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Built For Fans

Stop Chasing Customers. Start Creating Fans.

Nobody cheers for a vendor. Every organization is fighting for attention, and attention is rented. Tai shows leadership teams how to stop paying for it and start earning the kind of loyalty that turns a customer into a Fan, an employee into an advocate, and a community into a referral engine.

Thirty years of building one of music’s most loyal fan bases taught him that devoted Fans and loyal customers come from the same principles. A decade of that spent leading marketing for a national lender proved those principles work in any industry. This high-energy keynote turns them into an operating philosophy the whole organization can run on, not a tactic that lives in one department.

Value to Audience: Leaders leave with a practical framework for auditing every touchpoint, building a culture people want to belong to, and turning customers into advocates who choose you twice and tell others.

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From Patients to Fans

Why the Best Healthcare Organizations
Stop Chasing Patients and Start Earning Loyalty

Every healthcare organization says it puts patients first. Almost none can explain why a patient would choose them twice. That gap is where reputation, referrals, and revenue quietly leak away.

Drawing on three decades of building a fiercely loyal fan base, and the years he spent leading marketing for a national lender while the band was still on the road, Tai shows healthcare teams what musicians have always understood: loyalty isn’t the reward for good service, it’s the result of a system. This keynote explores three disciplines that turn patient encounters into lasting relationships: reputation, responsiveness, and hospitality.

Value to Audience: Attendees leave with a practical framework for auditing patient touchpoints, improving response and service recovery, and measuring what turns patients into loyal advocates and referral sources.

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Built For Fans: The AI Edition

Stop Faking Expertise. Start Using AI to Prove It.

AI isn’t the threat. Your response to it is. Most teams are stuck between fear and hype, and neither one keeps a customer. This edition of Built For Fans helps audiences take a different posture: use the technology for what it’s good at, and keep human creativity, empathy, and values at the center, because that is what people stay loyal to. Fans can tell the difference. They always could.

Value to Audience: Teams and leaders leave with a clear framework to separate opportunity from distraction, protect the trust they’ve earned, and lead through the AI moment without losing the people who made them.

Fans say
★★★★★

“He had us all thinking about how we could better serve our customers.”

Tai delivered an engaging presentation. It really resonated with the audience.

Melissa GordonPresident, Echelon Communicate

★★★★★

“Tai’s a rockstar on and off the stage.”

He always offers unique insights that educate and inspire the audience.

Michele CaplingerSr. Executive Director, The Recording Academy, Atlanta

★★★★★

“His passion is simply contagious.”

His marketing acumen is very solid. He is a results-driven leader who inspires and leads by example.

Keith WilmotChief People Officer, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings

★★★★★

“An amazing start to our semester.”

When Tai spoke to our Capstone class, he was engaging, conveyed a lot, and genuinely connected with our students.

David BarbeDirector, Music Business Program, Terry College of Business, UGA

★★★★★

“He inspired them to be passionate and work hard.”

Tai is an engaging speaker. He delivered an exciting presentation that kept our students’ attention while inspiring them to succeed.

Keith PerissiDirector, Joel A. Katz Music & Entertainment Business Program