Keynote Speaker · Operations & Leadership Advisor

DAVIDE DI GIORGIO

From Correction to Commitment
I help leaders build teams who care enough to perform when nobody's watching.
Most leadership work is correction in kinder language: another survey, workshop or offsite. I work on what to remove, so commitment holds when nobody's watching.
TEDx speaker, featured on TED.com · Author of Being Unapologetic and Good Enough · #1 Amazon bestselling author in 8 countries
Davide Di Giorgio speaking on stage

What Davide speaks on

Keynotes · Masterclasses · Advisory · Worldwide

01

From Correction to Commitment

Building leaders and teams who care enough to perform when nobody's watching.

Great for operations & franchise conferences · leadership summits · CEO & CHRO offsites

Audiences leave with why every correction-based fix hits a ceiling, the operating posture that makes belief-led performance hold at scale, and the Monday-morning conversation that starts it.

02

The Engagement Ceiling

Engagement stuck. Retention sliding. Managers leaving. Why nothing you've tried has broken through.

Great for CHRO · People & Culture · HR summits

Audiences leave with engagement seen as a belief problem, not a behavior one, a new frame for the middle-manager crisis, and three real ways to measure whether your people believe.

03

What Works Doesn't Scale

Why the gap between your best and your average keeps widening, and adding more won't close it.

Great for COO · multi-unit operators · international franchise systems

Audiences leave with the difference between compliance architecture and commitment architecture, and a model that makes your best location replicable across borders.

The New Book · 2026

GOOD ENOUGH

How great leaders build teams who care enough to perform when nobody's watching.
Most leadership tools are correction in kinder language. The fix isn't adding more; it's taking away what's in the way. If you lead people and can't move the numbers, this book is for you. — Maria Franzoni, former International Speaker Bureau Owner & Agent; bestselling author of The Bookability Formula
Built on three decades inside operations, the people who lived it, and case studies from global brands, elite sport, and organizations that run on respect instead of correction-based oversight.
Good Enough book
Why Book Davide
  • 30 years across theater, music, audio engineering, teaching, hospitality and franchise operations: the source of a subtractive method most speakers don't have.
  • 1,200+ days on the operational floor at Crumbl: field trainer to director.
  • 69 location openings across the US & Canada, including Crumbl's first international expansion.
  • The operating systems he's built over three decades underpin more than $100M in net sales.
  • More than quadrupled employee engagement: trained team members went from staying 6 months to over 2 years, with franchise-partner satisfaction up 25% and in-store revenue and customer satisfaction up to 12%.
Trusted by
IHG InterContinental Hotels Group Choice Hotels Crumbl Organifi Colorado PTA TEDx
The Speaker
Davide Di Giorgio
Davide has spent thirty years asking one question: what makes a team perform when nobody's watching. He has asked it in places with nothing in common: theater, hotels, aircraft cabins, classrooms, and the operational floor of a billion-dollar brand. Born in Canada, a US dual citizen, now based in Sicily.
Formats

Keynotes (30–75 min) · Masterclasses (½-day to multi-day) · Advisory retainers (6–12 months) · Breakouts & Q&A

Audiences

Leadership summits & conferences · CEO / COO / CHRO offsites · Operations & franchise systems · Multi-unit operators · People & Culture

See Davide on Stage
Praise

Overwhelmingly, our attendees rated Davide number one. A phenomenal speaker, and one of the easiest and most enjoyable people I've done business with.

— Casey Fox, Conference Director

Confident, engaged managers create consistent operations, lower turnover, and stronger cultures. Davide develops leaders so exceptional that sales growth becomes the outcome, not the objective.

— Megan Moore, Franchisee, ZZA Hospitality Group

We've shared stages, I've coached alongside him, and I've watched him develop leaders in ways that continued long after he was gone. He doesn't just write about it. I've watched him do it.

— Carson Cooper, M.A., International Speaker, Master Coach & Leadership Trainer; Founder, iAscend