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Darren Woodson, speaker
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Darren Woodson

    • Former ESPN Analyst and Dallas Cowboy
    • Entrepreneur, Real Estate Partner, Speaker
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$50,000 - $100,000

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$30,000 - $50,000

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Texas

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Darren Woodson Speaker Biography


A three-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Pro Bowl selection, Darren Woodson is often recognized as one of the greatest players to wear a Dallas Cowboys uniform.

A native of Phoenix, Woodson played football at Maryvale High School as a running back and linebacker. He attended Arizona State University, where he was a converted linebacker for the Sun Devils and earned his Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies.

In the 1992 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys selected Woodson in the second-round (37th overall). Throughout his 12 seasons (1992-2004) with the Cowboys, he earned a reputation as one of the hardest hitters and most ferocious safeties in the NFL.

Woodson retired in 2004 as the Cowboys’ All-Time Leading Tackler with 1,350 career stops and registering career totals of 11 sacks and 23 interceptions. Throughout his NFL career, his dependability, athleticism and aggressiveness helped lead the Cowboys to three Super Bowl Championships (Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII and XXX) - securing him an elite position in the club’s history. In 2015, Woodson was inducted into the prestigious Cowboys “Ring of Honor.” He was also named to the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame (2009) and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame (2017).

Upon retiring from the NFL, Woodson joined ESPN as an NFL analyst in 2005. He appeared on “NFL Live” and “SportsCenter” and also participated on the network’s coverage of the Super Bowl, NFL Draft and NFL training camp specials. After 14 years with the network and commuting weekly to Bristol, Connecticut, Woodson announced his retirement in 2019.

Transitioning from the NFL to a post-playing career is not easy for most athletes—but Woodson has found consistent success. Woodson joined ESRP Advisory Dallas, LLC, “esrp”, in 2017 and bridged his storied football career and entrepreneurial spirit with commercial real estate. In May of 2022, esrp merged with Cresa, the world’s only global commercial real estate advisory firm that exclusively represents occupiers and specializes in the delivery of fully integrated real estate solutions operating from over 380 offices in 15 territories.

Woodson offices at the Dallas Cowboy World Headquarters - The Star, Cresa’s primary office in the Dallas-Fort Worth region as a Managing Principal and is an active Board member where he is directly involved with the firm’s overall vision, growth, and strategy. Woodson focuses on locating, developing, and defining business relationships across a variety of industries and markets. He brings his innate leadership skills and passion for creating winning strategies to meet clients’ real estate needs, while delivering a high-level of service. Clients include NTT DATA, Argo Data, ExamSoft and MTX Group.

Beyond his remarkable talents and dedicated leadership, Woodson has made significant contributions to his community and is an active board member at C5 Youth Foundation of Texas. C5 Youth Foundation helps high potential youth with limited resources become successful and responsible leaders in their communities. Since its inception, over 600 Texas youth have experienced C5 Texas’ life-changing program and leadership experiences.

Darren is married to Tiffany and has four beautiful children.

Creating Cultures of Excellence

What are the cultural differences between mediocre teams and winning teams, whether they are in sports or business? In this speech, Darren Woodson (5 time Pro Bowl safety and 3 time NFL Super Bowl Champion with the Dallas Cowboys) describes what leaders must embrace in order to build a culture of excellence with their teams. Learn how to embrace change, competition, and confrontation within your organization.

Cultures of excellence embrace:
- (hard) change
- (honest) confrontation
- (healthy) competition
- and… individuals with (heartfelt) character


Sub Topics include:
Diversity
Teamwork
Motivation
Sports
Real Estate
Entrepreneurship

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September 13, 2019

Thank you so much for connecting us with Darren Woodson for our keynote at our TPA Summit. He was FABULOUS!! His message resonated with our attendees on both professional and personal levels. He went above and beyond expectations with Q&A, bringing those oh so impressive Super Bowl rings, and taking pictures with our attendees. As I was trying to leave the ballroom to get in line for my turn for pictures, I couldn’t take 2 steps without one of the attendees stopping me to say “Thank you for having Darren” or “That was really incredible” or “Can we get him to speak every time?”. Mr. Woodson really was a table setter for the rest of the conference as there was a perceivable uptick in the energy and excitement for the rest of the conference. Comments have ranged from “best conference ever” to “we will definitely be back” which was amazing considering we had 108 of the 400 attendees as first time attendees. One comment that was especially gratifying for me was when our Past President came to me and said. “Joanie, I’ll be really honest with you that was I really skeptical about having Darren on the agenda because I wasn’t sure he would have anything to say to our members. Boy, was I wrong! He had takeaways for business and family.” Many attendees expressed their gratitude that he talked about personal struggles with his son. I think too many times we view our sports heroes as immune to the trials/challenges/struggles that we deal with on a daily basis but Mr. Woodson’s open honesty was a refreshing dose of realism. I was already a HUGE fan of Darren Woodson the football player and ESPN personality but now I am completely compelled by Darren Woodson the human. Thank you so much, Darren!!

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