Speaking & executive events
Bring the thinking behind PDM to your leaders.
01Keynote themes
Keynote themes
- 01
The decision-maker behind the decision
Why intelligent, experienced leaders still make poor decisions — and what changes when the person deciding becomes visible.
The audience leaves with
- The decision vs the decision-maker
- The eight invisible inner forces
- Making them visible & manageable
- 02
Making decisions is good. Creating decisions is better.
From choosing between presented options to creating better ones. The shift from reactive decision-making to proactive decision creation.
The audience leaves with
- Why reactive decisions are constrained
- Reframing before choosing
- Mindset and the perimeter of options
- 03
Experience can guide us — and trap us
Experience gives confidence, but does not guarantee good judgement. A provocative look at how expertise narrows what leaders see.
The audience leaves with
- Familiarity is not similarity
- Updating the mind’s working patterns
- Never the same river
- 04
Decisiveness: clarity under pressure
Decisiveness stems from clarity about priorities. Indecision is fog. What leaders need when the heat is on.
The audience leaves with
- Priorities as the engine of decisiveness
- Accepting the trade-off
- Good enough can be great
02Formats & audiences
For rooms where decisions are made.
The keynote lecture
90 minutes.
One provocative PDM idea, for leadership events, conferences and executive gatherings. Teams that want to go further can follow with a 4-hour mini workshop.
All PDM engagements →Formats
- Keynotes
- Leadership events
- Conferences
- Executive sessions
Audiences
- CEOs and executive teams
- Boards and directors
- HR and leadership-development leaders
- Banks and financial institutions
- Universities and business schools
- High-stakes organizations
03For speaker bureaus & organizers
Easy to represent.
Short biography
David Solomon is the founder and creator of PDM — Professional Decision-Making. For more than thirty years he has worked in organizational consulting and executive development with leaders at IBM, Arrow Electronics, Nova and Unilever, with thousands of bank managers, and with Israeli Air Force combat pilots and military commanders. He is the author of “I Decide”.
Introduction (read aloud)
“Our next speaker has spent more than thirty years asking why capable leaders still make poor decisions. He is the founder and creator of Professional Decision-Making. Please welcome David Solomon.”
Press kit
- Short and long biographyOn request
- Headshots (high resolution)On request
- Stage photographyOn request
- Speaking reelOn request
- Speaker one-sheetOn request
Invite Davidto your stage.
For executive teams, boards, universities, conferences and leadership events.