David Drury

Is your company or team struggling to find consistent success? The most successful organizations know not only how to create a winning system, but how to follow it. In the late 2000s, David Drury won upwards of a million dollars from casinos and was named the Most Notorious Card Counter in America because he was able to set aside distractions and faithfully follow a winning system. In this riveting talk based on his experience as a member of a successful card-counting team, audiences will come away with the principles of a winning system: focus, perseverance, and teamwork.

Do you have trouble remaining anchored to your purpose or finding daily motivation? Many people fail because they lose focus and forward momentum when encountering obstacles. How can you keep going when things turn for the worse? In the 2000s, David Drury was one of the most successful card counters in America. However, he had to weather wild variance and long losing stretches where he experienced doubt, loneliness, and the feeling of letting his team down. In this moving and entertaining talk, David will share how to find the fire within yourself and take hold of success, even in the darkest moments. Audiences will come away with David’s system of perseverance in the face of adversity.

Is your organization having trouble communicating and/or working together as a team? In this world of remote and hybrid work, it can be difficult to build trust and cohesiveness within a group or company. Sometimes in the fog of work, the mission can get cloudy. In the early 2000s, David Drury won upwards of a million dollars from casinos by learning to strategize, communicate and work as part of a team. Traveling alone from one casino to the next, David developed ways to connect with his team members and beat the game of blackjack by connecting with the higher purpose of serving others. In this exciting and informative talk, audiences will come away with strategies for connecting with their teammates by following David’s principles of serving others.

The wisest entrepreneurs and well-led teams are ever fine-tuning their strategies for success. Is there something you might have missed along the way? David’s million-dollar path to success took him to the pinnacle of one of the strangest professions—beating the game of blackjack as a card counter. In this engaging and provocative talk, David will challenge you to apply a card-counter mindset to real-world business practices and methodologies. What is anchoring your purpose and vision? What is worth fighting for and what is worth letting go? How do you deal with the daily pressures of navigating your goals? David’s wild true story and the business principles he extracted from it will transform your thinking and inspire your momentum.