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Speaking & Interactive Programs

Practical ideas. Real-world experience. Conversations that stick.

Dan Strakal brings decades of experience as a consultant, facilitator, educator, manager—and professional actor—to programs designed to get people thinking, talking, and applying what they learn.

No canned speeches. No flavor-of-the-month formulas. Just practical ideas, engaging stories, and useful conversations tailored to the people in the room.

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Featured Programs

Ideas people can use long after the event is over.

Every audience is different. Programs can be selected from a broad range of topics or customized around your organization, audience, and event. Here are three examples.

Flagship Program

LIST — Leadership In Simple Terms

Common-sense leadership wisdom for an overcomplicated world.

Leadership doesn't have to be complicated. Drawing on lessons from working people, organizational experience, and decades spent studying how people lead and work together, LIST explores straightforward principles that are easy to understand—and useful immediately.

Practical, story-driven, and engaging, the program can be adapted for leaders, managers, supervisors, and emerging leaders.

Balancing the 7 Sides of Life

An interactive exploration of priorities, choices, and what happens when life pulls us in different directions.

Work is only one part of life, but competing demands have a way of pulling everything out of balance. Audience members join Dan for a memorable live demonstration in which seven competing forces literally pull in different directions—turning an abstract conversation about balance, priorities, and choices into something people can see, feel, and remember.

Improv for the Real World

An interactive program for communication, listening, adaptability, collaboration, and thinking on your feet.

Improvisation isn't just for performers. Through accessible, interactive exercises and audience participation, this program uses principles of improv to explore how people listen, respond, communicate, collaborate, adapt to change, and handle the unexpected. No acting experience is required. The emphasis is on participation, discovery, useful ideas, and having some fun along the way.

Looking for something different?

Additional programs and customized presentations are available on leadership, communication, change, conflict, workplace performance, careers, teams, and the changing world of work.

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Keynotes • Conference Programs • Workshops • Facilitated Sessions
The Experience

Not just a presentation. A conversation that draws people in.

The best programs don't simply give people something to listen to. They give people something to think about, talk about, try, and remember.

Dan's programs combine practical ideas, stories, questions, demonstrations, and audience participation to create an experience that involves the people in the room—not just the person at the front of it.

Audience participants on stage holding ropes during the Balancing the 7 Sides of Life program
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