Speaking & Media
Talks that sound like the real world
Randy speaks to the people most leadership programs talk past: foremen, frontline supervisors, tradespeople, railroaders, and the operations leaders holding it together on a short crew.
What He Does
Formats
Keynotes
For safety stand-downs, leadership summits, union meetings, and annual gatherings where the room has actually done the work. Built around real stories from the rail yard and the shop floor rather than borrowed case studies.
Leadership workshops
Half-day and full-day working sessions on crew leadership, accountability, difficult conversations, and holding a team together under pressure. Practical, with room for the questions people won’t ask in front of their boss.
Podcasts & interviews
On blue-collar leadership, burnout in the trades, veterans in civilian leadership, and what the shop floor teaches that the boardroom forgets.
Industry events
Construction, railroad, manufacturing, logistics, skilled trades, and frontline leadership programs. Audiences that can tell immediately whether a speaker has done the job.
Talk Topics
What he talks about
These come straight out of the two books. A signature talk list hasn’t been finalized, so treat these as the territory rather than fixed titles.
Leadership earned on the floor
Show up, do honest work, take care of people — and what it actually takes to run a crew that would walk through fire for you.
The reliable-one problem
Why your best people quietly get overused, what it costs them, and how supervisors can spot it before it becomes turnover or worse.
Responsibility without authority
The most common structural trap in frontline work, and how to lead honestly from inside it without becoming bitter.
Burnout that doesn’t look like burnout
Recognizing erosion in a workforce that prides itself on never complaining.
From the ranks to the office
Veterans and tradespeople stepping into leadership — and keeping their credibility while they do it.
Staying human in a system that prefers machines
What cannot be replaced, and why it is worth defending.
Content still needed. Signature talk titles, past speaking engagements, client logos, video clips, testimonials, and a downloadable speaker one-sheet haven’t been supplied and have deliberately not been invented. Send them and this page gets considerably stronger.
For Organizations
Bulk book orders
Buying for a shop, a local, a leadership cohort, a safety stand-down, or a new-supervisor program? Bulk pricing is available, and author involvement — a signed run, a recorded message, a live Q&A for the group — can usually be arranged alongside it.
Hard Hat Philosophy is available now. Don’t Let This Job Break You can be pre-committed for launch.
Use the form above and choose Bulk book order. Include how many copies, which title, and roughly when you need them.
For Press
Media resources
Book covers
High-resolution cover files for both titles are available on request — use the form and choose Press or media request.
Author bio
Short and long versions are on the About page and free to quote. A print-resolution author photo is available on request.
Interview topics
See the talk topics above. Randy is comfortable with unscripted formats and prefers real questions to a prepared list.