Is your team stuck navigating change?
What happens when you combine 30 years of real-world leadership with a history professor's love of a great story? Nick Walters uses history—from Lewis & Clark and beyond—to bring the enduring lessons of the leadership classics to life in ways audiences can understand, remember, and use.
Finding Your Way: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark
Built from Nick's extensive Lewis & Clark research, this is the flagship program of the Finding Your Way series — enduring lessons in leadership, teamwork, communication, adaptability, and decision-making, told through one of America's greatest journeys.
Every organization is navigating change with no clear map. The Corps of Discovery did too — and their story gives your audience a framework they'll remember and use.
- Keynote · 60 minutes5–6 of the 10 Finding Your Way topics
- Breakout · 35–40 minutesOne topic, or two topics combined
- Half-Day Retreat · 5–6 hoursAll 10 topics, in depth
Ideal for annual meetings, leadership retreats and association conferences.
What if Ken Burns and John Maxwell walked onto the stage together?
The challenges leaders face today aren't as new as they seem. Building teams, navigating change, communicating through uncertainty and making hard decisions have tested leaders for centuries.
Nick takes the enduring ideas from classic business and leadership books and brings them to life through the people, decisions, successes and failures of history. Your audience gets ideas they'll understand, stories they'll remember and lessons they can use.
Proven Ideas
The best of the leadership classics, made fresh and practical.
Stories That Stick
History makes the lesson memorable.
Not a History Buff? No Worries.
There's no final exam and no dates to memorize. History is just the vehicle for ideas that matter today.
Nick has spent 30 years standing in front of public boards, classrooms, and congregations — as a history professor and a former USDA state leader under a presidential administration. He knows what it takes to hold a room, and he knows how to turn 200-year-old history — starting with the Lewis & Clark expedition — into a tool leaders use today.
Who Nick Speaks To
Nick speaks to businesses and event planners, civic clubs and history groups, and churches, with programs built for each.
BEYOND THE MAP
Finding Your Way with Lewis & Clark
The first book in Nick Walters' Finding Your Way series uses one of America's greatest journeys to bring enduring lessons in leadership, teamwork, communication, adaptability, and decision-making to life.
Beyond the Map is currently in development. Get notified the day it launches, plus occasional updates as publication approaches.
Planning an event? Ask about bulk pre-orders for your attendees.