About Wes & Cindy

Wes & Cindy Dove are nationally recognized thought leaders, authors, and trainers with a proven track record of helping organizations in every cross section of industry improve productivity and increase profitability by providing practical tools that supervisors, managers, executives, and owners can apply immediately to build stronger values-based cultures and create a best-in-class leadership environment that attracts great talent and achieves measurable results.

Wes & Cindy are approved recertification providers with the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). Dove Development & Consulting has also worked with Virginia’s Department of Labor (DPOR) to have coursework approved to count toward the classroom hour requirement for registered apprenticeship programs.

Both Wes and Cindy are Certified Human Behavior Consultants as well as Certified Trainers, Speakers and Coaches through Maxwell Leadership, and Wes holds a professional credential (SHRM-CP) through the Society for Human Resource Management. Wes was recognized by Real Leaders as one of the top 80 Executive Coaches worldwide in 2025. Wes and Cindy were each listed by Real Leaders as “Top Impact Speakers”; two of less than 100 worldwide. Additionally, Dove Development & Consulting was presented with the Global Golden Business “Emerging Star Award” in late 2025.

In early 2024, Wes published What’s KILLING Your Profitability? (It ALL Boils Down to Leadership!), which became a #1 Best Seller on Amazon. His second book, Leading With A Clear Purpose, was released in February 2025 and also became an Amazon #1 Best Seller. Wes’s third book, The Values Advantage, was released February 2026. As with the previous two, it also hit #1 on Amazon.

In addition to helping teams capture lost profitability through stronger leadership, they enjoy time with children and grandchildren, their rescue dogs, and Florida’s Gulf Coast.

To learn more about working directly with them, you can contact at admin@dove-development.net

This transformative keynote directly addresses the hidden killers of organizational profitability—poor leadership, ineffective communication, high turnover, lack of accountability, disengagement, and misguided promotions. Organizations pour resources into process improvements, yet the most immediate, high-impact drivers of bottom-line results are often dismissed as "intangible." Based on Wes's 2024 Amazon #1 bestseller What's KILLING Your Profitability? (It ALL Boils Down to Leadership!), they reveal how mastering essential leadership skills, implementing them consistently, and measuring tangible outcomes can reverse these costly drains and unlock dramatic gains in performance, engagement, and profits.

Consider the staggering realities:

• Poor workplace communication costs U.S. businesses up to $1.2 trillion annually in lost productivity and inefficiencies (BusinessWire).
• Voluntary turnover hovers at 23.4% yearly, with replacement costs ranging from one-half to five times an employee's salary—potentially $438,000 to $4 million per year for a 100-person firm with average pay of $35,000 (Gallup).
• Increased commitment through better leadership yields a 57% improvement in discretionary effort and an average 20% boost in individual performance (Harvard Business Review).
• Poor leadership contributes to widespread disengagement, with global estimates linking it to trillions in lost productivity, while ineffective promotions perpetuate cycles of underperformance and retention challenges (Forbes, Gallup).

Their proven track record spans every industry sector, delivering practical, actionable frameworks that build values-based cultures, foster high-trust teams, and drive measurable ROI—tools that supervisors, managers, executives, and owners can apply immediately to attract and retain top talent while boosting profitability.

This keynote is ideal for:

• Executives focused on reclaiming lost profitability and scaling sustainable growth.
• Leaders committed to cultivating a best-in-class workplace culture that inspires performance and loyalty.

Attendees leave equipped with:

• Concrete steps to tackle profitability barriers through stronger leadership.
• Clear insights into how poor leadership cascades across every organizational area—and proven strategies to reverse it.
• Tools to enhance communication, accountability, engagement, and promotion decisions for immediate, lasting impact.

Wes & Cindy Dove deliver a powerful keynote on Leading With A Clear Purpose, addressing one of the most critical yet often overlooked challenges in leadership today: sustaining personal resilience while inspiring teams to perform at their highest potential. In the best of times, leadership carries significant weight; in the worst, it can feel unbearable. A clear sense of purpose becomes the decisive factor—separating those who lead effectively and thrive from those who falter or even abandon the role. Even leaders with personal clarity may struggle to rally their teams toward meaningful, shared achievement.

Drawing directly from Wes's 2025 Amazon #1 bestseller Leading With A Clear Purpose, this keynote equips attendees with practical, actionable steps to identify their own leadership "why," align it with organizational mission, and guide team members in connecting daily work to a purpose that resonates deeply on both collective and individual levels. Attendees discover essential questions to uncover personal purpose, frameworks for bridging mission-vision-values with dedicated purpose, and tools to empower teams—fostering environments where purpose drives engagement, satisfaction, performance, and well-being far beyond mere compensation.

Consider the compelling evidence:

• Employees with a strong sense of purpose are 5.6 times more likely to be engaged at work (Gallup & Stand Together research).
• Purpose-driven organizations achieve 40% higher workforce retention, with clear mission links making people 2.7 times more likely to stay (multiple studies including Deloitte and Great Place to Work).
• High engagement—often fueled by purpose—delivers 23% greater profitability, 18% more productivity, and significantly lower turnover (Gallup).
• Burnout remains a crisis, with leadership roles particularly vulnerable: costs per executive can exceed $20,000 annually in lost productivity, while overall workplace burnout drains billions globally—yet purpose alignment reduces stress, boosts resilience, and cuts disengagement risks dramatically.

This keynote stands out for its real-world applicability, blending bestselling insights with proven, hands-on frameworks that leaders can implement immediately to combat burnout, prevent disengagement, and unlock untapped team potential.

Ideal for:

• Executives seeking sustainable ways to avoid burnout while inspiring peak performance from their teams.
• Leaders dedicated to achieving lasting significance and impact in their organizations.

Attendees leave equipped with:

• Practical steps to identify and articulate your clear purpose for embracing leadership responsibility.
• A robust framework for helping every team member understand and connect to the organization's strong, rallying purpose.
• Actionable strategies to link individual team members' personal purposes to the broader organizational mission—creating harmony, motivation, and enduring commitment.

Wes & Cindy Dove bring unmatched credibility and delivery to this topic as the authors behind the #1 bestseller that forms its foundation and recognized nationally for transforming leadership cultures across industries. Their sessions go beyond inspiration—they provide measurable, immediate tools for leaders to build purpose-aligned teams that thrive personally and professionally.