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Don Reed Simmons

Speaker / Writer
Consultant

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About

Right now, individuals feel overwhelmed. Teams feel misaligned.

Leaders feel the pressure ... but can’t name the problem.

It’s not a performance issue.
                           It’s an alignment issue.

Clarity is the new competitive advantage.

Don Reed Simmons has been helping people and organizations cut through the noise, reconnect to what truly matters, and align with their core purpose so decisions become clear, leadership becomes stronger, and results follow naturally.

An INSIGHTFUL, ENGAGING and INSPIRING experience that will have you

seeing yourself and those around you in a whole new way,

leading to a fulfilling life of Peace and Purpose.

 

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As a private consultant, public speaker, author, visionary guide, and change-management expert, Don Reed Simmons has spent more than three decades helping individuals and organizations evolve into their highest expression of themselves. His work brings compassion, creativity, motivation, and conscious growth into the heart of everyday life and the workplace, creating environments where people feel inspired, supported, and genuinely seen.

Through his Shamanic Retreats, Don leads participants into deep meditation, consciousness expansion, and mystical insight. These immersive experiences invite people to “see with new eyes,” awakening a renewed understanding of the world around them and, more importantly, a profound recognition of their own authentic self.

ABOUT

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Don Reed Simmons holds a triple major in Film, Journalism and Public Relations and has published over 300 national, regional or local articles on various topics including meditation, consciousness, shaman studies, film, music and sound therapy. He spent over 20 years in the film industry as a producer, production manager, assistant director, director and writer.  In addition to having written 12 screenplays, he was awarded the Pele Award for a series of PSA's on suicide prevention he wrote and directed in Hawaii. As the president of the International Sound Therapy Association, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to create a Gold Standard of Sound Therapy education, he has spoken on countless occasions on the power of Sound Therapy.

In 1998 he began the transition from film production to consciousness raising through meditation and sound therapy and has facilitated hundreds of workshops, lectures and private sessions reaching thousands of people. His "One Minute Meditation" on Insight Timer has reached over 2.5 million people and is the #1 meditation under 5 minutes on the worlds most popular meditation app.

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Talks and Workshops

Live Your LifePath

Leadership, Personal Insight

Motivation

Audience:

University, High School, Corporate Management, Executive Retreat, Sales

Based on the ground breaking book "Live Your LifePath," there is a unique YOU waiting to be discovered, and when implemented you discover the ease of FLOW in life. This is your Birth Right.

Problems:

  • How do I fit in?

  • What is the talent/gift I give to the world and my job?

  • How do I balance life/work?

Take Away:

  • Recognition of how you process life and why it matters.

  • Clarity of Self and the world around you.

  • Empowered to fully engage the world as you are.

“You don’t need to become someone new. You need to become who you already are ... living by Design.”

Presentations Available

Attitude, Altitude and Agency

Leadership, Personal Insight, Motivation

Audience:

University, Corporate Management, Executive Retreat, Sales

Most people aren’t stuck because they lack talent or opportunity. They’re stuck because they’re operating from the wrong mindset, the wrong perspective, and a lack of ownership. Shift how you see. Elevate how you think. Own how you act.

When this happens, everything changes.

Problems:

  • Loss of motivation and going through the motions with burnout.

  • Victim mindset.

  • Lack of accountability.

  • Resistance to change.​

Take Away:

  • Unstuck mindset

  • Better employee retention

  • Motivation to fully engage

“This turns confusion into clarity, hesitation into action, and potential into performance.”

Shaman In The Boardroom

Executive Leadership. Change Management

C-Suite Management

Audience:

University, Corporate Leadership Executive Retreat

Keeping up is a full time job and it often comes with disappointment, disconnection and isolation. Fear of irrelevancy looms while complacency is the hidden undercurrent. Purpose is hard to hold on to and it seems that arguments have taken the place of communication. Shaman in the Boardroom bridges ancient wisdom with modern leadership. It shows how intuition, presence, and inner alignment aren’t soft skills, they are the leading edge in a world moving faster than logic alone can handle.

Problems:

  • Disconnection from Mission.

  • Data fatigue.

  • Innovation and imagination has become scarce.

  • The "structure" has become the burden.

Take Away:

  • Decision making is quicker, quieter and more aligned.

  • Ability to access solutions to problems before they happen.

  • Purpose drives success, success drives community, community drives purpose.

  • Trusting the process and trusting Self.

“The future of leadership isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming

more aware of who you are

while you do it.”

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©2026 by Don Reed Simmons

Sarasota, FL.

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