Speaking
Using the sports world as his backdrop, Evan Burk engages audiences with thought-provoking lessons of leadership, team-building, and creating championship cultures
Create Cohesive Teams | Grow Your People | Perform Under Pressure | Succeed in Competitive Environments | Manage Personalities | Keep Elite Performers Motivated
“Evan's program and stage presence led to a powerful experience for our audience. He delivered a remarkable keynote that outlined practical leadership lessons and a self-driven approach that could be implemented immediately."
— Kevin Judd | California Lutheran University
Why Evan
Evan pinpoints how you can become a leader of great influence on your team and within your organization. You’ll discover how to elevate your leadership and build a winning team culture using the same process and principles learned from a NFL and college football coaching career.
Evan's high-performing clients achieve unprecedented growth in both their daily habits and turbulent times, mastering how to successfully deal with the stress of difficult situations and people, creating inclusive work environments while building collaborative teams, and performing under pressure in high stakes environments.
See Evan Speak
"Your stories were great and I really enjoyed hearing about your experiences. I hope you are able to present at ASCLD next year. I look forward to learning more!"
- Matthew Gamette | Idaho State Forensic Services
KEYNOTES + WORKSHOPS
Your audience will be immersed in an engaging experience as Evan takes audiences inside the locker room with his personal experiences and shares a unique message through his authentic storytelling.
Every program is customized to reach your goals. Your path to lead can include a mix of communication, leadership, team building, and/or managing difficult people and change.
KEYNOTES + WORKSHOPS
Taking lessons learned on the field and translating them into motivation for professionals, Evan speaks at conferences, company meetings, and community events. He partners with the client to integrate his areas of expertise with the vision and mission of the group to create maximum context, energy, and actionable next steps.
Evan also designs customized development programs and workshops that deliver exactly what you need to address challenges, develop your people, and reach your organization's goals.
Below are some of the most requested topics:
The NFL Approach to Building Winning Teams
How do top NFL organizations achieve nearly identical levels of success while approaching people and operating in completely different ways? Although winning teams can appear vastly different from the outside, a closer look unveils more in common than one might expect.
Evan will share the profound realization he made about all winning teams he coached, opposed and studied: Despite their differences, they are all doing the exact same things.
Evan takes audiences inside the locker room, sharing stories from his personal football experiences and research on top NFL coaches, to reveal the common elements he uncovered crucial for any successful organization to win, overcome challenges, and set a path for achieving sustained excellence.
The Champion Within
Evan Burk understands the psychology of teamwork and personal excellence and is a expert at how organizations build a team mentality where achievements are greater than the sum of their parts. He shows how to recognize the cycles of team change and make the most of every opportunity. Burk also cites ways for to draw on an individual’s natural leadership abilities and further shows how one person can make a difference for an entire team.
Take away a new perspective on what it really takes to effectively motivate and improve the performance of individuals and groups in the most competitive environments and applicable tactics for cultivating winning mindsets within your organization.
The Small Wins Mindset: How to Win at the Highest Level
Evan Burk is a charismatic speaker who shares with his audience a special game plan which centers on the pillars of high achievement -- work ethic, teamwork, communication, integrity and commitment. A former NFL and college football coach, Burk shares stories and motivational moments from his career that resonate with any group. The lessons he has learned along the way and the impactful messages he has shared with his teams will keep any audience on the edge of their seat.
Evan Burk has a zest for life that is hard to match and is clearly evident in his dynamic presentation that will make your audience embrace the mindset of a champion and show up every day to as your best self.
Finding Intangibles: Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent
In this presentation, you will learn proven strategies on talent recruitment, team building, and improving organizational culture. These tips and tools will help you become more effective at evaluating and attracting the best people, hire top talent that will drive your business' success, and make character your unique competitive advantage.
During the session, Evan will provide dynamic storytelling and case studies combined with practical, research-based insights and suggestions executives can implement within their organizations.
" I thought it was important to learn about leadership in industries other than forensic science at our annual symposium. I was happy to have found Evan to be a keynote speaker at our event. He was easy to work with and his presentation delivered actionable takeaways that really connected with our audience. We enjoyed Evan’s unique perspective and his engaging storytelling was a great way to close out our event.”
— Erin Forry | President, American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors
Evan typically speaks about leadership, peak performance, and culture, and is available to present at corporate events, conferences, team offsites, or any upcoming business events.
Evan’s core topics include:
Leadership Development
Team Building + Team Performance
Culture Building
People Skills Training
Personal Development + Professional Development
Overcoming Adversity + Building Mental Resiliency
Have a topic idea that isn’t listed here? Evan is happy to customize a speech for your specific audience.
If you’d like to discuss your upcoming event, let’s chat!
For details on booking Evan to speak at your next event, email Evan or call 214.458.8840.
“The story of where you started from and the success you’ve achieved are all quite inspiring. The key points of persistence and perseverance that I took away were very valuable and things I have already started applying to my life. Thank you for the life lessons you brought to your speech and cared to share!”
— Emily Raber | UCLA