Speaking Engagements

Keynote Presentations

Everyone deserves a place they can be proud of. You can provide your community a path forward. We can help.

As a leading voice on issues of civic pride, resident apathy, community wellness and revitalization, founder Jeff Siegler can present at your next conference or community function.

If your audience is ready to consider a new approach to community and economic development, contact us about online or in-person speaking opportunities.

K E Y N O T E T O P I C S

  • Civic Pride & Civic Apathy

  • Civic Wellness

  • Badass Your Board

  • The Recipe for Place

  • Setting the Stage for Civic Health

  • Building Developers

  • The 12 Myths of Main Street

  • The Power of Place

Trainings, Workshops & Conference Sessions

We can’t keep pretending everything is okay and hope our community struggles to improve on its own. I take a blunt approach to my workshops and trainings because there is an urgency to improving civic health, and combating apathy can’t wait.

Charting a new course forward requires considering new ideas. As a trainer, I provide attendees with a different model for thinking about the conviction to do something with those ideas.

T R A I N I N G & F A C I L I T A T I O N

  • Building Local Developers

  • ‘Badass’ Your Board

  • Creating a Proud Place

  • Strategic Planning

“Jeff’s closing keynote was powerful and perfectly timed.  Months later, we’re still hearing from attendees about how much it resonated and the way it changed how they approach their work back home.  We were grateful to welcome Jeff to Excelsior Springs and benefit from his perspective and insights.”

LYNDSEY M. BAXTER, Executive Director, Downtown Excelsior Partnership, Inc.

“As an event planner, I have had the privilege of working with many speakers, but Jeff Siegler stands out as one of the most impactful we’ve brought to our attendees. His message on community pride and revitalization is equal parts candid, challenging, and energizing, which is exactly what leaders and changemakers need to hear. Jeff doesn’t sugarcoat the realities facing our towns, yet delivers his perspective with clarity, humor and a deep belief in what’s possible when people choose to care.”

LORIE VINCENT, CEcD, Founder, ACCELERTION by design & Stand Up Rural America