Jake Olson

Historic College Football Player, Blind Golf Champion and Entrepreneur

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Jake Olson

Historic College Football Player, Blind Golf Champion and Entrepreneur

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$7,501 - $10,000

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$5,001 - $7,500

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Why Book

Unmatched Resilience and Inspiration: Jake Olson’s remarkable journey, from becoming the first completely blind football player in college football history to overcoming cancer eight times, showcases an incredible story of perseverance that will motivate and inspire your audience to push past their own challenges.
Practical Tools for Overcoming Adversity: As a highly sought-after motivational speaker, Jake offers actionable strategies and mindsets that help audiences turn setbacks into setups, providing valuable lessons that can be applied in both personal and professional life.
Diverse Expertise and Impact: With experience as an author, entrepreneur, adaptive golf champion, and media personality, Jake’s diverse background and success in multiple fields make him a dynamic speaker who can connect with a wide range of audiences and inspire them to reach their full potential.

Biography

Jake Olson became the first completely blind football player in college football history when he successfully long-snapped a point-after try for USC in 2017. His story of perseverance gained national attention and continues to inspire many people around the world. An eight-time cancer survivor, author, entrepreneur, media personality, adaptive golf champion, and incredible motivational speaker, Jake inspires audiences to “find the setup in the setback” and offers practical mindsets and tools audiences can use to grow through adversity and achieve the best version of themselves.

Using a mix of personal stories, a lot of humor, and some unique life philosophies, Jake helps audience members change how they perceive adversity. He helps audiences realize that often, what feels like a significant setback can be a setup for something much greater in life. During his talk, which has been delivered at Bank of America, Google, JLL, Microsoft, and SpaceX, among hundreds of other clients, audiences will laugh, reflect, and maybe cry a little bit. They will leave more grateful and with an entirely new way to perceive and tackle adversity.

Programs

Finding The Setup In The Setback

Jake’s flagship talk shares his incredible life journey of battling cancer eight times, going blind at the age of 12, making history in college football, and winning the USGA Adaptive Open golf tournament. Using a mix of personal stories (including encounters with Kobe Bryant and Tuger Woods), a lot of humor, and some unique life philosophies, Jake helps audience members change how they perceive adversity. He helps audiences realize that often, what feels like a significant setback can be a setup for something much greater in life if they take the right approach to confronting their adversity. During this talk, the audience will laugh, think, and maybe even cry a little bit. They will leave more grateful and with an entirely new way to perceive and tackle adversity. This talk is a great fit for any event planner trying to help their audience develop more grit, level up their productivity, or improve their perspective and accountability.

Finding A Way: How Inclusive Cultures Make Teams Better

Cancer may have taken Jake’s eyesight at age twelve, but it did not take his will to achieve. In this talk, Jake discusses how the will to succeed was his, but because of his blindness, he needed to find a different way to achieve his goals. That way was leaning on other incredible people around him who were willing to adapt and meet Jake where he was. Whether it was a math teacher learning braille to better teach him, coaches devising a whole new scheme for long snapping so he could play football, or his colleagues helping him use the newest technology so he could excel in his work, Jake knows firsthand how impactful being surrounded by inclusive people is. He also knows that everyone is better off from it in the end. In this talk, Jake talks about how inclusion makes teams better and how amazing things happen when coworkers recognize the will of their teammates and work to help them find a way.

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Overcoming Adversity, Storytelling, Team Building, Resilience, Business Speakers, Personal Development, Motivational Speakers, Corporate Culture Speakers, Peak Performance, Inspirational Speakers, Team Building Speakers,

Jake Olson Reviews

“Excellent! Jake was an amazing and dynamic speaker. He was undoubtedly a draw for our event. He spent the entire day with us – speaking, golfing, interacting with our guests – truly generous with his time. Such a wonderful person!”

— VerityPoint

“Jake was a huge success, and everyone loved his message, from the CEO to the newest sales professional in the room. Patterson Dental is an organization that has been going through a transformation of people and systems for the last 5 years and this year’s meeting was about coming together, embracing the change in our market (customers and others,) and getting back to growth through an offensive position. Jake’s message supported all of this perfectly. You won’t be disappointed.”

— Patterson Dental

“I’ve worked with many external speakers for large corporate conferences and meetings for many years and highly recommend Jake Olson as a motivational speaker. He has a fresh and inspiring story and is authentic in his mission to help others, both through his speaking engagements and in his not-for-profit work. He is articulate, has a great sense of humor, and will customize his remarks to fit your audience. He received the highest rating of any of our speakers at a recent conference and, as a result, is receiving requests for more speaking engagements from the attendees.”

— AIG

“Jake, you are a rockstar! You are hilarious, humble, open, optimistic, and motivational. I can speak on behalf of all our attendees today- they took so much away from your speech and are motivated to help create a culture of inclusion. As you said, start with humility, compassion, sympathy, and, most importantly, love one another!”

— AbbVie

“Jake’s presentation was a HUGE success. He is so humble, has a great sense of humor, and truly a light for those with disabilities. Some of the comments in the chat were: “is there anything you can’t do Jake?” and “I wish he could speak with us every month!” and many more about what an inspiration he is. Compassion to help anyone who is suffering is a message that should be echoed, especially now.”

— Cambridge Associates