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Dan Clark

Dan resets organizations to an elevated culture of resilience—equipping your team to embrace decisive motivation, redefine what’s possible, and accelerate growth because of change.

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Hall of Fame Speaker, NY Times Best Selling Author & Global Leadership Expert! Dan Clark shares his “Playbook” with Companies & Trade Associations, Boosting Sales Morale, Strengthening Leadership & Elevating Team Culture. Dan’s a Global Authority on Workplace Development & Human Potential Mastery.

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Dan Clark is the founder and CEO of an International Leadership Development Company; a High Performance Business Coach; New York Times Best Selling Author of 35 books; University Professor; a Primary Contributing Author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series; International Podcaster; Gold Record Songwriter; and an Award Winning Athlete who fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career.

Dan was inducted into the National Speakers Hall of Fame – and has been named one of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers In The World.

Dan has spoken to over 6 million people, in all 50 states, in 71 countries, on 6 continents, to more than 6000 audiences including most of the Fortune 500 companies, Super Bowl Champions, NASA, and to our Combat Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Asia and Africa.

Dan has appeared on over 500 television and radio shows including Oprah and Glenn Beck, PBS and NPR, and has been featured in the Mayo Clinic Journal, Forbes, Inc., Success, Entrepreneur, Thought Masters and Millionaire Magazines.

Dan’s extraordinary life includes soaring to the edge of space in a U2 Spy plane; flying fighter jets with the Air Force Thunderbirds; racing automobiles at Nur-burg-ring and sailboats in Australia; serving on the Olympic Committee and carrying the Olympic Torch in the Winter Games; and keynoting the United Nations World Congress.

Dan was named an Outstanding Young Man of America – and has since received the United States Presidential Medal presented by President Ronald Reagan; the United States Distinguished Service Medal presented by the U.S. Department of Defense; was the national recipient of the prestigious Air Force American Spirit Award; and was named Utah Father of the Year!

Raise the Bar – Decisive Motivation Resetting a Culture of Resilience into a Peak Performance Team

Looking to inspire your organization and elevate your next event? Book Dan for his transformative keynote, “Raise the Bar – Decisive Motivation,” where he unveils the secrets to building a resilient, high-performing culture.

Drawing from personal experiences—overcoming a career-ending injury and working alongside transformational leaders and superstars in business and sports—Dan reveals that true resilience isn’t just about enduring challenges. It’s about creating discomfort on purpose, thriving through adversity, and driving remarkable results in leadership, teamwork, sales, and customer experience through continuous, urgent daily improvement.

What Dan Will Bring to Your Event:

1. An Up-Leveled Culture

Dan guides your people through his three-step Growth Strategy, designed to:

✔ Expand Belief – Redefine What’s Possible

Dare to think bigger by leaving the familiar behind. Focus on a “why” that is bigger than your “why not.

✔ Elevate Expectations – Reframe Adversity

Identify what you will no longer tolerate. Make winning personal. Strengthen your team through change.

✔ Empower Behavior – Create a Competitive Advantage

Ensure that both internal and external customers choose you—not just someone who does what you do.

2. Empowered Accountability

By redefining leadership as influence, Dan inspires individuals to lead with or without a title. He fosters a culture where every team member holds themselves accountable to excellence, regardless of role or pay grade.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Raise the Bar: Your people will leave Dan’s keynote challenged to conduct a self-audit—are they complacent, or are they pushing themselves and their teammates to reach their full potential physically, intellectually, and emotionally?
  • Decisive Motivation: Your team will walk away with a leveled-up mindset, heart-set, and skill set, along with a practical strategy to increase personal productivity by 1% every day!

Dan’s keynote is not just a speech—it’s a call to action. He delivers actionable strategies to cultivate resilience, foster a purpose-driven culture, and achieve sustained peak performance.

Ignite your event. Inspire your team. Raise The Bar!

Perspective Leadership Transforming Success into Lasting Significance

Ready to elevate your next conference or meeting? Book Dan for an unforgettable keynote, “Perspective Leadership,” where he will guide your audience from simply achieving success to creating meaningful, lasting significance.

Through compelling stories and actionable insights, Dan empowers individuals and organizations to unlock their true potential, ensuring they don’t “die with their music still in them.”

What Dan Will Bring to Your Event:

1. Purpose-Driven Resilience:

Dan will inspire your team to find deeper meaning in their roles, building the resilience needed to overcome challenges and thrive in any environment.

2. Intentional Leadership:

Your audience will discover how to lead with purpose, transforming everyday actions into a legacy of significance and impact.

3. Continuous Growth and Excellence:

Dan will motivate your team to push beyond limits, turning each success into a stepping stone toward greater achievement and purpose.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • From Success to Significance: Learn how to align personal and organizational goals with a deeper purpose for a lasting impact.
  • Resilient Leadership: Explore how purpose-driven resilience enhances performance and helps navigate adversity with confidence and grace.
  • Purposeful Action: Discover how aligning daily actions with a higher purpose ignites passion, accountability, and a relentless drive for excellence.

Dan’s keynote is more than a speech—it’s a catalyst for transformation, helping your team unlock the power of purpose, resilience, and continuous growth.

Elevate your event by booking Dan today and lead your organization into a future of true significance!

The Making of a Champion There Is No ‘I’ in Team, but Two ‘I’s in Winning

What does it take to build a championship team? In this dynamic keynote, “The Making of a Champion,” Dan Clark uncovers the secret: while there’s no ‘I’ in team, there are two ‘I’s in winning—Independent Individual Preparation and Interdependent Collective Collaboration.

The teams that win have the most ‘I’ players on them!

Through his Ten Commitments Framework, Dan empowers teams to harness both personal excellence and collaborative strength to achieve extraordinary success.

Why Your Team Needs Dan Clark:

1. Unleash Individual Initiative

Dan reminds everyone that we win and lose as a team—but we win and lose because of individuals. He inspires teams to embrace personal accountability as the driving force behind collective success. By fostering a culture of resilient self-motivation and self-discipline, Dan shows why and how individual brilliance leads to winning outcomes.

2. Strengthen Interdependence

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The only way to build a consistently winning team is to first strengthen each individual team member. A peak-performing “We” can only exist when every “Me” is trustworthy, reliable, and fully committed.

3. Turn Your Team into a Family

Dan redefines the common acronym T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More) into F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Forget About Me—I Love You), fostering a culture of deep connection, trust, and commitment.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Two ‘I’s in Winning: Learn how Independent Individual Preparation and Interdependent Collective Collaboration drive both personal and team success. Dan challenges teams to do one thing every day to improve themselves and one thing every day to elevate their teammates—boosting everyone’s chances to win.
  • The Ten Commitments Framework: Dan walks teams through his Ten Commitments to building a winning organization. The first six develop the individual: Clarity. Character. Competence. Consistency. Competitiveness. Contribution.
  • The final four transform “Me” into “We,”: Strengthening trust, loyalty, and the team’s sense of family: Cause. Chemistry. Cohesion. Conclusion.

Dan Clark’s keynote is more than inspiration—it’s a proven playbook for turning your team into industry-leading, dynasty champions.

Give your team the edge they need to win.

Facts Tell – Stories Sell! Harnessing the Power of Storytelling to Influence and Inspire

In a world awash with data and facts, how do you make your message unforgettable? Dan Clark’s keynote, “Facts Tell – Stories Sell!,” reveals the secret to powerful communication: storytelling. Dan uncovers how stories can captivate an audience, trigger key brain chemicals, and inspire action.

This keynote is designed to empower leaders, sales teams, and organizations to transform their approach to communication and unlock the potential of narrative to drive decision-making and success.

Why Dan Clark is the Right Speaker for Your Next Meeting:

1. Unleash the Leadership Potential of Storytelling

Dan will guide your team on using storytelling as a transformative leadership tool. He’ll show how stories can communicate vision, ignite passion, and forge emotional connections that inspire teams and drive results.

2. Unlock the Science of Storytelling

Through an engaging exploration of how storytelling activates chemicals like adrenaline, dopamine, and oxytocin in the brain, Dan will demonstrate how to craft narratives that build trust, motivate action, and foster lasting relationships.

3. Transform Sales and Communication

Dan will teach your team to move beyond presenting facts, turning data into compelling stories that resonate on a personal level with clients and customers, driving engagement and decisions.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Emotional Connection through Storytelling: Learn to craft stories that not only deliver information but also evoke emotions, creating lasting impressions and deeper connections with your audience.
  • The Neuroscience of Influence: Understand the critical role of brain chemicals in storytelling and how they influence decision-making. Dan equips your team with the knowledge to use this science to enhance performance, build resilience, and foster loyalty.
  • From Facts to Emotional Engagement: Discover how storytelling in sales creates emotional bonds, transforming client relationships and driving success by aligning with shared values and emotions.

Dan Clark’s keynote isn’t just about storytelling; it’s about mastering the art of influence. With actionable strategies, Dan empowers attendees to elevate their communication, connect deeply with their audiences, and achieve their goals through the power of narrative.

Let Dan Clark show your team how to tell stories that don’t just inform but transform—leading to lasting impact and success.

Change or Die – Dan Clark’s Keynote Turning Reactive Change Into Proactive Growth

Are you ready to transform the way your team approaches change? In his dynamic keynote, “Change or Die!”, Dan Clark challenges audiences to harness the power of change as a catalyst for growth, rather than merely a reaction to external pressures.

With compelling insights from his personal journey and leadership experiences, Dan inspires attendees to embrace proactive change, unlocking lasting success and transformation.

Why Book Dan Clark?

1. Revolutionize the Perception of Change

Dan will show your team how to see change not as a threat, but as a continual opportunity for innovation and growth. He’ll guide them from a reactive mindset to a proactive approach, driving positive transformation from within.

2. Empower Leaders to Expand Beyond Limits

Dan will empower your leaders to break out of their comfort zones and cultivate a culture of resilience and high performance. By embracing a “stretching” mindset, leaders can inspire their teams to strive for continuous learning and improvement.

3. Drive Sustainable Growth

Through the concept of proactive stretching, Dan equips individuals to consistently push past their boundaries, ensuring long-term personal and professional growth. This mindset fosters sustainable success across your organization.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Transform Pain Into Progress: Discover how to view challenges and discomfort as essential growth triggers. Dan teaches that by embracing adversity, individuals can strengthen their abilities and achieve new heights.
  • Master Proactive Change: Learn the distinction between reactive change (imposed by external forces) and proactive growth (self-initiated). Dan demonstrates how taking control of change leads to empowerment and sustained development.
  • Stretch to Lead and Succeed: Understand how intentional stretching—mentally, emotionally, and physically—can drive exceptional performance and lasting change. Dan provides actionable strategies to unlock hidden potential and lead with impact.

Dan Clark’s keynote isn’t just a speech—it’s a call to action. With a focus on actionable strategies, Dan equips your team with the mindset and tools to embrace change as a powerful driver of growth, innovation, and peak performance.

Don’t wait for change to happen—make it happen with Dan Clark

President of Million Dollar Round Table
"Dan Clark is one of the great teachers of our time and is a world-class talent on taking people from where they are to where they want to be. Having Dan as our closing main platform speaker at MDRT speaks volumes of the high respect we have for this man and his message. Being around Dan increases your personal power, productivity and passion for living."
Event Coordinator, GNC Stores
"Wow! Dan was absolutely, wonderful, and one of the very best speakers we have ever had at our National Convention! Dan really did his homework and tailored his presentation exactly as we requested. His material was spot-on and his delivery was fabulous. We got unbelievably positive feedback from the attendees on Dan’s session as he was by far their favorite speaker. His take on increasing sales and delivering an amazing customer experience was fresh and innovative and his long-standing ovation showed how well he was received. Dan and his manager Laura were a breeze to work with and made me look like a hero!!!"
One Team Global, NuSkin
"Dan knocked it out of the park with a long-standing ovation! As an international organization that has produced countless conventions over the years, who has hired many of the biggest name speakers in the world, Dan took our meetings to a new level as I received more positive comments about his speech than any other guest speaker we have ever had. It was right on the money. Dan played a huge part in making this a very successful event and we will definitely use him again in our most important meetings!"
Washington River Protection Solutions, URS Corporation
"I am the CEO of a nuclear operations concern of the U.S. Department of Energy at its Hanford Site in Washington state. Our job is safely managing 56 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste. The work is complex, hazardous, strictly controlled and highly regulated. It’s critical that we work as a team and watch out for each other. This is why, I brought in Dan Clark as a nationally recognized expert in Safety and Team Building. Prior to his presentation Dan met with several members of my team – both management and labor – and did his homework. He also arrived early to the presentation so he could mingle and talk with employees. I spoke first and Dan listened intently to my presentation. He then used the information from my talk and all the information he had gathered to tailor his talk to our team. Dan really hit the mark. He touched many of my employees’ concerns and issues, and he did it with passion, humor and exuberance. I have never seen our 1,600 employees more engaged in a presentation. I know we are now a safer and more unified team because of Dan and his much-needed message. I highly recommend Dan Clark for any business that is trying to enhance teamwork and instill safety in its workforce."
Legendary National NCAA Coach of the Year
"As the head football coach at the Air Force Academy from 1984 to 2006, I took great pride in being able to teach the fundamentals and motivate my players to play their hearts out every play, every game. But after I heard Dan Clark speak, and had him work with my teams, I am convinced there is no one better at getting people to maximize their potential, exceed expectations, and unify into a ‘band of brothers,’ than Dan Clark. My teams were usually the underdogs, and Dan was the perfect outside influence we needed to be all we could be. I have highly recommended the services of Dan Clark to other NCAA and NFL coaches and encourage every corporate leader who wants to take their team to the next and highest level to do the same."
Sr. Mgr, Global Marketing Programs, Cisco Systems
"Dan’s comments and scores are outstanding, and his 4.95 out of 5 rating was the highest scoring session at our Global Sales Summit! After giving Dan two standing o, our customers gushed his praises stating, ‘Dan was clearly the best session at this Cisco Summit, gave us the take-aways we will remember, and added the passion to business we all need; need more speakers like Dan Clark, not more boring power point pitches, as he touched my heart and connected my mind to my soul. It was so much fun to learn this way; I wish there was something better than “excellent” to choose to describe Dan. This conference would have been worth the trip from Sydney JUST to be taught and inspired by Dan Clark!’ Obviously, Dan was incredibly amazing, and we will have him back!"
President/CEO Syntek Global, Inc
"Feedback has been ‘out of sight’ positive about Dan’s inspirational presentation to our Syntek Global International Distributors Convention this past Saturday at Thanksgiving Point. While I knew it would be good….just based on what I had heard from others, the entire presentation on Relationship Selling was exactly what the doctor ordered for our company at this time. Dan’s speech was interrupted several times with applause and the long, cheering, standing ovation he received at the end pretty much said it all! Our attendees were top leaders from across North America, Australia, Jamaica, Europe, Korea and Africa, which required that we bring in a special speaker who could communicate and connect with a diverse crowd of cultures and concerns. This is why Dan Clark was our first choice. With grace and an unrivaled level of polished professionalism, Dan inspired our people in a way I have never seen before. We have already had many requests for a ‘return engagement’ from distributors who want to hear it all over again."
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