Executive and leadership gatherings
Senior leaders facing strategy, succession, ethical pressure, or a season of change.
Signature Keynote
Lead With Your End in Mind.
What mortality reveals about power, succession, identity, and the decisions that outlive a leader.
Inquire About the Keynote →The premise
Every leader is temporary.
Organizations often plan as if time were renewable, authority were permanent, and the difficult conversation could wait for a cleaner quarter. Human lives do not work that way. Neither do institutions.
This keynote asks what becomes visible when leaders remember that they will leave every role they hold. The question is severe. It can also clarify what power is for.
At the bedside
Death removes some illusions.
Seth served as a hospice chaplain during the COVID-19 pandemic. He sat with dying patients and their families while time, control, presence, and loss became immediate.
The keynote does not turn those encounters into easy lessons. It brings their questions into leadership with care.
In the organization
Power creates obligations.
Mortality-aware leadership connects finite life to practical questions of judgment, ethics, succession, identity, and responsibility. Seth brings leadership study, philosophy, theology, business, and organizational experience into the conversation.
Possible audiences
For rooms carrying consequential responsibility.
Healthcare and hospice conferences
Professionals working near mortality who also carry organizational authority.
Board and organizational retreats
Groups with enough time to move from the keynote question into their own decisions.
About Seth
A coach, scholar, pastor, and former hospice chaplain.
Seth David Clark is a Board Certified Coach and the founder of Life, Death, and Leadership. He holds a DMin, MBA, MTS, and MATS, and is pursuing a PhD in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego.
He has more than twenty years of work across ministry, coaching, teaching, and speaking. His coaching practice has served more than fifty clients across five continents.
For the inquiry
Start with the room.
Include the organization, audience, event date, location, approximate attendance, session length, and the leadership question the gathering is carrying.
Bring mortality into the room before it enters uninvited.
Share the audience, date, and leadership question. Seth will respond about fit and scope.