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About Matt Mayberry
Matt Mayberry, a former NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears, is currently one of the most read columnists for Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as an acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant and peak performance strategist. As the CEO of Matt Mayberry Enterprises, a training and consulting company, he specializes in maximizing the performance of individuals and organizations all over the world.
Matt is Indiana University’s current record holder for most sacks in a single game and was the team recipient of the prestigious Howard Brown Award, which exemplifies leadership, courage and work ethic. With a 4.45 forty yard dash, Mayberry was signed by the NFL Chicago Bears in 2010. Reaching the pinnacle of his sport, he suffered a life-changing injury. It was this event that inspired Mayberry to embrace his true passion—his true gift—helping others achieve massive success by learning how to turn failures into gifts.
As an in-demand keynote speaker, Matt is known for his innovative ideas on how to dominate, turn failure into gifts, improving sales effectiveness, and elevating human potential. Matt delivers keynote speeches with a strong focus on delivering actionable ideas and strategies designed to maximize business and personal performance. He addresses tens of thousands of men and women each year – on the subjects of peak performance, overcoming adversity, motivation, culture, and teamwork.
Growing numbers of people are taking notice of Matt Mayberry. His clients include major corporations, Fortune 500 companies, NFL and NBA teams, government, civic and nonprofit organizations, professional associations, hospitals, and universities.
Matt is extremely passionate about creating an unforgettable experience for every audience that he speaks to. He inspires audiences with a combination of powerful stories, current research, and past experiences from his own life and athletic success that resonate long after each event comes to an end. Attendees leave every event with a detailed and specific action plan for applying their new ideas once they get back into their own routine. Matt has been rated one of the top speakers at every event he’s keynoted.
Throughout his career, he has been featured on numerous media outlets including NBC, Fox News, Business Insider, MSN Lifestyle, Fox Business, ABC, and ESPN to name a few. A partial list of his clients include Fifth Third Bank, USA Hockey, DuPont, Union Pacific Railroad, and Lowe’s.
Matt is writing his first book, Winning Plays, planned for release in September 2016.
He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. His personal interests include sports, fitness, golf, reading, the arts, spirituality, and spending time with his family and friends.
The Gift of Failure
Turning Failure into Extraordinary Success
In this passionate, engaging, and extremely motivational keynote, Matt Mayberry helps attendees redefine what failure really means and how to turn any failure into a gift regardless of its size. Matt helps the audience to see an unlimited amount of potential and reach new heights of achievement through techniques that diminish the fear of failure and self-limiting thoughts that prevent so many from achieving success and reaching their full potential in life and in business.
This paramount message introduces key ideas and insights about personal motivation and what it takes to achieve greatness. Matt coaches the audience through embracing failure as a learning tool and stepping stone to greater success which ultimately will serve as a powerful momentum shift in their everyday work and life. He introduces his own story of failure, defeat, and misery and shares the exact process he used to turn those failures into gifts and create meaningful success.
This keynote serves as a massive call to action for those who are looking for a surefire way on how to overcome adversity and turn their misfortunes into incredible breakthroughs.
The outcome of this keynote will be an audience inspired and equipped with the tools and strategies to never let another failure determine their destiny.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to leverage failure and adversity as a catalyst for growth and massive success.
- Discover techniques and strategies that high achievers use to overcome adversity and use failure to their advantage.
- Find out the number one reason why majority of the population heads to their grave with their purpose, passion, and talent still inside of them and how to prevent that from happening to you.
- Discover the one mental shift that will change your perspective on failure forever.
Dominate!
Keys to Dominating in Both Your Personal and Professional Life
This keynote helps attendees dominate in both their personal and professional lives while unleashing every ounce of their talent and ability into the world. Matt helps the audience discover that they weren’t born to be average and why they must start dominating instead of just competing in everything that they do.
The organizations and individuals that rewrite the history books, shatter world records, and create a legacy that lives much longer than they do, execute out of a mindset and strategy of complete and total domination.
This motivational and action packed presentation is sure to challenge attendees to push past their comfort zone and expand their vision as to what’s possible for their life and organization. Matt coaches people to see beyond the conventional way of thinking and shares breakthrough insights on human potential and high-performance.
The audience will walk away with actionable ideas and insights that they can easily implement into their everyday life to help them become the best version of themselves and tap into their inner greatness.
After this keynote, audiences and organizations will fully understand what it takes to dominate and tap into their full potential.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to win the battle of your mind and create a mindset develop program to help you become all that you can be.
- Learn how to achieve massive goals and the exact goal setting process that has helped Matt and many others achieve unimaginable amounts of success.
- Find out how to develop a personal growth plan to ensure you grow somehow, someway everyday.
- Discover what separates the greatest companies and individuals from everyone else and what they all have in common.
- Learn proven techniques designed to unleash your best work.
Beyond Talent
Building a World-Class Team and Culture
This high-impact keynote examines what it really takes to build a world-class team and culture. Whether talking about athletics or business, talent is usually always a hot topic of discussion. Everyone wants to focus on the star players or leadership of an organization, but in order to truly build a thriving and world-class team it goes way beyond talent.
This keynote examines what top performing teams are doing differently to continually win, innovate, and perform at an extremely high level year after year. Being an athlete for most of his life, Matt has been on teams that reached the top and teams that didn’t get anywhere. Since moving away from the playing field, he has witnessed the same thing while speaking to organizations of all sizes. The correlation between top performing athletic organizations and the corporate world is identical.
Developing a world-class team is still the ultimate competitive advantage in business. The outcome of this keynote will be an audience that understands clearly how to do just that.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how to develop a team that is mission focused.
- The success of a company starts and ends with the leadership of that company. Find out the one characteristic that all leaders must possess to create a world-class team.
- Research shows that only 30% of employees in America feel engaged at work. Learn how to drastically increase employee engagement.
- Learn how to find, attract, nurture, and retain a world-class team.
Servant Leadership
The Building Blocks to Becoming a Game-Changing Leader
This keynote equips leaders with ideas and strategies to thrive in today’s forever changing and extremely competitive business world to become a game-changing leader. Matt explores a plethora of challenges that all leaders face and how to break through the never ending noise and distraction to inspire change and make a significant impact.
This presentation dives deep into what the best leaders across multiple industries are doing differently to create an ultra-healthy culture, get results that matter, and lead through change. Matt introduces a framework that leaders can immediately put into practice that will help them to overcome fear, uncertainty, and be at their absolute best more consistently.
This engaging and thought-provoking keynote delivers new ideas, information, and actionable insights that leaders can utilize right away to join the ranks of some of the best leaders to ever walk the face of this earth.
The outcome of this keynote will be leaders who are inspired and prepared to lead more effectively, maximize employee commitment, touch the hearts of their people, and drive the performance and growth of their organization to a completely new level.
Learning Objectives
- Understand clearly how leaders can thrive and lead through change.
- Learn how some of the best companies and athletic teams in the world have built a winning and healthy work culture.
- Discover how to challenge and inspire your team for massive results.
- Learn how to define and articulate a compelling vision for your organization or team.
Testimonials
“Matt completely captivated our audience and left us with the notion to believe that the future really is bigger than the past, no matter what our current circumstances are. Members are still commenting and praising Matt’s talk. He made our annual event memorable and special.”
– Jeanette Baumann, Executive Vice President of Downey Association of Realtors
“Matt brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to his presentation. Our sales team was re-energized and able to take away key ideas and strategies from Matt’s presentation that will increase our performance. Matt took the time prior to his presentation to really understand our company and implement specialized content in his speech. To wrap up Matt’s presentation in a few words: Knocked it out of the park.”
– Keith Lawson, DuPont Pioneer Sales Manager
“Right away, Matt connected with our group with his passion and sincerity. His personal story is gripping, powerful and inspirational in its own right. Looking for a great keynote speaker can be a daunting task, but Matt was an absolute home run in this regard! Our group left Matt’s presentation inspired, energized and armed with practical strategies that we could apply to our own lives immediately. Thank you Matt!”
– Pete Rutili, Partner at ACME World Sports
“A man who’s found his purpose, with a presence that commands your attention, Mayberry’s message resonates no matter your station in life.”
– Oliver David, Dubuque Fighting Saints Assistant Coach
“Matt brings a very passionate and inspirational message. The message itself is simple, yet it’s clear that ultimate success comes from discipline and execution; that’s where Matt delivers with a clear and concise formula to change your mindset and get out of your comfort zone to be the absolute best that you can be.”
– Robert Sullivan, CEO and President of Fifth Third Bank (Chicago)