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A world-first story of survival, paralysis, and peak performance delivered to boardrooms, leadership teams, and live events across Australia and internationally.

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  • Why Jay

NOT JUST A STORY. A Framework.

Jay’s keynotes are not motivational speeches. They are systems for performance under pressure built across four years of rehabilitation, two world-first endurance achievements, and a life that refused to accept the word never.

Every room is different. Every keynote is tailored. Whether you’re leading a team through change, chasing targets with a sales force, or preparing athletes for high-stakes competition, Jay’s message lands because it was lived, not written.

American Express, Mars Wrigley, and Enovis didn’t book Jay for inspiration. They booked him because his story translates directly into the language of performance and their teams left ready to prove it.

  • Keynote Topics

Three keynotes. One Unforgettable Message

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Building Resilience

Thriving Under Pressure

What to do when momentum disappears and the work still needs doing. 

  • Turning setbacks into opportunities
  • Developing mental toughness
  • Embracing challenges as a path to growth
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Leadership

Inspiring Action Through Adversity

Accountability, ownership, and performance when pressure doesn’t lift and excuses would be easy. 

  • Taking ownership and accountability
  • Leading by example in difficult situations
  • Motivating teams to perform under pressure
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Achieving the Impossible

Overcoming Limits

Four years of evidence distilled into a framework for greater possibility.

  • Breaking limits, from Everest to ultramarathons.
  • The mindset required to tackle extraordinary challenges
  • Turning ambition into action and results
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Key Takeaways

Audience Outcomes

Audiences leave with practical resilience strategies, leadership insights, and renewed motivation to embrace challenges and achieve more together.

  • Practical strategies to overcome challenges and thrive under
  • Tools to build resilient, high-performing teams
  • Motivation to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
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  • Who Jay Speaks For

BUILT FOR YOUR AUDIENCE

Jay speaks to rooms that need more than inspiration or motivation.

CORPORATE EVENTS

Off-sites, national team meetings, and performance culture events. Jay reframes rejection, pressure, and targets in a way that produces action, not just energy. 

SALES TEAMS

Sales kick-offs, national team days, and performance culture events. Jay reframes rejection, pressure, and targets in a way that motivates action.

SPORTS TEAMS

Pre-season, finals preparation, and team culture sessions. Athletes respond to Jay’s story in a way few other speakers can achieve.

 

SCHOOLS & YOUTH

School assemblies, graduation events, and youth leadership programs. Jay’s message about belief and persistence is honest about how hard the work actually is showcasing how commitment and discipline can allow you to achieve anything you put your mind to.

  • Leadership Keynote

I had the privilege of engaging Jay for a recent keynote session to my staff. Jay has a rare ability to blend personal storytelling with powerful insights, and the topic of growth and resilience in the face of change could not have been more timely or impactful. Through compelling anecdotes and practical strategies, Jay shared invaluable lessons on navigating difficult circumstances, staying focused in the face of uncertainty, and embracing change as an opportunity for growth.

Nathan Taggart

General Manager · Distribution & Marketing

  • Leadership Keynote

We recently had the privilege of hosting Jay as a guest speaker, and the feedback has been outstanding. Jay has a real ability to turn his personal journey into broader lessons we can all learn from — particularly around resilience, perspective, grit, and staying focused on what truly matters.

Kylie Matheson

Business Manager · Marketing & Device Tech

  • Business Event

Jay, thank you so much for sharing your story with us at Belle Property. Resilience, mindset, gratitude and perspective… Your mentioned and powerful story about your tragic accident and the path back to where you are today, really cut through with the team and got them to understand that everyone has the strength and will to be successful in any plan.

Nathan Sahyoun

Principal & Real Estate Agent
Belle Property Parramatta

  • Industry Conference

It is with great enthusiasm that I recommend Jay Stevens as an outstanding and inspiring public speaker. His genuine honesty, authenticity, and pragmatic motivational messages make him a valuable addition to any event or organisation aiming to inspire and empower individuals to realise and surpass their full potential.

Dana Radford

Associate Marketing Director
Johnson & Johnson Vision

  • Leadership Keynote

Mars Wrigley had the honor of having Jay join our recent Sales and Marketing conference to share his incredible story with our Associates, compelling, authentic and spellbinding. Strong messaging on resilience and team work told in a compassionate way resonated for the team both personally and professionally….I can’t recommend Jay enough and he’s a bloody great bloke!

Andrew Leakey

General Manager
Mars Wrigley Australia

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Building Resilience

Thriving Under Pressure

In the rehab ward, there are no shortcuts. Progress is invisible for weeks at a time. The work continues regardless. That is exactly what this keynote is about. 

Jay draws on four years of rehabilitation to examine what performing under sustained pressure actually requires — not the surge of courage that arrives in a crisis, but the daily discipline of showing up when there is no momentum to rely on. It is a framework built from evidence, not theory. 

What the audience leaves with

  • How to stay consistent when motivation disappears and results are slow
  • The mindset shift that turns adversity from a setback into a signal
  • Practical tools for building resilience as a daily practice, not a response to crisis
  • How discipline and accountability create performance when conditions don't improve

Best Fit

Leadership conferences, sales off-sites, corporate events, high-performance teams, healthcare, finance and technology organisations, and any business navigating change.

Leadership

Inspiring Action Through Adversity

True leadership is not revealed in the good moments. It is revealed in the moments when the situation is difficult, the outcome is uncertain, and the easiest thing to do is pass the responsibility to someone else. 

This keynote challenges leaders and teams to rethink accountability, ownership, and what it actually looks like to lead when the pressure is highest. Jay draws on the structures he built to get himself through rehabilitation structures that are directly transferable to any team operating under sustained pressure. 

What the audience leaves with

  • How to build accountability structures that hold when conditions change
  • What leading by example looks like when there is no guarantee of the outcome
  • How to build trust and culture within teams under sustained pressure
  • The difference between motivation and ownership and why only one is reliable

Best Fit

Executive leadership events, management summits, team-building conferences, corporate retreats, and organisations focused on culture and performance.

Achieving the Impossible

Overcoming Limits

The ceiling on human performance is almost always set by the mind before the body has had a chance to weigh in. Jay has tested this personally from a hospital bed to Everest Base Camp, from learning to walk again to completing a 78km ultramarathon as the first paraplegic in history. 

This keynote is not about inspiration. It is about method. The mechanics of pursuing a goal that seems unreachable: how to structure the work, how to act before you feel ready, and how small daily decisions create outcomes that once seemed impossible. 

What the audience leaves with

  • A framework for setting and pursuing goals that currently feel out of reach
  • How to develop the courage to act before conditions feel right
  • The compounding effect of small daily discipline on extraordinary outcomes
  • How to shift the team's conversation from what's impossible to what's next

Best Fit

Sales conferences, innovation events, sporting organisations, entrepreneurial forums, educational institutions, and high-impact leadership events.