Become More With Character Development Lectures and Interactive Workshops
Businesses expect you to “just do it.” Education systems expect you to “just think it.” After 37+ years as an international speaker, author, teacher, and serial church planter, Dr. Schindler now calls out the missing link for American audiences. Through his “Just Be It” series, he advocates that character is the foundational piece, and addresses the frequently neglected question beneath it all - who are you becoming?
Available for businesses, professional organizations, educational institutions, Christian nonprofits, conferences, and retreats.
Helping People Move From Knowing and Doing to Becoming
Dr. Dietrich Schindler’s framework helps business leaders, organizations, teams, and students strengthen personal character, build trust, and contribute to healthier cultures. Through warm, reasoned, and practical lectures and workshops, Dr. Schindler helps audiences understand what matters, recognize why it matters, and determine how to put it into practice.
Knowledge and Performance Are Not Enough
Schools invest in knowledge. Organizations invest in performance. Churches invest in teaching. Yet many of their greatest challenges are caused by something those investments cannot solve on their own. We often treat character as a private matter. In reality, it becomes visible through every decision, responsibility, relationship, and culture we help create. Dietrich brings 37+ years of personal, professional, and institutional development expertise, introducing you and your people to the frequently neglected question beneath knowledge and performance…
Who Are You Becoming?
Through his “Just Be It!” talks and workshops, Dietrich helps audiences examine the virtues that make leadership credible, relationships healthier, and positive influence more sustainable.
Every presentation moves through three questions:
What? What does the principle mean?
So what? Why does it matter to our lives or organization?
Now what? How should it become visible in practice?
Speaking Topics
Through his “Just Be It!” talks and workshops, Dietrich helps audiences examine the virtues that make leadership credible, relationships healthier, and positive influence more sustainable. Every presentation moves through three questions:
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Character That Gives Knowledge and Performance Integrity
People are often taught how to think and what to do, but rarely challenged to examine who they are becoming in the process. This flagship presentation explores character as the foundation beneath trustworthy leadership, responsible decision-making, and meaningful contribution. Participants leave with a practical framework for connecting important ideas with observable action.
Audience takeaways:
Understand why knowledge and ability cannot replace character
Recognize how personal behavior influences trust and culture
Identify one practical way to embody an important virtue
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Honesty, Responsibility, Humility, and Wisdom in Practice
Performance may earn attention, but character earns lasting trust. This presentation examines the qualities that make a student, professional, leader, or organization credible in the eyes of others. Participants consider how repeated choices shape reputation, relationships, judgment, and leadership influence.
Audience takeaways:
Recognize behaviors that strengthen or diminish credibility
Connect honesty and responsibility with healthy relationships
Apply humility and wisdom to everyday decisions
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Encouragement, Compassion, Purpose, and Empowerment
Leadership is not measured only by personal accomplishment. It is also revealed through the growth, confidence, and contribution of the people a leader develops. This presentation helps participants consider how encouragement, compassion, service, and empowerment can strengthen individuals and shape healthier communities.
Audience takeaways:
Understand how leaders build capability in others
Distinguish encouragement from empty praise
Identify practical ways to help others grow and contribute
Relevant Teaching for Your Audience and Context
Each presentation can be adapted to the age, experience, language, and desired outcomes of the audience.
Businesses and Professional Organizations
Dietrich helps leaders and teams understand how character influences trust, collaboration, decision-making, leadership credibility, and workplace culture—without reducing virtue to another performance technique.
Dietrich treats students as emerging adults capable of serious thought. His talks connect character with identity, reputation, responsibility, relationships, future careers, and meaningful contribution.
Educational Institutions
Churches and Christian Organizations
Dietrich connects biblical truth with discipleship, spiritual formation, leadership, and daily practice. His Christian teaching emphasizes that truth is not fully learned until it becomes visible in the way people live.
What People Are Saying
The strongest speaking experiences do more than entertain an audience. They help people understand something more clearly, recognize its relevance, and leave prepared to apply it.
“Dietrich Schindler's creative mind, penetrating analysis, warm heart, and transparent style will not disappoint you!”
C. Lee Heyward, Founder and President, BrookLink
“Dietrich Schindler is a rare individual, a thought leader, and a practitioner who has planted multiple churches. He knows how to take something from zero and get it started. He is a mentor who allows us to benefit from his successes but isn’t afraid to be vulnerable about his struggles.”
Dave Ferguson, CEO of Exponential, author of “Multiplier: How Healthy Leaders Create Lasting Impact”
“Dietrich Schindler is a contrarian. He looks at what is considered conventional and asks, ‘Why does it have to be that way?’ As a result, his approach is entirely counter-intuitive and unconventional.”
Michael Frost, Author of “Surprise the World” and “The Shaping of Things to Come”
“His teaching and insights at the European Leadership Forum have been incredibly helpful to hundreds of Gospel leaders. His mentoring has deeply shaped scores more. I have deep confidence in his heart and his ability to communicate effectively.”
Greg Pritchard PhD - Director, European Leadership Forum
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About Dr. Dietrich Schindler
Dr. Dietrich Schindler is an international author, teacher, leadership developer, and public speaker who helps people move beyond acquiring information and improving performance to examine a more foundational question: Who are we becoming?
Drawing upon approximately four decades of experience engaging audiences across Europe and the United States, Dietrich brings intellectual substance, cultural awareness, personal warmth, and practical wisdom to questions of character, leadership, and meaningful transformation.
His experience includes educational, professional, and Christian environments, allowing him to adapt enduring principles to the language and realities of each audience. Whether speaking to students, organizational leaders, professionals, ministry teams, or church communities, Dietrich communicates with calm conviction and respect for the people in the room.
His teaching is structured around three essential questions: What does the idea mean? Why does it matter? How should it change the way we live, lead, or work?
Dietrich’s objective is not momentary inspiration. It is personal formation that produces meaningful and observable influence in relationships, organizations, and communities.