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Jeremiah Brown is an inspirational and motivational speaker who helps people find deeper resilience and the determination to combat challenges and change. He electrifies audiences with battle-tested strategies on goal resilience, transformation, and team success. His keynotes equip audiences with the grit, leadership mindset, and collective resolve to overcome obstacles and achieve ambitious goals. Jeremiah Brown empowers individuals to unlock their full potential, cultivate positive team cultures, and embrace servant leadership principles.

An Olympic underdog story like no other, Jeremiah Brown achieved the incredible dream of winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Games. But his journey is virtually unheard of, going from complete novice to Olympic medalist in just four short years while juggling life as a young father.

Jeremiah Brown went on to lead the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athlete wellness and transition programs for 3000 Olympic, Paralympic, and national team athletes. Whether supporting elite athletes reinvent themselves or helping organizations adapt to change, Jeremiah Brown is known for his deep insights into the psychology of high performance and human transformation, both from an individual and leadership perspective.

Jeremiah Brown’s memoir, The 4 Year Olympian, spent five weeks as the #1 bestselling sports memoir in Canada. His story has been featured on CBC, CTV, Roger’s Sportsnet, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and USA Today. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, Jeremiah Brown has helped thousands of people find the courage to reach their goals and overcome the psychological traps and emotional pitfalls that lie hidden along the way. 

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ADOPTING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE MINDSET FOR ACHIEVING BIG GOALS

Inspirational, insightful and powerful. Jeremiah blends memorable storytelling with deep insights into conquering burnout, overwhelm, and fear while adapting to change and achieving your goals.

The passion that drives an Olympian is the same passion that drives your people. With his humour, heart, authenticity, and energetic delivery, Jeremiah captivates audiences as he draws parallels between the worlds of Olympic sport and business.

In this one-of-a-kind, high-energy experience, Jeremiah redefines what it means to lead and be led in the relentless pursuit of excellence. Drawing from electric Olympic tales, he reveals the true keys to persevering through setbacks - unwavering belief, a growth mindset, self-accountability and supporting one another through adversity.

When you bring in Jeremiah, you're giving your team an unforgettable catalyst for positive change. They won't just feel revved up, they'll be replenished with unshakable self-belief, mental toughness and an invigorated commitment to achieving the extraordinary, together.

ATTENDEES GAIN:
- Inspire audiences to dig deeper, go further, and reap greater rewards
- Redefine resilience to strengthen one’s ability to endure massive change
- Audience leaves with the Jeremiah's four essential strategies for achieving big goals
- Discover the one key shift in mindset that will keep people committed to the goal for the long term.
- Replace fear with deep insights into managing burnout and overwhelm

MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE - LEADING THROUGH CHANGE - BRING THEM WITH YOU: ENGAGE TOP TALENT AND FORGE STRONG TEAMS

You need to find a way to overcome bad days, boost morale, and come together as one team. Your competitive environment is changing, overwhelm abounds, and the pressure is on. When launching new initiatives, striving for market leadership, and navigating transformation, Jeremiah can help you lead with courage and frame your constraints as opportunities.

In this Keynote, Jeremiah will compare and contrast the norms, behaviours, and tactics used by sport coaches with common workplace challenges to help you perform at your best while building trust and motivating your teams in the workplace.
When you start to see yourself as a coach of human beings first, and a manager second, you will be able to reduce your frustration, increase communication clarity, and improve performance with less residual stress in your life.

ATTENDEES GAIN:
- Learn the correct sequence of trust-building within teams
- Insights into high-performance communication under pressure
- Olympic feedback coaching techniques you can use with your own team
- How to execute with discipline during periods of great change
- Understand power of authenticity over rank

ONE TEAM - UNLEASH THE POWER OF EPIC TEAMWORK TO CONQUER AMBITIOUS GOALS

In business, audacious goals require epic teamwork to achieve. No one understands this better than Olympic rowers, whose medal-winning performances exemplify how to unite diverse individuals into an aligned, unstoppable team.

In this electrifying keynote, Jeremiah will share the jaw-dropping ups and downs of his team’s rebuilding journey toward the Olympic podium. More than inspiration, Jeremiah extracts powerful teamwork principles your organization can apply every day.

Whether your team faces daunting competition, ambitious targets, or turbulent changes, they'll be energized and equipped to uplevel their team-first orientation.

Jeremiah's odyssey proves that with selfless teamwork, even outrageous goals are achievable. Amplify your team's potential with this insightful, actionable keynote experience. Your people will walk away bonded and empowered to achieve breakthrough results through Olympic-caliber teamwork.

ATTENDEES GAIN:
- How to create a gravitating sense of unified purpose
- How to foster individual "team first" commitment and accountability
- The keys to developing a supportive, resilient team culture
- Aligning complementary roles and strengths seamlessly
- Turning adversity into opportunity for deepening team bonding and trust

MENTAL HEALTH FOR HIGH PERFORMERS - UNLOCK YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL WITHOUT BURNING OUT

In today's relentless business world, we're expected to push ourselves to the limit in pursuit of ever-higher goals. But at what cost? Too often, mental health and overall well-being get sacrificed in the process.

It doesn't have to be this way. Jeremiah draws on deep lived experience working through mental health challenges as an Olympian and also as the leader of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athlete mental health strategy.

Don't accept the toxic notion that you must sacrifice mental health to achieve your goals. Jeremiah's journey exposes this as a fallacy—in fact, prioritizing personal wellness is a force-multiplier for unlocking maximum sustainable performance.

If your team or employees feel overworked, depleted, or on the edge of burning out, this keynote provides the wake-up call. They'll be inspired and equipped with strategies to actively nurture personal resilience and well-being as they chase ambitious targets.

ATTENDEES GAIN:
- The mindset shifts required to recover from rock bottom.
- Sustainable high-performance habits and routines.
- How to cultivate a supportive, energizing culture.
- Maintaining passion, focus, and self-belief amid adversity.
- Understand the importance of reaching out for help sooner than feels natural.

Testimonials

Cisco Connect brings thousands of IT professionals together to talk about the latest trends in technology. This year we wanted to do something different, particularly with our choice of keynote speaker. We wanted a message of hope, perseverance, and resilience during these challenging times. Jeremiah delivered with his keynote on achieving the impossible. It was a fantastic keynote and got some of the highest marks for the sessions that were delivered. Jeremiah made me laugh, made me cry, and made me believe that we can accomplish anything that we set our minds to. I highly recommend him.
– Shannon Leininger, President, Cisco
One of the best - if not the best - motivational speeches I have ever seen in my ~30 years in the business. People were laughing, people were crying, and everyone came out totally pumped. Jeremiah also went "above and beyond" what he was required to do by attending most of our 2 day conference and incorporating our company's context, strategy, and vocabulary into his presentation. Amazing job, Jeremiah. A++!
– Frederic Perron, President & CEO, Cogeco
Jeremiah is a very powerful presenter. I have seen lots of keynote addresses, and this is the best of the best. He is incredibly gifted at drawing you in and feeling what he felt as he went through that four-year journey. It’s really a powerful talk. If you want to learn about resilience, and you want a keynote about resilience, grit, determination, focus, and perseverance, Jeremiah would be an outstanding presenter. He draws the audience in. His stories and the way he tells them is so powerful. He’s just a phenomenal keynote. I’d recommend him to anyone who wants that kind of message delivered to their audience.-- David Sculthorpe, former CEO, Heart and Stroke Foundation
– David Sculthorpe, CEO, Heart and Stroke Foundation
Your speech was motivating and powerful!
– Jane Russell, Head of Consumer Distribution, TD Bank
We recently hired Jeremiah to speak at a product launch celebration for my team at Shopify, to commemorate a 2 year project, and a lot of hard work! He was super easy and enjoyable to work with. He really took the time to understand what kind of work the team does, and paid close attention to detail to offer a customized talk, tailored to our specific needs. The team was highly impressed and inspired by Jeremiah's story. They really enjoyed the insights he offered about how to keep going when you're in the middle of working towards your goal (and it seems further away than ever) while also looking ahead at the next set of challenges along the path. If you're thinking about booking Jeremiah for your next event, you will not be disappointed!
– Meghan McQueen, Team Operations, Shopify
Jeremiah ratcheted things up for us ten notches – he was phenomenal! We brought him in to help us build resilience into the fabric of our team. We are a business that is changing every second of every day, and Jeremiah’s keynote presentation allowed us to think radically different about how we approach our business. His message fired everyone up, but it was also wildly applicable, with so many granular tips, advice and tools that we can use every day in our office and in our work. Jeremiah’s humanity and humble approach was so relatable. If you’re thinking about taking your business to the next level, and instilling a sense of mission and purpose in your organization, I would definitely recommend him!
– Paul Burns, Managing Director, X (formerly Twitter)
Jeremiah inspired our leadership team to adopt a breakthrough mindset, which is exactly the message we needed to deliver to our team in a rapidly changing business environment.
– Faisal Kazi, President & CEO, Siemens Canada

Booksby Jeremiah Brown

The 4 Year Olympian: From First Stroke to Olympic Medallist

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