Kerri Pottharst - Motivational Speakers - Ex-Olympian, Coach, Mentor, Global Sports Commenta ...

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Business of Winning

Everyone wants to win and have a winning mindset. There are many facets of developing great results and I take my audiences through them all, using my experiences and those of other athletes and align them to my audience and their specific industries.

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Don’t Just Think It, Ink It!

A practical workshop for goal setting (whether personal or business) designed to meet your current needs. The workshop is also filled with Kerri’s personal stories and success strategies.

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Fit for Business – Corporate Athlete Training (Health and Wellness)

A practical and eye opening workshop designed to take your staff’s health and wellness to the next level. Kerri covers Nutrition, Hydration, Movement, Recovery and Mindset in an easy to digest and fun atmosphere.

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Gold Medal Excellence – The Mindset of a Champion

Kerri’s premier keynote in which she decodes Human High Performance. Kerri shares her incredible journey and the exact strategies and secrets used for success. She aligns these tools perfectly to her audience… to their personal and professional lives.

Entertaining, inspirational and thought provoking spliced with a little authentic humour!

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The Athlete Story

You’ve lived it... but I’ll help you unpack, shape and share your experiences with the realness and passion that your stories were made. Whether you’re a current athlete seeking peak performance or you’ve soared to victory learning invaluable lessons along the way; I know you have a story to tell... and I know people want to hear it! Why? Because I’ve been doing it for over 20 years and have seen first hand the impact our stories have on others.

Stories inspire, lead change and encourage people to reach beyond their capabilities. Most people believe that if you can do it, they can to. I am here to help you tell those stories. Be the ripple and learn with me, how to create a compelling tale that people will talk about long after you’ve left the room. Think of me as your storytelling PT!

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The Business of Being an Athlete

Talent, dedication and determination will only take you so far. If you want to be a champion, you also need to have the right mindset, the right tools and the right strategies for success so that you can turn your sport into a career and focus on it 100%. Whether you’re just starting out, or you’ve already won accolades and you don’t quite know how to take it to the next level, Gold Medal Olympian Kerri Pottharst will teach you practical techniques and concepts to help you improve your performance and achieve great success, both on and off the field.

The workshop is ideal for Athletes and Coaches. It is filled with a unique blend of easy-to-follow steps, proven strategies and Kerri’s trademark down-to-earth wisdom. You will leave feeling inspired, empowered and ready to take on the next step towards your own successful career. Kerri draws from more than twenty-five years’ experience and reveals how the right attitude, the right tools, and the right approach
took her from being a part-time athlete to becoming a multi-award winning champion, a hot property for sponsorship, and a successful entrepreneur.

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The Walk of Courage

Palms start sweating and hearts start racing as Kerri encourages participants to step out of their comfort zone and challenge their beliefs by walking across broken glass.

Most people are completely unaware that they possess the courage to do the things they never thought possible. Most people play it safe. They are afraid of venturing into the unknown.

The Walk of Courage will challenge their current beliefs, it will make them face their fears and it will be something they’ll remember for a very long time!

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Kerri Pottharst

Ex-Olympian, Coach, Mentor, Global Sports Commentator and Athlete.

Kerri Pottharst is Australia's most renowned Indoor and Beach Volleyball player, having represented her country for an incredible twenty years. Kerri one of the fiercest competitors in the world of Volleyball, and is now also known for being a successful inspirational speaker and presenter, entrepreneur, and published author.

When Kerri took up volleyball at the age of fifteen, she hadn't yet dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion. Despite a knee injury in 1992 that could have ended her career, Kerri showed her determination and recovered by late 1993. She made a shift to Beach Volleyball and proceeded to participate in three Olympic Games, achieving remarkable success with two Olympic medals - a Bronze in Atlanta and a Gold in Sydney 2000. This remarkable journey stands as a testament to Kerri's exceptional abilities. Remarkably, from 1994 onwards, she consistently secured her position within the top ten and frequently ranked within the top six in various International Beach Volleyball events.

Having retired from International level competition, Kerri’s journey continues as she now shares her Gold Medal Excellence strategies with corporate audiences to inspire them on their own journey to success. She works closely with her audiences, delivering inspirational presentations and weaving important messages of teamwork, skill, trust, relationship building, leadership, and communication into an unforgettable experience.

Using entertaining anecdotes from her experiences as a competitor and as a regular commentator at the Olympic Games and other sporting events, Kerri motivates and inspires her audiences to overcome their fears and self-doubts, set goals, and push through barriers to achieve them. An expert at reinventing herself time and time again, Kerri can relate to the constant need to deal with a changing world to stay successful and reach even greater goals.

Kerri’s unique message is as relevant to high-level executives as it is to more junior teams, as reflected by her skills in coaching staff at all levels to work together as a cohesive and effective team. Her in-depth research and preparation ensure the content is relevant and specific to each audience every time. A consummate professional and experienced presenter, she is as quick-thinking on her feet now as she was on the courts.

Amongst Kerri’s many skills is her innate ability to connect with the audience in a way that is warm, authentic, and most importantly, relatable. Her presentations include unique experiences, such as the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for audiences to hold her Olympic Gold medal for themselves and engaging activities that encourage pushing personal boundaries.

Both unique experiences reinforce Kerri’s inspiration for everyone to become a champion in their own right.

Testimonial

“The confidence in which Kerri carries herself is a major positive. Too often personalities do not take the time to interact with the audience once their responsibilities have concluded. Her attitude and enthusiasm in networking with the audience perfectly complements her on stage performances. A world class athlete and champion person”

Suncorp Metway

“An amazing session that completely exceeded our expectations”

AMP

“Kerri understands what it takes to be world class and the process it takes to execute and deliver on a dream. Only a few win Olympic Gold Medals and even fewer can articulate the process that produces such a world class result! Thanks Kerri for your generosity and insights!”

Mindsense

“Kerri involved the right amount of humour, motivation and information to ensure she was the highlight of the evening. She was then happy to stay on and speak on 1-on-1 to selected VIP’s visiting from France”

Accor

“Kerri was the highlight of the evening... and her story is relevant to such a broad range of people”

University of Wollonging

“Kerri was one of the best speakers and we would love to get her back to speak again. I would recommend her to anyone looking for an inspirational and motivational guest speaker”

Tabcorp

“I had the pleasure of having Kerri speak at a management event last year and she was fantastic!”

Westpac

“What set you apart as a speaker from the many we’ve had present to us in our professional lives was your manner of delivery. Your focus and energy, planning methods, personable and inclusive nature allowed your message to be delivered, understood and enjoyed”

Suncorp

"Kerri’s presentation was sensational and the combination of her talk with the glass walking worked perfectly. Her preparation and understanding of our current issues was also sensational. An incredible experience with a lasting impact."

Proctor and Gamble

“I booked Kerri to speak at an event we held at the Sydney Opera House. She definitely stands out as one of the best speakers I’ve booked in the last 15 years. Kerri has such a great natural energy; her presentation style is flawless, and she is completely engaging. She tells her inspiring story with such passion and enthusiasm and conveys her message of strength and perseverance in such a way that you naturally apply it to your own life. It was by far the most interactive Q&A session we’ve ever had. Our delegates were very keen to chat to her more and ask her questions. We had fantastic feedback from them all and Kerri was clearly the highlight speaker of the event.”

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