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Bonnie St. John

  • Paralympic Ski Medalist
  • Former Whitehouse Official
  • Rhodes Scholar
  • Fortune 500 Business Consultant
  • Best-Selling Author
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Hailed as “One of the five most inspiring women in America” by NBC Nightly News, Bonnie St. John challenges audiences to question their own limitations and provides research-based tools and techniques that re-energize their lives to achieve peak performance. As an amputee, medal-winning Olympic skier, author, Rhodes Scholar, former White House official and successful businesswoman, Bonnie St....

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Hailed as “One of the five most inspiring women in America” by NBC Nightly News, Bonnie St. John challenges audiences to question their own limitations and provides research-based tools and techniques that re-energize their lives to achieve peak performance.

As an amputee, medal-winning Olympic skier, author, Rhodes Scholar, former White House official and successful businesswoman, Bonnie St. John knows a little something about facing challenges. Her remarkable success in the face of physical adversity taught her that the key to winning is not just bouncing back from obstacles, but doing so faster and more efficiently than your competitors. Bonnie’s dynamic messages guide audiences to find their individual paths to higher performance, greater productivity and overall success. Her extensive experience in a variety of industries including energy, healthcare, finance, insurance, food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, education, government, aerospace and communications, allows Bonnie to customize each presentation with specific, pertinent tools for positive action along with focused plans for contributing to organization-wide growth and development.  Participants leave Bonnie’s spirited presentations with the ultimate competitive advantage: the confidence to challenge their comfort zones…and win.

Bonnie has been featured extensively in the national and international media including Today; CNN; Good Morning America; People, Oprah, and Success magazines; and The New York Times. She has published six books, including her most recent best seller, How Great Women Lead, which features candid, in-depth interviews with some of the most influential and successful women leaders of our time, including: Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Condoleezza Rice, Geena Davis, Wendy Kopp, Eileen Fisher and many more.

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High Performance Resilience
How do we continue to tap into new sources of energy for the innovations, insights and initiatives we need to compete as the pace of today's global workplace continues to accelerate? Bonnie addresses these challenges ...more
How do we continue to tap into new sources of energy for the innovations, insights and initiatives we need to compete as the pace of today's global workplace continues to accelerate? Bonnie addresses these challenges by guiding participants, from the front lines to the C-suites, through a series of practical exercises and techniques that enhance her audience's capacity to offset the negative effects of stress, increase resilience, and play to win. Whether you are looking for a few specific ideas and action steps in a keynote speech or a full day of in-depth, hands-on training, you'll get a powerful dose of Bonnie's authentic life experiences along with rigorously tested concepts that will clearly pave the way for breakthrough performance in your organization. ...less
Normal is Overrated - Aim Higher!
Elite international Paralympic athletes are all about achieving excellence when the circumstances are less than ideal, a perfect metaphor for today's dynamic economic times. Instead of wishing and waiting for things to get back to ...more
Elite international Paralympic athletes are all about achieving excellence when the circumstances are less than ideal, a perfect metaphor for today's dynamic economic times. Instead of wishing and waiting for things to get back to normal, Bonnie expands the dialogue to go beyond traditional thinking. Disabled athletes, including wheelchair basketball players, blind runners and others, never expect things to be normal. Bonnie's story is proof that you can strive for excellence no matter what obstacles are thrown in our way. Bonnie uses her unique experience as a one-legged ski racing champion, Rhodes Scholar and White House official to encourage audiences to aim higher and achieve extraordinary results. ...less
Beyond the Lone Ranger, Listerine, and The Energizer Bunny - The New Meaning of Perseverance
Never give up means something completely different in today's world of rapidly shifting global markets and ever-changing 21st century technologies than it ever has before. Using her experiences and research to illustrate, Bonnie shares examples ...more
Never give up means something completely different in today's world of rapidly shifting global markets and ever-changing 21st century technologies than it ever has before. Using her experiences and research to illustrate, Bonnie shares examples of four kinds of perseverance and persistence techniques that lead to a competitive edge in a highly fluid, international business world. As an amputee living in San Diego with no money (or snow!) for training, Bonnie needed to apply extraordinary tenacity to become the first African-American to win Olympic medals in ski racing. The dogged determination she learned led her to further success as a Rhodes Scholar, a sales leader at IBM, a White House economic official during the Clinton Administration, and in her own business as a best-selling author, dynamic corporate coach and inspiring keynote speaker. In every stimulating presentation, Bonnie encourages audiences to persist and adapt at the same time motivating your team to become virtually unstoppable in their quest for success. ...less
A Journey Into the Lives of Great Leaders
With a fresh and inspiring leadership perspective, Bonnie shares the valuable insights she gained from a two-year journey with her teenage daughter into the lives, and life lessons, of world-renowned leaders including Hillary Clinton, President ...more
With a fresh and inspiring leadership perspective, Bonnie shares the valuable insights she gained from a two-year journey with her teenage daughter into the lives, and life lessons, of world-renowned leaders including Hillary Clinton, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, the Chairman of Deloitte, Condoleeza Rice, the head of a major Hollywood movie studio, a globally influential orchestra conductor, the first woman Thunderbird pilot, and many more. Bonnie builds on her own inspiring story with vivid portraits of the kind of courage, perseverance, and strength that define leadership in today's society. ...less

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