Anti-Complacency Leadership Performance International Keynote Speaker 4x Published Author 500+ Keynotes Podcast Host Compete Every Day Founder
What I Do Now
I help organizations diagnose and interrupt drift before it erodes their competitive edge.
I've delivered 500+ keynotes across four core industries — sales, construction, pharmaceutical, and insurance — for organizations done with one-day inspiration and ready for frameworks that actually stick.
My clients include Pfizer, Deloitte, Genentech, the Associated General Contractors of America, Titleist Golf, and WestRock. I've spoken at national sales summits, annual leadership conferences, association events, and executive retreats.
Clients tell me the same thing: my frameworks survive the flight home. They close the gap between what their teams know and what they actually do.
My CSP® designation — Certified Speaking Professional — is held by fewer than 700 speakers worldwide. It's the speaking industry's highest earned credential for professional competence and impact. I'm a four-time author and the host of a podcast that's been downloaded over two million times. I also hold an MBA and a Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certification.
I'm also a proud dog dad to four rescue Frenchies, all named after desserts — Donut, Snacks, Cookie, and Pop-Tart. (Elena gets the credit for that.)
I help leaders fight drift before it costs them what they've already won.
But I wasn't always the one diagnosing it. I was the one drifting.
In my late 20s, I hit what I now call my first drift season. Not a crash. Not a public failure. Just slow, comfortable decline. Overweight. Going through the motions. Saying yes to things I should've said no to. Building a life that looked fine from the outside and felt hollow from the inside.
That's the dangerous thing about drift. It doesn't announce itself. It feels like rest. It feels like maintenance. Until one day you look up and realize you've been moving backward for two years.
I started competing again — not against anyone else, just against who I was yesterday. Got back in the gym. Devoured everything I could find on mindset, habits, and human performance. People in my circle started noticing the change and asking how they could do the same.
That conversation became Compete Every Day.
I started the brand in 2011, $60,000 in debt, selling t-shirts out of the trunk of my car. Fifteen years later, it's a 7-figure performance brand worn by leaders in 62 countries — and the foundation for every keynote I've delivered since.
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Jake, I deeply appreciate every message, email, podcast, books, and clothing that you make. Your encouraging positivity with a dash of ‘get your butt in gear’ helps me so much. I feel that you are my distant coach for all hard things in my life. I am stronger and healthier with you in my corner. Thank you. -joy
I know the burden of regret. The weight of fear. The ache of wondering what if. But I also know the power we each hold to overcome it — with the right mindset and a relentless focus on the right things.
My why today is simple: it's you, even if we've never met.
I wake up every morning to make a deposit into people who choose to compete in a society that loves to drift. We only get one shot at this. I refuse to let anyone else carry the regret I once did.
A life worth living is always worth competing for. This is why I compete.
This is why
I compete
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