Glen Gerreyn
- Culture
- Goal Setting
- Growth
- Leadership
- Overcoming Adversity
- Performance
- Resilience
- Success
Glen Gerreyn is a champion athlete at 17 with a real shot at the Olympics, until an illness ended his sporting career inside a single season. He had to rebuild from the studs up. That experience taught him what hope actually is, and, just as usefully, what it is not.
He also lives with ulcerative colitis. It is incurable, and some days it hands him a fight before breakfast. So he doesn't teach hope from a textbook. He teaches it from a body that has learned to keep walking on the hard days. Hope is forged in experience, and that is why this work lands with the person on a team who is quietly carrying something heavy. They can smell pretending, and they respond to the real thing.
For more than 25 years, he has been a voice for hope, speaking to over a million people around the world, and he can hold a large auditorium while making each person in it feel seen and challenged. In 2012, he earned the Certified Speaking Professional accreditation, held by only a small fraction of speakers worldwide, and was named Young Australian of the Year for Queensland for community service. He has delivered upward of 10,000 presentations and written several books, including Get Your Hopes Up and Men of Honour.
Off the stage, home is Brisbane, with his wife and their four children. He has spent his life learning what helps people flourish, and he is not finished. He translates the research on hope into a small number of proven seminars, built on what he has watched work in real rooms, with real people under real pressure. He holds one conviction underneath all of it: everyone deserves a future they are excited to step into.
- Built to Thrive
- Unstoppable Growth
- Rewrite the Default
- PPE for the Mind
We recently had Glen Gerreyn present as the closing speaker at our Guardian and Cameron Walshe professional development conference; an often daunting timeslot. But, from the moment he walked on stage, the room was captivated. Glen made us all consider what our dreams in life are, and why many of us haven't actively pursued them, the biggest question being "what made us give them up? At the end of the presentation, the audience erupted, many delivering a standing ovation. We all left the conference more inspired than we did when we woke up that morning.
My staff and I would like to thank you for your most inspiring motivational talk the other day. I have found that it is fairly common place after a motivational seminar talk these days, that staff get very hyped up and want to conquer the world, but not a lot happens after that. I am very happy to say three months down the track I have noticed significant long term changes in my staff and myself. Our teamwork has been the best since we started back in 1997. Your style and deliverance of your seminar was out of the box, rarely seen, and extremely confronting, which I believe has prompted us here at PK Property to have our best quarter on record yet. Glen we look forward to having you back on a regular basis, so as you can challenge us to really reach our full potential here.
Over our 30 years of running personal development/networking events, we have had some pretty amazing speakers in. Glen Gerreyn was one who raised the standard. His story of overcoming was so relatable and inspiring. The depth of his talks is where the magic lies. There are many motivational speakers out there but Glen delves deeper than motivation and tackles beliefs, emotions, mindset and purpose. The result of his depth saw people take immediate action. That in itself is what a truly great speaker can do. Move people into action. Glen has this gift.
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