The Better Leader Now
Immediate Change and Growth for Everyday Leadership
Leadership doesn’t happen on a whiteboard or in a planning meeting.
It happens when the business is struggling and when the business is strong. When the team is grinding through a rough stretch, and when everything is humming. In the conversation you’ve been avoiding. In the decision that cannot wait for more data. In the moment, you wonder whether you are truly leading your business or simply running it.
Those moments are where leadership is won or lost.
The Better Leader Now gives you one simple, repeatable method to show up better in those moments. To think clearer. React smarter. Lead with more intention. Starting now.
Not after the next training.
Not when conditions improve.
In the next moment that matters.
It really is that simple. We humans are the complex part. I will show you how to cut through that complexity and create immediate change and growth. Starting now.
ABOUT DOUG
Doug Fleener rebuilt his life and career from collapse to become Director of Retail at Bose Corporation and later a CEO — not through a slow transformation, but through one question that changed how he responded to every moment.
He is the author of Start With What If: 52 Weekly Questions to Spark Immediate Change and Growth and has spent decades studying what separates leaders who plateau from those who elevate in the moments that matter most.
Most keynotes send leaders home inspired.
This one sends them home different.
THE KEYNOTE
The Better Leader Now
Immediate Change and Growth for Everyday Leadership
Every leadership program makes the same promise:
Invest the time. Do the work. Eventually you’ll see results.
Eventually.
Doug Fleener is done with eventually.
Doug knows something about immediate change. He went from broke, out-of-work addict to Director of Retail at Bose Corporation — and eventually CEO of a national company — not through a slow transformation, but through one question that changed everything.
That question became a method.
That method became a discipline.
That discipline became a book.
And now it’s in the hands of leaders who are done waiting for growth to show up someday.
In this keynote, leaders don’t learn a new philosophy and go home to figure out how to apply it.
They learn one simple, repeatable method — and they use it before they leave the room.
On a real situation.
In their actual leadership life.
Right now.
That’s not how keynotes usually work.
Until this one.
Your leaders won’t just leave inspired.
They’ll leave equipped.
They’ll leave different.
This keynote is for leaders who are tired of leadership development that requires a runway.
Who want better results today — in their team, their culture, and themselves.
Not after the next quarter.
Not after the next training cycle.
Not after the next performance review.
Now.
Key takeaways: A simple, repeatable method to improve leadership actions and reactions in real time
The ability to create better options faster — even under pressure
A practical approach to handling difficult conversations, team friction, and high-stakes decisions
Immediate personal growth that strengthens both leadership effectiveness and character
A tool they’ll use that afternoon — and continue using for the rest of their career
A leadership shift that immediately impacts team performance and results
THE BOOK
Grounded in Start With What If
The Better Leader Now is built on the ideas from Doug's book Start With What If: 52 Weekly Questions to Spark Immediate Change and Growth — a practical guide to creating immediate change and growth in everyday moments.
The keynote brings those ideas directly into your leadership life.
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