Bonnie St. John

Bonnie St. John tailors every presentation to meet her clients’ specific business focus. Before each event, Bonnie interviews select corporate leaders to understand the issues facing each audience. In addition, when it fits within the travel schedule, Bonnie will offer a complimentary keynote speech to a charity or non-profit group selected on behalf of your organization, at no extra cost.

How do we continue to tap into new sources of energy for the innovations, insights and initiatives we need to compete as the pace of today’s global workplace continues to accelerate? Bonnie St. John, the highly sought-after business coach and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, addresses these challenges by guiding participants, from the front lines to the C-suites, through a series of practical exercises and techniques that enhance her audience’s capacity to offset the negative effects of stress, increase resilience and play to win. Whether you are looking for a few specific ideas and action steps in a keynote speech or a full day of in-depth, hands-on training, you’ll get a powerful dose of Bonnie’s authentic life experiences along with rigorously tested concepts that will clearly pave the way for breakthrough performance in your organization or company.

Elite international Paralympic athletes are all about achieving excellence when the circumstances are less than ideal—a perfect metaphor for today’s dynamic economic times. Instead of wishing and waiting for things to get back to “normal,” Bonnie expands the dialogue to go beyond traditional thinking. Disabled athletes—including wheelchair basketball players, blind runners and others—never expect things to be “normal.” Bonnie’s story is proof that you can strive for excellence no matter what obstacles are thrown in our way. Hailed as “one of the five most inspiring women in America” by NBC Nightly News, Bonnie St. John uses her unique experience as a one-legged ski champion, Rhodes Scholar and White House official to encourage audiences to aim higher and achieve extraordinary results.

The phrase “never give up” means something completely different in today’s world of global interdependence and rapidly shifting 21st century technologies. Drawing on her personal experiences and extensive research, Bonnie St. John illustrates examples of useful tips and techniques that professionals in K-12 and Higher Ed can use to adapt their performance when the only thing constant is change. “We need to update Einstein’s famous quote,” Bonnie quips: “In today’s world, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results!

As an amputee living in San Diego with no money (or snow!) for training, Bonnie needed to apply extraordinary tenacity and flexibility to become the first African-American to win Olympic medals in ski racing. In every stimulating presentation, Bonnie encourages education professionals to persist and adapt at the same time so they can become virtually unstoppable through the ups and downs of funding changes, new review requirements and scarce resources.