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Steve Mellor      

Personal & Professional Growth Speaker; Founder of Career Competitor; Author of "SHOCK THE WORLD! A Competitor's Guide to Realizing Your Potential"

Coach Steve Mellor is a natural-born competitor who embodies the philosophy that growth and optimal performance can be achieved in all areas of life. His dedication to realizing the potential in himself and others has earned him a reputation as a highly effective coach.

Originally from England, Mellor has spent much of the past two decades in the United States as both a collegiate swimmer and swim coach. He competed for four years at North Carolina State before devoting the following ten years to becoming Associate Head Coach at Louisiana State University (LSU). During his tenure at LSU, Mellor's guidance helped athletes reach new heights in NCAA and SEC Swimming, and he was instrumental in propelling Brooks Curry to become the university's first-ever American Olympic swimmer and win an Olympic Gold Medal with Team USA.

In October 2021, Mellor channeled his passion for optimizing individual performance into founding Career Competitor LLC. As an Executive Coach, Culture Consultant, and Keynote Speaker, Mellor leverages his background and years of elite coaching to help others reach their full potential. His company grew from the Career Competitor podcast, which launched in June of 2018 and features former athletes and established competitors discussing how they optimize their competitive and athlete-minded characteristics to achieve great heights in their careers.

In 2022, Mellor became an author with the release of his debut book, "SHOCK THE WORLD! A Competitor’s Guide to Realizing Your Potential," in which he takes readers through a series of “shocks” to prompt the pursuit of realizing one’s potential. The book presents three key areas of development Mellor believes we should target in pursuit of our potential: inward steps, process steps, and action steps. These three phases of personal development not only offer readers the direction they need to pursue their dreams, but it sheds light on what has been at the heart of Mellor’s coaching approach for years.

Whether it be his book, his current coaching work, the decades of involvement in elite sport, or just his DNA, Mellor oozes a passion for the pursuit of human potential. As a speaker, Mellor brings his enthusiasm and commitment towards maximizing potential through the form of intentional and inspiring content. A storyteller by nature, Mellor takes pride in connecting the experiences of himself and others with impactful lessons for audiences to latch onto and see themselves in as well. Mellor’s goal as a speaker is to implement positivity, banish doubt, establish accountability, and prompt change in the lives of those in attendance.

Mellor believes we all have an optimal self that is worth pursuing, it just requires knowing what it takes to move towards it.

Speech Topics


Ready When You Are

Growth waits for no one. The moment we assume optimal performance comes by sticking to “what we’ve always done” is the moment we stop growing.

It is vital we not only consider what is possible within teams and organizations, but also having our people READY to aspire towards what is possible.

By embracing a growth mindset, enhancing communication, and optimizing collaboration we can form teams who are ready to innovate, come together, and contribute to excellence unlike ever before

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Implement the 3 C’s of Growth Mindset as individuals and as a culture.

  • Create an environment for people to grow and connect with others in their growth.

  • Become their optimal selves by understanding the G.R.O.W.T.H process.

  • Motivate themselves to think big before readying themselves to make it happen.

Leadership - The Art of Authentic Leadership

Why leaders need to be motivated to establish their truest and best self, before leading others to do the same.

While there is plenty of narrative in the world on promoting authenticity within the workplace, most of it is in reference to those being led and not the leaders themselves. Considering standards within an organization are established through leadership, to have leaders resisting or denying authenticity in how they show up will discourage others to do the same. People see through a lack of authenticity; therefore trust is broken before it can be built. There is an artform to authentic leadership and it must be embodied to deliver optimal impact as a leader

What audiences will take away:

  • A real understanding of authenticity, how it can be impactful, and why all leaders benefit from embodying it
  • A guide to letting direct reports in on your authentic self without relinquishing respect and building trust in the process
  • What the return for authentic leadership will mean for authenticity in your direct reports and how it will elevate their purpose and performance to their work

SHOCK THE WORLD! – Professional Development, Personal Growth, & Leadership

Shock The World! What it Takes to Realize Your Potential

A compelling keynote that offers insight on how the most unlikely of individuals can in fact reach the pinnacle of what they do

There is a version of you that you haven’t met yet. One capable of greater things than you are willing to admit. While society tends to present many more examples of why NOT do something, potential is realized when the focus is on why something CAN be achieved. Within your world there are opportunities everywhere to capitalize on what is often right in front of you, and I have made a life for myself stepping directly towards and coaching others towards opportunity.

What audiences will take away:

  • A conviction behind why you should commit to pursuing your potential

  • The three parts that provide the framework required to pursue your potential

  • How to prioritize your Optimal Self in pursuit of Optimal Performance

  • Delivering on the dream and Shocking Your World

Professional Development, Personal Growth, & Leadership

Why Engagement is Everything:

An informative and thought-evoking keynote that challenges audiences to become engaged with themselves in order to engage more with their careers

One of the most researched areas throughout Corporate America today is that of figuring out how to keep employees engaged enough to remain with an organization. While the research looks to equip employers with the intel required to provide a more purposeful workplace, engagement is rarely discussed as a two-sided topic. While the data highlights that employees crave shared strategies, clear goals, and greater recognition from their employer, there is little conversation on how they can implement such expectations in themselves. If heightened engagement at work can elevate buy in, performance, and loyalty, imagine what individual engagement with one’s self could do?

What audiences will take away:

  • Addressing personal signs of disengagement with yourself

  • Highlighting areas within yourself that you are driven to engage more with

  • The benefits that come from establishing personal engagement towards yourself

  • How the habits that make up your own personal engagement are the same required to create engagement in those around you

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