I have been a guest on podcasts covering MSP strategy, IT leadership, cybersecurity, and rural ministry. Below are the episodes I have appeared on, along with a record of speaking engagements and training events.
Podcast Appearances
Decline Invite Podcast
Rethinking MSPs, Strategy & Rural Leadership (December 2025)
A conversation about why the old break-fix MSP model is obsolete, how rural leadership principles drive real innovation, and what it takes to build a strategy-first IT business. We covered the future of managed services, building trust-based client relationships, and how community-focused values give MSPs a competitive edge.
Go Phish Podcast (Goldphish Cybersecurity)
Small Business Cybersecurity: vCIO Strategy, Insurance Compliance & Password Pitfalls
Dan Thornton and I worked through a practical SMB cybersecurity playbook: how a vCIO builds a 3-year technology roadmap, when to bring in compliance specialists for PCI, HIPAA, and CMMC/NIST 800-171, and how to translate security requirements into language business owners actually understand.
MSP Insider
MSP Growth Secrets: Unveiling the vCIO’s True Role (November 2025)
A deep dive into what the vCIO role actually is, why so many MSPs get it wrong, and how to build a vCIO function that drives real strategic value for clients. We covered common pitfalls in vCIO implementation, the role of communication in client relationships, how to avoid the vCIO “fraud,” and how to develop a profitable MSP business model around strategic advisory services.
Speaking Engagements & Training
MSP & Technology
- EmpathMSP vCIO Training Course (co-developer and presenter)
Rural Ministry & Youth Ministry
- Ohio Mennonite Conference Youth Ministry Training Retreat, Kidron, OH
- Lifeway/SCBI Regional Sunday School Training, Ft. Wayne, IN
- SYMC – Strategies for Rural Youth Ministry, Columbus, OH
- Rural Youth Ministry Workshop, Rural Home Missionary Association Small Town Pastor’s Conference, Morton, IL
- Student Fusion Week, State Convention of Baptists in Indiana
- Accelerate Campus Ministry Summit, Ft. Worth, TX – Rural Campus Ministry Strategies
- Illinois Youth Encounter – Youth Leader Training Sessions
- Simply Youth Ministry Convention – Rural Youth Ministry Connect Group, Indianapolis, IN and Chicago, IL
- Rural Youth Ministry Training, Midlakes, Fellowship, Dallas and Webster Baptist Associations, FBC Urbana, MO
- Rural Youth Ministry Training, Missouri Valley Association, Waverly, MO
- MyHope America/NNYM Training
- Youth Leader Training, Rock the Bridge, Rockville, IN
- Youth Worker Training, Indiana Christian Youth Conference, Anderson, IN
If you would like to have me on your podcast or speak at your event, see the Speaking page for topics and contact information, or download the Press Kit.