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Shocked by the death of a close friend in his mid-twenties, Seb Terry experienced a moment in his life where he asked himself a simple question: ‘Am I happy?’. The answer was NO, and so, he created a list of 100 things that he hoped would transform his life. Dropping everything to pursue his list, not only has Seb Terry’s life transformed through his incredible journey, but the ripple effect has gone on to help millions of people unlock limitless possibilities in their own lives, too.
From Marrying a Stranger in Vegas (Goal #2) and Delivering a Baby (#23), to Living on a Deserted Island for 1 Week (#63) and Helping a Stranger (#26) by aiding a quadriplegic man to complete a half marathon by pushing him in his wheelchair, Seb Terry’s story has been turned into books, 100 Things: What’s on Your List?, reality shows and is constantly featured by ESPN and Discovery Channel.
As an expert in personal transformation, peak performance and creating environments for success, Seb Terry’s commitment to helping others, has seen him share his message and frameworks with many of the world’s biggest organizations including Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Bank of America and McKesson.
Recognized for his unique approach in combining brilliant humor, piercing insight and real-time action, Seb Terry’s revered storytelling and interactive teaching style has impacted millions of individuals and influenced thousands of organizations and Fortune 500 companies around the world.
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From disengaged and stagnant, to purpose-driven and fully-activated, Seb’s Passion Effect keynote realigns passion as the epicenter of individual and collective transformation, creating a ripple effect of inspired individuals, deeply connected teams and a re-imagining of what’s possible.
Sharing his inspired personal story as well as his 8-Step ‘Live Your List’ framework, this keynote will not only motivate your people to perform at a higher level, but will share the tools needed to maintain higher levels of motivation, productivity and collaboration, well after your session ends. Through evoking a passion-led operating system, this transformational keynote will galvanize your teams to work as one as they begin to create (and take action upon!) their most meaningful personal and professional goals in real time, during the keynote!
Incorporating value identification, agile goal setting tools and group accountability as a way to spike engagement, uncover passion-driven performance and inspire a higher- purpose mentality, audience members will be ready to run through the conference doors ready to actualize their limitless potential.
Audience Takeaways
- Leveraging passion to anchor performance
- The science of meaningful goal-setting
- The power of perspective and reflection
- Developing systems to navigate change
- Using fear as a fuel for progress
- The 3 tools to growth: action, connection and accountability
What if we truly believed that anything was possible? What if all of our actions were driven by clarity, optimism, self acceptance and the resilience to maintain this mindset in the face of any drastic change or adversity in our personal and professional lives?
Alarming statistics now show us that mental health is a global issue with depression, anxiety and even suicide rates rising dramatically from 2022 to 2023. Clearly, mental health is not a ‘nice to have’, it’s a ‘must have’ for humans to live happily, perform effectively and work together in harmony.
Drawing on his personal story and using latest research, Seb deep dives not only into the psychology of self-understanding, life balance & connection, but offers a framework for individuals to prioritize mental health as a daily tool so that they can perform at their best and grow in and out of the workplace.
Facilitating real-time action in this interactive session, Seb shares valuable insights and immediately actionable models that will ensure laughter, reflection and positive steps towards individuals and teams becoming unstoppable.
Audience Takeaways
- A Mental Health Framework for long term success
- The 3 C’s: Connection, Conversation & Community
- Harnessing disruption & adversity as a fuel for growth
- Building resilience, optimism and wellness in the unknown
- Changing beliefs, action & results through self authorship and action
- Using a bucket list to develop healthy habits, confidence and identity.
Give people tools and they will survive. Show them possibility and they will thrive. Leadership is not just a framework, it’s a behavior that shows up in everything we do. When we lead well, we inspire those around us to perform at their best and unlock collective evolution.
In his Purpose Driven Leadership keynote, Seb shares insight into the journey of
authentic leadership, self authorship and creating a vehicle for others to thrive.
From self leadership is born the ability to lead others and when individual leadership is complimented with frameworks that encourage opportunity, inclusion and connection, we create powerful environments for quicker decisions, collaborative advantage and unified work efforts.
Sharing not only his inspiring story of self leadership that went on to catalyze a
global community, but also sharing piercing insights into the importance of
compassion, self love and emotional awareness as key tools for leadership, growth and the ability to influence others, Seb empowers leaders to leverage heart and mind so to lead with purpose and bring any vision to life.
Audience Takeaways
- Self-awareness and acceptance
- Inspirational Leadership: Using example to inspire possibility
- Collaborative leadership: Creating opportunity through inclusion and agency
- Aligning value to lead with purpose
- The cycle of developing leadership in others
In this time of Hybrid workforces, disconnected employees and industry disruption, the importance of healthy company culture has never been more pivotal to performance and longevity. More specifically, the ability of leaders to create a culture that instills a sense of agency, belonging and connection is now paramount to cultivating collaboration and growth.
Through his inspirational Passion Effect message, Seb Terry explores the most effective way to cultivate thriving workplace culture through his 3-step framework that creates a ripple effect that ignites trust, deepens connection and promotes a winning culture.
Audience Takeaways
- Setting the container for connection
- Leveraging values as the framework for action
- Creating purpose in the workplace: linking passion to vision
- Building a we-win, I-win culture
- Cultivating inclusive company culture through goal setting
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