A Successful Tribe Begins with Strong Warriors.
In Native cultures, warriors served their people and developed their skills to be the best possible asset to their tribe. However, the warrior role is one that transcends race, gender or age. Today, a warrior can be anyone from the person in uniform protecting our nation to a business manager doing what's right vs. what's easy, the executive navigating her company through change, the health provider doing more with less, or the engineer creating a product to improve people’s lives. Warriors are committed to something bigger than the self, and this is what sets them on the path to achieve the extraordinary.
Create a Culture of Warriors in Your Organization for Exceptional Results
For nearly two decades, D.J. has ignited the warrior spirit in audiences around the nation. He has created stronger “tribes” in thousands of organizations across the country; he’s taught innovative leadership to Intel Corporation, simplifying complexity with NASA and the power of contribution with Costco. With entertaining presentations and relevant, memorable anecdotes, he strengthens audiences’ abilities to be resilient, lead with courage and character, and thrive even in tough or changing environments, improving employee motivation and engagement in a way that impacts culture and bottom-line results. Audiences leave his talks ready to excel in new and completely different ways, in both their professional and personal lives.
“D.J. Vanas is a powerful, passionate and persuasive speaker, and his ability to ignite any audience into action is remarkable, and makes him one of the most exciting, relevant and memorable speakers we have used...”
Major Anne Green, Colorado Army National Guard
WHY ORGANIZATIONS LOVE WORKING WITH D.J.:
- He uses entertaining, humorous and powerful presentations to ignite morale and motivation at all levels of the organization
- He strengthens organizational culture, inspiring commitment to tribe and victory in any circumstances
- He helps build resilient employees who feel empowered to create better results
- He develops fearless leadership that is strong in character, grounded in values and balanced in battle
- He uses fascinating, relevant examples from Native American culture to connect in a completely different way with any audience
- Attendees emerge with a new sense of purpose, passion and performance – exemplifying the warrior spirit in action
POPULAR KEYNOTES & SPEAKING TOPICS
Victory by Design
Victory is not born from waiting for a better economy, a new administration, the perfect moment or the exact mix of resources – it’s about using what we have right now, around us and within us, to create success. Your clients, customers and coworkers deserve the best service you can provide them – regardless of circumstances – and this program will empower and inspire you to do just that. You’ll learn how to use warrior spirit principles to leverage your precious supplies of time and energy into results, creating clarity to get more done, adopt a resilient mindset that is fiercely focused on solutions, and to understand that the business of warriors can make us warriors in business. The program is created to be engaging, motivating and entertaining but most importantly, it’s created to show your people that victory in what they do does not depend on luck, chance or hope. Victory is by design!
All of these programs can be done as a keynote or ½ day seminar.
The Warrior Within
Based on concepts from D.J.'s bestselling book, The Tiny Warrior: A Path to Personal Discovery & Achievement, this program will ignite the warrior spirit in your people and organization. Using wisdom discovered in traditional ceremonies, you'll learn the true purpose of a warrior; service to others. Warriors spent their lives developing their talent and abilities to become assets to the tribe they served. Today that tribe can be your company, clients, customers or family members - anyone you serve. D.J.’s message will inspire your people to serve at their best by engaging them at a core level, creating a fierce commitment to service and a resilience to deliver in dynamic, everchanging conditions. Audiences will learn the truth about themselves - there's a warrior within!
All of these programs can be done as a keynote or ½ day seminar.
Keep Moving Your Tribe Forward
Warrior’s Edge - Quarterly Series
Take advantage of all of D.J.’s presentations, with quarterly sessions that provide developmental momentum to your organization. If you are committed to transforming your people, from entry-level to senior leadership, into the warriors of service they can be, this series will walk your tribe to the edge of their best performance. Using potent training, practical tools, and a wide array of inspirational stories, the Quarterly Series becomes an event your team will look forward to attending. This program is offered on an annual contract only and includes four half-day seminars.
Tip of the Spear: Leading Your People to Victory
Regardless of your title, if you are fighting to make a difference and influence others to action, leadership skills are critical to your success. This program is an energetic blend of humor, practical examples and powerful tools for established and emerging leaders in any arena. D.J. uses the principles of the Native American warrior spirit to develop fearless leaders that are visionary, action-oriented and resilient, grounded in values and balanced in battle. Explore the 6 roles of Tip of the Spear leadership: Chief, Warrior, Hunter, Prophet, Scout and Medicine Person – and how they can transform your leadership. You’ll learn how to create a high-performance environment, strengthen communication, and powerful ways to build trust, commitment and motivation among your people. Prepare to learn, laugh, and lead your tribe to victory!
Tribal Fusion
This is a hands-on, interactive, exercised-based workshop for smaller groups that is designed to bring out the best in leadership and teamwork skills from your people. Both in tradition and today, a tribe is an assembly of people with a strong common identity, values, goals and built on mutual respect and support – and it doesn’t happen without work and in this session, that’s what you’ll do. Each participant will have an opportunity to learn how to communicate effectively, respectfully deal with conflict, be a teacher, coach, peacemaker, engineer, etc. but most importantly, become a better leader and team member. Materials will be provided, the time will fly and the work will seem more like play as you become fused into a tribe!
All of these programs can be done as a keynote or ½ day seminar.
Keep Moving Your Tribe Forward
Warrior’s Edge - Quarterly Series
Take advantage of all of D.J.’s presentations, with quarterly sessions that provide developmental momentum to your organization. If you are committed to transforming your people, from entry-level to senior leadership, into the warriors of service they can be, this series will walk your tribe to the edge of their best performance. Using potent training, practical tools, and a wide array of inspirational stories, the Quarterly Series becomes an event your team will look forward to attending. This program is offered on an annual contract only and includes four half-day seminars.
Ride the Lightning: Timeless Wisdom for a World in Flux
We live in times of uncertainty and widespread, rapid change that strikes like lightning – and that dynamic naturally brings fear which can affect our focus, drive, wellness and the way we serve others. Learn about traditional concepts from Native American culture that will strengthen you as you navigate change with confidence. The Native wisdom on how to live and work provide guidance on how to slow down to speed your performance, maintain perspective despite the hectic pace of change, keep our human connections strong in a world of high-tech, combat information overload and find the opportunities that change brings. D.J. will help you successfully ride the lightning and achieve your best in service and self at every turn – are you ready?
All of these programs can be done as a keynote or ½ day seminar.
Keep Moving Your Tribe Forward
Warrior’s Edge - Quarterly Series
Take advantage of all of D.J.’s presentations, with quarterly sessions that provide developmental momentum to your organization. If you are committed to transforming your people, from entry-level to senior leadership, into the warriors of service they can be, this series will walk your tribe to the edge of their best performance. Using potent training, practical tools, and a wide array of inspirational stories, the Quarterly Series becomes an event your team will look forward to attending. This program is offered on an annual contract only and includes four half-day seminars.
Keeping the Fires Lit
We all start our careers and new jobs with a blazing desire to serve and make a difference. Over time, through overwhelm, setbacks and stress, your people can face burnout. Suddenly, your team is no longer fighting to make a difference, but fighting only to make it to the weekend. So how do you get that fire back? In this powerful program, D.J. will reignite the spark of purpose, passion and performance in your teams by sharing an arsenal of ways to get and stay motivated, inspired and combat stress. To create success within our tribe, we must first be able to take excellent care of ourselves and keep our own fires lit. After all, motivation is not automatic – it must be done on purpose, with purpose, and D.J. will show you how. Get ready to look at your life and career in a whole new light!
All of these programs can be done as a keynote or ½ day seminar.
Keep Moving Your Tribe Forward
Warrior’s Edge - Quarterly Series
Take advantage of all of D.J.’s presentations, with quarterly sessions that provide developmental momentum to your organization. If you are committed to transforming your people, from entry-level to senior leadership, into the warriors of service they can be, this series will walk your tribe to the edge of their best performance. Using potent training, practical tools, and a wide array of inspirational stories, the Quarterly Series becomes an event your team will look forward to attending. This program is offered on an annual contract only and includes four half-day seminars.
Tribal Tune Up
Any modern organization is much like a traditional tribe, having common values, standards, traditions, culture, language and even rites of passage – and the more unified they are in their tribal ways, the more resilient and successful they are. This session is a wealth of ideas designed to strengthen your tribe, inspire your people to regain that warrior spirit, improve their service, leadership skills, morale, manage their stress and remind them how much impact they can have within the tribe. This is an all-hands call that is empowering and entertaining. You and your tribe will go from being tuned out to tuned up, ready for the battles ahead!
All of these programs can be done as a keynote or ½ day seminar.
Keep Moving Your Tribe Forward
Warrior’s Edge - Quarterly Series
Take advantage of all of D.J.’s presentations, with quarterly sessions that provide developmental momentum to your organization. If you are committed to transforming your people, from entry-level to senior leadership, into the warriors of service they can be, this series will walk your tribe to the edge of their best performance. Using potent training, practical tools, and a wide array of inspirational stories, the Quarterly Series becomes an event your team will look forward to attending. This program is offered on an annual contract only and includes four half-day seminars.
Service is our highest calling, our deepest need and in the end, it’s what outlives us. It’s the legacy we leave behind.
D.J. Vanas
ABOUT D.J. VANAS
Internationally renowned speaker D.J. Vanas is a tribally-enrolled member of the Odawa Nation, a decorated former Air Force captain, and bestselling author of The Tiny Warrior. As a military officer, he worked in the highly complex arena of space warfare, partnered with companies JPL, Aerojet, Hughes Aircraft and Aerospace Corporation. Today, D.J. brings warrior insights to organizations across the country, with clients including Subaru, NASA, Indian Health Service, Intel Corporation, USAA, Mayo Clinic, P&G, Accenture, the US Air Force and Army, Walt Disney World, Costco and the US Secret Service. He combines decades of relevant and entertaining stories to deliver unforgettable presentations that empower audiences to make their mark.
See Full BioD.J. is masterful in inspiring people in his own way using
insight, humor, and concrete steps to high performance.
Kevin Graefe, J.P. Morgan, Participant Services Manager
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