Justin Goodman brings over two decades of leadership experience and a deeply personal mission to every stage he takes, helping students find hope and equipping leaders to build cultures where people thrive.
Whether it is a gymnasium full of high schoolers or a ballroom of executives, every presentation is crafted for who is in the room.
Age-appropriate, high-energy presentations that meet students where they are. Justin tackles mental health with vulnerability and humor, giving young people permission to talk about what they are going through and tools to help their friends.
For campuses navigating a mental health crisis, Justin delivers talks that resonate with students, faculty, and administrators alike. He combines personal narrative with practical frameworks for building campus-wide cultures of care.
From keynotes to breakout sessions and panel discussions, Justin brings insight on leadership, talent development, and workplace mental health that leaves audiences with strategies they can implement immediately.
Every talk is built around the belief that your greatest competitive advantage is your people. When we invest in their well-being and growth, everything changes.
Meet Justin Goodman: Entrepreneur, mental health advocate, speaker, author and the driving force behind Project 55! Justin’s commitment to transforming how students and professionals approach mental health fuels everything he does. His personal experience navigating the invisible pressures of high-stakes environments gave him a front-row seat to a truth few are willing to name: the people achieving the most are often the ones quietly falling apart. And the people closest to them are usually the first to notice, yet the last to be equipped to do something about it.
That recognition became a mission. Justin founded Project 55, a mental health movement built on one foundational belief: the barrier to saving someone’s life was never credentials. It was being close enough to see it, caring enough to act on it, and prepared enough to know how. This movement wasn’t born in a textbook. It was born from lived experience and a deep conviction that no student should suffer in silence and no leader should lose themselves in the pursuit of excellence.
By partnering with mental health experts, Justin developed practical frameworks that integrate emotional intelligence, mental health awareness, and actionable intervention skills into school environments and business settings alike. His focus on redefining strength (not as suppression, but as empathy, awareness, and the courage to act) has resonated with school districts, universities, and organizations nationwide.
Each book distills years of experience into practical guidance for building better teams and organizations.
Each book distills years of experience into practical guidance for building better teams and organizations.

The Future of Learning in a Distracted World. A blueprint for rethinking how organizations train and develop their people.

Achieving Scale in a Shifting Digital Landscape. Strategies for agency owners who want to grow smarter and faster.

If you build it, they will come. How to attract, develop, and keep the people who will define your organization.
“Empowering everyday people to be the difference maker when it matters most.”
Whether you are planning a school assembly, a university wellness week, or a national conference, Justin brings a message that resonates and a presence that stays with your audience long after the event.
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Justin got clean. Then he got to work, turning the worst chapter of his life into a mission to make sure no one has to wait as long as he did for someone to step in.
Whether it’s fifty students in a classroom or thousands in an auditorium, Justin doesn’t give a lecture. He tells the truth about what it feels like to silently fall apart while everyone around you assumes you’re fine. That honesty opens a door most talks never touch. And he doesn’t leave your audience there. He gives them something they can actually use: the confidence and the tools to be the person who steps in when it matters most.
The lesson that saved Justin’s life became the principle behind everything he builds: nobody gets across the finish line by themselves. That conviction isn’t just something he talks about. It’s how he operates. Every venture he has launched, he has launched as a co-founder, because the model that saved him is the model he refuses to abandon.
His nonprofit, Away To Help, provides clean water to over 150,000 Ugandans every year. His company, Total CSR, helps agency owners build training and development systems that retain top talent, reaching over 100,000 people annually. And his latest organization, Project 55, is working to equip everyday people to transform mental health outcomes at home, school, and work.
Across three organizations and hundreds of thousands of lives touched, the throughline has never changed: equip the people closest to the problem with the skills to solve it. Because the barrier to saving someone’s life was never credentials. It was being close enough to see it, caring enough to act on it, and prepared enough to know how.