The Coalition Operating System (COS Model™)
The infrastructure that makes coalition work repeatable and less dependent on one overworked coordinator: clear roles, workflows, meeting structures, and knowledge that stays when people leave.
WE SEE YOU
You’re planning for a room full of exhausted prevention professionals, people dealing with funding cuts, staff turnover, and keynotes that all sound the same. They don’t need a pep talk. They need someone who has actually been in it.
SPEAKING
Keynotes, plenaries, and breakout sessions that give the prevention workforce something they can actually use on Monday morning.
SIGNATURE TALKS
The infrastructure that makes coalition work repeatable and less dependent on one overworked coordinator: clear roles, workflows, meeting structures, and knowledge that stays when people leave.
Why prevention systems break down, and the practical shift from siloed programs to a connected ecosystem.
Trauma asks “Am I safe?” Moral injury asks “Am I good?” Learn how shame and moral pain drive substance use and suicide risk, and what to change in your messaging, assessment, and coalition.
Behavior change is a wiring question before it’s a willpower question. The neuroscience behind prevention, pitched at a level that respects the room, with something credible to say to a skeptical sheriff, school board, or commander.
Prevention and recovery run as separate systems, but both rest on the same five conditions: belonging, purpose, relationships, community conditions, and hope. See how blurry the line really is, and where your work can connect.
The leadership habits that build high-trust, high-ownership prevention teams, with real accountability and no shame. Made for a workforce that’s stretched thin.
FORMATS
45–75 minutes designed to set the tone or send people home ready to act.
Full-audience talks that connect your conference theme to real prevention practice.
Interactive 60–120 minute sessions with tools attendees can take back to their teams.
INVESTMENT
All-inclusive fees include travel planning, custom slide design, and pre-event planning call.
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WHY CHOOSE DJC SOLUTIONS
Featured speaker at ISSUP (Greece) and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Austria), bringing global perspective back to your local audience.
Signature talks built on Dave's own COS Model and Circles of Engagement, content your attendees can't hear anywhere else.
SDVOSB-certified. Dave leads with lived experience (military service and a personal recovery journey) that lands with prevention audiences in ways credentials alone can't.
"I don't do generic keynotes. Every talk carries what I learned as a combat veteran, a person in long-term recovery, and someone who built prevention infrastructure from a blank whiteboard. That's the talk your audience will remember on the plane home."
Send your event details and we'll respond within two business days with a plan built around your room.
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