In this program Devon Harris skillfully weaves the real life improbable inspirational story of the Jamaica bobsled team with the entertaining portrayal of the Disney blockbuster Cool Runnings. He highlights some of the powerful life lessons he and his teammates learned along the way – lessons the audience can immediately apply to both their personal and professional lives. Suitable as an opening or closing keynote.

The audience will learn how:

• To conquer fear through courage
• To use the extraordinary power of visualization to achieve success
• To build self esteem and confidence and reach your goals
• To define success on your own terms
• To persist in the face of insurmountable odds

This inspiring message sees Devon drawing on his personal experiences as the Captain of the Jamaican Bobsled Team and a former Sandhurst-trained Captain in the Jamaica Defence Force, to show how working collaboratively facilitates success personally and professionally as well as collectively as a group. The key ingredients from Devon’s perspective are: defining and owning a clear vision, empowering leadership, a process of self-evaluation and persistence. Using humor, engaging stories and powerful insights, Devon easily translates the challenges and triumphs of being in the military and competing in the Olympics into easily applicable lessons and insights that will inspire your team to perform at peak levels. Suitable as an opening or closing keynote.

The audience will learn how:

• 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.
• To use the process of self-evaluation to help them move towards the full potential

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 international playing field. 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 inspirational 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. Suitable as an opening or closing keynote.

The audience will learn how:

• A clear personal vision will exceed 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.

A highly customizable, entertaining program, in which Devon effectively shows how the process of pushing a bobsled is analogous to the success journey of life life; how going through the process, growth and embracing change is critical to transforming oneself as well as the people and the organizations around them. Devon’s presentation blends the need for every part of an organization to have the ability, through personal effort, teamwork, passion, a sense of purpose and persistence to “keep on pushing” to achieve success. 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. Entertaining, motivational, with humor, compassion and real-life how-to guidance, Devon Harris inspires the audience to “keep on pushing” – his distinctive phrase when asked how he gets that bobsled down that run. Suitable as an opening or closing keynote.

The audience will learn how:

• To clarify their vision
• Identifying their purpose
• Create a more synergistic environment through collaboration
• Be relentless in finding the solutions to their challenges