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Justin Patton
- The go-to speaker on how to build trust in teams
- High-energy speaker with practical tools to fix broken communication and drive real accountability
- Award-winning author of 5 leadership books
Speaker Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$15,000 - $20,000
Virtual Fee:
$15,000 - $20,000
Travels From
Kentucky
Justin Patton | Keynote Speaker Reel on Leadership, Communication & Trust
Building Trust That Lasts: What Clients Say About Justin Patton
Justin Patton Speaker Biography
Trust gets tested. So does leadership. So does character.
Justin Patton knows what it’s like to be tested.
He lost his dad to a medical error.
He taught high school English for five years.
He managed a national sales training team for a Fortune 100 company.
He coached executives who lost trust – with their teams and themselves.
He taught Miss America contestants how to show up under pressure.
And now, he’s walking with his family through his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s.
Building trust when life is hard is when it matters most.
Justin has spent the last 15 years helping leaders and teams understand how trust is actually built or broken in everyday moments. Not through slogans or values statements, but through presence, communication, and behavior.
A former high school teacher turned executive coach and leadership communication expert, Justin’s career has taken him from training boardroom executives to keynoting for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and coaching some of the nation’s top athletes and entrepreneurs on the language of trust and leadership presence.
Today, Justin is the creator of the Trust Starts Here framework and a five-time award-winning author on leadership, trust, and team culture. He is known for high-energy keynotes that blend emotional intelligence, body language, and real-world leadership scenarios into tools teams can use immediately.
Justin helps organizations build trust in teams so people can work better together, communicate more transparently, and hold one another accountable without fear. He focuses on helping leaders see how the way they show up sets the tone for culture, performance, and results.
He is not just a speaker. He is a mirror.
He helps leaders confront a simple but powerful question:
Would I follow myself?
In every keynote, Justin combines research, real stories, and practical tools that help audiences recognize how their presence either turns people toward them or pushes them away. Leaders leave with a clearer understanding of how trust is built in teams and what it takes to create environments where people actually want to contribute.
His work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Authority Magazine. He holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the highest earned credential from the National Speakers Association, and is trusted by organizations including GE Appliances, Ford Motor Company, Yum! Brands, the NCAA, and the American Healthcare Association.
When he’s not on stage, Justin is likely coaching a C-suite executive through a difficult conversation, authoring his next book, or planning his next trip to Hawaii.
Because no matter where the work takes him, the mission stays the same:
Create workplaces safe enough to perform and bold enough to grow.
It Starts With You!: How to Build the Leadership Credibility People Actually Trust
Leadership isn’t about you, but it always starts with how you show up.
In this high-energy keynote, leadership presence expert Justin Patton challenges participants to take ownership of their presence and the impact they have on others. Trust, influence, and credibility don’t happen by accident.
This session isn’t just for people with titles. It’s for anyone who leads meetings, builds relationships, drives culture, or communicates under pressure. In other words: everyone.
Through powerful stories, real-time feedback, and audience-driven exercises, participants will walk away with practical tools to show up more powerfully and lead from wherever they are.
Because leadership isn’t about position. It’s about presence. And that starts with you.
Objectives:
• Learn 3 signals that shape how others judge your leadership credibility
• Uncover the number one hidden habit sabotaging your leadership credibility
• Map who you are at your best
• Learn how body language builds or erodes trust in every interaction
• Practice flexing between authority and empathy to lead with intention
Building Trust in Teams: How High-Performance Teams Communicate and Win Together
The real reason teams get stuck isn’t a lack of commitment. It’s a lack of trust. And until that’s fixed, no strategy will stick.
Not surface-level trust. But the kind that makes people turn toward the team when it gets hard instead of protecting themselves, going silent, or disengaging.
This keynote shows leaders how to build the kind of trust that unlocks accountability, initiative, and real performance.
At the heart of Justin Patton’s message is the Treeline Test™—a powerful metaphor that reframes how teams experience trust: Trust isn’t what you say. It’s how you move when someone gets stuck.
With relatable stories, laugh-out-loud moments, and tactical behavior shifts, Justin helps leaders and teams walk away with a repeatable playbook teams can use immediately.
This keynote doesn’t just inspire. It ignites action through one conversation, one behavior, one move at a time.
Objectives:
• Use 5 everyday trust moves to make teams braver and more accountable
• Call out the 5 toxic behaviors that quietly destroy team trust and morale
• Rebuild commitment by normalizing connection over silence
• Make daily trust deposits that drive loyalty and engagement
• Create a team culture where people feel safe enough to speak up, mess up, and still belong
Managers Who Build Trust: The Manager’s Playbook for Building High-Performing Teams
Being a manager is hard. Some days, it sucks. But the best managers know it’s worth it because they change lives.
In today’s workplace, every company is competing on the employee experience, and the managers who prioritize it will outperform their competitors. The problem? Most managers are thrown into their role without any formal training on how to bring out the best in others, leaving them to figure it out on their own.
This high-energy keynote challenges managers to rethink how they lead by focusing on four essential moves: building authentic relationships, setting clear expectations, leaning into performance conversations, and recognizing what’s right.
Great managers don’t just manage people. They move people. They are catalysts for change, champions of people and performance, and the key to an organization’s success.
This program is their roadmap to becoming the kind of leader people want to work for and never want to leave.
Objectives:
• Build authentic relationships that foster trust and connection
• Set clear expectations so employees understand the “what” before the “how”
• Learn into performance conversations that drive awareness and accountability
• Recognize what’s right to reinforce behaviors that build culture
