GARY’S MESSAGE IGNITES CLARITY, OWNERSHIP, AND ACTION.

Inspiration from stage is great, but it’s what your audience does after the lights come up that really matters. Gary’s keynote goes beyond inspirational stories. He equips  the audience with the tools, mindset, and personal leadership to walk out playing The Ownership Game in their lives

Hi, I’m Gary Montalvo,

and I teach people how to take radical ownership of their lives by tapping into their self-leadership. Leadership is what breaks you free from the reactive, limiting patterns that hold you back and sabotage your impact. The moment you stop outsourcing responsibility is the moment everything shifts—and you finally get back in the driver’s seat of your life.

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Whether you’re energizing a room of thousands or leading a team through a major transition, Gary delivers a message that resonates with every person in the audience—challenging them to think differently, lead themselves fully, and take ownership of what’s next. His talks are real, dynamic, and designed to create lasting transformation—not just temporary motivation.

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THE OWNERSHIP GAME
HOW TO STOP WAITING, START LEADING, AND TAKE RADICAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR RESULTS

Ideal Audience: Entrepreneurs, Founders, Creatives, Leaders, and Teams. Can be tailored for Business, Leadership, or Personal Development Events.

Value: Wake up your audience’s leadership by helping them trade excuses and circumstances for ownership, by giving them the mindset, tools, and clarity to create aligned success on their own terms.

Everyone says they want to level up, but most are still waiting.
Waiting for the plan to be perfect.
Waiting for the right time.
Waiting for someone else to validate their vision.

The Ownership Game is for the ones who are done waiting.
It’s for the people who are ready to stop spinning in confusion, start leading from within, and take full responsibility for their business, their impact, and their life.

Gary draws from his personal experience as the child of immigrant parents and a first-generation college graduate who hustled his way into a dream job as an Art Director at Sony Music by the age of 22. But beneath the wins was a quiet unraveling: self-doubt, burnout, and a growing disconnect from the life he was building. On the outside, he looked like he had it all together. Inside, he was exhausted from chasing approval and performing for success. It wasn’t until Gary chose to stop outsourcing his worth and started taking radical ownership of who he really was that everything shifted. He redefined success on his own terms, rebuilt his life from the inside out, and created the frameworks that now help others do the same.

In this transformational keynote, Gary walks audiences through the exact mindset shift that helped him go from burnout and self-doubt to building a purpose-driven life and business from the inside out. No hype. No hacks. Just the raw truth about what it actually takes to lead yourself—and why nothing truly changes until you do.

Your audience will walk away not just inspired, but activated. They’ll learn how to recognize the reactive patterns holding them back, rewire their relationship to responsibility, and start making decisions that align with who they really want to be.

This is more than personal development—it’s personal ownership. And once they start playing The Ownership Game, everything changes.

 Takeaways – In this keynote, your audience will learn how to:

• Identify the hidden habits and belief loops that keep them stuck, overextended, or out of alignment
• Shift from reactive to proactive leadership—so they can lead themselves and others more effectively
• Redefine success based on fulfillment, not performance or approval
• Build a personal framework for taking action before they feel ready
• Take radical responsibility for the results they want—in business, relationships, and life

Heather Pilcher 
Award Winning Event Producer, Founder of Blue Spark

I've enjoyed working with Gary on large-scale events for years. He brings leadership, organization, and thoughtful insight to each event.

On top of his contributions to the event vision, I've had the opportunity to see him deliver multiple keynote speeches, business trainings, and seminars, that provided impactful content to fire up the crowd.

He is a charismatic speaker with a fantastic stage presence who can deliver a message effortlessly to thousands when asked.

Michele Gay
Founder of Limelife by Alcone

There were countless times when I watched him on stage and thought to myself, “Wow, that is brilliant.” Gary is a game-changer for those willing to change. He has a gift for knowing when to be kind and understanding and when to issue a verbal wake-up. And, what’s most important, Gary puts ever other person’s goals ahead of how each person feels about him – something many business coaches are not willing or able to do.

Sarah Shadonix
Founder and CEO at Scout & Cellar

Gary is a best-in-class leadership coach. He delivered an all-day leadership development workshop for 200+ of our top leaders, and it was not only terrific content but was also effectively and engagingly delivered. One of our top level leaders who has attended a dozen leadership development workshops in his career said the training was the best he had ever attended. Using a powerful combination of humility, humor and real talk, Gary has an uncanny ability to connect with people, coach them to be their best and then inspire them to see beyond that to achieve even more.

Meredith DeLeon,
Director of the Brighter Together Foundation

Gary has a true gift for guiding leaders through their own mental blocks and interpersonal
challenges. He is skilled at managing a group, and cutting through the minutia while quickly identify root-cause issues with critical thinking. The result leaves you feeling empowered with strategies and a new perspective to move forward.

He is a straight shooter but with charm that disarms and he’s a master of accountability with positivity. I highly recommend Gary. He is a true asset to an organization and individual as a coach, speaker and leader.

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