Speaking & author
David Adam Kurz
Speaking & author
I speak about leadership, preparation and the discipline behind my real estate career. Let’s discuss a keynote, panel or interview for your audience.
What I speak about
Lessons earned in service and business.
My perspective comes from nine years in the United States Marine Corps, an MBA in International Business and 21+ years selling real estate. I’ve been part of more than $1 billion in career real estate sales, and today I lead The Kurz Team at LPT Realty.
I speak to real estate professionals, business audiences and organizations about composure under pressure, systems that outlast motivation and leading people with genuine care. My talks bring the same direct, practical approach I value in client work.
I’m available for keynotes, panels, workshops and podcast or media interviews. Let’s begin with your audience and the conversation you want to create.
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Leadership under pressure
How my nine years in the Marine Corps inform a conversation about composure, plain communication and responsibility under pressure.
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Preparation and systems
Why preparation beats improvisation: building sound systems, clear structure and the right guidance so a business keeps moving forward when circumstances change.
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A career in real estate
Two decades of selling real estate and leading a team — what client-first service looks like in practice, from first conversation through closing and beyond.
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Rethinking failure
The message of my book, The Truth About Failure: a direct look at failure, mentorship and the foundations of better decisions in business and in life.
The book · David Kurz
The Truth
About Failure
Is failure truly a prerequisite for success? In my book, The Truth About Failure, I challenge that familiar assumption and turn toward what helps a business move forward: sound systems, clear structure and the right guidance.
I place people and preparation at the center of that conversation — understanding who you work with, finding a mentor and building a foundation for better decisions. It’s an invitation to rethink how we approach success.
Speaking topic · 01
Leadership under pressure
Clarity when the room needs it most.
For your audience
Business leaders, team managers, entrepreneurs and organizations navigating change.
Pressure does not always announce itself as a crisis. It can arrive as an uncertain market, a difficult conversation, a missed expectation or a team looking to its leader for direction. The question is not simply whether a leader can make a decision. It is whether that leader can bring clarity to the people who must carry it forward.
Drawing on my nine years in the United States Marine Corps and my experience leading The Kurz Team, I explore the relationship between composure, communication and responsibility. The emphasis is on leadership that people can recognize in daily behavior: setting expectations, listening carefully, addressing difficult issues directly and remaining accountable when the outcome is uncertain.
For organizations, this topic opens a substantive conversation about the difference between holding authority and earning trust. It connects the discipline of service with the demands of business, without treating every business challenge as a battlefield.
Ideas to take back to your team
- Separate the urgency of a situation from the quality of the decision it requires.
- Communicate priorities plainly so people understand both the direction and their responsibility.
- Examine how consistency, accountability and personal example shape a team's trust.
Where does your team most need clearer leadership: uncertainty, accountability or difficult conversations?
Discuss a leadership engagementSpeaking topic · 02
Preparation and systems
Build a foundation beyond motivation.
For your audience
Entrepreneurs, business owners, growing teams and professionals refining how they operate.
Ambition can start a business. It cannot, on its own, create a dependable way of running one. When important work relies on memory, individual effort or last-minute improvisation, growth can expose the gaps that enthusiasm once concealed. Preparation is the quieter work of making expectations, decisions and follow-through more deliberate.
Informed by my MBA in International Business, real estate career and the perspective of my book, The Truth About Failure, I examine why sound systems, clear structure and the right guidance deserve attention before circumstances force a change. The conversation moves beyond productivity slogans to the foundations of a business: who owns the next step, how information moves and where guidance is needed.
This topic is particularly relevant for teams moving from founder-led effort toward shared responsibility. It invites audiences to examine what is repeatable, what is unclear and what depends too heavily on one person — while recognizing that a system should support people, not replace their judgment.
Ideas to take back to your team
- Identify recurring work that needs a clear owner, sequence and standard of follow-through.
- Distinguish a useful process from activity that adds complexity without adding clarity.
- Consider where mentorship and preparation can improve decisions before problems escalate.
Which part of your business still depends on improvisation rather than a dependable process?
Discuss a systems engagementSpeaking topic · 03
A career in real estate
A profession built on judgment and trust.
For your audience
Real estate brokerages, agent teams, industry conferences and professionals developing a long-term practice.
Real estate is often presented through the transaction: the listing, the offer, the closing. A lasting career requires a broader view. Clients need an advisor who can understand their priorities, explain the trade-offs and stay engaged through decisions that carry both financial and personal weight.
With 21+ years selling real estate and participation in more than $1 billion in career sales, I bring a practitioner’s perspective to client service, team leadership and professional positioning. My work with The Kurz Team in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach provides the context for discussing how local understanding and thoughtful communication support an advisory relationship, rather than a purely transactional one.
For agent and brokerage audiences, the conversation can also address property branding, marketing and film: how to articulate a property's identity and present it with intention. The focus is not on a shortcut or a promise of production. It is on the quality of the work, the consistency of the experience and the responsibility of representing a client well.
Ideas to take back to your team
- Look at the client relationship from the first conversation through closing and beyond.
- Connect property positioning, branding and presentation to a coherent marketing direction.
- Examine the habits and standards that support a long-term career and a client-first team.
What would make your clients experience your team as trusted advisors rather than transaction managers?
Discuss a real estate engagementSpeaking topic · 04
Rethinking failure
A more considered conversation about success.
For your audience
Business audiences, entrepreneurs, leadership groups and book-centered conversations or interviews.
The idea that failure is a prerequisite for success is repeated so often that it can go unquestioned. But what does that belief encourage us to overlook? Could better guidance, stronger preparation or a clearer foundation change the decisions we make before a setback occurs?
In The Truth About Failure, I challenge the familiar assumption and redirect attention toward sound systems, clear structure and the right guidance. This speaking topic extends that conversation into the room, giving audiences space to consider the people they learn from, the foundations they build and the choices they make in pursuit of growth.
Rather than romanticizing setbacks or promising a life without them, the discussion asks for a more deliberate approach. It is an opportunity to examine how mentorship and preparation influence judgment, and how an honest review of an outcome can be more useful than a convenient slogan. For event organizers, it offers a book-connected theme with relevance to both professional ambition and personal responsibility.
Ideas to take back to your team
- Question the assumption that failure must be the starting point for meaningful success.
- Consider how mentors, sound structure and preparation influence the choices ahead.
- Distinguish learning from an outcome from treating the outcome as inevitable or necessary.
What might change if preparation and guidance received as much attention as the lessons of failure?
Discuss a book-centered engagement
Consultation
Let’s discuss your audience.
Tell me what you have in mind. I or a member of The Kurz Team will reach out personally. Prefer to talk now?