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Dan Clark

Motivational Life Coach, Author, Teacher, Peak Performance Expert

  • Dan Clark Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Utah, USA

  • Dan Clark Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    Please Inquire

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Utah, USA

Why Dan?

Dan has spoken to more than 6000 audiences, in all 50 states, in 71 countries, on 6 continents to millions of people, most of the Fortune 500, Super Bowl Champions, NASA, MDRT, the United Nations and has conducted many ‘Military Tribute Tours’ ‘down range’ in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Consequently, Dan teaches how to achieve personal greatness knowing the only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday!

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Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Decisive Motivation – "Raise the Bar" Resetting a Culture of Resilience into a Peak Performance Team

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Looking to inspire your organization and elevate your next event? Book Dan for his transformative keynote, “Decisive Motivation – Raise the Bar” where he reveals the secrets to building a resilient, high-performing culture.

Drawing from personal experiences—overcoming a career-ending injury and working with transformational leaders and superstars in business and sports—Dan demonstrates that true resilience isn’t just about enduring. It’s about intentionally creating discomfort, thriving through adversity, and achieving remarkable results in leadership, teamwork, sales, and customer experience through continuous, urgent daily improvement.

What Dan Will Bring to Your Event:

1. An Up-Leveled Culture

Dan guides your people through his 3-Step Growth Strategy, designed to:

  • Expand Belief – Redefine What’s Possible
    • Dare to think bigger by leaving the familiar behind
    • Focus on a “why” that’s bigger than your “why not”
  • Elevate Expectations – Reframe Adversity
    • Identify what you will no longer tolerate
    • Make winning personal and strengthen through change
  • Empower Behavior – Create a Competitive Advantage
    • Ensure internal & external customers choose you, not just someone who does what you do

2. Self-Motivated Accountability

By redefining leadership as influence, Dan inspires individuals to lead with or without a title. He fosters a culture where everyone holds themselves accountable for excellence—regardless of their role or pay grade.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Decisive Motivation – Your people will walk away with a transformed mindset, heart-set, and skillset, equipped with a strategy to increase personal productivity by 1% every day.
  • Raise the Bar – Your people will leave Dan’s keynote challenged to conduct a self-audit—determining whether they are complacent or constantly pushing themselves and their teammates to reach their ultimate capacity physically, intellectually, and emotionally.

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The Making of a Champion: There Is No ‘I’ in Team, but Two ‘I’s in Winning

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What does it take to build a championship team? In this dynamic keynote, “The Making of a Champion,” Dan Clark uncovers the secret: while there’s no ‘I’ in team, there are two ‘I’s in winning—Independent Individual Preparation and Interdependent Collective Collaboration.

The teams that win have the most ‘I’ players on them!

Through his Ten Commitments Framework, Dan empowers teams to harness both personal excellence and collaborative strength to achieve extraordinary success.

Why Your Team Needs Dan Clark

1. Unleash Individual Initiative

Dan reminds everyone that we win and lose as a team—but we win and lose because of individuals. He inspires teams to embrace personal accountability as the driving force behind collective success. By fostering a culture of resilient self-motivation and self-discipline, Dan shows why and how individual brilliance leads to winning outcomes.

2. Strengthen Interdependence

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The only way to build a consistently winning team is to first strengthen each individual team member. A peak-performing “We” can only exist when every “Me” is trustworthy, reliable, and fully committed.

3. Turn Your Team into a Family

Dan redefines the common acronym T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More) into F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Forget About Me—I Love You), fostering a culture of deep connection, trust, and commitment.

Key Takeaways

The Two ‘I’s in Winning

Learn how Independent Individual Preparation and Interdependent Collective Collaboration drive both personal and team success. Dan challenges teams to do one thing every day to improve themselves and one thing every day to elevate their teammates—boosting everyone’s chances to win.

The Ten Commitments Framework

Dan walks teams through his Ten Commitments to building a winning organization. The first six develop the individual:

  • Clarity. Character. Competence. Consistency. Competitiveness. Contribution.

The final four transform “Me” into “We,” strengthening trust, loyalty, and the team’s sense of family:

  • Cause. Chemistry. Cohesion. Conclusion.

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Perspective Leadership: Transforming Success into Significance

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Ready to elevate your next conference or meeting? Book Dan for an unforgettable keynote, “Perspective Leadership,” where he will take your people into a deep dive discussion on how and why we should strive to live a life of Significance and achieve a level beyond success!

Through compelling stories, time-tested wisdom, and actionable insights, Dan teaches that Successful people get what they think they want, focused on what matters at the moment. Significant individuals want what we get, focused on what matters most, which is what lasts the longest, so we don’t die with regrets and our intentions and “music still in us!”

What Dan Will Bring to Your Event:

1. Universal Driven Leadership: Dan shares his incredible adventure soaring to the edge of space and witnessing the breathtaking curvature of the earth, which qualifies him to level up your perspective on life, influence, integrity, trust, respect, accountability, and service that create and sustain emotional prosperity.

2. Highest Level Execution: Dan’s space adventure fueled his study of the universe to learn and teach how it was organized with a specific set of laws, that if followed, will generate resilience, mitigate risk, maximize execution, and take you to the highest levels of human performance.

3. Leveled-Up Perspective: Dan guides your people through the Four Highest Universal Principles that constitute a time-tested ‘Operational Equation,’ that works as a ‘north star compass’ and navigation system to help you simplify your ‘flight’ through the constant ‘winds of change’ and stay resilient during the turbulence found in high-performance living:

  • Obedience (all other universal laws, core values, and projected outcomes are governed by it).
  • Free Will Agency (tests our Obedience).
  • Opposition in All Things (guarantees Agency, always having a choice).
  • Conscience (inspires us to make the right choice).

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Practical Application: Dan shares his ‘Parable of the Kite” as the template that gives your people the proven process to identify personal and organizational challenges, clarify what caused them, and the step-by-step formula to face and fix them to get your organization back on the track to peak performance execution.
  • Increased Feedback: Attendees learn the three kinds of Feedback: Factual, Motivational, and Educational, and how increasing the frequency of the feedback brings immediate change, continuous improvement, and desired results.
  • Purposeful Action: Your people will leave Dan’s keynote inspired and motivated to turn their success into significance by aligning their beliefs and expectations with their daily actions, fueled by a higher purpose that ignites passion, creativity, innovation, and a relentless drive for personal and professional excellence.

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Facts Tell – Stories Sell! Harnessing the Power of Storytelling to Influence and Inspire

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In a world awash with data and facts, how do you make your message unforgettable? Dan Clark’s keynote, “Facts Tell – Stories Sell!,” reveals the secret to powerful communication: storytelling. Dan uncovers how stories can captivate an audience, trigger key brain chemicals, and inspire action.

This keynote is designed to empower leaders, sales teams, and organizations to transform their approach to communication and unlock the potential of narrative to drive decision-making and success.

Why Dan Clark is the Right Speaker for Your Next Meeting:

1. Unleash the Leadership Potential of Storytelling

Dan will guide your team on using storytelling as a transformative leadership tool. He’ll show how stories can communicate vision, ignite passion, and forge emotional connections that inspire teams and drive results.

2. Unlock the Science of Storytelling

Through an engaging exploration of how storytelling activates chemicals like adrenaline, dopamine, and oxytocin in the brain, Dan will demonstrate how to craft narratives that build trust, motivate action, and foster lasting relationships.

3. Transform Sales and Communication

Dan will teach your team to move beyond presenting facts, turning data into compelling stories that resonate on a personal level with clients and customers, driving engagement and decisions.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Emotional Connection through Storytelling: Learn to craft stories that not only deliver information but also evoke emotions, creating lasting impressions and deeper connections with your audience.
  • The Neuroscience of Influence: Understand the critical role of brain chemicals in storytelling and how they influence decision-making. Dan equips your team with the knowledge to use this science to enhance performance, build resilience, and foster loyalty.
  • From Facts to Emotional Engagement: Discover how storytelling in sales creates emotional bonds, transforming client relationships and driving success by aligning with shared values and emotions.

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Change or Die – Turning Reactive Change Into Proactive Growth

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Are you ready to transform the way your team approaches change? In his dynamic keynote, “Change or Die!”, Dan Clark challenges audiences to harness the power of change as a catalyst for growth, rather than merely a reaction to external pressures.

With compelling insights from his personal journey and leadership experiences, Dan inspires attendees to embrace proactive change, unlocking lasting success and transformation.

Why Book Dan Clark?

1. Revolutionize the Perception of Change

Dan will show your team how to see change not as a threat, but as a continual opportunity for innovation and growth. He’ll guide them from a reactive mindset to a proactive approach, driving positive transformation from within.

2. Empower Leaders to Expand Beyond Limits

Dan will empower your leaders to break out of their comfort zones and cultivate a culture of resilience and high performance. By embracing a “stretching” mindset, leaders can inspire their teams to strive for continuous learning and improvement.

3. Drive Sustainable Growth

Through the concept of proactive stretching, Dan equips individuals to consistently push past their boundaries, ensuring long-term personal and professional growth. This mindset fosters sustainable success across your organization.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

  • Transform Pain Into Progress: Discover how to view challenges and discomfort as essential growth triggers. Dan teaches that by embracing adversity, individuals can strengthen their abilities and achieve new heights.
  • Master Proactive Change: Learn the distinction between reactive change (imposed by external forces) and proactive growth (self-initiated). Dan demonstrates how taking control of change leads to empowerment and sustained development.
  • Stretch to Lead and Succeed: Understand how intentional stretching—mentally, emotionally, and physically—can drive exceptional performance and lasting change. Dan provides actionable strategies to unlock hidden potential and lead with impact.

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About Keynote Speaker Dan Clark

Dan Clark is the founder and CEO of an International Leadership Development Company; a HighPerformance Business Coach; New York Times Best Selling Author of 35 books; University Professor; a Primary Contributing Author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series; International Podcaster; Gold Record Songwriter; and an Award Winning Athlete who fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career.

Dan was inducted into the National Speakers Hall of Fame – and has been named one of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers In The World.

Dan has spoken to over 6 million people, in all 50 states, in 71 countries, on 6 continents, to more than 6000 audiences including most of the Fortune 500 companies, Super Bowl Champions, NASA, and to our Combat Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Asia and Africa.

Dan has appeared on over 500 television and radio shows including Oprah and Glenn Beck, PBS and NPR, and has been featured in the Mayo Clinic Journal, Forbes, Inc., Success, Entrepreneur, Thought Masters and Millionaire Magazines.

Dan’s extraordinary life includes soaring to the edge of space in a U2 Spy plane; flying fighter jets with the Air Force Thunderbirds; racing automobiles at Nur-burg-ring and sailboats in Australia; serving on the Olympic Committee and carrying the Olympic Torch in the Winter Games; and keynoting the United Nations World Congress.

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Dan was named an Outstanding Young Man of America – and has since received the UnitedStates Presidential Medal presented by President Ronald Reagan; the United States Distinguished Service

Medal presented by the U.S. Department of Defense; was the national recipient of the prestigious Air Force American Spirit Award; and was named Utah Father of the Year!

Testimonials

“With his quick wit and inspirational stories, Dan always exceeds your expectations and turns your ordinary meeting into an extraordinary event!”

Amy Hawkins

Georgia Pacific

“On behalf of the 1,200 people in attendance at your opening general session presentation, we thank you for the laughs, the stories, the tears and the powerful information you shared. The spontaneous standing ovation you received at the conclusion of your speech is an indication of how well you were received. Read More

IBM North America Sales Centers

 

IBM will most certainly use you again and again. We recommend you to audiences everywhere!”

IBM North America Sales Centers

“On behalf of the United States Air Force Academy faculty, staff, and cadets, thank you for your participation in our 9th Annual National Character and Leadership Symposium. Your presentation was incredibly well received by all attendees and provided tangible, insightful lessons for us all. Read More

Headquarters

United States Air Force Academy

Strong, positive role models for these young men and women have a tremendous impact on their maturation and character development. Your comments are certain to remain in the forefront of their thoughts throughout their careers. Your participation played a key role in heightening their awareness concerning the critical importance of Undaunted Leadership. We do hope you will consider returning next year.”

Headquarters

United States Air Force Academy

“Your presentations were singled out as the highlight of this year’s Heritage Week celebration. In fact, I continue to hear incredibly positive comments from our staff and the community at large – always ending up with ‘When will you bring him back?’.”

Mayo Clinic

 

Wow, what a terrific job! The members of the Associated General Contractors, Utah could not be more excited about the message you delivered at our recent annual convention! Our feedback has been absolutely incredible! Read More

Richard J. Thorn, President/CEO

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS

As a meeting planner, to be able to work with a professional and his team, knowing that every detail is taken care of, there will be no surprises, and the content of the engagement is not just pertinent, but engaging and entertaining is something that you’ve mastered. AGC members are better because of you and the time you’ve shared with us.

Richard J. Thorn, President/CEO

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS

I have forgotten the date I first heard Dan Clark speak. It was over two decades ago. What I never forgot was the impact he had on the audience and me. His message was timely, relevant and authentic. You could tell Dan Clark was one of those people who lived his word. And his word was good. Read More

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Debra Engelhardt-Nash

Co-founder, The Nash Institute for Dental Learning

His message impacted me so much that following that program, I hired Dan to present a keynote address for one of our companies. The Nash Institute for Dental Learning Team Extravaganza hosted him over fifteen years ago at our meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. Once again, he was stellar. He customized his presentation for our group. Dan was funny, poignant, serious and genuine. His life experiences are extraordinary. How he tells his audience about those experiences and how they relate to our work and our lives is remarkable. Dan has profound things to say, and he says them in a way that is thrilling, entertaining and moving.

Debra Engelhardt-Nash

Co-founder, The Nash Institute for Dental Learning

I wanted to take this time to thank you for another GREAT speech, exactly why we had you back. Your delivery, enthusiasm, and heartfelt stories sent a clear message to the team. You picked the one thing, that I feel, contributed to the success of Mid-Am and myself, relationships. Read More

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Director of Sales

Mid-Am Building Supply

Our audience that evening consisted of IT, Admin, Operations, and Sales, everyone felt the impact of your message and made it clear they would implement it in their daily lives. One common ask from the team “How does he remember our names, likes and within minutes utilize that information in his speech”? Great example of practice what YOU preach, no doubt you are passionate about what you do, and it shows.

Director of Sales

Mid-Am Building Supply

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