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Chris Ruden
Chris Ruden is a record-holding powerlifter and motivational speaker inspiring audiences to embrace differences and overcome obstacles.
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Why you should book Chris Ruden for your next event
- Discover how Chris Ruden transformed personal challenges into a powerful message about resilience, determination and reaching your potential.
- Inspire audiences to embrace their differences, challenge perceived limitations and pursue ambitious goals with greater confidence.
- Gain a compelling perspective on disability and inclusion from a speaker who has worked with brands including Nike and Tommy Hilfiger.
Non-binding request for Chris Ruden
Record-holding powerlifter and motivational speaker on resilience, inclusion and creating a world without limits.
Chris Ruden is a record-holding powerlifter, motivational speaker and disabled model who challenges audiences to rethink what is possible. Born with a congenital birth defect that resulted in a shortened left arm and diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 19, Chris has built his life around pushing beyond perceived limitations. His experiences have shaped a powerful message about resilience, determination and inclusion. Through compelling personal stories, Chris inspires people to embrace their differences, overcome obstacles and pursue their goals with confidence. Having worked with organizations including Nike, Tommy Hilfiger and Zappos, he brings a memorable perspective on creating a world without limits.
Meet Chris Ruden
Chris Ruden is a record-holding powerlifter, motivational speaker and disabled model whose experiences have shaped a powerful message about resilience, determination and inclusion. Through his work on stage and beyond, Chris empowers people to challenge perceived limitations, embrace what makes them different and pursue their goals with confidence.
Born with a congenital birth defect that resulted in a shortened left arm, Chris learned firsthand what it means to navigate a world where other people may have assumptions about what someone can or cannot achieve. At the age of 19, another challenge entered his life when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Rather than allowing these circumstances to determine the boundaries of his ambitions, Chris pursued his goals and became a successful, record-holding powerlifter. His journey has given him a compelling platform from which to speak about overcoming obstacles and creating a world without limits.
Today, Chris uses those experiences to inspire and educate audiences from different backgrounds. His story demonstrates what can happen when determination, hard work and the confidence to pursue ambitious goals come together.
Keynotes
Keynote by Chris Ruden:
Creating inclusive workplace culture: Why Bother? (lead with stat)
Born with a disability and later diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Chris uses his story of hiding his disability for almost 20 years to help associations, corporations, and audiences alike embrace the I.D.E.A.-- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility. This interactive keynote gives a uniquely effective view on diversity and inclusion and exactly how to recognize and implement the idea that different minds foster innovation, inclusion, and forward thinking, and are powerful contributors and collaborators on teams. After experiencing this event, audience members will be equipped with an improved cultural lens that inspires creativity and problem solving while uniting differences to optimize forward thinking. Through Chris’ lifelong relationship with his disability & disease, his expertise in the world of leveraging differences to make significant impact will leave the audience with a transformative experience and a renewed sense of community.
This presentation aims to promote the important benefits of Diversity & Inclusion, as part of any organizations success strategy with a framework of:
Inclusive leadership strategies to strengthen internal culture for external results
Positively impact people with differences in a way that enables them to be seen and included, and for the team around them to...
Creativity & problem solving around our different cultural lenses
Inform, inspire, and impact audience members to reflect & connect more thoughtfully with each other
Learning Objectives
Leveraging diverse perspectives and input to foster innovation, inclusion, and forward thinking
Recognizing and validating that differences are not only ok, but are encouraged and need to be understood & supported to grow.
How to improve company-wide cultural competency to optimize company culture & performance
How to empower your team through inclusive integration to cultivate equitable workplaces
This presentation aims to promote the important benefits of Diversity & Inclusion, as part of any organizations success strategy with a framework of:
Inclusive leadership strategies to strengthen internal culture for external results
Positively impact people with differences in a way that enables them to be seen and included, and for the team around them to...
Creativity & problem solving around our different cultural lenses
Inform, inspire, and impact audience members to reflect & connect more thoughtfully with each other
Learning Objectives
Leveraging diverse perspectives and input to foster innovation, inclusion, and forward thinking
Recognizing and validating that differences are not only ok, but are encouraged and need to be understood & supported to grow.
How to improve company-wide cultural competency to optimize company culture & performance
How to empower your team through inclusive integration to cultivate equitable workplaces
Keynote by Chris Ruden:
Gaining the Upper Hand: Leveraging Limitations to Turn Adversity Into Advantage
This presentation is about a world without limits, even a world that you can’t control. The concept of struggle is universal, and through effective strategies and tactics, we learn to see limitations as self imposed obstacles, as opposed to dead ends and roadblocks. In this presentation, Chris helps organizations to reframe how they view limitations, focusing on what you can control, and redirecting effective behaviours that can powerfully steer a team and organizations success. Chris provides a framework to help leaders and their teams reframe their situations and their responses to them, in order to avoid the pitfalls that so many teams experience. Chris uses his story as a vessel to the presentation's objectives: to empower teams to break free of their limits personally and professionally and become more effective communicators, contributors and collaborators.
This presentation aims to provide attendees with effective strategies to manage change and overcome adversity with a framework of:
Optimizing an effective communication strategy
Optimizing performance at the individual and team level
Implementing robust frameworks around team synergy and collaboration
Evaluating mindset as a tool for organizational success
Learning Objectives
Recognizing and validating that limitations exist and how to use them powerfully in your success strategies
How to qualify our environment and respond effectively to maximize our performance
How to uncover the root of organizational challenges and solve them with a solution centric approach
How to optimize and improve our ability to respond to unexpected circumstances
When to embrace adversity as a catalyst for change
Connecting the importance of practicing proactive behavior in your business operations to success, and how to redefine adversity as a positive tool that can strengthen teams and organizations powerfully
This presentation aims to provide attendees with effective strategies to manage change and overcome adversity with a framework of:
Optimizing an effective communication strategy
Optimizing performance at the individual and team level
Implementing robust frameworks around team synergy and collaboration
Evaluating mindset as a tool for organizational success
Learning Objectives
Recognizing and validating that limitations exist and how to use them powerfully in your success strategies
How to qualify our environment and respond effectively to maximize our performance
How to uncover the root of organizational challenges and solve them with a solution centric approach
How to optimize and improve our ability to respond to unexpected circumstances
When to embrace adversity as a catalyst for change
Connecting the importance of practicing proactive behavior in your business operations to success, and how to redefine adversity as a positive tool that can strengthen teams and organizations powerfully
Keynote by Chris Ruden:
Change is Strength: Letting Go of Yesterday’s Logic to Build a Better Tomorrow
Everyone has heard the phrase “only the strong survive” but in explaining why, the phrase reads “only the strong survive due to willingness to change”. Change is inevitable as is the resistance to change. In this talk Chris uses his expertise in introspective change to help teams and audiences alike train for change. Looking backwards for solutions to problems we have yet to encounter prevents growth in an ever-changing world. Problem solving requires forward thinking, creative change management strategies, and a collective perspective shift toward letting go of yesterday’s logic to build a better tomorrow.
This presentation aims to provide attendees with effective strategies to manage change and overcome adversity with a framework of:
Optimizing an effective individual and team perspective around change
Invoking and Embracing creative problem solving ideas
Implementing robust frameworks around managing change
Evaluating mindset as a tool for organizational success
Learning Objectives
Recognizing and validating that change is strength.
How to qualify our environment and respond effectively to maximize our performance
How to overcome change aversion and build a new narrative for success
Develop change-proof problem solving strategies to leverage change for growth opportunities
When to embrace change as a catalyst for growth
Connecting the importance of practicing proactive behavior in your business operations to success, and how to redefine adversity as a positive tool that can strengthen teams and organizations powerfully
This presentation aims to provide attendees with effective strategies to manage change and overcome adversity with a framework of:
Optimizing an effective individual and team perspective around change
Invoking and Embracing creative problem solving ideas
Implementing robust frameworks around managing change
Evaluating mindset as a tool for organizational success
Learning Objectives
Recognizing and validating that change is strength.
How to qualify our environment and respond effectively to maximize our performance
How to overcome change aversion and build a new narrative for success
Develop change-proof problem solving strategies to leverage change for growth opportunities
When to embrace change as a catalyst for growth
Connecting the importance of practicing proactive behavior in your business operations to success, and how to redefine adversity as a positive tool that can strengthen teams and organizations powerfully
The Glove Comes Off: 1st Time Really Showing My Disability
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