Books & Speaking

Writing and speaking about what people and systems are built on.

Across education, coaching, civic life and human relationships, Jaymes Regualos examines the foundations that shape behavior—and how to make those foundations intentional.

Five foundations

01Skills-based education
02Character-based coaching
03Values-based voting
04Hate-based living
05Love-based living

About Jaymes

The ideas come from building.

Jaymes Regualos is the founder of PDC. For more than twenty years, he has designed and developed schools, entrepreneurship programs, sports systems, community initiatives and international development projects.

His books cross very different subjects, but return to the same idea: what we build people and systems on shapes what they produce. Make the foundation visible, then choose it intentionally.

He writes from inside the work—not from outside it.

The through-line

What we build on shapes what we become.

The domains change. The work does not: expose the foundation, understand what it produces and make it intentional.

All five titles are available on Amazon.Formats and availability may vary by country.
Cover of Teaching Towards Tomorrow
01 / Skills-based education

Teaching Towards Tomorrow

Preparing Students for a Skills-Based Future

Why schools must move beyond content coverage and use subjects as vehicles for learning, thinking, reasoning and communication.

Build education on capability—not content coverage alone.Find on Amazon
Cover of Coaching for Character
02 / Character-based coaching

Coaching for Character

The Key to Unleashing Elite Performance

How coaches can develop elite performance by treating character, environment, habits and standards as one connected system.

Build performance on the character capable of sustaining it.Find on Amazon
Cover of Vote Or Shut Up
03 / Values-based voting

Vote Or Shut Up

How Power Really Works — And Why You Don’t Have It

A nonpartisan guide to starting with what matters, finding where power actually lives and participating where decisions are made.

Build political participation on values—not parties, personalities or noise.Find on Amazon
Cover of The Hate We Love
04 / Hate-based living exposed

The Hate We Love

When Good Goes Dark and How to Recover

How good people, groups and institutions can organize life around hate, rationalize harm and still experience themselves as good.

Expose what hate builds—especially when it disguises itself as belonging or virtue.Find on Amazon

Speaking & facilitation

Not a speech dropped into the room.

Each engagement is shaped around the audience, the real question in front of them and what should happen after the room empties.

Keynotes

Give a room a strong idea, shared language and a question worth carrying forward.

Working sessions

Help teams examine their own system and turn the discussion into a practical next step.

Leadership conversations

Create an honest, facilitated setting for difficult questions that standard meetings avoid.

Forum design

Build the wider event architecture so speakers, participants and outputs reinforce one another.

01

Skills-based education

What school is for—and how subjects can become vehicles for learning, thinking, reasoning and communication.

02

Character-based coaching

How environment, standards and daily habits can develop the person and unlock elite performance together.

03

Values-based voting

How to start with what matters, follow power to where decisions are made and participate effectively.

04

Hate-based living

How identity, belonging and moral certainty can organize ordinary life around harm while still feeling righteous.

05

Love-based living

Why love must be learned, practiced and built into how we live—not left as sentiment or good intention.

06

Making change work

How real activities and environments can help people build new habits, relationships and capability without announcing that they are being changed.

Start with the room

Who will be there—and what should be different when they leave?

Tell us about the audience, the event and the question you want people to confront. We will shape the engagement from there.

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