Is your team stuck navigating change?History has already been there.
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.
What if Ken Burns and John Maxwell walked onto the stage together?
The best leadership ideas deserve a story.
Nick takes enduring lessons from classic business and leadership books and brings them to life through the people, decisions, challenges, successes, and failures of history.
The result is a keynote or breakout session built around ideas your audience can understand, stories they'll remember, and lessons they can use.
And every point is better with a story.
Real stories. Real lessons.
Proven Ideas
The Best of Business & Leadership
Nick draws from the enduring ideas found in classic business and leadership books—and gives audiences a fresh, memorable way to understand and apply them.
Stories That Stick
History Makes the Lesson Memorable
Nick uses the people, decisions, challenges, successes, and failures of history to bring leadership principles to life—making the ideas easier to understand, remember, and use.
Not a History Buff? No Worries.
This Isn't a History Lecture.
There's no final exam, and there are no dates to memorize. Nick uses history as the storytelling vehicle for ideas that matter today—leadership, teamwork, communication, change, and decision-making.
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.
See What He Speaks On
Click below to explore keynote and breakout topics across leadership, history, and faith themes.
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Not a corporate team or event planner booking a convention? Nick also speaks to church groups, civic clubs, and historical associations — with programs built just for them.
Why History? Why Now?
The challenges facing leaders today aren't as new as they seem. Building teams, navigating change, communicating through uncertainty, making difficult decisions, and finding a way forward have tested leaders for centuries.
Nick's Finding Your Way series brings those experiences together with proven ideas from classic business and leadership books—using the stories of history to make those lessons memorable, relevant, and useful.
The series begins with Lewis & Clark. But the idea is much bigger:
The stories help us remember them.
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.
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