Speaking
Patrick leverages behavioral science, business strategy, motivation, and humor to show audiences how to trade FOMO for focus.
At a time when technological disruption, geopolitical instability, and the rise of AI create constant uncertainty, Patrick’s work centers on how to make decisions with greater clarity no matter what the world throws at you.
Keynotes & Workshops
From FOMO to Focus: Decisive Leadership in the Age of FOMO
Every bad strategic decision Patrick has ever studied had one thing in common: someone in the room was more afraid of missing out than of being wrong.
FOMO isn’t just a social media problem; it’s the hidden engine behind asset bubbles, speculative mergers, and the strategic pivots that looked like leadership at the time and looked like panic six months later.
This keynote gives leaders a framework to recognize when fear is driving the decision before it’s too late to change course. It’s one of Patrick’s most requested leadership keynote speaking topics.
Subject areas: Leadership, Decision-Making, Technology
Formats: Keynote, workshop, fireside chat
FOMOAI: Use the Machine. Trust Yourself. Fear Neither.
The question most organizations are asking about AI is whether they’re moving fast enough.
The question they should be asking is: toward what? FOMOAI, the fear that if you don’t act on AI immediately, you’ll be left behind forever, is producing some of the most expensive, least strategic decisions in business right now.
Patrick isn’t selling AI hype. He’s applying the same framework that explained FOMO to give leaders a clear, repeatable way to tell the difference between strategic AI adoption and panic-driven spending.
Subject areas: Decision-Making, Strategy, Technology
Formats: Keynote, workshop, fireside chat
This Is Your Brain on FOMO
FOMO doesn’t feel like fear when you’re inside it. It feels like urgency, like everyone else has figured something out that you haven’t gotten to yet.
This keynote goes inside the psychology of distraction and compulsive connection.
Patrick shows audiences exactly what’s happening in their own minds, using the same psychological lens he developed, naming FOMO twenty years before anyone else was talking about it, and gives them practical tools to stay centered.
Subject areas: Decision-Making, Mental Health, Technology
Formats: Keynote, workshop, fireside chat
The Paradox of Plenty: The Fear of Never Enough
FOBO, Fear of a Better Option, is what happens when too many good choices produce no choice at all.
Talented people stay in jobs they’ve outgrown because something better might be coming. Great deals die in committee because nobody wants to be the one who commits too early. The best option sometimes never gets chosen because choosing means closing every other door.
Based on Patrick’s TED Talk and his research into decision-making under uncertainty, this session shows how to recognize FOBO in real time and faster decision-making without waiting for perfection.
Subject areas: Leadership, Decision-Making, Psychology
Formats: Keynote, workshop, fireside chat
All Marketing Is FOMO
Before FOMO was a hashtag, it was a marketing strategy. Every campaign that has ever made someone feel like they were missing something was engineered around the same psychological principle Patrick named in 2004.
This keynote decodes the FOMO Persuasion Model™, giving marketers a repeatable framework for building cultural relevance and audience loyalty that survives algorithm changes, the same model behind some of the most successful campaigns of the last decade.
Subject areas: Sales & Marketing, Decision-Making
Formats: Keynote, workshop, fireside chat
The 10% Entrepreneur: Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Most people who want to build something never do, but the idea is usually there. What stops them is the belief that starting requires betting everything on being right.
The 10% Entrepreneur is built on a different premise: that the best entrepreneurial thinking happens when the downside is manageable enough to let you think clearly.
Based on Patrick’s bestselling book and his own experience building a portfolio of ventures while keeping a full-time career, this keynote shows leaders and their teams how to build an entrepreneurial mindset without the kind of pressure that distorts judgment.
Subject areas: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Growth
Formats: Keynote, workshop, fireside chat
Also in SPANISH and PORTUGUESE
Executive Coaching for Leaders
Who Make Decisions That Matter
Patrick works one-on-one with founders, executives, and leadership teams as the co-founder of The xQuotient, his executive coaching practice.
He’s been an investor, a public company board member, and an operator himself, so he understands the opportunities and the stakes behind every decision.
Most leaders don’t just struggle to know what to do. They struggle to say it in a way that cuts through, to investors, to boards, to clients, and gets them to act.
Patrick helps leaders sharpen that message and build the kind of conviction that moves people, and moves the business forward.