Ollie Thorn

Ollie Thorn inspires resilience and adaptability, helping organizations embrace change, boost performance, and build inclusive cultures through his remarkable journey as a disabled endurance athlete.

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Absolutely awesome day. It's rare to find such a genuine demonstration of resilience in action. Exactly what we were looking for, tangible takeaways, creating curiosity, and getting people ask themselves the question, what can I do. Thank you and excited for the next.

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Why book Ollie Thorn for your next event

Empower your workforce with practical resilience strategies that enable individuals and teams to adapt quickly, stay motivated, and deliver results even in times of significant change.
Learn effective methods to foster psychological safety within teams, creating an environment where collaboration thrives, innovation emerges, and high performance becomes the standard.
Transformed from a career-ending injury in the Army to competing as an elite para-athlete, demonstrating an unshakable belief in the power of resilience and mindset.

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Inclusion as a Catalyst for Performance

From Army officer to elite para-athlete, this keynote speaker turns adversity into fuel for performance. Through powerful storytelling, he inspires leaders and teams to embrace change, build resilience, and perform under pressure. Drawing on global experience in leadership, culture, and disability inclusion, he delivers actionable strategies that foster inclusive, high-performing workplaces. His journey from paralysis to representing his country proves that with the right mindset and team, the impossible becomes possible, leaving audiences motivated, equipped, and ready to achieve more.

Keynote Speaker Ollie Thorn is renowned for transforming extraordinary personal resilience into powerful lessons for business success. After a life-changing accident ended his Army career, Ollie rebuilt his life from the ground up, overcoming paralysis to compete in elite para-sport and lead high-performing teams across people, culture, and sales. His unique journey equips him to deliver actionable strategies on resilience, adaptability, change management, and disability inclusion, topics that resonate deeply with organizations navigating today’s fast-paced and uncertain markets.

Ollie’s keynote presentations combine compelling storytelling with practical tools that empower leaders and teams to perform under pressure, embrace diversity, and create inclusive workplace cultures. He draws from global experience facilitating disability leadership development programs for leading organizations, advising on inclusion strategies, and influencing policy as a board member for a major international charity.

When you book Ollie Thorn for your event, you bring in more than an inspirational story. You gain a proven expert who connects with audiences, challenges limiting beliefs, and leaves participants motivated to turn adversity into opportunity. Whether you want to strengthen team resilience, spark cultural transformation, or drive innovation through inclusion, Ollie delivers a keynote experience that inspires immediate action and lasting impact.

Customer Reviews

JLR

Ollie came to Adobe to speak to our customers, what was inspiring is that not only was Ollie authentic in sharing his story but also spoke about wider disability inclusion to help inspire change within organisations and workplaces. Both the internal teams and audience loved how Ollie positioned his story alongside learnings for everyone to take away which created some great conversation after as well as personal ownership of their small part in a wider greater need for change. Ollie is approachable, very collaborative and I will look forward to the next time that we get to work together!

Adobe

Thank you so much for coming and delivering such an impactful talk. You were completely brilliant, and that is not just me but the feedback from everyone. The lessons and take aways from your story on career resilience were brilliant.

Channel 4

I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you for taking the time to host our session yesterday. Your story, honesty, and insight had a profound impact on everyone that joined. We’ve received so much positive feedback – people were truly moved, inspired and walked away with a deeper understanding of what inclusion really means. Your session was not only powerful and meaningful, but it also left a lasting impression. The way you shared your journey, the challenges you faced, and how you’ve continued to pursue your passions reminded us of all the strength in vulnerability and the importance of creating spaces where everyone feels seen and supported.

AXA Insurance

Keynotes

Keynote by Ollie Thorn:

Turning Adversity into Opportunity in Business

In today’s fast-paced business environment, resilience, adaptability, and inclusive leadership are no longer optional, they are essential for success.

Keynote Speaker Ollie Thorn delivers powerful, transformative talks that equip leaders and teams with proven strategies to turn adversity into opportunity. Drawing from his extraordinary journey from Army officer to elite para-athlete, Ollie blends compelling storytelling with actionable tools to help organizations build stronger mindsets, foster psychological safety, and embrace diversity as a driver of performance. His keynotes go beyond inspiration, providing practical frameworks your people can apply immediately to thrive in uncertain environments.

When you book Ollie Thorn for your event, you invest in lasting cultural change and the skills your teams need to perform at their peak, no matter the challenge.

Audience takeaways:

Learn proven strategies to transform adversity into opportunities for growth and success.
Gain practical tools to build resilience and adaptability in fast-changing environments.
Understand how to create psychological safety that empowers team collaboration and innovation.