NOT YOUR STEREOTYPICAL MOTIVATIONAL PROGRAM
All killer. No filler.
Jake Thompson’s high-energy, coach-like delivery and actionable content make his speaking programs a defining moment for teams and organizations across every industry. Built around Jake’s Compete Every Day framework, each program has a unique focus, but common thread—equipping sales teams, athletes, executives, and leaders with the mental edge and daily habits that get results.
The Competitor Series:
The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything
The Daily Execution Plan for Relentless Growth
The Secret To Staying on Top Without Burning Out
Make the Jump From Manager to Impactful Leader
Compete Smarter. Not Harder.
Great for teams and organizations needing a complete mindset reset and cultural shift.
Great for performance-driven individuals and teams seeking practical execution systems.
Great for successful teams, entrepreneurs, and business owners that have plateaued or are at risk of complacency.
Great for new managers and established leaders looking to improve their influence and skills.
Great for business owners, entrepreneurs, and service professionals facing industry volatility and constant distractions.
Compete Every Day
The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything
Great for teams and organizations needing a complete mindset reset and cultural shift.
✔ Rewire your mindset. Focus on the process of competition instead of uncontrollable outcomes; both today’s you and tomorrow’s you will thank you.
✔ Identify key competitors. Spot internal and external competition, and how you can strategically battle them with daily habits and grit.
✔ Build grit through daily disciplines. Use the SSC framework to guarantee weekly improvement through small, consistent actions.
✔ Transform teammates into competitive advantages. Leverage the "cheat code" of relationships & accountability to accelerate growth while competing internally
Most teams are competing in the wrong game.
They measure themselves against rankings, approvals, last year's numbers - anything outside themselves. So they drift between three dangerous patterns: protecting their ego by only taking safe goals, avoiding risk to look perfect, or completely giving up competing altogether.
The cost? Teams that should dominate are stuck performing instead of pursuing. Leaders who could breakthrough are busy managing how they look rather than pushing their limits. You can protect your ego or you can push your limits. You can't do both.
Through raw stories of failure and breakthrough (including his own), Jake exposes the gap between caring about how good you look versus caring about how much better you get. Elite performers cracked a code that changes everything - they stopped competing for approval and started competing for improvement.
In this keynote, your team will discover how to win the game that actually matters: competing with yesterday's version of themselves.
1. COMPETE WITH YOURSELF - Redirect your team's competitive energy from external validation to internal improvement. Stop performing for approval and start pursuing potential by making daily choices to compete with intention rather than drift toward default outcomes.
2. CONTROL THE CONTROLLABLES - Master what's actually in your power: attitude, effort, and actions. Your team will learn the Start/Stop/Continue framework to guarantee weekly improvement through the small, consistent disciplines that separate those who drift from those who compete. They’ll understand how to build grit and create small competitive advantages over your market’s competition.
3. COLLABORATE WITH PEERS - Unlock the competitive advantage hiding in plain sight: your teammates. Community isn't optional for reaching potential - it's required. Your team will discover how to leverage others as a "cheat code" to accelerate growth while still competing internally.
This isn't another motivational talk that fades by Tuesday morning. This is a practical framework your team will use Monday that turns insight into action. No fluff. No generic platitudes. Just real talk about the daily choices that create separation.
Perfect for teams ready to stop performing for others and start pursuing their potential.
Beat Yesterday™
The Daily Execution Plan for Relentless Growth
Great for performance-driven individuals and teams seeking practical execution systems.
✔ Get Clear On Your Game: Stop wasting energy competing in the wrong arena. Identify the specific game worth playing and redirect competitive energy from meaningless battles to the competition that actually matters: yesterday's version of yourself.
✔ Find the 'Right' Rode Models: Use comparison strategically by studying people just 3% ahead instead of drowning in the gap between you and world-class performers. Extract actionable lessons from achievable targets rather than creating insurmountable motivation killers.
✔ Own Your Progress: Take full responsibility for where you are to improve where you're going. Stop blaming circumstances and start leveraging the only three things you actually control: attitude, effort, and actions.
✔ Build Daily Review Systems: - Master the nightly and weekly reflection protocols that turn setbacks into separation and drift into discipline. Establish a feedback loop that ensures consistent improvement over time.
What if everything you've been taught about reaching the top is exactly what's keeping you stuck in the middle?
Your team has been sold a lie - that being THE best is the path to success, fulfillment, and happiness. So they spend their careers trapped in comparison quicksand, measuring themselves against others' highlights while their own potential drowns in anxiety, self-doubt, and the constant feeling of falling behind.
The cost shows up everywhere. Leaders who won't take risks because they might look imperfect. High-performers grinding toward goals they don't actually want. Teams stuck in the comparison trap, their competitive energy leaking into LinkedIn scrolling instead of real growth.
Most people think comparison is the enemy. They're wrong.
Comparison isn't the problem - confusion is. When you're clear about your game, confident in your process, and committed to your progress, comparison transforms from your greatest enemy into your most powerful growth tool.
Through stories of hitting rock bottom while building his first company ($50K in debt, creditors calling daily), Jake reveals the three comparison traps that keep talented people spinning their wheels: Always Behind, Never Enough, and Why Bother. Then he exposes the shift elite performers make - they stopped obsessing over being THE best and started pursuing being THEIR best.
In this research-backed keynote, your team will discover how to leverage comparison as fuel rather than letting it paralyze their performance.
The excellence trap
WHY GETTING THERE KEEPS YOU FROM STAYING THERE
Great for successful teams, entrepreneurs, and businesses that have plateaued or are at risk of complacency.
✔ Spot the success trap. Identify the sneaky ways success can cause stagnation and how to avoid falling into autopilot mode.
✔ Master the boring work. Reframe the “unsexy” daily tasks as your biggest competitive advantage and the key to sustained growth.
✔ Refocus on what works. Learn how to audit your business habits to ensure you’re doubling down on the proven actions that drive results.
✔ Break the plateau. Discover strategies to reignite momentum, strengthen grit, maintain discipline, and continuously scale, no matter how long you’ve been in the game.
Your audience is trapped in a focus crisis that's silently destroying their potential for sustained success. Every day, they make an unconscious choice that determines their trajectory: they either focus on building their ego or strive to improve, but they can't do both. So they chase external validation, get distracted by shiny objects, and compare themselves to others' highlight reels while neglecting the boring, daily work that actually builds lasting success.
Meanwhile, they're caught in the performance paradox that kills most careers: the very things that promise quick wins are precisely what prevent long-term excellence.
What if the biggest barrier to sustained peak performance isn't lack of talent or opportunity - it's where your attention is channeled? What if the difference between one-hit wonders and career champions isn't what they do, but what they choose to focus on every single day?
Through raw, vulnerable storytelling - including his own journey through crushing debt, dark thoughts, and near-business failure - Jake exposes how the focus on looking successful actually prevents becoming successful. You’ll discover tools to shift your focus from outcomes beyond your control to processes you can master - every single day.
The Influence Playbook
Make the Jump From Manager to Impactful Leader
Great for new managers and established leaders looking to improve their influence and skills.
✔ Build the components of effective leadership. From trust to communication to influence, lay the groundwork for becoming a better leader.
✔ Connect with your team’s hearts. Learn Jake’s top tips for building authentic relationships with your team that connect with who they are and what motivates them.
✔ Discover the common traps. Identify the everyday mistakes (big and small) that undermine impactful leadership, and learn how to avoid them.
✔ Go from manager to coach. Get tactical strategies for mentoring your team and pushing them to be better, without micromanaging or killing morale.
Many organizations have a leadership development problem that nobody wants to admit. Every day, we promote talented individual contributors into management roles and expect them to magically transform into effective leaders.
The outcome? 60% of new leaders fail within their first two years—not because they lack potential, but because they were never taught the fundamentals.
Leadership isn't an intuitive skill - it's a learned craft built on specific fundamentals most people are never taught. What if the leadership crisis isn't about finding better people, but about building better systems? What if the difference between managers who struggle and leaders who thrive isn't natural talent, but mastery of relationship fundamentals?
While others hope new managers will "figure it out," the leaders Jake Thompson works with systematically build relationship accounts, master communication, and focus on developing people rather than managing tasks.
Through personal stories from his family's gas station business and real-world examples from leaders who've transformed their teams, Jake reveals the four foundational pillars every leader must master and provides practical frameworks that transform task management into people development.
control the controllables
compete smarter. not harder.
Great for business owners, entrepreneurs, and service professionals facing industry volatility and constant distractions.
✔ Master the Controllables. Identify and maximize the four factors always within your control: attitude, effort, habits, and focus.
✔ Build Daily Momentum. Create a simple, repeatable plan that stacks small wins into sustained progress.
✔ Lead with Clarity. Apply intentional communication strategies to keep teams engaged and focused during uncertainty.
✔ Overcome Obstacles with Confidence. Recognize common derailers and develop strategies to stay resilient under pressure.
✔ Compete with Purpose. Shift from reactive firefighting to proactive, purposeful action that multiplies results.
Success isn't about working more hours—it's about directing your energy where it actually moves the needle. Every day, leaders invest time and effort chasing results, but most are spinning their wheels on things outside their control.
This keynote will teach you to identify and dominate the four critical controllables that separate high performers from everyone else. You'll walk away with a proven daily framework that creates consistent momentum without the burnout. Stop reacting to what happens to you. Start controlling what happens next.
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Craft a fully customized leadership performance program to get your people laser-focused on the key habits that change everything. Signature programs include keynotes, workshops, executive coaching, and all the gear to keep your team competing long after the event wraps.
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