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Ryan Campbell

Transform team culture with Ryan Campbell, speaker and resilience expert. Ryan works with organizations to improve workplace wellbeing and strengthen performance, delivering Guinness World Record insights and joy audit framework.

Trusted by TeamHealth, Sprout Social, Ohio SHRM, Centroid, AHTD

Ryan Campbell, Speaker | Pilot & Resilience Expert
Ryan Campbell

Ryan Campbell

Nashville, United States

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$26k–50k

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Ryan Campbell's biography

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  • World record holder for the youngest solo flight around the world
  • Plane crash survivor with paraplegic diagnosis
  • Joy audit creator, transforming workplace wellbeing and culture
Ryan Campbell helps organizations transform team culture, burnout, and mental health through his unique journey from record-breaking pilot to resilient survivor. Known for his record as the youngest person to fly solo around the world before surviving a life-changing crash, he brings rare insight into how people and organizations can reset, rebuild, and thrive. Ryan's record-breaking flight earned him a Guinness World Record and placed him among Australia’s 50 great explorers, but two years later, a catastrophic crash left him with a paraplegic diagnosis. His long and demanding recovery back to walking became a turning point, offering a deeper understanding of burnout, anxiety, adversity, and the limits of sheer determination. What reshaped his perspective was an unexpected source of joy: a 1960 pink Cadillac that sparked the framework he now teaches to teams worldwide. Today, Ryan works with organizations across industries, delivering keynotes and workshops grounded in accessible, practical tools that improve wellbeing, strengthen culture, and support sustained performance. His joy audit framework provides a simple approach that enables people to step back, reconnect with what matters, and return with greater clarity and capacity. Audiences gain strategies for balancing pressure with recovery, reframing resilience, and building workplaces where people feel energized, connected, and able to show up as their best selves. Ryan helps teams shift from reactive endurance to intentional action, creating environments where wellbeing fuels performance rather than competes with it. Book Ryan to share a powerful perspective on resilience and mental health, offering organizations grounded, human-centred tools for navigating change and building cultures that last.

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Topics, sessions and talks

What’s Your Pink Cadillac?
Ryan Campbell introduces a fresh approach to wellbeing by challenging the belief that productivity must come at the cost of personal joy. He draws on his record-breaking achievements and life-changing crash to show how constant pressure drains performance, connection, and clarity. Through humour and vivid storytelling, Ryan demonstrates how small, meaningful sources of joy can restore energy and engagement. Audiences gain practical ways to refocus, rebalance, and rebuild a healthier relationship with work and life.
Bounce Back Better
Ryan Campbell explores how true resilience comes not from relentless perseverance but from creating space to reset and reconnect with what matters. Blending aviation adventure with hard-won lessons from recovery, he reveals a more sustainable path through adversity. His grounded, human style encourages people to rethink how they manage challenge, capacity, and change. Participants learn how intentional pauses and simple moments of joy can strengthen resilience, restore perspective, and support better long-term performance.
From Burnout To Joy
Ryan Campbell examines why traditional approaches to burnout often fail, leaving people exhausted, disconnected, and unsure where to turn next. Using candid reflections and warm, engaging storytelling, he shows how redirecting time toward what genuinely restores energy can transform both wellbeing and output. Ryan helps audiences recognise the early signs of burnout, understand its impact, and adopt simple practices that create renewed focus and momentum. The session offers a clear path toward sustainable, joy-fuelled work and life.

Why we recommend booking Ryan

Bring Ryan Campbell to your next event to inspire your team with real-world strategies for resilience and wellbeing, drawn from his extraordinary journey as a record-breaking pilot and plane crash survivor. Book now to empower your organization with practical tools that foster a thriving, connected workplace.

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Testimonials

Ryan Campbell presented the keynote address at our healthcare leadership conference and gave a heartfelt and powerful message. His life's journey and the lessons learned resonated with our 20 clinical physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and CRNA leaders who have endured and persevered through two years of pandemic hell. He presented strategies to remain 'Turbulence Tough' and for each person to find their own 'pink Cadillac' when facing overwhelming challenges. Incredible!

TeamHealth

We hired Ryan to motivate our team to close out the year strong - Ryan's story is a powerful one. What we got was so much more. In this day and age of back-to-back Zoom meetings and less time spent together as colleagues, Ryan's 'Pink Cadillac' message was something our team took to heart. We learned more about each other, and most importantly, what was most important in our lives. Thank you Ryan!

Sprout Social

From the minute I talked to Ryan and heard his story, I knew that he was perfect for the OH SHRM conference and he did not disappoint. Ryan was engaged with our attendees through the entire week, attending sessions and networking. His closing keynote was amazing and taught us all how to build our mindset toolbox. What do we as individuals need to be resilient and Turbulence Tough? He made us laugh, he made us cry, and he was real! I can't recommend him enough!

Ohio SHRM

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What is Ryan Campbell's speaking style like?

Ryan Campbell uses a personal narrative arc that moves from record-breaking achievement through catastrophic loss to recovery, anchored by a concrete framework — the joy audit — which he introduces via a specific autobiographical detail: a 1960 pink Cadillac that prompted its development. This structure allows him to move between lived experience and practical workplace application within a single session.

What topics does Ryan Campbell specialise in?

Ryan Campbell speaks on wellbeing and burnout recovery, resilience and adversity, and the relationship between joy and sustained performance. He holds a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to fly solo around the world, a credential he pairs with his recovery from a crash that initially left him with a paraplegic diagnosis.

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