A keynote that changes how a team spends its attention.

The ability to focus on what matters, at work and at home, may be the most valuable skill a person has left. Where you put your attention decides what gets built, what gets missed, and what your career and your relationships become. And most of us were never taught how attention works, so we treat a focus problem like a discipline problem and wonder why trying harder keeps failing. Drawing on the research behind his book, Curt shows how attention actually functions and what to change first. It's practical, it's funny, and it's built for a workplace where AI writes the email and the hard part is deciding what deserves your focus.

A distracted team usually isn't a team of distracted people. It's a set of habits no one chose on purpose: who gets copied on everything, what earns a same-day reply, which meetings exist because they always have. Those habits decide how much attention survives the day, and most teams have never looked at them directly. Curt makes the group's attention costs visible and shows how to rebuild the few norms that protect real work. What the team leaves with isn't a rulebook. It's a shared agreement about how to stop spending each other's attention by accident.

Your audience is harder to reach than ever, and harder to keep. Anyone who presents, teaches, sells, or leads is now competing with everything else on the listener's screen, and the volume, channels, and formats have all changed. Good intentions are no longer enough to make a message land. Curt draws on years of coaching CEOs, NFL Hall of Famers, Olympic gold medalists, TED speakers, and sales teams through the highest-stakes communication of their careers to show what actually wins and holds attention, often in ways that run counter to instinct. This is the talk behind the Your Attention Please workshop, built for anyone whose results depend on being heard.