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Rise to the Top
A failed attempt in the long jump at the 2015 track and field world championships left Lex Gillette bruised and bloodied on the side of the long jump pit. After twelve stitches and successful completion of multiple medical tests, Gillette and his guide were permitted to return to competition with one jump remaining - one attempt remaining to secure a gold medal and world champion title.
Is today’s business climate making you feel as though you’ve hit bottom, or close to it? Are your challenges threatening to reduce team morale and overall productivity? Are there any existing gaps creating overwhelming strain on your company’s culture?
In this 45-minute dialogue, you will ride the emotional rollercoaster created from Lex Gillette’s startling crash, to his subsequent rise to the top of the podium. This highly requested presentation will invigorate your mind, jumpstart your drive, and guide you down a runway that will help you soar above life’s challenges and lead you to new heights. Rise to the top!
- Learn from Lex’s personal experiences and insights
- Help your organization build resilience
- How to improve team morale and productivity
- How to breathe life back into company culture and seize the results you desire
No Need for Sight When You Have a Vision:
It is not our sight, or lack of sight, that determines our success. It is our ability to see a vision and do everything in our power to bring it into fruition. In fact, Lex Gillette proclaims that it wasn’t until he became blind that he was able to truly see. As he writes in his book “Fly!” “Vision gives you strength. You can see what can be, and maybe what out to be. Your focus shifts away from what’s in your way, to what lies beyond your current reality.
In this 45-minute dialogue, we will explore the importance of vision, how it plays a critical role in our ability to break down barriers and accomplish our biggest goals, and how the presence of a vision established the framework for endless potential and achievement.
- What the personal and professional development looks like from a gold medal athlete who has been blind since birth
- How to find your unique vision for success
- How to see a clearer vision and have a greater understanding of how to use this vision to guide your actions daily
- How to teach people to see
Remove the Blindfold
Athletes who are blind and compete in the Paralympic Games are required to wear a blindfold to ensure there is a level playing field across the board. If that doesn’t sound challenging enough, how about this thought from Lex Gillette’s book Fly!? “We are all trying to pursue greatness. Sometimes high achievement slips away because we focus too much on obstacles and not enough on opportunities. When we allow ourselves to see life’s possibilities, when we focus on our restrictions instead of our potential, all we are doing is thinking about the blindfold.”
In this 1-hour presentation, we will explore the idea of “blindfolds,” how they appear in our lives and amongst our teams, and what we can do to remove them to see the world with more clarity and truth.
- What blindfolds currently exist within your life, your team and your organization as a whole
- How conscious and unconscious bias impact individual morale and productivity within a team
- The challenges that exist as a result of your inability, or refusal, to remove blindfolds.
- What it means to view the world through “empathetic eyes”
Connection is the New Currency
Totally blind athletes who compete in running events at the Paralympic games are tethered by hand to a sighted guide. This close connection helps the pair navigate safely and successfully around the track. There are many elements that lead us to success like hard work and having a never-give-up attitude, but creating and maintaining a real connection with others is just as important, if not more important.
In this 45-minute dialogue, We will traverse through the 13-year relationship between Lex and his guide Wesley Williams, and how a real and authentic connection has helped propel Lex to dominance on the global stage. You will leave this session with a firm understanding of the power skills needed to build and maintain real connection, and how that connection helps drive teams to dominance in the arena of life that matters most to them.
- What real connection looks like and how to establish it within your team
- What emotions exist when connection is real
- What emotions exist when connection is poor
- How to overcome disconnection and regain a sense of belonging
- The potential pitfalls that result from poor connection
Documents
Books
No Need For Sight When You Have A Vision: What blindness can teach you about risk and leadership
Lex has shown the world that vision – the kind that provides direction and inspires innovative thinking – unlocks the achiever and the leader within. Lex reveals the steps he’s taken to see beyond reality, face challenges, and surpass expectations, including his own.
FLY!: Find Your Own Wings and Soar Above Life’s Challenges
“Fly!” is more than the story of an athlete. The chapters not only tell great stories but also convey important, inspirational messages. This is a book for all ages. It inspires, entertains, and informs as it encourages everyone to “Fly!”
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