The Legacy Mindset™

How to build a more fearless, creative, and productive now by putting yourself in the shoes of your future self. Get The Bravening™ speech, workshop, or coaching now.

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Cameron Powell

Cameron has crafted moving, fact-based stories as a trial lawyer out of Harvard Law School, as a public speaker for the Corporate Executive Board, as a coach to people seeking career identity, and as an entrepreneur pitching startup companies to investors, partners, customers, and media.

Cameron brings audiences and readers the diversity of thought and experience of a writer, an entrepreneur, a lawyer, an executive coach and talent builder, and a passionate student of:

great writing and literature
history and psychology
the world’s wisdom traditions, myths, and religions
nature and technology

In the last decade Cameron has spoken to audiences and written about disrupting talent, hiring for story, and building teams, storytelling for fundraising and employer brands, the risks, rewards, and ethics of GenAI, legacy and meaning in life, and the courage-making, gratitude-boosting power of the Legacy Mindset.

In his Legacy Mindset talks, Cameron helps your people . . .

Build Gratitude and Focus, Courage and Creativity

. . . by answering 3 vital questions.

Why

Why do people need bravening - to become more brave - and reminding?

Bravening because fear stunts the human genius inside every one of us.

The greatest barriers we have to engaging and leading, creating and innovating, are our core human fears of failure and rejection. Imagine what we could do with our wild and precious lives if we were more fearless.

Reminding because we keep forgetting there's not plenty of time, and only reminders make us stop saying "some day".

What

What can a legacy mindset do to make people braver, more creative, and more connected?

Reflecting on our legacy and the preciousness of life famously focuses our priorities.

Steve Jobs said it: “Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” Ron Shaich, founder of Panera, builder of Au Bon Pain, backer of Cava and Tatte, knows the same secret. Every year, on some tropical island, Mr. Shaich conducts a premortem on himself.

Why? Because there are proven tools for making human beings more fearless. Tools that make us braver. Freed of our fears of criticism and failure, we finally reach out or commit, we create, we let go, we lead and innovate, we are grateful. We stop putting off what our future self would like us to do today. Nobody wants a someday kind of love. Welcome to The Bravening™.

How

How do we get a legacy mindset?

First, Cameron shares his own authentic personal stories of the Hero's Journey from fearfulness to courage, paralysis to productivity, isolation to connection.

He then introduces audiences to the specific tools for building atomic habits of bravery and focus -- tools used throughout the world's wisdom traditions and approved by science.

The Bravening™ tools are proven to help people cultivate more perspective and gratitude, more presence and power of now, and more courage in the face of the fears and doubts that hold us back and keep us smaller than we know we can be.

So we can create and connect, in ways that make us uniquely human.

What's different about Cameron?

Cameron has range. He's a creative super-learner who's succeeded as a speaker, writer, entrepreneur, trial lawyer, executive coach, and occasional karaokist who blends authentic personal stories with proven tools backed by science and the world’s great wisdom traditions.

Bringing the innovation of technology startups and decades of coaching people into their best selves, Cameron draws in audiences with his wit and comic timing, his eloquence and humanity, and his care for his listeners.

Ordinary Magic: the idea, the book

In a true story of carpe diem, Cameron's love story at the end of life is a powerful and moving story of how we can create a legacy of meaning and memories for ourselves and those we love, and how the ordinary magic of love and meaning can bring us everyday miracles.