Alignment
People leave able to name the issue in the same language, reducing confusion and giving leaders a stronger starting point.
Best for leadership meetings and retreatsSpeakers • Workshops • Strategic Conversations
Move your audience to action.
Du Bois Business Consultants delivers customized keynotes and workshops for businesses, churches, and community organizations—built around your audience, your goals, and the change you need to create.
Every engagement is tailored before event day—never a recycled speech dropped into your program.
Booking brief
Built around your room
The question we start with
What must your audience understand, decide, or do next?
Keynote
A focused message that gives the entire room a shared language and a clear next step.
What you are actually booking
A room with a shared idea—and somewhere to go next.
Not a résumé delivered from a stage. Not an hour of applause with no afterlife. The engagement is built to produce one useful shift your organization can carry forward.
Conviction
The presentation makes the stakes clear without flattening complexity, helping audiences understand why the moment requires a response.
Best for conferences and public eventsConversation
Difficult subjects become discussable. The room receives language that is candid enough to matter and disciplined enough to be useful.
Best for churches, boards, and civic groupsAction
The event ends with a decision, framework, or next step—not a vague charge to “do better” after the energy fades.
Best when the event must lead somewhereThe standard behind the stage
Your speaker should reduce risk, not create more of it.
Event planners are not buying charisma alone. They are trusting someone with the audience, the schedule, the organization’s reputation, and the most important hour in the program.
Before the event
A real discovery conversation
We establish the audience, the institutional context, the boundaries, and the exact result the engagement must support.
In the content
No recycled speech with your logo added
The examples, framing, emphasis, and close are shaped for the people who will actually be in the room.
In the room
Substance with command of the audience
The presentation respects attention spans without insulting intelligence or replacing an argument with performance.
After the agreement
Clear scope, logistics, and ownership
Format, timing, preparation, travel, technical needs, and fees are settled in writing before the event date.
A straightforward booking process
Start with the decision—not the speech.
The strongest engagement begins with the change the event must produce. Format, length, and content follow from that.
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Share the event
Tell us the date, audience, setting, theme, and outcome you want.
2
Shape the right engagement
We recommend a keynote, workshop, moderated conversation, panel, or multi-session format.
3
Confirm scope and logistics
You receive a clear outline of expectations, fees, timing, and event requirements.
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Deliver with purpose
Your audience gets a presentation built to connect, challenge, and move people forward.
Before you book
What buyers need settled before they say yes.
Good planning starts with clear answers. Here are the questions most buyers want settled before moving forward.
What types of events do you serve?
We work with conferences, churches, companies, nonprofits, civic groups, leadership teams, colleges, retreats, community events, and organizations planning keynotes, workshops, panels, or facilitated conversations.
Can the presentation be customized for our audience?
Yes. Customization is central to the process. We consider your theme, audience, setting, organizational goals, current challenges, and the action you want people to take afterward.
What topics are available?
Common areas include leadership, civil rights and social impact, faith and public life, organizational culture, communication, community engagement, history, resilience, ethics, and purpose-driven leadership. Related topics can be developed around your event.
How far in advance should we book?
Earlier is better, especially for conferences and weekend events. However, short-notice requests are welcome when the date and travel schedule allow. Submit the inquiry and we will respond with availability.
What determines the speaking or workshop fee?
Fees are based on format, length, customization, travel, audience size, number of sessions, preparation requirements, and whether the engagement includes additional meetings or materials. You will receive a clear scope before confirming.
Request a booking
Send the brief. Get a clear recommendation.
Tell us the audience, date, setting, and result you need. We will use that information to recommend the right format and scope.
Keynotes, workshops, panels, and moderated conversations
Business, religious, educational, and civic audiences
Custom content aligned to your event goals