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Andrew Ledford Speaking In Front of Space capsule.

Andrew Ledford

562-423-1691

Speaker and Author

  • Accept the past
    • Understand the present
      • Change the future

I help people go from becoming to being

Andrew Has been speaking in public primarily as part of marketing his small business most of his life. This has been geared around clubs, parks and small business groups. He has also had the chance to speak overseas on several occasions.

Andrew Now has designed talks and presentations for a wide range of groups.

Andrew is the author of five books, three about dogs, one about doing lead generation and sales for business, and one about websites and marketing. He has also written a new book that’s coming soon about picking the perfect puppy.

There are several more books planned. The puppy book is soon to be released, and he is working on a book about personal development that incorporates the strategies, tactics, and personal insight gained from dog training applied to contemporary personal and social problems we face as we move into a new era.

Current Formal talks are about:

  • Change Challenge: Workshop 1 – Dreamscapes, Spirituality, and a Changing Life Narrative.
Change Challenge Talk
  • The Effort Werewolf
  • You Always Need to Have a Backup.
  • Goals and Commitment Through Dog Training
  • Learning About Goals and Commitments Through Book Writing

    Gorilla street presentations

    • The Wonderful World of Words: How History and Society Shaped Verbal Behavior.

    This is a fun 30 minute speaking presentation on the evolution of words and how history can change the language we use. There is an emphasis on vocabulary and learning about big impressive words and tiny befuddling words.

    60 Minutes
    Change Challenge: Workshop 1
    Dreamscapes, Spirituality, and a Changing Life Narrative

    Are you ready to shift your story? Our dreams – both sleeping and waking – can offer great insights into our behaviors, choices, and the unseen forces shaping our lives. This interactive workshop blends dream exploration, spirituality, and time-awareness to help you step into a new narrative.

    In this workshop, you will:

    • Learn to interpret dreams as clues to your behavior while awake
    • Discover how waking dreamscapes guide life stages, missions, and transitions
    • Use AI tools to explore and analyze dream imagery
    • Develop task and time awareness to shape your personal story
    • Begin crafting a time budget for life change and take your first step toward transformation.

    15 to 20 minutes
    The Effort Werewolf introduces the very basics of

    • Information/communication theory.
    • How to write in a way to make reading lower effort
    • Why higher effort means higher cost.
    • How to make speaking to customers lower effort.

    45 to 65 Minutes
    Goals and Commitment Through Dog Training

    • How I got started training dog
    • How to go from becoming a dog handler to being a more skilled handler
    • How a dog goes from a raw dog to becoming a better behaved dog, to being a trained and better behaved dog
    • Internally paced drills
    • Externally paced skills
    • Time as a variable
    • What make up our life narrative
    • Finite goals
    • Infinite Goals
    • 7 steps of Goal setting and fulfilment
    • Competing Commitments that sabotage Goals and the best of Intentions.

    45 to 65 Minutes
    Learning About Goals and Commitments Through Book Writing

    • The process I went through writing my most recent book
    • Why accomplishing goals is hard
    • Time as a variable
    • Finite goals
    • Infinite Goals
    • How to go from becoming to being an author
    • What makes up our life narrative
    • 7 steps of Goal setting and fulfilment
    • Competing Commitments that sabotage Goals and best Intentions.

    Areas of interests

    • Animal Behavior
    • Human Behavior
    • Real Estate
    • Dreamscapes
    • Change
    • Religion
    • Mythology
    • Marketing
    • Sales
    • Experiential/Engagement marketing
    • Strategy
    • Business systems
    • Media

    Areas where Andrew has a personal interest and can develop presentations for:

    • Pet dogs
    • Book writing
    • Real estate
    • Changing behavior in the home and community
    • Personal development
    • Communication
    • Small business
    • Media
    • The evolution of online media and social networking
    • Local History
    • Comparative culture