Igniting Your Next Now
Moments shape people — How we meet them shapes everything.
Dean Lincoln Hyers is a keynote speaker who helps people face challenges without losing themselves — to move forward without losing heart.
Drawing from true survival stories, and decades of presence coaching, Dean teaches how to choose your inner state before it chooses it for you.
His work is about one thing: helping people find their inner glow.
“As someone who has hired dozens of speakers over the past 15 years, Dean Hyers has made a bigger impact on my audience, my organization, and myself than all the rest.”
— Stephanie Menning, Midwest Energy Association
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“I thought people were either born leaders or they weren’t. Now I know a leader can be built.”
IGNITING YOUR NEXT NOW
Meeting the Moment in a Human Way
A story-driven keynote about how leaders show up when things get hard. Dean explores why performance, culture, and trust are shaped not by strategy alone, but by the way people meet real moments of pressure. Drawing from lived experience and practical leadership work, this talk helps leaders bring presence, humanity, and intentional choice into the moments that matter most — with teams, clients, and themselves.
CODEWORD: JOY
Choosing Who You Are in Crisis
A story-driven keynote about choice, resilience, and meeting the moment when it counts. Drawing from a real-life mugging and a high-risk cancer battle, Dean shows how joy isn't something you seek — it's something you bring. This keynote reframes leadership as an internal decision first, revealing how the way you meet pressure shapes performance, culture, and outcomes, even when the crisis itself can’t be changed.
CODEWORD: IGNITE
Raising the Ones Who Glow
A story-driven keynote about how leaders multiply impact by elevating the people around them. Dean shows that leadership isn’t just about vision or direction — it’s about noticing who carries light and helping them shine without burning out. Drawing from real stories and practical leadership work, this talk explores how trust, culture, and performance grow when leaders choose to ignite others instead of competing with them.
CODEWORD: DEFEND
Protecting What Matters Most
A story-driven keynote about guarding humanity in high-pressure environments. Drawing from real moments of conflict, leadership, and moral choice, Dean explores how culture is shaped not by what we say we value, but by what we protect when it’s inconvenient. This keynote challenges leaders to defend trust, dignity, and purpose in moments where it would be easier to look away — and shows how doing so becomes the true measure of leadership.
Emotion Turns Life Into Experience.
Choose Joy. Architect Yours.
From the Dean On Purpose Vlog
A candle doesn’t steal light from the world around it. It burns of itself. And without darkness, it wouldn’t even know why it exists.
“Everyone should pick up a copy of this book. Whether your darkness comes from illness, loss, fear, or the quiet battles no one sees, CODEWORD: JOY gives you the courage to choose light again.
And when it does, pass it forward. Let your glow become someone else’s beginning… the ripple effect in motion.
This book is more than a story — it’s the first spark in a trilogy that helps you light your own way, ignite others, and stand as a guardian of the flame in a world that desperately needs it.”
— Reader
CODEWORD: JOY is the first spark in a trilogy about lighting your way, igniting others, and protecting the flame when darkness presses in — the quiet strength that keeps humanity intact.
Dean Hyers demystifies presence — for when the moment matters
Drawing from his work as a filmmaker, covert operative trainer and high-stakes trial coach, he reveals how to win in performance moments.
Across Winning Presence for Business Presenters, Winning AEC Interviews, and Winning Virtual AEC Interviews, Dean shows professionals how to command attention, communicate with clarity, and build trust when it matters most.
These principles have helped Architecture, Engineering, and Construction teams win their way onto more than $18 billion in projects, including U.S. Bank Stadium, Penn Station, and UCSF’s Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital campus.