Jeremiah Brown: Olympian Speaker

Jeremiah Brown is a top motivational keynote speaker and Olympic silver medalist who teaches organizations how resilience, transformation, and team trust drive breakthrough performance.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • Olympic silver medalist in the men’s eight rowing event
  • Reached the Olympic podium after only four years in the sport
  • Former leader of Game Plan, supporting 3,000+ elite athletes
  • Secured $11 million in university scholarships for athletes
  • Bestselling author of The 4-Year Olympian

Formats: Motivational keynote speaker

Audiences: Corporate teams, leaders, high performance groups, and organizations navigating change or seeking stronger resilience and team cohesion.

Outcomes:
  1. Learn practical resilience strategies to navigate uncertainty and pursue ambitious goals.
  2. Strengthen team trust, collaboration, and shared accountability.
  3. Apply transformation principles to accelerate personal and organizational growth
Reading time: 2 min
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  • Travels from: Toronto, ON
  • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

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Inspirational, insightful, and powerful. Jeremiah blends memorable storytelling with deep insights into conquering burnout, overwhelm, and fear while adapting to change and achieving your goals. The passion that drives an Olympian is the same passion that drives your people. With his humour, heart, authenticity, and energetic delivery, Jeremiah captivates audiences as he draws parallels between the worlds of Olympic sport and business.

In this one-of-a-kind, high-energy experience, Jeremiah redefines what it means to lead and be led in the relentless pursuit of excellence. Drawing from his Olympic experience, he reveals the true keys to persevering through setbacks: unwavering belief, a growth mindset, self-accountability, and supporting one another through adversity.

When you bring in Jeremiah, you’re giving your team an unforgettable catalyst for positive change. They won’t just feel revved up; they’ll be renewed with unshakable self-belief, mental toughness, and an invigorated commitment to achieving the extraordinary, together.

  • Inspire audiences to dig deeper, go further, and reap greater rewards.
  • Redefine resilience to strengthen one’s ability to endure massive change.
  • Audience leaves with Jeremiah’s four essential strategies for achieving big goals.
  • Discover the one key shift in mindset that will keep people committed to the goal for the long term.
  • Replace fear with deep insights into managing burnout and overwhelm.

You need to find a way to overcome bad days, boost morale, and come together as one team. Your competitive environment is changing, overwhelm abounds, and the pressure is on. When launching new initiatives, striving for market leadership, and navigating transformation, Jeremiah can help you lead with courage and inspire confidence from your team.

In this keynote, Jeremiah will compare and contrast the norms, behaviors, and tactics used by Olympic coaches to exemplify how you can overcome challenges and perform at your best, while building trust and motivating your teams in the workplace. When you start to see yourself as a coach of human beings first, and a manager second, you will be able to reduce your frustration, increase communication clarity, and improve performance with less residual stress in your life.

  • Learn the correct sequence of trust-building within teams.
  • Insights into high-performance communication under pressure.
  • Olympic feedback coaching techniques you can use with your own team.
  • How to execute with discipline during periods of great change.
  • Understand the power of authenticity over rank.

In business, audacious goals require epic teamwork to achieve. No one understands this better than Olympic rowers, whose medal-winning performances exemplify how to unite diverse individuals into an aligned, unstoppable team.

In this electrifying keynote, Jeremiah will share the jaw-dropping ups and downs of his team’s rebuilding journey toward the Olympic podium. More than inspiration, Jeremiah extracts powerful teamwork principles your organization can apply every day.

Whether your team faces daunting competition, ambitious targets, or turbulent changes, they’ll be energized and equipped to uplevel their team-first orientation.

Jeremiah’s odyssey proves that with selfless teamwork, even outrageous goals are achievable. Amplify your team’s potential with this insightful, actionable keynote experience. Your people will walk away bonded and empowered to achieve breakthrough results through Olympic-caliber teamwork.

  • How to create a gravitating sense of unified purpose
  • How to foster individual “team first” commitment and accountability
  • The keys to developing a supportive, resilient team culture
  • Aligning complementary roles and strengths seamlessly
  • Turning adversity into opportunity for deepening team bonding and trust

In today’s relentless business world, we’re expected to push ourselves to the limit in pursuit of ever-higher goals. But at what cost? Too often, mental health and overall well-being get sacrificed in the process.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Jeremiah draws on deep lived experience working through mental health challenges as an Olympian and also as the leader of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athlete mental health strategy.

Don’t accept the toxic notion that you must sacrifice mental health to achieve your goals. Jeremiah’s journey exposes this as a fallacy—in fact, prioritizing personal wellness is a force-multiplier for unlocking maximum sustainable performance.

If your team or employees feel overworked, depleted, or on the edge of burning out, this keynote provides the wake-up call. They’ll be inspired and equipped with strategies to actively nurture personal resilience and well-being as they chase ambitious targets.

  • The mindset shifts required to recover from rock bottom.
  • Sustainable high-performance habits and routines.
  • How to cultivate a supportive, energizing culture.
  • Maintaining passion, focus, and self-belief amid adversity.
  • Understand the importance of reaching out for help sooner than feels natural.

Talent Short Bio

Jeremiah Brown is an Olympic silver medalist, bestselling author, and globally recognized motivational keynote speaker known for helping individuals and organizations adapt to change and unlock peak performance. One of the rare athletes to reach the Olympic podium after learning his sport only four years earlier, Jeremiah’s journey from novice rower to London 2012 medalist is a powerful case study in accelerated learning, resilience, and human transformation.

Following the Olympics, Jeremiah led the development and launch of Game Plan, the Canadian Olympic Committee’s holistic transition program serving more than 3,000 elite athletes. In this role, he forged national partnerships with universities and corporations, negotiated over $11 million in scholarship funding, and helped athletes navigate identity shifts, career changes, and performance pressure.

Jeremiah’s professional path began in commercial banking, where he managed an $80 million lending portfolio and developed strong business and leadership acumen.

An Olympic underdog story like no other – Jeremiah Brown achieved the incredible dream of winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Games. But his journey is virtually unheard of – going from complete novice to Olympic medalist in just four short years while juggling life as a young father.

Jeremiah went on to lead the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athlete wellness and transition programs for 3000 Olympic, Paralympic, and national team athletes. Whether supporting elite athletes reinvent themselves, or helping organizations adapt to change, Jeremiah is known for his deep insights into the psychology of high performance and human transformation, both from an individual and leadership perspective.

Jeremiah’s memoir, the 4-Year Olympian, spent five weeks as the #1 bestselling sports memoir in Canada. The story by Jeremiah Brown has been featured on CBC, CTV, Roger’s Sportsnet, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and USA Today. A top keynote speaker, Jeremiah has helped thousands of people find the courage to reach their goals and overcome the psychological traps and emotional pitfalls that lie hidden along the way.

Jeremiah Brown is a world-class motivational speaker who helps people find deeper resilience & the determination to combat challenges and adapt to change. Jeremiah electrifies audiences with battle-tested strategies on goal resilience, transformation and team success. His keynotes equip your people with the grit, leadership mindset and collective resolve to power through obstacles and achieve ambitious goals.

A highly sought-after speaker, Jeremiah has delivered hundreds of keynotes for world-class organizations like Spotify, TD Bank, Cisco, and the NHL’s Calgary Flames. As a dynamic professional speaker, Jeremiah is dedicated to empowering individuals to unlock their full potential, cultivate positive team cultures, and embrace servant leadership principles. Redefining the power of enduring uncertainty and trusting others, Jeremiah Brown uses his story to inspire audiences around the world to rethink what is possible for themselves and their teams.

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Jeremiah Brown Speaking Reel: Resilience, Audacious Goals, and the Psychology of High Performance

A compelling 6 minute 04 second speaking reel featuring Jeremiah Brown’s Olympic journey and his core lessons on possibility, resilience, accountability, and transformational teamwork.

This 6 minute 04 second speaking reel captures Jeremiah Brown’s signature message about pursuing audacious goals and developing the resilience required to sustain the journey. He opens by noting that the greatest opportunities often arrive disguised as challenges we do not feel ready for. His own story illustrates this truth. Only four years before winning an Olympic silver medal, he was sitting in his parents’ basement watching the Games on television, still unsure of his direction. That early spark of possibility became the catalyst for redefining what he thought was achievable.

Jeremiah explains that the first months and years of any big pursuit demand exceptional mental fortitude. He describes the intense reality of Olympic rowing: explosive starts, deafening noise from the oars and water, and the overwhelming energy of grandstand crowds roaring as crews drive toward the finish. In those moments, he says, the only thing that keeps athletes pushing forward is a fierce commitment to teammates and an unwillingness to be the one who gives up.

He shares how outside accountability shaped his path. A mentor asked him directly why he wanted to row. When Jeremiah declared he intended to win Olympic gold, the mentor did not dismiss him. Instead he affirmed the possibility and committed to the journey with him. Jeremiah urges audiences to create space for others to voice their true goals because that simple act can profoundly change someone’s trajectory.

Key Moments

  • 00:32 Early belief, mental fortitude, and the first years of an audacious goal
  • 01:25 Immersive description of Olympic racing and team driven motivation
  • 02:40 Accountability, mentorship, and declaring bold ambitions
  • 03:46 Early failures, capsizing, and the discipline of recommitment

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