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Bull Garlington | Unplugged:
Programs for Teams.

Moving Beyond Digital Burnout
to Reclaim Authentic Workspace
Communication

Bring a memorable, high-impact human experience to your next event. Bull Garlington delivers dynamic, slide-free keynote programs, interactive team breakout sessions, and professional communication workshops for Fortune 500 companies and regional corporate teams across Chicago and the Great Lakes region.

By stripping away digital crutches and teaching teams how to master traditional, analog tools, Bull dismantles workplace disengagement, eliminates networking anxiety, and helps leaders build genuine executive presence—using nothing more than a pen and a single piece of paper.

Tailored Corporate Workshops & Keynote Focus Areas

Restore Strategic Focus

Conquer Networking Anxiety

Boost Employee Retention

Unlock Thought Leadership

master public speaking

storytelling master class

Program Details

Keynote speaker Bull Garlington displaying custom handwritten client letterhead cards, demonstrating mid-century analog methods as a premium strategy to stand out from automated AI sales outreach.
How do you stand out in a client management chain or a sales funnel that’s a firehose of AI generated garbage? Have you tried going full boomer? There’s a distinct charm in mid-century methods of reaching out through the USPS. There’s a huge reward when a client opens an unexpected envelope and inside is a simple letterhead card with “Great job!” scrawled over your signature. It’s real. It’s tactile. It’s luxurious and it speaks volumes about your investment. • Learn how to think on paper, how to use an Eisenhower Box to prioritize the fires you’re putting out, how doodling in a meeting is actually a deep listening superpower, how writing by hand develops enduring executive facility, and how it is the surest and most effective way to practice and develop your use of reason, critical thinking, and creativity.

DIGITAL WELLNESS • DEEP WORK & FOCUS

The Analog Professional | Using old school tools as a tactical antidote to virtual creep

Core message

analog tools are valuable precisely because they are real. Sending cards. Using an Eisenhower matrix. Journaling.

Format

A brief overview of analog tools, from quality pencils and paper to diagrams and doodling. Discussion and implementation.

Corporate ROI

Executives who send cards to clients, thereby making themselves and the firm stand out from the digital scrum; resilience from journaling; creative and efficient decision making; depth; intangible asset development.

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NETWORKING & INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS

Fear of mingling: turning fear into confidence

Core message

Confidence in one's own voice is learned behavior. It can be managed—even eliminated—by proper modeling.

Format

A gamified workshop where team members take on the hilarious identity of a fake business owner then pitch their business, network, make smalltalk, and even have a 'mingle off'.

Corporate ROI

Eradication of networking friction at corporate mixers; heightened team collaboration; zero-anxiety onboarding; and immediate development of high-impact personal clout for mid-level managers and corporate leadership.

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A stylized blue and white distressed graphic of a woman screaming in panic with her hands up, humorously illustrating the intense social anxiety and fear of mingling at corporate networking events.
Remote work and screen-first communication have left modern teams facing an unspoken crisis: acute networking and small talk anxiety. Fear of Mingling! is an interactive, slide-free workshop designed specifically for professionals who freeze during corporate mixers, client dinners, or high-stakes networking events. Bull dismantles the psychological friction of corporate socializing, equipping teams with highly practical strategies to initiate, navigate, and exit conversations with professional clout.
Everyone has a unique purpose. In telling the hilarious, heartwarming story of discovering his own purpose late in life while floating in a lazy river at a Disney resort, Bull illustrates why such an endeavor is vital to living a fulfilled life, to eradicating depression, and is an antidote to fragility. By anchoring deep existential philosophy into practical, everyday action, Bull shows audiences how a clarified purpose functions as the ultimate resilience strategy, driving measurable increases in personal output, professional longevity, and collaborative success.

PURPOSE & RETENTION • WORKPLACE CULTURE

Finding My Purpose in the Lazy River at a Lame Disney Resort

Core message

Finding your purpose relieves you of a lifelong anxiety, kills imposter syndrome, and suffuses your life with genuine confidence.

Executive ROI

Helping employees find meaning in their work, reducing turnover and burnout.

Corporate ROI

Fulfilled staff, interior richness, high level intangible asset improvement, easy confidence that’s real, burn-out proof, longer vision

Learn How Finding Their Purpoise Will Help Your Team.

Bull Garlington on Finding Purpose in the Virtual World

LEADERSHIP CLARITY • STRATEGIC THINKING

Writing is thinking: How to turn a simple journal into your thought leadership creative powerhouse.

Core message

Writing regularly in a journal is thinking on paper, you will discover ideas and concepts and self-truths you weren’t aware of, you can track emerging ideas, giving them a space to develop, you can synthesize the data you capture at your desk, does not replace the digital but integrates with it. Desktop executes. Journal synthesizes.

Corporate ROI

This session delivers an immediate operational ROI by reducing decision fatigue, lowering the costly toll of burnout, and transforming distracted employees into high-impact, self-motivated strategists. Every attendee walks away equipped with a notebook, a pen, and a masterclass in Bull’s proprietary resilience journaling framework—a simple, zero-tech toolkit that takes only minutes to learn but drives high-value corporate ideation and career stamina for years to com

Executive ROI

Turns writing into an executive skill about thinking clearly and strategically.

One-Sheet
A high-contrast blue and orange duotone woodcut graphic of a hand holding a pen ready to write, illustrating the strategic connection between writing, critical thinking, and executive leadership.
How do we think more clearly and develop the fluid ideation required to lead our industries? We write it down. As the writer behind the popular column Analog Attorney, Bull demonstrates how traditional tools rescue the modern mind from digital fatigue. Putting pen to paper briefly removes an executive from the reactive chain of execution, providing the cognitive space necessary to pivot from daily fire-fighting to proactive strategic planning. The biological business returns of this manual pause are massive: sharpened executive function, heightened creative output, and absolute cognitive ease.
Keynote speaker Bull Garlington training executives on how to build and deliver powerful extemporaneous presentations using just a pen and paper.
When an executive hides behind a wall of text or steps through dozens of bulleted slides, the audience tunes out. True leadership communication doesn't live on a screen; it happens in the space between the speaker and the room. No Notes. No Net. No Problem. is a high-impact workshop that strips away the digital crutches paralyzing modern presenters. Using nothing more than a single piece of paper and a pen, Bull demonstrates his proprietary, tactical framework for building, structuring, and delivering compelling, extemporaneous speeches on the fly. This program transforms anxious public speaking into a commanding, authentic leadership asset.

Leadership Clarity & Interpersonal Dynamics

No notes. not net. no problem: public speaking as leadership

Core message

True executive presence requires stepping out from behind the podium. Audiences don't connect with slides—they connect with authentic human storytellers who can command a room without a digital net

Executive ROI

• Executive Presence & Authority: Trains leadership and management teams to speak with spontaneous confidence, instantly boosting personal credibility during high-stakes pitches and board meetings.

• Agile Presentation Mastery: Equips individual leaders with an immediate, repeatable blueprint to handle unexpected communication pivots, media Q&As, and unscripted panels smoothly.

• Anxiety Elimination: Replaces presentation panic with tactical preparation, transforming public speaking into a powerful, stress-free career accelerator.

Corporate ROI

• Eradication of Slide Dependency: Cuts down hours wasted on building bloated presentation decks, freeing up valuable staff time and operational resources.

• Brand Consistency: Ensures company representatives deliver clear, unified, and high-impact messaging that elevates the organization's public reputation.

• Meeting Efficiency: Reduces internal presentation friction, leading to faster, more decisive corporate alignment sessions.

One-Sheet

Bull Garlington on Extemporaneous Speaking

Corporate Entertainment • Literary Culture & Team Engagement

Interactive Literary Experience: An Evening with the Author

Core message

Great books are conversation pieces. An authentic literary event creates shared intellectual culture, sparks laughter, and connects teams through world-class, human storytelling.

Corporate ROI

Premium Client Hospitality: Offers an upscale, highly memorable alternative to traditional client appreciation dinners or corporate mixers. Shared Intellectual Culture: Builds a vibrant, cohesive team community by introducing literary art and creative humor into the workplace ecosystem. Tangible Event Value: Every attendee walks away with custom-signed books, serving as a premium, long-lasting reminder of the organization’s investment.

Executive ROI

Creative Recharge: Breaks up executive decision fatigue by immersing leadership teams in a relaxed environment of high-level wit and cultural narrative. Advanced

Storytelling Exposure: Models how an elite communicator hooks an audience, utilizes clean humor, and holds a room without digital assets.
Low-Friction Networking: Creates an effortless, relaxed social anchor that naturally encourages cross-tier mingling among executives, stakeholders, and clients.

One-Sheet
A high-contrast orange and blue duotone woodcut graphic profile of corporate keynote speaker Bull Garlington wearing glasses and his signature straw fedora hat for the Fat in Paris program presentation.
Bring your team or VIP clients together for an unscripted, side-splitting interactive literary event that goes far beyond a standard book reading. Drawing from his background as an award-winning B2B writer, humorist, and author of 11 books—including the acclaimed travel narrative Fat in Paris—Bull Garlington delivers a high-energy storytelling performance paired with an exclusive, live-drawn book-signing experience. This session strips away corporate stuffiness to celebrate the art of narrative, leaving every attendee with signed copies of his books and a renewed appreciation for the power of the written word.