Keynotes and Training
Global markets, resilient leadership, and navigating complexity in a connected world.
Whether delivering one of the listed keynotes or crafting a custom session for your audience,
MDW's network, experience and knowledge bring clarity, energy, and global insight to every stage.
Speaking and Keynote Topics
Global From the Start
How startups and small business ventures can identify global risks and embed operational procedures early to reduce compliance risk and access markets, talent, and capital worldwide. Globally ready ventures are attractive to investors and acquisition. Make sure you're Global from the Start.
Trade Policy Through Time: From Imperial Tariffs to Modern Tech Battles
Through a story-telling style, exploring how two centuries of global trade policy and trade wars—from colonial tariffs to today’s tech tensions—continue to shape markets, power dynamics, and trade policy.
Purposeful Pivots: Turning Uncertainty into Strategic Opportunity
Drawing from the leap from fed to founder and countless interactions with businesses, this talk explores how intentional pivots—made amid uncertainty—can unlock unexpected growth, with real stories of success, failure, and the choices that shape both.
Current Global Business Topics (Customized)
Tailored briefings on today’s international markets, global trade and compliance issues— global economic impacts, technology controls, tariffs, and global regulatory shifts, specific to your industry and organization.
