Eight-Time Olympic Medalist, Hall of Fame Short-Track Skater & NYT Bestselling Author
Apolo Anton Ohno, a decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, world-renowned keynote speaker, NY Times #1 best selling author, entrepreneur, and life and business strategist has built a career centered on high performance, resilience, and reinvention. Today, Apolo serves as an NBC sports analyst and Olympic ambassador, and beyond sport, focuses on the intersection of health, wellness, entrepreneurship, and investing. As a sought-after speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, he explores the ideas, innovations, and opportunities shaping the future of human performance, while helping leaders and organizations navigate change, unlock potential, and build healthier, more purposeful lives and businesses.
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Languages Spoken
English
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Apolo Ohno Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
Please Inquire
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
USA
Apolo Anton Ohno won his first U.S. championship at 14, after six months of training. Over the next decade he became the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian in history, earning eight Olympic medals in short track speed skating across the 2002 Salt Lake City, 2006 Turin, and 2010 Vancouver Games, along with more than 100 World Cup medals and the 2008 overall World Championship. He was inducted into the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2019, and his skates from the 2002 Games are held in the Smithsonian’s collection.
What came after the podium is the part he speaks about most. Retirement from sport is a career ending in your twenties, and Apolo turned that ending into a system for starting over. He wrote about the obsession and discipline behind elite performance in Zero Regrets, a New York Times bestseller, and about reinvention itself in Hard Pivot, written for anyone whose first chapter has closed. He won season 4 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, finished the Ironman World Championship in Kona in under ten hours, and completed executive education at the Wharton School.
His broadcasting career spans every Winter Olympics of the modern era: fifteen years with NBC Sports, including analyst duties in Sochi and PyeongChang, and most recently on-the-ground coverage of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Games for Yahoo Sports, where his short-form Olympic storytelling reached tens of millions of viewers.
He remains deeply embedded in the Olympic movement as a member of the LA28 Athletes’ Commission, a member of the Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 State of Sport Committee, a board member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and the Utah Sports Commission, and a global ambassador for the Special Olympics. With Milan behind us and Los Angeles 2028 and Salt Lake City 2034 ahead, no American athlete is more connected to the decade of the Games than Apolo.
Off camera, he is an investor and advisor to companies in health, wellness, and human performance, and has spent twenty years working with high performing teams at organizations from Fortune 100 companies to high-growth startups. His keynotes, The Gold Medal Mindset and Hard Pivot, translate the mental performance systems of elite sport into tools leaders can use: performing under pressure, building cultures where excellence compounds, and reinventing before the world forces you to. He has delivered them for audiences from 5,000-person sales kickoffs to 30-person executive offsites across financial services, technology, and healthcare.
