Overcoming Adversity
We found 16 Speakers.
Jim Davidson
Resilience Expert
Daryl Davis
Musician, Author
Paul de Gelder
Army Airborne, Navy Bomb Disposal Diver
Israel Del Toro Jr.
Air Force Senior Master Sergeant
Lisa DeLong, RN
Speaker, TEDx Presenter
Caroline DeLongchamps
Manager of Patient-and Family-Centered Care for The Medical University Of South Carolina Health System
Mark Denton
The keynote speaker on collective performance — how leaders earn belief and teams execute as one when authority alone isn’t enough
Laurie Dhue
Certified Recovery Specialist
The Three Doctors
Best Selling Authors & National Role Models
Jon Dorenbos
World Class Magician, TV Personality, and Former NFL Pro Bowler
Michael Dowling
Former CEO, Northwell Health in New Jersey
Loree Draude
One of the first women to fly combat jets in the U.S. Navy. She deployed twice to the Persian Gulf and accumulated over 300 carrier landings.
Rachel Druckenmiller, CSP
Self-Leadership + Workplace Performance Expert
Annie Duke
World Series of Poker (WSOP) Bracelet Winner
Charles Dutton
Television, Movie and Stage Actor Who Went From Jail to Yale to Broadway
Adversity comes in many unique forms and affects individuals in different ways. One person’s hardship may be viewed by others as misfortune, whereas other people’s distresses might be viewed as suffering on a grand scale by most, as in the cases of disaster situations. Whatever difficulty an individual has experienced—be it addiction, cancer or other health issues, life changes, domestic violence, or financial—the steps to overcoming adversity involve not only learning how to work through the residual suffering but also being able to draw on the experience in the future in a way that nurtures resilience.
Whether large or small, physical or emotional, every individual has experienced adversity at some point in life, and learning how to overcome it and find strength in it can benefit individuals on a personal growth level. These lessons then carry over into a team structure and in turn affect growth in productivity and business performance in multiple levels of corporate environments, as employees and executives alike learn methods designed to foster effective crisis management and customer service aptitude. These top keynote speakers on overcoming adversity can help you achieve resiliency skills that impact the quality of leadership and business culture, and result in healthier attitudes and peak performance from individuals as well as teams.