Steven Bradbury

Session Highlights: A fully interactive show including videos, music, comedy and audience participation. You will actually hold, and have your photo taken wearing my Olympic Gold Medal. How I broke my neck, lost 4 litres of blood on the ice and trained 5hrs a day, 6 days a week for 12 years to become an overnight success. Outcomes: The saying 'Doing A Bradbury' is now in the Australian slang dictionary. Learn how to put yourself in position to be the next to 'Do A Bradbury'. Business success and strategy learned through my custom speed skate and cycling shoe company. Now exporting to 22 countries. A tailored solution for a target market. Sustaining a culture of success and positive mindset. Leadership: A successful leader, leads by example not just be telling others what to do. Setting goals and having a plan written down is not optional. I have been dubbed the 'Luckiest' Olympic Gold Medallist. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Career Highlights: 4 time Olympian Southern Hemisphere's 1st Winter Olympic Gold Medalist - Gold mens 1000m - Salt Lake City Australia's 1st Winter Olympic Medalist - Bronze 5000m Relay - Lillehammer As well as being entertained and inspired you will leave with the knowledge the much of the prize is in the journey and success takes Passion, Persistence and Teamwork.

Steven presents on teamwork being a key ingredient of success. Whether in business or sport, in order to succeed you need a team of people around you for help and support. Steven’s team (coach, parents, physio, equipment manager and teammates) were not on the ice with him when he won his Gold Medal but without them, he could not have won Australia’s 1st Winter Olympic Gold Medal. Steven teamed up with his friend and former skater Clint Jensen. They were finding it difficult and expensive to get the speed skating boots they needed, so they began making their own carbon fibre, custom-moulded speed skates. A year later Clint and Steven started skating on their own boots, straight away other skaters approached them and asked: can I buy a pair of your boots? Steven and Clint said: Ok, and formed the Revolutionary Boot Company (RBC). Many years later RBC was sold, by this point RBC exported custom cycling shoes and speed skating boots to over 25 countries and athletes wearing RBC won more than 50 Olympic and World Championship medals. Steven’s success in business adds impact and credibility to his presentations by having lived it! At the Lillehammer Winter Olympics, Steven was the pre-race favourite to win the 1000 Metre event. Unfortunately, he was intentionally knocked down by another skater in the 1st round of the competition. The enormous disappointment he felt, had to be overcome quickly in order to pull himself together for the 5000 Metres team relay. Steven and his teammates went on to win Australia’s 1st ever Winter Olympic Medal by claiming bronze. On your television screen, it was Steven alone who took Gold in Salt Lake City. In today’s competitive world success cannot be achieved if you take it on by yourself. Steven resonates in the minds of his audience that an efficient behind-the-scenes team is not optional. Steven believes that often Aussies are not very good at sharing with each other what we are good at - Just in case someone calls us a show off - you know that dreaded tall poppy syndrome. Then there are those who won’t help others because they want to win the employee of the year award and get the accolades for themselves. Every organisation will succeed or fail on how its people, systems and processes work together. A team is only as good as its weakest link. Steven believes sharing your skills and helping your colleagues because you are better at something than them is not showing off, that is karma, and it will come back to you. Starting in 2019 Steven co-founded a brewery and beer company. Last Man Standing Lager is growing quickly the long-term goal is for Last Man Standing to be the beer sponsor of the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane. Big goal, big dream!

Steven competed for Australia at 4, count them, 4 Winter Olympic Games. He trained 5 hours a day, 6 days a week for 12 years and then, suddenly he became an overnight success. Your audience will be left with a lasting impression that much of the prize is in the journey and if you show up every day and give it your best then it’s only a matter of time until you create your own version of ‘doing a Bradbury’ and like Steven become, the Last Man Standing.

After dinner speaker and entertainer is Steven’s specialty. Your audience will be entertained and motivated by stories from Steven’s: - Childhood. - Olympic experiences. - Recent marriage and becoming a father. - Meeting Russell Crowe and Richard Branson. - Riding in a Formula 1 racing car. - You will actually touch Steven’s Olympic Gold Medal. - Relive the famous race through Steven’s eyes whilst watching it on DVD. Steven enjoys the inspiration he gives his audience through his amazing life story and has brilliantly combined this with a natural, unpolished, very Australian speaking style.

One of Steven’s strengths is speaking from the heart. His passion for his sport and business pursuits is known to many Australians. Steven motivates his audience with this same passion. His amazing journey touches a chord with people from all walks of life. We all have our own personal goals and in order to achieve them there will always be some difficult times on the journey. Without passion for your pursuits, you will give up during difficult times. Steven’s story is a prime example to all, that if you have passion for what you do and you ‘stick it out’ then you too can be the Last Man Standing.

The Bradbury story is one of the true Aussie battler who overcomes all kinds of adversity to achieve the ultimate goal. Some people have described Steven’s victory as lucky. Winning Olympic gold took a lot more than just luck. Four Olympic campaigns and 12 years of hard training including an Olympic Bronze in 1994, 111 stitches in his leg and in the year 2000 a broken neck are testimony to that hard work and persistence. 18 months after breaking it that same neck was supporting an Olympic Gold Medal.

Steven’s story is motivation on steroids! If you are looking for a motivational speaker you don’t need to look any further, Steven is a ‘must see’. Just another speaker, Steven most certainly is not. He very much enjoys the inspiration that his story brings an audience, through his natural, unpolished and down-to-earth account of the realisation of his Olympic dream, he brings messages of passion, persistence and teamwork which undoubtedly equals success. His story really resonates with any audience.

Steven Bradbury has mastered the business of Motivational Speaking | MC | After dinner speaker, however, his other business experience and success are not as widely known. Through his own business making custom-made speed skating boots Steven is able to talk from experience. Initially, he identified a personal need to fulfil his own requirements and soon thereafter identified and tailored a solution for a target market of speed skaters around the world. After experiencing difficulty getting skating boots from overseas, Steven and a fellow skater Clint Jensen decided to try making their own. Five years after kicking off the Revolutionary Boot Company (RBC) www.rbcsport.com skaters wearing RBC boots won 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze medals at the 2002 Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games. This was sweetened by one of those gold medals being won by Steven himself. RBC was bought by a Chinese manufacturer in 2012. By this time RBC was exporting custom Long Track, Short Track and Inline boots as well as custom cycling shoes for Road, Track, BMX and Triathlon to 30+ countries. In 2019 Steven launched Last Man Standing Australian Lager - www.lmsbrewing.com.au Now for sale in around 130 bottle shops between Cairns and Coffs Harbour and on tap in 35 venues in Sth East Qld including the Caxton Hotel, The Pineapple Hotel and The Southport Yacht Club. Soon to launch in WA, NSW and Victoria. The dream is for the Last Man Standing Lager to be the official Olympic beer for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics! The ‘Bradbury’ movie is in production, a script written and it's currently in the budgeting phase. This project has been on again, off again for many years so Steven is very excited about it finally coming to life and getting into cinemas across the globe in early 2023. The movie will be a positive experience that parents can take their children along to watch and say: ‘If you are prepared to work hard every day, something like that can happen to you too’. At 45 years of age, Steven’s experiences as a 4-time Olympian, businessman and life experience bring a fresh and uniquely Australian feel to the corporate world that can dovetail nicely into your --- - Graduate programs - Leadership programs - Senior Executive programs - Staff Motivation Conforming with what you already know works, and learning to do it better are the building blocks that thrust the ‘Last Man Standing’ onto your television screen. That historic moment coined the saying that now appears in the Macquarie Dictionary, ‘Doing a Bradbury’. Now there is an opportunity for Steven to help your team members do their own version of ‘A Bradbury’ and realise their full potential. A successful leader leads by example, not by simply telling the team what needs to be done.

Steven now works with comedian Fred Lang. He weaves motivation into some very funny material. He does not atest to being a Stand Up Comedian, but when it comes to standing up……. he is arguably the most famous person on the planet for doing that ! His timing and pausing is outstanding and his childhood, pending fatherhood and post Olympic stories are hilarious. Please keep Steven in mind for clients who might be after some comedy, funny Olympic yarns and a celebrity edge.

After competing for Australia at 3 Winter Olympic Games, including being the pre-race favourite at the 1994 Winter Olympics Steven had not realized his goal of Olympic Gold. In September of the year 2000, he went head first into the barrier during a training crash and broke his neck. He spent 6 weeks in a halo brace. During this time he realized that everything had always been about winning and whilst he had been World Champion and won an Olympic Bronze he had competed at the Olympics (the biggest stage in the world) 3 times and had never skated his best during the Olympics. Realising his chances of winning Olympic Gold had passed Steven decided that he had worked too hard for too long to finish his career without at least racing his best at the Olympics. After his neck had healed Steven had a new goal and a new motivation. Winning Gold or in fact, any medal was no longer of interest to Steven. He simply wanted to get off the ice after 1 race, at the Olympics and be able to say to himself - I have done my best-. In 2002, in Salt Lake City he achieved his goal when in the 1000 metre quarter-finals he beat, Marc Gagnon, a 4-time world champion from Canada and qualified for the semi-finals. Steven with luck on his side went on to win that elusive Gold Medal and it was the ultimate way to finish his skating career. The race Steven dreams about at night is the little publicized quarter-final when he was finally able to put his demons to rest and skate his best at the Olympics. In Business or Sport, if at the end of the day, you can say honestly to yourself, ‘I did my best’, then you are the winner.