Abby Wambach: US Soccer Legend
Leadership speaker and soccer legend Abby Wambach draws on Olympic and World Cup success to inspire courageous leadership, resilient teams, equality and meaningful organizational change.
Quick Facts:
- Two-time Olympic gold medalist
- FIFA Women's World Cup Champion
- Six-time U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year
- International soccer legend and leadership speaker
- Formats:
Leadership keynote speaker, motivational speaker, soccer legend
- Audiences:
Corporate leaders, executive teams, women's leadership programmes, emerging leaders, sports organisations and companies seeking stronger teamwork, resilient cultures, inclusive leadership and meaningful change.
- Outcomes:
- Recognise leadership as something individuals can practice from any position, rather than something reserved for people with formal authority.
- Apply lessons from championship sport to strengthen teamwork, resilience, trust and collective performance.
- Challenge outdated leadership rules and identify opportunities to create more equitable, inclusive and courageous organisational cultures.
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **Fee range: $100,000 - $250,000
Keynote Topics
Forward Together: Using Our Strengths to Motivate Teams & Make Progress
Soccer legend ABBY WAMBACH has led her team to greatness on the field again and again, and now she shares her unmatched perspective and energy with graduates, executive leaders, and teams in every industry.
A hallmark of her uplifting events is her ability to instill her audience with confidence that their unique strengths and experience truly matter to their workplace and the world.
Abby shares how teams can work together to leverage these strengths, stay motivated, and make progress toward any goal – from a sky-high sales goal to the launch of a new service, to greater equality and belonging, and beyond.
The Leader in All of Us
We all have the power to become trailblazers, and legendary athlete and bestselling author ABBY WAMBACH delivers a game-changing talk on how to step into this power. Focusing on fresh leadership qualities like kindness, mindfulness, and collaboration, Abby inspires her audience to find opportunities to contribute their leadership and help their teams, workplaces, and communities flourish.
This winning talk can be tailored to recent graduates, early-career professionals, and executive leaders – Abby’s insights resonate with leaders at every level.
Equality: Time to Change the Game
ABBY WAMBACH has spent her entire life making the impossible happen. Dreaming of gold medals before women’s soccer was even an Olympic sport, Abby has spent years paving the way generations of women to come.
An activist and advocate for equal pay and rights across the globe, Abby talks about issues ranging from closing the gender pay gap, finding your seat at the table, and using your power to open the doors for others.
Abby shares how everyone can support and advocate for the LBGT community, and work to make spaces more welcoming and equitable for everyone. With humor, candor, and major motivational power, Abby shows audiences that there is a leader inside all of us, and we each have the power to make change.
Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash our Power, and Change the Game
ABBY WAMBACH shares sage advice and compelling stories from her #1 New York Times bestselling book, WOLFPACK.
Through Abby’s warm and uplifting message, audiences across industries will learn how to lead from the bench, turn failure into fuel, and bring it all to the table to find success.
Abby shares candid lessons from her unmatched career and the challenges she’s faced fighting for gold medals, equal pay, and a more inclusive world, and her passion and perseverance serve as a beacon of motivation for individuals and organizations.
Talent Short Bio
Abby Wambach is a soccer legend, leadership keynote speaker, bestselling author, TV host and podcaster who translates lessons from elite sport into powerful insights on leadership, teamwork, resilience and creating change.
A two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Abby is also a six-time U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year. Her career at the highest level of international soccer provides the foundation for her distinctive perspective on performance, collaboration and what it takes to contribute to a championship team.
Abby is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game, inspired by her widely shared Barnard College commencement address. Its central message challenges traditional ideas about leadership and encourages people to recognise their individual and collective power.
Beyond sport, Abby is an advocate for equality and inclusion and has been closely associated with efforts to advance equal pay in women’s soccer.
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