Paris Norriss

In today’s business world, success doesn’t belong to the smartest or the fastest – it belongs to those who refuse to quit.

The ability to push forward despite setbacks, solve problems under pressure, and stay relentlessly focused on results is what separates thriving companies from struggling ones.

Drawing from years of challenging experiences and interactions with high-achievers, Paris has mastered grit in its rawest form. He has a ground-breaking perspective on success and reveals that grit is not an innate talent, but a trait that can be exercised, strengthened like we would a muscle through consistent training.

Now, Paris brings “The Grit Code” to corporations, which focuses on practical, actionable strategies that helps individuals and teams build mental resilience, transform challenges into lucrative opportunities, and consistently achieve their most ambitious goals.

If you want a workforce that thrives in uncertainty, embraces challenges, and turns setbacks into profits, Paris will deliver the blueprint.

Using dilemmas faced from rowing 14 hours a day for 39 days through storms and high waves on the Pacific Ocean as a case study, the talk drills down into how to identify your internal purpose and align your motivational triggers to be able to achieve the impossible. Listeners will walk away with an understanding of the mindset that unlocks the ability to keep going through the worst of times to reach that top tier of performers.

Using the principals of “A Happy Boat is a Fast Boat” the talk walks through scenarios to demonstrate how to place morale above all else. Managing the toxicity of politics within a team to get everybody pulling in the same direction and being able to identify the varying motivational triggers and communicate effectively to each. The outcome of this talk will unleash the magnifying effect of working together as a supportive unit.

Whether assigned a leadership role or not, we can all adopt the principals and traits of good leadership. Practicing what we preach, discipline and dealing with the emotional concerns of team members are some of the traits that we need to demonstrate and hone before realizing authority. The varying ways of designating a leader that gets buy-in from a team will be discussed as well as the power of the shadow leader in dealing with badly managed teams.

In today’s world the most valuable commodity is being able to tell a story. If you want to sell a product, win an election or make it to the big screen, you need to know how to take people on a journey with you. As a TV producer and chief of narrative for every episode, Paris has used the typical story arc to construct the chronological plot of every story. Using behind the scenes narration of scenes from his shows to breakdown how we identified storylines and built upon certain facets to move audiences, listeners will get an insight into the story arc framework used to build a storyline and the editing process to draw out the desired emotion to get the most impact.

Once unknow and quaint destinations have become iconic tourist destinations by the use of film and TV, bringing in thousands of visitors and generating considerable tourism revenue. Combining visual storytelling with scenic locations is leveraging the power of the audience that channels like Netflix and Amazon Prime bring.