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Ryan Harris
Build resilient, high-performing teams with Ryan Harris, Super Bowl champion and leadership keynote speaker. Ryan works with organizations to strengthen leadership, team culture, and financial literacy, delivering lessons learnt from a decade in the NFL.


Ryan Harris is a Super Bowl 50 champion who spent ten years in the NFL as a starting offensive lineman, protecting Peyton Manning for the Denver Broncos' championship-winning 2015 season.
A Notre Dame graduate with degrees in Economics and Political Science, Ryan was drafted by the Broncos in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft and started every game of his Super Bowl-winning season. Since retiring in 2017, he has built a career in broadcasting as color commentator for Notre Dame football radio and host of CBS Sports' Fantasy Football Hour. He is the author of Mindset for Mastery, a guide to reaching personal and professional potential drawn from his NFL journey.
As a keynote speaker, Ryan has worked with organizations including Google, Microsoft, Lululemon, Wells Fargo, Chase, and RBC, delivering high-energy talks on leadership, team culture, resilience, and financial literacy. He is known for tailoring his message closely to each audience and for being, in his own words, the easiest speaker a client will ever work with.
Audiences leave with a practical framework for authentic leadership, a sharper relationship with failure and success, and tools to build financial freedom, translated directly from the discipline and teamwork of a championship NFL locker room.
Book Ryan to bring championship-level leadership and performance insights to your next event.
Topics, sessions and talks
Ryan Harris helps audiences break free of limiting beliefs and the performance cycles that keep good enough from becoming great, drawing on the mindset behind his book Mindset for Mastery. Sharing personal stories from his NFL career and life outside it, he reframes failure as opportunity and shows how small, consistent wins compound into lasting success. High-energy and deeply personal, this talk leaves every attendee believing in the champion already sitting inside them.
Ryan Harris breaks down the five components of championship leadership drawn directly from his ten years in the NFL and a Super Bowl 50 title with the Denver Broncos. Through candid, often funny stories from the locker room, he shows teams how authentic leaders set clear goals, encourage those around them, and build strategic support systems. Audiences leave with a clear sense of their own leadership style and a practical way to help colleagues perform at their best.
Ryan Harris shows teams the difference between achieving something once and being consistently great at it, using lessons drawn from championship NFL locker rooms. Through simple, interactive exercises, he helps colleagues understand their team's dynamics, uncover their individual roles, and build the honesty that strong cultures depend on. The session is built for energy and genuine fun, leaving teams with sharper working relationships and a shared framework for measuring progress long after the event ends.
Ryan Harris teaches audiences the three fundamental rules of the money game that wealthy people practice every day: save, invest, and delay. Using stories about his own financial choices and those of others, he highlights the gap between what people say they value and what they actually spend on, and shows how small, disciplined actions compound into genuine financial freedom. Practical and personal, this session leaves attendees with a new, more intentional relationship with every purchase they make.
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To book Ryan Harris, email ryan.harris@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 Ryan'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.
Ryan Harris structures his talks around candid personal stories drawn from his NFL career, using locker room anecdotes to illustrate frameworks on leadership, resilience, and team culture. He supplements these narratives with interactive exercises that help audiences identify their own roles and dynamics within a team.
Ryan Harris speaks on overcoming limiting beliefs and building a high-performance mindset, championship leadership and its five core components, and creating winning team cultures through honesty and shared frameworks. He is a Super Bowl 50 champion who spent ten years in the NFL as a starting offensive lineman for the Denver Broncos, protecting Peyton Manning throughout their title-winning 2015 season.
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