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Bill's Services

Providing everything your organization needs, from tailored keynote presentations and practical training workshops to flexible session formats designed to inspire action and foster ethical decision-making and enhance personal well-begin.

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Tailored Keynote Presentations

Bill's tailored keynote presentations are designed to meet your audience's specific objectives, incorporating real stories and experiences to inspire action.

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What to Expect:

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1. Customized Content: Presentations aligned with your audience's interests and goals.


2. Lived Experiences Shared Through Real Stories: Engaging narratives that inspire that drive change.


3. Motivational: Energizing content that empowers your audience to make meaningful changes.

4. Interactive Elements: Q&A sessions, live polls, and audience participation.


5. Adaptability: Suitable for virtual, in-person, or hybrid events.

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Special Areas of Focus:

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Business Ethics Training:  Business Ethics Training emphasizes gratitude as an antidote for unethical behavior.  Employees learn to make morally sound choices and appreciate the positive impact of gratitude on workplace culture. This training fosters integrity, boosts employee morale, and enhances company reputation.


Importance of Gratitude: Cultivate a grateful mindset to enhance workplace culture and foster positive relationships. Bill emphasizes how gratitude can improve employee morale, increase engagement, and contribute to a supportive and productive environment.


Personal Well-Being:  Bill shares proven strategies for stress management and work-life balance.

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Why Choose Bill?

Bill's presentations prioritize your organizations'  specific needs, inspiring action and driving success. Contact Bill to tailor a keynote presentation for your audience.

"Gratitude and Integrity: Ethical Decision-Making Workshops

Bill  provides half-day and full-day training workshops inspired by "Bitter or Better...Learning to Be Grateful and Finding Happiness in Prison and Beyond", a class Bill developed and taught to other inmates during his time in incarceration. These sessions offer practical knowledge and tools for making ethical decisions, drawing from real-life experiences to foster a deeper understanding of integrity and accountability in the business world.

Flexible Session Formats 

  • Accommodations for large audiences: We can effectively deliver our workshops to large groups, ensuring that everyone has access to the training.

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  • Extended Q&A sessions: These sessions provide ample time for participants to ask questions and engage in in-depth discussions for better understanding.

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  • Roundtable discussions: Interactive roundtable discussions allow for more personal engagement and the sharing of diverse perspectives.

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  • "Lunch and Learn" sessions: These informal sessions combine learning with a casual meal, making the training experience more relaxed and enjoyable.

What the Professionals Are Saying 

"I teach a course on negotiations, during which I spend a good deal of time talking about honesty and ethics in negotiations. As an ethics researcher, I think it is important that students not only understand strategies for successfully claiming value in negotiations, but also learn about the temptations they will face to engage in unethical bargaining, and unethical behavior more broadly in their professional careers. Bill brought this message to life. Bill explained to my students – with openness, authenticity, and scientific insight – the ethical missteps he took in his career. I am incredibly grateful to have had Bill in my class – I learned from him just as much as my students did. I think he would be a welcome, and much needed, addition to any course related to ethics, well-being, power and influence, or negotiations (and likely many more!)."   

                                                                        Professor Emma Levine/ University of Chicago Booth School of Business 

“Bill Carlson has a reservoir of experience that will resonate with college students and professionals from all walks of life. Seldom do you encounter an individual willing to openly share his foibles and mistakes in an attempt to deviate the life paths of those mutually-inclined to make the same errors. Bill lays his life bare in his presentation and shares the detrimental impact his decision-making had on his personal and professional life; yet he lays the foundation for an inroad to a better future built upon his gratitude for life, learning from his mistakes, and pursuit of his new definition of “life wholeness”.  

                                                                         Dr. William C. McCoy, Director/Rutland Institute for Ethics

                                                                         Visiting Professor, College of Education/Clemson University 

"For over 30 years, I have been teaching full- and part-time. For the past eleven years I have been a member of the accounting faculty at Fordham University. This semester, Fall 2021, Mr. Carlson agreed to speak with my students about his story, and I can say that I have had few guest speakers who delivered such a powerful message about the importance of professional obligations. It was the story of a seemingly nice guy who exhibited a lack of judgment and would pay a heavy price for it. Most importantly, it is a story of a man who reflected upon his moral lapse and has made a solid commitment to helping others."              

                                                                                       Timothy P. Hedley, Ph.D., CPA, CFF, CFE

                                                                            Retired Global Leader of Fraud Risk Management Services, KPMG LLP

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