“I know all about the ways of the heart–how it wants to be alive.”
– Rumi
From 1-on-1 coaching to consulting intensives, speaking engagements, courses and publications, there’s nowhere better to reinvigorate your daily life, rejuvenate your purpose and passions and fuel your dreams with proven methods and honest inspiration.
As a heartfelt communicator and deeply-driven giver, few things make me feel alive like connecting with someone real who wants to live a flourishing life of meaning like you — while giving liberally to others along the way.
Just fifteen years old on 9/11, I was born unto an age of terror, but between seeing what I saw in the field of leadership — both for better and for worse — and my life’s rich experiences, I’ve grown into a love of all people and an unremitting determination for my words to benefit the lives of others, everywhere.
I hope you’ll be a part of that.
Not as a follower, or a fan, or a subscriber or a customer — but as a friend.
ONE-ON-ONE
I’ll help you become a better writer. It’s that simple.
Writer coaching gives me the opportunity to work with you on a personal level and completely customize an approach to improving your writing skills, habits, abilities — and especially your mindset. Writing coaching puts us together for several one-on-one calls to help you:
- improve your writing skills and build new habits
- jump-start your writing, publishing and blogging endeavors
- advance your career (or beginning a brand new career path) as a writer
Through 1-on-1 coaching, I’ll help you bring clarity, confidence and conciseness to your writer’s voice; improve your process, habits and methods as a writer; and help you brainstorm new and healthy habits to keep you running strong.
“Last week, I had a session with Dave and, honestly, I feel like it might be the single most important conversation I’ve had in the past few years. And since we’ve talked, everything is different. I’m more solid, excited, sparked, and ready to create the impact I’ve always wanted to.”
– Sally Hope, Life Coach & Co-Founder of Girls Gone Moto
COURSES + PROGRAMS
The Literati Writers’ Group
“For Writers Who Want to Live and Love the Creative Journey”
What if you could discover a supportive community of fellow writers who share your values and would help support you throughout your creative journey?
The Literati Writers is an online writers’ group that for writers who want to live and love their creative journeys: a uniquely encouraging community of writers who engage in unique weekly learning curriculum, author interviews, digital workshops and more under the guidance and leadership of writer and multi-published author Dave Ursillo.
The Literati Writers is a private, premium-subscription digital community of fiction and nonfiction writers who deeply value the creative journey and wish to find the support, encouragement and guidance of like-minded peers with whom they share ideas, collaborate, discuss problems and issues.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
In a day and age that is so desperate for leadership, my unique speaking offerings shatter the biggest misconceptions that we maintain about leadership — by daring the hearts and minds of your audience to liberate themselves from the very misconceptions that hold them back from flourishing, every day. From keynote speeches to afternoon workshops, interactive Q&As and day-long seminars, we will collaborate create a custom curriculum for you that’s raw and real — with a ton of heart, not self-help fluff. See why leading liberal arts institutions like the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) and American University (Washington, DC) have brought me on campus to speak about leading from love. – Lisa Nicole Bell, Author, Filmmaker & CEO of Inspired Life Media Group I had an idea one October night in 2008 for a book that would redefine the meaning of leadership and inspire men and women to live their leadership in their everyday lives. I finally wrote and self-published that book, Lead Without Followers, in 2011. What I learned from publishing my first book was nearly endless — book-writing was an introspective process and a marathon. I learned that the value of true artistic creation and that what’s most meaningful from book-writing and any creative expression is its creation, at all. I don’t think you have to be a book-writer or an artist to understand it, but when you create something meaningful to you and put it out into the world, you become one with all art and artists. Your opinion of musicians, painters, even celebrity movie stars all loses meaning because you begin to understand the spiritual process and physical toll that any and all creation takes upon a human being — anyone who desires to contribute, to tell a story, to give a lesson, to help a life through art. But the toll is a worthy one. And I’ll keep on creating, for as long as I’m able :) God Whispers on the Wind: Spiritual Poems of Light, Laughter and Love is a heart-stoking collection of 81 spiritual poems that invokes the connections that we all share: to the Universe, what we call God, and especially to one another. God Whispers on the Wind hopes to gently encourage a greater awareness for those common threads: the perpetual and binding human qualities of love, happiness, purposeful living and shared experience that make us so exceptionally unique as spiritual beings. – Joy Holland | Blogger & Founder, Facets of Joy Set against a disturbing backdrop of rampant partisanship, division and ineffectual leadership gripping the political world, Lead Without Followers is a bold personal tale and inspired political treatment of today’s modern leadership problem. With over 1,000 physical and digital copies in circulation, this statement piece introduces a seemingly backwards idea that anyone can lead without followers in your life — and, how redefining leadership in such a radical way might serve an entire nation with the very road map it needs to fix today’s leadership problems. “Lead Without Followers is not only a revealing glimpse into the political landscape of America, but a solid look at the problem with leadership today: how our perception of so-called ‘leaders’ has corrupted the very nature of leadership in general, and in politics, specifically.” – Lisa Robbin Young | Blogger & Founder, Business Action Hero POWER FROM WITHIN is a motivating manifesto with an inspirational edge that will fuel your pursuit for personal growth, self-discovery and inner peace. Each and every human being possesses an inherent and theoretically limitless power that resides and surges forth from within. Through the power of choice, we may each realize our potential, gifts, and purpose in life; unleashing our limitless potential and enabling every soul to truly thrive: “The foundation for happiness and worldly fulfillment is already and always in place. All that is needed is wholly within.” Espousing and reaffirming the inherent equality of all human beings, POWER FROM WITHIN reaches into the heart and soul of the reader, inspiring genuinely contemplative thought and is certain to compel a renewed desire in the reader to live a happy and healthy life for both ourselves and on behalf of others. “Inspiring… amazingly poetic without being poetic. I literally sat in awe of his wisdom… I knew I was reading the words of a leader.” – Cheryl Maloney | Founder, Simple Steps, Real Change 
“Dave is a rare professional who takes thought-leadership beyond theory and to action. As a pioneer of alternative leadership among Millennials, Dave consistently inspires and mobilizes his clients to higher levels of success.”
Publications
God Whispers on the Wind: Spiritual Poems of Light, Laughter and Love (August 2012)
“My heart celebrated every word… During the second reading, I was able to savor the words, the message, and to feel beyond that to this wonderful affirmation of the gift of life, the ability to love and feel and experience all that we choose.”
Lead Without Followers: How to Save Our World by Radically Redefining the Meaning of Leadership (September 2011)
Power from Within: A Manifesto (August 2010)
