Speaking Engagements

NMV founding partners Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek regularly deliver high-energy, inspiring, and thought-provoking keynotes, speeches, talks, and webinars that challenge their audiences to create lives and work of purpose, service, and significance—to turn ordinary lives into extraordinary ones and to pursue personal and professional excellence. Each lesson is grounded in hard-won experiences and real-world examples. To contact us about potential speaking engagements, please click here. Our speaking topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

“Life Entrepreneurship: Creating an Extraordinary Life”: Today, growing numbers of people are applying the principles of entrepreneurship to life itself. They are increasingly rejecting past approaches to stable careers and lives constructed around safety, security, and status. Rather they are building their lives around purpose, connection, and impact using a distinctively entrepreneurial mindset. We tend to think of entrepreneurship in the business sector or non-profit sector (“social entrepreneurs”), but today a new phenomenon is gaining traction: life entrepreneurship. Here we provide a framework for integrating life, work, and purpose, including vivid examples and moving vignettes drawn from interviews with the founding visionaries behind diverse enterprises such as Starbucks, Chipotle, Cranium, Share Our Strength, RealNetworks, Clif Bar, and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (as well as a rancher, yoga instructor, baker, minister, four-star general, and more) in addition to our own entrepreneurial experiences. Topics include:

Harnessing personal leadership potential by embracing the entrepreneurial mindset
Building a strong personal foundation
The importance of having a vision of “the good life”
The power of courage, risk, and failure
The importance of renewal in our lives and work