1. Who is Nathan Jamail?

Nathan Jamail is a bestselling author, executive coach, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and adjunct professor at SMU’s Cox School of Business. With more than two decades of experience leading sales teams and developing business leaders, Nathan helps organizations build high-performing teams through stronger leadership, accountability, and consistent execution. His books include Serve Up, Coach Down and The Sales Leaders Playbook.

2. What does Nathan Jamail speak about?

Nathan speaks about leadership, sales performance, accountability, team culture, employee engagement, and professional development. His keynote topics include Build to Win, From Avoidance to Accountability, Practice Makes Profit, Clarity Creates Trust, and Selling Begins with You. His presentations focus on helping leaders establish clear expectations, improve coaching practices, strengthen team performance, and turn knowledge into consistent action.

3. What audiences is Nathan Jamail best suited for?

Nathan is well suited for corporate conferences, sales meetings, leadership retreats, professional associations, and executive development programs. His presentations are especially valuable for sales professionals, managers, business owners, and senior executives seeking to improve team performance and workplace culture. Organizations looking to strengthen accountability, develop emerging leaders, improve customer relationships, or establish more consistent performance standards can benefit from his practical approach.

4. What makes Nathan Jamail different from other coporate culture speakers?

Nathan combines real-world business leadership experience with an engaging, interactive presentation style. Having led high-performing sales teams and coached leaders across industries, he emphasizes practical strategies rather than motivation alone. His approach includes audience participation, relatable stories, and actionable frameworks that help attendees apply what they learn to everyday challenges. He also offers workshops, leadership coaching, and ongoing development programs to help organizations reinforce lessons beyond the keynote.

5. How do I book Nathan Jamail for an event?

To check Nathan’s availability or request a quote, contact Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau by calling 973-313-9800, emailing info@eaglestalent.com, or visiting EaglesTalent.com and submitting a booking inquiry through his speaker profile page.

6. What are Nathan Jamail’s speaking fees?

Nathan Jamail’s speaking fee varies depending on the event format, location, audience size, and specific program requirements. To receive an exact quote, contact Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau by calling 973-313-9800, emailing info@eaglestalent.com, or submitting a check availability request through his speaker profile page.

7. Can Nathan Jamail customize the keynote for my audience?

Yes. Nathan works with event organizers to tailor his presentations to their organization’s goals, audience, and challenges. Through preparation calls and discussions with leadership teams, he can incorporate relevant examples, industry terminology, and practical takeaways into his keynote. He also offers customized workshops, group leadership coaching, and development programs to help participants put his strategies into practice.

8. What do audiences say about Nathan Jamail’s presentations?

Audience testimonials highlight Nathan’s engaging delivery, practical insights, and ability to connect with professionals at different levels. Steve Fox, a vice president at Microsoft, praised the benefits of working with Nathan and recommended him to others. Other client feedback describes his presentations as energizing, straightforward, and effective in helping teams improve coaching, accountability, and performance.

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With over 25 years of firsthand experience, Nathan stands as a distinguished leader in sales and leadership.
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Biography

Nathan Jamail is a record-setting performer, CEO, Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at SMU’s Cox School of Business, where he has earned more than 18 Teacher Excellence Awards, and a bestselling author of leadership and sales books. During his tenure as an Executive Director at a Fortune 100 company, Nathan Jamail built and led seven #1 producing teams across five states and Puerto Rico. He has also built, scaled, and sold multiple small businesses, bringing real-world corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience to everything he teaches.

For more than two decades, Nathan has coached and developed leaders on three continents and thousands around the world. His leadership principles now serve as the backbone for organizations across manufacturing, finance, technology, communications, hospitality, and more.

In a business climate shaped by AI acceleration and constant disruption, Nathan helps organizations leverage technology without losing their human edge, building teams that win through clarity, discipline, accountability, and trust.

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Build TO Win: Expect More, Execute Better: The Mindset and Practices That Deliver Exceptional Results

The organizations that outperform the competition aren’t more talented. They’re more disciplined, more practiced, and more aligned. And they refuse to set “realistic” goals that shortchange their people and their bottom line.

They don’t just see winning as an outcome. They see it as a mindset — one that shifts what they expect and what excuses they’re willing to accept.

In this culture-changing keynote, Nathan shows leaders how to foster a mindset where winning becomes expected and coach their employees to higher levels of commitment, discipline, and performance.

Direct and practical, this keynote challenges leaders to choose logical over realistic goals (even when they feel too hard) and equips them to build teams that believe in what they do, commit to the process, and practice the behaviors that drive exceptional results.

Leaders Leave With:

A clear understanding of why winning is a mindset, not just a result, and ways to foster that mindset in themselves and others
Four proven coaching principles that will build, and keep, a winning team
A new perspective on what to expect from themselves and their team, and the confidence to hold everyone to a higher standard
Practical tools for connecting strategy to execution and aligning everyone around the same vision, mindset, and commitment to winning.

From Avoidance to Accountability: How Leaders Create Ownership, Raise Expectations, and Strengthen Performance

Accountability is crucial to an organization’s success, but most leaders struggle to maintain a high standard. They hesitate to challenge underperformance, tolerate excuses, and leave their teams floundering — unsure what’s expected and how to perform at their best.

It’s not because they don’t care. It’s because they either fundamentally misunderstand accountability or weren’t taught how to do it well.

In this candid keynote, Nathan shows leaders why accountability creates ownership, making it one of the most important things they can do for their people.

But Nathan doesn’t stop at why. He shows leaders how to hold others accountable without damaging relationships, creating a culture where accountability is expected — not avoided. Leaders leave with confidence instead of fear and a clear framework for elevating their people, culture, and performance to a higher standard.

Leaders Leave With:

A better understanding of how accountability lifts their people up, and a renewed commitment to fostering ownership through expectations
Practical approaches for leading the difficult conversations that are critical to growth
A clear framework for setting expectations that eliminates confusion and sets their people up to succeed
Proven methods for turning the idea of accountability into a regular routine through preparation and practice
Strategies and tools for building accountability without micromanaging, so they foster ownership without fear or confusion

Practice Makes Profit: Prepare for the Small Moments that Drive Big Growth

Great athletes don’t win because they have the most talent. They win because they practice. The same is true in sales.

Selling isn’t an innate ability. It’s a skill that needs to be developed. That doesn’t mean improving industry and product knowledge; it means becoming the trusted resource clients rely on to make their most important decisions. How? Through consistent practice.

In this high-impact, interactive keynote, Nathan challenges audiences to treat sales like the performance activity it is, even when it feels awkward. Through practical tools and a real-time scrimmage with the audience, he lays out a clear pathway for implementing the daily practices that drive results.

Because the teams that win are the ones who practice the fundamentals daily, scrimmage before the conversation, and prepare for the small moments that determine the big outcomes.

Sales Leaders and Professionals Leave With:

A better understanding of how daily practice improves their performance and culture
A structured framework for scrimmaging before critical conversations, improving both confidence and competence so they can connect better with their clients
Practical tools to build preparation into daily routines, so the team consistently practices the small skills that drive big results
The motivation to own their own development and coach their team to do the same

Clarity Creates Trust: Why Your Team Deserves expectations and Hard Conversations

Expectations are rising, information is moving rapidly, and teams are being asked to execute with greater speed and visibility. Leaders need their employees’ trust now more than ever, but only 23% of employees trust their leaders, according to Gallup(opens in new tab). Why? Because most leaders misunderstand how trust is built.

They avoid check-ins because they “trust their people,” they hesitate to clarify expectations because they don’t want to seem controlling, and they avoid conflict as long as possible. But that lack of communication doesn’t build trust; it destroys it. Employees don’t need a nicer boss. They need a clearer leader.

In this keynote, Nathan challenges leaders to stop confusing trust with silence and start creating clarity through proactive communication, prescriptive expectations, and courageous conversations. He teaches leaders how to remove fear from engagement by making expectations, intentions, and communication clear. The result? Confident leaders, prepared teams, and a culture where trust is the norm.

Leaders Leave With:

A proven framework for building trust through clear, confident communication and courageous conversations
A repeatable structure for handling problems instead of hiding them, increasing their confidence during difficult conversations
Practical tools for establishing clear expectations that prepare their team up for success
A deeper understanding of how unclear communication creates fear — and the specific practices that eliminate it

Selling Begins with You: Start Building the Mindset of a Top Performer

The sales professionals and teams who outsell the competition don’t do it by setting realistic goals. They do it by having the confidence and conviction to set logical goals — goals that feel impossible but logically are not.

But the real key isn’t the goal they set, it’s the mindset behind it.

Too many sales professionals either don’t have confidence in themselves and their role, or they’ve become too comfortable with their current performance. As a result, they lose the sale before they ever even try.

Nathan Jamail cuts through the excuses and complacency to help audiences develop a mindset that sells. They’ll learn the power of attitude and develop a belief in their product, themselves, and the nobility of their profession. Sales teams leave ready to set and achieve higher sales goals than ever before.

Sales Leaders and Teams with:

A deep conviction that sales is a noble profession and the work they do changes their clients’ lives for the better
Practical strategies for building and maintaining the attitude and energy they need to connect with confidence and authenticity
A clear understanding of how sandbagging kills belief and momentum, and a commitment to setting logical, not realistic, goals
A framework for fostering the belief and attitude that fuels greater joy in the work and greater impact on the bottom line