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In construction, leadership can often feel like carrying the weight of the world. Projects, deadlines, and expectations that never let up.
Industries constantly reward performance and output; a pursuit that comes with hidden cost: burnout and pressure that ripple through families, teams, and every relationship a leader touches. Are you ready to find peace in the midst of that pressure?
Then it’s time to shift the foundation of leadership from performance to presence.
When left unaddressed, pressure intensifies. Leadership becomes reactive. Culture erodes. Relationships strain. Decisions lose clarity.
Because performance without presence leaves more than leaders drained, it leaves relationships broken.
What you do may prove skill.
Who you are is what builds a legacy.
That’s why I guide leaders to move beyond performance-driven patterns into presence-giving leadership, where peace fuels clarity, compassion strengthens trust, and influence becomes life-giving.
About Chad
Chad M. Brignac is a Transformationist, Speaker and Author. He began his career in construction leadership, navigating decades of high-stakes projects, teams, and expectations. Over time, he saw a pattern repeat itself across the industry: leaders achieving impressive results while silently losing peace, family, and connection under relentless pressure.
Out of that realization, Chad now takes the stage with a clear mission to help leaders shift from performance-driven patterns to presence-giving leadership
His talks challenge audiences to trade burnout for presence, chaos for clarity, and pressure for peace. Delivered from lived experience, Chad’s work combines authenticity with practical frameworks that strengthen relationships, empower teams, and create cultures where people thrive.
Chad’s delivery is calm, direct, and unfiltered, creating space for leaders to see themselves clearly without defensiveness.
His insights have been featured in USA Today. His message resonates because it is real, grounded, and actionable, shared by someone who has lived the cost of pressure and learned how peace restores leadership.
If you are looking for a voice that transforms, achieves peace under pressure, and empowers leaders to leave legacies that outlast careers, Chad M. Brignac is the answer for your next event.
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Keynotes
Chad guides leaders to rediscover who they are, realign their priorities, and transform who they become. Creating legacies measured in people, not performance. His messages bring clarity, conviction, and practical tools to help leaders thrive under pressure.
Pathways of Power: Rewiring Patterns of Peace
(A neuroscience-backed keynote on why leaders react under pressure and how to change it.)
Have you ever watched yourself react under pressure and thought, that’s not who I want to be as a leader?
In Pathways of Power, Chad draws on neuroscience and nervous system insight to show how thoughts and reactions flow through established pathways, creating powerful momentum that intensifies under pressure. This keynote reveals how repeated choices reshape the pathways themselves, changing how leadership and behavior form over time.
You’ll gain practical insight into how thoughts gain authority, how words and actions reinforce internal pathways creating the patterns that guide you.
The Fire Within: Leading Without Burnout
(A keynote on sustainable leadership energy rooted in identity, purpose, and peace.)
Do you look or even feel successful on the outside while secretly running on fumes?
Busy schedules and burning out are not badges of honor, they’re warning signs. In The Fire Within, Chad reveals why performance-driven fuel burns out fast and how your identity, purpose, and peace can sustain energy that lasts. You’ll learn how to reignite your spark, fuel purpose with passion, and learn how to draw breath that brings clarity.
Through personal stories and practical insights, this talk equips you to shift your mindset and lead with a fire that doesn't go out.
Courage to Be Seen: The Power of Vulnerability
(A leadership keynote on how vulnerability strengthens trust, clarity, and influence.)
Have you confused guarded leadership with safety, when it’s really fear of being seen?
In this noisy world, people follow leaders willing to be real, those who stop hiding. In Courage to Be Seen, Chad challenges you to drop your armor and risk leading through vulnerability. Through challenging stories and practical shifts, you’ll learn how to exchange armor for authenticity and practice vulnerability with wisdom.
You’ll discover how being real builds commitment, trust and strengthens relationships. Turning leadership into connection, compassion, and lasting impact.
“I’ve known Chad Brignac for more than a decade, and in my 50 years in this industry, I haven’t met many leaders with his level of integrity, clarity, and conviction. His passion for helping leaders build meaningful, people-centered businesses is exactly what our industry needs. His message is powerful, profitable, and genuinely life-shaping.”
Steve Slater, Market Manager OKC - Mill Creek Lumber & Supply
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