Featured Speaking Topics
We offer a range of speaking topics designed to inform, inspire, and support your organization’s goals. Topics can also be customized to meet the specific needs of your audience.
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Meet the leaders shaping stronger, smarter, more engaged workplaces.
Steve Picarde
President at PI Midlantic
Steve Picarde Jr. partners with company leaders to optimize their talent by putting the right people in the right roles, developing their leaders, and aligning their talent with their business strategy.
Steve is President of PI Midlantic. Through a combination of consulting expertise and a talent optimization platform, PI Midlantic helps their clients create engaged workforces and strong cultures. Clients leverage PI Midlantic's software to put team members in positions that allow them to utilize their strengths every day. Steve and his team train leaders to leverage the PI data to manage and motivate their teams more effectively and build their teams with a plan. And most importantly, help their clients build organizations that are committed, aligned, and poised to succeed.
PI Midlantic has grown to become the largest certified partner of the Predictive Index in the world. We currently support over 600 clients, in all industries, in over 40 countries around the world.
Mr. Picarde and his wife, JK, have been married for 19 years and have three great kids. When he is not traveling on business, you can usually find him on a boat, a golf course, or acting as an Uber driver for his kids to their various sporting events.
Chris Picarde
Vice President at PI Midlantic
Chris Picarde is a dynamic speaker and consultant who helps business leaders build stronger teams, hire smarter, and lead with confidence. As Vice President of PI Midlantic, the largest Certified Partner of The Predictive Index, Chris works with executives across industries to connect business strategy with people strategy, ensuring the right people are in the right roles and fully aligned to drive results.
A trusted advisor since joining PI Midlantic in 2017, Chris has supported organizations ranging from high-growth startups to Fortune 100 companies. His expertise spans leadership development, organizational design, talent acquisition, and culture transformation. In addition to his consulting work, Chris serves as a Master Trainer for PI Midlantic’s Open Workshop Certifications, where he equips leaders and HR professionals to unlock the full potential of their teams.
Chris’s speaking style blends science, storytelling, and practical insights, helping audiences understand themselves, their teams, and the behavioral forces that drive performance. His sessions are known for being interactive, relatable, and immediately actionable.
He has partnered with leaders in industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, hospitality, construction, finance, and private equity.
A graduate of Randolph-Macon College with a B.S. in Political Science, Chris captained both the soccer and tennis teams. He was born and raised in Annapolis, Maryland, where he lives with his wife Meghan and their Chocolate Lab, Finn.
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Absolutely. Every presentation is customized to your organization’s objectives, culture, and current challenges. We review your goals in advance to ensure the message connects directly with your team. Whether you’re focused on leadership, communication, engagement, or talent strategy, we make the content highly relevant and actionable.
PI Midlantic speakers are seasoned consultants and facilitators with deep knowledge and experience in talent optimization, leadership development, and organizational strategy. Many have worked directly with hundreds of organizations across industries, helping leaders build high-performing teams, strengthen communication, and integrate Predictive Index tools into their people practices.
Our speakers present to a wide range of audiences, including executive teams, HR and talent leaders, people managers, company-wide groups, and conference attendees.
Both. PI Midlantic offers flexible presentation formats to meet your needs. We speak at in-person events nationwide and also deliver highly engaging virtual keynotes. Whether your audience is on-site, remote, or hybrid, we ensure a smooth and impactful experience.