Tyler Dickerhoof
Farm-raised entrepreneur, leadership mentor and USA Today bestselling author Tyler Dickerhoof combines 25+ years of business success with hard-earned life lessons to help leaders navigate people, pressure, relationships and change.
Price range
- $10,000 - $17,000
Expert
- Adversity
- Agriculture
- Attitude
- Change
- Communication
- Leadership
- Personal Development
- Teamwork/Teambuilding
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About
Tyler Dickerhoof grew up on an Ohio dairy farm, where he learned early that when something needed to be done, you worked until it was finished. Hard work wasn’t a leadership philosophy—it was simply how life worked.
After a tragic farm accident took the life of his younger brother, that instinct became even more deeply ingrained. When life got difficult, Tyler responded the way he knew best: put your head down, keep moving, and work harder.
That drive would help propel him through a remarkable career. A Cornell University graduate, entrepreneur, and leadership mentor, Tyler has spent more than 25 years in business, generating more than $750 million in sales and developing leaders at every level. But along the way, he discovered an important truth: the intensity that makes someone a high performer doesn’t necessarily make them a great leader—and you can’t outwork every problem.
Today, Tyler helps leaders navigate the part of leadership that expertise and hard work alone can’t solve: people, relationships, uncertainty, difficult conversations, and the internal pressures leaders rarely talk about.
As host of the Impact Driven Leader community and USA Today bestselling author of The Things We Hide, Tyler brings warmth, humor, vulnerability, and practical insight to the stage. His agricultural roots give him an authentic connection with farm and agribusiness audiences, while his extensive business experience makes his message equally relevant to corporate leaders.
Tyler challenges audiences to look beyond what they accomplish and ask a more important question: What is it like to be led by me?
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Video Clips
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Topics
Nobody Outworks a Drought: Leading Through What You Cannot Control
Hard work gets rewarded. Leaders learn early that when there’s a problem, you attack it. Work longer. Push harder. Find another solution. Rally the team. And for much of a successful career, that approach works.
Until it doesn’t.
Every leader eventually encounters a “drought”—a market shift, economic downturn, disruptive competitor, failed strategy, cultural challenge, or period of uncertainty that effort alone cannot solve.
Nobody Outworks a Drought explores what leadership requires in those moments. How do you lead when you can’t control the conditions? How do you keep people focused without pretending everything is fine? And how do you recognize when persistence has crossed the line into simply doing more of what no longer works?
This is leadership beyond endurance: knowing what to hold onto, what to change, what to let go of, and how to give people confidence when you cannot give them certainty.
Nobody Trained You for the People Part: You Knew the Work. Then They Gave You a Team
“They promoted you because you were good at the work. Now your job is to make other people good at the work. And people don’t necessarily get better because you get more intense.”This practical, candid program helps new and emerging leaders make the shift from expert to coach, problem-solver to developer, and top performer to people leader—without losing the drive that got them promoted in the first place.Nobody Trained You for the People Part is for the technical experts, sales professionals, agronomists, nutritionists, operations specialists, and high performers who suddenly find themselves responsible for a team. It explores one of the hardest transitions in leadership: realizing that the habits that made you successful individually—working harder, knowing more, moving faster, and personally fixing problems—can actually limit your effectiveness as a leader. -
Testimonials
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“Tyler will walk with you, like a friend who knows the journey because he has walked it himself.”