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.
Helping Leaders Compete in an AI-Driven World
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.
Great for leaders ready to connect with and elevate their team members' performance and create a high-performing, connected culture.
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' Growth 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.
What if your biggest threat isn’t failure—but the success you’ve already achieved?
You worked hard to reach your current level. The consistency, hunger, and attention to detail that got you here were relentless.
Then... it shifted.
Success brought praise. Comfort. Distraction. You stopped chasing what mattered and started performing for how it looked. Slowly, the very habits that fueled your rise began to fade - and you didn’t even notice it.
The Excellence Trap confronts this turning point head-on.
In this powerful and vulnerable keynote, Jake Thompson exposes how achievement can lull leaders into complacency. Drawing on real stories, including his own near-collapse building a business, Jake teaches your team to escape the performance plateau and build a foundation for sustained, long-term excellence.
Your audience will walk away with:
The Daily Ego vs. Improvement Choice – Understand how the need to look successful can block your ability to be successful
The “Boring Work” Advantage – Reframe unsexy routines as elite-level tools for sustainable growth
The Bamboo Principle – Focus on unseen foundations that create breakthrough results over time
Mindset Mastery Tools – Leverage self-talk and “yet” language to stay focused in seasons of slow growth or setback
Plateau-Busting Strategies – Identify stagnation early and deploy proven methods to rebuild momentum
Community Over Comparison – Shift from surface-level networking to deep support systems that fuel resilience and accountability
This keynote is a wake-up call for entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders who want to avoid becoming a one-hit wonder and instead build something that lasts.
If you’re ready to stop performing for others and start improving for yourself—this is where you begin again.
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.
Compete Smarter, Not Harder.
In a world of constant noise, shifting targets, and relentless pressure, most professionals waste their energy trying to control the uncontrollable.
That’s why they burn out.
The highest performers? They play a different game. They compete where it counts.
In Control the Controllables, Jake Thompson shows your team how to eliminate wasted motion and redirect their competitive energy toward what actually drives results: attitude, effort, habits, and focus.
Through relatable stories, tactical examples, and Jake’s battle-tested daily framework, your team will discover how to:
Master the Controllables – Focus only on what they can influence: mindset, effort, behaviors, and attention
Build Daily Momentum – Stack consistent wins using a repeatable execution plan that drives results over time
Lead with Clarity in Uncertainty – Communicate intentionally to create stability, engagement, and confidence across teams
Overcome Obstacles with Resilience – Recognize energy leaks and develop counter-strategies to stay productive under pressure
Compete with Purpose – Replace reactive “firefighting” with deliberate, value-driven action that creates sustainable separation
This program teaches a tactical playbook high-performers use to take back control in uncontrollable environments.
If your team is tired of spinning their wheels, it’s time to shift from frustration to focus. It’s time to Control the Controllables.
chief encouragement officers
lead influentially in an ai-driven world
Perfect for managers and executives who know their team has more to give but haven't unlocked it yet.
Learn to do what AI can never replicate.
Artificial intelligence can analyze data, automate tasks, and generate content faster than any human ever could. But here's what it can't do: genuinely encourage someone to push past their limits.
Connect authentically in a way that builds trust. Deliver feedback that actually changes behavior instead of just checking a box.
As AI handles more of the technical work, the leaders who win aren't the ones fighting against the technology - they're the ones doubling down on the irreplaceable human skills that drive real performance. Skills like connection. Communication. And yes, encouragement.
In this keynote, Jake Thompson breaks down why encouragement isn't a "soft skill" - it's a competitive advantage. Using the proven Influence Playbook framework, leaders will learn how to elevate their teams' performance through authentic connection and strategic communication that no algorithm can replicate. This isn't about working harder. It's about investing smarter in the one resource that actually moves the needle: your people.
If you want a team that competes at a higher level in an AI-driven world, you need to become their Chief Encouragement Officer.
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Trade affirmations and wishful thinking for an all-star program that sticks.
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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