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Leadership When the System Is Bigger Than You
Authority, accountability, execution, and practical leadership inside complex organizations.
Engagements That Help Leaders Navigate Complex Systems
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Larry works with audiences that need more than inspiration. His engagements help leaders understand authority, translate across institutional boundaries, and turn strategy into clear, measurable action.
What Audiences Gain
Clarity they can use after the event.
- A clearer understanding of authority, roles, and responsibilities
- Practical tools for turning strategy into measurable action
- A framework for leading across organizational and institutional boundaries
- Better language for explaining complex systems to employees, partners, and communities
Signature Topics
Ideas grounded in lived leadership.
Each engagement is shaped for the audience, institution, and outcome—not delivered as a generic speech.
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From Authority to Outcomes
How leaders clarify responsibility and authority, build trust, and move strategy into implementation.
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The Transition
Navigating identity change, civilian workplace readiness, career reinvention, and organizational onboarding.
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Governance That Actually Governs
Board-executive boundaries, oversight, discipline, and strategic accountability.
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Trust as Infrastructure
Why services can exist yet remain functionally inaccessible—and what leaders can do about it.
Across Sectors and Audiences
Military, government, higher education, healthcare, nonprofit, governance, and community leadership.
Larry connects experience across systems so audiences can recognize common institutional patterns, understand the stakes, and act with greater precision.
Selected Speaking Engagements
Past engagements and public appearances.
These completed engagements demonstrate Larry’s experience with varied audiences. Current booking options are listed above.
2023
Leadership Austin — Essentials ClassGuest Speaker
2023
UT Austin Black Health Professions Organization SymposiumKeynote Speaker
2023
Huston-Tillotson University Health Leadership AssociationGuest Speaker
2023
Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation Annual Grantee SummitGuest Speaker
2021
Texas State UniversityPanel: cumulative military trauma
2021
Generation Citizen — The Future of Democracy Is…Panelist
2021
City of Manor — Manor Politics: Run to WinModerator
2021
Dell — The History We Make JuneteenthPanelist
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