Todd Huston

WORLD RECORD - Leg amputee. Only disabled person to break a world record in sports - fastest time climbing High Points in each state. Teaches your audience what it takes to get to the top!

Expert on

  • Motivation
  • Safety / Security
  • Inspirational
  • Leadership
  • Education
  • Peak Performance

Fee Range

$5,000–$15,000

Travels from

OK, US

Biography

 

Todd Huston died twice at the age of 14 when a boat backed over him, sucking his legs up into the propellers during a fateful 4th of July family vacation.‚ Though they resuscitated him, infection plagued his right leg until he was 21, when he lay wide awake on the operating table as they fired up the saw and amputated it.‚  He went on to become a psychotherapist‚ in Southern California to help others overcome their physical and mental challenges.‚

But he was not all talk. He took his inspirational message worldwide by attempting the impossible – he wanted to be the first leg amputee to climb the highest elevation in each of the 50 states. And he wanted to do it faster than anyone else.

He shattered the world record by 35 days! This made him the only disabled person in the world to break an able-bodied world record in a sport. 

Todd has appeared in thousands of newspapers and other media outlets throughout the world. His autobiography, More Than Mountains – The Todd Huston Story, was published and a movie screenplay has been written about his life. He has received numerous awards, including Ten Outstanding Young Americans. Henry Iba Citizenship Award, Energizer Hall of Fame, and the Red Cross Everyday Hero Award.

Todd is a positive and dynamic speaker with over 20 years of professional speaking experience for royalty, corporations, associations, education, and religious groups. He tells his amazing story with his interactive multi-media presentation that will inspire your audience to face and overcome their challenges so they can have personal and professional success.

Your audience will never forget the impact of Todd’s presentation, and will pass the story on to inspire others.

AWARDS INCLUDE:

  • World record holder for climbing the highest elevation of each state in shortest time – beat able bodied record by 35 days as a leg amputee
  • Author, More Than Mountains: The Todd Huston Story
  • Featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, A Second Helping.
  • Featured in True Tales of the Mountains.
  • Awarded Ten Outstanding Young Americans 1999.
  • Awarded Everyday Hero Award by American Red Cross 1999.
  • Awarded Ten Outstanding Young Tulsans 1997.
  • Awarded Henry Iba Award for Citizen Athlete of the Year 1997.
  • Selected as Distinguished Oklahoman in 2002.
  • Awarded The Power to Dream Achiever Award 2011
  • Awarded Class Act Award from Phillips Petroleum.
  • Awarded Memorial High School Hall of Fame (Tulsa).
  • Elected and served as a City Councilor for Tulsa, OK.
  • Patented inventor of prosthetic device. U.S. Patent #5,984,972
  • Featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, TBN, C-SPAN, Inside Edition, Extra, Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power and many other televised programs.
  • In hundreds of articles including, Sports Illustrated, L.A Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
  • International speaker for 20 years who has performed from Australia to Bosnia and throughout the United States.

Todd Huston takes inspirational speaking to new heights!

Speaker Videos

MORE THAN MOUNTAINS

This is a very powerful keynote presentation.  Todd motivates and inspires everyone to believe they can overcome life’s many challenges.  This presentation centers around Todd’s boating accident at age 14 where he “died” twice, had his leg amputated, and then shattered an able-bodied world record in mountain climbing.

 

Your audience will experience laughter, suspense, exhilaration, and awe as he inspires them to:

  • Overcome ANY challenge
  • Eliminate fear and doubt
  • Turn obstacles into opportunities
  • Be their best in ANY situation
  • Make positive life changes NOW
  • Reach their goals and dreams

Todd uses amazing slides and stories from his life and expedition.  He moves the audience to explore their own challenges while offering solutions to reach the top of their personal and professional life.

You will travel to the highest and most dangerous mountains of North America, including the 20,310-foot Denali in Alaska. Your audience will laugh and cry with him through real life challenges and be left with insight and inspiration to overcome every obstacle holding them back, both individually and professionally, by teaching valuable insights into overcoming the mountains in their life.

Inspirational/Motivational; Adults (can be modified for teens and children) Keynote Presentation; Business, Associations; Organizations; Educational and Religious.

NO EXCUSES SAFETY

NO EXCUSES SAFETY® presentation uses Todd’s story of being hit by a boat propeller, which nearly cost him his life and did cost him his leg, to breaking the world record in the most dangerous sport in the world, mountain climbing. He inspires audiences to realize the importance of having a safety attitude and culture. His ICE™ method helps people easily remember what they can do to avoid any accident.

NO EXCUSES SAFETY will:
• Teach your audience the ICE method for avoiding accidents
• Inspire them that they can have a ZERO accident workplace
• Decrease your incident rate
• Have employees take personal responsibility for their safety
• Have employees take responsibility for the safety of co-workers
• Show them the value of always thinking about safety
• Why their safety is important to everyone in their life
• Why there are NO EXCUSES for an accident

Todd knows the value of safety, not only because he was involved in a serious accident that caused him to be an amputee, but also because he used his “ICE” safety method to break the world record in climbing the 50 United States high-points, including the extremes of 20,310-foot Denali in Alaska.

As the only disabled person to break an able-bodied world record in sports, he could never have achieved his goal without knowing and practicing the NO EXCUSES SAFETY ideas.  Todd’s entertaining story is inspiring and educational and will leave your audience with NO EXCUSES!

30 DAYS TO STRESS-FREE LIVING

This highly-interactive, highly-customized program teaches concepts and techniques to help audience members better manage personal and professional stress.

Todd was selected to write and teach this program to healthcare workers, employees and customers of a large hospital organization. This talk can also be used as a workshop when hiring Todd as your meeting’s keynote speaker.

Some of the broad goals for this program include:

  • Reducing employee absenteeism and doctors’ visits caused from stressReducing on-site conflict that causes safety violations and work related hazards.
  • Decreasing the cost of health care by decreasing the amount of sick days workers have to take along with helping them understand how to live healthier, stress reduced lives.
  • Decreasing mental and psychological illness while creating a safer work environmentIncreasing productivity, performance, and communication effectiveness on the job.
  • Showing employees simple steps they can use to increase their health and wellness at work and at home

THE POWER OF CHANGE

What your attendees will learn;

How to make all change POSITIVE change
Proactive versus reactive change and how to benefit from both
Why you never need to fear change
Why you should embrace and encourage change
How to be the master of change in your life
The secret to getting up every time you are knocked down
The only time change doesn’t exist and how to use that time for positive change
The importance of communication and teamwork in the face of change
How to have change bring out the best in you

Life is change, constant and unrelenting. You can allow it to prevent you from achieving your goals and dreams, or you can choose to let it bring out the best in you and your organization.

Todd Huston knows how change can affect your life, but also how to use it to become your best.

With a multi-media presentation of his life story, Todd illustrates the many forms of change. He dealt with multiple obstacles that created massive changes in his life when a fateful accident took him from being a star athlete to dying twice and having his leg amputated. Todd learned to embrace and optimize change, eventually doing the seemingly impossible; climbing the highest and most dangerous elevations of all 50 states and becoming the only disabled person to break an able-bodied world record in a sport.

Your audience members will learn how to identify the value of change and how to optimize change in their lives and the lives of others. They will learn a change attitude used by over-comers and champions which they can implement immediately within their own personal and professional lives. No longer will they fear or resist change, but will see it clearly, and as an opportunity to move forward and upward.