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Olympic-Level Leadership Strategies for Building Elite, High-Performance Corporate Teams

Where Olympic Grit Meets Corporate Greatness—Empowering Leaders to Transform Cultures, Ignite Performance, and Win at Every Level

"Your leadership seminar gives essential tools to any aspiring leader who wants to build a winning team."
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Leadership Strategies That Create Olympic-Level Teams  and the If you want winners…

SHERRY WINN'S SIGNATURE PROGRAMS

Every gold medal moment starts with a belief. Not in talent. Not in luck. But in the unshakable truth that you are meant to lead, rise, and win. In this high-impact keynote, Two-Time Olympian and National Championship Coach Sherry Winn delivers her most requested, most transformational presentation: a blueprint for unlocking unbreakable confidence, bold conviction, and courageous leadership through the Brave BeliefsTM Framework.

With electric storytelling, Olympic grit, and leadership insights forged in fire, Sherry guides your audience through the mindset upgrade they didn’t know they needed—empowering them to trade fear for faith, stagnation for momentum, and burnout for purpose.

This is how the winner within becomes unstoppable.

Great teams don’t happen by accident—they’re built by leaders who understand the power of collaboration, communication, and consistency.

In this electrifying keynote, Two-Time Olympian and National Championship Coach Sherry Winn shows leaders how to transform fractured communication and siloed efforts into cohesive, championship-level execution.

You’ll learn the difference between surface-level collaboration and Olympic-level cohesion. Through unforgettable stories, tactical frameworks, and real-time mindset shifts, Sherry guides your team toward becoming a high-performance unit that communicates with clarity, leads with conviction, and wins with purpose.

If you want your leaders and teams to outpace, outlast, and outperform the competition, this is your keynote.

Your dream team doesn’t just need direction—they need ignition.

In this inspiring and strategy-packed keynote, Two-Time Olympian and National Championship Coach Sherry Winn reveals what it really takes to create a high-performance culture built on trust, ownership, and deep engagement.

With today’s leaders battling burnout, disengagement, and turnover, this keynote delivers a transformational framework that empowers leaders to motivate from the inside out, inspire fierce loyalty, and lead teams that perform at their peak—consistently.

This is not about theory. It’s about action. You’ll walk away with tools that have been field-tested in Olympic locker rooms, corporate boardrooms, and with organizations across the globe—tools you can apply immediately to elevate your team’s energy, execution, and endurance.

What do world-class athletes and high-performing executives have in common? Pressure. And how they respond defines whether they collapse… or conquer.

In this transformational keynote, Sherry Winn—two-time Olympian and national championship coach—pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to develop unshakable resilience in leadership. You’ll discover how to harness challenges as fuel, shift from reactive to relentless, and build a culture that thrives—even in chaos.

Using raw personal stories, Olympic-level strategies, and battle-tested insights from coaching elite leaders, Sherry will help you uncover your inner drive to rise above setbacks, refocus fast, and lead with courage.

Speaker Bio:

Sherry Winn is a Two-Time Olympian, National Championship Coach, and CEO of the Winning Leadership Company. She captivates audiences by her edge-of-the-seat storytelling weaving empowering leadership messages throughout her presentation. Affectionately known as Coach Winn, she has earned her place as one of the go-to keynote speakers for conferences who want to begin or end on a high note.

Sherry is the author of three best-selling books including Unleash The
Winner Within You: A Success Game Plan for Business, Leadership, and Life. Her new book, Winning Leadership: Seven Secrets for Becoming a Truly Powerful Leader, has received rave reviews from business leaders, coaches, and authors. Sherry’s books provide real-world, practical advice that leaders can immediately implement. She has interviewed over 250 top leaders from Fortune 500 companies to small mom-and-pop businesses to discover the secrets that winning leaders utilize to engage and retain the absolute best people.

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She stepped into the world as a leader, first in sports where she attained the
highest level possible in athletics–The Olympic Games. She then led college
basketball programs for 23 years where she won a National Championship
and took her teams to three Elite Eights. Since 2012, she has delivered over
3,700 hours of leadership programs where she has developed Olympic-level
leaders.
Sherry has earned a reputation with C-Suite executives for her thoroughness
in teaching championship methods for successful leadership. Whether
working with a small company or a Fortune 500 company, Sherry enters
each collaborative effort with the same level of passion she used to become
a Two-Time Olympian.
Her strong skill of coaching leaders to be pragmatic and enthusiastic while
driving teams to achieve improbable outcomes makes her among the best in
the business. CEOs are astounded by how quickly Sherry gets to the root
issue of a sticky situation which allows the team to move forward in
collaboration.

Sherry has spoken to audiences as large as 14,000 and has spoken for
companies such as Dell, Hitachi, and Adobe, She has spoken in Gillette
Stadium, airplane hangars, baseball diamonds, and too many hotel
convention centers to mention. Organizations such as the Volunteers of
America, Florida Chamber of Commerce, Edward Jones
, and a host of multi-
million and billion-dollar companies invest in Sherry’s teachings each year.

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Unleash the Winner Within: How Brave Beliefs Ignite Elite-Level Leadership

Every gold medal moment starts with a belief. Not in talent. Not in luck. But in the unshakable truth that you are meant to lead, rise, and win. In this high-impact keynote, Two-Time Olympian and National Championship Coach Sherry Winn delivers her most requested, most transformational presentation: a blueprint for unlocking unbreakable confidence, bold conviction, and courageous leadership through the Brave BeliefsTM Framework.

With electric storytelling, Olympic grit, and leadership insights forged in fire, Sherry guides your audience through the mindset upgrade they didn’t know they needed—empowering them to trade fear for faith, stagnation for momentum, and burnout for purpose.

This is how the winner within becomes unstoppable.

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Inspiring the Chamber of Commerce With Brave Beliefs

AFTER THIS PROGRAM

you will be able to:

 

Clarify Priorities – Align your energy and focus with what matters most.

Break Through Barriers – Rewire limiting beliefs to unlock peak performance.

Embody Winning Habits – Shift from reactive to resilient thought patterns.

Lead With Relentless Conviction – Cultivate unshakable belief under pressure.

Inspire Others by Example – Create ripple effects of courage and excellence.

Audiences:

  • Executive Leadership Retreats
  • High-Achieving Team Conferences
  • Women in Leadership Events
  • Culture & Mindset Initiatives
  • College and University Leadership Summits

Custom-Built Options: Keynote or Onsite Strategic work Session Alternate Titles:

  • Three Secrets of Brave Beliefs That Lead to Success
  • Building a Can-do Attitude That Creates Victories 
Program Length:
  • This program can be tailored from 60 minutes (keynote/breakout) to half-day, full-day and two-day formats.

Your Audience Will Love Sherry's Passion and Energy

Winning Together: How Elite Leaders Build Teams That Thrive, Not Just Survive

Great teams don’t happen by accident—they’re built by leaders who understand the power of collaboration, communication, and consistency.

In this electrifying keynote, Two-Time Olympian and National Championship Coach Sherry Winn shows leaders how to transform fractured communication and siloed efforts into cohesive, championship-level execution.

You’ll learn the difference between surface-level collaboration and Olympic-level cohesion. Through unforgettable stories, tactical frameworks, and real-time mindset shifts, Sherry guides your team toward becoming a high-performance unit that communicates with clarity, leads with conviction, and wins with purpose.

If you want your leaders and teams to outpace, outlast, and outperform the competition, this is your keynote.

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Greg Louganis Gold Medal Diver 1984 and 1988
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Known as America’s Best Diver, Winner of Gold Medals in 1984 AND 1988

AFTER THIS PROGRAM

you will be able to:

 

Build Game-Winning Relationships that elevate productivity, performance, and trust.

Communicate Like Champions—say what matters, when it matters, in a way that sticks.

Encourage Creative Brilliance to unleash next-generation innovation.

Promote Inclusive Leadership that inspires collaboration across all levels and departments.

Exhibit the Olympic Determination required to dominate goals, crush deadlines, and elevate culture.

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Sharing Winning Leadership at the HFMA Conference in Las Vegas

Audiences:

  • Leadership Summits
  • Team Alignment Retreats
  • Sales & Operations Kickoffs
  • Change Management Events
  • High-Growth Organizations Seeking Culture Transformation

Custom-Built Options: 

  • Keynote or Onsite Strategic work Session 

Alternate Titles:

  • 5 Secrets To Collaboration that Builds Winning Teams
  • Building Teams That Win Every Goal and Double Their Productivity

Program Length:

  • This program can be tailored from 60 minutes (keynote/breakout) to half-day, full-
    day and two-day formats.

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Lead to Win: How to Engage and Elevate Your Dream Team to Olympic-Level Performance

Your dream team doesn’t just need direction—they need ignition.

In this inspiring and strategy-packed keynote, Two-Time Olympian and National Championship Coach Sherry Winn reveals what it really takes to create a high-performance culture built on trust, ownership, and deep engagement.

With today’s leaders battling burnout, disengagement, and turnover, this keynote delivers a transformational framework that empowers leaders to motivate from the inside out, inspire fierce loyalty, and lead teams that perform at their peak—consistently.

This is not about theory. It’s about action. You’ll walk away with tools that have been field-tested in Olympic locker rooms, corporate boardrooms, and with organizations across the globe—tools you can apply immediately to elevate your team’s energy, execution, and endurance.

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Inspiring Our Youth To Become Winning Leaders

John Assaraf:
NYT Bestselling Author, Multi-Business Owner, Known as “The Brain Whisperer”

AFTER THIS PROGRAM

you will be able to:

 

Ignite Intrinsic Motivation – Inspire your team to take initiative and perform at their best.

Create Emotional Buy-In – Build trust and connection that leads to loyalty and retention.

Drive Commitment Through Ownership – Empower your team to lead from every seat.

Turn Engagement into Execution – Align purpose with productivity to hit high-stakes goals.

Boost Innovation and Adaptability – Equip your team to thrive in change and lead with creativity.

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Motivating Staff to Engagement and Productivity

Audiences:

  • Organizations, Associations, small, medium, and large size companies who want to
    elevate to Olympic-level productivity and create winning leaders who build championship teams.

Also: Conference keynotes/breakouts, Association meetings, Corporate events,
Banquets, Incentive trips, Entertainment events, Stadiums and Venues, Colleges
and Universities.

Custom-Built Options:

  • Keynote or Onsite Strategic work Session

Alternate Titles:

  • Five Keys to Authentic Relationships
  • Five Secrets Visionaries Use to Inspire Gold Medal Performances

Program Length:

  • This program can be tailored from 60 minutes (keynote/breakout) to half-day, full-
    day and two-day formats.

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Olympic Resilience: How Elite Leaders Rise, Refocus, and Win Under Pressure

What do world-class athletes and high-performing executives have in common? Pressure. And how they respond defines whether they collapse… or conquer.

In this transformational keynote, Sherry Winn—two-time Olympian and national championship coach—pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to develop unshakable resilience in leadership. You’ll discover how to harness challenges as fuel, shift from reactive to relentless, and build a culture that thrives—even in chaos.

Using raw personal stories, Olympic-level strategies, and battle-tested insights from coaching elite leaders, Sherry will help you uncover your inner drive to rise above setbacks, refocus fast, and lead with courage.

Sharing the stage with Amberly Synder, Portrayed in the Movie, “Walk, Ride, Rodeo.”
 

1988 Olympics with Chris Everett

AFTER THIS PROGRAM

you will be able to:

 

Create Clarity That Outlasts Crisis: Define your leadership “North Star” so your team follows purpose—not panic.

Master Emotional Agility: Lead through change with calm conviction and strategic response.

Turn Pressure into Performance: Learn how to channel adversity into innovation, motivation, and team loyalty.

Strategize Like a Champion: Adjust on the fly, keep your team aligned, and accomplish goals faster—even when plans fall apart.

Lead with Fearless Presence: Become the stabilizing force your team counts on when the stakes are highest.

Audiences:

  • Executive Leadership Retreats
  • High-Achieving Team Conferences
  • Women in Leadership Events
  • Culture & Mindset Initiatives
  • College and University Leadership Summits

Custom-Built Options:

  • Keynote or Onsite Strategic work Session

Alternate Titles:

  • The Resilience Playbook for C-Suite Game Changers
  • Unlocking the Mental Grit of World-Class Leaders
  • From Burnout to Breakthrough: Resilience for Peak Performers

Program Length:

  • This program can be tailored from 60 minutes (keynote/breakout) to half-day, full-day and two-day formats.