Devon Harris

Three-Time Olympian with the Original Jamaican Bobsled Team and Retired Jamaican Defence Force Captain; Leading Audiences to Visualize Success with an Olympic Mindset.

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Why you should book speaker Devon Harris:

Unleash Motivation: Devon delivers a high-energy keynote speech that ignites motivation and inspires your audience to reach their full potential.
Global Speaker: Devon Harris' international speaking engagements have touched diverse audiences worldwide, ensuring a culturally relevant and globally applicable message that resonates with your attendees.
Olympic Champion: Benefit from the wisdom and experience of an Olympic athlete as Devon shares the secrets to achieving extraordinary success.

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Transform Your Organization with Devon Harris' Inspirational Keynote

Introducing Keynote Speaker Devon Harris: Inspire your audience with the powerful voice of Devon Harris. As an Olympic athlete and captivating storyteller, Devon ignites motivation and resilience. Book Devon Harris for your event and unlock the secret to success. Don't miss this opportunity to engage your audience.

With Devon Harris as your keynote speaker, you can expect an unforgettable experience that will leave a lasting impression on your audience. As an Olympic athlete, Devon's journey is a testament to the power of resilience, determination, and teamwork. He brings his unique perspective as a member of the Jamaican bobsled team, a tale made famous by the movie “Cool Runnings,” to deliver a compelling narrative that resonates with individuals from all walks of life.

Devon Harris is known for his ability to unleash motivation within individuals and teams, encouraging them to surpass their perceived limitations and strive for excellence. Through his engaging storytelling, he shares the invaluable lessons learned from his Olympic journey, inspiring your audience to push boundaries and achieve their full potential.

The story Devon tells is far from a Disney fantasy. He shares his journey of climbing out of poverty, risking personal ridicule and safety to succeed well beyond societal expectations. Devon's story is pulsating, palpable, and awe inspiring. Most importantly, it's rich in relatable “ah-hah” examples for how to persevere through physical and emotional challenges. Of the many thousands who have heard Devon speak, many have adopted his message to “keep on pushing” as their personal mantra.

Devon draws on lessons from his impoverished and endangered childhood, eight years in the military, and decisively different struggles to three Olympics. We travel with him from Kingston, Jamaica to the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst England to the Olympics in Calgary, Canada, Albertville, France and Nagano, Japan. Devon's authenticity strikes home with all audiences. Sales people, engineers, and top executives exit his presentations uplifted, more resilient, and with their inner-winner fully awakened and ready to rise!

Defying the odds, Devon did ”escape" his destiny of being a prisoner of poverty. In fact, in 2006, he started the Keep on Pushing Foundation to provide supplies, computers and a breakfast program to his primary school in Kingston so more children could be ready when that rare opportunity knocked. Today, the foundation has expanded its scope to provide practical solutions to enhance education in disadvantaged schools across the globe.

Don't miss the opportunity to inspire, motivate, and empower your audience with the transformative power of Devon Harris' keynote speeches. Book Devon Harris for your event today and unlock the limitless potential within your organization.

Customer Reviews

Gartner

Thank you for the incredibly passionate and inspirational speech you delivered at our annual meeting. You had our attention from the start and we thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the insightful lessons you drew from your Olympic bobsled experiences.

Db Shenker

Devon Harris was the most well-prepared keynote speaker I have ever had the pleasure of working with for a user conference. He truly took the time to understand what our business and event were about, and he included many relevant details from our prep call into his highly engaging presentation.

Crownpeak

Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Devon Harris:

6 P’s To Keep on Pushing with Olympic Vision

Three Time Olympian and Bestselling Author of KEEP ON PUSHING Devon Harris implements his powerhouse motivational energy, humor, compassion, and real-life how-to guidance to inspire audiences to Keep On Pushing, which is his distinctive phrase when asked how he gets a 650lb bobsled down a run.

Devon’s keynote builds on six guiding principles to keep on pushing, which focus on strategies for visualization, understanding your purpose, embracing personal development, building on teamwork, and persisting beyond any challenge. He illustrates his message with the improbable story of a road that took him from the violent ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica; to disciplined military life at Sandhurst; to the competitive world of the Olympics; to becoming a Bestselling Author and part of the team that inspired the hit Disney film Cool Runnings.

Audience takeaways:

Perception: How you perceive a situation will set the course for how you visualize your outcome. Olympic athletes use the power of visualization because they understand that if you go as far as you can see, you will begin to see even farther.

Purpose: Elevate your thinking beyond your job title. What is your deeper value in doing what you do?

Personal Leadership: We are all leaders in our own right. Successful leaders embrace change and are always looking for ways to learn and develop new skills, thereby making them relevant in an ever-increasing competetive marketplace.

Passion: Your passion and dreams will inspire and invigorate you to constantly push toward new levels of achievement.

People: Community is the essence of teamwork. Connecting with people in your organization, not just your direct teams will enable you to understand the collective strength that is integral to overall success.

Persistence: If you are someone who can Keep On Pushing, you see failure as a springboard – you do not see yourself as a failure, but rather the result as a failed attempt, and an opportunity to test new ideas and strategies.

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Keynote by speaker Devon Harris:

Hot Lessons from Cool Runnings - Coaching for Personal and Professional Success

This keynote is suitable for an opening keynote or closing presentation, this motivational program draws from the powerful experiences of the real-life Jamaican Bobsled Team as immortalized in the Disney blockbuster movie Cool Runnings.

Audience takeaways:

This dynamic presentation is as poignant as it is light-hearted. The audience will leave laughing, inspired and with a better understanding of what it takes to achieve the impossible.

Defeating fear by taking action. To improve personal effectiveness and performance through visualization. To create a healthy self-image. To reframe failure

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Keynote by speaker Devon Harris:

The Power and Magic of Teamwork

This program is suitable as an opening keynote and addresses the powerful role teamwork plays in both your personal and professional life. A high level of teamwork has been responsible, in part, for a great home environment, miracle drugs, breakthrough technologies, Olympic medals, and conquests of space and sea because these teams have the ability to synergistically harness their members' talents and energy.

As the Captain of the Jamaican Bobsled Team and a former Sandhurst-trained Captain in the Jamaica Defence Force, Devon knows what it takes to develop, inspire and direct a winning team and translates the challenges and triumphs of the first Jamaican Bobsled Team into easily applicable lessons for today’s managers and tomorrow’s leaders.

Audience takeaways:

A clear vision allows the team to remain motivated, become remarkably efficient and control the direction of change. To identify their noble purpose-the far-reaching benefits of the mundane things they do daily.

To transform their organization by growing their capacity to lead. Through constant self-evaluation, they ensure that they don’t become a victim of their own success.

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Keynote by speaker Devon Harris:

Out of many; One: An Olympic Athlete's View of Diversity in the Workplace

A fresh look at how diversity in the workplace is not just a legal mandate or corporate ethic - it is fundamentally practical and brings the best teams to the playing field. Speaker Devon Harris brings a creative and inspiring look at how at work, as in the Olympics, what really matters is performance, attitude, and teamwork.

With humor and understanding that comes from living what he believes, Devon delivers a compelling message to groups of all sizes about how to be more bottom-line successful by embracing and applying the innate strengths of a diversity philosophy. This program is suitable for an opening keynote or closing presentation.

Audience takeaways:

A clear personal vision will supersede the associations and assumptions that society makes about you.

Attracting the best talent regardless of labels and creating an environment for them to perform at peak levels will allow the team to soar. Differences, when maintained and valued instead of discarded, create a more fulfilling, powerful experience.

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Keynote by speaker Devon Harris:

Keep On Pushing™: An Olympic Athlete's Message of Persistence

Suitable for an opening keynote or closing presentation, Devon brings his entertaining and effective message of how to 'keep on pushing', how persistence is a key catalyst in any success formula. Devon's presentation blends the need for every part of an organization to have the ability to persist, but not without good doses of wisdom, preparation, talent, teamwork, humor, passion, hard work, and smart planning.

Devon illustrates his presentation with his improbable story of a road that took him from the violent ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica; to Sandhurst; to the Olympics; to the hit Disney film Cool Runnings. With humor and compassion and real-life how-to guidance, Devon inspires the audience to 'keep on pushing' - his distinctive phrase when asked how he gets that bobsled down that run.

Audience takeaways:

Investing some time to clarify both your personal and team vision will give them the edge and keep them motivated.

Embracing change. To demonstrate faith in their teammates' abilities and create a more synergistic environment. To persist. Be relentless in finding the solutions to their challenges.

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Blog posts by Devon Harris

“10” Represents Perfection

But why the need to be perfect? Some experts believe that perfectionism is developed during childhood. Family pressure to be the perfect child, school pressure to be the perfect student, as well as the images of perfection in the media, all contribute to pushing some people into a lifetime

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