Scott Lackey

What to Expect
When Scott Lackey takes the stage, audiences can expect powerful storytelling, humor, vulnerability, and thought-provoking ideas grounded in real-world experience.

Scott does not deliver a formula or a list of steps for transforming your life or organization. He uses true stories and defining moments to help audiences examine the questions that change, adversity, growth, and success are already asking them.

At the center of Scott’s work is a simple philosophy:

Transformation isn’t achieved. It’s exchanged.

Every meaningful transformation asks something of us. Sometimes it is an old way of thinking. Sometimes it is fear, certainty, control, an outdated identity, or a version of ourselves or our organization that can no longer go where we are trying to go.

Scott helps audiences recognize those moments and consider three important questions:

What is transformation asking of us?
What might we need to surrender?
Who will we become now?

His presentations draw from a wide range of lived experiences, including military service, entrepreneurship, business failure and success, executive leadership, marriage and family, endurance sports, faith, invention, and the stories behind his bestselling book, Wake Up to Die Again.

Scott’s style is conversational, energetic, reflective, and highly personal. He walks alongside an audience rather than speaking down to them. His goal is not to tell people what they should think, but to create the kind of experience that causes them to think more deeply about their own lives, leadership, teams, and organizations.
What clients receive
Scott works with event organizers to understand the audience, purpose of the event, and challenges they are navigating so the presentation can be appropriately tailored while preserving the integrity of the keynote.

His presentations are well suited for corporate meetings, leadership conferences, associations, sales organizations, employee events, retreats, faith-based organizations, and groups navigating significant growth, transition, adversity, or change.

Depending on the event, Scott can deliver keynote presentations of approximately 30, 45, or 60 minutes.

Audiences leave with actionable ideas for navigating change, a deeper understanding of what transformation requires, and a new way to examine what may need to be surrendered before they can move forward.

But perhaps most importantly, they leave considering a question that follows them long after the event ends:

Who will you become now?

Scott Lackey is a keynote speaker, bestselling author, newspaper columnist, and business executive who speaks about transformation and the defining moments that shape who we become.

Drawing from U.S. Army service, entrepreneurship, business leadership, endurance sports, and the experiences behind his bestselling book, Wake Up to Die Again, Scott brings powerful true stories to the stage with humor, vulnerability, and practical insight.

His central philosophy is simple:

Transformation isn’t achieved. It’s exchanged.

Scott helps leaders, teams, and audiences recognize what transformation is asking of them, what it may require them to surrender, and how the choices they make during defining moments shape who they become.

As Chief Sales Officer of Blickle USA, Scott has spent more than a decade helping lead sustained business growth and organizational transformation. He is also a U.S. Army veteran, patented inventor, IRONMAN finisher, and weekly newspaper columnist.

Whether speaking to corporate teams, associations, leadership groups, conferences, or faith-based audiences, Scott combines compelling storytelling with ideas audiences can carry back into their work and lives.

If your audience is navigating growth, change, adversity, or a defining moment, Scott will leave them with a question worth answering:

Who will you become now?

Notes and Technical Info
Scott’s technical requirements are simple and adaptable to the venue and audience size.

For most keynote presentations:
- Professional-quality wireless lavalier or headset microphone preferred
- Handheld wireless microphone acceptable when necessary
- Appropriate house sound system for the size of the room
- Stage or designated presentation area with adequate lighting
- Confidence monitor or presentation monitor preferred when available
- Access to presentation slides via venue-provided computer or HDMI connection when slides are used
- Presentation clicker preferred
- Bottle or glass of still water available on stage
- Scott prefers to move naturally throughout the presentation and does not require a podium
Scott is comfortable working with professional AV teams as well as smaller venues with limited technical capabilities. Specific requirements can be discussed in advance based on the event, venue, audience size, and presentation format.

For larger conferences and corporate events, a brief sound check and stage walk-through prior to the presentation is appreciated.