Bring Greg to Your Event or Organization for:
Keynotes | Workshops | Full-, Half- or Multi-Day Programs | Live or Virtual
Greg J. Baird speaks to pastors, ministry teams, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven organizations. Offering inspirational, practical, and actionable insights, he brings energetic, fun, and engaging presentations your leaders will love!
Keynotes to Inspire & Challenge Your Audience
I Don’t Have To Survive: Living and Leading with Mission-First Courage
Step into a deeper kind of leadership with this powerful keynote that challenges leaders to move beyond self-preservation and embrace a mission-first way of living and leading. Rooted in the formative idea behind Greg comapny, Mission First Leadership, this message inspires leaders to release comfort, fear, and personal preference so they can pursue the mission with courage, clarity, and conviction.
I Don’t Have To Survive: Living and Leading with Mission-First Courage
Key Focus:
- Choosing mission over self-preservation, comfort, and fear.
- Developing the courage to lead with conviction when the stakes are high.
- Reframing pressure, uncertainty, and sacrifice as opportunities for deeper purpose.
- Strengthening the mindset needed to serve people, advance the mission, and stay faithful under pressure.
- Inspiring leaders to pursue impact that is bigger than personal success.
Expected Outcomes:
- Develop a mission-first mindset that leads with courage, clarity, and conviction.
- Gain a renewed understanding of how purpose reshapes pressure, sacrifice, and uncertainty.
- Learn how to move beyond fear-driven leadership and make decisions anchored in mission.
- Discover how to lead with greater resilience without making survival the ultimate goal.
- Feel challenged and inspired to live, lead, and serve with extraordinary commitment to the mission that matters most.
Lead Like You Mean It: The Blueprint for Transformational Impact
This keynote combines essential elements of intentional and transformational leadership to provide a comprehensive blueprint for impactful leadership. Attendees will gain practical insights and strategies in self-leadership, relationship building, vision advancement, and leadership development, enabling them to lead with purpose and intention while driving meaningful change within their organizations.
Lead Like You Mean It: The Blueprint for Transformational Impact
Key Focus:
- Developing intentional and transformational leadership.
- Enhancing self-leadership and self-awareness.
- Building trust and fostering collaborative environments.
- Advancing vision, mission, and values within the organization.
- Mentoring and developing future leaders.
Expected Outcomes:
- Developing a deeper understanding of leadership strengths and areas for growth.
- Learning effective strategies for building trust and fostering collaborative environments within teams.
- Equipping leaders to articulate and align actions with their organization’s vision and mission.
- Gaining practical tips on mentoring and developing future leaders within the organization.
- Feeling inspired to implement intentional leadership practices in daily routines.
Chase Your Lions: Embracing Bold Leadership for Extraordinary Impact
Step into the arena of bold leadership with this dynamic keynote designed to inspire leaders to chase their “lions”—those big, intimidating opportunities that hold the potential for extraordinary impact. Through captivating stories and actionable insights, this keynote challenges leaders to embrace courage, take calculated risks, and lead their teams to pursue daring visions that drive transformational change.
Chase Your Lions: Embracing Bold Leadership for Extraordinary Impact
Key Focus:
- Cultivating courage and boldness to pursue audacious goals.
- Overcoming fear and embracing challenges as opportunities for growth.
- Inspiring a visionary mindset to dream bigger and lead with purpose.
- Empowering teams to take risks and achieve extraordinary results.
Expected Outcomes:
- Develop a courageous mindset to face challenges with confidence and resilience.
- Gain practical tools for reframing fear as an opportunity for growth and innovation.
- Learn how to inspire a visionary approach to leadership that motivates teams to dream bigger and aim higher.
- Discover strategies for empowering teams to take risks and seize game-changing opportunities.
- Feel energized and equipped to lead boldly toward extraordinary outcomes.
Greg J Baird will energize, engage, and equip your audience. With over three decades of leadership experience, Greg has delivered hundreds of keynotes, workshops, and leadership tracks across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries.
Greg’s presentations aren’t just talks – they’re experiences. High-energy, interactive, and packed with practical insights, every session is designed to leave your team inspired and ready to take action!
Whether in person or virtual, Greg will ignite a spark in leaders at all levels, empowering them to create meaningful impact. Book Greg for your next event and give your team the tools they need to lead with purpose and confidence!
Workshops & Full- or Half-Day Intensives
Each presentation is anchored in proven frameworks that have been developed over 30 years of service in the church and faith-based nonprofit spaces.
Individual Workshops
Mission-Driven Leadership: Clarifying What Matters Most
Leaders often get pulled in too many directions because every need, opportunity, and opinion feels urgent. This workshop helps leaders use the mission as the standard for decisions, priorities, and focus so they can eliminate distraction and lead with greater clarity.
Courageous Leadership Under Pressure
Fear, image management, and personal security can quietly shape leadership decisions. This workshop helps leaders identify where self-protection is influencing their leadership and develop the courage to address hard issues, make necessary decisions, and serve the mission above personal comfort.
Faithfulness When Results Are Unclear
Leaders can become discouraged when outcomes are delayed, unclear, or outside their control. This workshop helps leaders define success by faithful responsibility, consistent execution, and obedience to the mission rather than by visible results alone.
Stewardship Over Ownership: Leading Without Control
When leaders act like owners, they often hold too tightly to roles, people, decisions, and outcomes. This workshop helps leaders embrace stewardship by delegating responsibility, receiving feedback, developing others, and making decisions that serve the long-term health of the mission.
People-First Leadership: Developing the People Who Carry the Mission
The mission does not move forward through strategy alone; it moves through people. This workshop helps leaders strengthen trust, develop people, address performance issues directly, and invest in the relationships that sustain long-term mission impact.
Executional Leadership: Turning Conviction into Clarity and Action
Strong conviction is not enough if people remain confused or momentum stalls. This workshop helps leaders define priorities, communicate direction simply, establish accountability rhythms, and translate mission into disciplined action.
Enduring Leadership in Changing Seasons
Everything drifts over time: people, priorities, systems, and focus. This workshop helps leaders recognize misalignment, make necessary adjustments, build sustainable rhythms, and maintain commitment through difficulty, fatigue, and slow progress.
Intensive
I Don’t Have to Survive: The Seven Mindsets of a Mission First Leader Intensive
This half-day or full-day intensive gives leaders a practical deep dive into the complete Seven Mindsets of a Mission First Leader framework. Participants will examine the mindsets shaping their leadership, identify where fear, ego, fatigue, drift, or self-preservation may be limiting their effectiveness, and develop a practical plan to lead with greater courage, clarity, faithfulness, stewardship, and endurance. The intensive moves through each mindset—mission clarity, freedom from self-preservation, faithfulness, stewardship, people-centered leadership, disciplined execution, and sustained alignment—while helping leaders apply the framework directly to the decisions, pressures, and responsibilities they are currently carrying.
For a half-day format, the intensive provides a focused overview, guided reflection, and immediate application around the seven mindsets. For a full-day format, the experience includes deeper personal assessment, discussion, practical exercises, implementation planning, and tools leaders can use to strengthen their leadership perspective, decision-making, and endurance over time.
The Seven Mindsets of a Mission First Leader
Mission first leadership begins with the mindset of the leader. These presentations help leaders move beyond self-preservation, lead with courage, and stay faithful to what has been entrusted to them.
The Six Responsibilities of Leadership
Effective leadership is not defined by title or personality, but by responsibility. These presentations help leaders strengthen the core practices required to lead themselves, develop others, create clarity, execute with discipline, and sustain alignment.
Individual Workshops
Mastering Self-Leadership: The Foundation of Effective Leadership
Before leaders can effectively lead others, they must first learn to lead themselves. This workshop helps leaders examine the personal disciplines, emotional control, integrity, and self-awareness required to build trust and sustain influence over time.
Relational Leadership: Building Trust Before You Need It
Leadership happens through relationships, and relationships are strongest when trust is built before pressure arrives. This workshop gives leaders practical tools for strengthening communication, increasing relational credibility, addressing conflict directly, and building the kind of trust that supports alignment and engagement.
Visionary Leadership That Creates Clarity
Organizations drift when vision, mission, values, and priorities are unclear. This workshop helps leaders learn how to communicate direction with simplicity and consistency, align decisions around mission, and eliminate distractions that dilute focus.
Developing Leaders Who Multiply Impact
Sustainable leadership requires developing others, not simply assigning work. This workshop helps leaders identify potential, delegate responsibility, coach for growth, create leadership opportunities, and build capacity beyond themselves.
Focused Execution: Turning Vision into Results
Vision without execution creates frustration. This workshop helps leaders turn direction into action through clear priorities, measurable goals, accountability rhythms, timely decisions, and disciplined follow-through.
Realigning People, Priorities, and Systems
Misalignment is not unusual; it is inevitable. This workshop helps leaders recognize drift, evaluate whether people and systems still support the mission, address bottlenecks, adjust responsibilities, and refine alignment as the organization evolves.
Intensive
The Six Responsibilities of Leadership Intensive
This half-day or full-day intensive gives leaders a practical deep dive into the complete Six Responsibilities of Leadership framework. Participants will assess their current leadership, identify strengths and gaps, and develop a practical plan to lead with greater clarity, trust, discipline, and alignment. The intensive moves through each responsibility—leading yourself first, empowering relationships, advancing vision, developing leaders, executing with discipline, and refining alignment—while helping leaders apply the framework directly to the people, priorities, and challenges they are currently carrying.
For a half-day format, the intensive provides a focused overview, guided reflection, and immediate application around the six responsibilities. For a full-day format, the experience includes deeper discussion, leadership assessment, practical exercises, implementation planning, and tools leaders can use with their teams.
The Six Marks of a Better Team
Healthy teams do not happen by accident. These presentations help leaders build teams marked by alignment, trust, clarity, ownership, growth, and sustainable fruitfulness.
Individual Workshops
Mission-Aligned Teams: Getting Everyone Moving in the Same Direction
Teams lose momentum when people are working hard but not always working in the same direction. This workshop helps leaders clarify mission, connect individual roles to the larger purpose, evaluate decisions through mission alignment, and eliminate distractions that dilute focus.
Trust-Based Teams: Strengthening Communication, Collaboration, and Conflict
Without trust, communication becomes guarded, conflict becomes destructive, and collaboration stays shallow. This workshop gives leaders practical tools for building relational trust through consistency, honest communication, direct conflict resolution, careful listening, and meaningful affirmation.
Clarifying Roles, Responsibilities, and Decisions
Confusion grows when people are unclear about what they own, where they fit, and how decisions get made. This workshop helps leaders define responsibilities, clarify expectations, address gaps and overlaps, and create the role clarity needed for greater confidence and effectiveness.
Creating a Culture of Shared Ownership
Teams become stronger when responsibility for the mission is carried by the whole team, not just one leader. This workshop helps leaders move people from passive participation to active commitment by delegating responsibility, inviting contribution, strengthening accountability, and encouraging initiative.
Growth-Oriented Teams: Building a Team That Keeps Getting Better
Healthy teams do not drift into improvement; they create rhythms for learning, feedback, development, and adjustment. This workshop helps leaders build a growth-oriented culture where people learn from success and failure, strengthen systems, receive feedback, and keep improving over time.
Sustainable Teams: Producing Fruit Without Sacrificing Health
Short-term results are not enough if the team is exhausted, overextended, or dependent on unhealthy rhythms. This workshop helps leaders measure both mission impact and team health, identify signs of overload, build sustainable work rhythms, and make decisions that strengthen long-term effectiveness.
Intensive
The Six Marks of a Better Team Intensive
This half-day or full-day intensive gives leaders and teams a practical deep dive into the complete Six Marks of a Better Team framework. Participants will assess the current health and effectiveness of their team, identify strengths and gaps, and develop a practical plan to build greater alignment, trust, clarity, ownership, growth, and sustainable fruitfulness. The intensive moves through each mark—mission alignment, relational trust, role clarity, shared ownership, growth orientation, and sustainable fruitfulness—while helping leaders apply the framework directly to the real dynamics, frustrations, and opportunities their teams are facing.
For a half-day format, the intensive provides a focused overview, guided team reflection, and immediate application around the six marks. For a full-day format, the experience includes deeper discussion, team assessment, practical exercises, implementation planning, and tools leaders can use to strengthen team health and effectiveness over time.
Multi-Day & Custom Presentations
Any of the above can be mixed, matched or modified to meet the needs of your event or training. Just ask!