In our Native cultures, we have the gift of a warrior heritage. Our ancestors took their Creator-given talents and abilities, and developed them over a lifetime so they could better serve their tribe. Those powerful warrior attributes are part of who we’ve always been and who we are today. If we harness them, we can unleash a completely new level of achievement in our professional and personal lives.
The Key to an Extraordinary Future Lies in Our Own History
Internationally-renowned speaker D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas is a tribally-enrolled member of the Odawa Nation of Michigan and has spoken to 500 tribal nations over the past two decades. He has inspired Native audiences from the Arctic Circle of Alaska to the wetlands of Florida, the mountains of Maine to the islands of Hawaii.
D.J. uses traditional warrior spirit principles to empower others to find clarity in chaos, lead with courage, and succeed, regardless of circumstances, as our ancestors did. His presentations address the most important issues for our Native communities, focusing on ways to immediately improve employee engagement, strengthen motivation and results, and cultivate leaders of character. Participants leave his sessions feeling motivated, recharged, and committed to lead from within, and ultimately impact, Indian Country.
“His sessions leave you feeling energized and ready to conquer the world! I would highly recommend D.J. Vanas to any company or organization ready to make a big change in the way they train and motivate their employees by allowing him to show them the true warriors they are meant to be.”
Karen Goodnight, Chickasaw Tribal Council
WHY TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS LOVE D.J.’S PROGRAMS:
- D.J.’s deep and authentic understanding of our culture and history
- A unique approach to using the strengths of Native cultures to achieve what we want today
- Engaging, heartfelt presentations with hilarious stories that leave audiences motivated to immediately make positive change
- Brings clarity to the irreplaceable role of the individual within the tribe
- Topical focus on service, leadership, resiliency, team work and other themes central to Native values
- A tribal-centric framework of thinking; participants learn to use what they have and know now to create greater success
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 tribal citizens, clients 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 the business of building better communities. 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.
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.
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 family, community, agency or clients - 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.
For Success...It’s In Our Blood
We as Native people have endured every challenge that any group of people on the planet have endured - and we're still here. We aren't new to success, we were designed for it! In this dynamic and entertaining program, D.J. will inspire the audience with a new sense of purpose and passion in who we are and what we can do as Native people. Born into poverty to teenage parents, D.J. has used the power of his culture, education and determined drive to become a highly successful business owner and internationally-acclaimed speaker and renowned author who has been invited to speak at The White House – twice. He'll show you how the simple choices we make each day can create a massive positive impact for us and those around us. You'll leave this session feeling supercharged towards your potential and how to use it to build a life full of adventure and success. After all, it's in our blood!
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.
D.J. Vanas' philosophy and teachings inspire excellence in everyone.
Ceni Myles, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
ABOUT D.J. VANAS
Internationally-renowned speaker D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas is a tribally-enrolled member of the Odawa Nation of Michigan and has served 500 tribal nations over the past two decades. His career-long dedication to understanding the unique challenges and potentials of Native organizations and the communities they serve sets him apart in his ability to inspire, embolden and help shape our people into the warriors of service they can be. D.J. was born to teenage parents in poverty, and has used the gift of warrior principles to go on to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy and serve with distinction as an Air Force officer, become a celebrated public speaker (who has been invited to speak at the White House twice!), and write a best-selling book that is sold around the world. He understands deeply the potential for each and every member of tribal nations, and has dedicated his career to bringing this potential to light.
- American Indian Graduate Center’s Council of 100
- Sequoyah Fellow with American Indian Science & Engineering Society
- Educator of the Year – Denver Museum of Nature & Science
- Former Board of Directors member of the National Board of Certified Counselors
Through the awesome training by D.J., our caring team of professionals are motivated, revitalized and eager to continue their untiring efforts to create positive outcomes for our Native communities. D.J. has the gift of inspiring us to do our best and be the best in all we do.
Lorenda Sanchez, Executive Director, California Indian Manpower Consortium, Inc.
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