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Curt Steinhorst

Distraction Expert

Steinhorst, Curt Headshot Sept 2024
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TEDx: How to like work again.....No, seriously.
We're Made to be Distracted
Distraction Expert
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Steinhorst, Curt Headshot Sept 2024
Speaker Reel
Virtual Reel
TEDx: How to like work again.....No, seriously.
We're Made to be Distracted
Distraction Expert

Human attention is the most limited, valuable, and misunderstood resource in the modern marketplace. Curt Steinhorst helps leaders and teams take control of their attention and focus on what matters most for their success by applying the science behind how the brain works to the reality of our hyper-connected, hybrid world.

As a child, Steinhorst moved at a pace the world is only now catching up to — always a mile a minute, with his head in the clouds, dreaming of a future while ignoring that day’s homework. Diagnosed with ADHD, he found that his rapid processing and boundless curiosity were not just quirks, but assets that would propel his dynamic career.

Today, Steinhorst is the founder and CEO of the consultancy, Focuswise, where he helps organizations develop focused and productive leaders, teams, individuals, and cultures. He is also a senior executive at Venus Aerospace, where he drives strategic initiatives that not only advance hypersonic travel but also help leaders adapt to and shape a rapidly accelerating world. Growing up, we imagined flying cars and cities on Mars, but instead, we got smartphones and mass ADHD. Steinhorst is now at the forefront of tackling both these challenges.

A highly respected keynote speaker, Steinhorst’s work, which is deeply rooted in his personal experiences, has placed him on stages in front of global leaders and as an advisor to visionaries from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. He has delivered over 500 keynotes for organizations including AT&T, Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, and the US Naval Academy. Steinhorst is also the author of Can I Have Your Attention?, which explore how to manage attention in the high-speed digital era, and is a regular contributor to Forbes on leadership and the future of work.

Known for his humility, authenticity, and humour, Steinhorst’s approach is fueled by intellectual curiosity and empathy. Through speaking, writing, executive leadership, and advisory roles, he guides leaders through the complexities of today’s world to shape the future and build organizations that thrive at speed.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • We want to take a moment to thank you for your help with our COVID-19-inspired work-at-home webinar. The first one went so well that we can’t wait for the follow-up in a few weeks.

    We were very impressed with the amount of custom-tailoring you put into the program as well as your willingness to be flexible to incorporate our needs. More than that, our participants felt inspired and energized by you personally. They took away many actionable insights and attitudes that are particularly useful while we are all isolating and juggling responsibilities for our homes, our families, and particularly educating and managing (or trying to manage) our children.

    With your webinar oriented specifically for this coronavirus chapter in our history, and the extraordinary changes, challenges, doubts, shifts, and responsibilities that our people face because of it, your message resonated with our culture. Fortifying our focus, managing our attention, and deflecting distraction, could not be more timely or necessary subjects to realize as we address a reshaped future.

    The participation was at all-time high, the message was inclusive, and feedback we gathered after the webinar was positive.

  • I want to share my deepest thanks for the presentation you just made to our Summer Learning Academy! You have set the bar very high for our program for the next two weeks, and the participants are extremely excited to tweet and post their responses…Your tips, research, and insights really connected well with this audience, and I can tell you have encouraged a lot of reflection on the topic of focus. Thank you so much for sharing your time and talent with us!

  • Everything a YPO/WPO speaker should be! Excellent in every way! Well done! … Very, very interesting & informative … Fantastic! Real take home value. Time flew by and I could have listened longer. Loved it! … Off the charts! … Nailed it! … Curt is a great speaker and a terrific young man. He should definitely be a regular speaker atYPO and WPO meetings … Perfect! Could not have been better …10+++!

    (Curt’s average score, all attendees: 9.9)

  • Curt was fabulous! The audience was very engaged, the topic was extremely beneficial and he was really funny. Our United Van Lines and Mayflower agents wanted more time with him!

  • We made the right decision when we booked Curt Steinhorst to speak at our conference. Curt was professional, engaging, funny, and informative with practical tips for professionals. We received so much positive feedback about Curt from our members that I cannot recommend him highly enough!

  • Thank you for presenting at this year’s ReVive Conference at Texas Health Resources. We appreciate the amount of work you put into making your presentation so captivating and thought provoking. Many thanks for making time in your busy schedule to attend and make a truly great talk.

  • It’s no small feat to keep a room full of top performing wealth managers engaged and off their phones for an entire keynote. Not only did Curt maintain enthusiastic attention, but he gave us plenty of practical advice for finding focus in the ocean of distractions. His session was the highest rated of the conference.

  • If you’re looking for someone who can equip your people to better focus in today’s work environment and do so while keeping them entertained and engaged, look no further than Curt.

  • It feels like an impossible dream — to be creative and productive…responsive aand efficient…open to others and focused on your own work. In his provocative, pithy style, Curt Steinhorst shows how to make this dream a reality.

  • No workforce issue is more important to address than the challenge of digital distractions. What most impressed me was the attention he gave to customizing his message for the specific needs of our industry.

  • The reviews have been unanimously positive, across the board, and we could not have been happier with how everything went. Curt was energetic, entertaining, and engaging—and gave all-in attendance some important things to think about.  In short, Curt absolutely hit it out of the park!

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