Sports Related Keynote Speakers
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Sports keynote speakers are world-class coaches, athletes, media broadcasters, and commentators covering all sports related disciplines. These keynote speakers are versed in historical changes in sports and the ever-changing analytics that define the big business of sport including recruiting, business operations, and overall customer experience with fans.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 1 Videos: 3
Jim Abbott Featured
Motivational Speaker, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
The Major League Baseball pitcher who was born with only one hand, Jim Abbott shares with audiences the keys to adapting, persevering and removing obstacles to success.
Keynotes: 4 Books: 4 Videos: 2
Walter Bond Featured
Mr. Accountability, Business Consultant, Former NBA Player
While many know Walter Bond as a former NBA player, more and more people know Walter as a passionate and motivated speaker, author, and business coach with one goal: to help people see their full potential.
Keynotes: 5 Books: 1 Videos: 2
Gary Brackett Featured
High Performance Coach| Speaker| Mentor
Gary Brackett was a walk-on student athlete, to becoming an NFL Super Bowl champion and team captain, to owning multiple brands as a successful entrepreneur, Gary has a proven track record for translating championship-level success across multiple playing fields, teams, and individuals.
Keynotes: 3 Books: 1 Videos: 4
Joe Ehrmann Featured
Coach for America/SHIFTWHY, Former NFL Player
Joe Ehrmann has been a speaker, author, activist, and coach for more than 35 years. His book, “InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives,” explains how to become a transformational coach, changing lives and society by helping to develop healthy men and women.
Keynotes: 5 Books: 5 Videos: 2
Molly Fletcher Featured
Author, Podcast Host & Top Sports Agent
Hailed as "the female Jerry Maguire," former top sports agent Molly Fletcher shares the tools to help you unlock your drive and achieve peak performance.
Keynotes: 4 Books: 0 Videos: 10
Gian Paul Gonzalez Featured
Youth Education & Wellness Expert; Founder & Director of Hope + Future Foundation
During the New York Giants’ 2011 Super Bowl run, much of their inspiration is attributed to Gian Paul Gonzalez (pronounced John-Paul). Prior to the Giant’s Christmas Eve game with the NY Jets, Gonzalez delivered the now famous “ALL IN” rally cry message during the Giants’ chapel service
Keynotes: 1 Books: 0 Videos: 4
Inky Johnson Featured
Author/ Communicator/Former Collegiate Athlete and Adversity Overcomer
Inky Johnson is a survivor of a life-threatening injury from playing college football. Executives, sports teams, church members, and young people all benefit from the raw energy of his charismatic speaking. Whether the topic is leadership, teamwork, or perseverance, Inky inspires his audiences to embrace the challenges of life.
Keynotes: 5 Books: 0 Videos: 6
Jeremy Poincenot Featured
World Blind Golf Champion
Jeremy advises organizations on making key shifts with overcoming adversity. Jeremy inspires audiences all over the country, spreading his story of overcoming adversity and encouraging others to gain perspective in their own lives. Through losing his eyesight, Jeremy learned the importance of interdependence.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 1 Videos: 1
Mike Schlappi Featured
If You Can't Stand Up, Stand Out
When Mike Schlappi takes the floor, a dazzling smile greets you. Then, you notice the wheelchair. Mike is defined by what he can do, instead of what he cannot do. Following a tragic accident, Mike has proven that just because “you can’t stand up, doesn’t mean you can’t stand out”!
Keynotes: 3 Books: 1 Videos: 4
Joe Theismann Featured
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback, Broadcaster and Entrepreneur
Losing his successful football career at 35 to a serious injury, Joe Theismann learned firsthand how to think, analyze and reinvent in the face of adversity and change.
Keynotes: 3 Books: 0 Videos: 3
Troy Vincent Featured
NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations; Co-Founder of A Call To Men
Troy Vincent informs the business of the NFL through the unique lens of his previous roles as a player, a player’s union president, and the Senior Vice President of Player Engagement. Vincent is considered a national leader as an advocate against domestic violence and sexual assault.
Keynotes: 4 Books: 2 Videos: 11
Bill Walton Featured
Basketball Legend, Broadcaster, Humanitarian, and Survivor
Bill Walton may be the most colorful figure in sports. An ESPN broadcaster, Bill’s college and NBA championship teams are legendary. But chasing the dream took a nightmarish toll: 39 surgeries and spinal failure. Insightful, funny, and profound, Bill inspires with lessons about winning, losing, teamwork, and overcoming the odds.
Keynotes: 5 Books: 4 Videos: 7
Damon West Featured
Diversity & Inclusion Activist; Recovery Expert; Bestselling Author of The Coffee Bean
Damon West, M.S. Criminal Justice, is a motivational speaker and best-selling co-author (with motivational speaker Jon Gordon) of The Coffee Bean: A simple Lesson to Create Positive Change. His first book was, The Change Agent: How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 5 Videos: 1
Johnny Bench
National Baseball Hall Of Famer, 1989
Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 1989, Bench is considered "Baseball's Greatest Catcher". Over the years, he has maintained balance by using his celebrity status to aid several worthy causes.
Keynotes: 3 Books: 1 Videos: 2
JJ Birden
Former NFL Pro Turned Motivational Keynote Speaker
JJ Birden helps individuals seize their opportunities in life. JJ was not the biggest, strongest, or fastest guy on the field, but he knew how to seize his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and maximize his success through dedication and hard work.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 0 Videos: 5
Clarke Carlisle
Underpinning Good Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
Clarke and Carrie have been delivering leading edge talks since 2010. By sharing their lived experience, they obliterate the stigma that surrounds adverse Mental Health issues, especially addressing them within the workplace.
Keynotes: 6 Books: 4 Videos: 15
Dan Clark
The New York Times Bestselling Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, Award-winning Athlete
Dan Clark uses his unique extraordinary life experiences of soaring into space, fighting back from a paralyzing injury that short his football career, and interviewing the world's most successful business gurus, superstar athletes, influential celebrities, and military heroes, to customize every speech to the specific needs of every meeting planner.
Keynotes: 2 Books: 5 Videos: 2
David L. Cook, PhD
Top Sports Psychology, Consultant, and Best-Selling Author on the Mental Advantage.
Dr. David L. Cook, top sport and performance psychology expert, best selling author, and award winning film producer. Dr. Cook served as the mental training coach for the San Antonio Spurs for eight years that included their two World Championships.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 0 Videos: 3
Bob Costas
Broadcaster
Bob Costas has won twenty-nine Emmy awards - more than any sports broadcaster. His versatility has been recognized with awards and nominations in the categories of hosting, play-by-play, writing, journalism, news, and entertainment.
Keynotes: 0 Books: 2 Videos: 2
Jim Craig
Olympic Gold Medalist | Goalie, 1980 USA “Miracle on Ice” Hockey Team | Board Member of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation
Jim Craig has been called the backbone of a team that accomplished one of the most extraordinary and memorable sports victories of all time. He went on to play professionally and transitioned to tremendous success in the business world which he still enjoys today.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 0 Videos: 3
Courtney Dauwalter
Ultra-Endurance Athlete
Currently, Courtney is an ultra marathon runner living in Colorado. She holds the women's American record for distance run in 24 hours at 159.3 miles, overall winner of the Moab 240 Mile Endurance Run in 2017.
Keynotes: 5 Books: 1 Videos: 7
Valorie Kondos Field
UCLA Women's Gymnastics Head Coach
UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field has positioned her Bruins as one of the premier programs in collegiate gymnastics with six NCAA championships.
Keynotes: 2 Books: 0 Videos: 6
Justin Forsett
CEO & Co-Founder of Hustle Clean, NFL Pro Bowl Running Back
Undersized & overmatched 5’8” NFL Running Back, 7 teams in 9 years. Went from poverty to peak performance through hard work, grit, perseverance, hope.
Underdog Fan Favorite, ProBowl Player, #65 of 2015’s Top 100 players
Successful entrepreneur; Co-Founder of Hustle Clean featured in Target, Walmart, Kohl's.
Witty, humble, inspiring
Keynotes: 4 Books: 4 Videos: 2
Scott Hamilton
Olympic Champion and Cancer Survivor
Scott Hamilton is the living example that “good guys CAN finish first!!” He is an Olympic Champion, television broadcaster, philanthropist, motivational speaker, author, husband, father, cancer survivor, and eternal optimist.
Keynotes: 3 Books: 3 Videos: 1
Hank Haney
Legendary Golf Instructor & Author of "The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods"
Legendary Golf Coach, Hank Haney, reveals clear and passionate guidelines on reaching and achieving success. He has applied his coaching to tour championship players Tiger Woods and Mark O'Meara.
Keynotes: 6 Books: 0 Videos: 9
Chaunté Lowe
Motivational Olympic Medalist, American Record Holder, Honor Student, and Breast Cancer Survivor
Chaunté Lowe is the story of determination perseverance and strength. Those who get a chance to encounter her leave inspired and motivated. Her infectious personality is electrifying. You can't help but leave an interaction with her with a winning, "I can do ANYTHING" attitude.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 4 Videos: 3
Dr. James Maas
Nation's Top Sleep Educator, Award-Winning Professor
World famous sleep educator gives a dynamic program with incredible take-away value that constantly receives standing ovations. The information provided with audience interaction will increase daytime alertness, psychological mood, productivity, creativity, athletic prowess, general health and longevity
Keynotes: 3 Books: 2 Videos: 4
Jim Morris, The Rookie
The Inspiration for the Movie “The Rookie”
Jim Morris is the subject of Disney's film "The Rookie." He's the science teacher/coach who made a bet with his baseball team; if they won district he would try out for an MLB team. They did, he did and made it to the major leagues in three months!
Keynotes: 2 Books: 1 Videos: 1
Kyle and Brent Pease
Ironman Champion Triathletes
Diagnosed with Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy as a child, Kyle Pease had grown up supporting his athlete brothers Brent and Evan from the sidelines. While his condition limited his ability to play sports, it didn't dampen Kyle's passion for them, nor did it stop them from including Kyle in everything.
Keynotes: 3 Books: 5 Videos: 5
Dane Rauschenberg
Extreme Athlete - Ran 52 Marathons in 52 Weekends
Dane Rauschenberg is the extreme athlete who successively ran a certified marathon every weekend in 2006- 52 in total. Dane has quickly become a sought-after motivational speaker for not only races of all distances, but also universities, corporations and businesses nationwide looking for someone to create a spark.
Keynotes: 6 Books: 2 Videos: 12
Jason Redman
Former Navy SEAL Officer, Author of Orange Wounded Warrior Sign at Bethesda Naval Hospital
Jason Redman joined the Navy on September 11, 1992 and spent eleven years as an enlisted SEAL. On September 13, 2007, outside of Fallujah, Iraq, Lieutenant Redman’s Assault Team came under heavy machine gun and small arms fire and he was severely wounded in the ensuing firefight.
Keynotes: 2 Books: 0 Videos: 3
Sebastien Sasseville
Athlete | Change Management and Leadership Expert | Author
Sébastien Sasseville empowers leaders to lead with purpose and inspires organizations to embrace change. An endurance athlete, his extraordinary accomplishments include summiting Mount Everest, completing the mythical Sahara race, and running across Canada are made even more impressive by the fact that he lives with Type 1 Diabetes.
Keynotes: 4 Books: 1 Videos: 2
Janine Shepherd
A Broken Body isn't A Broken Person
Deepak Chopra calls Janine a Change Agent. Maria Shriver calls her an "Architect of Change." Her spellbinding, inspirational keynote blends the talent of a consummate storyteller with a message of resilience, defiance, acceptance and human potential.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 1 Videos: 1
Brad Snyder
U.S. Paralympic Athlete; Retired U.S. Navy Officer
Brad is blind. As a part of his rehabilitation process Brad returned to the pool, and after a few months of training earned a spot on the US Paralympic National Team for swimming. At the 2012 Paralympics, he competed in seven events, earning two Gold medals and one Silver medal.
Keynotes: 5 Books: 1 Videos: 2
Alan Stein, Jr.
Performance Coach, Consultant, Speaker and Author
Alan delivers high-energy keynotes and interactive workshops to improve performance, cohesion and accountability. He inspires and empowers everyone he works with to take immediate action and improve mindset, habits and productivity.
Keynotes: 4 Books: 1 Videos: 2
Rocky (Rock-T) Turner
Author, Speaker, Radio-TV Personality, Former Professional Baseball Player
Professional baseball player turned DJ and radio personality, Rock-T aka Rocky Turner, has a heart to motivate people to stop making excuses and get it done.
Keynotes: 1 Books: 0 Videos: 4
Darren Woodson
Former Dallas Cowboy, Former ESPN Analyst, Entrepreneur, and Speaker
Three-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Pro Bowl selection Darren Woodson joined ESPN as an NFL analyst in 2005. He appears on NFL Live and SportsCenter, as well as other ESPN platforms throughout the year.
Keynotes: 3 Books: 10 Videos: 4
Don Yaeger
Best-selling Author, Former Sports Illustrated Editor, CEO of sports PR firm and a Cancer Survivor
As an award-winning keynote speaker, business leadership coach, an eleven-time New York Times Best-selling author and longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated, Don Yaeger has fashioned a career as one of America’s most provocative thought leaders.
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