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Devon Harris
Transform team resilience and performance with Devon Harris, Olympic mindset speaker and leadership strategist. Devon equips organizations to navigate change and overcome obstacles through his "Keep On Pushing" philosophy, delivering measurable results for Fortune 500 clients including Microsoft, IBM and Coca-Cola.
Devon Harris transforms Olympic resilience into business success. As a founding member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team that inspired "Cool Runnings," Devon combines his three-time Olympic experience with Royal Military Academy Sandhurst training to deliver powerful insights on overcoming obstacles.
Through his "Keep On Pushing" philosophy, Devon helps organizations navigate change and build resilience, delivering high-impact keynote sessions for global corporations including Google, Coca-Cola, Adobe, and IBM. He is the founder of the Keep On Pushing Foundation, which supports education in disadvantaged communities and works with the charity Right to Play, promoting child development through sport in refugee camps around the world. Devon has been honored as an Olympian For Life for his contributions to society and philanthropic work.
Audiences leave Devon's presentations with concrete tools for building unstoppable momentum, frameworks for approaching seemingly impossible challenges, and renewed belief in their capacity to achieve breakthrough performance. His message resonates because it comes from lived experience - from Kingston's streets to Olympic tracks.
Book Devon when your organization needs more than motivation - when you need transformation that ignites the Olympic spirit within every team member.
Topics, sessions and talks
Devon Harris demonstrates how to rise above obstacles and persist through adversity with purpose and vision. Drawing on his extraordinary journey from Kingston’s inner city to the Olympic stage, he shows how mindset, resilience, and personal leadership drive breakthrough results. Through authentic storytelling and actionable insight, Devon equips audiences to stay focused under pressure, transform challenges into growth, and cultivate the persistence needed to achieve their most ambitious goals.
Devon Harris reveals how genuine collaboration transforms ordinary teams into high-performing units capable of achieving the extraordinary. Drawing parallels between his military training and Olympic experience, he explores how shared purpose, trust, and adaptability foster success. Blending humour, energy, and practical strategies, Devon helps teams align around common goals, embrace diverse strengths, and remain cohesive in adversity—building a culture where collective effort drives lasting achievement.
Devon Harris shares his Six B’s - a practical framework for building momentum and thriving through change. From breaking boundaries to bouncing back stronger, he translates lessons from the bobsled track into tools for everyday success. With his signature mix of warmth, humour, and high-energy storytelling, Devon equips audiences to build solid foundations, overcome setbacks with resilience, and keep pushing beyond perceived limits to achieve exceptional results.
Devon Harris unpacks the power of responsibility, reframing, and relaunching to cultivate resilience in life and work. Using vivid stories from his rise from Kingston’s toughest streets to Olympic competition, he illustrates how personal accountability and perspective can transform adversity into advantage. His lively and engaging delivery inspires audiences to replace self-doubt with courage, adapt to change, and restart with renewed purpose when faced with setbacks.
Devon Harris shares how to remain composed, confident, and effective when the stakes are high. Drawing from his experience as an Olympian and army officer, he explores strategies to turn stress into focus and pressure into performance. Through memorable stories and practical insights, Devon demonstrates how preparation, perspective, and perseverance can help individuals and teams keep their cool, make clear decisions, and thrive even in the most demanding environments.
Devon Harris, three-time Olympian and founding member of the iconic Jamaican Bobsled Team, transforms organizations through his "Keep On Pushing" philosophy that has equipped Fortune 500 companies to build resilience and achieve breakthrough performance. Book Devon to ignite the Olympic spirit within your team and provide them with concrete tools to overcome obstacles and drive measurable results.
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Devon Harris structures his sessions around a named proprietary framework — the Six B's — which translates lessons from his bobsled career into a sequential model for building momentum through change. He delivers this alongside high-energy storytelling drawn from his journey from Kingston's inner city to three Olympic Games, pairing personal narrative with actionable tools audiences can apply directly to workplace challenges.
Devon Harris speaks on resilience and overcoming adversity, high-performance teamwork and collaboration, and personal leadership frameworks for navigating change. He is a founding member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team that inspired Cool Runnings and a three-time Olympian, trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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