Keynote Speeches
Built for Hard: Designed for Challenge, Built to Lead.
From Pressure to Performance: The Built for Hard™ Leadership Model
- Decisive Decision-Making: Learn to think clearly under pressure, cutting through the noise to set data-driven priorities that drive results.
- Structured Momentum: Utilize tools like 5-Minute Wins & Hurdles Huddles and 90-Day Scoreboards to maintain focus and keep projects on track.
- Energized Leadership: Replace quiet burnout with challenge-fueled confidence, leaving leaders feeling capable and invigorated.
- Science-Backed Rituals: Embed effective rituals that transform burnout stress into daily “challenge stress,” enhancing resilience.
- Shared Language for Trust: Align your team around a common language that fosters trust and accountability, turning volatility into a strategic advantage.
Leadership Reality Check: Targets keep rising, but a steady diet of effortless gratification—pings, swipes, on-demand perks—erodes the very focus and stamina leaders need to hit them. It isn’t a talent gap; it’s a training gap. Modern work rewards ease at the precise moment the job calls for endurance, courage, and crystal-clear thinking.
The pressure is familiar: economic whiplash, AI upheaval, tighter headcounts, meeting overload, hybrid trust gaps. The symptoms are equally clear: projects stuck at 80% completion, “quiet burnout” masking real fatigue, decisions that drag while accountability blurs, engagement and standards drifting day by day.
We’ve lost the art of doing hard things well—and we pay for it in burnout, disengagement, and soft leadership.
Built for Hard™: The Antidote. Grit isn’t genetic; it’s a trainable skill. Built for Hard™ restores it. Our philosophy is simple: humans are engineered for challenge, so we retrain leaders and teams to turn that challenge into measurable performance. In a world of economic shocks, tech pivots, and nonstop pressure, most leaders don’t lack potential—they lack a system that converts stress into strength. Built for Hard™ is that system.
- Reset your physical, mental and spiritual health
- Research-backed and empirically driven tools
- Personalize your self-care to combat stress
A meticulously designed anecdote to the persistent stress of high-demand environments that addresses burnout and reduced productivity issues. Adam – an Olympic Gold Medalist and seasoned Executive Business Coach – brings unique, battle-tested perspectives on sustaining high performance while maintaining personal well-being.
Drawing on researched-backed personal experience from professional athletics, business, and adventure – the audience gains a dynamic, inspiring, and profoundly transformative keynote tailored for mid-level managers, sales teams, and entrepreneurs. His mission: equip you with the tools to navigate and thrive amidst the pressures of your demanding roles.
- Uncover elite motivation, the best tools to energize leaders and team dynamics
- Optimize your team dynamics with the right people in the right seats
- Upskill leaders with effective tools for influence, achievement and engagement
In today’s competitive business landscape, effective teamwork and leadership are more critical than ever. Leaders must work as a team, yet will often do their most productive work alone. Top leaders know how to work alone, together. Delivered by bestselling business author, executive coach and Olympic Gold Medalist, Adam Kreek, this keynote provides a unique perspective on these essential skills.
Drawing from his experience in elite sports, Adam presents practical strategies and tools to improve team collaboration, enhance leadership, and align goals within organizations. This keynote addresses the everyday challenges of disengagement, ineffective leadership, and misalignment of goals, all of which hamper productivity and growth. Adam’s compelling narrative, enriched with real-life stories and proven strategies, leaves audiences inspired, equipped and ready to transform their teams and organizations.
- Build a map to navigate the peaks and troughs of change
- Create the ability to respond more effectively to change with toughness and resiliency
- Move from drama to individual empowerment in the unpredictable
In an era marked by rapid change, uncertainty, and less personal responsibility, Adam Kreek’s keynote provides crucial guidance to navigate uncharted terrain. Drawing on his diverse experiences as an Olympic athlete, seasoned expedition leader and award-winning executive business coach, Kreek offers real-world wisdom to help individuals and organizations become more resilient and adaptive.
Audiences are lifted by a blend of personal stories and practical tools that foster a growth mindset, effectively change management and navigate the ebbs and flows of work and life. This transformational experience empowers participants to embrace change as an opportunity for growth rather than a threat, leading to enhanced performance, well-being, and success.
Adam also offers customized presentations on peak performance and more. View a full list of his presentations here.
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