Sam Cawthorn

Sam is a thought leader and expert in not only bouncing back, but bouncing forward. He is the CEO for Empowering Enterprises and has been featured in USA Today and the New York Times. He is also a State Winner for the Young Australian of the Year.

Sam's life changed forever when he was involved in a major car accident, where he was pronounced dead. He was thankfully resuscitated, but left with an amputated right arm and a permanent disability in his right leg.

Sam was hospitalised for over 5 months and was told that he may not survive the best case being that if he was to survive he would never walk again. A year later he defied all odds taking his first steps into a new life, where his story would continue to INSPIRE and change the lives of Australians and people all over the world.

It was Sam's difficult journey that enabled him to develop a mental resilience and strength that gave him the tools to miraculously recover from an accident that could have taken his life. Sam's story is simple, yet his message demonstrates the awesome power and strength found within the human spirit when faced with the choice to continue living as a victim of a tragic accident, or to make a choice to seize the opportunity of 'life'.

Forever the opportunist Sam chose LIFE, and is now a hugely successful keynote speaker, reaching thousands of people every year.

Sam has a diverse background within the Australian Federal Government as a Youth Futurist and is also a highly skilled musician, and one of the only people in the world who retaught himself to play the guitar with an above elbow amputation.

Sam is at the forefront of global trends and has the unique ability to transform impossibilities into possible realities. Sam's thought leadership is in corporate & personal turnarounds and his message called BOUNCE. He flies around the world sharing his expertise and his passion in 'Bouncing Forward'.

Sam's passion also stretches as far as India where he has set up his own foundation supporting people living with a disability in some of the poorest places on earth.

Sam walks his talk, and it is through his experience that his authentic message is heard. After all we only have one life...

PROGRAMS:

BOUNCE!

BOUNCE is offered as a keynote and also a follow-up workshop. BOUNCE focuses on fixing the limits that we currently have. It provides bullet proof strategies to unleash those who are stuck and will awaken those who feel they are not adequate enough to push the limits to maximise their potential and productivity.

Sam speaks about his personal triumphs and takes attendees on a journey of discovery through their own lives. He speaks about a principle of not just bouncing back from crises, but Bouncing Forward through innovation, creativity and thought leadership. There are many inspiring stories, thought provoking ideas and challenges that keep listeners on the edge of their seats. His interactive and highly energetic conversations is capped off with a huge surprise of music and watching one of the only people in the world play the guitar with one hand.

In the BOUNCE Workshops, Sam unpacks:
The BluePrint to the 5 Bounce Principles to bounce higher, greater and better than ever before
The three major pillars to strengthen your team and break any limits are stopping maximum potential
The four unknown characteristics to building an unstoppable resilient team and creating innovative ideas to move forward
The importance of Positive Psychology and the impact it can have in productivity and optimum performance

THE Positive Competitive Advantage

Happy students show 3 times more creativity then their unhappy counterparts.
Optimistic sales people outsell their peers by 37%.

Coal miners that are told that they are more appreciated by their bosses, increase their productivity by 30%.
Students primed to be positive, score better on maths tests.

Happy doctors perform more accurate diagnoses then unhappy doctors.

Harvard university studies show that if you are primed to be positive and happy before a test, you will perform better up to 50%. Study after study shows that if you think positively before entering into a challenge you have a 50% better chance of succeeding than your counterparts.

In order to operate our brains on an optimum level, we need to be in a happiness or positive mindset.

In this session, Sam Cawthorn shares the keys to keeping an open mind in developing ?positive vision?. His interactive style explores how to think creatively around negative issues that may be inhibiting positive outcomes. Key outcomes include:

How to develop a mindset for positive opportunity
The keys to Navigating Positive change
Living as an opportunist
How to move past the road blocks that shut perception and focus down

Client Ovations: Your story should be one that inspires everyone and it was delivered with wonderful enthusiasm, humour and humility. Our clients appreciated having an opportunity to hear from a "non-financial" speaker who can offer a different perspective on life and what is important

CEO Shadforths Limited

Sam's presentation is one that inspires and motivates all in a story of great courage and determination, his enthusiastic style and love of life is second to none.

CEO Beaconsfeild Foundation

Sam has that unique ability to have everyone on their feet laughing one minute and then listening attentively in silence the next. He touched and inspired everyone in the auditorium from our young trainees to the oldest member of the audience with his honest, funny and moving stories

CEO Work & Training

Sam has the energy, ability and story that captivate audiences. He is a master of the platform.

International Ambassador - The International Federation For Professional Speakers.

Sam has a way of spekaing that not only inspires but makes you feel like you've known him for years after the first smile. His message is one that is at once simple enough to be grasped by everyone who has ever struggled with a problem in their lives, yet profound enough that they could dedicate their lives to follow it.

Learning and Development Leader Google

Thank you for doing such a brilliant job closing our NSAA convention. Your confident, cheeky style and very powerful personal story was exactly what we needed to end our 4 day event. I wish you every success with your international speaking engagements in 2009 and with your guitar playing.

Executive Officer - National Speakers Association Australia NSAA

You are a profoundly loving, giving human being. I feel humbled to comment on the amazing gift that you gave us this afternoon. Your soul is beaming out of you. I have to say that you are incredibly unique in your ability to have people see you! You said SO many 'wow' factor stories that had so many learning's in them. You are so fresh, your material is so unique – it's you... I could go on and on about your technical ability, but I believe that you have an innate intuitiveness to know what the audience needs. You have a power that is rare and a gift that is even rarer. Please know that you will go on to help people to heal and deal with their pains and their denials. Your humour, your modulation, your depth, your intellect, your compassion, your courage – this all adds up to create a speaker of the best international standard. You will be one of the world's greatest speakers and influences. I know this from the deepest part of my soul. Thank you. I feel blessed.

Terry Hawkins - Mind Language, International Speaker

WOW what an amazing story! Sam was very inspiring and also very engaging, had people laughing but also his story is very moving and makes people look at their own life in a very different light and take every moment as a new challenge!

Events Manager - Commonwealth Bank

You are the most extraordinary person that I've ever met. Your courage and will to overcome adversity is commendable. I truly feel privileged to have witnessed such an amazing talent. You are changing the world one person at a time. You've changed me.

Senior Customer Solutions Engineer, Google

He is gorgeous! Heard him before and he is so inspiring.

Intimo

You are the most extrordinary person that I've ever met. Your courage and will to overcome adversity is commendable. I truly feel privileged to have witnessed such an amazing talent. You are changing the world one person at a time. You've changed us.

GOOGLE