Twenty Minutes They Are Still Talking About Next Week.
Club programs, district conferences, and foundation dinners for Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Optimist, and every service club that has heard a lot of speakers.
A club program is twenty minutes inside an hour that also has to hold lunch, announcements, the invocation, and Happy Bucks. The speaker who forgets that is the reason the program chair stops returning calls. Chris Sund builds the club version to fit the slot exactly, ends on time, and gives a room of business owners and retirees one thing they can use before the next meeting.
Your club already believes the last principle in the book. Leave people better. The other nine are how a person gets in a position to actually do it.
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Program chairs need a paragraph, a photo, and ideally a link that makes members want to bring a guest that week. Chris has been on morning television in six markets and in Forbes, Inc., and the Midlands Business Journal, and the speaker kit has bios, photos, and program descriptions ready to paste.
Five things they take back to the office.
Your members have sat through a lot of programs. This is what makes one worth the hour.
- Something useful in a room where everyone runs something. A club table has a bank president, a contractor, a school administrator, and three retirees who built businesses of their own. The content works for all of them because the subject is the person rather than the org chart.
- A frame for the thing they have been putting off. The comfort ceiling is the section that gets brought up in the parking lot. Nearly everyone in a service club is very good at something and quietly settled on it a while ago.
- A reason members bring a guest. A program with a real title and a face is the easiest ask a member has all quarter, and guests are how clubs grow. That is worth more than any single meeting.
- The service ethic taken seriously. The final principle in the book is leave people better, which is not a coincidence and is not a pander. It is the closing movement, and in a service club it is the part that lands hardest.
- An ending on time. Twenty minutes means twenty minutes. Members with a one o'clock get to their one o'clock, and the program chair does not have to make the wrap-up gesture from the back of the room.
On what the club program is for
Six ways clubs and districts book him.
A single club program is the common entry point. A district conference or a multi-club joint meeting is where it makes the most sense on a travel day.
Weekly Club Program
The standard slot. Built to fit inside your meeting exactly, after the meal and announcements, ending on time without a signal from the back.District Conference Keynote
The general session for a district conference, convention, or multi-club gathering. Longer form, full arc, with time for questions.District Training & Leadership Assembly
For incoming club presidents, secretaries, and district leadership. Leading volunteers, which is harder than leading employees and gets almost no training.Foundation or Awards Dinner
Evening events, recognition dinners, and foundation fundraisers. Short, warm, and built around the people being honored.Multi-Club Joint Meeting
Two or more clubs combining for one program. The most cost-effective way for smaller clubs to bring in an outside speaker.Club Board Retreat
Your board and incoming leadership. Membership, succession, and how a volunteer board tells each other the truth.Nonprofit & Board Sessions
For the organizations your club supports and the boards your members sit on.Virtual Club Program
Live for hybrid clubs, satellite clubs, or a district running a program across several cities at once.Built for service clubs of every kind.
The framework holds across all of them. What changes is the length of the slot and who is sitting at the head table.
Rotary
Weekly club programs, district conferences, district training assemblies, satellite and Rotaract clubs, and foundation events.Kiwanis
Club meetings, division councils, and district conventions, plus Key Club and youth program events.Lions Clubs
Club programs, zone and district meetings, and state conventions.Optimist International
Club programs and district conferences, with a natural fit given the youth focus and the school work.Sertoma & Exchange
Club programs and regional meetings for Sertoma, Exchange Clubs, and similar community service organizations.Elks, Moose & Fraternal
Lodge programs, state association meetings, and recognition dinners.Toastmasters
Club meetings, area and division contests, and district conferences.Economic Development
Economic development groups, downtown associations, and Main Street organizations with a similar membership mix.Community Foundations
Community foundation annual meetings, donor events, and grantee gatherings.Four movements. Ten principles.
The club version compresses the arc into twenty minutes and lands on the last movement, which is the one a service club was built around.
The Foundation
Ownership and time. What is still yours to move, at any age and at any stage of a career.The Breakthrough
The comfort ceiling and the inner voice. The section club members bring up afterward.The Standard
Truth over praise, and the hidden gear. Who in your life will actually tell you the truth.The Purpose
Finishing, and leaving people better. Where the club program lands, and the reason your members joined in the first place.A copy for the club, or for the students you sponsor.
Clubs use the book two ways. As a member giveaway at a district conference, and as something to hand the students their scholarship and youth programs already support.
You Are Capable of More: A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. An Amazon bestseller from Game Changer Publishing, with a foreword by Ben Newman.
Ten chapters across four movements, readable by a club member and by the high school senior your club just gave a scholarship to. The free companion toolkit includes a discussion guide, a self-assessment, and a thirty day challenge, none of it gated behind an email address.
The feedback speaks for itself.
Chris energized the room, sparked conversations, and encouraged connections throughout the event, with a lasting impact on our future leaders.
His engaging style draws the audience into the conversation, creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages learning and reflection. You leave not only inspired but equipped.
Chris was an outstanding speaker and a highlight of our event. He took the time to deeply understand our organization and thoughtfully personalized every moment.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who understands the influence he carries. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
Chris would be an incredible addition to any live audience. Each time he finds a unique way to connect on both a personal and professional level, keeping everyone engaged and attentive.
Chris energized the room, sparked conversations, and encouraged connections throughout the event, with a lasting impact on our future leaders.
His engaging style draws the audience into the conversation, creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages learning and reflection. You leave not only inspired but equipped.
Chris was an outstanding speaker and a highlight of our event. He took the time to deeply understand our organization and thoughtfully personalized every moment.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who understands the influence he carries. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
Chris would be an incredible addition to any live audience. Each time he finds a unique way to connect on both a personal and professional level, keeping everyone engaged and attentive.
Programs already on your calendar.
He knows what a volunteer board costs you.
Chris Sund is an executive leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of You Are Capable of More.
As President and COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula, he helped grow Uniti Med 10x in two years and earn the number three ranking on the Inc. Regionals list among the fastest growing companies in the Midwest, while the organization earned Fortune Best Workplaces recognition and Great Place to Work certification three years running. He serves as Vice President of the NATHO Board of Directors, so he knows what it takes to give real hours to something that does not pay you.
He is a father of three, a Maxwell Leadership Certified speaker, trainer, and coach, and the founder of Amplify Speakers. He is a Forbes Business Council member and an Inc. Leadership Forum member. He runs companies during the week and speaks because he has something specific to say, not because speaking is the job.
Details your program chair will ask for.
Program chairs and district governors ask these.
What does a club program cost?
How long is the club program?
Will he sell anything from the podium?
Can several clubs combine for one program?
Do you speak at district conferences and training assemblies?
Can he speak to our membership problem?
Does the content fit our service mission?
Can we get books for our scholarship recipients?
Do you do virtual club programs?
How do we start?
Other ways communities book him.
Same framework, built for the specific room you are filling.