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Matt Stutzman
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Matt Stutzman helps organizations turn adversity into performance advantage. A Paralympic gold medallist and Guinness World Record holder, Matt delivers keynotes on resilience, overcoming limitations, and peak performance under pressure, backed by measurable, world-record-level achievement.
Athlete
Paralympics
Motivational
Inspirational
Sport
After Dinner Sports
International Day of Disability
TEDx
Matt Stutzman, known as "The Armless Archer," holds the Guinness World Record for the longest accurate shot in archery history and is the first armless archer to win Paralympic gold.
Born without arms, Matt developed a self-taught shooting technique using his feet that not only redefined what is physically possible but earned him a silver medal at the 2012 London Paralympics, gold at the 2022 World Para Archery Championships, and gold at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, where he set a new Paralympic record. His story is featured in the documentary My Way to Olympia.
Matt's path from a child who refused prosthetics to a world record-holding athlete offers audiences more than inspiration. It demonstrates how unconventional thinking and relentless self-reliance produce results that conventional approaches cannot. His experience translates directly into practical lessons for teams navigating obstacles, pressure, and self-imposed limitations.
Audiences leave with a concrete framework for reframing constraints as competitive advantages, a clearer understanding of how focus and preparation drive performance under pressure, and the tools to build resilience that holds up when outcomes matter most. These are lessons drawn from a career built on measurable achievement, not theory.
Few speakers can point to a world record as proof that their approach works. Book Matt to give your audience a session they will still be talking about long after the event.
Topics, sessions and talks
Matt Stutzman was born without arms. He taught himself to shoot a bow with his feet and went on to hold the Guinness World Record for the longest accurate shot in archery history. In this keynote, he walks audiences through the unconventional thinking that made that possible and shows how the same framework applies to any team facing limitations, obstacles, or self-imposed constraints. The session prooves that what you can’t do is rarely what actually holds you back.
Matt Stutzman developed his shooting technique entirely from scratch, refining it through thousands of hours of self-directed practice until it set a world record. In this session, he explores how that kind of self-reliance is built: the feedback loops, the willingness to fail publicly, and the daily discipline required to keep improving without external validation. Teams leave with a practical model for cultivating ownership, initiative, and performance consistency that doesn’t depend on perfect conditions.
Matt Stutzman won Paralympic gold in Paris by executing under the highest pressure his sport offers. In this session, inspired by his TEDx talk on decision-making, he unpacks the mental and physical preparation behind delivering at your peak when the moment matters most. He covers the decision frameworks elite performers use under stress, how to stop second-guessing in high-stakes situations, and why the outcome of any single moment is almost always determined long before it arrives. The talk is practical, direct, and grounded in verifiable achievement.
Matt Stutzman holds the Guinness World Record for the longest accurate shot in archery history and Paralympic gold in Paris 2024, proof that unconventional thinking produces measurable results. His framework for reframing constraints as competitive advantages is exactly what your team needs right now.
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Matt Stutzman structures his sessions around a framework built from his own self-taught athletic development, using his process of refining technique through self-directed practice, public failure, and feedback loops as a transferable model for teams. He draws on decision-making principles from his TEDx talk and Paralympic competition experience to give audiences concrete tools for performing under pressure and reframing constraints as competitive advantages.
Matt Stutzman's sessions cover reframing constraints as competitive advantages, self-directed discipline and performance ownership, and executing under pressure in high-stakes situations. He holds the Guinness World Record for the longest accurate shot in archery history and is the first armless archer to win Paralympic gold, having achieved that at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
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