World-class leadership doesn’t happen by accident—it happens by design. Whether in sales, business, or organizational culture, the difference between average and extraordinary comes down to the habits, mindset, and consistency of its leaders.
In this dynamic keynote-workshop, bestselling author and Maxwell Leadership corporate facilitator Tim equips participants with the essential characteristics that define world-class leadership. Through powerful stories, interactive reflection, and practical tools, you’ll learn how to grow beyond good intentions and start leading with clarity, accountability, and purpose.
Understand the defining characteristics that set world-class leaders and organizations apart.
Recognize the barriers—like complacency and inconsistency—that hold teams back.
Build habits of trust, accountability, and influence that drive long-term engagement.
Align your priorities and actions with the growth of your people, clients, and culture.
Greater self-awareness as a leader and professional.
Practical strategies to inspire teams and deliver consistent results.
The courage to move from “drift” to design—leading with intention, not just activity.
A framework to transform everyday actions into extraordinary organizational impact.
This keynote-workshop is fully customizable—whether you want to equip sales leaders to drive performance or organizational leaders to shape culture, you’ll walk away with actionable strategies to design world-class results.
Leadership today is less about titles and positions, and more about the influence you bring into every room you walk into. In this keynote-workshop, Tim equips leaders to step into a higher level of clarity, courage, and impact.
You’ll discover what it means to embody the core characteristics of REAL leadership in today’s world—and why they matter now more than ever. Through interactive exercises and powerful insights, you’ll gain the tools to move beyond theory and into action, shaping the way you lead yourself and others.
In this keynote-workshop, you’ll be equipped to:
Understand the core qualities that define REAL leadership today.
Recognize where your current leadership style is strong—and where it needs growth.
Develop a mindset of intentional influence that inspires trust and commitment.
Learn how to lead with presence and purpose in every role you hold.
Greater confidence in your ability to influence without relying on titles.
A deeper sense of self-awareness that fuels authentic leadership.
Practical insights to lead with resilience and purpose in a changing world.
A foundation for lasting impact—both personally and professionally.
This isn’t just leadership theory. It’s a roadmap for becoming the kind of leader people want to follow—REAL, resilient, and ready for today’s challenges.
Tim’s Transformational Communication & Leadership Workshop
The first step to leading others is learning to lead yourself. But too often, leaders overlook the impact of their natural strengths, blind spots, and communication style. That’s where the Maxwell DISC assessment comes in—a proven tool for understanding human behavior and unlocking your leadership potential.
In this interactive and eye-opening workshop, Tim, a Certified Maxwell DISC Consultant, helps participants discover their unique leadership style and how to adapt it to connect, influence, and inspire others. By understanding the four DISC personality styles—Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance—you’ll learn how to improve relationships, strengthen communication, and maximize your effectiveness as a leader.
Identify your personal leadership style and recognize the strengths and challenges that come with it.
Understand the four primary DISC styles and how they shape communication, motivation, and decision-making.
Adapt your approach to connect more effectively with teammates, clients, and family members.
Leverage self-leadership as the foundation for influencing others with clarity and confidence.
Increased self-awareness to help you lead yourself and others with excellence.
Stronger communication skills that reduce conflict and build trust.
Greater ability to inspire commitment and collaboration in any environment.
A practical roadmap for applying Maxwell DISC insights to real-world leadership challenges.
When you understand yourself and others through Maxwell DISC, you unlock the key to authentic leadership, stronger teams, and greater influence.
Talent and experience alone aren’t enough to lead others—you must be able to communicate, and more importantly, to connect. In today’s fast-moving and distracted world, the ability to communicate with clarity and impact has never been more critical for leaders, teams, and organizations .
In this highly engaging workshop, Tim helps participants discover their unique communication style and how to adapt it to connect with others more effectively. Through the lens of Maxwell DISC and the Five Connecting Practices, attendees learn to increase their awareness, expand their influence, and multiply their impact.
Understand your personal communication style and how it shapes your influence.
Recognize the four primary DISC styles and adapt your approach to connect with others.
Apply the Five Connecting Practices—finding common ground, keeping it simple, creating experiences, inspiring people, and living your message.
Build stronger, more intentional connections with colleagues, clients, and teams.
Increased self-awareness and confidence in every communication setting.
Reduced conflict and stronger collaboration within teams.
The ability to inspire, engage, and influence at a higher level.
A proven roadmap for becoming a communicator people listen to—and follow.
When you increase your awareness, you expand your influence. And when you expand your influence, you multiply your impact.
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. In today’s fast-paced and complex environment, true success comes from collaboration—not just cooperation. Yet too often, teams struggle with conflict, miscommunication, and competing priorities that keep them from performing at their best.
In this interactive workshop, Tim helps participants discover what drives—and what hinders—effective collaboration. Using practical tools, engaging activities, and the proven Maxwell DISC framework, Tim equips teams to leverage their individual strengths, navigate conflict with confidence, and build trust that accelerates results.
Identify your team’s current collaboration strengths and gaps.
Recognize common barriers to teamwork and how to overcome them.
Harness individual strengths and perspectives to fuel collective success.
Build trust and improve communication as the foundation for collaboration.
Develop a personalized action plan to create and sustain high-performance teamwork.
Stronger alignment around shared goals and expectations.
Reduced conflict and greater confidence in handling difficult conversations.
A culture of trust and respect that multiplies team effectiveness.
Practical strategies that move your team from cooperation to true collaboration.
When teams learn to collaborate with trust, clarity, and purpose, they don’t just perform better, they achieve results they couldn’t reach alone.
Public speaking isn’t just about talking—it’s about connecting, inspiring, and moving people to action. Whether you’re in front of a boardroom, a sales team, or a packed conference hall, the ability to communicate with clarity and confidence will do more for your career, your business, and your influence than almost any other skill.
In this engaging and practical workshop, Tim equips participants with a proven process for developing and delivering powerful presentations. You’ll learn how to sharpen your message, strengthen your presence, and capture the hearts and minds of your audience—no matter the size.
Master the foundational principles of every presentation: Message, Messenger, and Audience.
Build the confidence that comes through intentional preparation and practice.
Strengthen both verbal and nonverbal skills to maximize connection and impact.
Use storytelling, structure, and delivery techniques to inspire trust and action.
Increased emotional intelligence and executive presence.
The ability to influence and engage audiences with clarity and confidence.
Practical speaking skills that advance your career, expand your network, and elevate your leadership.
A mindset shift from “fear of speaking” to confidence in communication.
This workshop doesn’t just help you give a presentation—it equips you to deliver a message that inspires trust, creates buy-in, and builds lasting influence.
Sales success is not just about closing deals—it’s about building a brand that people trust, remember, and return to. Too many sales professionals, regardless of industry, fall into the same avoidable traps that damage relationships, stall growth, and ultimately cost them business.
In this high-energy workshop, Tim reveals the most common mistakes that sabotage sales success—and how to avoid them. Drawing from over 40 years of frontline sales experience, Tim equips salespeople with actionable strategies to build credibility, increase influence, and create long-term client engagement.
Recognize and eliminate the most common mistakes that undermine sales effectiveness.
Build a personal sales brand that sets you apart in a crowded marketplace.
Strengthen listening, follow-up, and relationship-building skills that drive repeat business.
Shift from a transactional mindset to a long-term engagement mindset that wins trust and loyalty.
A stronger sales reputation that attracts clients instead of chasing them.
Practical, repeatable strategies to boost both confidence and commissions.
The ability to turn client interactions into long-term partnerships.
A clear roadmap to becoming the salesperson your clients value—and recommend.
This keynote-workshop isn’t about pushing harder to sell more—it’s about avoiding the mistakes that cost you influence and instead building the sales brand your clients deserve.
The first person you must learn to lead is yourself. But how can you lead with clarity and confidence if you don’t fully understand your natural strengths, communication style, and triggers? That’s where the power of Maxwell DISC comes in.
In this engaging and interactive workshop, Tim, a Certified Maxwell DISC Consultant, helps participants unlock the science of human behavior in a way that is practical, memorable, and immediately applicable. You’ll learn to recognize your own tendencies, adapt to others, and harness your unique strengths to lead more effectively.
Understand the four primary DISC styles and how they influence communication, decision-making, and teamwork.
Discover your personal leadership style and how to maximize your strengths while managing blind spots.
Learn to adapt your approach to reduce conflict, build trust, and strengthen relationships.
Recognize how self-leadership directly impacts your influence with others.
Increased self-awareness and confidence in your leadership journey.
Stronger communication skills that connect across different personality styles.
A practical framework to build healthier, more productive relationships.
A roadmap for leveraging your strengths to expand your influence and impact.
When you learn to lead yourself well, you’ll naturally begin to lead others better. Maxwell DISC is your key to unlocking that potential.
The pace of change has never been faster—and it’s only accelerating. Organizations that resist change risk irrelevance, while those that embrace it can unlock new opportunities for growth, innovation, and influence. Yet leading people through change is one of the greatest challenges any leader faces.
In this transformational keynote-workshop,Tim equips leaders with the mindset, skillset, and toolset to not only manage change, but to lead it with clarity and confidence. Participants will discover how to communicate vision, overcome resistance, and guide their teams through uncertainty toward shared success.
Understand why change is essential and how to become an agent of change.
Develop a practical plan to engage your team and preempt resistance.
Balance the push of accountability with the pull of inspiration to gain buy-in.
Build trust and influence by communicating with authenticity, empathy, and consistency.
Lead by example and create a culture that values adaptability and growth.
Greater confidence navigating disruption, uncertainty, and resistance.
Practical tools to coach your team through change with resilience and trust.
A clear roadmap for aligning vision, communication, and execution.
A team that doesn’t just accept change—but embraces it as a catalyst for growth.
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. This workshop ensures your people choose growth.
Today’s workplace is the first in history to include five generations working side by side. While this diversity of age brings tremendous potential, it also creates friction, miscommunication, and missed opportunities when left unaddressed.
In this eye-opening keynote-workshop, Tim helps leaders and teams reframe generational differences from a source of conflict into a powerful advantage. Rather than stereotyping or tolerating each other, participants learn to understand, respect, and leverage the unique strengths each generation brings to the table.
Recognize the hidden costs of generational disconnects and how to overcome them.
Understand the values, strengths, and expectations of Builders, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z.
Develop humility, respect, and curiosity as the foundation for stronger cross-generational relationships.
Apply practical strategies to reduce conflict, increase engagement, and maximize team performance.
The Results You’ll Achieve:
A team culture built on trust, mutual respect, and shared purpose.
Reduced age-related conflict and stronger collaboration across departments.
Increased retention and engagement by valuing what each generation brings.
A roadmap for turning generational diversity into a measurable competitive advantage.
This workshop equips your organization to bridge the generation gap—so instead of competing with each other, your team competes for each other.
Culture is the invisible hand that shapes everything in business. It drives performance, influences engagement, and determines whether your organization thrives, stagnates, or slowly slips into decline. Every team already has a culture—by design or by default. The question is whether it’s helping you win or holding you back.
In this eye-opening keynote-workshop,Tim equips leaders with a framework to understand, assess, and intentionally shape organizational culture. Through practical insights and interactive discussion, participants will explore the four dimensions of culture—Complacent, Compliant, Committed, and Courageous—and discover how to leverage them for growth, innovation, and resilience.
Identify the four dimensions of culture and how they show up in your organization.
Recognize the warning signs of cultural complacency—and how to resist it.
Create balance between structure, performance, and innovation to sustain momentum.
Apply a simple framework (Design, Deploy, Promote, Protect) to intentionally build a healthy culture.
A clear understanding of how culture impacts strategy, crisis response, and opportunity capture.
Greater alignment and accountability across your team or organization.
A healthier, high-performance culture that reduces drag and accelerates results.
A roadmap for building an environment where people thrive and organizations endure.
Culture is either your greatest accelerator or your biggest drag. This workshop helps you design a culture that wins—today and for the future.
Every audience is unique, and so is every presentation delivered. Through a personalized discovery session, Tim’s process begins by understanding your organization’s objective. Some sessions will include Interviews with team members to ensure the content resonates on a deeper level. Industry research allows for tailored strategies and examples that are relevant and actionable. Finally, the entire presentation is customized—from messaging to delivery—so it aligns perfectly with the organization’s objectives, engages the audience, and drives lasting impact. This isn’t just a keynote or workshop—it’s a transformational experience designed specifically for the team’s success.
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Jeff faced a major dilemma. As the founder of a new mortgage company, he realized there was no developed talent in the area. This lack of experienced personnel made it challenging to foster a high-functioning team—moreover, the high risk associated with his innovative approach added to the pressure. Jeff needed a system to help entry-level employees progress, and he needed to address the clashing personalities and big egos common in the mortgage industry.
In the mortgage field, there are a lot of big egos. Jeff’s team was unable to foster a safe space where ideas could be challenged but still constructive.
With innovation being so risky, there was a very real possibility that Jeff would fail. Without outsider expertise, Jeff’s team would not have developed the hard or soft skills needed to build a competitive business.
Jeff needed help creating a system that would allow entry-level employees to progress to the next level, managers to progress to leaders, and leaders to run the business exceptionally well.
Tim stepped in to help Jeff by leveraging his expertise in leadership, sales, and relationships. Using the DISC assessment, Tim could understand and appeal to the team members while helping them understand each other. Tim also provided leadership training based on John Maxwell’s frameworks and drew from his extensive sales experience to train the sales teams. This approach ensured that both soft and hard skills were developed.
Key strategies implemented:
Being a master of the DISC assessment and interpreting the results allowed Tim to better understand who he was serving, how to appeal to them, and how to help them understand each other.
Using John Maxwell’s frameworks, Tim challenged and trained the leaders at Jeff’s company. He ensured that management was being developed and that the company was moving in a healthy direction from the top down.
Leaning into his 38 years of incredible success as a salesperson, Tim provided the sales teams with valuable training.
Thanks to Tim’s strategic guidance, Jeff’s mortgage company has become a powerhouse. The sales team and managers are well-developed, there is a low turnover rate, and the company enjoys a unique competitive edge in the industry. Additionally, team members understand the DISC assessment, leading to greater trust and engagement, and strong relationships within the team.
Morris, an outstanding salesman, found his business at a standstill. Business was stagnant, with salespeople lacking the business acumen to scale effectively. Morris, stuck in his role as the top salesperson, needed to step into leadership. Without understanding how he could leverage leadership to change and grow the organization, he felt stuck.
The salespeople were not business people, therefore building, creating, and growing would not be feasible without intervention and change.
Without Morris in a leadership position, the team suffered. For the business to grow, Morris had to learn how to be an effective leader so that his team could grow and thrive.
With strong personalities inside the organization, change and growth seemed elusive and difficult.
Tim Novak created a personalized training plan to help Morris and his team improve communication and understand each other better. These strategies strengthened their leadership and sales skills.
Key strategies implemented:
After asking “What’s going on?” Tim created and led Morris’ team through a series of workshops. He would come in once a week for six weeks to conduct each workshop.
Being a master of the DISC assessment and interpreting the results allowed Tim to help Morris and his team with their communication. They gained a better understanding of one another, how to appeal to each other, and how to effectively communicate.
With Tim’s guidance, Morris transitioned successfully into a leadership role, building a high-performing sales team. The business grew significantly, with the team size doubling and revenue tripling. Morris now regularly brings Tim in for workshops to continue their development.
Patrick was an incredibly successful salesperson but found moving into a management position extremely difficult. He could teach selling principles but couldn’t get his team to buy in and execute as a team effectively. Patrick didn’t understand why people behaved differently from him and struggled with leadership, leading to significant stress and confusion.
Moving from sales to leadership was extremely difficult as Patrick struggled to inspire his team.
Patrick could not grasp the diverse motivations and communication styles of his team members.
Tim implemented the DISC assessment to help Patrick and his team understand their personality types. Tim had every employee take the assessment and held boardroom sessions where everyone was valued and heard. He also conducted one-on-one sessions with the company’s leaders, which positively impacted their leadership styles and trickled down to the teams.
Key strategies implemented:
Leveraging his expertise in DISC assessments, Tim provided insights into individual personality types, enabling Patrick to tailor his leadership approach effectively.
Tim facilitated inclusive boardroom sessions where every team member, regardless of position, felt valued and participated actively in fostering a cohesive team environment.
Personalized coaching sessions with Patrick and his leadership team helped refine their leadership styles, fostering a culture of servant leadership and mutual understanding.
With Tim’s help, Patrick’s team started to understand each other better, leading to a more peaceful work environment. Managers became servant leaders, employees bought in to the team culture, and turnover was low. The business saw increased long-term partnerships and more effective communication throughout the company.
Lauren’s team lacked communication skills, leading to daily drama and low morale. Lauren felt stressed, unconfident, ill-equipped, and alone. She second-guessed herself and believed she might be a bad boss. She had no knowledge of DISC personality types, causing further misunderstandings and conflicts within the team.
Key challenges:
Tim introduced DISC personality assessments to Lauren’s team, which helped them understand each other’s unique traits. He also facilitated team-building activities to strengthen relationships and build trust. These strategies improved communication, reduced drama, and fostered a healthier workplace culture.
Key strategies implemented:
Tim had everyone take the DISC assessment independently and then discuss as a group. This fostered a mutual understanding of each team member’s unique traits.
Tim implemented team-building activities to strengthen relationships.
Tim provided executive coaching to Lauren, helping her develop leadership skills and build confidence. Tim also empowered Lauren to manage her team effectively and successfully navigate the complexities of running a business.
Lauren’s practice is thriving, as is her quality of life. After six years, Lauren continues to bring Tim into her business annually for “Tim Time.” This has become a cherished event for her team. His teachings are now deeply integrated into the company’s culture, significantly improving team dynamics. The practice has achieved record profits, stronger relationships, and better communication. Lauren feels confident, equipped, and loves her life again.
Key benefits of working with Tim: