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Doc Hendley        

Global Humanitarian; Founder & President of Wine To Water; Clean Water Crusader; Top 10 CNN Hero

Doc Hendley helps teams and organizations harness their collective potential and inspire meaningful action through the power of individual initiative and shared purpose.

Hendley is the Founder and President of Wine To Water, a global non-profit committed to providing sustainable clean water solutions worldwide. Wine To Water focuses on creating a holistic, community-based model by supporting the life and dignity of all through the power of clean water. Their teams around the globe integrate strategies for social, environmental, and economic impacts through access to clean water.

Wine To Water began with simple wine tastings and a humble donation jar. The organization has since expanded its methodology to include assembling water filters during team-building activities, contributing further to its global impact. Wine To Water has now impacted over 1.6 million lives in 51 countries. While developing water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions (WASH) in direct partnership with local leaders, Wine To Water also supports environmental sustainability, improved education, women’s empowerment, better healthcare, and economic growth.

For his significant contributions to global humanitarian efforts, Doc Hendley was named one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2009, chosen from over 9,000 applicants by a panel of judges, including General Colin Powell, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner, and Sir Elton John. Hendley has also authored books including "Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World" and "Hell or High Water: How One Man Turned Wine Into Water And Transformed Customers Into Crusaders," detailing his journey and the work of Wine To Water. His engaging speaking topics, such as "Digging for Hope: Turning Wine to Water & Other Modern Day Miracles," encapsulate the transformative power of simple ideas and individual determination in addressing complex global issues.

Speech Topics

Digging for Hope

Turning Wine to Water & Other Modern Day Miracles

In this inspirational keynote, Wine To Water founder Doc Hendley teaches audiences a simple but profound principle for improving the world: do what they can with what they have. As the founder of an international fundraising organization that had humble origins, Hendley illustrates the immense power of relationships to transcend perceived barriers, proving the power of one to transform the impossible into the inevitable.

Hell or High Water

How One Man Turned Wine into Water and Transformed Customers into Crusaders

Doc Hendley was once a small-town bartender with a dream of changing the world through clean water. Through a series of simple wine-tasting events to raise funds for clean-water projects that he launched in North Carolina, he has created an international fundraising organization that provides clean water and sanitation to people in need around the world. In this speech, Hendley shares insights on how others can put simple ideas into action and use it to solve problems on the local, national, and international level.

Turning Passion Into Action

The Wine To Water Filter Build® Experience

Filter Builds engage participants as volunteers in a meaningful, impactful team-building experience that leads to the empowerment of communities around the globe through the power of clean water.

The WTW Filter Build® Experience offers a meaningful, hands-on approach to impacting communities around the world with clean water. Whether your Filter Build® event is for a team of 25, a wedding party of 100, a reunion of 350 classmates, or 14,000 co-workers and vendors meeting up at your global conference – this team-building, purpose-driven event is a great way to build relationships, purpose, and passion as you connect and give back.

In just 5 minutes, you have the power to change someone’s life for generations.

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