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Austin Hatch
Transform team resilience and crisis management with Austin Hatch, resilience keynote speaker. Austin equips organizations facing significant change with his G.R.I.T. framework, teaching actionable strategies for overcoming adversity. Featured across national media and honored by the University of Michigan for his extraordinary comeback story.
Austin Hatch is a resilience speaker who survived two plane crashes that killed members of his family and left him in a coma fighting for his life. After the second crash in 2011, he relearned how to walk and talk, then fulfilled his commitment to play basketball for the University of Michigan under Coach John Beilein. His story has been featured across national media, and he now works with organizations facing significant change and adversity.
Austin helps teams develop what he calls G.R.I.T., a framework built on four components: Growth Mindset, Resilience through massive action, Integrity in keeping commitments, and Team First Mentality. His approach connects personal adversity to workplace challenges, showing how the principles that helped him recover from catastrophic injury apply directly to business obstacles. He focuses on practical strategies rather than abstract motivation, drawing from his experience of setting and achieving goals when circumstances seemed impossible.
Audiences learn how to reframe setbacks as opportunities for growth, take decisive action when facing uncertainty, and maintain commitments even when conditions change. Austin provides specific methods for building individual resilience while strengthening team cohesion, particularly valuable during organizational transitions or market disruptions. His presentations equip people with tools to move forward productively rather than becoming paralyzed by difficulty. Austin brings a tested framework for turning obstacles into fuel for achievement, delivered by someone who lived it.
Topics, sessions and talks
In his signature talk, Austin Hatch explores how individuals and organizations can overcome adversity using the G.R.I.T. framework. He emphasizes that grit—passion and perseverance for long-term goals—is essential for success. Drawing on insights from experts like Angela Duckworth, Austin presents actionable steps to cultivate a growth mindset, harness inner drive, and foster resilience. Attendees will learn to appreciate teamwork, support others, and positively influence their environment, equipping them to face challenges effectively in any setting.
Austin's incredible journey of resilience and determination in the face of unimaginable adversity will inspire your people to overcome their own challenges. His powerful message on the importance of grit, growth mindset, and teamwork offers actionable insights for achieving success against all odds. Booking Austin as a speaker will not only motivate your group but also equip them with the tools to thrive in difficult situations.
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To book Austin Hatch, email austin.hatch@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Austin's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Austin Hatch structures his presentations around the G.R.I.T. framework — Growth Mindset, Resilience through massive action, Integrity in keeping commitments, and Team First Mentality — applied through his own account of surviving two plane crashes and rehabilitating to play Division I basketball.
Austin Hatch speaks on resilience, growth mindset, and team cohesion, drawing his G.R.I.T. framework across sessions covering adversity response, integrity in commitment, and team-first culture. He survived two plane crashes, relearned to walk and talk following the second in 2011, and went on to fulfil his scholarship commitment to play basketball at the University of Michigan under Coach John Beilein.
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