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A Story of Success, Failure, Restoration, and Leadership That Multiplies.

Chad Reelfs helped scale a company from 5 employees to more than 600 and contributed to a 250 million dollar exit.

But behind the professional success, misplaced identity, pride, and self-reliance nearly cost him his marriage, family, ministry, and future.

Through faith, forgiveness, counseling, accountability, coaching, and trusted mentors, Chad rebuilt his life and redefined what meaningful success should look like.

Today, he brings an honest and practical perspective to conversations about leadership, mentorship, personal growth, faith, family, culture, and the human side of artificial intelligence.

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Why Chad

More than a leadership résumé.

Chad brings together two stories that are rarely found in the same guest.

He understands what it takes to help build and scale a successful company. He also understands what happens when achievement becomes identity and success grows faster than character.

Chad speaks openly about both. His conversations move naturally between humor, leadership insight, personal vulnerability, faith, practical frameworks, and the responsibility leaders have to invest in the next generation.

He does not offer a polished story of uninterrupted success.

He offers an honest story of achievement, failure, restoration, and significance.

Featured conversation

Hear Chad’s story.

In this conversation with Tommy and Dianne McCollister, Chad shares more about the personal experiences that shaped his understanding of faith, family, leadership, restoration, and mentorship.

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From Infidelity To Amazing! Ft. Chad Reelfs · Tommy & Dianne McCollister

Topics include

  • Performing for acceptance
  • The danger of finding identity in achievement
  • Personal failure and rebuilding trust
  • The faithfulness and forgiveness of his wife
  • The mentors who helped him rebuild
  • Moving from success to significance
  • Becoming the mentor someone else needs

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Conversation topics

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Closing the Mentorship Gap

Organizations have more leadership information than ever, but many emerging leaders still lack intentional guidance.

Chad explores why mentorship is essential for knowledge transfer, leadership development, succession, culture, and preparing the next generation.

  • What is the mentorship gap?
  • Why are so many managers expected to develop people without being taught how?
  • What is the difference between leadership and mentorship?
  • How can an organization build mentorship into its culture?
  • What keeps successful leaders from mentoring others?
  • How can someone begin mentoring without creating a complicated program?

What Breaks First When a Company Grows

Chad helped scale Sojern from 5 employees to more than 600.

That experience gave him a front-row view of what happens when a company grows faster than its leaders can transfer wisdom, develop managers, and maintain culture.

  • What did you learn while helping scale Sojern?
  • What begins to break as an organization grows?
  • Why is the leadership handoff so difficult?
  • How can founders transfer decision making without losing control?
  • What should companies do before promoting someone into management?
  • How does mentorship support succession and leadership pipelines?

Achievement Is a Terrible Savior

For years, Chad relied too heavily on success, performance, and the approval of others.

He speaks honestly about how achievement became identity, what it nearly cost him, and what rebuilding taught him about character and significance.

  • What do you mean when you say achievement is a terrible savior?
  • How can someone tell when success has become identity?
  • Why do high performers often struggle to receive correction?
  • What did personal failure reveal about your leadership?
  • How did you begin rebuilding trust with your family?
  • What does success look like to you now?

Faith, Family, and Restoration

Chad’s faith in Jesus Christ is foundational to his personal story and leadership philosophy.

He shares how surrender, forgiveness, counseling, accountability, coaching, and trusted mentors helped him rebuild his life.

  • What role did faith play in your restoration?
  • How did your wife’s forgiveness change your life?
  • Why was accountability essential to rebuilding?
  • What did counseling and coaching provide that you could not create alone?
  • How did your understanding of leadership change after failure?
  • What would you say to someone who believes their failure has disqualified them?

Become the Mentor You Wish You Had

Chad believes people should not spend their lives waiting for the mentor they wish they had. They can become that mentor for someone else.

This conversation explores what healthy mentorship looks like from both sides of the relationship.

  • What makes someone ready to mentor another person?
  • What should mentors and mentees expect from each other?
  • How can a mentor challenge someone without controlling them?
  • What makes a mentee worth investing in?
  • How can mentorship create independence rather than dependence?
  • How does one mentoring relationship begin multiplying into others?

Keeping Our Humanity in All This AI Insanity

Artificial intelligence can increase speed, efficiency, and access to information.

It cannot replace the human responsibility to know people, build trust, exercise judgment, develop character, and care about another person’s growth.

  • What parts of leadership should never be outsourced to artificial intelligence?
  • How can leaders use AI without becoming less human?
  • Will AI increase or decrease the need for mentorship?
  • What happens when efficiency becomes more important than relationships?
  • How should organizations prepare leaders for a more automated workplace?
  • What human qualities will matter most as technology continues to grow?

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More conversations.

Full episodes where Chad talks through leadership, mentorship, sales, restoration, and what it costs to build success well.

LVIMA · Las Vegas Innovation Marketing Association

What Happens in Marketing S2 E1 — Programmatic Innovation, AI, and Mentorship

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Traditions N’ Trends Podcast

57 Minutes of Genius Sales Advice — TNT Ep. 10

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Who Knew In the Moment?

Exit Sale From Sojern, Founder of Ads Value

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What hosts say

A guest who can move from laughter to depth.

Chad is energetic, fun, and contagious. His vulnerability, honesty, and genuine enjoyment of people allow him to connect with an audience from the very beginning. He is the kind of communicator people immediately like and I would sit and listen to him speak any day.
— John C. Maxwell
Chad has a rare ability to move an audience from laughter to deep vulnerability and back again. His energy, authenticity, timing, and character are just as evident offstage as they are onstage.
— Ryan Leak

The upcoming book · Coming October 2026

Become The Mentor You Wish You Had.

A Blueprint For Mentorship

With a foreword by Jordan Montgomery, author of The Art of Encouragement.

The book gives mentors, mentees, leaders, families, and organizations a practical structure for building relationships that develop people, transfer wisdom, and multiply leadership.

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Timely conversation angles

  • Why the mentorship gap continues to grow
  • What keeps good people from mentoring
  • The responsibilities of mentors and mentees
  • Developing emerging leaders before promotion
  • Transferring wisdom across generations
  • Moving from personal success to multiplied impact

Approved host introduction

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Chad Reelfs is a keynote speaker, author, entrepreneur, and leadership mentor who helped scale Sojern from 5 employees to more than 600 and contributed to a 250 million dollar exit. After personal failure nearly cost him his marriage, family, ministry, and future, Chad rebuilt his life through faith, forgiveness, counseling, accountability, coaching, and mentorship. Today, he helps leaders close the mentorship gap, develop people intentionally, and leave a legacy beyond their own success.

Recording and media details

Chad is available for:

  • Video podcast interviews
  • Audio podcast interviews
  • Media interviews
  • Written commentary
  • Leadership panels
  • Book-related conversations
  • Selected radio and live media opportunities

Platform, timing, technical requirements, and promotional support are confirmed during scheduling.

For deadline-sensitive media requests, include the publication deadline in the inquiry form.

Media kit contents

  • A 50-word biography
  • A 100-word biography
  • A 250-word biography
  • A short host introduction
  • Approved high-resolution headshots
  • The official book cover
  • Chad’s one-line description
  • Conversation topics
  • Sample interview questions
  • Approved testimonials
  • Website and social links
  • Contact information

The downloadable kit will be linked here once assembled as a single file.

Podcast and media inquiry

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Use this form for podcast interviews, media requests, written commentary, panels, and book-related conversations.

What happens next

Chad’s team will review the request, confirm alignment and availability, and respond with the recommended next step.

Submitting an inquiry does not confirm an appearance. For urgent media deadlines, clearly include the deadline and preferred response time.

Final word

Bring an honest leadership story to your audience.

Chad brings business experience, personal vulnerability, practical mentorship principles, faith, humor, and a message designed to move people from insight to intentional action.