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David Rutherford        

Motivational Speaker, Former Navy SEAL Medic & Behavioral Training Specialist

David Rutherford is a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor with over 20 years of security and training expertise. Since his honorable service he has gone on to develop a very successful motivational training and coaching business based on 30 years of exploring, researching, and teaching what components within the human condition cause failure and drive success.

His most notable achievement was acting as a motivational coach for the Boston Red Sox 2018 World Series Championship. Rutherford's unique message has reached over 50 million people worldwide through corporate speaking, award-winning podcasts, and other forms of media content.

Speech Topics

Forging Team Culture

Every team wants to develop great culture, especially during times of major change, powerful growth, and difficult markets. The SEAL Teams are known for their intense focus and overwhelming commitment towards achieving mission success. In his entertaining and insightful talk, David outlines a procedure how teams can develop strong bonds that produce maximal success.

TEAM LIFE

Every great individual in history has required a comprehensive commitment toward living a team oriented lifestyle in order to achieve elite levels of success. Not many teams are greater than the SEAL Teams. The brotherhood thrives on this elite standard of performance. Forged on the battlefields and in blood, listen as David helps his audiences redefine their personal and professional concepts of what living the Team Life means to them. The Missions include: 1. Commitment 2. Training 3. Communication 4. Leadership. Additionally, in this powerful talk, David profiles four Navy SEAL Medal of Honor stories to help illustrate the critical importance of functioning as a team to achieve never before imagined levels of personal and professional success. Time Frame: Optimal 60 minutes - Minimum 45 minutes

TEAM CULTURE

Every team wants to understand what it takes to develop great culture, especially during times when major changes are occurring. The SEAL Teams are known for their intense focus and overwhelming commitment to achieving success. In this insightfully provocative keynote, David exposes the pathway of developing great culture based on his 25 years of experience and research in dealing with top teams. He outlines the process by exploring our individual perception of these strategic concepts to include pain, willingness, failure, submission, awakening, truth, and sacrifice. David details this process by utilizing not only great examples from the SEAL Teams, but also from the CIA, professional sports, and his extensive coaching background. Time Frame: Optimal 60 minutes - Minimum 45 minutes

THE NEVER QUIT MINDSET

What makes a person or team quit? This is one of the most challenging psychological questions for any individual or team to answer. After spending a lifetime of competition and exposure to the most difficult environments imaginable, David has developed a clear understanding of the Never Quit Mindset. He combines his extensive never quit background with over four years of conducting interviews with some of the greatest Never Quit individuals known to create several profiles that best represent the various character traits that exemplify the Never Quit mentality. Time Frame: Optimal 45 minutes - Minimum 30 minutes

EMBRACE FEAR

What is the number one thing that stops you and your team from taking risks and elevating your performance? FEAR. Fear is widely recognized as the primary limiting factor in human success. Due to certain physiological and behavioral realities, fear can never be defeated. However, Navy SEALs have mastered the ability to operate with it by learning how to embrace their fears in order to utilize it as an explosive factor in their elite operational, training, and lifestyle performances. David spent 20 years personally exploring fear and 2 years researching fear to create this profound speech, which helps audiences begin to embrace their fear. The Missions include: 1. Search for The Truth 2. Accept Your Reality 3. Retrain Your Brain 4. Test Yourself 5. Live with Courage Time Frame: Optimal 60 minutes - Minimum 45 minuntes

PERFORMANCE DATA

Within all signigifcant Special Operations training programs performance data is used to track and motivate indiviuals to excel beyond their known capabilities. The numbers don’t lie. Join David as he explains the necessity for hard data as it relates to establishing, developing, and solidifying a physical, mental, and emotional state of elite performance. David outlines how clear guidelines and requirments enhance training profiles, improve discipline, and lead to enhanced individual and team execution in the most difficult operational environments. David pulls data from over 20 years of instructing elite operators, intelligence operatives, top executives, and collegiate and professional athletes. Time Frame: Optimal 45 minutes - Minimum 30 minute

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