The Leaders Horizon - Keynotes by Dave McKeown

A KEYNOTE EVERY OVERWHELMED

LEADER NEEDS!

Dave McKeown helps leaders escape the firefighting trap and build the habits, systems, and mindset needed to scale with clarity.

His powerful keynotes give executives, managers, and teams a practical roadmap to cut through noise, align around what matters, and lead with confidence in uncertain times.

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THE LEADER'S HORIZON™ - ELEVATE YOUR FOCUS. EMPOWER YOUR TEAM. ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY

The Reality of Leadership Today
Most leaders spend their days putting out fires.
Jumping from crisis to crisis.
Trying to hold it all together.

But firefighting isn’t leading. It’s exhausting.
And over time, it builds burnout, not momentum.

What if you could break the cycle?
What if you could scale your impact without being the bottleneck?

The Leader’s Horizon™ is a transformative keynote that helps leaders stop reacting and start leading.

It’s about elevating your focus, empowering your team, and building the habits that lead to sustainable success.

Not in theory but in real, everyday leadership moments.

This is more than a motivational speech.
This is a leadership reset.

What You'll Discover

Elevate Your Focus
See past the urgent to lead what really matters

Lead Laterally
Break the dependency loop and foster a team that owns outcomes

Create Real Alignment
Unite your team around a shared vision and priorities

Build Ownership
Delegate with trust, not fear, and activate true accountability

For Leaders Who

Feel stuck in reactive mode
Are scaling fast and need their team to step up
Want to get out of the weeds without losing control
Know their leadership needs to evolve but aren’t sure how

The Leader’s Horizon™ equips your leaders with the mindset and tools to grow, scale, and lead with clarity.

MORE KEYNOTES FROM DAVE

SEVEN QUESTIONS FOR A STRONGER STRATEGY™

Your leaders are fighting a gravitational pull. Every day they’re getting sucked into the latest emergency, the biggest crisis, or the most disgruntled customer. It’s having a profound impact on their ability to set longer-term strategic plans in motion and, as a result, is keeping them and their team from doing their best work.

This keynote is taking from Dave’s work helping executive teams set and achieve their strategic growth goals with ease and provides a powerful process for helping your busy leaders elevate their focus away from daily firefighting and toward thinking more strategically.

BUILDING DEEP ALIGNMENTrafting Your Vision, Forging Your Path to Overcoming BurnoutCrafting Your Vision, Forging Your Path to Overcoming Burnout

Each person in your organization makes between 80 and 100 non-trivial decisions every single day. Add that up across your entire workforce, and that's a huge dust cloud of activity. As a leader, you want to be sure those decisions align around the common goal of achieving your organization's mission, but how?

In this informative and interactive session, Dave McKeown will walk you through a tried and tested process to ensure that every action that you, your team, and your organization takes adds up to achieving your shared goals. You'll walk away with a complete plan for building deep alignment at every level.

MEET DAVE

I help overwhelmed leaders escape the chaos, refocus on what matters, and scale without burning out.

Whether you’re guiding a high-growth team or navigating complexity at the enterprise level, the old model of leadership, heroics, hustle, and firefighting just doesn’t work anymore.

I work with executive teams, senior leaders, and fast-growing organizations who are ready for something better:

Aligned teams
Clear direction
Sustainable momentum

Over the past two decades, I’ve delivered keynotes and leadership programs for companies like Google, Apple, Salesforce, FedEx, and the British Government, helping leaders at every level shift from reacting to intentional, high-impact leadership.

WHERE I'VE SPOKEN

CORPORATIONS

Akamai

Otter Tail Corporation

RSA

Renewal By Anderson

FedEx

O'Reilly Media

Bamboo HR

ASSOCIATIONS

Inc. 5000

Leadercast

Foodbuy (Compass Group)

Managed Healthcare Associates

The Association of Learning Providers

Latin America CoC

CEO PEER GROUPS

EO Grand Rapids

EO Tulsa

CMEDI

CVMSDC

CEO Thinktank

Global Leaders Organization

WHAT YOU GET

PLANNING CALL

We’ll align on logistics, audience context, and top leadership challenges to customize this experience for your team.
The goal? To ensure your leaders walk away with clarity, confidence, and practical tools they can use right away.

EVENT PROMOTION

Need traction and buzz? I’ll record a custom video or write a personalized LinkedIn post to generate internal energy and help the right people show up engaged and curious.
Whether it’s a summit, retreat, or leadership kickoff, we’ll make it feel like a can’t-miss moment.

THE KEYNOTE

This is where it all comes together.
The Leader’s Horizon™ is a powerful, high-impact keynote that helps your leaders elevate their focus, align their teams, scale without burning out.

THE GATHERING

If your event includes networking or executive discussions, I’d be happy to facilitate deeper breakout conversations or host a private executive roundtable to ensure leaders walk away with real strategies they can use immediately.

THE PERFECT ADD-ON!

CUSTOMIZE YOUR EVENT

Each of these great add-ons help you create a unique experience for your attendees. Be sure to inquire!

DEEP DIVE

Want to go beyond the keynote? This interactive workshop delivers hands-on leadership exercises to help your team reset habits, strengthen alignment, and make more confident, strategic decisions in the real world

1-1 CONSULTS

Offer private leadership sessions with Dave for your senior leaders. These focused conversations help executives unpack personal roadblocks, navigate high-stakes decisions, and apply the keynote to their own context.

VIP HOUR

Host an invite-only salon for key stakeholders, senior leaders, or your board. Expect a candid, high-level conversation on the realities of leading today: clarity, pressure, trust, and the invisible tensions no one talks about publicly.

SESSION RECORDING

Need to reinforce the message afterward? Capture the session so teams can revisit key insights, share highlights internally, and keep the momentum going well after the event ends.

HIGH-IMPACT LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES—ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

I’ve delivered hundreds of virtual keynotes, offsites, and leadership workshops, helping remote and hybrid teams connect around what matters most.

Whether your leaders are spread across time zones or working from home, I deliver interactive, high-energy virtual sessions that create clarity, shift behavior, and spark momentum.

Every session is optimized for virtual engagement: from sharp visuals and polling to powerful facilitation that draws people in.
Leaders leave with practical insights and a renewed sense of direction wherever they are.