Keynotes, workshops, and offsites built from real world experience.
Everything I deliver comes from real coaching engagements with real companies. The examples are anonymized but the patterns are specific enough that half the room will think I've been reading their P&L.
Whether it's a 45-minute keynote for 500, a full-day growth workshop for 30, or a two-day leadership offsite for your executive team, the goal is the same: every person leaves with uncomfortable clarity about what's in the way and a framework for fixing it.
INQUIRE ABOUT AN EVENT
Choose the format that fits.
Keynote Speaking
45 TO 65 MINUTES | INTERACTIVE
High-energy talks for conferences, summits, CEO forums, and annual meetings. Real stories, real numbers, and at least one moment where it gets quiet.
Popular topics:
- The Friction Tax: What Growth Is Really Costing You
- The Decision You Keep Not Making
- When You Became the Bottleneck
- The Talent Paradox
Growth Workshops
HALF-DAY OR FULL-DAY | HANDS-ON
Facilitated working sessions where participants build real tools for their business. Everyone leaves with a completed framework, not just notes from a lecture.
Workshop topics (Scaling Up):
- One-Page Strategic Plan (OPSP)
- The Four Decisions: People, Strategy, Execution, Cash
- Meeting Rhythm Design
- Rockefeller Habits Health Check
- Cash Acceleration Strategies
Leadership Team Offsites
1 TO 2 DAYS | YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Facilitated planning sessions for your executive team. I come in, run the room, and leave you with an aligned team, clear priorities, and owners on everything.
Offsite sessions (Scaling Up):
- Annual Planning: BHAG, Priorities, and Rocks
- Quarterly Planning and Rock-Setting
- Seven Strata of Strategy
- Team Health and Five Dysfunctions Workshop
- FACe Org Diagnostic and Restructure
Who I work with.
I've spoken and facilitated for CEO forums, industry conferences, YPO and Vistage chapters, EO groups, private equity portfolio events, and company leadership retreats. The content adjusts to your audience, industry, and stage. The directness doesn't.
Conferences & Summits
Keynotes for 100 to 600. Industry events, annual meetings, national conferences.
CEO Peer Groups
YPO, Vistage, EO. 90-minute sessions: 30 minutes of talk plus 60 minutes facilitated discussion.
PE Portfolio Events
Operating partner summits and portfolio company leadership workshops.
Company Offsites
Your leadership team, your location, one or two days of focused planning and alignment.
Jeff Donaldson
Founder, Slipstream | Scaling Up Certified Coach
30 years of executive leadership at Coors Brewing Company, Crocs Footwear, and as founder of his own marketing agency. Works with founder-CEOs on leadership team alignment, profit optimization, and building businesses that don't depend on any one person to run.
Notable facilitation: led Basecamp Collective, a collaborative disaster relief effort coordinating 250 volunteers, four pop-up locations, 50+ brand partners, and distributing over $3M in product and cash to roughly 1,000 families.
Bring Slipstream to your next event.
Keynote, workshop, or full offsite. Tell me the audience, the goals, and the format and I'll build something your people will actually use.