VISION, MINDSET, GRIT: SUCCESS STRATEGIES TO STAND UP TO ANY CHALLENGE
Conquer Adversity, Overcome Challenges, Navigate Change!
Inspirational Keynote Speaker Scott Burrows’ unforgettable story of turning a paralyzing setback into a powerful comeback motivates audiences to take action!
“Not only are people glued to their seats, they are hanging on every word. His passionate story about overcoming the most difficult of life’s challenges is a must-see and must-hear for anyone that believes in ascending the highest of mountains-even if others are telling you it cannot be done. There were few dry eyes in our audience when Scott was done, but there were many hearts and minds opened to the possibilities of what perseverance and belief in oneself can achieve. Scott Burrows delivers more than a speech about what he has overcome in his life, he brings a mindset that can change your life.” – Rich Henning, Senior Vice President, Suez North America
Scott Burrows is a top-rated Motivational Keynote Speaker and change agent who brings the concepts of Vision, Mindset and Grit to life using his transformative personal story as the backdrop for sustainable business success. Scott teaches listeners how to push the limits of what’s possible and set goals that stretch the mind-even during overwhelming pandemic restrictions, challenging market conditions, leadership changes, employee resistance, doubt and fears.
Vision
- Learn how to create a visionary game plan that entices your team to take action
- Examine the benefits of dreaming in full color and setting goals that stretch the mind
- Discover the impact of connecting your organization to a shared company vision
- Find out how conscious visualization can give you that competitive advantage
Mindset
- Learn how ‘breaking the fall line’ can help you create an unstoppable mindset
- Examine the mindset of poise and execution and releasing resistance around change
- Discover how to not let your mindset become your biggest handicap to increase productivity
- Understand how forgiveness, a leadership trait, increases employee engagement and leads to greater team adherence
- Find out how asking the “what” questions can get you thinking differently and help you navigate change
Grit
- Learn what it takes to stretch yourself beyond your paralyzed state to reach unimaginable goals and up your game
- Examine why your willingness to fail but your unwillingness to quit is a leadership trait that can keep you focused
- Discover adaptive strategies to help you stand up to any challenge
THE MINDSET OF EDUCATORS: VISION, MINDSET, GRIT
Are you searching for a Motivational Education Speaker who can INFLUENCE your Educators to be Resilient, Adaptable and Set Goals that Stretch the Mind?
In today’s changing Educational System, many schools and districts around our country are trying to maintain a winning and optimistic attitude after a long season of disruption, fear, hybrid learning and new teaching challenges returning to the classroom. Perhaps today your school district is dealing with high poverty and literacy levels, changing testing or technology standards, and student behavioral changes. Or maybe you are feeling burnt-out, overwhelmed and paralyzed?
Whatever those challenges are, the true measure of success is how well you respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear. Whatever mindset and belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you-and your school district-will be left behind.
“Scott Burrows was just what TASBO members needed for 2022! He was everything we had hoped he would be – inspirational, motivating, thought-provoking and more. Schools have had a tough couple of years and his message of Vision – Mindset – Grit were perfect. Still getting great responses from your keynote. Our members were inspired as were we. Will definitely be singing your praises to other ASBOs!” – Becky Bunte, Deputy Executive Director, Texas Association of School Business Officials
“Scott brought a powerful message that inspired us all to challenge our thinking about what is possible. He encouraged and inspired our teachers not to give up when things get tough in the classroom and to leave no student behind. The final result is that we will encourage and inspire our students to do great things.” – CHARTER SCHOOLS
RISE TO THE CHALLENGE: SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR INSURANCE & FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS
Get Ready to Experience a Powerful, Emotional and Life-Changing Presentation!
In today’s rapidly evolving Insurance and Financial Industry, many organizations are trying to maintain a winning culture as they deal with an array of business and sales challenges. Perhaps your organization is dealing with new rules, increased regulation or growing pains and key business issues as you continue to expand both internally and externally while attempting to be number one in your industry and meeting demanding customer expectations. Maybe you’re experiencing industry changes such as the new Department of Labor ruling or new products entering the marketplace. Perhaps you’re operating with limited bench support, operational and support issues, budget cuts or rising goals, objectives and responsibilities. Or you feel paralyzed by your competition and advancing technologies that are upending workflow and processes.Whatever your challenges, the true measure of success is how well you respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you-and your organization-will be left behind.
Insurance and Financial leaders RAVE about Scott’s knowledge and understanding of their business, knowing that he, too, was a top sales producer. After his life-changing accident, he graduated from college, then entered the Insurance and Financial Industry as a Financial Advisor and went on to qualify for the Million Dollar Round Table. Scott knows firsthand what it’s like to be in the field-generating activity, making scheduled calls, prospecting, facing rejection, overcoming objection, all while listening to clients’ needs to determine recommendations and solutions.
“I’ve heard over 100 motivational speakers at various conferences, including speakers such as Pat Riley, Lou Holtz, Chris Gardner (The Pursuit of Happiness) and many, many others. Though I can remember a few of the speakers, it is rare that I can remember what they’ve spoken about – at least not for very long. Your message Vision, Mindset and Grit is simple but so very powerful. It is simple enough that I have thought about it every day since your presentation. It has been a powerful reminder to me of the importance of having a clear vision, a mindset to focus on those things I can control and having enough perseverance – Grit – not to give up too soon.” – William R. Mumpower, CLU, CFP, Executive Vice President, Ashford Advisors
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE: KEEPING HEALTHCARE TEAMS COHESIVE & MOTIVATED
“Scott brings the fundamentals of service excellence to life. He is a person who lived a nightmare and emerged with life lessons that inspire us all. He speaks eloquently and passionately about family who supported and motivated him; and healthcare professionals who looked at him as a case and those who looked at what he could accomplish with appropriate challenges and optimism. I have never seen managers lines up for 30 minutes during a break just so they would have a chance to speak with him personally. Truly remarkable.” – Marna P. Borgstron, President and CEO, Yale-New Haven Hospital/Yale New Haven Health System
In today’s rapidly changing Healthcare Market, many organizations are trying to maintain an optimistic culture as they deal with an array of business challenges and those challenges that revolve around patient-centered care. Perhaps today you are trying to improve patient satisfactory scores and engagement as you grapple with a decreasing labor pool, lower reimbursements and everyday stresses. Maybe you are looking for ways to deliver better care and outcomes as you attempt to secure and grow market share. Perhaps you are trying to develop alternate revenue streams, contain core operating costs or change your existing business model to reflect ongoing changes. Or maybe you are feeling paralyzed by new rules, increased regulation and compliance as well as advancing technologies, new reporting requirements and your competition.
Whatever your healthcare challenges are, the true measure of success is how well you respond to adversity, change, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you-and your organization-will be left behind.
VISION-MINDSET-GRIT
Success Strategies to Help You Stand Up to Any Challenge
As Healthcare Audiences have discovered, Scott Burrows’ thought-provoking presentation and compelling story is the hero’s journey, providing what will be an unforgettable and lasting memory to inspire your attendees to stand up to any challenge. Using his physical paralysis as a visual metaphor, Scott reveals how to drive results using the same mental focus that helped him reinvent his life after a catastrophic accident left him paralyzed from the chest down. He will demonstrate there are no barriers or stop signs in life, or the healthcare marketplace, just detours and workarounds.
Through the power of storytelling, Scott will show your healthcare professionals firsthand how to apply the same timeless principles of Vision-Mindset-Grit that have had a profound impact in his life. Three simple yet powerful words that, when put into action, can absolutely help you conquer adversity and master change, setting the stage for developing cutting-edge ideas and leadership strategies that will benefit your entire organization.
Healthcare Speakers and Leaders RAVE about Scott’s knowledge of their industry, knowing he understands patient-centered care and what healthcare professionals do and how they can influence and impact their patients’ lives. As a former spinal cord injury patient and advocate for both patient and healthcare providers, he shares his very personal experience as a quadriplegic. Scott will encourage your healthcare professionals to continue to find the passion for what they do for a living while teaching them to encourage their patients to Never Give Up Hope!
There are many healthcare motivational speakers to choose from, but we believe you will that find Scott’s story is the perfect Inspirational Keynote Presentation to Open or Close your Healthcare conference to challenge your organization to&
DEVELOP AN UNSTOPPABLE MINDSET: SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR SAFETY TEAMS & SUPERVISORS
Conquer Adversity, Develop a Safety Mindset, Navigate Team Change!
Are you searching for a Safety Motivational Speaker who can INFLUENCE your employees to make better Workplace Safety Decisions?
With the alarming predominance of workplace accidents caused by human error, the importance for engaging teams and individuals with safety procedures in a way that is meaningful to them and can promote significant change is crucial. Most human factors involved in accidents occur in the arena of memory, awareness and attention, judgement and reasoning, attitude, and risk perception – all areas dealing with the cognitive mindset and the need for even the most highly-trained individuals to remain alert and focused during potentially hazardous work situations.
VISION-MINDSET-GRIT
Success Strategies to Help You Stand Up to Workplace Safety
Nothing delivers the importance of safety better than a personal story. Neuroscience studies confirm storytelling illuminates parts of the brain that are only active when a listener actually experiences something – triggering their imagination, engaging them with a deep emotional response and sealing it into memory. With these areas of the brain activated and connected by a physical and emotional response, memory retention has been shown to be up to 7 times more effective than training through facts and figures.
Motivational Safety Speaker Scott Burrows details his unforgettable, life-changing story of turning a paralyzing setback caused by a poor split-second decision into a powerful comeback that will inspire your team to develop a true safety MINDSET. Scott details how easy it is to become desensitized to common safety routines, and how ‘just this once’ can tragically impact the rest of their lives.
Told while using own physical paralysis as a visual metaphor and blending eloquent storytelling with humor and crowd interaction, Scott leaves audiences captivated, inspired and ready to take action. His VISION, MINDSET AND GRIT SAFETY PRESENTATION will Impact your team by encouraging better day-to-day safety decisions in the workplace and changing the way your employees view and approach their jobs. Listeners will walk away embracing workplace safety protocols as opposed to resisting or ignoring them.
Scott grew up learning firsthand safety procedures working for his dad, a golf course superintendent at Turtle Creek Country Club. Scott operated heavy equipment including dangerous fairway mowers, and handled hazardous chemicals and fertilizers. It was the ideal place to learn about and keep up with safety measures not just at work, but in everyday life. Unfortunately, Scott still made a poor decision that made the difference between walking away from an accident with probable minor injuries, to instead lying in a hospital bed diagnosed a quadriplegic. Accepting the grim responsibility for his decisions, Scott understood he couldn’t change the past and instead put into action an unforgettable vision and mindset for his future-one that includes his passionate commitment as a spokesperson for workplace safety.
Thank you for your Safety Leadership presentation at our Annual Meeting. Many of the attendees told me that was one of the best safety programs they have attended. I think your message and story are very impactful. Your mantra of Vision-Mindset-Grit resonated with our managers. We have found that when managers show employees that they care about each employee’s personal health and safety, then the entire organization becomes a safer one. Your presentation drove home several of our primary safety tenants, but obvious only someone with your life experiences can achieve such an emotional and uplifting response. Thanks so much for sharing your story and message.” -T.M.
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE: LEADING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH CHANGE
Fortune 500 companies around the globe are hiring Scott to initiate growth and help teams transition in times of monumental change by utilizing his inspiring message to support team morale for a myriad of corporate challenges. Scott’s keynote program – Rising to the Challenge – has been an in-demand program topic and a favorite with our corporate and association partners.
One of the key sticking points for organizations during times of change is creating organizational shifts while getting everyone on board without resistance to often uncomfortable operational adjustments. Whether your organization is working through change management initiatives for improved company performance, alterations to existing leadership structure, company merges, takeovers, increased sales goals, or technology and internal upgrades – one thing is certain:
It will be up to the individual team members to capture the company VISION, maintain the right MINDSET to work through the new transitions and challenges, and apply the daily GRIT needed to put those goals successfully into action.
Scott’s customized change management presentations offer perspective to teams undergoing difficult shifts in company culture while equipping audiences with the essential tools needed to maintain their company vision, dial in the proper perspective during unstable circumstances, and help team members keep things moving rapidly FORWARD with cohesion and grace.
Perfect as an opening or closing keynote for change rollouts, Scott has the ability to shift people on both the personal and professional spectrum by his engaging storytelling and amazing overcoming story of grit and determination. Some of Scott’s clients have used these titles for his change management keynote:
• Thriving Through Changing Times
• Rise to the Challenge
• Triumph Over Change
• Stand Up to Any Challenge
• Rising and Thriving: VISION, MINDSET, GRIT
After a year of considerable challenge and change, we invited Scott Burrows to address our leadership team. His presentation focused our team on setting their goals, especially when the journey is difficult. I recommend Scott’s presentation without reservation to any group that needs that extra boost to take that next step in their journey.”
– Craig Anderson, Sr. Vice President, CHASE
DIVERSITY MATTERS: INCLUSION STRATEGIES FOR THE CHANGING WORKFORCE
“Scott’s Vision, Mindset and Grit keynote presentation powerfully underscored Seminole’s commitment to diversity-celebrating and championing positive change from the individual through organizational levels. His dynamic presentation was overwhelmingly assessed by our employees as one of the very best and most inspirational that Seminole employees have ever heard!” – Bob McNamara, Staff Development Specialist, Seminal Electric Cooperative, Inc.
In today’s rapidly changing Corporate Environment, C-level executives are realizing that Disability Matters. Why? Today, the largest and fastest growing minority group around the world are people with disabilities, and studies have shown this workforce is committed, productive, loyal and willing, when given the opportunity, to work hard to help your organization succeed. So, if you are looking to expand your market share, generate new revenue from this untapped market and see things from a different corporate perspective, it will take a clear Vision, the right Mindset and a lot of Grit to make it happen.
In today’s world, the true measure of success is how well you respond to a changing and diverse marketplace, adversity, setbacks and fear. Whatever belief system you employ must be powerful enough to conquer these obstacles and any other impediments to your personal and professional growth, or you-and your organization-will be left behind.
VISION-MINDSET-GRIT
Success Strategies to Help You Stand Up to Any Challenge
As audiences worldwide have discovered, Scott Burrows’ compelling story is the hero’s journey, providing what will be an unforgettable and lasting memory to inspire your audience to stand up to diversity and inclusion. Using his physical paralysis as a visual metaphor, Scott reveals how to drive results using the same mental focus that helped him reinvent his life after a catastrophic accident left him paralyzed from the chest down.
Through the power of storytelling, Scott will show your organization how to apply the same timeless principles of Vision-Mindset-Grit that have had a profound impact in his life. Three simple yet powerful words that, when put into action, can absolutely help you tap into a diverse workforce, setting the stage for developing cutting-edge ideas and leadership strategies that will benefit your entire workplace.
In 2016, as a corporate diversity speaker, Scott was invited to speak at Springboard Consulting’s Disability Matters North American Annual Conference in front of 250 C-level executives from Fortune 1000 companies. It was there that he learned that these Corporations held their own Annual Diversity Conferences. Since that time, Scott has been invited to speak to many of them, as his story is a great fit to drive home the importance of embracing diversity in the workplace.
After Scott’s life-changing accident, he returned to college and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance. At that time, Northwestern Mutual Life gave him an opportunity to partner as a Financial Advisor. Scott quickly hired an assistant and in his 5th year went on to qualify for the Million Dollar Round Table. The MDRT is a 100% commission-driven award that less than 8% of his peers qualify for annually, peers representing 500 companies in 70 countries.
At the MDRT’s annual conference in Dallas, Texas, in 1994, Scott learned a lot from the Platform Corporate Speakers who spoke on Diversity, Leadership, Team Building, Customer Service and Branding as well as from the Inspirational Overcoming Adversity Speakers who encouraged you to push the limits of what is possible. He was so moved that he saw himself doing that for the rest of his life. Ironically, at this time, Scott was involved in a second life-changing automobile accident when a 72-year-old man ran a stop sign, caught Scott off
