Executive & Leadership Teams
Connect strategy, profitability, working capital, operational discipline, and leadership decisions to the performance of the entire business.
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SPEAKING & TRAINING
Distribution Expertise.
Built for the Room.
Keynotes, workshops, and leadership programs that connect the realities of wholesale distribution with the strategies, disciplines, and decisions that drive profitable growth.
Bring Colin to Your EventPRACTICAL BY DESIGN
More Than a Presentation.
Something People Can Use.
The best industry education doesn't just sound good in the room. It changes what people do when they get back to work.
Colin brings the perspective of a distribution practitioner, former executive, consultant, researcher, and university educator to every audience. The result is content grounded in the way distributors actually make money, serve customers, manage inventory, lead people, and execute.
Whether the audience is made up of executives, branch managers, sales professionals, purchasing teams, or emerging leaders, the goal is the same: make complex business ideas understandable, relevant, and immediately useful.
BUILT FOR DISTRIBUTION
One Industry.
Many Rooms.
Branch Managers
Help branch leaders understand how daily decisions around sales, margin, inventory, productivity, and people affect branch profitability.
Sales Professionals
Build a stronger understanding of pricing, gross margin, customer profitability, value, and the economics behind profitable growth.
Purchasing & Supply Chain Teams
Turn forecasting, replenishment, safety stock, inventory investment, and purchasing disciplines into practical operating decisions.
Emerging Leaders
Give the next generation a broader view of how a distribution business works—and how decisions across functions connect.
Associations & Industry Events
Deliver distribution-specific content with the energy of a keynote and the practical depth of someone who works inside the industry every week.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Talk About What
Actually Drives the Business.
Programs can be delivered as keynotes, workshops, executive sessions, or customized training and can be tailored to the audience and objectives of the event.
01
Leading a Profitable Distribution Business
How leaders connect customers, pricing, inventory, working capital, operations, people, and execution to profitable growth.
02
Protecting Gross Profit
Move beyond margin percentages and help teams understand pricing discipline, customer profitability, overrides, and the decisions that quietly erode profit.
03
Inventory Is an Investment
Help teams see inventory through both the customer-service and financial lenses—availability, forecasting, replenishment, turns, and working capital.
04
Better Analytics. Better Decisions.
Teach leaders how to move beyond reporting and use data, KPIs, exceptions, and business intelligence to focus attention and improve decisions.
05
Operational Discipline
Explore the routines, measures, accountability, and execution habits that separate consistently strong distributors from everyone else.
06
Custom Distribution Programs
Build a program around the organization's priorities, audience, market, leadership challenges, or strategic initiatives.
FROM THE STAGE
Experience That
Connects With the Audience.
Colin's speaking and education work spans national distribution associations, industry conferences, distributor leadership teams, executive groups, and university classrooms.
The credibility comes from more than knowing the material. It comes from having made the decisions, led the teams, worked through the problems, studied the business, and continuing to work alongside distributors today.
THE STANDARDPractical.
Relevant.
Immediately
Useful.
Relevant.
Immediately
Useful.
Ideas people can take back to the business and use Monday morning.
THE DIFFERENCE
Not a Talking Head.
A Distribution Practitioner Who Teaches.
Colin doesn't step away from consulting to talk about distribution. The speaking is an extension of the work.
That means the examples, questions, and lessons are informed by what distributor leadership teams are dealing with right now—from profitability and pricing to inventory, analytics, leadership, and execution.
Academic rigor adds depth. Executive experience adds perspective. Ongoing consulting keeps it grounded in reality.
ENGAGEMENT FORMATS
Built Around the Audience.
KEYNOTES
High-impact sessions that challenge thinking, connect the business, and leave audiences with clear actions.
WORKSHOPS
Interactive programs that go deeper into the tools, concepts, and decisions behind stronger performance.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Customized education for executive teams, branch leaders, emerging leaders, and functional groups.
ASSOCIATION PROGRAMS
Distribution-specific content designed for member education, conferences, academies, and industry events.
BRING COLIN TO YOUR AUDIENCE
What Should Your People
Be Better At Tomorrow?
Tell me about the audience, the event, and what you're trying to accomplish. We'll shape a program around the business issues that matter most to them.
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