areas available through The JSO Consulting Group. Speaking engagements can stand alone or complement JSO consulting work in nonprofit strategy, higher education, political and civic strategy, HR and operations, communications, or program and event management.