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Chad Foster

Speaker

Atlanta, GA, USA

Unleash Accountable, Resilient Teams with Blind Ambition™

  • Blind Harvard Executive who built billion-dollar strategies and CRM tech Oracle said was impossible
  • Sales & Leadership Catalyst, helping teams own outcomes, drive growth, and perform under pressure
  • Resilience Expert who turned adversity into advantage and helps others reframe challenges into catalysts for growth
  • Trusted by Top Brands like Google, Salesforce, and ADP to ignite innovation, accountability, and business outcomes

Keynote Speeches

Virtual Keynotes & Webinars
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BLIND AMBITION: How to Go from Victim to Visionary

In this signature keynote, Chad will entertain, inspire, and move your audience, while teaching them how to shift their mindset from victim to visionary™. Going blind at 21-years-old and facing a life with seemingly limited opportunities, Chad had to reinvent himself before even having a shot at success. Turning obstacles into opportunities, he became a Harvard-educated rainmaker, created countless jobs, and now he teaches teams how to cultivate resilient mindsets, adapt and thrive in change, and set ambitious goals with the right mindset to achieve them.

This program gives your people the tools and inspiration to overcome difficult circumstances and create a promising positive future. More than just a motivational talk, this session connects inspiration to implementation.

NO MORE COMFORT ZONES: Growth Through Adversity

Life without obstacles removes opportunity for growth. For any of us to grow, we need to step outside our comfort zones. In this powerful keynote, Chad teaches how the obstacles that lie in front of us can propel us towards our goals.

Every organization finds itself face-to-face with problems that can seem insurmountable. Beyond Chad’s personal path of overcoming overwhelming odds, his business track record for moving through challenges and improving results gives a unique perspective on how comfort zones hold us back.

Chad will talk about how he’s not successful in spite of being blind. He is successful because he’s blind. He embraced his problem and turned it into a solution. In this session Chad will teach your teams how to realize exponential growth through adversity.

DIVERSITY: The Engine for Innovation

Chad was born part of the mainstream majority, but after going blind in college, he was treated differently as a disabled minority. After living over 20 years in both social groups, his unique vantage points of both worlds allow him to equip your teams to think differently about Diversity and Inclusion (DnI) in the workplace.

Chad goes beyond just valuing each person. He will show how DnI drives business innovation. We know that diversity of thought creates change, and when harnessed correctly, change drives innovation. How can we create a culture that invites diversity of thought to have a welcomed seat at the table so each individual feels valued to contribute? This session shows how you can unlock the value of DnI in your workplace to power the innovation your business needs to thrive.

Platform Plus Presentations

Unique formats and ways to connect with audiences.
VICTIM TO VISIONARY: Resilience Workshop
In this workshop Chad will lead you through the steps you can take to improve resilience. He teaches the practical tools you can apply to any situation in order to move your mindset from victim to visionary.

During this session you will map out your resilience journey. After setting out your own personal vision of greatness, you will see your life more clearly than you ever have before. It can set you free to discover the amazing advantages that your disadvantages offer. You can then seek your own gifts that are disguised in terrible wrapping paper and see how the unique perspectives you’ve gained from those disadvantages contribute to your vision of greatness.

Nothing in life is permanent. Everybody and everything changes. The only certainty is change. The key is figuring out how you will adapt.

Audience reviews:

  • He energized the crowd with a laughter-filled presentation [and] a high-impact message, earning a standing ovation from the hundreds of business leaders in attendance. - Harvard University
  • The highlight of the Sales Kick Off … was Chad’s inspirational talk. I have eyes but lack [his] vision…. [He is] indeed a visionary. - IBM
  • Highly recommend Chad if you are looking to build a team that thrives in change! - Salesforce
  • Chad’s presentation was unique, interesting, emotional, and, dare I say, spellbinding. In an auditorium of over 4,000 people, we could have heard a pin drop. The way Chad laid out his story kept the audience engaged until the last word. Not only did Chad make us look good, but he was attentive prior to the meeting to assure he was “on point,” great to work with the day of the event, and gracious with his time after his presentation. Chad was an absolute home run for our Annual Meeting. I would not hesitate to recommend Chad Foster to any organization looking for something different and special. - American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)
  • One of the most inspirational humans I’ve ever had the privilege to meet and learn from. - WestRock

Speaker Biography

Chad E. Foster is more than a keynote speaker—he’s a catalyst for peak performance in an era of nonstop disruption. After going blind at 21, Chad became a Harvard-educated executive, tech innovator, and billion-dollar dealmaker. He built CRM software Oracle said was impossible, created transformative business strategies that delivered industry-leading growth and best-in-class margins, and became a black diamond skier and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner—all without eyesight—proving that limitations are only real if you believe them.

Chad doesn’t just inspire—he equips. His Blind Ambition Framework™ fuses human performance principles with AI-era adaptability to deliver real tools for building and scaling resilient teams, accountable cultures, and sales organizations that win when it counts. Whether speaking on leadership, innovation, change, or sales, Chad arms audiences with actionable strategies and mindsets they can apply immediately.

Top brands like Google, Salesforce, ADP, and Blue Cross have trusted Chad to power performance. After one keynote, a client reported 40% YoY revenue growth, calling it “unlike anything we’ve seen from a guest speaker.”

Chad doesn’t provide feel-good fluff. He provides a framework that challenges your team, shifts mindsets, and revs up results—connecting inspiration to implementation™.