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David Goad shared thisThe David Goad Show Ep. 87 - Is My Accent Too Strong? Do you ever feel like your English proficiency or strong accent gets in the way of your communication? In this short video, I share how to overcome that feeling and improve your audience's comprehension.
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David Goad shared thisAre you an aspiring professional speaker? Are you already benefitting from Toastmasters and want to join a second club to progress even faster? I belong to this advanced club called Level Up and I love it. We meet every Wednesday, 7:00-8:30pm, on Zoom. Would you like to visit and check it out? We even have an open house on May 27th with a speech on “Trust and Relationships.” Send me a DM and I’ll share more details. Thanks! P.S. Here’s current member Rebecca Shepherd talking about what makes the Level Up experience valuable for her: https://lnkd.in/gepqp8rx
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David Goad shared thisDo you ever feel anxiety about getting a tough question during Q&A after your breakout session? Try this technique for preempting tough questions before they are asked. #davidgoadspeaks #goadnuggets
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David Goad shared thisHey, I'm teaching an all day workshop on High Tech Speaking tomorrow in Fremont. I could either: A - Drive home to Lodi in the middle of rush hour OR B - Have dinner with one of you, and drive home afterwards It's an opportunity to connect, catch up or tell war stories. You can ask any question, like... - How can I get better at public speaking? - How do I start my own business? - Why does David G look way too happy in all his photos? Send a DM if you want to meet up. First come, first served :)
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David Goad posted thisQ: Has the ability to "get knowledge at the moment you need it" surpassed the need for knowledge that you can recall?
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David Goad shared thisI've begun following Steve Bertges for his insightful thoughts about leadership in the AI era. Check him out.David Goad shared thisWORKSLOP Is a Leadership Failure The Guardian recently highlighted a term from Stanford researcher Jeff Hancock: “workslop.” AI-generated output that employees must rewrite, verify, or redo before it’s usable. https://lnkd.in/g6sjG7ZH In a 10,000‑person organization, that cleanup tax can exceed three hours per employee per month — roughly $8.1 million in lost productivity. That’s before the cost of deployment, training, and the cultural whiplash that follows. Add C‑suite layoffs, hiring freezes, and mandates to “use AI,” and the result is predictable: productivity drops, quality erodes, morale collapses. Executives often blame the workforce. But the truth is simpler — and harder: This is a leadership failure. Not a failure of intent. A failure of capacity. A failure to see the invisible load AI introduces: Metric myopia — measuring outputs while ignoring the load behind them Process decoupling — acceleration without coherence Identity shift — humans lose autonomy while leaders cling to control It’s no surprise that 95% of companies implementing AI aren’t seeing returns. Most leaders are still operating from a task‑execution identity, while AI introduces a process‑flow reality. Those two worlds don’t match. Sarah Fox at Carnegie Mellon captured it well: AI often reduces worker autonomy instead of empowering it. Executives may believe they’re “leading with AI.” But AI doesn’t just require new tools — it requires new leadership. Leadership capable of holding complexity, maintaining coherence, and elevating performance under accelerated conditions. For many executives, the real pressure ahead will be retaining organizational coherence and momentum. The challenge starts at the top. Empowered leaders will win; “business as usual” will struggle. We can help. Contact Bertges Executive Performance to prepare for high performance in the Agentic transformation. #Leadership #ExecutivePerformance #CLevelLeadership #OrganizationalCoherence #AgenticTransformationBosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
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David Goad shared thisWhere does AI help the most when you have an important business presentation? It certainly helps in content preparation beforehand, and can even help in post-meeting analysis, especially in sales conversations. But what about the middle parts… live delivery and managing feedback from the audience? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a DM or in the comments below. #goadnuggets #davidgoadspeaks
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David Goad shared thisFinally... after submitting seven different audition tapes over the last 15 years I have been accepted on Survivor season 51!! I figured out that they dont want to cast normal people, so I portrayed myself as an arrogant narcissist with OCD, prone to being triggered by manipulators. BAM! Im in. We've already begun shooting and everything is top secret. But I was able to leak out this one photo after hi-jacking Wi-Fi from a cameraman's hotspot. So far I am in an alliance of two... just me and the volleyball. Do you have any advice on how to win?
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David Goad shared thisI have added a new line of meaningful work to my professional repertoire in the past year. I've been helping Church pastors and their teams to be better communicators from the stage. It has been fun and rewarding! Pastor Mitch Ivey was kind enough to record his thoughts on my trip to Kearney Grace Church in Nebraska. Send me a DM if you think your church may benefit from this kind of experience.
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked thisMajor milestone for high-assurance security! Excited to share that the YubiKey 5 FIPS Series is now officially FIPS 140-3 validated, making it the only authenticator authorized by the DoD to hold both PKI credentials and FIDO2 passkeys on a single device. https://lnkd.in/gtbC4Svj
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked thisWow, what an amazing surprise gift to have delivered to my home. It’s been an incredible five years with VSE! This also means I have earned one more week of PTO 😅👏🙌🏻 Love my team and this company.🩵
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David Goad reacted on thisDavid Goad reacted on thisThe demand funnel isn't just breaking — it's being bypassed. I sat down with Taylor Baker on the Achieve Podcast to talk about what's actually happening in #GTM right now. Not the trend report version. The version we're seeing in the room. The short version: when AI floods every inbox with "personalized" outreach, human trust doesn't become a nice-to-have. It becomes the only thing that scales. We talked about partner-led growth, where strategic bets are worth making, and why companies trying to automate their way through this moment are running in the wrong direction. Full episode is on our site — https://lnkd.in/ea2Edzv2 #GTM #B2BStrategy #TrustDrivenGTM
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked thisConference season has kicked off, and ACPC is the one conference you simply can’t miss. Company Commitment and registration are right around the corner — get your team ready. #acpc2026 https://conta.cc/48o0rNI
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked this99.4% That's the share of Fortune class CISOs who experienced a SaaS or AI ecosystem incident in 2025, according to Vorlon's new survey of 500 US security leaders. In the same study, 89% claim "strong" OAuth and identity governance. Morgan Stanley puts the enterprise security tools number at ~60 vendors. Read those numbers together. The problem isn't awareness. It isn't budget. It's architecture — and a strategy still anchored to a perimeter that dissolved years ago. Salesforce. Salesloft/Drift OAuth hijack. Gainsight. The pattern is consistent: attackers no longer break in. They log in — through a vendor, a token, a non-human identity, an agentic workflow nobody inventoried. WEF's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 now ranks third-party and supply chain risk as the #1 concern for 65% of large enterprises. The uncomfortable question for every Fortune 2000 CISO this week isn't can we prevent the next breach? It's can we prove we'd contain it before it mattered — across cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI — without a 60-day forensic engagement? Prevention is a posture. Resilience is a capability. In 2026, the board only rewards one of them. What's your honest containment time? #mttd #mttr #saassecurity #cloudsecurity #soc #aisecurity #resilience #identity #nhi #agentic #agenticsoc
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked thisI didn't always look like this. I used to look at girls with big glutes and visible hamstrings and think, "Damn... that must be nice." But all I could do was try. In 2020, I hired my first personal trainer and began the journey of lifting weights. I wasn't always consistent, but every year I learned something new. And every year, I grew. To see my body now 6 years later really starting to take form has been so inspirational. "I did it", I think to myself. Though I still feel I have a long way to go. It isn't only about looking sexy (though I have to admit, that's always been a priority of mine!) It's about aging gracefully and "getting ahead of it", so to say. Fitness, nutrition, and healthy habits do not get easier as you get older. The negative compounds, and so does the positive. I weight train 4x/week. I swim & run regularly. I love yoga, though admittedly haven't been going lately like I should. I desire to have mobility and strength into my old age, not to mention discipline and good habits to carry me through the inevitable highs&lows life has to offer. Also, pro tip: PEOPLE RESPECT YOU WAY MORE WHEN YOU ARE IN SHAPE! Watch the doors open. Making money gets easier. Closing deals gets easier. People pay attention, it's worth it. That's all today, folks, get outside and do something good for yourself. You won't regret it. 💪 #Fitness #Thefloridakeys #Floridatravel #Miamifitness #aginggracefully
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked thisIf tokens are the new drug... are Anthropic and OpenAI the new cartels? 🤔 Get 'em hooked for free and then start charging. It's the oldest trick in the book. And the AI giants have been running this for a while. Your Pro/Max subscription is heavily subsidized by hundreds of billions of $$$ of investors' money. A $200 Max subscription can easily consume thousands of dollars worth of tokens per month. It's not about making money, it's about making us addicts (and I'm only half joking here). And I say this as a full-blown addict. I've built skills, agents, automations - a whole personal operating system running on #Claude. The dopamine discharge when something you built in 5 minutes just works? Out of this world! It's no longer a SaaS subscription, it's a habit! None of this is new of course, but here's where it gets interesting. Last week Anthropic announced that starting next month, your subsidized subscription stops covering programmatic use: the SDK, claude -p, the automated workflows. Exactly the stuff the heavy builders (like me) built their lives on. Building? Still subsidized. Running the agents you can't live without? Start paying! But (and this is the best part) they're smart enough not to cut you off cold turkey, so you don't go shopping for a new dealer (hmm... OpenAI?). Instead, they make a gesture and give you credits - $200 for a Max 20x account. Enough to make you feel fine at first, so you keep building, keep depending, keep getting deeper. Until one day the credits are just not enough, and there's no path back. That's not a bug, and it was the obvious move from the get go. That's the business model working exactly as designed. But it's still worth pointing out - especially by someone like me who's completely sold on how transformational this is. Both things are true: the technology is genuinely remarkable, yet the people building it know precisely how good a dealer's hook feels. So this begs the question - are LLMs the most productive tool of our generation, or the most elegant dependency ever engineered? (Or both.) Asking "for a friend." Who may need a sponsor. 😅
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David Goad liked thisDavid Goad liked thisExcited to be interning at With Love, Lenny this summer — a Los Angeles–based luxury brand specializing in custom-fitted, vintage denim. Looking forward to learning more about operations and the fashion industry this summer!
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Multiple Officer Roles
Tracy Toastmasters
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Volunteer and Awards Banquet MC
Golden State German Shepherd Rescue
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Animal Welfare
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Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation - MMRF
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Health
I participate in endurance events with my brother Jeff, a cancer survivor, to raise money for research to cure Multiple Myeloma. We also present inspirational speeches as a duo. Together we have raised over $125,000.
Publications
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Getting to the Point
Self Published
See publicationA collection of humorous and poignant short stories by author and speaker David Goad. From the point of absurdity to the point of no return, it will get you laughing, thinking and taking motivated action. This book collects the most popular blog posts from Short Stories with a Point (davidgoad.wordpress.com) along with several insightful reader responses. It is organized in theme chapters, so jump to what you need or journey straight through! 100% of the proceeds are being donated to the…
A collection of humorous and poignant short stories by author and speaker David Goad. From the point of absurdity to the point of no return, it will get you laughing, thinking and taking motivated action. This book collects the most popular blog posts from Short Stories with a Point (davidgoad.wordpress.com) along with several insightful reader responses. It is organized in theme chapters, so jump to what you need or journey straight through! 100% of the proceeds are being donated to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
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Short Stories with a Point
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See publicationShort Stories with a Point is a collection of autobiographical parables that entertain and inspire. It includes lessons learned from personal and business experience, with practical advice woven throughout. This popular blog evolved into the book Getting to the Point, and all proceeds continue to be donated to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
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Freedom of Cycling
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Ride along with these passionate road cyclists as they take us on a tour through the Northern California landscape. Their motivation isn't simply exercise. There is great reward in the camaraderie and freedom that it brings. Shot entirely on the DJI Inspire and DJI OSMO and mastered in 4k.
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Honors & Awards
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Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking Semi-Finalist
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Leadership and Outstanding Performance
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Achievement of Excellence, Award for Sales Support, Q108
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Marketing Innovation, Q207
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Marketing Innovation, Q207
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Toastmasters Member and Keynote Speaker
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