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Ready for some adventure in your life? Derek Loudermilk is an entertaining, thought-provoking business practitioner rooted in the notion of exploring our world and betting on one’s strengths to ensure a path to success and happiness. Derek is also a highly sought after speaker with a profound command over a room and the unique ability to not only educate and inspire, but catalyze self-actualization – leaving audiences with the tools and strategies to unlock and unleash their best, most authentic selves. Derek will leave your audience entertained, motivated, and begging for more.

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Standard Topics:

The Adventure Mindset: How to think differently, build unshakeable confidence, and embrace uncertainty.

Be a SuperConductor: Revolutionize your career and make big things happen – The most important skills for an unknowable future.

When work feels like magic: How to generate amazing ideas, think big, apply gamification, and make work fun!

How to Lead a Room: Harness the science of charisma, confidence, storytelling, and strategic relationships.

Live the Life of your Dreams: The Top 10 Ways To Earn Money Online And Travel The World. How Thought Leaders and Influencers Make Money

Play Bigger: How to be confident, deal with your inner critic, let success come to you, and start playing a bigger game

Testimonials:

I’ve had several people stop me and tell me they enjoyed the talk. Derek gave our group a new perspective. He talked about looking at things in a different way, including one of my favorites, ‘Being afraid of the unfamiliar,’ which is a common theme for our management team.” – Geri Basinsky, Strategic Planning, Nestle-Purina

“Derek has the power to spread joy and a taste for adventure to a large audience through his enthusiasm and positive attitude. Derek inspires people to go deeper inside – people listen to his stories and want more. Derek is so joyful, he spreads his enthusiasm and creativity to everyone – he is my guru.” – Caroline Weiler, Founder, Travel Storytelling Festival

Derek’s presentation was authentic, engaging, and educational. Derek has a knack for storytelling, which, combined with his photography allows the audience to see inside his life and how he lives it. He helps to remove the barrier, reduce the fear of living open to life, people, places and cultures.” Susan Stevenson, REI

It was awesome to have Derek on our stage as Freedom X Festival!  He was one of our most inspirational speakers. he captivated an audience of 200 for two days with both a workshop and a speech. He really moved people out of their comfort zone and helped them stand up and take action. He really lives what he is speaking about in a way that not many people are. I look forward to working with Derek again” – Estela Kun, Founder, Freedom X Fest, Budapest

Derek was a fantastic speaker at the Elite Man Conference. He was energetic, engaging, inspiring, and most importantly, helpful to the many in attendance! I loved Derek’s presentation and can’t wait to have him back again next year!” – Justin Stenstrom, Founder,  Elite Man Conference

This presentation was fresh and just what our group needed to remind us of an important part of the bigger picture. Derek’s easygoing style and enthusiasm for the subject matter were well received. Several people came up to me or wrote to me later with compliments about the program.” – Tim Sansone, Chairman, Business Development Group, MAC

“Wow! Thank you! Your presentation was the most illuminating one for me personally, since I began going to Venture Cafe. For perspective, that’s 44 evenings, 2-3 seminars per evening, spread out over about 18 months. One reason I say this is that your demeanor, candor, and joviality really helped me to see the extreme relevance your message has to my life.” Mike B., Venture Cafe StL
“By simply telling stories of your journeys (past and future), you were able to highlight the importance of physical, intellectual, social, emotional and societal exploration. You painted a portrait of the beauty that exists in this world, both in the human spirit and in mother nature. From art and food, to business strategy, biology and anthropology, you covered more than I could have ever asked for from our first-ever guest speaker. You definitely demonstrated the importance of adaptation, while also helping ignite the imagination and curiosity of young minds. I know you planted some seeds today, and I can’t wait to see what stems from this experience.” – Sarah Krenski, MAP St. Louis 

“Derek helped us get perspective to help us move beyond the level we could have on our own. He was able to break things down to the issue at hand. Whenever we were stuck Derek came in and we got ‘Oh my god I never thought of it that way’. I would recommend Derek to any group that wants to go beyond the normal process that they are used to” – Mike Lodes, Edward Jones

“Good job Derek. Love to see you stay calm and keep going with your speech during technical issues. A true public speaker.“ – Vitto Christaldi, Hubud Coworking Space

“I know I’ve done a good job getting the right speaker when people complement me on the talk, thanks Derek.David Abraham, Outpost Coworking Space

Nice job today! I enjoyed your presentation and your comfortable candid energy. I am delighted that those in attendance also enjoyed it.” Michelle Schaeffer, Community Manager, NEBULA Coworking Space

Derek Loudermilk Speaker

Brief Bio:
Derek Loudermilk is a professional adventurer, bestselling author, high performance coach, former pro cyclist, world record holder, and host of the Art of Adventure podcast.

After near death experience with a blood clot in his brain, Derek dropped out of his Microbiology PhD program and began traveling full time to learn about and teach how adventure can lead to a more fulfilling life.

In his quest to understand the future of entrepreneurship around the world, Derek Loudermilk has traveled to every US state, 40 countries, and lived on four continents. He is the author of the forthcoming book SuperConductors: Revolutionize your career and make big things happen.

Derek is a proud papa to his son, Axel, and daughter Chloe and travels the world as a family with his wife Heidi.

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