Micah Maxwell · Speaker KitMicah
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How leaders think, decide, and act when the stakes are higher.
The quieter problem underneath success
Most leadership talks are built for the leader who is failing. Micah’s are built for the one who is not. The job still fits on paper. The income holds. From the inside, the person who built the structure is no longer the person who has to keep leading it, and the decision underneath that goes unnamed. Micah calls the gap the Stability Illusion.
He brings more than three decades across corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector leadership, most of it spent advising leaders at the moment a decision can no longer be postponed.
The Father’s
Library
When his father died, Micah inherited his library. Stacks of books beside the bed, the dream still in them, carried all the way to the end. He has met a lot of leaders like him since. This talk hands the room the Decision Path Method, the five moves at the center of Decision Point: Gap, Trace, Frame, Signal, Move. The room leaves with a method they can use the next morning and a decision named in their own words.
“Leaders aren’t stuck. They’re protecting a version of stability that no longer fits.”
Micah Maxwell
Micah Maxwell is the author of Decision Point and the founder of DiamondCrest International. He has been in front of rooms of ten to a thousand since 1998, in keynotes, workshops, and leadership offsites. His work draws on more than three decades across corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector leadership. He is a Certified Coach through the Center for Executive Coaching. He does not run a hype lap. The best feedback he gets is not “that was inspiring.” It is “I finally have words for this.”
What people are saying
I hired Micah to present to a group of nonprofit leaders. I knew it would be good, but he exceeded every expectation I had. The leaders have already asked me for more.
Organization Development Consultant
Plenty of books tell you to make a change. This one shows you how to see the decision clearly first, which is incredibly valuable.
Author of Million Dollar Grit, on Decision Point
Micah is a leader of action. He thrives in crisis and sets the example for all those around him. I would fight to have him back on my team again.
U.S. Army (Ret.)