Keynote speaking

More than fifteen hundred stages.

Across corporate, association, military, and academic audiences, Terry L. Fossum has delivered more than 1,500 keynotes — and one of the 30 most influential TEDx talks of the century.
1,500+
Keynote engagements delivered
#2
New TEDx Talk in the World
Millions
Raised from the platform for nonprofits, corporations & associations
2017
Winner of Fox’s reality competition Kicking & Screaming
Signature keynotes
Sales-driven organizations
Never Miss a Goal Again

Built on Terry’s Oxcart Technique® and Nobel Prize–winning behavioral economics — the keynote teams bring in when traditional training stops producing.

Leaders facing reinvention
Throw Away the Box

A hard look at the unquestioned assumptions putting an organization at risk in the age of AI — and the tool for dismantling them before a competitor does.

The TEDx talk
One of the 30 most influential TEDx talks of the century · TEDxSpokane

“Why You Didn’t Reach That Goal… Again”

Terry’s TEDxSpokane talk debuted as the #2 New TEDx Talk in the World and was named by Los Angeles Business magazine one of the 30 most influential TEDx talks of the century. It remains the canonical introduction to the goal-achievement methodology he expanded into his #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Oxcart Technique.

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The record behind the keynotes

Terry doesn’t speak about leadership from theory. He has lived it across four separate domains — and his keynotes are drawn from all of them.

  • U.S. Air Force Captain & Executive Officer of a Group of nuclear B-52 bombers during the Cold War
  • Four decades of leadership inside the Boy Scouts of America
  • #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon & Barnes & Noble bestselling author
  • Winner of Fox’s 2017 reality competition Kicking & Screaming — representing the BSA as its oldest competitor
  • Award-winning actor and producer
Where Terry has spoken
  • ·Corporate stages and sales kickoffs
  • ·National and regional association conferences
  • ·Nonprofit and philanthropic galas
  • ·Faith-based events and ministries
  • ·Military and veteran events
  • ·Boy Scouts of America council and national events
  • ·Educational institutions and youth-leadership programs
  • ·Television, including Fox’s Kicking & Screaming and Agape

Bring Terry to your stage.

Dates, topics, fees, and the booking form all live on his speaking site.

See Terry’s speaking → terrylfossum.com
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