Best-selling author, speaker and award-winning leadership expert teaching managers how to lead more effectively.
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David made his presentation personal...inspirational...life-changing…He is one of the best presenters I know.
Dr. Diane Lane
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Ignite leadership at every level with David Cottrell, best-selling author, award-winning speaker, and renowned leadership expert. With over 30 years of frontline executive experience at Xerox and FedEx, David delivers practical, battle-tested strategies that inspire accountability, strengthen culture, and elevate performance. His engaging, high-impact keynotes empower teams to lead with influence, not just authority. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and with over 3 million books sold, David's insights resonate long after the applause. Book him to transform your leaders and your results.
Speaker and author David Cottrell has created a legacy of leadership excellence. During his three decades of leadership experience in corporate America, David lived the obstacles, frustrations and issues today’s leaders face. The best-selling business author of more than 30 highly acclaimed books, David has been a featured expert on television and has shared his leadership philosophy and lessons with more than half a million managers and leaders worldwide. He is currently President & CEO of CornerStone Leadership Institute, one of the nation’s largest publishers of management and leadership resources
David has walked in leaders’ shoes. David started his career as one of the youngest sales managers in the history of Xerox Corporation. After a decade with Xerox, David joined FedEx where he was elected multiple times to the President’s Club. To this day, David is the only person to have been chosen District Manager of the Year for two consecutive years. In sales and executive management positions with FedEx and Xerox and the successful turnaround of a Chapter 11 company, David created a legacy of leadership excellence. David’s tremendous leadership achievements were the result of his deep belief that he could expect the best from people by investing in them.
His wisdom and sincerity come from one who has “been there.” David’s depth of knowledge and experience make for content-rich learning experiences that few other speakers can match.
With more than three million copies of his books in print, David is most well-known for authoring the ground-breaking, best-selling books Monday Morning Leadership, Monday Morning Mentoring, Tuesday Morning Coaching, and LeaderShift: Making Leadership Everyone’s Business. His books have been adopted by organizations in numerous countries as trusted leadership training tools. In addition to a wealth of information on leadership, his book and presentation topics include: success principles; coaching; accountability; communication; sales; customer service; presentation skills; and time management.
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David made his presentation personal...inspirational...life-changing…He is one of the best presenters I know.
Dr. Diane Lane Baptist General Convention of Texas
David Cottrell
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You wildly exceeded all of our expectations. We can honestly say that our company is stronger because of you.
Melissa Reiff President, The Container Store
David Cottrell
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[David is] are a gifted speaker with a unique ability to take leadership principles which can be utilized on a daily basis and communicate them clearly and in a common sense manner.
David T. Vandewater President & CIO, Ardent Health Services
David Cottrell
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David is an amazing speaker. He has the perfect way of saying what needs to be said, and making it stick.
Rhonda Thomas Bridgestone Commercial
David Cottrell
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For several years we have used Mr. Cottrell’s book, Monday Morning Leadership, as the basis for our core leadership training program. We have purchased hundreds of copies of the book and the program has been so successful that our design approach for the class has been selected to be included as a case study in a new book … I hope that Dave will be pleased not only at our mentioning his book, but also that it has had such a positive impact on leaders across our organization.
Melanie Brunet Relyea Training and Development Manager, Oneida Nation Enterprises
David Cottrell
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David's presentation was extremely well received. On target, with great reminders and challenges. David and his keynote address was the star; with highest accolades and setting the tone and stage for everything that followed. Thanks to you and David for making this happen and allowing us to benefit of his vast knowledge, experience and talent.
Eli Cotti Director, NBAA
David Cottrell
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David's southern charm, wit, and passion combined with his "reigniting success" message were perfect timing. "No Matter What", "From Now On", and "Consider It Done" are now embedded into our management team's vocabulary and actions.
Jeanne Bronson VP Training & Professional Development, The Pearson Group
David Cottrell
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Many leadership speakers can offer a great inspirational presentation and you feel like you can change the world until the next morning when you settle back into your daily routine and habits. David steps it up and makes the introspective topics fresh, personal and immediately actionable! We really loved his approach and group interaction. Every leader had something to take back home and use in coaching their teams.
Graham House President, Texas Lone Star Chapter, CMAA
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Monday Morning Leadership' is a great book. Having David speak to my team helped reinforce the lessons he shared in the book. We all left his talk better prepared to use the concepts and be better leaders.
Paul T. Menk BBDM – Southeast Business Banking, Wells Fargo Bank
David Cottrell
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Our annual year end Team Leader Meeting was a success thanks to David. We are a 80 year old family owned service business that has now grown to 750 people in 8 Western States. We have had many trainers and speaker at our events and David was by far the most down to earth, entertaining and enlightening with his common sense approach. Some speakers give you what I call a “seminar high” or temporary feeling of motivation or inspiration. But then you get back to the office or I ask the attendees what they learned and often they didn’t have Golden Nuggets to take back. David put together a custom program for us that was a great fit and the 3 hours flew by and never a dull moment as we were interactive and engaged. David’s message was easy to understand and put into practice as soon as they returned.
Mike Kattan President, Vortex Industries
David Cottrell
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What an amazing speaker and leader!!! Everyone was really excited and glad to be a part of this meeting. Thank you all for helping this meeting be a great success!!!
Larry Shaffer Sr. VP of Marketing and Business Development, Insperity, Inc.
David Cottrell
Keynote by David Cottrell:
What would be the impact on your organization and your business if every one of your leaders spent dedicated time with a mentor? Now they can.
In this program based on his best-selling book, Monday Morning Mentoring and Monday Morning Leadership, David delivers up to 10 key success principles that equip leaders to confront and overcome their daily “people” challenges.
Keynote by David Cottrell:
Don't Be Stupid. Don't Be a Jerk are the two greatest rules for leaders to achieve extraordinary results with class. Based on his latest book, David Cottrell’s keynote is direct and simple: think your decisions through and take care of your team. It is grounded on solid principles that apply to businesses in every industry.
If you are searching for a speaker who will provide your team with tried and proven techniques that improve employee morale, decrease turnover, improve results plus help them have a whole lot more fun leading, this is for you..
