When Life Doesn't Follow the Plan
Reframe the unexpected into growth, resilience and purpose.
David Glass is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur and former professional baseball umpire who helps audiences rethink what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan.
Because eventually, it doesn’t.
Careers change. Families face circumstances they never anticipated. Businesses take unexpected turns. The future we carefully mapped out suddenly looks very different from the life we’re actually living.
Apparently, life doesn’t spend nearly as much time looking at our plans as we do.
David knows that territory firsthand.
His journey has taken him from professional baseball to financial planning, through life-changing experiences with both developmental and acquired disabilities in his own family, into state-level leadership in Georgia’s disability community, and ultimately to building Darden’s Delights, a pie company created around a bigger purpose.
None of that was on the original itinerary.
What Your Audience Will Walk Away With
- Perspective - How changing the way we frame circumstances can change what we do next.
- Resilience - Moving forward without pretending the unexpected is easy.
- Growth - Finding lessons and opportunites in circumstances we never would have chosen.
- Purpose - Discovering how the unexpected can change not only what we do, but why we do it.
- And one simple question they can take back to their own lives: What if I looked at the unexpected differently?
A Little About David
David Glass is a keynote speaker who helps audiences see unexpected circumstances differently and use what happens next to build growth, resilience and purpose.
He spent the better part of a decade as a professional baseball umpire before building a career in financial services. He has been a CFP™ professional since 2001. His family’s experiences with both acquired and developmental disabilities eventually led him into disability advocacy and leadership. He has served for 14 years on the board of Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), including serving as Board Chair and Vice Chair.
David co-founded Darden’s Delights, an Atlanta-based pie company named for Darden and built around creating opportunities for people with developmental disabilities.
Professional baseball. Financial planning. Disability advocacy. Entrepreneurship. Pie.
It’s not exactly the career path a guidance counselor would draw on the whiteboard.
Bring David to Your Next Event
Your audience doesn’t need another speaker telling them life can be difficult. They already know that.
David gives them a different way to think about what happens next — through humor, storytelling and a message they can apply to their own unexpected circumstances.
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Bring David to your next meeting, conference or event for a funny, thought-provoking look at what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan and what we choose to do next.
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