Ryan captivates an audience both young and old. I highly recommend him for your corporate event.
Ryan Campbell
Youngest Solo Pilot to Circumnavigate the Globe, One of Australia's 50 Great Explorers, Plane Crash Survivor, Incomplete Paraplegic, and Best-Selling Author
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Ryan Campbell
Biography
Ryan Campbell is one of the world’s leading mental health and resilience keynote speakers. His gripping story of adventure and adversity leaves audiences in laughter, tears, and inspired into action. As a teenager, Ryan became the youngest solo pilot to fly around the world and was named one of Australia's 50 great explorers. But everything changed after a tragic plane crash that left him with a paraplegic diagnosis, told he would never walk again.
Over the next several years, Ryan’s incredible recovery back to walking and flying again defied the odds. While he ticked the boxes that defined success, his mental health had never been worse. Like many in today’s world, Ryan was struggling with burnout, anxiety, and depression.
His missing puzzle piece wasn’t found in a massive global expedition or miraculous recovery. Ryan’s greatest lesson was parked right in his driveway.
Today, Ryan speaks to organizations around the world about the life-changing power of prioritizing joy. Through the story of his Elvis-inspired 1960 pink Cadillac, he shares accessible and attainable frameworks that will immediately improve mental health, fuel performance, and transform culture.
Through harnessing the power of joy, Ryan helps audiences shift their thinking so that they can step back in order to show up better. All by asking one simple question…
What’s Your Pink Cadillac?
Ryan Campbell
Featured Keynote Programs
What's Your Pink Cadillac?
Signature Keynote
The joy-fueled resilience hidden in our hobbies, interests, and simple pleasures.
In a fast-paced world where our challenges are relentless and the solutions seem out of reach, Ryan delivers a message of accessible, attainable change. From the highest highs to the most unimaginable lows, Ryan uses his story to highlight to realities of adversity and the role of resilience. A message built on the importance of mental health and self-care, What’s Your Pink Cadillac? uncovers the most unexpected, transformational tool discovered in the most unexpected place, the purchase of a 1960 Pink Cadillac. Get ready to smile like a kid, step back and show up better.
As a result of this program, attendees will
- Develop a new understanding of adversity and the role of resilience
- Implement a Mindset Toolbox approach to tracking mental growth
- Discover the hidden power of our hobbies, interests, and simple pleasures
- Identify, and share, their own personal Pink Cadillacs
- Identify the five steps to driving our Pink Cadillacs
Turbulence Tough Teams
Using today's turbulence to help tackle tomorrow's storms.
Resilience is our ability to endure, bounce back, and most importantly, be better because of our experiences. Ryan takes the audience on a journey of understanding, accepting, and developing the ownership required to use adversity to fuel performance. From tales of real-life 60,000-foot thunderstorms over the Pacific Ocean to five months in hospital and eighteen months in spinal rehabilitation, Ryan shares his toolbox approach to analyzing, extracting, and storing tools from everyday moments.
As a result of this program, attendees will
- Understand the nature and role of resilience
- Learn Ryan’s process for analyzing, extracting, and storing turbulence-tackling tools
- Reframe adversity from burden to opportunity
- Build self-confidence in both achieving and overcoming
A Tribe That Thrives
Using our Pink Cadillacs to create a culture that inspires our best work.
We all long for a sense of purpose, passion, and place in our everyday lives. These are elements that allow us to thrive in our personal and professional existence and show up at our best. What’s Your Pink Cadillac? is a conversation that uncovers endless opportunities to bond with like-minded individuals through shared hobbies, interests, and simple pleasures. It is an extremely fun conversation that not only highlights the importance of finding your tribe but allows you an opportunity to begin that journey during the session.
As a result of this program, attendees will
- Transform something once seen as ‘selfish’ to ‘essential’
- Learn things about their colleagues that they NEVER knew
- Begin to discover their tribe
- Be encouraged to step back, prioritize joy, and show up better as a result
- Understand the benefits to mental health, performance and culture
Ryan Campbell
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Born To Fly
by Ryan Campbell
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