“Douglas's presence in front of a large audience is calm, inviting, and conversational. He speaks with clarity and confidence, bringing joy into a conversation on financial freedom. Of dozens of expert speakers and facilitators, his presentation was rated one of the top three most highly valuable of our five-day conference. We've already asked him to return and speak our future institutes.” - Kristine Sloan, CEO, StartingBloc
Douglas speaks at conferences, workshops, schools, leadership trainings, panels, and career workshops. If you are interested in bringing a talk or workshop to your audience, reach out. He speaks diverse topics like Financial Freedom, radical education, and small business.
“Douglas brought great heart and dimension to our day-long seminar, "Money, Power & Meaning." While his personal story of gaining financial freedom is inspiring in its own right, it is his familiarity with historical, psychological and sociological factors and his agility in engaging conversations with humor and self-awareness that make him such a compelling speaker.” - Hilary Wilson, conference organizer and Whidbey Institute board member
StartingBloc is a global fellowship of 3,000 leaders crafting a future that works for all beings. Douglas, a StartingBloc Fellow himself, spoke at the StartingBloc Institute in Washington DC (October 2018), presenting his one-hour talk: “Financial Freedom: Take Control of Your Finances to Live the Life You Want” to 100 incoming Fellows at each Starting Bloc Institute. He will be speaking at Starting Bloc Institutes in Los Angeles (February 2019) and New York (August 2019).
The Whidbey Institute’s mission is to nurture the conditions for transformational learning, and grow the human capacity to respond generatively to the challenges of our time. In 2018, Douglas did a presentation at the “Money, Power, and Meaning” seminar titled “Financial Freedom: Capitalism isn’t the Problem, You Are.”
World Domination Summit is a worldwide gathering of remarkable people. Every summer in Portland, Oregon, people who want to live a remarkable life in a conventional world gather for a weeklong experience focused on community, adventure, and service. In 2018, Douglas teamed up with JD Roth of Get Rich Slowly to do a 3 hour WDS Academy on “Financial Freedom: Take Control of Your Finances to Live the Life You Want.”
AWS Elemental is an Amazon Web Services company specializing in web streaming. In 2018, Douglas did a one-hour “lunch and learn” on universal basic income.
The goal of the OpenCon movement is to build an inclusive, collaborative research community, spanning all disciplines, domains, and research communities, by flattening hierarchical structures to provide a more open and equitable place for individuals to thrive. In 2019, Douglas spoke at OpenCon Cascadia about “Outside the Ivory Tower: Lifelong Learning in the Village.”
The Rewilding movement promotes cultural and environmental resilience through the education of earth-based arts, traditions, and technology. In 2018, Douglas spoke on opening night of the North American Rewilding Conference on “Freedom and Self-Willed Education: A Manifesto.”
