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Dave Sanderson

Last passenger off the “Miracle on the Hudson,” Author

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  • Survivior of of US Airways Flight 1549 the “Miracle on the Hudson”
  • TEDx Speaker & Author
  • Inc.com’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers

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Dave is an inspirational survivor, author, and nationally sought-out leadership speaker.
When US Airways Flight 1549, or ‘The Miracle on the Hudson,’ ditched into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, Dave Sanderson knew he was exactly where he was supposed to be.

As the last passenger off the back of the plane on that fateful day, he took responsibility for the well-being and safety of others. He risked his own life in the frigid water to help other passengers off the plane but despite the hazards to himself, Dave thought only of helping others. He emerged from the wreckage that day with a mission to encourage others to do the right thing.

This profound experience changed his life and today he travels the globe sharing his inspirational and motivational leadership messages to help people make a difference in how they do business and in how they live their lives.

Named one of Inc.com’s Top 100 Leadership speakers, Dave travels the world to share his inspirational leadership lessons, raising over $14.8M USD for the American Red Cross over the last ten years through his talks.

From Turmoil to Triumph - Refocus and Reenergize your Sales Teams

This presentation, centered around Dave’s signature keynote, From Turmoil to Triumph is tailored for sales professionals.

Dave Sanderson has been in sales for over 37 years. The investment he made in the skills to be a top sales producer not only paid off the day of the plane crash but it’s how he GREW out of it and out of the pandemic.

One thing he learned from being a top sales producer through the past couple of years was the importance of maintaining contact with your clients and prospective clients when they are going through their own traumatic experience.

The past two years has not just been about the pandemic, it’s been about social justice questions, law enforcement, contentious elections, and natural disasters. The sales professionals that will grow and exceed their sales plan will be the ones that give certainty to their clients in an uncertain time.

Your participants will walk away from this presentation with a MAP ( massive action plan) centered around:

  • State management- what is the TRIAD and how to use it to manage your mind to influence and help your client achieve their most important objectives
  • The two questions you need to ask to every one of your clients that will reveal why it’s important to work with you and become a raving fan of YOU
  • How to move from being a good salesperson to an OUTSTANDING partner. Hint, to be outstanding you must STAND OUT
  • How your personal leadership skills are the secret sauce to have prospective clients WANT to speak with you.
  • The SUCCESS MODEL- why top producers are top and why average producers stay average

These are the very methods that Dave used during the plane crash and shortly after to grow out of his very challenging time.

100 Days to Triumph

We all know, especially these days, that change will happen, but making progress towards what is most important to you is not. How do you clarify, simplify, and progress towards the significant outcomes that will change your life? In “100 Days to Triumph,” Dave will share the proven and tested strategy how he was able in 100 days to go back into a place where his life was almost taken from him during the Miracle on the Hudson, beginning from not swimming for over forty years and 100 days later, swimming across the cold and rough Hudson River with the elite Navy Seals, this time leaving on HIS terms.

He will show your audience how they can accomplish any significant goal or initiative they may have within 100 days!

Whether it is obtaining sustainable weight loss, boosting your energy to finish a triathlon healthy, increasing your influence and exceeding your sales goals, creating a passionate long-lasting relationship, or discovering what is necessary to have an extraordinary life of happiness and fulfillment, Dave will simplify these strategies into easy-to-understand concepts that you can implement today, compressing the decades of what he learned and did into techniques you can use today to create the flight plan you desire for your life.

TAKEAWAYS

• See change as an opportunity for growth

• Learn the techniques to accomplish any goal in 100 days!

From Turmoil to Triumph - “How to Get Back on the Plane” (For all Audiences)

For over thirty years, Dave Sanderson was a top producer in some of the largest sales organizations in the world. On January 15, 2009, he was one of the last passengers off the plane that crashed into the Hudson River, best known as The Miracle on the Hudson, considered the most successful ditching in aviation history. Since that unique experience, Dave has built a career as a motivational speaker, mentor, and author and was recently named one of the top 100 Leadership Speakers in Inc.com. After he survived the plane crash, he started getting calls from people all over the world, asking him how he “got back on the plane,” and since the plane crash, Dave has been speaking, teaching, and consulting on how to bounce back and grow from the challenge’s life throws at you and how to turn your Turmoil into your Triumph. Now, more than ever, people need firsthand experience and guidance on how to not only bounce back from tumultuous times but actually grow from traumatic life events and crisis.

TAKEAWAYS – Leaders & attendees will learn key information and inspiration for:
• Developing a vision for an alternative future
• How not to get stuck in the doorway between how you have always structured your life and a new way
• How the meaning you attach to something produces the emotions of your life
• How to focus on becoming indispensable
• Getting your life situation in sync with your model of the world (or worldview)

Your Distinct Advantage (Great for Sales Audiences and Management Teams)

This presentation was designed for sales organizations when Oracle and Microsoft asked Dave to speak about how the plane crash helped him to become the number 1 sales person at Oracle,

In his highly acclaimed keynote, Dave guides C-Suite, management teams and conferences attendees through his nine personal leadership lessons to help them discover their DISTINCT ADVANTAGE. Using his signature PITTChE program, that Point in Time That Changes Everything.

TAKEAWAYS – Leaders & attendees will learn key information and inspiration for:
• Employing personal leadership to give certainty and confidence to those who may have uncertainty
• Illustrating the key lessons top executives and founders use to manage their state
• Increasing their productivity, and demonstrating global leadership

Moments Matter (For all Audiences)

In this stirring presentation, Dave Sanderson reveals the lessons and strategies that helped guide his decisions following the crash of US Airways Flight 1549, or “The Miracle on the Hudson”. Dave not only survived the “crash” but realized that there were key moments in his life that prepared him for how he came through the events of that day. In this 45-minute presentation, Dave shares practical and implementable strategies on resiliency, leadership, and state management anyone can use to not only survive their “personal plane crash” moment but grow and thrive.

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