Richie Contartesi: Sales Speaker
Richie Contartesi is a high-energy motivational speaker and performance coach who empowers teams to break limits, build accountability, and achieve peak performance
Quick Facts:
- Earned a Division I football scholarship at Ole Miss despite being repeatedly overlooked
- SEC Scholar Athlete and former professional Arena football player
- Founder of the Next Play Accountability System adopted by top organisations
- Author of the #1 bestselling book In Spite of the Odds
- Formats:
Motivational speaker, performance coach, and bestselling author.
- Audiences:
Corporate teams, sales organizations, sports teams, leadership groups, and high-performance cultures seeking accountability, resilience, and measurable improvement.
- Outcomes:
- Practical tools to build accountability and sustain high performance
- Increased focus, discipline, and momentum through the Next Play framework
- A resilient, empowered mindset that drives long-term success
- Travels from: Las Vegas, NV
- **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
Keynote Topics
KEYNOTE FOR SALES LEADERS
Next Play™: The Accountability System That Results In Retention, Profitable Growth, & Consistent Peak Performance
The greatest skill a leader can learn is the ability to help others realize and exceed their potential. But, most leaders manage people, implement lots of training, and sometimes even coach, but very few have the ability to also hold their team members accountable to their potential every single week. What’s missing is a tool and system to keep people moving forward regardless of adversity.
KEYNOTE FOR SALES TEAMS
Next Play™: The Accountability System That Eliminates Complacency and Results In a Profitable Growth
The Next Play™ Accountability system provides the accountability your sales team needs to drive consistent results week after week. It’s a simple 3-step tool your team can use to go from stuck, frustrated, down and put them into instant action. It’s not just being focused, but more importantly, what you are focused on. This tool will keep your team set clear on their goals, focused on their next play, and accountable every week.
Talent Short Bio
Richie Contartesi is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and performance coach known for helping individuals and organisations achieve breakthrough results. His story began as an undersized athlete, repeatedly told he was too small to play Division I college football. Standing at 5’7” and 150 pounds, Richie faced consistent rejection before walking on at the University of Mississippi. Through discipline, resilience, and relentless work ethic, he earned a full football scholarship, became a starter in the SEC, and received the SEC Scholar Athlete award.
After college, Richie competed professionally in Arena football, gaining firsthand experience in high-pressure environments that demand precision, confidence, and rapid recovery from setbacks. These lessons laid the foundation for his career in leadership development and peak performance coaching.
Richie is the founder of the Next Play Accountability System, an actionable framework used by Fortune 500 companies, sports teams, and high-performance organisations.
The system equips teams with practical tools to maintain focus, strengthen resilience, and execute consistently, even under adversity.
With engaging storytelling and a dynamic presentation style, Richie simplifies the process of building accountability and sustaining momentum. His bestselling book, In Spite of the Odds, shares his journey and provides a blueprint for individuals who want to transform obstacles into opportunities. T
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