Are you looking for a message with actionable insights from a speaker who engages your audience?
Does your team need a lift? Are you facing a loss of engagement and need greater connection in your culture? Read more about Chris’s Leadership Speaking in Tulsa.
Disengagement and Lack of Retention Destroy Organizations
We’re facing a crisis of loneliness. Driven by disconnection, nearly 70% of employees are not engaged or actively disengage at work. This creates very real and lasting damage within your organization and decreases your profits.
- Lower customer satisfaction
- Higher rates of staff turnover & absenteeism
- Significantly reduced sales & performance
Leadership & Engagement Through Relationships
Unify & Invigorate Your Team
Chris’s leadership training unites teams, inspires passionate leadership, engages employees, and drives higher performance. See organizations Chris has had as clients here.
Increase Productivity & Sales
Chris’s engagement expertise helps your team create meaningful connections that inspire higher performance, productivity, and sales. One key message Chris often states is this:
Good communication builds relationships. Relationships build trust. Trust increases productivity.
Build a Lasting & Influential Culture
Chris’s leadership speaking equips you to build and continually improve a culture of connection that inspires employees and attracts top talent. Plus, his programs can include follow-up to help you sustain growth with your team.
About Chris
For more than 20 years, Chris Zervas has helped CEOs, impactful nonprofits, and Fortune 100 companies understand the power of relationship-based leadership and communication to improve employee retention, increase productivity, and drive higher performance.
How Leadership Speaking in Tulsa Works
It all starts with a simple chat.
Whether by phone, online, or in-person, Chris learns your specific needs and the vision you have for your employees, leadership, or organization as a whole.
The message is tailored to your needs and goals.
Whether your teams are disconnected and performing poorly, or your leadership is struggling to connect and produce meaningful results, Chris’s leadership speaking in Tulsa is tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
Chris unifies your team, inspires leadership, and ignites engagement.
Delivering passionate and engaging training, Chris brings your team, leadership, and goals into alignment. Your workforce enjoys new, meaningful, and authentic connections that boost engagement, performance, and their personal satisfaction.
Continually improve through follow-up training.
Chris schedules follow-up sessions with you to provide further training that’s custom-tuned to how your group is progressing, empowering your workforce and leadership.
What is the goal of many of our leadership speaking in Tulsa engagements?
Connected Teams. Inspired Leadership. Higher Performance.
Highly-Engaged Workforce
Connected employees who draw strength and encouragement from one another are more engaged, less prone to burnout, produce happier customers, and generate higher sales.
Impactful Leadership
With leadership based in meaningful relationships, your vision is easily communicated, your employees trust in your guidance, and your organization enjoys lasting success.
Influential Culture
When employees are engaged, leadership is effective, and your sales and productivity are growing, others take notice, and you attract (and retain) top talent.
Tailored to Your Goals
Every aspect of the training is designed to meet your goals for your organization’s workforce and future success. Change your organization today with leadership speaking in Tulsa.
Engage Employees and Inspire Leadership
Chris Zervas’s leadership training can also be conducted online.
- Reduces expenses
- Convenient for employees and leadership
- Allows for closer, one-on-one sessions
FAQ’s About Leadership Speaking in Tulsa
How do you customize a leadership speaking engagement for our team or event?
Before your event, Chris meets with you to understand your organization, culture, and specific communication or leadership challenges. He then customizes the leadership speaking content to address your goals— such as whether that’s improving communication between departments, team motivation, or helping leaders navigate conflict with more confidence. Each keynote or session is designed so your Tulsa leaders learn from content and the stories, and walk away with clear, actionable next steps
What makes your leadership speaking in Tulsa different from other leadership speakers?
Chris Zervas combines leadership insight with practical communication coaching, so your audience doesn’t just feel inspired—they leave with tools they can actually use. His leadership speaking in Tulsa focuses on relational communication, trust-building, and conflict navigation, helping teams communicate more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and lead with confidence. Instead of a one‑off motivational talk, Chris delivers leadership messages that connect directly to the real challenges your Tulsa organization is facing.
What types of events do you speak at for Tulsa organizations and Oklahoma companies?
Chris speaks at a wide range of events, including corporate events, leadership retreats, conferences, and professional association gatherings across Tulsa and Oklahoma. Whether you’re planning a leadership offsite, a company‑wide kickoff, or a conference keynote, his leadership speaking is tailored to your audience, your theme, and your goals. Many Oklahoma organizations bring Chris back year after year because his sessions blend practical communication strategies with engaging, story‑driven delivery.
How do we hire a leadership speaker in Tulsa and what does the process look like?
To hire a leadership speaker in Tulsa, you simply reach out with your event date, audience size, and goals. Chris will confirm availability, learn about your prefered format for your event (keynote, breakout, workshop, or series), and provide a clear proposal. Once confirmed, he partners with you on messaging, timing, and logistics so the leadership speaking engagement fits seamlessly into your conference or corporate event and delivers maximum impact for your Tulsa or Oklahoma audience.
What People Say About Chris
Chris did an amazing job with our staff. He was interactive and had a great delivery. Our associates wanted to listen to him for another hour.
Jeff Wilhoit
Training Manager,
Big Cedar Lodge
The leadership experience gained from the mentorship with Chris Zervas has not only produced a visible benefit with the development of a cohesive team… We were able to save money by eliminating training time, and reduced customer service response time by 25%.
Paul Stephens
U.S. Veteran’s Health Administration
Chris Zervas has a great grasp of the communication process and how to effectively teach it for the benefit of employees and their families. He’s relevant, engaging and able to communicate in such a way as to keep the message alive long after the presentation is over. Chris Zervas makes a difference.
Gary Smalley
Founder & CEO,
Smalley Relationship Center