SHIFT WORK offers dynamic, emotionally powerful, culturally aligned keynote presentations for agencies, conferences, and organizations seeking to educate, empower, and transform their people. Every talk blends trauma-informed insight, real-world experience, humor, and raw authenticity, delivered in a style that commands attention and leaves audiences talking long after the event ends.

We speak to the humanity behind the uniform.
The weight behind the badge.
The struggle behind the silence.
And the resilience that keeps people going.

SHIFT WORK Keynote Presentations

Echoes of the Incident: What Trauma Leaves Behind
A powerful, emotionally charged keynote revealing how critical incidents reverberate through individuals, families, teams, and agency culture long after the scene clears.

The GRITT Mindset: Psychological Survival for High-Stress Professions
A tactical, resilience-building keynote that shows how existing frontline skills can be transformed into psychological survival tools using the GRITT Mindset and GRITT BAG.

The Hidden Curriculum of Helping Professions
A candid look at the “invisible lessons” trauma-exposed jobs teach, hypervigilance, emotional numbing, identity shifts, and moral injury that accumulate quietly over time.

Surviving the Silence: Why First Responders Don’t Ask for Help
A stigma-breaking keynote exposing the cultural, emotional, and organizational forces that keep responders suffering in silence instead of seeking support.

Culture Eats Wellness for Breakfast
A leadership-focused keynote explaining why most wellness programs fail and how intentional culture-building is the true foundation of organizational resilience.

Rebuilding Connection in a Disconnected World
A deeply human, restorative keynote on repairing connection, with ourselves, with our families, and with each other, in a world that’s pulled us apart.

Before the Badge Breaks: The Real Cost of Cumulative Trauma
A preventative keynote exploring the slow-burn impact of chronic trauma exposure and how agencies can intervene before burnout, breakdown, and resignation occur.

When Helping Hurts: The Emotional Cost of Showing Up
A universal keynote for all helping professions that unpacks the emotional toll of caring for others and provides tools for sustainable, long-term resilience.

Story-Driven, High-Impact Keynotes

The Drunk Cop Who Lived: A Story of Trauma, Rock Bottom, and Redemption
A brutally honest, emotionally gripping keynote recounting the journey from trauma and addiction to rock bottom, recovery, and renewed purpose, breaking stigma and saving lives through truth.

The Officer Who Stayed: Why He Didn’t Pull the Trigger
A suicide-prevention keynote that speaks directly to the darkest moments responders face and reveals the single decision that kept one officer alive.

The Shift Show Live: A Raw, Hilarious, Unfiltered Experience
A fast-paced, comedic, and deeply real live presentation blending humor, storytelling, and emotional truth in your signature SHIFT SHOW style.

The Family Cost of the Job: What They Never Never Told Us
A realistic, validating keynote for spouses and families that explains trauma spillover, emotional withdrawal, communication gaps, and how to reconnect through the chaos.

From Chaos to Culture: Rebuilding an Agency From the Inside Out
A leadership and organizational development keynote guiding agencies on transforming toxic or burned-out environments into resilient, supportive cultures.

Life After the Badge: Who Am I When the Job Stops?
A keynote for retired, injured, resigned, or transitioning officers exploring identity loss, reinvention, and finding purpose beyond the profession.

The First 5 Hours: What People Need After Trauma
A practical, research-informed keynote teaching leaders, clinicians, and peer teams how to respond in the immediate aftermath of trauma in a way that actually helps.

The Call That Changed Everything
A powerful storytelling keynote centered on a single life-altering incident that reshaped perspective, purpose, and the trajectory of a career.

The Mask We Wear
A keynote based on your viral mask series, unpacking why people hide pain, what the mask protects, and how to take it off safely without falling apart.