Become The Lighthouse

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Become the Lighthouse.

Helping fathers, leaders, and families navigate stress with calm, empathy, and emotional resilience.

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Today’s fathers are navigating more pressure than ever—career demands, mental load, and the responsibility of raising emotionally healthy kids in an increasingly chaotic world.
Tim Purkis helps fathers develop the one skill that impacts everything:
The ability to stay calm under pressure.
Blending 25+ years of high-stress leadership experience with mindfulness and real-life parenting, Tim delivers practical, relatable, and immediately actionable tools that transform how dads show up at home—and in life.

Signature Talks

01

Become the Lighthouse: Emotional Regulation for Fathers, Families, and High-Stress Lives.

A powerful keynote on staying calm under pressure, regulating emotions during difficult moments, and becoming a steady presence for the people who depend on us most. Blending personal storytelling, mindfulness practices, and practical emotional regulation tools, this talk explores how calm leadership transforms families, teams, and relationships.

Key Takeaways:

  • Practical tools to regulate emotions during stressful moments
  • How our nervous systems influence the people around us
  • The difference between reacting and responding
  • Simple mindfulness techniques that create more presence and connection
  • How calm leadership strengthens trust at home and at work
02

Calm Under Pressure: Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience in High-Performance Environments

Drawing from years in corporate leadership, fatherhood, recovery, and mindfulness practice, this presentation explores how stress impacts decision-making, communication, and emotional health. Attendees learn practical techniques to reduce reactivity, increase self-awareness, and lead with greater presence and clarity.

Key Takeaways:

  • How chronic stress affects communication and leadership performance
  • Techniques to stay grounded during high-pressure situations
  • Tools for improving emotional awareness and self-regulation
  • How mindfulness improves clarity, focus, and resilience
  • Strategies for creating healthier and more emotionally intelligent workplace cultures
03

Breaking the Cycle: Men’s Mental Health, Emotional Awareness, and Modern Fatherhood

An honest and vulnerable conversation about emotional suppression, generational patterns, addiction, stress, and the importance of emotional awareness for men. This talk encourages fathers and leaders to redefine strength through presence, vulnerability, and emotional resilience.

Key Takeaways:

  • How emotional suppression impacts mental health and relationships
  • Recognizing inherited emotional patterns and behaviors
  • Why vulnerability is essential to connection and healing
  • Practical ways fathers can create emotional safety for their children
  • A healthier definition of strength, masculinity, and leadership

WHO THIS IS FOR

Tim’s talks are ideal for:

Parenting groups and schools

Youth sports organizations

Men’s groups and fatherhood communities

Corporate organizations supporting working parents

Leadership and wellness conferences

About Tim

Tim Purkis is a father, author, and speaker focused on emotional regulation, mindfulness, and modern fatherhood.
With over 25 years of experience in high-pressure corporate sales and leadership roles, Tim understands firsthand the stress many men carry—and how it impacts both performance at work and presence at home.
His work centers on helping fathers develop the ability to stay calm, grounded, and intentional—especially in life’s most challenging moments.
Tim blends practical techniques, personal experience, and a deep passion for mental health and mindfulness to deliver talks that are both impactful and immediately actionable.

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