Why do over 100 meeting planners hire Ty each year?

With over sixteen years of experience working with and speaking to people on all levels, Ty has developed a unique and effective process that improves human potential, puts healthy habits into action, and assists organizations and individuals to identify and Untie the Knots® for continuous peak performance and success.

Ty travels the globe speaking to corporations, associations, healthcare organizations, government agencies, colleges, universities, conferences, conventions, and private organizations about his practical, "knots free" approach to life and business. His trademarked style is dynamic, truthful, practical, interactive, fun, and entertaining. Ty wakes up, energizes, inspires, challenges, and empowers audience participants of all types to ascend to optimal results.

WARNING: Give Ty 30 minutes or more with your group — and the impact and take-home value (substance) of his program will have your people effectively communicating and working better as a productive team, inspired to do passionate and meaningful work, coping with and embracing change, and creating significant, competitive and desired outcomes daily.

Keynote Topics

Untie the Knots®
( Improving Habits, Choices, People, Relationships, Performance, and Results )

An organization or person tied-up in toxic knots becomes an organization or person destined to fail in one or several areas of business or life. Untie the Knots®: Improving Habits, Choices, People, Relationships, Performance, and Results is a dynamic wake-up call that addresses the countless challenges, obstacles, issues and toxic habits found inside most organizations and people today. This no-holds barred, get-real program will bring your audience a practical solutions based process that they can implement immediately to create positive improvements and significant real-life results.

Bring this powerful - interactive - keynote session to your organization or group, and discover the same transforming principles that have led hundreds of organizations, business leaders and their teams to the professional and personal optimal success they desired.

Available in Opening Keynote, Closing Keynote, General Session, Plenary Session, Convention, Team Building Conference, Customer Service Conference, Leadership Conference, Professional Development Conference, Staff Development Retreat, Association Event, General Population, Networking Meeting, and Vendor Appreciation Event formats

Untie the Knots® That Tie Up Your Life
( Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships )

A person tied-up in toxic knots becomes a person destined to fail in one or several areas of life. Untie the Knots® That Tie Up Your Life is a powerful wake-up call that addresses the countless challenges, obstacles, issues and toxic habits found inside most people today. This no-holds barred, get-real message will bring your audience a practical solutions based process that they can implement immediately to create positive improvements and significant real-life results.

There is no better time than the present to bring your group a dynamic and empowering program for gaining control of their lives and careers by breaking themselves free of negative baggage, building positive habits, and then turning them into actions to help them achieve their dreams.

Available in Motivational, Empowerment, Opening Keynote, Closing Keynote, General Session, Plenary Session, Convention, General Population, Networking Meeting, Specialty Group Meeting, Association, and Community Event formats

Untie the Knots®: A Prescription for C.H.A.N.G.E.
( Coping With Change From the Inside Out )

Change is constant, and it's impacting everyone. While you may not be able to change the circumstances around you, what you can change is your reaction to those circumstances. And sometimes that changes everything. This keynote presentation explores how to be a change-ambassador instead of a change-critic, thereby increasing your effectiveness. That means developing new and improved attitudes, habits, choices, and relationships. When those new attitudes, habits, choices, and relationships meet the skills and knowledge you already possess, anything is possible. After this inspirational and fun keynote session, you will welcome change and regard it as an opportunity to go from "a negative or stagnate workplace" to "a green and growing workplace".

Available in Motivational, Change Management, Leadership, and Staff Development formats

Untie the Knots®
( Improving Habits and Morale Inside the Workplace )

A person or organization tied-up in knots becomes a person or organization certain to fail in one or several areas of life or business. Untie the Knots®: Improving Habits and Morale Inside the Workplace is an energizing results focused keynote session that is customized to address the countless challenges, obstacles, issues, and toxic habits found inside many failing, stagnate, changing, successful, and leading organizations today. This no holds barred, get real session will bring your group a practical solutions based process that they can implement immediately on all levels of life and business.

The dynamic impact of this session has a proven track-record for improving performance, involvement, morale, leadership, teamwork, retention, work-life balance, and your bottom-line. Many of Ty's clients request Untie the Knots®: Improving Habits and Morale Inside the Workplace for their opening or closing session because this keynote address WILL set the tone for your meeting or conference — inspiring attendees to learn, network, and share best practices.

Available in Motivational, Staff Development, Leadership, Management, Sales, and Organizational Development formats

Building an Attitude of Excellence
(Creating & Showcasing a 'Green & Growing' Attitude That You and Others Enjoy)

There's nothing more draining, stagnate, derailing or stressful than having to work with, deal with or be a person who showcases a negative attitude day after day. Negative and toxic attitudes break down teams, make relationships fail, decrease productivity, demotivate enthusiastic peak performers, cause good employees to call out sick when they're not, and can create severe health issues if left unaddressed.

Excellence begins with attitude. A healthy and positive attitude is built and developed over time. Yet, a 'Green & Growing' attitude, resilient outlook—the kind that stays mentally tough and civil no matter what—takes ongoing training, self-reflection, repeat jump starts, and tireless practice.

Building an Attitude of Excellence brings to you the concrete, proven principles that will inspire you to make positive thinking, self-talk and behavior a permanent accepted habit in your life and work. It gives you the tools you need to revive your attitude with enthusiasm, focus, civility, purpose and passion to make it work for you on a daily basis rather than against you.

This is a dynamic, entertaining, funny, empowering and straightforward keynote session that will connect, relate to and inspire everyone in attendance to convert negative thinking into positive self-talk; moments of adversity into harmonious civil outcomes; stifled teamwork and relationships into new productivity and opportunities; setbacks and struggling days into peak performing 'A' Days; and successful and happy days into continuous 'Green & Growing' Days. Featuring 9 principles for living and working with a positive and resilient 'Green & Growing' Attitude of Excellence—this is the practical attitude wake-up, jump-start and boost we all need, time and time again.

Available in Excellence, Motivational, Excellence, Executive Development, Manager Development, and Staff Development formats

Leading with Confidence, Integrity, and by Example^TM
( Becoming A Leader People Want to Follow )

Leadership is a critical skill that every professional should possess to be successful in today's work environment. Developing into an "Influential and Effective Leader" goes beyond traditional assessments of your qualities and application of those results. In this empowering, high-energy and interactive keynote session, Ty uses personal anecdotes, motivation, inspiration, research on top leaders, humor, and fun to awaken the spirit of confidence, ethical leadership, and leading by example.

Leading with Confidence, Integrity and by Example builds on insights that will help you uncover your mind-set, develop the passion you possess toward leadership, and consequently empower you to influence and empower others to continuously perform at their peak. This session will teach you empowerment skills you can apply to enhance your leadership skills. Recognizing who you are as a person is only the first step to developing into an influential and effective leader. This session is THE next step in your leadership development journey.

Available in Motivational, Leadership, Management, and New Supervisor formats

Service Excellence Through Personal Excellence
( Igniting Purpose, Passion, and Performance )

This dynamic keynote session shares effective ways to work easily with others to create a more pleasant work environment and work relationships. Through relatable stories and anecdotes you will learn ways to better communicate with customers in person and over the phone. You will also learn helpful skills for dealing with angry customers, tactics for keeping your composure under stress, and much more. Ty draws from his personal research on what is working in companies across America as well as what is working within your company. As a result of his focus on quality relationships and service excellence, he will inspire your group to begin their improvement process from within. Leaving everyone on a personal commitment path to do better, achieve more, and reach new levels of professional and personal 'service excellence' daily.

Available in Motivational, Professional Development, Leadership, Customer Service, Sales, and Support Staff Professionals formats

You Have to F.O.C.U.S. and S-T-R-E-T-C-H for Continuous Success^TM
( What's Required for YOU to Stay or Become #1 )

Success is more than being good at what you do; it's about staying and being consistently cutting-edge. Ty helps people to understand why their products, services and relationships -- or in some cases, those of their competitors -- are number one. You cannot spell SUCCESS without "U". We've all heard the importance of "best practices" and superior knowledge. So why aren't the smartest people or most informed organizations always in charge? Or number one in their industry? This keynote provides original research on managing expectations and emotions, and shares what is required to stay or become number one.

Available in Motivational, Sales, Leadership, Management, and Customer Service formats

Tying Into A Better YOU^TM
( Spending Time With the Person You Want to Become, and
     Becoming the Improved Person You'll Enjoy to Be )

In this dynamic, insightful, timely, interactive and fun keynote session, Ty uses facts, case studies, personal stories, group exercises, motivation, inspiration and music to communicate the importance of taking special care of "self" in order to make your best efforts better daily. He encourages you to continuously strive to perform at the highest level possible in whatever you do. Here is where you will learn sound strategies on how to nurture and keep both mind and body in a green and growing state for better health, achievement, life-balance, and prosperity. Prepare to increase / re-capture your passion for meaningful work and significant living. And prepare for "A Better YOU" moving forward!

* This is the ultimate "Work/Life Balance," "Stress Management,"
"Personal Improvement" and "Performance Improvement"
presentation—all wrapped into one.

Available in Motivational, Balancing Work & Life, Stress Management, Personal Improvement, Performance Improvement, Staff Development, and All Women's or Men's Group / Conference formats

Excelling in Teamwork
( Anything You Can Do — WE Can Do Better! )

Is your team moving forward together or inundated with conflict? Do your team meetings consist more of bickering than collaborating? Do you have some team members who are everyday peak performing superstars, while others do just enough to get by?

Winning teams do not just happen, they are created by committed leaders and team players who’ve learned how to motivate, inspire and guide their productive efforts to individual and organizational successes. Ty Howard's Excelling in Teamwork - action learning keynote / general session - shares awareness and strategies in the areas of teamwork, team dynamics, team problem-solving, and team decision-making. The structural and behavioral dimensions of building and leading an effective work team, task force or group are fully explored. He skillfully combines a highly substantive team building curriculum with ongoing indoor fun and safe team building activities to spark participant curiosity, motivation, trust, honest communication, and commitment to apply and practice individual and group learning gains immediately.

You will also learn what it takes to develop leadership skills applicable to creating successful self-directed work teams, employee participation teams, interdepartmental task groups, and other group situations where combined efforts are needed to reach optimal team performance and desired outcomes.

Available in Motivational, Staff Development, Small, Medium or Large Work Teams Development, Training & Development Programs, and Company Retreats / Conference formats

Untie the Knots® of Diversity
( Embracing and Celebrating Diversity / Multiculturalism Inside the Workplace )

Understanding the factors that move organizational diversity forward—or hold it back—can make the difference between success or failure. In this dynamic keynote session, Ty Howard shares the enablers and barriers (toxic knots) of organizational diversity. He encourages and explains to your group the importance of creating a workplace that is aware of and respects the broad spectrum of human diversity, which is imperative for optimal results. For even the most committed organizations, it is important to lay the groundwork for a successful process by examining areas of need and developing a clear definition of diversity that the organization can embrace as an achievable goal. Special emphasis is placed on linking diversity to your organization’s strategic business objectives, its marketplace, and long-term sustained culture change. Participants will walk away with an increase understanding of diversity, and begin the process for dialogue, working together productively, and ultimately celebrating a diverse workplace that is welcoming, harmonious, fair and progressive.

Untie the Knots® of Diversity is a great fit for the closing or opening keynote message for any organization’s Diversity Day / Retreat Program—it’s insightful, fun, interactive, dynamic and entertaining!

Available in Motivational, Leadership, Management, New Supervisor, and
Staff Development formats

Re-Capturing and Re-Igniting Your PASSION
( Going from Burned Out to Re-Fired Up to Doing Meaningful Work )

In today’s dismal economy; coupled with downsizing, layoffs, organizational restructuring, cut budgets, fixed budgets, hiring freezes, team issues, customer service issues, quality control issues, time management challenges, having to wear many hats, having to do more with less, and having to overcome one challenge after another—it’s not uncommon to read or hear about the millions of employees inside organizations across the nation who have lost their passion for the work that they do. The talented, motivated, winners you hired have become unmotivated and burned out.

Re-Capturing and Re-Igniting Your PASSION is an interactive, fun and energizing keynote session for professionals on all levels and in all career fields! Where others might see burn out and average work as being the new norm, Ty sees a ripe opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the talented, motivated, winners you originally hired. Ty believes, "To Re-Capture and Re-Ignite one’s PASSION is not about balancing or multitasking; it’s about making true life changes that result in the renewal of passion. It’s about inspiring and coaching employees on all levels to embrace and practice a process that will have them re-fired up and re-committed to doing meaningful work. When this occurs, a work environment of passionate and meaningful work will soon become the norm, again."

Available in Motivational, Leadership, Management, New Supervisor, and
Staff Development formats

Untie the Knots®: Staying Inspired & Thriving in a Dismal Economy
( Coping with Change and Keeping the RIGHT Attitude )

A person or organization tied-up in knots becomes a person or organization certain to fail / struggle in one or several areas of life or business. Untie the Knots®: Staying Inspired and Thriving in a Dismal Economy is an energizing results focused keynote session that is customized to address the countless challenges, obstacles, issues, and toxic habits found inside many failing, stagnate, changing, successful, and leading organizations today. This no holds barred, get real session will bring you inspiration and practical strategies to implement immediately on all levels of life and business for thriving and innovated results in a dismal economy.

The dynamic impact of this session has a proven track-record for improving turbulent and uncertain times, performance, involvement, morale, leadership, teamwork, retention, work-life balance, innovation, sales, and your bottom-line.

Available in Motivational, Leadership, Management, New Supervisor, and
Staff Development formats

Untie the Knots® of Selling in a Tough Economy
( Turning Stagnate Sales Professionals into Consistent Peak Performers )

Available in Motivational, Sales Training & Development, Sales Management, Sales Executives & Leaders, and Sales Retreat or Conference formats

You Make The Difference!
( Your Efforts and Contributions Are Greatly Appreciated!!! )

In this dynamic, motivational, entertaining and inspiring keynote session, Ty helps you to recognize and award deserving people or teams who "Make The Difference" through what they do to help the organization succeed. He carefully selects the right words, stories, quotations and appropriate clean humor to express your sincere recognition and appreciation. This keynote is a perfect fit for teams who have recently accomplished a big goal; volunteers who give their time and service; employee recognition and awards programs; annual staff appreciation day programs; and end of year recognition and service awards banquets.

You Make The Difference, delivered by Ty Howard as your keynote speaker, will show and communicate to your employees, teammates, and all being recognized and rewarded that their hard work, passion, commitment, productivity, efforts and contributions to the organization are Greatly Appreciated, and that you truly care enough to recognize them publicly. This message also encourages everyone in attendance to make their best better, build an attitude of excellence, improve morale, and achieve more goals moving forward.

Available in Motivational, Employee Award & Recognition, Volunteering, and Staff Development formats

Unleash the R.E.A.L. Dad in YOU^TM
( A R.E.A.L. Dad Makes a BIG Difference!!! )

In this empowering, motivational, inspiring, high-energy and interactive keynote / workshop session, Ty Howard uses personal stories, relatable humor, extensive participation, music and fun to awaken the spirit of fatherhood and male socialization. Ty believes that although every man can be called to be a father, knowing how to be a R.E.A.L. Dad is not automatic. Fathers must understand the characteristics and master the skills of positive and healthy fatherhood in order to fulfill the role of a caring, accountable and loving Dad. A R.E.A.L. Dad steps up daily to exhibit positive qualities of learning, leadership, integrity, responsibility, accountability, involvement, role modeling, coaching, mentoring, discipline, love, and care. Unleash the R.E.A.L. Dad in YOU^TM provides 9 key principles and insights that will teach you how to fulfill the role of a positive, healthy, reliable, caring and loving Dad in your personal sphere of influence.

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Available in Motivational, Inspirational, Keynote, General Session, Fatherhood Development Training, Fatherhood Workshop, Speakers on Fatherhood, Fatherhood Motivational Speakers, and Fatherhood Focus Group formats

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6400 Baltimore National Pike, Suite 134
Baltimore, Maryland 21228
Phone: (443) 982-7582
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