Speaking & Leadership Training

From the Ziglar legacy to Edge Global’s next chapter.

The First to TRUST Wins.

Michael Ray Newman’s speaking work is built around trust, design, execution, and championship-level leadership. After stepping into the Ziglar world, helping carry its message forward, and building Edge Global Inc., Michael now helps leaders and organizations communicate with purpose, lead with clarity, and perform with disciplined intent.

Ziglar Legacy → Edge Global → TRUST / Design / Execution

Michael Ray Newman speaking and leadership training portrait

Founder-led leadership work

From legacy to leadership

Carrying the message forward.

Michael’s speaking work does not live in a vacuum. It grows out of a lineage of leadership, trust, communication, and personal development — shaped by the Ziglar world and carried forward through Edge Global Inc.

Ziglar Legacy

A foundation of belief, purpose, communication, and service.

Edge Global

A modern leadership platform built to design leaders, build champions, and transform organizations.

The TRUST Process

A practical framework for communication, leadership, alignment, and execution.

Edge Global Inc.

A leadership platform for the work beyond the stage.

The speaking room is often the starting point. Edge Global carries the work into coaching, leadership training, events, and organizational transformation so leaders can turn inspiration into operating rhythm.

Speaking, coaching, leadership training, events, and organizational transformation.

Messages built for leaders who have to execute.

The First to TRUST Wins

A leadership message on building cultures where trust becomes the operating advantage.

Speak by Design

Communication, influence, presence, negotiation, and connection built around intentional design.

Mindset of a Champion

A practical message for teams that need resilience, accountability, and championship-level standards.

Life by Design

Helping leaders and teams move from reactive living to intentional action.

Operational Engagement

Aligning people, process, communication, and execution so teams perform with clarity.

Whatever It Takes

Disciplined execution with integrity — doing what is required without losing sight of purpose.

Trust. Design. Execution.

The work is not motivation for motivation’s sake. It is designed to help leaders build the environment, language, rhythm, and standard their teams need to perform.

Trust

The foundation of every high-performing culture.

Design

Excellence is never accidental. The future has to be intentionally built.

Execution

Strategy only matters when disciplined action turns it into reality.

Built for the room you are leading.

Keynotes

High-impact messages for conferences, summits, associations, leadership events, and company gatherings.

Leadership Trainings

Private sessions for organizations that need stronger trust, communication, culture, and execution.

Workshops

Practical working sessions built around communication, leadership, mindset, and team performance.

Executive Coaching

Focused advisory for founders, operators, and leaders building through pressure.

Rooted in real leadership work.

  • Former CEO of Zig Ziglar International
  • Producer of the Zig Ziglar documentary Born to WIN
  • Builder of Edge Global Inc.
  • Creator and coach behind WIT and the TRUST Process
  • Speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, and operating leader
  • Founder of AuctionTrac and Auction AI
Champions are not created by accident. They are designed through trust, discipline, and intentional leadership.

Edge Global leadership philosophy

Bring the message to your room

Ready to build leaders who can carry the standard?

Start with a speaking inquiry, or learn more about the broader leadership and transformation work at Edge Global.