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Every organization
says people first.
Few are built like
they mean it.

When the message matters too much to hand to a hype speaker, organizations call Eddie St-Vil: licensed clinician, LSU Athletics executive, and the builder of leadership and prevention programs that rooms remember. Your people will not check their phones. They will quote him for months.

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He builds programs, not just talks. The Chew On This lunch-and-learn series at LSU. Community domestic violence and sexual assault education in partnership with A Call to Men. Onboarding for nearly 300 incoming student-athletes. Designed, delivered, and asked back.
Developing leaders is his day job. Assistant Athletics Director for Training and Leadership Development at LSU. Not a side talk. His actual role, every day, inside one of the most demanding programs in sports.
Licensed to go deeper. Most speakers describe human behavior. Eddie is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, credentialed to treat it. Your people can tell the difference in the first five minutes.
See him in a room

The website says it.
The footage shows it.

Every speaker page promises engagement. Here is what Eddie's rooms actually look and sound like. Press play before you book anyone.

The work

Your people have heard it all.
They have not heard this.

High performers can smell a rented speaker in the first two minutes. What they have never met is one person who holds clinical credentials, builds leaders inside a top D1 athletics department, and talks like a real one. That combination is the offer. Four ways to bring it in.

Keynote speaking for teams and organizations with Eddie St-Vil
01 · Speaking

Keynotes & Featured Sessions

The talk your people are still quoting next quarter. Signature topics include leadership development, navigating difficult situations in the workplace, mental health in performance culture, and leading under pressure. Built for locker rooms, front offices, conferences, and companies done renting energy with no substance.

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Understanding the Playbook domestic violence and sexual assault education program for professional and collegiate athletics
02 · Signature Program

Understanding the Playbook

Eddie's signature domestic violence and sexual assault education program, built for professional and collegiate athletics and grown from years of prevention work at LSU, including community education in partnership with A Call to Men. It replaces the compliance checkbox with a conversation your people actually engage in, because the stakes are careers, families, and lives.

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Team workshops and trainings with Eddie St-Vil
03 · Teams

Team Workshops & Trainings

Title IX education, QPR suicide prevention certification training, crisis response and debriefing, and student-athlete development, including onboarding built for incoming classes of nearly 300. The trainings your people are required to sit through, delivered so well they forget it was required.

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Executive and leadership development with Eddie St-Vil
04 · Leaders

Executive & Leadership Development

For the coaches, administrators, and executives carrying the most weight with the least support. Ongoing development that builds the inner edge: the composure, clarity, and durability that separate leaders who last decades from leaders who flame out in three years.

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For athletes and sports teams: The Grind.

The six-week performance cohort. Virtual, real talk, no jargon. Trusted by NBA, NFL, and MLB athletes. Join as an individual athlete, or bring your whole roster through as a team cohort.

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Behind the keynotes

The capabilities your organization
actually hires.

Eddie's facilitation style is interactive, reflective, and action-oriented. Through honest dialogue and engaging work, teams build trust, improve communication, and re-align around purpose and accountability. Underneath every engagement sit four core capabilities.

Capability 01

Team Building & Performance Culture

Trust, communication, and accountability, engineered on purpose instead of left to chance. The culture work that turns a group of talented individuals into a team that holds under pressure.

Capability 02

Behavior Intervention & Threat Assessment

Development of behavior intervention and threat assessment teams. The clinical training to read risk accurately and the operational experience to build the systems that respond to it.

Capability 03

Change Management & Values-Based Leadership

A steady hand for organizations navigating transition. Leadership that starts from values, communicates through tension, and turns friction points into growth instead of turnover.

Capability 04

Trauma-Informed Workplace Practices

Building environments where people perform because they are safe, not scared. Research-informed, culturally aware practices that protect wellbeing without lowering the standard.

Programs in action

Real rooms. Real dates.
Real receipts.

The Chew On This lunch-and-learn series. Campus-wide prevention events in partnership with A Call to Men. These are the artifacts of programs that ran, filled rooms, and got invited back.

Event flyer from an Eddie St-Vil program at LSU Athletics
Chew On This lunch-and-learn series event flyer
Chew On This lunch-and-learn series event flyer at LSU
LSU Athletics prevention and education event flyer
The record

Named rooms.
Named work.

No vague logo wall. These are the organizations and the actual sessions, by name, spanning collegiate athletics leadership, corporate leadership education, and campus safety.

01
National Convention · Athletics LeadershipNational Association of Collegiate Directors of AthleticsNACDA
"The Pivot: Finding Your Calling in Sports"·Panel Presenter
02
National Platform · Women in SportsWomen Leaders in Sports
"Internal Balance in an External Role"·"Student-Athlete Academics"
03
Campus Summit · Student-Athlete SupportLSU Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes
Student Support Summit·Mental Health Panel Presenter
04
Corporate Classroom · Leadership EducationLSU MBA Program Orientation
"Leadership Reimagined: Exploring Leadership Through Engagement & Civility"
05
National Association · Campus Safety & Case ManagementHigher Education Case Managers AssociationHECMA
"Implementing a Centralized Reporting System to Address Students of Concern"
Culture is not a vibe. It is a system you build.
Eddie St-Vil · LPC-S · LSU Athletics
How engagements work

Scoped to your room.
Built for your outcomes.

01

Discovery call

A direct conversation about your organization, your people, and what you need to be different. Date, audience, goals, format. No pitch deck theater.

02

Scoped proposal

A clear engagement plan with deliverables, format, and investment. From a single keynote to a season-long development partnership, you will know exactly what you are buying.

03

Delivery that lands

In person nationwide or virtual where it fits. No recycled deck. The content is rebuilt around your culture, your pressure points, and your people, then delivered by someone they will actually listen to.

Eddie St-Vil, LPC-S, Assistant Athletics Director for Training and Leadership Development at LSU
Who you're bringing in

Most consultants study the room. Eddie runs one.

Credentials

Eddie St-Vil, Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and Assistant Athletics Director for Training and Leadership Development at LSU.

The differentiator

Speakers bring energy. Clinicians bring depth. Operators bring credibility. Booking all three usually takes three contracts. Eddie is one person, and everything he delivers has been field-tested on real teams under real pressure before it reaches your room.

Scope

This lane is consulting and development, not therapy, so it travels nationwide with no state limits. Individual counseling is a separate clinical practice, licensed in Louisiana and Texas, over at the counseling lane.

Before you reach out

Straight answers for decision makers.

How is this different from counseling? +

Counseling is licensed clinical care for individuals, limited to Louisiana and Texas. This lane is consulting: leadership development, training, and speaking for teams and organizations. It is not therapy, which means no state limits, no clinical relationship, and engagements built around organizational outcomes.

Do you work outside of Louisiana? +

Yes. Consulting, speaking, and training engagements travel nationwide, and virtual delivery is available for workshops and development programs. The clinical licensure limits apply only to therapy, not to this work.

Who is this built for? +

Professional franchises, collegiate athletic departments, coaching staffs, and corporate teams that treat their people as the performance strategy. Past rooms range from locker rooms and campus-wide prevention events to incoming classes of nearly 300 student-athletes. If your people perform under pressure, this translates.

What does an engagement cost? +

Every engagement is scoped to the room, the goals, and the format, from a single keynote to a season-long development partnership. The discovery call is where scope and investment get defined. It is free and it is direct.

Can you speak at our event? +

Yes. Keynotes and featured sessions are a core part of this work, covering leadership development, navigating difficult situations in the workplace, athlete development, mental health in performance culture, and domestic violence and sexual assault education. Book a discovery call with your date, audience, and goals.

Start here

Your people are the program.
Develop them like it.

One discovery call. Your goals, your room, and a straight answer on whether this is the right fit.

Bringing this to your organization? Book a discovery call with Eddie. Direct, scoped, no pitch theater.