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Alexi Pappas

Olympic Athlete; Bestselling Author; Award-winning Filmmaker
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Gender: Female
Nationality: United States
Languages: English
Travels from: United States

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  • An Olympian, filmmaker, and writer who blends athletic discipline with creative brilliance, providing dynamic insights for personal and corporate growth.
  • Advocates for incremental, strategic change, inspiring audiences to navigate complex challenges through small, actionable steps.
  • Hosts the Mentor Buffet podcast, where she explores the pivotal role of mentorship, offering practical takeaways to enhance leadership and foster growth within organizations.

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Alexi Pappas provides audiences with practical strategies for navigating change, harnessing influence, and achieving extraordinary results. Experience the synthesis of elite athletics, artistic expression, and strategic insights as Alexi delivers not just motivational speeches but inspiring stories and actionable advice that directly apply to the corporate world. Her presentations ensure audiences leave with valuable takeaways for both personal and professional growth, marking her as a modern-day emblem of leadership and success.

Discover the transformative power of Alexi Pappas, an Olympian who translates her diverse achievements into dynamic insights for personal and corporate growth. Today, Alexi stands as a dynamic force in personal and professional development, seamlessly merging athletic discipline with creative brilliance. From setting national records to pioneering filmmaking and literature, her unique journey offers invaluable lessons in resilience and innovation.

With an eclectic background as an athlete, filmmaker, writer, and podcaster, Alexi crafts a narrative that resonates deeply across industries. Her speeches are not just talks—they provide a comprehensive exploration into harnessing creativity, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence, equipping audiences to navigate complex challenges with ease.

In her upcoming book on the art of strategic, incremental change, Alexi distills the essence of slow, deliberate evolution that guarantees substantial outcomes, offering a subtle and profound blueprint for transformation. Her actionable plan for change is not only drawn from experiences in her personal life and athletic career but also from her roles as an official Olympic mentor and guide for athletes with disabilities – highlighting her deep commitment to impactful mentorship.

Further enriching her offerings, Alexi’s podcast, Mentor Buffet, delves into the critical role of mentorship in achieving success. Featuring candid discussions with celebrated achievers, the podcast uncovers how pivotal mentors have been in supercharging their careers. This focus on effective mentorship provides corporate audiences with actionable insights to enhance leadership and foster a culture of growth and excellence within their organizations.

By inviting Alexi to speak, audiences will benefit from:

  • Expertise in Strategic Change: Alexi’s unique approach to incremental change offers valuable insights for audiences looking to implement sustainable change within their organizations. Her stories and methods emphasize the power of small, strategic steps to achieve significant results, making her an ideal speaker for businesses undergoing transformations or seeking to innovate continuously.
  • Inspiring Leadership and Resilience: With her background as an Olympian and her role as a mentor and guide for athletes with disabilities (AWD), Alexi embodies resilience and leadership. Her stories and methodologies inspire teams to push through challenges, enhance team cohesion, and foster a culture of perseverance and excellence.
  • Profound Motivational Impact: Alexi’s journey from overcoming the tragic loss of her mother at a young age to becoming an Olympian and a celebrated creator is a testament to the human spirit’s resilience and capacity for triumph. Her compelling personal story motivates audiences to overcome their own adversities and harness their inner strengths to achieve unexpected success. Alexi’s narrative provides inspiration and practical lessons on thriving through adversity, making her an exceptionally motivational speaker for any corporate audience.

 

Alexi Pappas delivers not just motivational speeches, but practical strategies and inspiring stories that directly apply to the corporate world, ensuring audiences leave with valuable takeaways for personal and professional growth.

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Discover the meticulous strategy behind small, deliberate steps that lead to substantial, impactful change, drawing on principles from Alexi’s upcoming big think book.

Available: In person, Virtually

Explore the transformative effects of influence in all its forms, from mentorship to leadership, as illustrated by Alexi’s experiences and interviews with some of the biggest names and high-achievers on her podcast Mentor Buffet.

Available: In person, Virtually

Learn from an Olympian’s journey through career pivots and life challenges and how these experiences fuel continual growth and innovation.

Available: In person, Virtually

Explore the critical interplay of mental and physical health in achieving top performance with Alexi Pappas as she shares her groundbreaking approach to mental resilience and recovery. Drawing on her personal journey through grief and post-Olympic depression, Alexi reveals how treating mental health issues with the same rigor as physical injuries can lead to remarkable personal and organizational growth. This session inspires and provides practical tools for managing mental health, including innovative concepts like willpower budgeting and the transformative ‘rule of thirds’ from her Olympic training. Learn how embracing these strategies can revolutionize team dynamics and enhance overall performance.

Available: In person, Virtually

Books

Bravey (Adapted for Young Readers): Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas

Alexi Pappas is not only an Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, she is a writer whose heartwarming and life-affirming memoir will inspire young readers, as she shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss and hope, in this accessible and motivating memoir. In this honest and hopeful memoir written especially for young readers, Alexi Pappas details key moments that had profound effects on her life, including the loss of her mother when she was just four years old, to her formative years at school where she felt different from her peers, and into her young adult life, including the incredible year she experienced in 2016 when she made her Olympic debut as a distance runner and wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature film. Through it all, Alexi worked hard—physically, mentally, and emotionally, but not without setbacks and difficulties, all of which helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, loss and hope. Even with good things happening, Alexi found herself facing anxiety and mental health issues. Isn’t winning supposed to make a person happy? How does one make life better when it already seems good? Alexi doesn’t provide all the answers, but she offers ideas to consider when life gets complicated. Young readers will be inspired by Alexi’s journey to create an abundant life filled with loving friends and family and strong female role models and mentors–who helped to shape the bravey she is today.

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Bravey (Adapted for Young Readers): Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas

Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Motivational & Inspirational
Alexi Pappas is not only an Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, she is a writer whose heartwarming and life-affirming memoir will inspire young readers, as she shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss and hope, in this accessible and motivating memoir. In this honest and hopeful memoir written especially for young readers, Alexi Pappas details key moments that had profound effects on her life, including the loss of her mother when she was just four years old, to her formative years at school where she felt different from her peers, and into her young adult life, including the incredible year she experienced in 2016 when she made her Olympic debut as a distance runner and wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature film. Through it all, Alexi worked hard—physically, mentally, and emotionally, but not without setbacks and difficulties, all of which helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, loss and hope. Even with good things happening, Alexi found herself facing anxiety and mental health issues. Isn't winning supposed to make a person happy? How does one make life better when it already seems good? Alexi doesn't provide all the answers, but she offers ideas to consider when life gets complicated. Young readers will be inspired by Alexi's journey to create an abundant life filled with loving friends and family and strong female role models and mentors–who helped to shape the bravey she is today.
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Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas

The Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker and writer Alexi Pappas shares what she’s learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams. When “Renaissance runner” (New York Times) Alexi Pappas—Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker, and writer—was four years old, her mother died by suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas’s life and setting her on a search for female role models. When her father signed his bereaved daughter up for sports teams as a way to keep her busy, female athletes became the first women Pappas looked up to, and her Olympic dream was born. At the same time, Pappas had big creative dreams, too: She wanted to make movies, write, and act. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas refused to pick just one lane. She put in a tremendous amount of hard work and wouldn’t let anything stand in her way until she achieved all of her dreams, however unrelated they may seem to outsiders. In a single year, 2016, she made her Olympic debut as a distance runner and wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature film. But great highs are often accompanied by deep lows; with joy comes sorrow. In Bravey, Pappas fearlessly and honestly shares her battle with post-Olympic depression and describes how she emerged on the other side as a thriving and self-actualized woman. Unflinching, exuberant, and always entertaining, Bravey showcases Pappas’s signature, charming voice as she reflects upon the touchstone moments in her life and the lessons that have powered her career as both an athlete and an artist—foremost among them, how to be brave. Pappas’s experiences reveal how we can all overcome hardship, befriend pain, celebrate victory, relish the loyalty found in teammates, and claim joy. In short: how every one of us can become a bravey.

Read more..

Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas

Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Motivational & Inspirational
The Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker and writer Alexi Pappas shares what she’s learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams. When “Renaissance runner” (New York Times) Alexi Pappas—Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker, and writer—was four years old, her mother died by suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas’s life and setting her on a search for female role models. When her father signed his bereaved daughter up for sports teams as a way to keep her busy, female athletes became the first women Pappas looked up to, and her Olympic dream was born. At the same time, Pappas had big creative dreams, too: She wanted to make movies, write, and act. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas refused to pick just one lane. She put in a tremendous amount of hard work and wouldn’t let anything stand in her way until she achieved all of her dreams, however unrelated they may seem to outsiders. In a single year, 2016, she made her Olympic debut as a distance runner and wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature film. But great highs are often accompanied by deep lows; with joy comes sorrow. In Bravey, Pappas fearlessly and honestly shares her battle with post-Olympic depression and describes how she emerged on the other side as a thriving and self-actualized woman. Unflinching, exuberant, and always entertaining, Bravey showcases Pappas’s signature, charming voice as she reflects upon the touchstone moments in her life and the lessons that have powered her career as both an athlete and an artist—foremost among them, how to be brave. Pappas’s experiences reveal how we can all overcome hardship, befriend pain, celebrate victory, relish the loyalty found in teammates, and claim joy. In short: how every one of us can become a bravey.
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