Nathan Jamail | Keynote Speaker on Leadership, a Powerful Selling Mindset, and Building Winning Teams

Nathan Jamail

Keynote Speaker on Leadership, a Powerful Selling Mindset, and Building Winning Teams

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$35,000
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Austin, TX, US

Nathan Jamail
Biography

Nathan Jamail is a record-setting performer, CEO, Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at SMU’s Cox School of Business—where he has earned over 18 Teacher Excellence Awards - and bestselling author of multiple leadership and sales books- though he’ll tell you he’s not a writer—he’s a business leader who writes for leaders.

During his tenure as an Executive Director at a Fortune 100 company, Nathan built and led seven #1 producing teams across five states and Puerto Rico. He has also built, scaled, and sold multiple small businesses. That real-world performance—at both the corporate and entrepreneurial level—drives everything he teaches today.

For more than two decades, Nathan has coached and developed leaders on three continents and thousands worldwide. His coaching principles have become the leadership backbone for hundreds of organizations across manufacturing, finance, technology, communications, hospitality, and beyond.

In a business climate shaped by AI acceleration, economic uncertainty, and constant disruption, Nathan brings clarity and execution. He teaches leaders how to leverage technology without losing their edge, build accountability without sacrificing culture, and create teams that win because of discipline, ownership, and trust.

AI can automate. It can analyze. It can accelerate.
But it cannot replace real leadership.

Nathan shows organizations how to amplify human ingenuity —building connection, resilience, and IMPACT that technology simply cannot replicate.

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Featured Keynote Programs

Build to Win
The Mindset and Practices That Deliver Exceptional Results

It’s not the market that determines whether your organization succeeds. It’s the mindset and practices of your leaders and teams.

The organizations that outperform the competition aren’t more talented. They’re more disciplined, more practiced, and more aligned. They refuse to set “realistic” goals that shortchange their people and their potential. They don’t just see winning as an outcome—they see it as a mindset, one that shifts what they expect and what excuses they’re willing to accept.

In this culture-changing keynote, Nathan shows leaders how to foster a mindset where winning becomes expected and coaches their employees to higher levels of commitment, discipline, and performance. Leaders leave prepared to choose logical over realistic goals and equipped to build teams that believe in what they do, commit to the process, and practice the behaviors that drive exceptional results.
 

From Avoidance To Accountability
How Leaders Create Ownership, Raise Expectations, and Strengthen Performance

Today’s workforce desperately needs leaders who know how to set expectations and hold their team accountable. That’s where Nathan comes in.

Accountability is crucial to an organization’s success, yet many leaders struggle to maintain a high standard. They hesitate to challenge underperformance, tolerate excuses, and leave their teams floundering—unsure what’s expected and how to perform at their best.

In this keynote, Nathan shows leaders why accountability creates ownership, making it one of the most important things they can do for their people. Leaders learn how to hold others accountable without damaging relationships, create clear expectations, reinforce standards, and build a framework for elevating performance without fear or confusion.
 

Practice Makes Profit
Prepare for the Small Moments That Drive Big Growth

Every client interaction matters. So how do you make sure each sales conversation connects with your client? Practice.

Selling isn’t an innate ability—it’s a skill that needs to be developed. Yet many sales professionals and teams spend most of their time on process and product knowledge, with little time spent practicing the skills that actually drive performance.

In this high-impact, interactive keynote, Nathan challenges audiences to treat sales like the performance activity it is, even when it feels awkward. Through practical tools and real-time scrimmaging, teams learn how to elevate their skills, build confidence, and prepare for the small moments that determine the big outcomes.
 

Clarity Creates Trust
Why Your Team Deserves Clear Expectations and Hard Conversations

Trust is a competitive advantage. But leaders can’t demand trust or assume it will happen—they have to earn it. And that starts with clarity.

As expectations rise and information moves faster, leaders need their employees to trust them more than ever. Yet too often, leaders avoid difficult conversations, soften expectations, or allow unclear communication to create fear and confusion.

In this keynote, Nathan challenges leaders to stop confusing trust with silence and start creating clarity through proactive communication, courageous conversations, and clear expectations. Leaders learn practical tools for addressing difficult conversations, removing fear from engagement, and building a culture where trust strengthens performance.
 

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Featured Books

Serve Up, Coach Down: Mastering the Middle and Both Sides of Leadershipby Nathan Jamail

Serve Up, Coach Down: Mastering the Middle and Both Sides of Leadership

by Nathan Jamail

Shows leaders in the middle just how powerful they are without pretending that leading employees and reporting to bosses don't require different skills. It fills the gap between the books those leaders read and the information they actually need and answers the big questions that constantly confound leaders and their companies:

  • Why do leaders who care about their teams still struggle to gain their boss's approval?
  • Why do those same leaders who feel they serve their teams have so much difficulty getting teams to step it up and go beyond the basic requirements of their jobs?
  • Why do leaders have issues getting other divisions in the organization to do more, so that their teams don't have to do more than their share?

 

The answer: Leaders in the middle too often serve down to their people and defend up to their bosses, instead of serving up to their bosses and coaching down to their employees.

This is why so many companies struggle to innovate and get stuck--leaving everyone frustrated and looking for answers. Serve Up, Coach Down changes all that. Great leaders don't feed their people fish; they coach them on how to fish for themselves and then beat the competition by catching more fish. Those people in return serve their leaders and the people those leaders report to by delivering maximum performance for the organization. Achieving that performance, however, requires leaders in the middle to focus, have confidence, and commit to changing their mindsets.

The Sales Leaders Playbook by Jamail, Nathanby Nathan Jamail

The Sales Leaders Playbook by Jamail, Nathan

by Nathan Jamail
Success in sales takes talent, skills, discipline, practice, and most importantly, honesty with a genuine concern for the client. Most sales leaders know what to do; they just do not know how to make it real for their organization. This barrier keeps them mediocre at best. Experienced sales professional and entrepreneur, Nathan Jamail has developed a playbook of techniques and best practices, which have allowed hundreds of sales teams to find success in their selling. From creating an organizational belief system to taking the bullet for those you lead, The Sales Leaders Playbook focuses on how to build a winning team. Nothing in this book is theory; it is based on personal experiences learned throughout Nathan Jamail’s extensive sales career. The Sales Leaders Playbook is a book written for sales leader by a sales leader, designed to be straightforward, easy to read, and simple to understand. The ability to execute the skills and programs outlined requires effort. It takes a sales leader who is willing to hold a team accountable and more importantly, hold themselves accountable. Mastering these sales leadership skills will increase team morale, improve skills and abilities, improve communication, and increase sales and profits
The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teamsby Nathan Jamail

The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams

by Nathan Jamail

The successful self-published author of The Sales Leaders Playbook writes his first mainstream leadership book 

There are enormous differences between managing and coaching. Yet many companies and organizations encourage their leaders to coach teams without ever teaching them how and without creating a culture that supports coaching.

Nathan Jamail—a leading consultant, professional speaker, and the president of his own group of businesses—trains coaches at several Fortune 500 companies and learned that it takes not only different skills to achieve success, but a truly effective coach needs an organizational culture that creates and multiplies the success of every motivated team member. The Leadership Playbook shows leaders the skills necessary to be an effective coach and to build effective teams by:

  • Fostering employees’ belief in the culture of a company
  • Resolving issues proactively rather than reactively and creating an involvement that constantly pushes employees to be their best
  • Focusing on the more humane principles of leadership—gratitude, positivity, and recognition—that keep morale high
  • Holding teams and individuals accountable
  • Constantly recruiting talent ("building the bench") rather than filling positions only when they are empty

Combining research, interviews, and inspiring stories with the lessons that have earned Jamail the respect of the world’s foremost corporations including CISCO, FedEx, Sprint, the U.S. Army, and State Farm; The Leadership Playbook will dominate the category for years to come.

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