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Can I Have Your Attention?

How leaders manage the most valuable and competed-for resource in their organization.

Attention is the most valuable and least managed resource in every organization. It determines what people see, hear, and act on. This keynote, based on the bestselling book, is about why the things that matter keep losing to whatever is loudest, and what leaders can do about it.

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The Situation

Curt Steinhorst has ADHD. He wrote the bestselling book on attention. He still can’t put his phone down at dinner, and his wife will confirm this.

A decade of research into how attention works keeps pointing to the same conclusion: attention is a design problem. Whatever is pulling people away is simply more compelling than what they’re being asked to focus on. Willpower doesn’t close that gap. Redesigning the environment, the information flow, and the communication does.

How information moves through organizations and where it dies. Why the things that matter keep losing to whatever is loudest. And what changes when you treat attention as architecture instead of willpower.

The higher you rise in an organization, the more people who believe they deserve your attention and the less space you have to think.

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Your Audience Will Leave With

Takeaways

  • An understanding of why their brain physically cannot do what most meetings ask it to do, backed by neuroscience
  • Specific design changes to how they structure messages, meetings, and communication that produce measurably better attention
  • The ability to spot whether an attention problem is environmental or individual (it’s almost always environmental)
  • A shared language for talking about focus that doesn’t turn into another productivity lecture
  • At least two stories they’ll retell at dinner, which is how you know the ideas stuck

Best For

Sales kickoffs, all-hands events, communication-focused conferences, and any large audience that needs people walking out energized and thinking differently about how they communicate.

Format

Keynote up to 90 minutes. Extended programs available.

Customization

Built for your audience and the specific attention challenge they’re facing.

“When I saw Curt speak I was immediately struck by his ability to think differently. I immediately booked him.”

— Scott Borchetta, Founder, Big Machine Label Group
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