Face Your Fears.
Fulfill Your Dreams.

Speaker, coach, author, and trainer Dave Cornell helps people overcome fear and cultivate courage so they can live a more productive, passionate, engaged life.

Face Your Fears.
Fulfill Your Dreams.

Speaker, coach, author, and trainer Dave Cornell helps people overcome fear and cultivate courage so they can live a more productive, passionate, engaged life.

Speaker, coach, author, and trainer, Dave Cornell helps people overcome fear and cultivate courage
so they can live a more productive, passionate, engaged life.

Questions? Call: 952-200-7499

Questions? Call: 952-200-7499

As hired by

“Audiences walk away energized and changed! I know first-hand that audiences love him, and so do the meeting planners that he made look so good!”

— Dave Horsager, CEO The Trust Edge Leadership Institute

How much is fear costing you?

The effects of fear are corrosive to success

Does your team see change as an opportunity or a chore?

Are people willing to take on healthy risks and accountability?

Are some important subjects “off limits” to discuss?

Is it a nightmare trying to get everyone on board?

Does your team do the right thing or just enough to get by?

Do people talk behind eachother’s backs?

Fear may be costing you more than you can afford, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.

  • 35+ years in sales, sales management, training and development
  • Certified DISC trainer and facilitator
  • Helped thousands of people find more success through managing fears and cultivating courage
  • Hired by businesses, boards, churches, events, schools, and more
  • Certified life/personal development coach
  • Senior Trainer for David Horsager, The Trust Edge Leadership Institute

GET THE BOOK!

Cultivate Courage

by Dave Cornell

Dave provides you with practical, actionable steps to face your fears and lead a more courageous life!

how it works

Get simple, actionable steps to be more productive, fulfilled, and engaged.

Face Your fears

Learn how shining a light on fear can show which fears are real and which are irrational.

cultivate courage

Dave teaches actionable steps to overcome fear and start living with intentional courage.

reach your Goals

Gain a new perspective so you can live with courage and reach goals that seemed out of reach.

FACE YOUR FEARS

Learn how shining a light on fear can show which fears are real and which are irrational.

Cultivate Courage

Dave teaches actionable steps to overcome fear and start living with intentional courage.

Reach your goals

Gain a new perspective so you can live with courage and reach goals that seemed out of reach.

What makes Cultivate Courage different?

When it comes to reaching goals and living with purpose, many people (and entire companies) fall short because of fears, worry, and self-doubt. With Cultivate Courage, Dave Cornell helps you learn to move forward with courage so you can become more productive, more passionate, more engaged, and more energized.
Click to Read More...

While some fears are rational, our irrational fears are the ones that trap us into a cycle of missed opportunities and regret… which doesn’t come cheap. The cost for businesses is overwhelming and the cost for individuals is heartbreaking.

Dave knows what it’s like to be hijacked by fear. When and his wife both lost their jobs and their home during the financial crisis the fear and self-doubt were paralyzing.

Everything finally changed when there was no option but to dig deep and move forward despite fear—living with courage changed everything! Now Dave Cornell has helped thousands of people find more success by learning to manage their fears and live with intentional courage.

When you help your team grow and see opportunities where they once saw roadblocks, you pave the way for new possibilities.

Cultivate Courage is a dynamic, engaging, and transparent message which inspires and fosters change as a presentation, in trainings, and in coaching. You’ll discover how to:

  • Foster the thought patterns of highly successful people and quiet self-defeating thoughts
  • Reframe your fears so you can overcome them or get them to work for you
  • Activate simple steps to start moving towards goals you thought were unattainable

Book Dave Cornell today to help everyone on your team become more productive, fulfilled, and engaged.

The perfect event, Customized for your audience

Presentations

Motivate your audience to live with intentional courage.

Workshops


Foster teamwork and a culture of productivity and passion.

Coaching

Guidance to become the leader you were born to be.

Audience reaction

“His message is one that everyone can relate to; teenagers to senior citizens, adults in transition to a conference room full of business professionals!”

Jan Haeg, Director of Field Talent Development, Lifetouch

“Dave presented to our clients at an Executive Forum and his message of cultivating courage was inspirational and motivational. He addresses key challenges faced during times of transition and delivers practical steps that are memorable, actionable and positively challenge individuals to move forward.”

Sue Nelson, Navigate Forward

Dave was outstanding! He provided a fantastic message with terrific, practical insights for our staff at every level. Our entire experience with him was AMAZING!

Robin McCartney, Sr. Management Analyst, City of Las Vegas, NV

Most requested topics

All presentations and workshops can be customized to your specific needs and audience. I am happy to visit with you to see how we can make any of these presentations a great experience for you and your teams.

Cultivate Courage

In this presentation I provide simple, practical tools to help business and organizations become more productive, more passionate, more engaged and more energized with a greater possibility for new vision. Learn to be a difference maker and not just a crowd follower. The words I hear most often about this presentation are authentic, genuine, sincere, life-changing, and inspiring.

Courageous Leadership

In a 2012 study Forbes Magazine found that nearly 2/3 of all U.S. workers were dissatisfied in their work. Leadership plays a major role in developing a culture that determines an employees level of engagement or disengagement. People often lead the way they have been led, manage the way they have been managed, and even parent the way they were parented. There is a courageous way to lead but it requires leaders to look internally to make a difference in their organizations externally. This presentation focuses on creating an awareness in leaders to see their world and their employees differently ultimately making a difference on their company’s bottom line.


In addition, all speaking topics can also be delivered as workshops.

DISC Behavioral Profile

Great for your personal and professional life, DISC is the universal language of behavior. This simple, but profound assessment provides great insight into human motivation, compatibility, communication, diversity, self-awareness and greater awareness of those around you. This tool can be applied to enhances relationships, inform decisions, provide better communication and improve mutual understanding. The DISC training is a foundation for the other training events on communication and conflict resolution.

Effective Communication in the Workplace

Much of miscommunication in our daily lives both personally and professionally is a result of not recognizing how we communicate as well as how others communicate. This course will focus on communication in the areas of speaking effectively, listening effectively, understanding non-verbal communication as well as communication filters.

Conflict Resolution in the Workplace

If you’re working with other people, conflict is inevitable, and that’s why learning to manage conflict productively is a key factor for your success. In this course we will focus on understanding why conflict occurs, conflict styles, the value of conflict, as well as develop an awareness of how each individual manages conflict and steps to effective conflict resolution.

1-on-1 coaching

1-on-1 Coaching is the fastest, most personalized way to get the results you’re looking for. As a certified coach I am trained to partner with individuals to help them achieve improvement, change, or reach other specific goals in their personal or professional life. This can be done in person, by phone, or over Skype, Zoom or Facetime.

Book Dave Cornell

Whether it’s a keynote or workshop, each event is customized for your audience.

STEP 1: Tell us about your event.  STEP 2: Event is customized for your audience.  STEP 3: Get an event your audience will love.

Make your event a success

5 + 5 =

“Our entire staff agreed that Dave is, by far, the best speaker we have had in over a decade! Thank you for re-energizing our staff at a time when we needed it most!”

Ben Januschka, Principal, Farmington Elementary School

Past clients

  • AgStar Financial Services
  • Alliance Laundry Systems
  • Anoka-Hennepin Technical College
  • Augsburg University Men’s Basketball
  • BNI Energy
  • Butler Machinery Company
  • C & B Operations
  • Catholic United Financial
  • Center for Farm Financial MGMT
  • City of Las Vegas, NV
  • Clay County
  • CMC – Custom Marketing Company
  • Coldwell Banker Burnet Realty
  • Crossroads Career Network
  • Crystal Women Connect
  • Dakota Prairie Refinery
  • Doosan Bobcat
  • Face2Face Job Search Network
  • Farmington Elementary School
  • Feed My Starving Children
  • Fergus Falls Chamber of Commerce
  • Fergus Falls Young Professional Network
  • Fergus Falls YMCA
  • Freedom Resource Center
  • Freshwater Education District
  • GSN Mission Services
  • Genesys Works
  • Great Plains Food Bank
  • Health Resources Center
  • I Point Bible Camp
  • Lakes Country Academy
  • Lakes Country Service Cooperative
  • Luther Automotive Group
  • MACSSA
  • Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives
  • Midwest Sign Association
  • Minnesota Council for Quality
  • MN Department of Employment and Economic Development
  • Minnesota Jail Programmers
  • Minnesota Job Partners
  • Minnesota Rural Electric Association
  • Minnesota Social Services Association
  • Minnesota Sheriff’s Association
  • Montana-Dakota Utilities
  • National Association of Fraternal Insurance Counselors
  • National Corn Growers Association
  • Navigate Forward
  • North Dakota Association for Talent Development
  • North Dakota Implement Dealers Association
  • North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department
  • North Dakota Telephone Association
  • North Iowa Area Community College
  • Northern Balance & Scale
  • Park Christian School
  • Park Company Realtors
  • PartnerSHIP 4 Health
  • Professional Sales Association of Minnesota
  • ReCon Management
  • Red River Waste MGMT Board
  • Safe House Project
  • Sharepoint Credit Union
  • Star Cutter Company
  • Taylor Corporation
  • Thrivent Financial
  • Tri-State Telecom Operations Conference
  • Twin Cities Adult Education Alliance
  • WBI Energy
  • West Central Minnesota SHRM
  • Western National Insurance Group
  • xpedx

When you face your fears and cultivate courage you can finally start living a productive, passionate, engaged life.