Marques Ogden

"We help people succeed in life, where we have failed!"

Expert on

  • Accountability
  • Adversity
  • Authenticity
  • Business
  • Corporate Culture
  • Leadership

Fee Range

$10,000–$15,000

Travels from

NC, US

Marques Ogden is a former NFL player who is now an inspirational keynote speaker. He’s also the founder and CEO of Ogden Ventures LLC, three-time best-selling author (Sleepless Nights; The Success Cycle), business coach and consultant and the podcast host of Authenticity With Marques Ogden; although his journey didn’t come easy or without unrelenting adversity.

After retiring from football, Marques pursued a career in construction and contracting. At 27, he founded a construction company with fast growth but eventually went bankrupt, losing almost two million dollars on one project in 90 days. He pulled himself together during his darkest hours and got a part-time job as a custodian.

Marques rose to the top again with hard work and determination, using his struggles as inspiration to blaze his own trail forward. Now, he shares his powerful story to help others learn how to fail forward and achieve success in their lives. Marques’ story and insights as a thought leader have been featured in top publications such as USA Today, Forbes, Cheddar News and Authority Magazine. As a speaker, he’s landed jobs with over 40 Fortune 500 companies and over 15 Fortune 100 companies like Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Intel, JPMorgan Chase and Home Depot. As a podcast host, he’s interviewed iconic guests such as Michael Strahan, Joe Namath and Willie Parker Jr.

Marques hopes to continue reaching new levels in his professional career and positively impacting as many people’s lives as possible through doing what he loves; speaking on stage and sharing his experiences and knowledge with others.

THE EGO MISTAKE: FROM 8 FIGURES TO $8.25 PER HOUR

Format: 60 Minute Keynote

 

This program is perfect for:

  • This program is perfect for any employee who is trying to get better at achieving business goals for the organization
  • This program is perfect for any employee that wants to get better at being more strategic and tactical in their role for their organization 

 

The audience will leave with:

  • How To Be More Focused To Achieve Personal And Professional Goals
  • How To Create And Sustain An Unbreakable Mindset To Win In Business And In Life

 

In our most popular signature keynote, Marques shares his heart-wrenching story of hitting rock bottom, losing millions and going bankrupt because of his enormous, pompous ego. With a positive, resilient mindset and perseverance, he was able to rise from the ashes and begin rebuilding the life and career of his dreams.

Without struggle, there is no progress. That has been the ultimate life lesson for many of us, including Marques, who learned the hard way after losing everything and starting over at an $8.25/hr. wage as a custodian. He now uses his story to help his audience not make the same ego mistake. This signature keynote is all about embracing failures and using them as fuel to soar even further. He provides action steps and strategies to help you succeed through the power of accountability, grit and determination!

Format: 60 Minute Keynote This program is perfect for: This program is perfect for any employee who is trying to get better at achieving business goals for the organization This program is perfect for any employee that wants to get better at being more strategic and tactical in their role for their organization The audience will leave with: How To Be More Focused To Achieve Personal And Professional Goals How To Create And Sustain An Unbreakable Mindset To Win In Business And In Life In our most popular signature keynote, Marques shares his heart-wrenching story of hitting rock bottom, losing millions and going bankrupt because of his enormous, pompous ego. With a positive, resilient mindset and perseverance, he was able to rise from the ashes and begin rebuilding the life and career of his dreams. Without struggle, there is no progress. That has been the ultimate life lesson for many of us, including Marques, who learned the hard way after losing everything and starting over at an $8.25/hr. wage as a custodian. He now uses his story to help his audience not make the same ego mistake. This signature keynote is all about embracing failures and using them as fuel to soar even further. He provides action steps and strategies to help you succeed through the power of accountability, grit and determination! Accountability Inspirational / Life-changing Professionalism

Format: 60 Minute Keynote

 

This program is perfect for:

  • This program is perfect to help people understand how to be better servant leaders in their organization 
  • This program is perfect to help C-Suite connect better with Main Street team members

 

The audience will leave with:

  • 4 keys to being a great leader
  • How to use empathy/compassion as a leader to connect with your team that you are serving

 

Any leader who is focused more on themselves than they are on their employees and the organization’s overall well-being is not a true leader. Marques speaks from experience; when he ran his construction company At 32, he became tyrannical and treated his employees like objects instead of people. This made him live his life with wrath, jealousy, anger, deceit and self-absorption, which caused his ultimate self-destruction.

Now, he has gone full circle, and his mission is to serve others above all. In this signature keynote, Marques shares the power of servant leadership and how leaders from all industries and walks of life can use this leadership style to empower their employees and build a legacy that doesn’t lead to self-destruction but rather self-fulfillment.

THE SUCCESS CYCLE CREATES HEALTHY DEI

Format: 60 Minute Keynote

 

This program is perfect for:

  • This program is a perfect fit to help create a thriving environment for your organization with diversity and equity 
  • This program is a perfect fit to help your organization create an inclusive environment, where everyone feels valued and appreciated in your organization.

 

The audience will leave with:

  • 3 keys to create the success cycle in your personal and professional 
  • The 5 keys to create inclusion in any organization 

 

In today’s world, diversity, equity and inclusion shouldn’t be negotiable; it should be the standard for all companies and teams. Navigating DEI can feel like a tricky space, but it doesn’t have to be. In this signature keynote, Marques shares valuable insights from his book The Success Cycle on a unique method to create a healthy, flourishing and diverse work environment.

For many, there is a barrier to entry into the workplace. And for others, they have boundaries to prevent entry. The J.O.B. method is about Jumping Over Barriers™ and tackling the limitations set in place that hinder true DEI in the workplace. Marques shares his personal experiences with DEI in the NFL and his career and gives actionable steps on how companies can value DEI in an authentic and meaningful way.

RECYCLING VS. TRASHING COMPANY CULTURE

Format: 60 Minute Keynote 

 

This program is perfect for:

  • This is perfect to help employees create a culture where people can pivot in times of cultural chaos, or mutiny 
  • This is perfect to help leaders become more inspirational, to address company cultural issues 

 

The audience will leave with:

* How To Create Alignment Around A Unified Vision 

  • How To Create A Culture Where Conflict Resolution Is Expected And Not Surprising 

 

In an ever-changing work landscape wavering between remote and in-person work, companies must focus on nurturing a thriving, abundant company culture. Employees crave a positive and enjoyable work-life and perform at their optimal level when they feel aligned with the company and its values.

Sadly, company culture in today’s world tells us to Cancel and Trash everything we disagree with, but what if we took the time to recycle it? In this signature keynote with pulled insights from Marques’ book The Success Cycle, he shares how to recycle bad energy into positive, productive energy to shift employee mindset and build a thriving company culture to achieve optimal business success.

SALES AND MARKETING- DROP THE POKER FACE (SELLING REQUIRES AUTHENTICITY)

Format: 60 Minute Keynote

 

This program is perfect for:

  • This program is perfect to help employees improve marketing tactics
  • This program is perfect to help employees improve sales conversions

 

The audience will leave with:

  • Three keys to effectively marketing in any environment
  • 5 keys to improving sales conversions 

 

Marques is an avid poker player who loves the game and the mental challenge that comes from it. With sales and marketing, it is the opposite. Selling should never be looked at as a game but rather an opportunity for you to create value and help better someone’s life through your product or service. To sell authentically, you need to drop the poker face.

In this signature keynote, Marques articulates that being authentic is the ultimate virtue for sales and marketing, even if it means showing your hand. When you sell with authenticity, you have a genuine interest in the other person’s needs, which is the key to sales success.