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Ryan Campbell

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World Record Breaking Pilot, Plane Crash Survivor with Paraplegic Diagnosis, Keynote Speaker

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Gender: Male

Nationality: United States

Languages: English

Travels from: United States

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Biography Highlights

Leading speaker on resilience, connection, and burnout.
Named One of the Top 30 Motivational Speakers in the World (Global Gurus, 2024)
World-record for youngest solo pilot to fly around the world, named one of Australia's 50 great explorers, plane crash survivor with a paraplegic diagnosis

Biography

Ryan Campbell: Mental Health and Resilience Speaker

Ryan Campbell is one of the world’s leading mental health and resilience keynote speakers. His gripping story of adventure and adversity leaves audiences in laughter, tears, and inspired into action. As a teenager, Ryan became the youngest solo pilot to fly around the world and was named one of Australia’s 50 great explorers. But everything changed after a tragic plane crash that left him with a paraplegic diagnosis, told he would never walk again.

Over the next several years, Ryan’s incredible recovery back to walking and flying again defied the odds. While he ticked the boxes that defined success, his mental health had never been worse. Like many in today’s world, Ryan was struggling with burnout, anxiety, and depression. His missing puzzle piece wasn’t found in a massive global expedition or miraculous recovery. Ryan’s greatest lesson was parked right in his driveway.

Today, Ryan speaks to organizations around the world about the life-changing power of prioritizing joy. Through the story of his Elvis-inspired 1960 pink Cadillac, he shares accessible and attainable frameworks that will immediately improve mental health, fuel performance, and transform culture.

Through harnessing the power of joy, Ryan helps audiences shift their thinking so that they can step back in order to show up better. All by asking one simple question…

What’s Your Pink Cadillac?

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Popular Talks

What's Your Pink Cadillac? The Transformational Power of Prioritizing Joy

Dive into the joy-fueled resilience hidden in our hobbies, interests, and simple pleasures. In a fast-paced world where our challenges are relentless and the solutions seem out of reach, Ryan delivers a message of accessible, attainable change.

From the highs of a world record-breaking expedition to the most unimaginable low of a plane crash and paraplegic diagnosis, Ryan uses his story to highlight the realities of adversity and the role of resilience.

What’s Your Pink Cadillac? uncovers the most unexpected, transformational tool discovered in the most unexpected place, the purchase of a 1960 Pink Cadillac. Get ready to smile like a kid, step back, and show up better.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

Develop a new understanding of adversity and the role of resilience
Discover the hidden power of our hobbies, interests, and simple pleasures
Unlock the tools to improve mental health, fuel performance, and improve culture
Identify and share their own personal Pink Cadillacs
Identify the five steps to driving our Pink Cadillacs

Available: In person, Virtually

Ryan'S

TESTIMONIALS

The BEST event our CFO organization has seen

Gilead

The last two plus years shook everyone in our aviation industry to our core. In the midst of these unprecedented challenges we achieved results we never dreamed possible. Ryan’s (message) played a crucial role in this climb. Thank you Ryan!

Everyone was on the edge of their seats...

AgWest Farm Credit

People waited in line for over an hour to talk to Ryan after his keynote...

HNI

Ryan took our members across the emotional spectrum as we marveled at his energy and excitement, cried with him through his tragedy, and celebrated with him at his triumph.

NCSBN

I had the great honor to hear Ryan Campbell speak at the 2021 OHIO SHRM HR Conference in August. What an amazing speaker. I so enjoyed his words of wisdom as he recalled the highest achievement in his life, being the youngest pilot to fly around the world, followed later by a near-life-ending plane crash. If you have the opportunity to hear Ryan either in person or virtually I suggest you do so. P.S. Wait until you hear the story of his pink Cadillac!!

Bonnie Thompson

SHRM

Ryan Campbell presented the keynote address at our healthcare leadership conference and gave a heartfelt and powerful message. His life's journey and the lessons learned resonated with our 20 clinical physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and CRNA leaders who have endured and persevered through two years of pandemic hell. He presented strategies to remain 'Turbulence Tough' and for each person to find their own 'pink Cadillac' when facing overwhelming challenges. Incredible!

Randal L. Dabbs

TeamHealth

We hired Ryan to motivate our team to close out the year strong – Ryan's story is a powerful one. What we got was so much more. In this day and age of back-to-back Zoom meetings and less time spent together as colleagues, Ryan's 'Pink Cadillac' message was something our team took to heart. We learned more about each other, and most importantly, what was most important in our lives. Thank you Ryan!

Peter Zink

Director, Sales Enablement,

Sprout Social

From the minute I talked to Ryan and heard his story, I knew that he was perfect for the OH SHRM conference and he did not disappoint. Ryan was engaged with our attendees through the entire week, attending sessions and networking. His closing keynote was amazing and taught us all how to build our mindset toolbox. What do we as individuals need to be resilient and Turbulence Tough? He made us laugh, he made us cry, and he was real! I can't recommend him enough!

Kim Robertson

Conference Chair,

SHRM Ohio

We have people wait in line for over an hour to talk to Ryan after his keynote. That tells you everything you need to know about his ability to connect with people.

Michael Natalizio

Director of Marketing,

HNI Risk Services

It was a pleasure to have Ryan as a guest speaker at our product launch event in Australia. His storytelling was captivating, all our guests thoroughly enjoyed it.

Leon Mervis

Bremont Australia

Ryan Campbell is one of the best speakers I’ve ever heard. His overall voice (delivery, tone, timbre, subject, relatability, pacing – EVERYTHING) was presented in the most authentic way possible. Other speakers should watch Ryan in action to understand what a true connection to their material looks like. While I know Ryan delivers this presentation many times, it never once felt canned or over-produced. What a special session. I am grateful that Ryan spoke to my members.

AHTD

Ryan was wonderful! He engaged the audience with powerful stories and was the perfect opener for our conference.

Alabama Hospital Association

Ryan was just what our group needed! He was one of the most genuine speakers we have ever had. His feedback to our attendee questions was so valuable. His message was so inspiring, Our attendees were coming up to me after to say how much they learned. In today's world with so much going on, his message relating to mental health was timely and touching!

Fogelman Properties

Ryan was amazing, so perfect for our audience!

Informa

Your session was incredible and has truly been a tough act to follow!

Kate Weiler

Madison Logic

Books

Born to Fly: The inspiring Story of an Australian Teenagers Record-Breaking Flight Around the World

At age 19 Ryan Campbell CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE SOLO IN A SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFT When Ryan Campbell was six, he fell in love with airplanes. Inspired by his first flight and his uncle and grandfather – both aviators – flying was a passion that dominated his childhood. It was no surprise to his friends and family when Ryan, at the age of 15, became Australia’s youngest aviator. In Born to Fly, Ryan recounts his remarkable journey of becoming the youngest pilot in history to fly solo around the world. Drawing on the advice of renowned aviators such as Dick Smith, Jim Hazelton and mentor Ken Evers, Ryan fundraised and planned with great determination before setting out on his thrilling 70-day odyssey, landing 34 times in 15 countries and covering more than 24,000 nautical miles. From his wings icing up over Greenland glaciers to a heart-stopping moment over Indonesian air space, to abuse from an airport official in Greece to awe-inspiring views of molten lava entering the Pacific, this real-life adventure shares with us the terror and exhilaration that can only be experienced by those flying alone with only one engine.

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