The Leader Other Leaders Call to Ignite Change

For over two decades, Curt has helped leaders in high-speed, high-stakes environments do the hardest thing in business: communicate clearly, stay connected, and lead like it matters.

From actual rocket science labs to executive boardrooms and from seed-stage startups to Fortune 100 giants, he’s helped leaders reset how their teams think, act, and show up. He’s led strategy at an aerospace startup, authored the best-selling Can I Have Your Attention?, delivered over 500 keynotes across four continents, and built messaging frameworks used by founders, public figures, and executive teams navigating real complexity.

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Curt's Journey

Business or Business School?

Curt almost went to Booth, but instead started his first company with $9K in revenue that first year, learning to build something real without a playbook.

Can I Have Your Attention?

Before AI took our attention, distraction did. This book launched a journey helping leaders understand that attention isn’t a soft skill—it’s the foundation of strategy, focus, and meaningful work.

Crossing the Generational Divide

Curt’s early work focused on bridging generational differences at work, helping organizations move past stereotypes to unlock the strengths each generation brings to the table.

It’s Rocket Science (Venus Aerospace)

At Venus, Curt led people strategy while their engineers designed engines to cross the Pacific in under two hours. Building rockets was one thing; building a culture that could move that fast without breaking was another. It taught him that when everything accelerates, human systems—not just technical systems—decide what’s possible.

What Curt Values

The fastest teams aren’t the ones with the best tools (yes, that includes AI). They’re the ones whose foundations are built on shared trust and relentless curiosity. They're the ones who don't burn out because the work feels like it matters. In a world built for exits, they choose the radical move to stick around and do the hard work together.

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Keynotes that Reset Performance

Curt’s talks aren’t designed to entertain—they’re built to provoke, galvanize, and align. Every keynote is built to meet the moment your team is in and the future you're navigating toward.

Exec Advisory that Moves Leaders Forward

Curt’s talks aren’t designed to entertain—they’re built to provoke, galvanize, and align. Every keynote is built to meet the moment your team is in and the future you're navigating toward.

Thought Leadership that Outlasts the Stage

Curt is the best-selling author of Can I Have Your Attention?, the field guide to leading in a distracted world. He writes regularly for Forbes on leadership, focus, and the future of work—and his podcast, Focus in Five, delivers practical insight in under 10 minutes.

Trust

Curiosity

Attention

Communication

The Human Advantage™

Curt has spent nearly the last 20 years helping leaders navigate the collision between human capability and technological acceleration.

He saw it coming. Before ChatGPT, before AI anxiety, before "prompt engineering" became a job title, Curt identified the deeper pattern: technology doesn't just change what we do—it changes how we think. Today, his frameworks for protecting human judgment while leveraging machine intelligence guide leaders through the question that defines our time: How do we use AI without losing our ability to think without it?

That work has opened numerous doors to work with some of the greatest companies and most effective leaders in the world.