Dallas Seavey
- Record-Breaking Dog Musher, Adventurer, & Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Inductee
- Owner – AK Sled Dog Tours
Dallas Seavey Speaker Biography
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Speech Topics
LEADERSHIP AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Be inspired by Dallas’ passionate and masterful delivery of his compelling story of becoming the youngest world champion in long-distance racing. Learn how he was able to take a group of tier two athletes and raise them to the highest level in the world of mushing by understanding each team member’s strengths and weaknesses and developing each athlete to their highest potential. He ultimately built an untouchable team that won the world championships of long-distance racing, the Iditarod, placing Dallas in the history books as the youngest Iditarod champion ever. If that wasn’t enough, every dog in his team had been cast off by his competitors. He literally beat the world of mushing with their own rejects.
Using these same development systems and leadership tactics, Dallas went on to break the Iditarod speed record twice, dominate a sport as few have done, and forever change how we view development and team building!
GOING THE DISTANCE ONE STEP AT A TIME
The tougher the going the harder it is to beat Dallas Seavey! It’s not just that he can grit his teeth and power through a blizzard, it’s his ability to continue to make tactically sound decisions encompassing a tremendous amount of information in the worst possible situations while operating on only a few hours of sleep over the course of a nine day race. If you ask Dallas he will tell you “True strength isn’t about blocking out and not feeling, it’s about feeling everything and being big enough to handle it.” It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the enormity of a blizzard or the thousand miles of trail before you, but Dallas has mastered the art of winning thousand-mile races by taking one smart step at a time and being the shell that protects the team from the storm.
OTHER TOPICS INCLUDE:
-Innovation
-Lean concepts
-Team Work
-Change, how to drive it and survive it
-Personal and team member development
-Goals, Setting AND Reaching them
-Accomplishing monumental tasks in a manageable way
-Giving your all, an honest look at your best effort
-Winning and losing, and how to do them both well
-How to be a fearless leader (principled decision making)
-Building trust and confidence in a team
-Perseverance
Reviews
Brilliant session with Dallas at our user conference. He presented, inspired, entertained and hammered home the importance of teamwork without ever once sounding “preachy.” Followed up with a fireside conversation with our CEO, and then spent time with the audience after. Outstanding.
