Chad Foster
Harvard-educated, blind executive Chad Foster shows organizations how resilience, mindset, and transformation fuel billion-dollar growth and unstoppable success.
Why book Chad Foster for your next event
- As the first blind executive to complete Harvard’s prestigious leadership program, Chad Foster proves that obstacles can become advantages. He empowers leaders with elite resilience strategies that inspire transformation and measurable business impact.
- Chad Foster has generated billions in revenue and created thousands of jobs while thriving in Fortune 500 boardrooms. He shares tested insights on growth, strategy, and resilience that help organizations outperform in competitive markets.
- By developing the world’s first CRM software for the visually impaired, Chad Foster shows how adversity fuels innovation. His story teaches organizations to turn limitations into solutions, sparking creativity and breakthrough performance.
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Turning Adversity into Advantage: The Blueprint for Resilient Leadership
Chad E. Foster is more than a keynote speaker, he’s a catalyst for peak performance in an era of nonstop disruption. After losing his eyesight at 21, Chad became a Harvard-educated executive, tech innovator, and billion-dollar dealmaker. He built CRM software Oracle said was impossible, designed transformative strategies that drove industry-leading growth and margins, and became both a black diamond skier and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, all without eyesight, proving that limitations are only real if you believe them.
As the first blind executive to complete Harvard’s leadership program, Chad brings a rare combination of credibility, resilience, and real-world business success that resonates deeply with corporate audiences. A billion-dollar revenue generator, job creator, and tech pioneer, he equips organizations with proven resilience tools that transform disruption into growth.
Chad doesn’t just inspire, he equips. His Blind Ambition Framework™ fuses human performance principles with AI-era adaptability to deliver actionable strategies for building resilient teams, accountable cultures, and sales organizations that win when it counts. Whether speaking on leadership, innovation, change, or sales, he provides frameworks that connect inspiration to implementation™.
Trusted by global leaders including Google, Salesforce, IBM, GE, Microsoft, ADP, and Blue Cross, Chad’s insights have fueled tangible business results. After one keynote, a client reported 40% year-over-year revenue growth, calling it “unlike anything we’ve seen from a guest speaker.”
When you book Chad Foster, you don’t just secure an inspirational talk, you invest in a transformative experience. Drawing on his journey from blindness to billions in Fortune 500 boardrooms, Chad arms leaders and teams with practical tools to overcome setbacks, embrace change, and drive performance under pressure. His bold, authentic style leaves audiences motivated, equipped, and ready to redefine what’s possible.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Chad Foster:
BLIND AMBITION: How to Go from Victim to Visionary
In this signature keynote, Chad will entertain, inspire, and move your audience, while teaching them how to shift their mindset from victim to visionaryTM.
Going blind at 21-years-old and facing a life with seemingly limited opportunities, Chad had to reinvent himself before even having a shot at success. Turning obstacles into opportunities, he became a Harvard-educated rainmaker, created countless jobs, and now he teaches teams how to cultivate resilient mindsets, adapt and thrive in change, and set ambitious goals with the right mindset to achieve them.
This program gives your people the tools and inspiration to overcome difficult circumstances and create a promising positive future. More than just a motivational talk, this session connects inspiration to implementation.
Keynote by speaker Chad Foster:
NO MORE COMFORT ZONES: Growth Through Adversity
Life without obstacles removes opportunity for growth. For any of us to grow, we need to step outside our comfort zones. In this powerful keynote, Chad teaches how the obstacles that lie in front of us can
propel us towards our goals.
Every organization finds itself face-to-face with problems that can seem insurmountable. Beyond Chad’s personal path of overcoming overwhelming odds, his business track record for moving through challenges and improving results gives a unique perspective on how comfort zones hold us back.
Chad will talk about how he’s not successful in spite of being blind. He is successful because he’s blind. He embraced his problem and turned it into a solution. In this session Chad will teach your teams how to realize exponential growth through adversity.
Keynote by speaker Chad Foster:
VICTIM TO VISIONARY: Resilience Workshop
In this workshop Chad will lead you through the steps you can take to improve resilience. He teaches the practical tools you can apply to any situation in order to move your mindset from victim to visionary.
During this session you will map out your resilience journey. After setting out your own personal vision of greatness, you will see your life more clearly than you ever have before. It can set you free to discover
the amazing advantages that your disadvantages offer. You can then seek your own gifts that are disguised in terrible wrapping paper and see how the unique perspectives you’ve gained from those disadvantages contribute to your vision of greatness.
Nothing in life is permanent. Everybody and everything changes. The only certainty is change. The key is figuring out how you will adapt.
Chad E. Foster – Blind Ambition Keynote | Grit, Growth & Leadership for Disruptive Times
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BLIND AMBITION™: CHAD FOSTER KEYNOTE SPEAKER REEL (FULL)
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IGNITE YOUR TRANSITION WITH BLIND AMBITION™: CHANGE MANAGEMENT SPEAKER
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TOP LEADERSHIP SPEAKER CHAD E. FOSTER | INSPIRE, LEAD, AND THRIVE THROUGH ADVERSITY
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