Every organization has a fight. Let’s talk about yours.

As a keynote speaker, Stuart Warren Dansby draws hard-won parallels between the ring and everyday life: why feeling overwhelmed can signal growth, who your real competition is, and how the right team becomes an unstoppable force.

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Years building businesses, leading teams and developing people

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“I am not a motivational speaker. What I am is a performance improvement coach, mentor, and teacher.”

Stuart Warren Dansby

Every organization has a different fight. Stuart works with leadership and event organizers before your event to tailor the content to your organization’s priorities, pain points, and culture, ensuring the conversation is relatable and hits home with real, practical takeaways that drive performance improvement, both personally and professionally.

Speaking & impact

The Problems We Solve

Organizations book this talk because the research is impossible to ignore, and the same gap shows up before anyone even gets the job.

Only 1 in 5 employees worldwide is engaged

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Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

Estimated annual global cost of disengagement

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Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

Same company. Same CEO. Very different teams.

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Up to 70% of the difference in engagement can be attributed to the manager.

Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

Position power

A title gives you position power. People respond because it’s their job.

Personal power

Leadership builds personal power. People respond because they trust you, believe in the mission and want to contribute at a higher level.

The strongest leaders have both. This isn’t simply a culture problem. It’s a management behavior problem. Management behavior can be coached, developed and trained into leadership skills.

Of Gen Z shares the values employers say they want most

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Drop in entry-level job postings since 2024

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What employers want most

The gap

What students value most

Taking The Fight doesn’t ask leaders or students to abandon what matters to them. It gives both a practical way, through pillars they can easily learn and apply, to close the engagement gap and build their performance, their team and their life.

What is Taking The Fight?

Built around one universal truth: we all have a fight.

Born from award-winning documentary Taking The Fight and Stuart’s own journey from first-time fighter at 55 to champion at 62, it combines lessons forged in competition with 30+ years of leadership and human development into a practical operating system for how people think, lead, work together and perform.

Began kickboxing training

First competitive fight

Earned black belt

Fought and won a championship

The story connects to human nature and inspires.

The operating system turns inspiration into behavior.

The operating system

The 5 Pillars of Taking The Fight

The arena changes. The pillars don’t.

Highlight:

The difference between stress and challenge is perspective

Stress is what happens to you. Challenge is what you decide to do about it.

Same event, same information. The difference is the story you tell yourself. The skill is catching the moment you can make the switch.

For Leaders

Reframe pressure before the spiral starts and respond with intention.

For Students

Catch the spiral before it starts, reframe pressure and choose a steadier story.

Everything good in life comes from discipline

Everything you do, every day, whether anyone is watching or not, has your signature on it.

Health, relationships, wealth and growth are built through the daily choices nobody sees. Discipline is what shows up after motivation leaves.

For Leaders

Daily, unwatched habits build reputation, culture, consistency and trust.

For Students

Your daily habits build confidence, results, reputation and trust beyond graduation.

Your real competition is you

Your real competition is not the person across from you. It is who you were yesterday.

Self-improvement is the standard. Beat yesterday’s version of yourself every day, then multiply that growth over a year.

For Leaders

Measure progress against your own last quarter and keep raising the standard.

For Students

Measure growth against yesterday’s version of you, not someone else’s social media reel, grades, car or physical appearance.

Servant leadership & the power of the team

Good people will put more pressure on themselves than you ever can. Resource them. Coach them. Empower them. Give them ownership and the freedom to make mistakes.

You win or you learn.

For Leaders

Transform position power into personal power. That’s how you build a true high-performing team.

For Students

Learn the difference between simply being on a team and empowering yourself to build a great one.

Championship performance

No one person or team arrives as a champion. Successful people do what unsuccessful people don’t want to do, because everything we do in life has our signature on it.

Championship Performance is planned and practiced. It is the outcome created when the other four pillars work together.

For Leaders

Preparation, disciplined execution and team alignment turn potential into results.

For Students

Preparation, discipline, learning and support turn potential into results.

Rise…Grind…Function…Achieve…in Gratitude

From inspiration to behavior

Signature Speaking Experiences

The platform can meet an audience at the level required: inspire, apply, develop and reinforce.

Taking The Fight documentary screening or trailer screening
45 to 60-minute flagship keynote
Flagship keynote includes structured content on the Five Pillars of Taking The Fight

Taking The Fight documentary screening or trailer screening
45 to 60-minute flagship keynote
90-minute breakout session teaching the Five Pillars, built around your team’s performance
30-day and 60-day one-hour follow-ups with key leaders driving the pillars into action

Most requested

Develop + Reinforce

Beyond the Event

Full Taking The Fight Course

Approximately 8 hours delivered over 2 to 3 days. A deeper curriculum built around all Five Pillars, moving from understanding to application and sustained performance.

Coaching & Mentoring

The principles move from an event into continued personal and professional development.

Follow-Through

30- and 60-day reinforcement can help leaders and teams drive the pillars into action.

Additional options

Audiences & applications

Where Taking The Fight Applies

Primary applications

Corporate / Executive

Taking The Fight combines the ring story with more than 30 years of leadership, entrepreneurship and human development.

Workplace readiness

Education

Taking The Fight prepares students for what comes next by connecting human challenges to practical skills and ownership.

Many students enter the workplace without sufficient preparation in the human skills and performance mindset employers expect. The Five Pillars provide a practical framework for workplace readiness, self-improvement and championship performance.

Credibility

Executive Endorsements

Stuart is a passionate and driven leader with tremendous EQ, commercial acumen, and organizational agility. He's an asset and a force multiplier.

A visionary executive who builds high-performing business models, develops exceptional teams, and consistently delivers results with integrity and character.

One of the most passionate and motivating leaders I've ever met. Stuart consistently rallies organizations to deliver beyond expectations.

A strategic executive who combines vision, innovation, and disciplined execution while inspiring teams and driving measurable business growth.

Stuart saw strengths in me I didn't yet recognize. His mentorship shaped both my career and the leader I've become.

A high-performing commercial leader whose passion, strategic thinking, and ability to build new capabilities consistently drive growth and innovation.

Three things happen in business and life every day: excuses, apologies and results. Only one matters.

Stuart Warren Dansby

Let’s take the fight together

Ready to work with Stuart?

Media & speaking inquiries

Every organization has a fight. Let’s talk about yours.

Awards garnered from film festival screenings

Film festival selections & screenings

Countries streaming

Years building businesses, leading teams and developing people

“I am not a motivational speaker. What I am is a performance improvement coach, mentor, and teacher.”

The Problems We Solve

Only 1 in 5 employees worldwide is engaged

Estimated annual global cost of disengagement

Same company. Same CEO. Very different teams.

Position power

Personal power

Of Gen Z shares the values employers say they want most

Drop in entry-level job postings since 2024

Built around one universal truth: we all have a fight.

Began kickboxing training

First competitive fight

Earned black belt

Fought and won a championship

The 5 Pillars of Taking The Fight

The difference between stress and challenge is perspective

Everything good in life comes from discipline

Your real competition is you

Servant leadership & the power of the team

Championship performance

Signature Speaking Experiences

The Keynote

The Keynote + Breakout

Beyond the Event

Full Taking The Fight Course

Coaching & Mentoring

Follow-Through

Additional options

Where Taking The Fight Applies

Corporate / Executive

Education

Executive Endorsements

Ready to work with Stuart?