Speaking / Keynotes
Keynotes
Business talks and conference sessions. Product and AI-leverage, Japan business history, and resilience — delivered with a writer’s instinct for the person in the back row.
Resilience & Storytelling
Resilient Leadership
What history’s most demanding survival situations teach about the difference between authority and resilience — built into a practical leadership framework.
Resilience & StorytellingYour Story Matters
Everyone’s story has value — the smaller, gentler stories of our own lives, no less than the great stories of survival.
Resilience & StorytellingCarl Jung: Dreams, Shadow, Unconscious
Fred’s journey through Complex PTSD, Jung’s writings, and the synchronicities that led to his own healing.
Product & AI
KeynoteMemorandom — The Last AI Lecture You NeedThe last AI conversation you need — how machines actually work, what lock-in costs are, and why a literate mind is the real defense.KeynoteThe Voiceless EchoThe AI/ML era’s chief ontological problem began with an anthropomorphized metaphor — grounding machine capabilities back in reality.KeynoteFinding Viable Products: The Viability PrincipleWhy one of product management’s most-repeated conference stories is completely wrong — and what that gets you when you finally understand it.
Japan Business-History
Keynote7-Eleven JapanHow a struggling American franchise deal became one of the most unlikely corporate turnarounds in retail history — and what long-term thinking actually looks like in practice.KeynoteNintendo, 1889–1989Nintendo’s 30-year pivot from playing card company to video game leader — the oldest continuously operating corporation on Earth.KeynoteKaizenThe historic origin of Kaizen — Japanese ethos meeting American management methods not in favor in the U.S. at the time.
Resilience & Storytelling
KeynoteResilient LeadershipWhat history’s most demanding survival situations teach about the difference between authority and resilience — built into a practical leadership framework.KeynoteYour Story MattersEveryone’s story has value — the smaller, gentler stories of our own lives, no less than the great stories of survival.KeynoteCarl Jung: Dreams, Shadow, UnconsciousFred’s journey through Complex PTSD, Jung’s writings, and the synchronicities that led to his own healing.KeynoteMasksFred’s own journey to take ownership of his past — a story of self-acceptance, forgiveness, and compassion.KeynoteThe 3 Questions of the Soul’s PurposeThe 3 questions of the Soul’s purpose, in the order that unlocks them — a storytelling framework people can apply to their own lives.
Comedy & Culture
KeynoteThe History of Comedy | We’re Stuck in 1973A walk through how we got to SNL — and the irony that its once ground-breaking variety show format is the only one left standing.KeynoteThe History of MilkA fun, weird alternate history asking how humans decided to drink cow’s milk in the first place.
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