Seven-time Tour de France winner and podcast host — an unflinching account of winning, losing everything, and rebuilding
Lance Armstrong is one of the most recognisable athletes in the world — a seven-time Tour de France winner who overcame Stage 3 testicular cancer to reach the pinnacle of professional cycling, founded the Livestrong Foundation which raised over half a billion dollars for cancer research, and then lost it all in the doping scandal that stripped him of his titles and resulted in his banishment from the sport. His story is one of extraordinary highs and a fall from grace that played out on the world stage.
What Armstrong brings to keynote audiences is something rarer than a champion's tale — it is a story told with full accountability. He is 100 per cent clear that he is responsible for what happened, how it happened, and why. He now leads WEDU, a global content and media platform, and hosts two popular podcasts — The Move and The Forward. He is also the managing partner at Next Ventures, an investment fund focused on human optimisation, wellness, and athletics.
Lance Armstrong speaks with a candour that few figures of his stature are willing to offer. He addresses the mechanics of winning — and what happens when a win-at-all-costs mentality corrodes leadership and destroys trust. Audiences come away with an understanding of what genuine accountability looks like, and what it takes to rebuild a life and a reputation after the very worst has happened. For organisations working through their own questions of integrity, culture, or comeback, his talk lands with weight.
Lance Armstrong is a keynote speaker based overseas who speaks on leadership, mental health & wellbeing and motivation. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
How do you come back from your biggest mistakes? When confronted with losing everything, some people give up—while others use those setbacks as inspiration to reach new goals. In cycling, Lance Armstrong was the “comeback king” when he overcame testicular cancer to win the Tour de France seven times. In the process, he became one of the most well-known athletes in the world. However, his biggest comeback was not athletic but personal when he came back from the doping scandal that stripped him of his Tour de France titles. After going from hero to zero, he worked hard to take responsibility for his mistakes, learn from them, and rise again with his new podcasts and organization WEDŪ. In this revealing talk, Lance tells stories from his career and shares what it takes to come back from your mistakes. Audiences will learn that you need to be honest, vulnerable, and stay positive in order to come back even stronger than before.
The key to leading a team is honesty. While Lance was doing all the right things to win as a team —working hard, good tactics, great teammates—he was doing the worst thing you can do as a leader: lying. He lied to himself, his team, and his supporters. His win-at-all-costs mentality eventually lost him his cycling titles and resulted in his banishment from the sport. He learned how the decisions you make as a leader can have an impact on everyone—from your team to your fans to your family. In this brutally honest talk, Lance shares what he learned about himself, winning, and leadership as he had to confront his wrongdoing. Audiences will come away with what it takes to lead and work as a team: communication, persistence, and most of all honesty.
How do you become—and stay—resilient in your body and mind? Lance Armstrong became one of the best-known athletes in the world for his hard work and mental strength as a cyclist. He learned from the best coaches and athletes how to stay healthy and mentally strong. While today Lance no longer competes and is just happy to finish a race, he still practices what he learned as a professional athlete to stay fit. In this candid talk by Lance, audiences will come away with world-class coaching on how to train effectively, improve their health, stay mentally strong, and maintain their fitness throughout life.
In this no-holds-barred, no questions off-limits fireside chat, Lance Armstrong will answer anything audiences want to know about his entire career. Interviewers can go deep on any topic. You can learn how Lance overcame cancer, his time as a professional cyclist, his experience with the Livestrong charity, his banishment from the sport, and his new activities as podcast host of The Move and The Forward or his Next Ventures investing.
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