Richard & Nancy Wallace: Keynote Speakers and Corporate Trainers

Selected Speaking Programs

Selected programs from a broader portfolio focused on communication, trust, conflict, accountability, and workplace relationships.

The Clearer Team™: How Hidden Patterns Affect Communication, Trust, and Accountability

Unspoken patterns quietly drive miscommunication, blurred accountability, and team friction. Leaders learn to recognize and address them before they affect performance.

Ideal audience: Leadership teams, managers, and cross-functional groups navigating recurring communication friction. Core problem: Unspoken team patterns quietly erode trust and accountability long before they surface as conflict. Participants learn to: recognize the patterns that affect their team's communication and trust; address accountability gaps before they become entrenched; reduce recurring friction through practical, repeatable language. Available as: Keynote, half-day workshop, full-day training. Customization: Can be tailored to leadership teams, front-line managers, or full departments.

Communication Under Pressure: Leading Conflict, Feedback, and High-Stakes Conversations

Avoided conflict and delayed feedback erode trust long before anyone names the problem. Leaders learn to handle high-stakes conversations before tension escalates.

Ideal audience: Leaders and managers responsible for feedback, performance conversations, or conflict resolution. Core problem: Delayed feedback and avoided conflict quietly compound into larger trust and performance issues. Participants learn to: handle high-stakes conversations before tension escalates; deliver feedback earlier and more directly; address conflict without damaging working relationships. Available as: Keynote, half-day workshop, full-day training. Customization: Can focus on manager-to-employee, peer-to-peer, or cross-departmental dynamics.

Connected Across Distance: Building Trust and Accountability on Hybrid Teams

Proximity bias, inconsistent accountability, and quiet disengagement are common costs of distributed work. Leaders learn to rebuild trust and connection across hybrid teams.

Ideal audience: Leaders and teams operating across hybrid, remote, or distributed environments. Core problem: Physical distance creates proximity bias, inconsistent accountability, and quiet disengagement. Participants learn to: rebuild trust and connection without shared physical space; create consistent accountability across distributed teams; recognize and counteract proximity bias in daily decisions. Available as: Keynote, half-day workshop. Customization: Can be adapted for fully remote, hybrid, or multi-site organizations.

Building Skills for a Changing Workplace: Helping People Adapt as Roles, Tools, and Expectations Evolve

Technology, automation, and changing business needs are transforming work across industries. Leaders learn how to help employees recognize transferable strengths, identify skills to develop, and prepare for new responsibilities and opportunities.

Ideal audience: Leaders, HR and L&D teams, and employees navigating changing roles. Core problem: Technology, automation, and shifting business needs are changing which skills organizations need faster than most people can track on their own. Participants learn to: recognize transferable strengths already in place; identify the specific skill gaps changing roles create; build a practical plan for developing new capabilities. Available as: Keynote, half-day workshop, full-day training. Customization: Can focus on specific industries, departments, or job families facing the most change.

Also Available: Building Workplace Readiness

Helping Early-Career Employees Develop Professional Judgment, Feedback Skills, and Working Relationships. Early-career employees may enter the workplace with limited exposure to professional norms, feedback, and relationship-building. Leaders learn practical ways to strengthen judgment, confidence, and workplace effectiveness.

Ideal audience: Early-career employees, new hires, and the managers who support them. Core problem: Reduced early-career exposure to informal workplace norms has widened the gap between technical skill and workplace readiness. Participants learn to: read workplace situations and unwritten expectations; receive and act on feedback with confidence; build working relationships without prior modeling. Available as: Keynote, half-day workshop, full-day training. Customization: Can be delivered to new-hire cohorts, internship programs, or manager-development tracks.

What the Programs Are Designed to Strengthen

Fewer communication breakdowns. Earlier, more productive feedback. Stronger trust and accountability. Better collaboration across teams. Stronger leadership across distance and generations. Stronger workplace relationships.

Choose the Right Speaker: Richard, Nancy, or Both

Richard and Nancy each deliver select programs independently, and appear together for joint keynotes, workshops, and leadership retreats.

Richard

Technology leadership, digital change, and communication across business and technology teams. Areas: Technology Leadership, Communication Under Pressure, Business and Technology Alignment.

Nancy

Executive leadership, organizational change, and healthier workplace cultures. Areas: Executive Leadership, Organizational Transformation, Women in Leadership.

Together

Communication, trust, accountability, and stronger workplace relationships. Areas: Team Development, Conflict and Feedback, Trust and Accountability.

Areas of Expertise

Richard and Nancy help leaders recognize the patterns that affect communication, trust, conflict, and accountability, then apply that insight to strengthen leadership and team performance.

Leadership and Communication

Executive communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership development.

Change and Organizational Strategy

Organizational transformation, strategic planning, and enterprise execution.

Teams and Workplace Relationships

Trust, accountability, collaboration, and team effectiveness.

Technology and Business Alignment

Technology leadership, digital change, and cross-functional alignment.

About the Speakers: Two Perspectives, One Framework

Amazon Bestselling Authors. Co-Authors of Four Books. Both hold MBAs and PMP credentials.

Richard and Nancy bring complementary leadership experience across technology, enterprise programs, organizational change, higher education, coaching, governance, and workplace relationships.

Together, they translate that experience into practical frameworks that help leaders communicate more effectively, address conflict earlier, strengthen trust, and improve how teams work together.

Selected books, programs, and frameworks: The Clearer Team™, The Team Profile™, 7 Foundations Framework™, Connection Styles™.

Experience behind the work: Richard, 30+ years of technology and leadership experience. Nancy, 25+ years of leadership experience across finance, accounting, project management, and program management. University teaching experience. Four published books. Both hold MBAs and PMP credentials. Board and nonprofit governance experience.

Engagement Formats: Ways to Work Together

Programs are available as keynotes, workshops, training sessions, and customized learning experiences based on the audience and organizational goals.

Keynote

A 45 to 60 minute address for conferences, all-hands meetings, and leadership events.

Half-Day Workshop

A focused, interactive session built around one signature program and your team's real challenges.

Full-Day Training

Deeper practice and application, with room for role-specific scenarios and group exercises.

Leadership Retreat

An extended, immersive format suited to offsites and multi-day leadership retreats.

Who We Work With

For organizations navigating growth, distributed teams, and everyday workplace friction: corporate conferences, leadership summits, HR & L&D programs, manager development, executive retreats, team off-sites, professional associations, higher education leadership programs.

Custom Learning Solutions

Custom workshops, multi-session training programs, leadership retreats, and team learning experiences built around your organization's goals and challenges.

What Happens Next: Simple, Direct, and Easy to Start

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A tailored keynote, workshop, or training program, built for your organization.

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