Powerful keynotes on leadership, teamwork and human connection to create happy individuals
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Lifelong friends best-known for the popular book and movie “I’ll Push You” as well as their inspirational adventures
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"If you're looking for an inspirational message about friendship, commitment, overcoming challenges, or the power of community, then I urge you to hire Justin and Patrick for your next speaking event! They will deliver, your attendees will be inspired, and you will look like a genius for deciding to share with your company, members, or conference attendees a life-changing adventure."
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When Justin Skeesuck got the idea of going on an epic adventure and experience the ancient pilgrimage Camino de Santiago, but he knew he needed help.
Justin has a neuromuscular disease and is unable to use his arms and legs. When he asked his best friend, Patrick Gray, what he thought of this crazy idea, he simply answered “I’ll push you!”. Since then, they’ve published a book and a movie about their journey and adventure, which both received outstanding reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Rotten Tomatoes. Their keynotes are just as popular, and in 2017 they spoke to more than 100,000 people live.
Justin and Patrick’s adventure took them on ups and downs and taught them how much we can accomplish if we know our own limitations, ask for help and work together. Through their adventures, they’ve explored the meaning of true leadership, teamwork and human connection, and on stage their friendship shines through as they inspire and engage with the audience.
As bestselling, authors and highly sought after keynote speakers, Justin and Patrick use their life/work experiences and their adventures as the backdrop to which they explore concepts such as leadership, team work, relationship, and the power of the human collective. They believe the most successful individuals are those who understand their own limitations and invite others to be a part of their journey.
Justin and Patrick’s humor and engaging storytelling leave readers and audience members as king, “What can I do to make my home, my work environment, and the world a better place?
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Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray are lifelong friends with a hunger for adventure. Despite a debilitating disease taking away most of Justin’s ability to move, the two live without reservation.
Their incredible wheelchair journey, known as I’ll Push You, is a testament to this. They tackled the impossible — a 500-mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago through Spain — Patrick pushing Justin in a wheelchair. While Patrick, and others, physically pushed Justin the distance, Justin pushed Patrick, mentally and emotionally, beyond fear and insecurity, into a whole new world of joy and freedom. And now, they partner with businesses and organizations around the globe, equipping them with the tools to do the same.
Using powerful, emotional, and often hilarious storytelling, the two use their unique insights to help individuals and teams discover their full potential.
Justin and Patrick customize content for each client. Common themes include:
Following their bestselling memoir, I’ll Push You, Justin and Patrick wrote Imprints: The Evidence Our Lives Leave Behind – a collection of narrative essays illustrating the power each person has to change someone else’s life. Powerful change is often influenced by the little things we do each day. Each story in Imprints shows how our choices can profoundly impact the future of others.
Using these stories as a foundation, Justin and Patrick open audience members’ eyes to the potential we all possess. Their storytelling invites conference attendees into a conversation about purpose and challenges everyone to evaluate their roles and responsibilities as team members, leaders, parents, partners, and friends.
Justin and Patrick customize this content for each client. Common themes include:
This incredible duo helps each organization they work with realize its full potential. Justin and Patrick’s ability to seamlessly provide both live and virtual events means they offer:
While Justin and Patrick’s story has been described as “inspirational” or “motivational,” they believe inspiration and motivation aren’t enough. Overcoming life’s challenges requires acknowledging our weaknesses, inviting others into our story, and embracing the fact that we cannot do it all on our own.
Through their speaking, writing, and training, Justin and Patrick help others overcome limitations in work, relationships, and life by embracing vulnerability and turning to the power within a community of friends, family, and co-workers.
Regardless of the topic, audiences and conference attendees leave inspired and challenged to do more as individuals and teams. It’s impossible to see Justin and Patrick speak and not be motivated to do more with what you have been given.
Watch speakers Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray in action
"My Thesaurus does not contain enough superlative words to describe the exceptional keynote presentation that Justin and Patrick offered. The most common review was simply inspirational. Some people define relationships by tallying so-called friends on social media, but Justin and Patrick characterize – and live by – the true, traditional meaning of friendship. You must hear their remarkable story!"
CEO Alan Sherbinin
"If you're looking for an inspirational message about friendship, commitment, overcoming challenges, or the power of community, then I urge you to hire Justin and Patrick for your next speaking event! They will deliver, your attendees will be inspired, and you will look like a genius for deciding to share with your company, members, or conference attendees a life-changing adventure."
Director (Former) Ben Quintana
"Meeting and coming to know Justin and Patrick was a game-changer for many on my team, and for some of us, myself included, they literally changed how I look at life, how a contend with life, and how I cope with life. All too many times, we get bogged down or disheartened by what life dishes out to us. The joy and the dignity Justin and Patrick bring to life, and others’ lives, is nothing short of a treasured gift that is to be remembered daily."
CEO DeeDee DeMan
"Working with Justin and Patrick is an experience of a lifetime – one never to be missed! Their inspirational story of friendship and teamwork transformed the lives of everyone in the room. From the moment I met them during our pre-conference interview to their book signing at the conclusion of our event, they were the embodiment of what it means to be a gift to others. They are two extremely kind, inquisitive, and very humorous men – absolutely unforgettable!"
Vice President Janice Ginley
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