David Shaft

Most communication speakers teach from theory. I teach from inside the work. As a President's Club banker at Rocket Mortgage, I run the conversations I'm teaching about every week — discovery calls, hard pivots, client trust repairs. As host of 58+ longform podcast interviews with executives, creators, and negotiators, I've built a working library of the moves the best communicators actually use, not the ones books say they should. Every keynote ends with the Try This Tomorrow framework: one specific action your audience runs the next morning, in the actual conversation they came in dreading. If you want a speaker who makes the room laugh and gives them something concrete enough to use Monday, that's the contract I'm here to honor.