Meeting Planners : What To Expect
Before the Event
From arriving the day before to completing full AV checks and tailoring the message to your audience, I handle every detail with professionalism and flexibility. I’m easy to work with, responsive to your team, and fully committed to making your event run smoothly and helping you look great.
BeFore EventDuring the Event
During the event, I collaborate closely with your AV team, run all necessary sound checks, and stay flexible as things unfold. I remain steady under pressure and handle surprises with grace so you never need to worry. A brief quiet space before going on helps me deliver at my best. My goal is to activate your audience with story, humor, and practical tools that make the content come alive and create lasting impact—while making your entire event smooth, professional, and successful.
During the EventAfter The Event
After the event, I remain fully accessible and available. I provide the tools I spoke about, stay to connect with attendees, and often join leadership meetings or dinners when invited. My commitment to serving your team doesn’t end when I step off the stage—I’m here to support your leaders and help your audience apply what they learned.
Find Out HowEvent Planner Bio — Jim Koetting 150 Words
Event Planner Bio — Jim Koetting
Jim Koetting is a trusted mentor, catalyst speaker, and leadership guide with more than four decades of experience transforming leaders, teams, and organizational cultures. His leadership journey began early, as the oldest of five children, and later as a Boy Scout, leading 51 scouts to earn 327 merit badges in 10 days. These experiences forged his lifelong belief that authentic leadership is about getting the job done while keeping people together.
Jim’s story includes extraordinary successes, devastating failures, and a life-changing personal transformation. By twenty-two, addiction had taken everything from him, and he rebuilt his life through self-leadership — a principle that remains central to his work today. Now sober for thirty-six years, Jim has helped countless others find their own path to recovery.
Professionally, Jim has built companies across multiple industries, including insurance and financial services, software, and online commerce. His book, Public Fund Investing for Dummies, led to national accreditation programs that trained more than 1,000 public treasurers and helped public entities protect and save over $6 billion. He has earned awards for institutional financial software, built global development teams, consulted with leaders across industries, and even held conversations with two U.S. presidents in the Oval Office.
Jim believes leadership begins at home. He and his wife have been married for thirty-two years and raised two daughters who graduated at the top of their universities and are now nationally recognized in their fields. This lived integrity is the foundation of his message.
As a speaker, Jim blends storytelling, practical insight, and a “producer’s mindset” shaped by years as a musician and bandleader. He helps leaders understand what it feels like to be on the other side of their leadership, unlock high performance in their teams, and build cultures where people thrive.
Meeting planners choose Jim for his authenticity, his depth of experience, and his ability to ignite transformation. He is not the hero of the story — he is the guide who helps leaders become the people their organizations need.
Event Planner Bio — Jim Koetting 150 Words
Jim Koetting is a trusted mentor, catalyst speaker, and leadership expert who has spent more than four decades transforming leaders and organizational cultures. His leadership journey began early as the oldest of five children and later as a Boy Scout, where at fifteen he led fifty-one scouts to earn 327 merit badges in ten days.
After overcoming addiction at twenty-two and rebuilding his life through self-leadership, Jim went on to build companies in insurance, financial services, software, and online commerce. His book Public Fund Investing for Dummies led to national accreditation programs that trained more than a thousand public treasurers, helping public entities protect and save over six billion dollars. He has built global development teams, earned awards for institutional financial software, and held conversations with two U.S. presidents in the Oval Office.
Jim has been married to his wife for thirty-two years and raised two daughters recognized nationally in their fields. His speaking blends storytelling, insight, and deep practical wisdom that helps leaders unlock their full potential.
Event Planner Bio — Jim Koetting 50 Words
Jim Koetting is a catalyst speaker and leadership mentor with four decades of experience transforming teams and cultures. A former Boy Scout leader and award-winning financial innovator, he rebuilt his life through self-leadership and now helps leaders unlock potential, strengthen communication, and elevate performance across their organizations.
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Jim Koetting is a catalyst speaker and leadership mentor with four decades of experience transforming teams and cultures. A former Boy Scout leader and award-winning financial innovator, he rebuilt his life through self-leadership and now helps leaders unlock potential, strengthen communication, and elevate performance across their organizations.