John Register

Uncertainty and change can be daunting, but how we face it defines us. Join John Register, an award-winning inspirational/motivational speaker, author, and two-time Paralympic Silver Medalist, for an empowering and interactive keynote address and a remarkable story of overcoming adversity.

John’s keynote address is an incredible example of transforming adversity into an advantage. By following the five-stage process of reckoning, revision, rebirth, resolve, and reward, he has succeeded in facing challenges and inspired others to do the same.

His story of overcoming adversity and achieving success is empowering and will leave a lasting impact on the audience. Through his message, he provides valuable insights on how to adapt to change, navigate challenges, and succeed in uncertain times.

By embracing a “new normal mindset,” John shows us that change can be an opportunity for growth and success. His speech is perfect for leaders and employees in industries where change is constant, such as banking, pharmaceutical, healthcare, human resources DEI, and travel.

As a two-time Paralympic Silver Medalist and former Olympic class hurdler, John’s story of overcoming obstacles is remarkable. He has used his experiences to create parallel paths and help others overcome challenges through sport and rehabilitation.

In his keynote address, John’s message of resilience and perseverance will inspire the audience to take action and transform adversity into an advantage. By following the five-stage process, they, too, can achieve success in the face of challenges and embrace change as an opportunity for growth.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired by John’s powerful, uplifting, and empowering keynote address that gives you the tools you need to navigate the challenges and opportunities of change and win the medals in your life.

Outcomes:

• Develop a “New Normal Mindset”: Learn to embrace change as an opportunity for growth and success.
  Outcome: Participants will leave with practical tools to navigate challenges and opportunities in uncertain times.
• Transform Adversity into Advantage: Use the five-stage process of reckoning, revision, rebirth, resolve, and reward to turn challenges into advantages.
  Outcome: Participants will develop a framework for transforming adversity into opportunities for success.
• Build Resilience and Perseverance: Learn how to build resilience and perseverance to overcome obstacles in your personal and professional lives.
  Outcome: Participants will leave with strategies to build strength and perseverance in facing challenges.

Join keynote speaker John Register as he shares valuable insights on the Champions Mindset and how it can be applied to business sales success.

As a former Olympic trials candidate, four-time track and field all-American and Paralympic athlete, and silver medalist, John has firsthand experience in achieving success under pressure and overcoming obstacles.

In this session, he will draw on lessons from his athletic career to teach attendees how to adopt a champion’s mindset and achieve greater success in their business sales efforts.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a true champion and take your sales game to the next level!”

Outcomes:

• Analyze the athlete’s journey to the medal podium, and implement those lessons into current business culture and sales systems.
• Identify the ripples of disturbance that derail your path to business growth.
• Discover the competitive advantage through the training concept of plus one days.

Extract lessons from the Olympic and Paralympic athlete journey and implement those lessons into your business culture and sales systems to reach the podiums you have set for your company.

There is a group of individuals who are always overlooked regarding the diversity, equity, and inclusion conversation. The group I refer to is the disability population.

From increased productivity and employee retention to reduced absenteeism and training costs, there are countless reasons why hiring individuals with disabilities is not only the right thing to do but it also makes good business sense.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, individuals with disabilities have an unemployment rate nearly double that of those without disabilities. Additionally, the unemployment rate for individuals with disabilities has remained stubbornly high, even during periods of economic growth.

This is great news for the labor market because an underutilized talent pool is ready to work.

Disability employment is the next frontier in the fight for equality for persons with disabilities in the workplace.

Outcomes:

• Why businesses need to create an inclusive culture that welcomes and supports individuals with disabilities by providing accommodations, such as assistive technology, and offering training and support for managers and coworkers.
• How businesses should actively recruit individuals with disabilities through partnerships with organizations that serve individuals with disabilities, as well as through targeted recruiting efforts.
• Why businesses should offer incentives for hiring individuals with disabilities? This can include tax credits, grants, and other financial incentives.
• Accenture finalized a report in Q4 2018 which stated if there were two similar companies and one hired, retained, and promoted people with disabilities and the other did not, the first would outperform the second 2 to 1 in shareholder returns.

By creating an inclusive culture, actively recruiting individuals with disabilities, and offering incentives for hiring them, businesses can maximize their profits and gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

John’s keynote intersects with a company employee business and affinity resource groups on multiple levels. His intersections are as a person with a disability, a person of color, and a combat veteran.

Life can change with one wrong step.

While training for an upcoming competition, one misstep over a hurdle cost John his leg.

Despite my devastating setback, John hurdled my adversity and began winning again. Within 22 months post-injury, he competed on the United States Paralympic Swim Team in Atlanta, Georgia and anchored both the 4×100 meter medley and freestyle relays.

It was at those games in Atlanta I saw athletes with amputations running and jumping using prostheses. John knew he had to learn how to run on an artificial limb. He did so and four years later he returned to his first love of track and field and in Sydney, Australia at the 2000 Paralympic Games, he won the silver medal in the long jump setting the American record in the process.

John is the first to say that overcoming any obstacle no matter how great or insignificant one thinks it is, begins with having a resilient and renewed mind.

But how do you get it? Where does it come from? And, can it be taught and learned so everyone can respond better when facing adversity?
In this virtual presentation, you will discover steps you can take to stand strong. John shares with you the pathway and the steps to win, again.

Whether you are an executive, a middle manager, or front employee, your life can change with one wrong step, but your life can also change with one right step.

Go forth and inspire your world.

Today's leaders are operating in an environment where disruption is no longer an occasional event—it is the constant condition of business.

Markets are shifting faster. Technology is evolving faster. Competitive threats emerge overnight. Organizations are being asked to grow, innovate, and transform simultaneously while making critical decisions with less certainty and less time.

The challenge is not recognizing disruption. The challenge is deciding what to do about it.

Many organizations are caught between competing realities. They want to accelerate innovation, yet legacy systems slow execution. They invest in artificial intelligence, yet struggle to move beyond pilot programs while competitors scale adoption. They redesign workforce structures to increase efficiency, yet risk weakening the very talent pipelines needed to develop future leaders.

As executives work to position their organizations for growth, employees are asking different questions: Where do I fit? What skills matter now? What does the future look like for me?

Without clear answers, uncertainty becomes disengagement. Change becomes fatigue. Growth initiatives stall because people cannot see themselves in the future being created.

The question before every strategic decision is this:

What must we preserve, and what must we release, to move forward?

That is where transformation begins.

In this keynote, John Register introduces the Amputate to ElevateTM framework—a decision-making model forged through lived experience and refined through years of helping organizations navigate disruption, change, and uncertainty.

After a training accident ended his Olympic dream and led to the amputation of his leg, John discovered that advancement is often impossible until leaders are willing to release what no longer serves the future. The same principle applies to organizations.

Through BreakpointsTM, StrikePointTM, and StrikePathTM, audiences learn to identify decisive moments, determine what must be preserved and released, and create a clear path forward when certainty is unavailable.

This is not a keynote about resilience. It is a keynote about decision authority. Organizations transform when leaders decide.

Audience Outcomes:

• Identify organizational BreakpointsTM before they become business failures.
• Recognize the critical StrikePointTM where leadership decisions create the greatest leverage for growth and transformation.
• Develop a StrikePathTM that moves teams from uncertainty to focused action.
• Reduce change fatigue by creating clarity around what must be preserved and what must be released.
• Build a New Normal MindsetTM that turns disruption into strategic advantage.
• Strengthen decision authority in environments where speed, uncertainty, and complexity are increasing.