Scott Burrows

Vision-Mindset-Grit

Success Strategies to Help You Stand Up to Any Challenge

In today’s competitive marketplace, organizations are trying to maintain a winning culture as they deal with an array of business challenges. The true measure of success is how well teams respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system is employed, must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles for personal and professional growth or your organization will be left behind.

Scott teaches listeners how to create a clear Vision to propel them to action, while helping leaders discover the impact of connecting their organization to a shared vision, and how to adapt business strategies to gain that important competitive advantage. How to create an unstoppable Mindset that revolves around poise and execution, and how asking the “What” questions can help teams navigate the chaos of adversity. Listeners learn the important principles of Grit to help stretch them beyond a paralyzed state of overwhelm and Stand Up to Any Challenge.

Presentation Takeaways:

Vision

• Learn how to create a clear Vision that entices you to Take Action
• Examine the benefits of Dreaming in Full Color
• Discover the impact of connecting your organization to a Shared Vision
• Find out how Visualization can give you that Competitive Advantage

Mindset

• Learn how to create an unstoppable Mindset that revolves around Poise and Execution
• Examine the Mindset of Letting It Happen and Breaking the Fall Line
• Discover how to not let your Mindset Become Your Biggest Handicap
• Understand how the Power of Forgiveness, a leadership trait, can restore hope and lead to greater productivity
• Find out how Asking the “What” Questions can help you navigate the chaos of adversity

Grit

• Learn what it takes to Stretch Yourself beyond your paralyzed state
• Examine why your Willingness to Fail But Your Unwillingness to Quit is a leadership trait
• Discover Gritty strategies to help you Stand Up to Any Challenge
• Understand what it really means to Go with What Scares You and Never Give Up
• Cultivate ways to Unlock your Grit by finding that Blessman in your life

Safety Presentation

Develop an Unstoppable Mindset: Success Strategies for Safety Teams & Supervisors

With the alarming predominance of workplace accidents caused by human error, the importance of engaging teams and individuals with safety procedures in a way that is meaningful to them and can promote significant change is crucial. Most human factors involved in accidents occur in the arena of memory, awareness and attention, judgement and reasoning, attitude, and risk perception – all areas dealing with the cognitive mindset and the need for even the most highly-trained individuals to remain alert and focused during potentially hazardous work situations.

Nothing delivers the importance of safety better than a personal story. Neuroscience studies confirm storytelling illuminates parts of the brain that are only active when a listener actually experiences something – triggering their imagination, engaging them with a deep emotional response and sealing it into memory. With these areas of the brain activated and connected by a physical and emotional response, memory retention has been shown to be up to 7 times more effective than training through facts and figures.

Motivational Safety Speaker Scott Burrows details his unforgettable, life-changing story of turning a paralyzing setback caused by a poor split-second decision into a powerful comeback that will inspire your team to develop a true safety MINDSET. Scott details how easy it is to become desensitized to common safety routines, and how ‘just this once’ can tragically impact the rest of their lives.
Told while using his own physical paralysis as a visual metaphor and blending eloquent storytelling with humor and crowd interaction, Scott leaves audiences captivated, inspired and ready to take action. His VISION, MINDSET AND GRIT SAFETY PRESENTATION will Impact your team by encouraging better day-to-day safety decisions in the workplace and changing the way your employees view and approach their jobs. Listeners will walk away embracing workplace safety protocols as opposed to resisting or ignoring them.

Change Management Presentation

One of the key sticking points for company rollouts during times of change is creating organizational shifts while getting everyone on board without resistance to often uncomfortable operational adjustments. Whether your organization is working through change management initiatives for improved company performance, alterations to existing leadership structure, company mergers, takeovers, or technology and internal upgrades – one thing is certain:

It will be up to the individual team members to capture the company VISION, maintain the right MINDSET to work through new transitions, and apply the daily GRIT needed to put those goals successfully into action.

Scott’s customized change management presentations offer perspective to teams undergoing difficult shifts in company culture while equipping audiences with the essential tools needed to maintain their company vision, dial in the proper perspective during unstable circumstances, and help team members keep things moving rapidly FORWARD with cohesion and grace.

Key Takeaways:

Vision

• Learn how to create a clear Vision that entices your team to Take Action
• Discover the impact of connecting your organi¬zation to a Shared Vision
• Find out how adapting your Vision when things don’t go as planned can give you that Competitive Advantage
• Examine the benefits of Dreaming in Full Color

Mindset

• Learn how to create an unstoppable Mindset that revolves around Poise and Execution
• Examine the Mindset of Letting It Happen, Embracing Change and Breaking the Fall Line
• Discover how to not let your Mindset Become Your Biggest Handicap
• Understand how the Power of Forgiveness, a leadership trait, can restore hope and lead to greater productivity
• Find out how Asking the “What” Questions can help you navigate the chaos of adversity

Grit

• Learn what it takes to Stretch Yourself beyond your paralyzed state
• Examine why your Willingness to Fail But Your Unwillingness to Quit is a leadership trait
• Discover Gritty strategies to help you Stand Up to Any Challenge
• Understand what it really means to Go with What Scares You and Never Give Up
• Cultivate ways to Unlock Your Grit by finding that Blessman in your life

Insurance & Financial Services Presentation

VISION MINDSET GRIT: Success Strategies for Insurance & Financial Services Professionals

In today’s rapidly evolving Insurance and Financial Industry, many organizations are trying to maintain a winning culture as they deal with an array of business and sales challenges. Perhaps your organization is dealing with new rules, increased regulation or growing pains and key business issues as you continue to expand both internally and externally while attempting to be number one in your industry and customer expectations. Maybe you’re experiencing industry changes, such as the new Department of Labor ruling or new products entering the marketplace. Perhaps you’re operating with limited bench support, operational and support issues, budget cuts or rising goals, objectives and responsibilities. Or you feel paralyzed by your competition and advancing technologies that are upending workflow and processes.

Whatever your challenges, the true measure of success is how well you respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you – and your organization – will be left behind.

As an insurance and financial industry speaker, you will find that Insurance and Financial leaders RAVE about Scott’s knowledge and understanding of their business, knowing that he, too, was a top sales producer. After his life-changing accident, he graduated from college, then entered the Insurance and Financial Industry as a Financial Advisor and went on to qualify for the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT). Scott knows firsthand what it’s like to be in the field—generating activity, making scheduled calls, prospecting, facing rejection, overcoming objection, all while listening to clients’ needs to determine recommendations and solutions.

Healthcare Presentation

Rising to the Challenge: Keeping Healthcare Teams Cohesive & Motivated

In today’s rapidly changing Healthcare Market, many organizations are trying to maintain an optimistic culture as they deal with an array of business challenges and those challenges that revolve around patient-centered care. Perhaps today you are trying to improve patient satisfactory scores and engagement as you grapple with a decreasing labor pool, lower reimbursements and everyday stresses. Maybe you are looking for ways to deliver better care and outcomes as you attempt to secure and grow market share. Perhaps you are trying to develop alternate revenue streams, contain core operating costs or change your existing business model to reflect ongoing changes. Or maybe you are feeling paralyzed by new rules, increased regulation and compliance as well as advancing technologies, new reporting requirements and your competition.

Whatever your healthcare challenges are, the true measure of success is how well you respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you – and your organization – will be left behind.

As Healthcare Audiences have discovered, Scott Burrows’ thought-provoking presentation and compelling story is the hero’s journey, providing what will be an unforgettable and lasting memory to inspire your attendees to stand up to any challenge. Using his physical paralysis as a visual metaphor, Scott reveals how to drive results using the same mental focus that helped him reinvent his life after a catastrophic accident left him paralyzed from the chest down. He will demonstrate there are no barriers or stop signs in life, or the healthcare marketplace, just detours and workarounds.

Healthcare Speakers and Leaders RAVE about Scott’s knowledge of their industry, knowing he understands patient-centered care and what healthcare professionals do and how they can influence and impact their patients’ lives. As a former spinal cord injury patient and advocate for both patient and healthcare providers, he shares his very personal experience as a quadriplegic. Scott will encourage your healthcare professionals to continue to find the passion for what they do for a living while teaching them to encourage their patients to Never Give Up Hope!

Motivational Sales Presentation

VISION-MINDSET-GRIT: Success Strategies to Help Your Sales Team Stand Up to Any Challenge

In today’s competitive sales environment, many sales organizations are trying to maintain a winning and optimistic culture as they deal with an array of business and sales challenges. Perhaps today your sales team is weathering budget cuts or dealing with growing pains as your organization continues to expand both internally and externally while attempting to be number one in your industry and customer expectations. Maybe you are experiencing industry change right now while trying to differentiate yourself, your company and your solutions from your lower-priced competitors. Perhaps you are looking to improve the sales process and how you approach C-level executives and decision makers as you do your best to reach new sales quotas and budgets. Or maybe you are feeling paralyzed by your competition, keeping up with new products coming to market as well as advancing technologies that are upending workflow and processes.

Whatever your challenges are, the true measure of success is how well you respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear in the marketplace. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you – and your sales organization – will be left behind.

Diversity & Inclusion Keynote

DIVERSITY MATTERS: Inclusion Strategies for the Changing Workforce

In today’s rapidly changing Corporate Environment, C-level executives are realizing that Disability Matters. Why? Today, the largest and fastest growing minority group around the world are people with disabilities, and studies have shown this workforce is committed, productive, loyal and willing, when given the opportunity, to work hard to help your organization succeed. So, if you are looking to expand your market share, generate new revenue from this untapped market and see things from a different corporate perspective, it will take a clear Vision, the right Mindset and a lot of Grit to make it happen.

The true measure of success is how well you respond to a changing and diverse marketplace, adversity, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you – and your organization – will be left behind.

In 2016, as a corporate diversity speaker, Scott was invited to speak at Springboard Consulting’s Disability Matters North American Annual Conference in front of 250 C-level executives from Fortune 1000 companies. It was there that he learned that these Corporations held their own Annual Diversity Conferences. Since that time, Scott has been invited to speak to many of them, as his story is a great fit to drive home the importance of embracing diversity in the workplace.

Testimonials

“Each year our global sales conference is literally our “Super Bowl” for the celebrity sales team, it’s the one time we’re all together and our big shot at setting the tone for the upcoming year with a high energy and motivational message. Thanks to Scotty Burrows, 2016 will be our best year ever!”
– Keith Lane, Vice President of Sales: North America, Celebrity Cruises

“We cried, we laughed, and we cheered! You presented the perfect message following our intense human resource management training, instilling within us to believe that we can indeed achieve all that we aspire to do and be. With unparalleled credibility, you taught us how to face our own challenges in our professional and personal lives. You taught us to not resist difficulties; rather, to persevere…and you told us how to do it! You said to clearly identify what we are fighting for, to focus and continually refocus our minds on what we have the ability and power to do, and then simply, but not easily, not give up. Your compelling story of tragedy and triumph was the backdrop, providing what is surely to be a lasting memory to inspire and motivate us to also live purposely, applying the same timeless principles that enable you to live an abundant life.”
– Sonja Stanchina, MBA, IPMA-SCP, SHRM-SCP, CLRM, Western Regional IPMA

“I want to express my heartfelt thanks for the positive impact you had with your presentation at our National Convention in Branson. It was very important to kick-off our convention with a powerful message and your presentation on Vision, Mindset & Grit did just that! Thank you so much for sharing your story and challenging us with your message. Our attendees were moved, inspired and motivated by your presentation. Not only do you have an incredibly inspiring story with a meaningful message, but you are a gifted communicator and your humble character really impressed our audience. To be such a strong individual who has accomplished so many phenomenal achievements with so much determination and grit, and yet package that with your gracious and humble personality is so rare and challenged all of us to strive to be better people.”
– Steve Bonar, Executive Vice President, Conklin Company Inc. 

“Scott, a huge ‘THANK YOU’ for giving such an inspiring message to our group. In these difficult economic times, small business owners find it hard to find help and encouragement, especially in our industry. Your message of vision, mindset and ‘grit,’ as you called it, really hit home and was very translatable for them to personalize and take back to their businesses to implement in their daily lives. Your life story not only reminds us that each one of us may face unforeseen obstacles, but with perseverance, Grace and a little sense of humor, your attitude can change your course forever!! Thank you so much for having the courage to get up and share your story with so many people! We are all blessed because act of it!”
– Carolyn Salvador, Executive Director, Georgia Child Care Association

“As Chairperson of the Securities and Financial Markets South/South Central District, I was responsible for finding speakers for our Annual Meeting. Our presenters have traditionally been industry insiders, but I wanted to try something different this time. I am very happy with the decision to hire Scott. He took the time to understand our industry and the issues impacting our members, and incorporated that into his own powerful and personal story. Our members were truly blown away by his moving narrative of overcoming adversity with determination, grit, humor, and the support of loved ones. We were all uplifted and inspired.”
– Bonnie Bishop, Vice President–Deal Manager, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.