Vince Poscente

Vince Poscente

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Texas, USA, British Columbia

World Class Peak Performance Mindset Expert, Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker

Vince Poscente is an Olympian, Bestselling Author, Hall of Famer and in-demand keynote speaker who is known as a "Summiteer of Multiple Major Mountain Peaks". Vince Poscente's captivating, unforgettable combination of high energy & humor, expertise on accelerating extraordinary goals is based on tools to be more resilient and how to overcome obstacles.

VINCE POSCENTE BIOGRAPHY

Vince Poscente is a powerfully engaging keynote speaker and author on the topic of peak performance, overcoming adversity, and sustaining resiliency in a competitive landscape. Within consulting and speaking, Vince Poscente’s clients include, FedEx, IBM, HP, Cisco, Hyatt Hotels, American Airlines, US Bank, Merrill Lynch, John Hancock, National Association of Realtors, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Enterprise Rent a Car, McDonalds, Century 21, Bell And Howell, Canon, Intel, Oracle and State Farm. Vince Poscente has lectured at MIT, SMU, Texas A&M and University of Texas. Prior to this Vince Poscente was the VP of Marketing at  an international investment prrperies company after an award-winning sales career.

Vince’s greatest strengths are in the areas of communication, focus and leadership. Vince Poscente thrives on challenges, particularly those that help clients overcome adversity and sustain resiliency. His most recent project involved a 29 day, virtual coaching intensive designed to help athletes, entrepreneurs and/or sales people clarify their vision, commit to that vision, execute a winning consistent strategy, and perform with confidence and control peak performance with specific routines.

Of note, after his B.A. at University of Alberta (with a passion for sports marketing), Vince Poscente went onto being the Executive Director of the Alberta Luge Association and liaison with the host broadcaster for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. Then he decided he wanted to be an Olympian. Vince went from recreational skier to the Olympics in four years. He became a five time Canadian record holder, ranked 10th in the world and into the Speed Skiing gold medal round of the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France. Vince placed 15th skiing at national record of 135 mph. After his sales and executive leadership experience, he went onto speaking, consulting and writing.

In his most recent career Vince has become a New York Times bestselling author (writing seven books to date), inductee into the Speaker Halls of Fame (in Canada and the USA), a Masters of Arts in Organizational Management and adventurer leading and climbing in the Himalayas. He is the founder of the Heroes Climb initiative (climbing and naming mountains after every day heroes).

Vince has been married for over 20 years to a wonderful woman/serial entrepreneur, lives in Dallas and is father to three amazingly talented kids. His musician son, entrepreneurial/actress daughter and youngest, who is a dancer extraordinaire all attended leading arts magnet schools. In Vince’s spare time he plays recreation league hockey on two teams.

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Vince Poscente Topic Presentations

full speed ahead "do what the competition is not willing to do"

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • FULL SPEED AHEAD is a powerful keynote speech that uses his “recreational skier to Olympics in four years story” to deliver the inspiration and tools to accelerate growth.

    Vince, a New York Times Bestselling author, draws audience takeaways from:

    • The Earthquake, Your Journey from Setback to Breakthrough
    • The Age of Speed, Learning to Thrive in a More, Faster, Now World
    • The Ant and the Elephant, Leadership for the Self (endorsed by LeBron James in Sports Illustrated)

    Whether your audience is in sales or leadership, they are a unique collection of high-performing individuals, with considerable expectations, facing a cascade of challenges and uncertainty. This is coupled with a world of hard-driving, personal accountability along with the search for life balance. An award-winning salesperson and former corporate executive, Vince Poscente, delivers a wildly entertaining, thought-provoking, and substantive insight on how people can thrive in a high-performing or competitive landscape. Vince knows about speed and focus. He skied at 135 mph down a mountain. He shares a remarkable formula regarding:

    • Clarity of Purpose
    • The Process of Commitment
    • Consistent Effort in a Demanding Environment
    • Building Confidence Despite a Cascade of Change
    • Control Routines to Optimize Outcomes

    Giving leaders and/or their salespeople a collective experience allows a conference fulcrum for better execution and higher profits. Vince Poscente has profoundly affected countless conference attendees as they explore internal motivation and their own future potential.

accelerate breakthroughs

accelerate franchise growth "to be a winning franchisee, be aligned, agile and adaptable"

accelerate safety "safety cultures flourish and incidents go down with the neuroscience of safety at work"

accelerate your buzz "do what the competition is not willing to do"

Testimonials

Thank you for your contribution to the success of our National Management Conference. We strive to provide our attendees with information they can take back to their banks and put to use. Your presentation certainly achieved that objective for us.

Karen Veling

Vice President
Fiserv

Vince was fabulous. Great speaker. What a gift we experienced. Vince was wonderful. Amazing and terrific!!!!! Funny, intelligent speaker; Excellent!

PEC

Organizers
Meeting Professionals International

All meeting planners know, deep down in their heart, that speaker selection is always somewhat of a “crap-shoot.” Regardless of how glowing the recommendations – no matter how positive the references – all manner of superlative reports notwithstanding – when the final selection is made, you palms always start to sweat. Is this the right speaker for the group? Will they make you a hero or will they make you a goat? Thanks for making me a hero! The response to your presentation has been overwhelming; everybody loved you! Your comments provided the perfect blend of laughter and thought provoking commentary. Not only did you...

Ron Craver

Director, Sales & Marketing
Smith&Nephew

Vince Poscente was part of our Retail Success summit and he nailed it! We were thrilled how he spoke to our small to medium-sized retail folks who are dedicated to growing their business.  Finally, the standing O at the end was added evidence that Vince gave our retailers the exact boost they need to thrive.

Bob Negen

Founder
Retail Success Summit

In my capacity as President of MAACO, I have coordinated hundreds of motivational meetings and literally have heard hundreds of speakers. Vince’s message highlighting how the positive power vision and focus can have on one’s success truly reflects what I have seen in real life. The beauty of his message and his story impressed me more for its down to earth quality than any I have heard in many years. His approach was really a breath of fresh air.

Mark Martino

President
Maaco

Vince delivers on his promise of a high-energy and practical tools combined with his entertaining motivation. We brought him back to speak to multiple times to our Verizon groups to reinforce the message that loving what you do and do it well is critical to our success. We also enjoyed Vince’s quick wit. For example, at one point, his mic went out then came back on a couple of seconds later. He cracked-up our audience when he spontaneously mentioned our advertising catch phrase, “Can you hear me now?

R Weirzbicki

Senior Vice President
Verizon

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