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Keynotes, Workshops & Executive Retreats

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Dr. Tremayne Thurman delivers high-impact keynotes, interactive workshops, and executive retreats built around emotional intelligence, adaptive communication, and resilient leadership. Not inspiration that fades by Sunday. Practical tools that change how your audience operates.

OTD Occupational Therapy Doctorate. Clinical credibility behind every message.
EQ-i 2.0 Certified practitioner of the world's most validated EI assessment
DISC Certified in adaptive communication and behavioral style frameworks
Engagement Formats

Built for Your Event, Not a Generic Slot

Every format is customized to the audience, the goals, and the time available. What does not change is the standard of delivery.

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Keynote Speaking

45 to 90-minute opening or closing keynotes for conferences, symposiums, and annual meetings. Built around your theme, your audience, and what you need them to walk away ready to do. Available in-person and virtually.

High energy. Practical. Memorable.
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Workshops & Breakouts

2 to 4-hour deep-dive sessions with active participation, EQ and DISC assessments, group debrief, and actionable development plans. Attendees leave with a personal roadmap, not just notes.

Interactive. Assessment-based. Applied.
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Executive Retreats

Full-day or multi-day leadership intensives for senior teams and executive cohorts. Combines diagnostic assessment, group facilitation, individual coaching, and strategic planning support to move leadership teams forward at depth.

Full-day or multi-day. Senior teams.
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Guest Lectures

Classroom and cohort sessions for professional programs, graduate schools, and student organizations. Particularly suited to healthcare education, occupational therapy, nursing, and allied health programs that need documented communication training.

Accreditation documentation available.
Faith-Based Engagements

Leadership development sessions for ministry teams, church conferences, and pastoral retreats. Integrates evidence-based behavioral science with biblical leadership principles in a way that is grounded, credible, and applicable to faith community dynamics.

Church conferences. Ministry teams. Retreats.
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Virtual Engagements

Fully interactive virtual keynotes and workshops available nationwide. Includes online EQ and DISC assessment delivery, breakout facilitation, and follow-up coaching. Same rigor, same content, adapted for distributed audiences.

Nationwide. Scalable. Fully interactive.
Signature Topics

Six Messages Built for High-Stakes Environments

Each topic is research-grounded, audience-specific, and built around practical tools participants use immediately after the session.

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The EQ Advantage

Why 90% of top performers have high emotional intelligence and what that means for every leader in the room. The science of EQ made practical and immediately applicable to your industry.

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Stop Burning Your Best People

Built for healthcare and education leaders. The emotional intelligence framework that reduces turnover, rebuilds team trust, and gives leaders the tools to hold high-pressure teams together without losing themselves in the process.

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The Conversation You Keep Avoiding

Difficult conversations avoided are revenue lost, relationships damaged, and opportunities missed. A practical framework for having the hard conversations that change outcomes in clinical settings, academic environments, and leadership teams.

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Know Your Code

An introduction to DISC behavioral styles and how understanding your communication code and the codes of the people around you transforms conflict into collaboration and confusion into clarity.

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Prepared to Thrive

Designed for student audiences, college orientation programs, and healthcare education cohorts. The emotional competencies that determine whether a student gets in and stays in and builds a career that does not burn them out.

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Lead Like You Were Built For This

For faith-based audiences and ministry leaders. Integrating emotional intelligence with biblical leadership principles. How to lead with both conviction and emotional awareness and how to sustain that over the long haul without compassion fatigue.

What Audiences Say

Reactions From the Room

★★★★★

"Longer session with Dr. Thurman. He was amazing. I learned a lot about myself and gained clarity from what I already knew. This was also a fun and interactive session."

Doctoral Candidate
Healthcare Education Program
★★★★★

"This workshop was amazing. It was so engaging and I learned so much about myself and others. I feel not only more aware of my emotions and leadership abilities but also my cohort."

Doctoral Candidate
OT Program, Francis Marion University
★★★★★

"I am truly in awe of what I found out today. So well explained. I love the knowledge I am leaving with. The assessment was really spot on and I enjoyed every minute of it."

Doctoral Candidate
OT Program, Francis Marion University
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