Vince Poscente

FULL SPEED AHEAD is a motivational keynote speech based on the NY Times bestseller, The Age of Speed and international phenomenon, The Ant and the Elephant (endorsed by LeBron James in Sport Illustrated) plus Vince’s extraordinary story about reaching the Olympic Games in just four years while skiing at 135 mph (described as he stands on a chair)…

Whether your audience is in sales or leadership, they are a unique collection of high performing individuals, with considerable expectations, facing a cascade of opportunity. This is coupled with a world of hard-driving, personal accountability along with the search for life balance. New York Times bestselling author, Olympic competitor and award winning salesperson, Vince Poscente, delivers a wildly entertaining, thought provoking and substantive insight on how people can thrive in a high peforming or competitive landscape. Vince went from recreational skier to the Olympic games in just four years. Skiing at 135 mph on skis, he shares a remarkable formula about:

-Clarity of Purpose
-The Process of Commitment
-Consistent Effort in a Demanding Environment
-Building Confidence Despite a Cascade of Change
-Control Routines to Optimize Outcomes
-Giving leaders and/or their sales people a collective experience allows a conference fulcrum for better execution and higher profits.

Vince Poscente has profoundly affected countless conference attendees as they explore internal motivation and their own future potential.

Sales people are a unique collection of high performing individuals, with considerable expectations, facing a cascade of opportunity. This is coupled with a world of More – Faster – Now realities of overwhelm and life balance. New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Speed, Olympian and award winning salesperson, Vince Poscente, delivers a wildly entertaining, thought provoking and substantive insight on how to thrive with our unique sales groups. Vince went from recreational skier to the Olympic games in just four years. Skiing at 135 mph on skis, he shares a remarkable formula about:

The Olympic movement is pervasive in our society on many levels. Primarily, we can all relate to the pursuit of excellence. We can also appreciate the three core principles of the pursuit of excellence, international understanding and fair play alongside the motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius (Swifter, Higher, Stronger).

But the unwritten motto for high performing leaders is “Smartius.” Inevitable obstacles spring from basic human nature. In the personal and corporate landscape, real life issues and the realities of competition pervade. The solutions to roadblocks for leaders of corporations are explored in this entertaining and thought-provoking message.

Aligned teams accelerate outcomes!
LeBron James used Vince Poscente’s strategies in his transitions from Cleveland to Miami and back to his hometown. The Dallas Cowboys coaching staff used the principles with their team in their recent turnaround season. FedEx and EvolvHealth use Vince Poscente’s tools in their leadership team training keeping them out front in a competitive landscape. Vince Poscente helps teams target their emotion-drivers towards simplicity, synergy and life balance.

The underpinning of Vince Poscente’s “Your Goals in 1/2 the Time” approach is from his international bestseller, The Ant and the Elephant. It is a based on the combination of finding your WHY and the emotional quotient that fuels internal motivation. Vince Poscente combines the concepts of finding each team member’s emotional buzz, a simple path towards clarity, commitment, consistency, confidence and control in concert with the team’s overall objectives. This is a transformational keynote for teams determined to progress full speed ahead.

“Find your BUZZ and you’ve found your TRUE WHY!” Vince’s motivational keynote speech for network marketing professionals has been delivered around the world for Direct Sales audiences wanting a high energy, humor and an inspiring message around accelerated goal setting. This “recreational skier to Olympics in four years story” has been Vince’s most requested speech over the last twenty years. It revolves around the three key elements of “big goals fast”:

The art of reinvention lies in the skills of impactful and influential communication. Leaders who expertly command a clear vision can have instant impact and lasting influence. Vince Poscente leads an interactive and transformational session on how leaders can deliver a profound message anywhere from a room full of their employees, an audience of stakeholders or in a brief video message.

Vince has coached the Chief of Protocol of the White House, Harvard Business Book authors, CEO’s of multimillion & billion-dollar companies and entrepreneurs intent on designing a killer keynote. Vince’s acumen for speaking had him inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame with the likes of Ronald Reagan, Zig Ziglar, Og Mandino and Jack Canfield. Vince Poscente is in-demand for his Instant Impact and Lasting Influence keynotes at corporate events around the world. This rare opportunity to learn from a master communicator, at the top of his game of speaking and training.This powerhouse keynote will help you have instant impact and lasting influence when you are in front of a demanding client or called to deliver an important presentation.

This message has practical takeaways and instant motivation for your team to launch into uncertainty. It has been delivered for business audiences across the globe wanting a high-energy, humorous, and inspiring message to break free from the limitations of chaos and ‘stuckness.’ It revolves around the three key elements of:

• Courage is a function of internal and external alignment. It is triggered by necessity and fueled by “I’ll figure it out when I get there.”
• Curiosity towards limitless possibilities of what a new reality looks like.
• Creativity to narrow in on the best options for those involved.

Companies have used this keynote to ensure employees feel part of a great industry while dedicated to engaging with superior confidence no matter what headwinds they face.

In the franchise and retail world, a winner’s mindset points to one thing: Do what the competition is not willing to do. How? Here’s how to put your conference takeaways into action:

• Be ALIGNED with the entire company rather than a “wait and see” approach. You’ve invested in their tools, let’s optimize them.
• Use AGILITY to be out front of the competition. Let’s have everyone mirror your top performers.
• Embrace ADAPTABILITY in the age of speed. Let’s thrive in our more, faster, now world.

Vince Poscente uses his background as an Olympian and Expedition Leader in the Himalayas to address a your two top concerns,  excellence in a competitive landscape and resilience on the path to new heights. Vince’s fun and energetic style is coupled with insights from his New York Times bestselling books on leadership for the self. For 25 years, Vince has helped franchise and retail leaders, do what the competition is not willing to do.

Vince Poscente specializes in helping health and safety-conscious cultures improve risk performance through neuroscience and entertaining storytelling. His Peak Performance Mindset program is backed by years of leading climbing expeditions in the Himalayas (14 years, zero-incident), as a skier in the Olympics, NY Times bestselling author, and risk-aware partnerships with safety culture leaders around the world.

Conventional health or safety keynotes offer inspiration to approach their jobs differently. A Peak Performance Mindset keynote explains how in a fun and experiential way. The formula your audience will learn is based on three decades of research on how ‘the ideal mindset’ is established and sustained. When people change their minds, they change their behavior, for good.

Change your truth around health and safety and you can change the organization’s culture. Please note, when you choose the Peak Performance Mindset presentation, be sure to choose between a purely motivational keynote, insights packed with practical mindset tools, entertaining stories… or all three in one power-packed talk.