Book Jeremiah Brown, Accountability/Ownership Speaker

About This Speaker

When companies want to increase goal commitment, adapt to change, strengthen resolve, and inspire their teams, they call Jeremiah Brown “The 4 Year Olympian.”

Jeremiah is a change and transformation expert, bestselling author, and Olympic silver medalist in rowing, winning silver in the Men’s Eight at the London 2012 Olympic Games. His journey is an Olympic underdog story like no other—going from complete novice to elite rower and Olympic medalist in just four short years while balancing life as a young father. This remarkable transformation gives him a unique perspective on resilience, adaptability, and human potential.

After his athletic career, Jeremiah led the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athlete wellness and transition programs, supporting more than 3,000 Olympic, Paralympic, and national team athletes. Whether helping elite performers reinvent themselves or guiding organizations through major change, he brings deep insight into the psychology of high performance and personal transformation.

Jeremiah’s memoir, The 4 Year Olympian, spent five weeks as the #1 bestselling sports memoir in Canada. His story has been featured on CBC, CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and USA Today.

Jeremiah has delivered hundreds of presentations for world-class organizations including Spotify, TD Bank, Cisco, and the NHL’s Calgary Flames. His high-energy keynotes equip teams with battle-tested strategies to build grit, strengthen teamwork, and sustain collective resolve through change. Thousands have found inspiration in his message and the courage to pursue bold goals while overcoming the hidden psychological barriers along the way.

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Speaking Topics: Jeremiah Brown

Make The Impossible Possible

Adopting a High Performance Mindset for Achieving Big Goals Description Inspirational, insightful and powerful. Jeremiah blends memorable storytelling with deep insights into conquering burnout, overwhelm, and fear while adapting to change and achieving your goals. The passion that drives an Olympian is the same passion that drives your people. With his humour, heart, authenticity, and energetic delivery, Jeremiah captivates audiences as he draws parallels between the worlds of Olympic sport and business. In this one-of-a-kind, high energy experience, Jeremiah redefines what it means to lead and be led in the relentless pursuit of excellence. Drawing from his Olympic experience, he reveals the true keys to persevering through setbacks: unwavering belief, a growth mindset, self-accountability and supporting one another through adversity. When you bring in Jeremiah, you're giving your team an unforgettable catalyst for positive change. They won't just feel revved up, they'll be renewed with unshakable self-belief, mental toughness and an invigorated commitment to achieving the extraordinary, together. Attendees Gain: • Inspire audiences to dig deeper, go further, and reap greater rewards • Redefine resilience to strengthen one’s ability to endure massive change • Audience leaves with the Jeremiah's four essential strategies for achieving big goals • Discover the one key shift in mindset that will keep people committed to the goal for the long term. • Replace fear with deep insights into managing burnout and overwhelm

Leading Through Change

Bring Them With You: Engage Top Talent and Forge Strong Teams You need to find a way to overcome bad days, boost morale, and come together as one team. Your competitive environment is changing, over whelm abounds, and the pressure is on. When launching new initiatives, striving for market leadership, and navigating transformation, Jeremiah can help you lead with courage and inspire confidence from your team. In this Keynote, Jeremiah will compare and contrast the norms, behaviours, and tactics used by Olympic coaches to exemplify how you can overcome challenges and perform at your best, while building trust and motivating your teams in the workplace. When you start to see yourself as a coach of human beings first, and a manager second, you will be able to reduce your frustration, increase communication clarity, and improve performance with less residual stress in your life. Attendees Gain: • Learn the correct sequence of trust-building within teams • Insights into high-performance communication under pressure • Olympic feedback coaching techniques you can use with your own team • How to execute with discipline during periods of great change • Understand power of authenticity over rank

ONE Team

Unleash the Power of Epic Teamwork to Conquer Ambitious Goals In business, audacious goals require epic team- work to achieve. No one understands this better than Olympic rowers, whose medal-winning performances exemplify how to unite diverse individuals into an aligned, unstoppable team. In this electrifying keynote, Jeremiah will share the jaw-dropping ups and downs of his team’s rebuilding journey toward the Olympic podium. More than inspiration, Jeremiah extracts powerful teamwork principles your organization can apply everyday. Whether your team faces daunting competition, ambitious targets, or turbulent changes, they'll be energized and equipped to uplevel their team-first orientation. Jeremiah's odyssey proves that with seamless teamwork, even outrageous goals are achievable. Amplify your team's potential with this insightful, actionable keynote experience. Your people will walk away bonded and empowered to achieve breakthrough results through Olympic calibre teamwork. Attendees Gain: • How to create a gravitating sense of unified purpose • How to foster individual “team first” commitment and accountability • The keys to developing a supportive, resilient team culture. • Aligning complementary roles and strengths seamlessly. • Turning adversity into opportunity for deepening team bonding and trust.

Mental Health for High Performers

Unlock Your Maximum Potential Without Burning Out In today's relentless business world, we're expected to push ourselves to the limit in pursuit of ever-higher goals. But at what cost? Too often, mental health and overall well-being get sacrificed in the process. It doesn't have to be this way. Jeremiah draws on deep lived experience working through mental health challenges as an Olympian and also as the leader of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athlete mental health strategy. Don't accept the toxic notion that you must sacrifice mental health to achieve your goals. Jeremiah's journey exposes this as a fallacy - in fact, prioritizing personal wellness is a force-multiplier for unlocking maximum sustainable performance. If your team or employees feel overworked, depleted, or on the edge of burning out, this keynote provides the wake-up call. They'll be inspired and equipped with strategies to actively nurture personal resilience and well-being as they chase ambitious targets. Attendees Gain: • The mindset shifts required to recover from rock bottom • Sustainable high-performance habits and routines • How to cultivate a supportive, energizing culture • Maintaining passion, focus, and self-belief amid adversity • Understand the importance of reaching out for help sooner than feels natural

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